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Category Archives: Mature
Loneliness Is Death
There is a very important article in the Wall Street Journal today on the link of loneliness to death.
Frightening loneliness statistics:
– One in 11 Americans over age 50 “lacks a spouse, partner, or living child.”
– More than 1 in 4 baby boomers is divorced or never married.
– 1 out of every 6 people lives alone.
Research indicates that loneliness leads to early death.
The impact of loneliness is equivalent to:
– Smoking 15 cigarettes a day
– Drinking 6 alcoholic beverages a day
Loneliness is worse for mortality than:
– Obesity
– Physical activity
“The effect of isolation is extraordinarily powerful…we have to address loneliness,” says the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Whether you are extroverted or introverted, we all need human interaction, sharing, caring, touch, and love.
Truly, no man is an island!
Those that are stranded on loneliness island need to escape it and make their way back to human civilization.
Alone our lives are dull and stunted; but together, we have the inherent social dynamics to be able to experientially learn, grow, change and mature.
Alone we die–together we live.
It’s not just power in numbers, it’s life itself.
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Does Unwanted Justify Murder?
This sign pasted all around Washington, DC states that:
“An unwanted fetus would support a woman’s right to choose”
This means that a baby who isn’t wanted potentially grows up to be abused and would rather not have been born.
However, can anyone really say this with a completely straight face?
Sure, some types of abuse can be so terrible that perhaps death is preferable.
But other times, unwanted children become loved or at least accepted children or otherwise make great things out of their lives!
And parents who didn’t think at the time that they could do handle a child, find that they adapt or mature, and are better parents than they even expected.
Unwanted for an unborn baby shouldn’t necessarily mean an abortion anymore than any other unwanted person in your life should mean that you can just terminate them.
We aren’t G-d and we can’t just get rid of people we don’t like or want.
If that was indeed the case, there probably wouldn’t be many of us left in the world.
Of course, there should be exceptions for abortion in cases of rape, incest, severe birth defects, or a clear and present danger to the life of the mother or child.
Otherwise, a life is a life, and a fetus is a person with a soul like any other from the Maker of heaven and earth. 😉
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