72% of Us Not Going to Hell
Here’s the link to an interesting MSNBC story about a Belief Net survey on people’s beliefs about hell. About 72% of us think we are not going. Only 3% of respondents think they are.
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I would classify things in this category that were related to arts, literature, cinema, performance. Things that make us and the world better.
Why do we call them “Piggy Banks”?
No one invented the piggy bank. The piggy banks’ origin owes more to the history of language, than to an individual inventor. In old english (around the 15th century) there was a word “pygg” which referred to a type of orange clay. People made all kinds of useful objects out of clay, including dishes and jars to hold spare change. Around the 18th century, the word “pygg” now sounded the same as the word for the animal “pig”. An unknown person(s) thought to shape a “pygg” jar, to look just like a real “pig”. Perhaps an order came in for a “pygg” jar and the potter misunderstood.
Read moreNever Lose A Holy Curiosity
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. –Albert Einstein
Read moreA Heart Full of Grace
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. –Martin Luther King Jr.
Read moreWhatever happened to the USFL?
The United States Football League is one of history’s more interesting failures. It was founded by entrepreneur David Dixon in
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