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A Reason to Live
These past few days I’ve been rereading the book Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom. It’s a beautiful book about a beautiful story that teaches a lesson so gorgeous that words can do no justice. The book spent six years on USA Today’s bestseller list. It’s changed millions of lives, with a very simple message. “Love wins. Love always wins.” I first read it two years ago. That was the first and last time I’ve ever cried while reading a book. The message was so simple that it seemed at first absurd. “Love wins. Love always wins.” The author of the book is Mitch Albom. He’s caught up in the business of life, and has little time to stop and feel the life that he lives. That changes when he discovers … Read entire article »
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Link Tradage
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Biblical Authority
Throughout the history of the world, authority has been under attack, scrutinized, criticized, utterly challenged and even envied. From the start, Satan wanted the authority of God … Read entire article »
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Light the Dark
This my decision, my path, my course, no turning back. This is who I am, who I must be, I can be nothing else. I’m slave of freedom, a warrior of its cause. Take it and die. Laugh with the enemy, sometimes it’s lonely at the cross, my cross, the cross of honor. Morality is all, they are nothing. There’s no honor in suicidal genius. My fight, my battle, this is my war. Call it dark, I’ll call it the right, ’cause without a little darkness there’s no need for the lights. … Read entire article »
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Rational Love
“You are what you love.” -Anonymous Our theories and beliefs regarding love are, by far, one of the most important things about us. As ideas are important because of their consequences, so the idea of love is dramatically important because of the dramatic consequences it inevitably brings. What is love? Is love “romantic”, where people “click” for random reasons? Is there any coherent reasoning behind the madness?Culture seems to imply that there is no rational basis for the causes of love. I disrespectfully disagree. Romantic attraction is rational, revealing, reflects what people actually think about themselves, deep down inside their psyche. What is love? What is love? In a fundamental sense, to love something is to value it. I place an infinite value on liberty, hence I call myself a lover of liberty. I place … Read entire article »
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The War on Cakes
Sam likes chocolate cake. He likes to eat lots and lots of chocolate cake. Unfortunately, because Sam likes to eat lots and lots of chocolate cake, Sam is 539 pounds and will probably die young because of that incredibly delicious chocolate cake. Mary is his next-door-neighbor in his nice neighborhood. Mary sees how Sam likes to eat lots and lots of cake. Mary recognizes that this is obesity and is going to mess up his life. She knows that eating the cake is going to cause him to probably die much, much younger than not eating it. Mary knows that Sam is not the only one. So she starts a nation-wide campaign in an effort to … Read entire article »
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My Platform
After looking over the other candidates, I’ve decided to run for president. Considering I’m under-aged, I guess I won’t get many votes. Oh, well, it’s just something to do, I guess. Below is my platform. I’ll be updating it as I think of more issues to add and discuss. Disagree with any of it? I’m open minded — let’s discuss it. The Shaun R. Connell Platform The Purpose of the State The state is but a business of persons organized to unleash force upon others. It can be used for either good or bad — usually bad. The political business has no moral abilities except those abilities which the individual has, for the political business is, at root, a collection of individuals. Government should not violate the negative rights of the people, and … Read entire article »
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