Rowland Croucher
Wisdom
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent Van Gogh “I feel that my goal in life is to help […]
Ancient Telephone Networks
After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago. Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, English scientists dug […]
The Muslim, My Brother
From Jonny, a friend I met in New Zealand, (and recently again on Facebook): Tuesday, September 23, 2008 The Muslim, My Brother – Interreligious Peacebuilding in Mindanao Now that my article written earlier this year has come out from print embargoes – that is, the magazines it has been published in have hit the stands […]
Iacocca: Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
“Iacocca: Where Have All the Leaders Gone? American Empire | Books Excerpt: 04/11/07 “ICH” — — -Had Enough? Had Enough? Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our […]
Never Lie to your Wife…
A man called home to his wife and said, ” Honey I have been asked to go fishing up in Canada with my boss & several of his friends . We’ll be gone for a week. This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I’ve been wanting, so could you please pack […]
Riddle and more humour
=========================== TODAYS RIDDLE : Rearrange the letters of GROW NO LINSEED to spell one single word. x x x x x x x Scroll down for the answer x x x x x x Here it comes x x x x x ONE SINGLE WORD =========================== When I went into labor, I notified my parents, […]
Spiritual/unspiritual
It is not about becoming spiritual beings nearly as much as about becoming human beings. The biblical revelation is saying that we are already spiritual beings; we just don’t know it yet. The Bible tries to let you in on the secret, by revealing God in the ordinary. That’s why so much of the text […]
From Schindler’s List
From Schindler’s List: Stern: It’s Hebrew, from the Talmud. It says, “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.” Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don’t know. If I’d just…I could have got more. Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look […]
Disabled?
Peter: “Many years ago, I interviewed a woman as part of a report on a book launch. She was a trained school teacher, who had lived in a L’arche community in England for a time. One day two of the men in the community, who had severe intellectual disabilities, took her aside to tell her […]
Critics
‘It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who […]
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