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Nothing going on.
- Article: Why Your Baby’s Name Will Sound Like Everyone Else's [Wired].
- Article: Why the poor pay more: More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace [Seattle Times]. Being poor sucks you into the continuing cycle.
- Article: Going under the knife with open eyes [Globe & Mail]. At what price, beauty? And is beauty worth it?
- Article: The "Bitch" Evolved: Why Girls Are So Cruel to Each Other [Scientific American]. Interesting, this evolutionary psychology.
- Research: The Paradox of declining female happiness [UPenn's Wharton]. An interesting quote from Women are more unhappy despite 40 years of feminism, claims study [Daily Mail UK]: We pushed so hard for equal rights, for having the right to work, for having equal status, we pushed so hard to have choice. But what we hear from many mums is: I have no choice, I have to work, I don't love my career, my childminder is taking half my salary and I'd rather bring up my children myself but I can't afford to. Feminism has traded one set of problems and benefits for another set of problems and benefits. Is it better? The answer depends on which set of problems and benefits you like better. So, better for some and not for others.
My Opinion: The Cost of High Christian Standards in Spiritual Maturity
This is about relationships, again.
Being a pragmatist, I think that for many (most?) folks in the church, the lack is not in spiritual credibility but in dealing with real-world social issues. But we all still focus on Christian standards of spiritual maturity in despite of this.
I honestly think good enough is just that, good enough. It's easy to argue that one can never have too high a standard for spiritual maturity. But consider that people will be bummed when they think they don't meet those overly high standards. Good people get disqualified. One might better solve the problem of quality of spiritual maturity (was there a problem to begin with?) and incidentally create another, and in my opinion, worse problem. Are we better off?
Good enough is good enough.
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