Ever wonder why non-Westerners seem to hate Westerners? C.S. Doemner quotes from Meic Pearse’s new book: Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage. To generalize a global phenomenon: Westerners are increased perceived by non-Westerners as “rich, technologically sophisticated, economically and politically dominant, morally contemptible barbarians.” Westerners are
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Have you ever done something that seemed small or insignificant that ended up having a bigger consequence than you had expected, or maybe imagined? Witness the German banker who for whatever reason hadn’t gotten enough sleep and fell asleep “for an instant” at his workstation keyboard. He intended to transfer 62.50 euro to a customer. He ended up transferring €222,222,222.22 (about $293,000,000). Fortunately another colleague spotted the error, and it was corrected. You can probably think of a time when you may have made a seemingly insignificant comment, only to greatly offend someone. Or perhaps you did–or didn’t do–something that…
[ Read More → ]I’ve been writing a book manuscript with Roxanne Wermuth, who has Chronic Progressive Multiple Sclerosis and had a heaven experience. We’re calling it Heaven Sent Me Back. Here’s the first chapter. I’d love to see your comments. Chapter 1 Return to Sender I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Psalm 63:2 Against my will, my eyes started to open. Please, God, don’t send me back. I shut my eyes again, hoping and praying I would still be in the other dimension when I opened them. With absolute resolve, I stopped breathing and…
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Edward Snowden came to the conclusion that the CIA and NSA, for whom he worked, had way too much ability to spy. They can virtually listen in on any phone conversation they like. This is scary. And hardly ethical. So he blew the cover of the entire operation. As egregious as the government’s ability and practice of spying may be, the spy agencies pointed out that with this cover blown, Americans at large are now put at greater risk. And terrorists they might have caught will now be aware of what they didn’t know before and less likely be caught before they…
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An international outcry has rightfully emerged at the Laotian government that sent nine North Korean refugee kids back to North Korea for certain imprisonment in a concentration camp, probable torture, and possible death. They were part of a group of kids who had at various times escaped North Korea, been orphaned in one way or another, lived on the streets in China, and found by South Koran Christians who gathered them in. The youngest and oldest got to safety. The remaining nine pictured here made their way into Laos, with the aim of getting to the South Korean embassy in…
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