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A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical
delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our
circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty.

The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the
sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall
require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.

--Albert Einstein, 1954 {more here}
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Jesus is asked 183 questions directly in the four Gospels. He only
answered three of them forthrightly. The others he either ignored,
kept silent about, asked a question in return, changed the subject,
told a story or gave an audio/visual aid to make his point, told
them it was the wrong question, revealed their insincerity or
hypocrisy, made the exactly opposite point, or redirected the
question elsewhere!

Check it out for yourself. He himself asks 307 questions, which
would seem to set a pattern for imitation. Considering this, it is
really rather amazing that the church became an official answering
machine and a very self-assured program for 'sin management'.

Many, if not most, of Jesus' teaching would never pass contemporary
orthodoxy tests in either the Roman Office or the Southern Baptist
Convention. Most of his statements are so open to misinterpretation
that should he teach today, he would probably be called a
'relativist' in almost all areas except one: his insistence upon the
goodness and reliability of God. That was his only consistent
absolute.

Richard Rohr

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Despite an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at encouraging babies as young as 6 months to watch videos, there is no evidence that focusing on a screen is anything but bad for infants and toddlers. In a study released last August, University of Washington researchers found that babies between 8 and 16 months recognized an average of six to eight fewer words for every hour spent watching videos.
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A large number of parents are ignoring warnings from the American Academy of Pediatrics and are allowing their very young children to watch television, DVDs or videos so that by 3 months of age 40 percent of infants are regular viewers.

That number jumps to 90 percent of 2-year-olds, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute. The findings are being published today in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

The three most important and common reasons cited by parents for allowing their children to watch TV, DVDs or videos were:

* 29 percent believed these media were educational or were good for the child's brain.
* 23 percent said viewing was enjoyable or relaxing for the child.
* 21 percent used these media as an electronic babysitter so they could do other things.
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