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How a Space-station gets put together
Look at what happened from 1998 until 2008. In just eleven years, it has grown and grown. Watch the pieces come together as they are sent up from Earth. This is the International Space Station (ISS) Assembly diagram, piece by piece. What a piece of engineering!! Click below: http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm
No one knows the day or the hour
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com This is not an article about the Second Coming, though it may have some relevance to what I am about to write. This is an article about death. In the last few years I have been struck by the death of a few people around my age. One was my […]
The Awesome Power of Encouragement
I had a very traumatic childhood. My parents were actively involved in church life and supposedly good Christians. But at home it was a different story. My father sexually abused me from the age of four, and my mother resented me for taking my father’s attention from her. I remember her holding my head under […]
Abundance and Choice
*Sightings* 4/5/10 Abundance and Choice — Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Easter Monday, ¢â‚¬ Christian clergy call today. Rabbis probably have an analogous term for their well-earned day or week or fortnight off following holiday ceremonies. After too much heavy, even sometimes traumatic, religion news, let ¢â‚¬â„¢s use this *Sightings* for lighter, let ¢â‚¬â„¢s hope nuanced, ¢â‚¬Å“news. ¢â‚¬ The topic: Choice […]
Survey
Last month a world-wide survey was conducted by the UN. The task was given to a multi-lingual International Survey Company based in southern India. The only question asked was:- “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” The survey was a huge failure because […]
Francis and the Leper
It is said that when Francis was a young man, before his transformation, he would wander the countryside. In those days the disease of leprosy was not uncommon. Given their grotesque appearance and the odious stench that accompanied their deteriorating skin, lepers were usually banished to the countryside. Their only real source of income came […]
Two Wolves in the Heart
A Grandfather from the Cherokee Nation was talking with his grandson. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.” “One wolf is evil and ugly: He is anger, envy, war, greed, self-pity, sorrow, regret, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, […]
Dandelions
A young man named Nashruddin planted a flower garden, but when the flowers came up so did a great crop of dandelions among them. Wishing to eliminate the unwanted guests, Nashruddin consulted with gardeners near and far, but none of their solutions worked. Finally, Nashruddin travelled to the palace of the sheik to seek the […]
29 UNIVERSAL TRUTHS :-)
1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. [See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9gnexnnIDc ] 2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. 3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was […]
The Saving power of technology(?)
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I love technology. I love living in the 21st century with all its gadgets, and I’m continually amazed at what we are able to do now that we couldn’t do even 5 years ago. Who knows what we’ll be able to do in 5 years from now? When a new […]
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