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Re: Raising the Roof
By: Kerry Date: December 18, 2014, 7:52 am
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From The Sentinel
HTML http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/mechanicsburg/secret-santa-pays-off-k-in-silver-spring-walmart-layaway/article_bd8a99e4-852d-11e4-b3f4-830d08c56130.html:
About 100 Midstate families experienced an early Christmas
miracle Monday. A secret Santa walked into the Walmart in Silver
Spring Township and paid off all of their outstanding layaway
bills.
“He wants to remain completely anonymous and just wants to be
known as ‘Santa B’,” store manager Steve Myers said.
Myers said ‘Santa B’ cut a personal check for $50,000 on the day
all final layaway payments were due.
“It’s amazing — very grateful for whoever did it. We don’t know
who, but you know it’s nice for someone to do that,” Mimi
Rodriguez, a Harrisburg mother of eight, told abc27.
Joseph and Sally Miller of Camp Hill were relieved of $400 worth
of gifts for their grandchildren.
“That just goes to show you — God is working with all of us,”
Sally Miller said.
Brittny Coeyman said she was planning to drop several items,
including a bike for her daughter, off her layaway list due to
low funds this month. She told abc27 she’s incredibly grateful
she doesn’t have to do that.
“I feel like a million pounds of stress are off my shoulders
right now,” Coeyman said.
Walmart insists this was no inside job. Myers could not explain
how ‘Santa B’ knew to donate almost the exact amount owed on
layaway.
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Re: Re: Raising the Roof
By: Runner Date: December 19, 2014, 2:25 pm
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Lovely story...Christmas brings the best out of many
people...pity the world can't "keep the spirit" all year. I hear
that some news stations only announce good stories on Christmas
eve too. That elsewhere may change the world as well, if
advertising all the bad deeds of the crooks and criminals didn't
make them famous....so people could start believing that the
world was a safer place.
I remember years ago hearing that Napoleon Hill credit himself
for the ending of the Great Depression. He said he held a
meeting and said..this will not stop until you stop the bad
press. Get them to start saying that things have turned around,
start telling them that things are looking up, start telling
them that there is hope. Their attitude will change, and so will
the depression. They did ( they were desperate) and it worked
from that moment onward.
Joy to the world and peace from God the Father!
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Re: Re: Raising the Roof
By: Brad Date: December 20, 2014, 12:07 am
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[quote author=Helen link=topic=364.msg9723#msg9723
date=1419020713]
Lovely story...Christmas brings the best out of many
people...pity the world can't "keep the spirit" all year. I hear
that some news stations only announce good stories on Christmas
eve too. That elsewhere may change the world as well, if
advertising all the bad deeds of the crooks and criminals didn't
make them famous....so people could start believing that the
world was a safer place.
I remember years ago hearing that Napoleon Hill credit himself
for the ending of the Great Depression. He said he held a
meeting and said..this will not stop until you stop the bad
press. Get them to start saying that things have turned around,
start telling them that things are looking up, start telling
them that there is hope. Their attitude will change, and so will
the depression. They did ( they were desperate) and it worked
from that moment onward.
Joy to the world and peace from God the Father!
[/quote]
Its true, you are what you eat!
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Re: Re: Raising the Roof
By: Mike Date: December 23, 2014, 5:56 pm
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[quote author=Brad link=topic=364.msg9724#msg9724
date=1419055656]
Its true, you are what you eat!
[/quote]
I've just had an Indian spicy Korma and now wish that I hadn't.
Does that mean I don't think much of me?
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Re: Re: Raising the Roof
By: Brad Date: December 23, 2014, 11:40 pm
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[quote author=Mike link=topic=364.msg9738#msg9738
date=1419379011]
I've just had an Indian spicy Korma and now wish that I hadn't.
Does that mean I don't think much of me?
[/quote]
Well, I was speaking spiritually and emotionally, that we are
what intake into our minds, but indigestion due to spicy foods
is typically temporary sacrificing our health for the sake of
physical pleasure of our taste bud sensors. Been there, done
that.
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Re: Re: Raising the Roof
By: Mike Date: December 24, 2014, 12:00 am
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[quote author=Brad link=topic=364.msg9746#msg9746
date=1419399612]
Well, I was speaking spiritually and emotionally, that we are
what intake into our minds.
[/quote]
What about "Whatsoever enters into the man from without cannot
defile him; It is that which comes out of the man, that defiles
him.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness,
wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy,
pride, foolishness:
It is all these evil things that come from within that defile a
man."
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Re: Re: Raising the Roof
By: Brad Date: December 24, 2014, 10:36 pm
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[quote author=Mike link=topic=364.msg9747#msg9747
date=1419400850]
What about "Whatsoever enters into the man from without cannot
defile him; It is that which comes out of the man, that defiles
him.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness,
wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy,
pride, foolishness:
It is all these evil things that come from within that defile a
man."
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If you read the verses before, the subject of physical food
comes up, that is what Jesus is talking about it not defiling
you. As I said, I was speaking of the spiritual and emotional.
And indeed you can defile your body with the wrong foods,
whether intentionally or unintentionally. Never the less, the
defilement of your bodies with physical food is much less
important than the defilement of your spirit. When you treat
your bodies with disrespect, which is the temple of the Holy
Spirit, its still wrong, but as to specific diets to follow
regardless of your health situation, thats not all that
important IMO. Our bodies are temporary, decaying basically
from the day we stop growing. How we live and treat others and
God is better to focus on that washing our hands before eating
which is what came up with the pharisees and Jesus when he spoke
that. Were you by chance saying that what we ingest even
spiritually doesnt defile us? If you were implying that, then
I totally disagree with you
There is a commercial over here about a lady who is very zealous
about cleanliness concerning her first newborn child, boiling
most everything short of his fingers that go into his mouth,
spoons, foods, pacifiers, etc. and when the second child comes
along and she has him in the park, and he drops his pacifier,
she reaches down, picks it up, puts it in her mouth, sucking any
dirt and such off it and then putting it in her baby boys mouth.
She by the second child has realized you can be a bit over
zealous about physical cleanliness. Its a pretty funny
commercial. A bit overboard in both approaches, but it makes a
valid point IMO.
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Re: Re: Raising the Roof
By: Mike Date: December 25, 2014, 6:53 am
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Perhaps we should consider the matter 'comparatively'.
For instance what we say, do, and think is far more likely to
effect us than what others say, do, or think.
I believe that to be true regardless of what goes before or
after a particular scripture.
Regardless in fact, of scripture.
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Re: Re: Raising the Roof
By: Brad Date: December 25, 2014, 1:11 pm
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[quote author=Mike link=topic=364.msg9753#msg9753
date=1419511982]
Perhaps we should consider the matter 'comparatively'.
For instance what we say, do, and think is far more likely to
effect us than what others say, do, or think.
I believe that to be true regardless of what goes before or
after a particular scripture.
Regardless in fact, of scripture.
[/quote]
You love to argue it seems over simple things as well. Not
with all, but with some. You should consider that as well,
'comparatively' of course. I see you have completely lost what
I have said and turned it into something to argue over.
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Re: Re: Raising the Roof
By: Mike Date: December 25, 2014, 3:24 pm
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[quote author=Brad link=topic=364.msg9756#msg9756
date=1419534685]
I see you have completely lost what I have said and turned it
into something to argue over.
[/quote]
Not at all...I was just turning the spotlight on an irrelevant
comment that you made in response to a sensible post by Helen.
The phrase 'You are what you eat' came to us via quite a
tortuous route. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in Physiologie
du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826:
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." [Tell me
what you eat and I will tell you what you are].
In an essay titled Concerning Spiritualism and Materialism,
1863/4, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach wrote:
"Der Mensch ist, was er ißt."
That translates into English as 'man is what he eats'.
Neither Brillat-Savarin or Feuerbach meant their quotations to
be taken literally. They were stating that that the food one
eats has a bearing on what one's state of mind and health.
The actual phrase didn't emerge in English until some time
later. In the 1920s and 30s, the nutritionist Victor Lindlahr,
who was a strong believer in the idea that food controls health,
developed the Catabolic Diet. That view gained some adherents at
the time and the earliest known printed example is from an
advert for beef in a 1923 edition of the Bridgeport Telegraph,
for 'United Meet [sic] Markets':
"Ninety per cent of the diseases known to man are caused by
cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat."
In 1942, Lindlahr published You Are What You Eat: how to win and
keep health with diet. That seems to be the vehicle that took
the phrase into the public consciousness. Lindlahr is likely to
have also used the term in his radio talks in the late 1930s
(now lost unfortunately), which would also have reached a large
audience.
You are what you eat - Adelle DavisThe phrase got a new lease of
life in the 1960s hippy era. The food of choice of the champions
of this notion was macrobiotic wholefood and the phrase was
adopted by them as a slogan for healthy eating. The belief in
the diet in some quarters was so strong that when Adelle Davis,
a leading spokesperson for the organic food movement, contracted
the cancer that later killed her, she attributed the illness to
the junk food she had eaten at college.
Some commentators have suggested that the idea is from much
earlier and that it has a religious rather than dietary basis.
Roman Catholics believe that the bread and wine of the Eucharist
are changed into the body and blood of Jesus
(Transubstantiation).
Is the phrase Catholic rather than catabolic?
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1549:
We offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls
and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto
thee; humbly beseeching thee that we, and all others who shall
be partakers of this Holy Communion, may worthily receive the
most precious Body and Blood of thy Son Jesus Christ, be filled
with thy grace and heavenly benediction, and made one body with
him, that he may dwell in us, and we in him.
Transubstantiation certainly links food and the body, but there
doesn't appear to be a clear link between the belief and the
phrase. It's safe to assume the origin is more supper than
supplication.
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