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A Higher Gear

by Terry January 27, 2009

 
“The intellectual factors of religion are important, but their over­de­vel­op­ment is likewise sometimes very handicapping and embarrassing.”— Paper 102, Section 3
 
 
In a thrift store recently I saw a framed sign for sale. I didn’t buy it, but I remembered it. It said:
 
                        Life is a test.
                        It is only a test.
                        If it had been [...]

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THE SOCIAL VALUE OF WAR

by Terry September 7, 2008

IN THE PAST, a fierce war would bring about social changes and facilitate the adoption of new ideas, such as would not have occurred naturally in ten thousand years. But the terrible price paid for these certain advantages was that society was temporarily thrown back into savagery; civilized reason had to abdicate. War is strong [...]

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