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Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000172 EndHTML:0000003019 StartFragment:0000002353 EndFragment:0000002983 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/jimmy.doc An Old Danish proverb says: “It’s no disgrace to be poor, but it can be inconvenient.” I’m sure many could testify to the validity of this proverb. It’s never convenient to sit in a house where the electricity has been cut off for lack of payment. Things become so…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000191 EndHTML:0000002741 StartFragment:0000002372 EndFragment:0000002705 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/Jimmy%E2%80%99s%20column.doc Here is a proverb on wisdom: “He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it…” (Ecclesiastes 10:8). Digging a pit is hard, but falling into it and getting out is even more difficult. The wrong act leads to trouble. One may dig a pit to ensnare another, but he…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000003088 StartFragment:0000002363 EndFragment:0000003052 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/ruralviewpoints.doc During the Civil Rights years, a first-grade white girl met a black girl on school’s first day. Because of segregation, the white girl had not associated with black people. But things changed, and integration made both little girls afraid. When the white girl returned home after that historic day,…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000185 EndHTML:0000003080 StartFragment:0000002366 EndFragment:0000003044 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/Rural%20Viewpoints.doc Why is it that we throw rocks at each other? A few centuries before Christ, a Greek philosopher named Dion used an insightful image to teach a great truth. Here is the image as quoted by Dion in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 14th edition, page 104: “Though boys throw stones…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000003612 StartFragment:0000002364 EndFragment:0000003576 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/ruralviewpoints.doc “I have a mountain of credit card debt,” one man told another. “I have lost my job. My car is being repossessed and our house is in foreclosure, but I am not worried about it,” exclaimed his friend. “I’ve hired a professional worrier. He does all my worrying for…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000002792 StartFragment:0000002363 EndFragment:0000002756 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/ruralviewpoints.doc The following human interest story is about the struggles and hopes of Danny McCaleb. I had Danny in school at RBS High School during the late 70s and into 1980. He was a joy to be around, and that hasn’t changed. Danny grew up, like most of us, in…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000002890 StartFragment:0000002363 EndFragment:0000002854 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/ruralviewpoints.doc I try never to get into fights with ugly people because they have nothing to lose. The truth always engenders wrath in the hearts of the ill-informed and the dishonest. This is the case because of men’s negative response to the truth. The same truth that makes some angry,…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000185 EndHTML:0000003252 StartFragment:0000002444 EndFragment:0000003216 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/Rural%20viewpoints.doc The greatest danger facing Americans is the intellectual zealot – sometimes called a “progressive” in the political arena – who seeks to establish a new international order. I have always believed that the United States is the greatest nation upon earth and has no reason to be annexed to…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000185 EndHTML:0000002908 StartFragment:0000002366 EndFragment:0000002872 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/Rural%20Viewpoints.doc No person or group has ever worn the badge of hypocrisy with greater pride than the Pharisees and Sadducees of the New Testament times. They managed to “corner the market” on this despicable inconsistency. They worked overtime to keep their pet sin alive. Most people couldn’t stand to see…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000185 EndHTML:0000002728 StartFragment:0000002366 EndFragment:0000002692 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/OBITS/Rural%20Viewpoints.doc Oh really? Do people go as they are to eat out? Do people go as they are to their physician? Do people go as they are to meet some prominent politician? How come a politician is more important than God?