BY: Tim Hoch Original Post 1.You ascribe intent. Another driver cut you off. Your friend never texted you back. Your co-worker went to lunch without you. Everyone can find a reason to be offended on a steady basis. So what caused you to be offended? You assigned bad intent to these otherwise innocuous actions. You took … Continue reading 10 Ways You’re Making Your Life Harder Than It Has To Be
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Front Page of New York Post Gives These Tragedy Tourists a Name They’ve Definitely Earned
The New York Post said it best, nothing I can add.... The Post details reaction from outraged online observers, as well as neighborhood residents who are apparently dealing with many tourists using the disaster as an “Instagram Moment”: “‘Disgusting beyond words,’ wrote a commenter on the local-news blog EV Grieve, which reposted the snap.’Take a … Continue reading Front Page of New York Post Gives These Tragedy Tourists a Name They’ve Definitely Earned
Too Much Praise Can Turn Kids Into Narcissists, Study Suggests
I have been stating this for years.... “Research shows that narcissism is higher in Western than non-Western countries, and suggests that narcissism levels have been steadily increasing among Western youth over the past few decades,” the authors write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. via Too Much Praise Can Turn Kids Into Narcissists, … Continue reading Too Much Praise Can Turn Kids Into Narcissists, Study Suggests
The Obama EGO
The EGO, or as I like to say, Edging God Out, is a constant them for me. I have posted many articles about the EGO, be it here on this blog or on my other, now defunct blog (www.youcanbenew.wordpress.com). It is a concept I like coming back too, because the problem of the EGO never goes away. … Continue reading The Obama EGO
Sin is…
St. Augustine said sin was “Love of oneself, even to contempt of God.” Basically St. Augustine said sin is EGO. To love oneself above all else even God. We can trace this back to our first parents, Adam and Eve. They loved themselves above God when they ate from the tree of knowledge. They discovered … Continue reading Sin is…
Pride
Pride is a very strong emotion, one that has driven people to extremes. We have witnessed the pride of a man (or a woman) bring them down in a blaze of fire, and we have seen pride rebuild a man (or a woman) from the deepest despair life can offer. Why is this, what makes … Continue reading Pride
Funny thing forgiveness…
Jesus has spoken many words that we all would love to hear from him, but I would venture to guess that the words “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” would have to be on top of our list. In that one simple statement Jesus summed up humanity and His relationship with … Continue reading Funny thing forgiveness…
Top Ten list of the Church
You ever notice that people really like top ten lists or just list in general. I think it’s because we really don’t have to think a lot about a list, it’s pretty straight forward, you have a list, and it’s in order from lowest to highest. Someone has done the work for you; all you … Continue reading Top Ten list of the Church
The many in the one
Can one be strong and weak at the same time? Can a person be over bearing and shy? Do we have the ability to be more than one self? Can we be many persons in one person? Before I give you response, let me start off by saying I know people who act in such … Continue reading The many in the one
More on the EGO
As you may know one of my regular rants on this blog site is concerning the EGO (Edging God Out). I love to write about the EGO and how it is destructive to our souls, how it traps us in to a life of self-serving. The EGO to me is the original sin, it is … Continue reading More on the EGO
An American Point of View 