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gamahuche1 year, 1 month ago
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This is a very beautiful story. I was on my way to posting it.
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The single most poignant and moving personal account of one intelligent and sceptical individual's "Road to Tarsus" experience - and I use that Christian image because this is a genuinely Christian story - not only because its published in the CSM.-
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 1 month ago
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It's 'the road to Damascus' I think you are thinking about.
Tarsus is where Jonah was trying to get to, when he was swallowed by a whale.
HA! I have crushed you with my superior sunday school lessons!
HA!
But of course it is wrong of me to brag. I am just glad I could straighten that out in all humility.
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gamahuche1 year, 1 month ago
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I was confabulating - somewhat!
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I was thinking about scales falling from eyes and that WAS the road to Damascus..
BUT..
The greatest glory of Tarsus is that it was the birthplace of St. Paul (Acts 9:11; 21:39; 22:3), who took refuge there after his conversion (Acts 9:30),
Now where's the Jonah and Tarsus story?!
Apparently there us a monument to him there from later times but he definitely didn't get eaten by the whale there 'cos its 12 miles from the Mediterranean.
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gamahuche1 year, 1 month ago
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My sincere apologies to any of my friends to whom I didn't get a heads-up.
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I did the best that I could, in a random manner, and certainly wasn't discriminating against anybody.
In the middle of a 48hr sleepless work stint I just did what I could and hoped that others would find it.
The new propeller doesn't facilitate this process either..
It is one of the most enlightening stories that I have enjoyed on propeller and I'm very happy that many others enjoyed it too.-
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JohnGault1 year, 1 month ago
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I'm sorry if I am not taking this story in the spirit that it was intended. I just find it sad, sad that people look to the government for hope. That they can not find hope in our educational system, find hope in themselves to be and become anyone they want to be.
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Maybe I'm just being cynical.
I just think real change has to come locally and not from the top. Real change comes from a an educational system that educates, from a rehabilitation institute, that actually rehabilitates, breaking this never ending cycle.-
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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Education: End No Child Left a Dime, for one. One-size-fits-all unfunded mandates simply don't work. Give curriculum back to the districts, and stop robbing class time by forcing teachers to 'teach to the test'. I'm not opposed to merit-based pay for teachers, as long as union strength remains and as long as there are provisions for teachers who choose to work in under-funded areas where parent participation tends to be low. Invest in experimental and innovative approaches to learning, both from a student and a teacher perspective.
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Penal system: Outlaw mandated sentencing and 'three-strikes' laws. Decriminalize drug possession and spend the enforcement money on better criminal and addict rehabilitation/education programs. Offer some form of non-military national service as an alternative to hard jail time for appropriate offenders. Work with community businesses for career-path job training.
Private prisons might work, but only if the company is penalized for recidivism and/or rewarded for tracked long-term rehabilitation.
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cleare1 year, 1 month ago
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i agree that change has to come from the bottom up and so does obama, he has said so repeatedly.
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no one wants a society dependent on government, but we do need government to help localities and individuals achieve independence...mostly by helping to create a level playing field through education. -
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gamahuche1 year, 1 month ago
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I'm with you!
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But there's also the issue of rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's, etc..
The whole political game is insane - just the fact that in the information age, in a high-speed society where business needs to be dealt with now, if not sooner, this archaic system is still in place - a cycle in which 1 year in 4 is effectively fallow because of the time and money and energy spent on this drama and melodrama and farce.
But what would happen to a proposal that all the input could be done by computer/television, the campaigning and its peripheral activities are dealt with in a month and life goes on?
But that is what frequently happens in Europe when a government loses a crucial vote.
Dissolve Parliament, set an election date a month ahead, life continues - either in the same mode or a different one..
Is there anyone in the US who isn't bored silly with this never ending period of limbo and the paralysis that goes with it?
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