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*'''Age is not an excuse.'''
 
*'''Age is not an excuse.'''
 
::Your age does not excuse you from doing anything. "I'm too old for this," is never true. Something more specific, however, may be true, e.g., "My body is too out of shape for me to do this today."
 
::Your age does not excuse you from doing anything. "I'm too old for this," is never true. Something more specific, however, may be true, e.g., "My body is too out of shape for me to do this today."
*'''A problem well defined is half solved.'''
 
::When I took a year of systems analysis courses in college, I learned that systems analysis included an extensive initial phase of investigation. The idea was to go into great detail to define the problem accurately and completely. Only then, when the problem was fully defined, did we proceed to think about design and development. That's when the problem is made ready to solve.
 
 
*'''Where there's God's will, there's a way.'''
 
*'''Where there's God's will, there's a way.'''
 
::For about a decade, after first taking to the airwaves in response to what I believed was a call from God, I produced a radio series about poverty. When the show hit hard times, I said to myself, "Where there's God's will, there's a way", and then I just kept on trying to find whatever that way was. It worked every time. People say, "Where there's a will, there's a way", but circumstances can defeat an individual's self-willed efforts.
 
::For about a decade, after first taking to the airwaves in response to what I believed was a call from God, I produced a radio series about poverty. When the show hit hard times, I said to myself, "Where there's God's will, there's a way", and then I just kept on trying to find whatever that way was. It worked every time. People say, "Where there's a will, there's a way", but circumstances can defeat an individual's self-willed efforts.
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*'''The Sexual Revolution is "the mother of all" social problems.'''
 
*'''The Sexual Revolution is "the mother of all" social problems.'''
 
::When I entered adulthood, I decided to make a page of Pro's and Cons about non-marital sex, i.e. fornication. Wanting the truth and to think logically, I was very willing to list items on both sides. When I was done, the Con list had grown way longer than the Pro list. Now that I've had a few decades for further observations and the acquisition of wisdom, I conclude that, like Esau, people have given up much in exchange for little. The rich buy their way out of many of sexual immorality's consequences, while the lower classes suffer them. Billions upon billions of taxpayers', charity donors', and insurance ratepayers' dollars are occupied trying to fix problems perpetuated by the ongoing abandonment of self-control. When the Creator gave us rules about sex, He wasn't being "puritanical" and spoiling our fun; rather, He was setting us up to flourish and prosper.
 
::When I entered adulthood, I decided to make a page of Pro's and Cons about non-marital sex, i.e. fornication. Wanting the truth and to think logically, I was very willing to list items on both sides. When I was done, the Con list had grown way longer than the Pro list. Now that I've had a few decades for further observations and the acquisition of wisdom, I conclude that, like Esau, people have given up much in exchange for little. The rich buy their way out of many of sexual immorality's consequences, while the lower classes suffer them. Billions upon billions of taxpayers', charity donors', and insurance ratepayers' dollars are occupied trying to fix problems perpetuated by the ongoing abandonment of self-control. When the Creator gave us rules about sex, He wasn't being "puritanical" and spoiling our fun; rather, He was setting us up to flourish and prosper.
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*'''A problem well defined is half solved.'''
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::In a college course I learned that systems analysis included an extensive initial phase of investigation. The idea was to go into great detail to define the problem accurately and completely. Only then, when the problem is fully defined, do we proceed to think about design and development. That's when the problem is made ready to solve.
  
 
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Revision as of 13:42, 22 February 2020

This page reveals some bits of wisdom that Wikidelphia editor Paul has learned by living, observing, listening, and reading:

  • You can always put more clothes on, but you can only take so many off.
Thus, I have always liked winter better than summer.
  • Age is not an excuse.
Your age does not excuse you from doing anything. "I'm too old for this," is never true. Something more specific, however, may be true, e.g., "My body is too out of shape for me to do this today."
  • Where there's God's will, there's a way.
For about a decade, after first taking to the airwaves in response to what I believed was a call from God, I produced a radio series about poverty. When the show hit hard times, I said to myself, "Where there's God's will, there's a way", and then I just kept on trying to find whatever that way was. It worked every time. People say, "Where there's a will, there's a way", but circumstances can defeat an individual's self-willed efforts.
  • I am what I am, and that's all.
Labeling oneself is not conducive to maximum happiness. I reject "identity". Labels are useful conveniences for certain kinds of discussion, but when I speak carefully, I don't use them. Examples:
  • Speaking loosely, I'll say, "I'm staff editor for Wikidelphia", but when I speak carefully, I'll say, "I help maintain Wikidelphia". See? I dump the "to be" and replace it with an active verb.
  • I don't say, "____ is part of who I am".
  • I refuse to make an "identity" out of my sexual preferences, so I may say, "I have desires for ____," or, "I get hot for ____," but I won't say, "I'm a _____sexual (or an equivalent word)". After all, how much of my time is actually devoted to sexual behavior (or other activities related to my sexuality)? Answer: a small percentage. My life consists of much more than that.
  • Maybe I'd like to say, "I'm a Christian," but it's up to God to judge whether I really make the grade. I do go to church 'n' all that, but a cautious interpretation of the Bible makes me shy away from smugness. If I ever set a good enough example of practice, then I'll "preach".
  • I've never had an identity crisis, whatever that is. I've never anxiously asked myself, "Who am I?" or felt a need to "go find myself".
  • The Sexual Revolution is "the mother of all" social problems.
When I entered adulthood, I decided to make a page of Pro's and Cons about non-marital sex, i.e. fornication. Wanting the truth and to think logically, I was very willing to list items on both sides. When I was done, the Con list had grown way longer than the Pro list. Now that I've had a few decades for further observations and the acquisition of wisdom, I conclude that, like Esau, people have given up much in exchange for little. The rich buy their way out of many of sexual immorality's consequences, while the lower classes suffer them. Billions upon billions of taxpayers', charity donors', and insurance ratepayers' dollars are occupied trying to fix problems perpetuated by the ongoing abandonment of self-control. When the Creator gave us rules about sex, He wasn't being "puritanical" and spoiling our fun; rather, He was setting us up to flourish and prosper.
  • A problem well defined is half solved.
In a college course I learned that systems analysis included an extensive initial phase of investigation. The idea was to go into great detail to define the problem accurately and completely. Only then, when the problem is fully defined, do we proceed to think about design and development. That's when the problem is made ready to solve.