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Free From Before Free To: Late Night Thoughts

I grew up poor but never wanted for anything, so it’s always puzzled me why I feel such gnawing anger and outrage. It hits me now, at age 54, that I got this way not because I was oppressed, although … Continue reading

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Stand Up

There is what we call evil.  Sociopaths, psychopaths, that ilk.  I like to say that we’ve diagnosed evil and made it merely vile. I often also sense a more general pall of evil, of negativity, which is the Imp of … Continue reading

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Dark Force

A dark force with a will to evil is loose in the world. So the church believes and so many others observe. The church further believes spirits in purgatory can be tethered to specific earthly places, such as rooms, and … Continue reading

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