Empires Rise and Empires Fall

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  January 6th at 01:10 PM  | 

Most of us, even those of us who are the products of America’s collapsed public education system have heard of the fall of Rome.  The greatest of ancient western empires began to fall as soon as the vigorous Republic which had created it was replaced by an autocratic military dictatorship.  A dictatorship which hid behind a veneer of republican forms while devolving into a cult | Read More »

Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  December 13th at 07:12 PM  | 

Everybody wants an “A” but nobody wants to study.  Everybody wants to be rich but nobody wants to save.  Everybody wants to lose weight but nobody wants to exercise.  Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.  No matter how you say it, the desire for something without the willingness to do the hard things required to achieve it, will always lead | Read More »