“We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.” ~Zig Ziglar This is a very important distinction, especially in our modern world. The prevailing ethic abhors discipline, avoiding it and attacking the one trying to apply discipline by claiming they…
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The Social Justice Con
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Question: Why do those who howl for social justice exhibit little if any social responsibility? Could it be that the call for “social justice” for those individuals is really a dodge to fool the masses into accepting that they really believe what they are saying to hide that they are just using the situation for…
Conflict and War, Islam, Religion, Rimdims, Terrorism
Rimdims #6: Ritual Impurity
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Considering the lengths that radical Muslims go to “protect” their ritual purity (e.g. Ayatollah Khomeini, after the Iranian revolution, declared that all non-Muslims were impure. He said that to wash the clothes of non-Muslims (you have to touch them), to eat with non-Muslims (sharing food), or to use personal items touched by non-Muslims (such as…
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Rimdims #5: Evolution
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One simple fact that separates Christian belief systems from evolution is the Fall and death, which makes Christianity an anathema to all the arguments that attempt to wrap some form of evolution around Christianity. The Bible argues that the creation of man was the pinnacle of God’s creative effort. Before the creation of Adam and…
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Rimdims #4: Self-absorption
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The more self-involved I become, the more I focus on what I want, need, would like, the smaller I get, the less I really matter to the great scheme of things. “Are you complete in yourself? [The root] answers, “No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches…
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Rimdims #3 “Stupidity”
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“Stupid is as stupid does.” Forest Gump (1994) Life is tough. Its tougher when youre stupid. Sgt. Stryker (John Wayne) in The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)* “I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest… Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never…
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Rimdim #2 “Ouch”
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When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a holdup in Long Beach, California, would be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked. James is the deceased winner of a Rimdim.
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Rimdim #1 “Reno”
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Reno, the comedic politico, is a self-describe 46-year-old Latina lesbian with radical political leanings. She said the following Rimdim while discussing John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban captured in Afghanistan and serving 20 years in federal prison, in a recent Salon interview: It’s a real chiller, the way they treated that kid. Think of all…