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"David D. Burns, MD, in his book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, says that there are ten major thought distortions that arise in a depressed person's thoughts. He list them as follows:

"1. All or nothing thinking. You see things in black and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure ( Read more... )

Threaded Bubbles on an Ocean Floor
For Ge
(a series of poems on the sea)

Ocean FloorThere is nothing to see, even if you wanted to ( Read more... )

Why can't Christians just be tolerant of other peoples religion rather than keeeeep insisting they be 'saved'? It pisses the shit out of me.I saw this line on a friend's blog. Needless to say, I was shocked, saddened and disturbed by it ( Read more... )

Absolute Truth - Inflexible Reality
"Absolute truth" is defined as inflexible reality: fixed, invariable, unalterable facts. For example, it is a fixed, invariable, unalterable fact that there are absolutely no square circles and there are absolutely no round squares.

Absolute Truth vs. RelativismWhile absolute truth is a logical necessity, there ( Read more... )

Taken from an e-mail.

Problem of Evil: Necessary for LoveHere's the Problem of Evil in a nutshell: "Why did a personal, loving God create a world in which evil exists?" "Why did God give man freedom to commit evil acts?" Atheists reason, "Surely an all-knowing God of Love would not allow evil to exist in His world." The response to the foregoing ( Read more... )

This is an extract from an e-mail sent by a church friend. The material is taken from Peter Jeffry:

In Psalm 8 we find David enjoying God. His thoughts are taken up with the majesty, power and goodness of God and his delight in verses 1 and 9 are obvious: 'O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!'

Very often our Christian ( Read more... )

Dear Heavenly Father ( Read more... )