Holding Hands in the Dark
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you’ll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Next to this black hole, South Korea, Japan and now China gleam. Even from hundreds of miles above, the billboards, headlights, streetlights and neon of the fast-food chains appear as tiny white dots signifying people going about their business as 21st-century energy consumers. Then in the middle of it all, a blackness nearly as large as England. It is baffling how a nation of 23 million can appear...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
(Audio) My Advice to Catholic Parents: Don't Let Your Kids Date Non-Catholics
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I know, this is hardly revolutionary or unique advice, but I was recently asked about this issue by a young Catholic man who called my "Open Line" radio show (heard every Thursday at 3:00 p.m. ET). He had been dating a devoutly Presbyterian girl, and her father didn't like it one bit that the guy was Catholic. I think my response to his "what do I do now?" question may have surprise him. (It apparently surprised and even dismayed a few of my listeners, judging from some of the e-mails that came in after that show.) My basic premise, which...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
Deadly Spider Demands Long Courtship, or Else
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Females of the Australian redback spider, one of the world's most poisonous spiders and a close relative to the black widow, demand 100 minutes of courting or else they usually cannibalize their male suitors, research finds. Proving that bigger isn't always better in the mating game, the tiniest of males sometimes approach female redbacks after offering the critical 100 minutes of wooing and successfully mate without being eaten, according to the paper in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The study shows that puny males of this species can win at love without exerting much effort and begins...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
Calling All Christians: Single lady is always there with her mother. Is she a bodyguard? (VANITY)
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Brothers and sisters in Christ! While walking to a church BBQ, I happened upon a lovely lady in an evening gown, walking with her mother. When we all got to reception, I asked if this was where we all get our name tags. We were told rather, that the suggested donation was $5. Behold, the lovely lady and her mother proceeded to look in their purses. As they did, I whipped out $20, and told reception that I would cover the ladies. They thanked me, and I moved on immediately to the food line. A minute later the lady and...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
Single women gaze longer
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Neuroscientists found woman's partner status relevant for her interest in the opposite sex A study by neuroscientist Heather Rupp and her team found that a woman's partner status influenced her interest in the opposite sex. In the study¹, published in the March issue of Human Nature, women both with and without sexual partners showed little difference in their subjective ratings of photos of men when considering such measures as masculinity and attractiveness. However, the women who did not have sexual partners spent more time evaluating photos of men, demonstrating a greater interest in the photos. No such difference was found...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
Pro-Life Movie 'Come What May' Released Today
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Come What May is the first release from Advent Film Group (AFG), but the production group founded by George Escobar is planning on producing many more movies in the future. Inspired by Sherwood Pictures (creators of FIREPROOF, Facing the Giants, and Flywheel) AFG has constructed its own model for creating great movies for a faith-based audience. "There was a core team of 40 home schooled student from across 16 different states that worked on the movie," he says. With a team at the ready, George and others worked on the script. The central plot is based on a real experience...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
How Maine's GOP Senators Are Key to Obama's Agenda(courtship)
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How Maine's GOP Senators Are Key to Obama's Agenda Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe Collins: The courtship of Senator Olympia Snowe started in December with a phone call from Joe Biden. The Vice President-elect made sure Snowe had his home telephone number in Delaware so she would know how to reach him on weekends. In the weeks that followed, the two traded memos back and forth about how an economic stimulus package should work. "I had an infinite number of ideas, because they had been stored up," says Snowe, a Maine Republican who never got that kind of treatment when...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
Gay & Lesbian Churches Promote Courtship
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Gay & Lesbian Churches Promote Courtship Several leaders of the Metropolitan Community Church, have announced a courtship mentoring program to replace the random, sometimes destructive "dating" which has hitherto been the norm for romance among the gay and lesbian community. Courtship introduces supervision (sometimes, 100% chaperoning), and careful spiritual counselling, into the pair-bonding process, with romantic activities and emotions only allowed full sway after the success of the relationship is reasonably assured. The courtship movement had its genesis among the fundamentalist homeschoolers in the 1970's, but lately it has been spreading through other segments of Christendom. Its adoption by gay...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
Dorm BrothelThe new debauchery, and the colleges that let it happen.
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"The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose." Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman (1966) Nineteen sixty-six, the year in which Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman was published, is also the year I entered as a first-yearman at the University...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
Rules for a Reason: The World Rethinks Dating
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The June 2003 issue of the WASHINGTON MONTHLY ran an intriguing article by journalist Elizabeth Austin titled, "In Contempt of Courtship." Happily married herself, Austin nevertheless found it depressing to study today's dating habits. Everywhere she looked, from popular culture to real life, dating was portrayed as hard, boring, thankless work, more like "applying for a new job" than having fun. Many single people would rather sit home and watch a "reality" dating show than actually go on a date. "When did we start to consider dating a synonym for hell?" she asked. "Wasn't the sexual revolution supposed to make...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 07:24:48 AM
"I love the irony — I've spent over 400 hours of my life looking for comets, and haven't found anything, and now, suddenly, when I'm not looking for one, I get one dumped in my lap."...
by Alan Hale
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Maximilien Robespierre: Reign of Terror leader was guillotined in Paris during the French Revolution (1794)
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