I just got back from a short stay at Lake Wallowa in eastern Oregon, near Hell’s Canyon.  While there we came across Chief Joseph’s grave site.  His bones are interred in a small monument in a small Indian cemetery overlooking the lake.
 
 It is a beautiful site, a small mound enclosed by a circle.  His bones [...]

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I really is.
Fundamentalist Atheist hate religion and believe that religious people are inferior, weak, stupid, mentally deformed, etc.  What fundie Atheists don’t and won’t realize is that religiousness is part of human nature.  Hating and denigrating others because they are religious is equivalent to hating homosexuals because they were born with a predisposition to be [...]

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"Don’t criticize, condemn or complain."  This is one of the few negative teachings from Dale Carnegie.  This is also one of the most important. 

I can’t imagine how many times I’ve seen people destroy their own relationships, at work and at home, because they don’t know this.  When you criticize, condemn and complain you separate yourself [...]

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