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Giving Up

Posted by: dateacher on: April 5, 2009

The title may confuse you. Recently I’ve been taking stock of my life. Kind of like doing an inventory of what is important. I also recently have had two confrontations that have made this action come under fire from other people. Why might you ask? Well, part of the inventory [...]

Let’s pray…

Posted by: dateacher on: March 2, 2009

Referring to two of my previous posts:  “Never been popular, why start now” and “A – for Effort,”  I came across this C.S. Lewis quote:  “Let’s pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” You can imagine it got me to thinking what if humans escaped Earth – what [...]

Never been popular, why start now!

Posted by: dateacher on: February 20, 2009

I was not really all that popular early in my life for my opinions/thoughts, so why should now be any different…..
Every day I find that I am disagreeing more and more with the norm or the status quo.  I find that my opinion differs from the vast majority of people in this world today.  How [...]

“A” for the effort

Posted by: dateacher on: February 20, 2009

What a timely report on Fox and Friends…self-entitled college student survey. As an instructor on the college level, I see shades of this daily. Are all college students self-entitled? Well, no, but those who are seem to shout louder, complain harder, or just whine more about their situation.
Don’t try to tell me that [...]

Mind your own business

Posted by: dateacher on: January 5, 2009

When do we have the ‘right’ to stick our noses in someone else’s business?   When do we have the ‘right’ to our opinion without fear of retribution from others?  When do we have the ‘right’ to live our lives in according to our own beliefs without having someone, who we may or may not know, [...]