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Oaths, pledges, and vows

September 8, 2011

Have you made one? If you have, have you broken it, altered, or otherwise modified its meaning for your convenience? Just remember — these declarations are always made in public and almost always violated in private. Of course the safest promises are the kind you make to yourself because nobody gets hurt except you. In [...]

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Universal Absolutes: Do they Exist?

June 20, 2011

Guest post by Alina Cambridge. Morals are something that we as human beings base many decisions on every single day and night. It is what most people believe sets apart the human race from the rest of the animal kingdom. However, as this topic about morals and what they actually are gets circulated among the [...]

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10 Reasons to be Terrified

June 15, 2011
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1.  You care about something more than you care about yourself. 2.  You have no control of Self. 3.  Your ego is larger than your skill level. 4.  You are attempting something that has never been done before. 5.  Your mind overrules your emotions — every time. 6.  Your emotion overrules your mind — every [...]

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Impossible

June 15, 2011

I hear “impossible” all the time yet see the ass knocked out of impossible just as frequently. Any of these sound familiar? That’s not our policy. There’s not enough time. There’s not enough money. You don’t have the proper paperwork completed. We don’t have permission. Crushing impossible is getting old because we all know it [...]

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Protecting the Citizens

June 14, 2011
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“The merits of an idea does not depend on the number of people who hold that idea.  If there’s something unsafe — we, the elected officials of this city, will do everything we can to protect the citizens.”  Councilman Kamyar Enshayan, 4th Ward Cedar Falls. This is the response to those very citizens expressing concern [...]

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