MIND ME BEING NOSEY?

Subject: Hello There?

I was feeling a little nosey,so I thought I would look in on you and seeif you are sitting at your computer and you are ok Yup, there you are! You look great.

PROBLEMS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY...

"TIME: You and Karen write that the "Judas" author was angry, particularly at the Christian church's developing cult of martyrdom. You write that he conveyed "the urgency of someone who wants to unmask what he feels is the hideous folly of leaders who encourage people to get themselves killed in this way." Whom might he have meant?"

Pagels: So far as I know, all the so-called "fathers of the church" glorified martyrdom. Ignatius, who wrote in Syria in around 108 AD, speaks passionately about "being ground up by the teeth of wild beasts to become God's wheat," — that is, by martyrdom, he becomes the bread of the Eucharist.

What could have provoked such adamance?
Christians were undergoing terrible persecution at the time. Leaders like Ignatius felt that a willingness to "die for God" was essential for the movement to survive; otherwise, its members could be intimidated, and it might have died out."

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http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1596991,00.html

SHOULD YOU HAVE A LIVING WILL?

THANKS ALLISON!

IT JUST SHOWS HOW DISADVANTAGED SPOUSES ARE. ACCORDING TO EVERYTHING I READ THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION IS NOT TO PUT THIS BURDEN ON YOUR SPOUSE, BUT ON A FRIEND YOU TRUST WHO KNOWS WHEN THERE IS NO HOPE AND DOES WHAT YOU WOULD WANT HIM TO DO!

HEY, IF THERE IS A LOVER HANGING IN THE WINGS WHO WANTS YOU TO DIE WHO HAS EYES ON YOUR SPOUSE AND ESTATE, BLOCK THE BASTARD.

YOU DON'T NEED A LIVING WILL. GIVE YOUR CLOSEST FRIEND WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU WOULD WANT POWER OF ATTORNEY (make sure he loves you more than your spouse) and he would make the decision you would want him to make.

LIVING WILL INFORMATION
While I was watching some College Football, my wife and I gotinto a conversation about life and death, and the need for livingwills. During the course of the conversation I told her that I neverwanted to exist in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine andtaking fluids from a bottle. She got up, unplugged the TV, and threw out all my beer. Sometimes it's tough being married to a smartass.