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curse words

Is It Wrong To Use Curse Words?

Disclaimer: In order to discuss curse words, it was necessary to use some. I hope you understand the heart behind it. Curse words are an interesting anomaly. People can say the same word in a variety of contexts and mean all sorts of things. We’ve all heard the F-word used this way. Someone could say,…
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Why Does Life Seem To Go By So Fast?

Yesterday I entered a new decade of life… I am now in my 30s.  That’s a little weird… I don’t really feel like I have been around 30 years.  When I think about the past 10, it is kind of crazy that I graduated from college 7 years ago, left Philadelphia 5 years ago, and…
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Are You Wasting Your Life With Frivolous Things?

According to Deutsche Bank Research, middle income American families spend about 50% of their income on luxuries or non-necessities.  The wealthiest families spend about 65% of their income on luxuries, and even low income families spend about 40% of their income on luxuries.  That is spending money that they do have, but 46% of Americans…
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Aren’t All Religions Essentially The Same?

Close to half of Americans believe that it doesn’t really matter what religious faith you follow because all of them basically teach the same lessons, but is this really true?  Or do people just say this because they heard it from someone else or they have not looked into various religious views enough to see…
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(Wisdom Wednesday) You Mean… I’m Eventually Going To Die?

American radio and television writer Andrew Rooney said, “Death is a distant rumor to the young.”  There is certainly some wisdom in this saying.  When I was young(er) I never really thought much about death… but the reality is that of the few things that are absolutely certain in this life, death is one of…
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