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Volume 18 – Issue 5 Editor/Publisher – Phillip Koehn www.businessbulletinonline.com December 2019PA
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Internet “Facts,” True or False?
“Don’t believe everything you read on the in-ternet. In fact, it’s probably a good practice to not believe anything you read or see anywhere, and certainly never from a single source. If there is a subject or controversy that inter-ests you, dig a little deeper. Read a few of the counter-arguments. It probably is a good rule of thumb to read at least two arguments and two counter-arguments. But to be honest, that shouldn’t be enough. Does this sound like too much work for you? If that’s the case, then maybe this expertise isn’t for you.” Detroitcb-slocal.com
We are bombarded with information at our fingertips, and in just a few seconds. Would you like to know how far it is to Russia from here? Did you want to know that in miles or hours in flight? What is the temperature right now in Tucumcari, New Mexico? What is the latest Trump impeachment “gossip?” What are the latest statistics on automobile fatalities in your state? What is the average heartbeat rate of a one-year-old baby? What are the chances of you dying of carbon monoxide poi-
soning in your house during the night? How many people per 100 have substantial emo-tional problems?
“The ten best/popular gifts nationwide to buy for your spouse at Christmas, 2019 are these!” Then pictures of the products are shown. These “facts” are published at the be-ginning of the Christmas season, not in the middle of the buying season, or a couple days
before Christmas Day itself. People have barely started buying these products or other products. How, then, is it known that these ten items are the most popular when the buying has not really started? Are advertising com-panies creating a “want” for these products among their readers? You might be checking the menu of a certain restaurant online and you see that it boasts Voted Best Restaurant or Voted Best Food. How do I know that is true? Who are the ones who are actually quali-fied to vote? Sometimes it seems that I see that same slogan on several restaurant signs during the same time frame! Neither I nor any of my friends have had the opportunity to vote on which is the best restaurant.
What is true about global warming? A few years ago, for about five to seven days, the entire North American continent expe-rienced very, very cold temperatures vary-ing by degrees, depending on the longitudes from north to south. A few days later after it warmed back up to normal winter tempera-tures, there was a news article which stated that the recent extreme cold temperatures we were experiencing were definite signs of glob-al warming! I laughed out loud as I read the title of the article. In the article, the scientist explained how this actually took place. Sorry, I didn’t believe a word of it!
“Coasts should plan for a 6.5-foot sea level rise by 2100 as precaution,” experts say.” “Coastal decisions, by and large, require long lead times. It would be nice if we could wait for science to clear up, but we can’t,” one scientist says. I personally do not say this is false, nor is it true. The ice should have started to melt and sea levels to rise already 30 to 50 years ago when air pollution depleting the ozone layer was not an issue among industries and gov-ernments. There are tons of information on global warming.
Need information on immunizations and vaccines? Google vaccinations, immuniza-tions, vaccines, etc.” This is a controversial/hotspot subject among people of our nation and other nations. This includes Mennonite/plain people groups also. From factcheck.org
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The Business Bulletin– “Has the Food and Drug Administration announced that vaccines cause autism?” (An-swer) – “No. FDA statements are grounded in scientific evidence. There is no evidence that vaccination is linked to autism.” The infor-mation, reviews, and experiences on whether vaccines cause autism or not, on whether vac-cines are dangerous or not, is available by the
100s or 1000s, pros and cons. What would be a common sense approach to this issue?
What do you think? Do we need to know “everything about everything?” What if some of what we read is not true and it causes us to form opinions or make decisions? Do we have
to have our phone with us during social visi-tation just in case a subject comes up and we want to know what someone under Google says about it?
Four months ago, our daughter, her hus-band, and their two children left from JFK airport in New York City to fly to Moscow, Russia for a mission term. I was curious, so I
asked Google how many miles the trip would be. Google said 4,664 miles. Their flight itin-erary said 6,800 miles, and another source said it was 9,113 miles! Ok, which one am I sup-posed to believe? I chose the 6,800 because the information came from a reliable source,
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and 6,800 miles seemed logical (to me).I have been keeping up with the daily im-
peachment process for the last couple weeks. Almost daily there are news clips that say the chairman is called upon to resign or the en-tire process hit a snag and the impeachment is called off. The chairman says he never talked to the whistleblower. This witness heard the telephone conversation and another who was supposed to have listened in never did, etc. The president held the money back and then it was said he never did hold it back. The other party of whom this conversation was about are “cor-rupt people,” and then …, no they’re not. On and on. The next day nothing is mentioned about the above incidents. So … what is true on the news and what is not? It is very proba-ble that lies are spoken every day in these hear-ings. I have now gotten disinterested in all this garbage, so I have quit listening for now.
Here are a few examples of useful infor-mation that can be googled. At what point of tread wear should you decide to buy new tires for your car? Which are the best light bulbs to buy for your house, or which is the best qual-ity refrigerator? Check in at Lowes or Home Depot to see if they have the item in actual stock so that you do not make a trip to town in vain. Are you handy at fixing the appliances in your house? Order that appliance part at ere-placementparts.com. The part might come to your front porch in one or two days by deliv-ery, far surpassing the time frame the repair-man would take to fix it.
I am gathering from information on this subject (on the internet!!) that there is the un-canny sense that what you encounter online is not “real” but is also undeniably not “fake,” and indeed, may be both at once, as you think it through! Let us, as a Christian people, be very careful. I know that we want only the truth, but the untruth can be right in front of us! – Phillip
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English Conquest and Domination
In September 1759, during the Seven Years War, British forces captured Quebec City. During the night the British forces, led by General James Wolfe, climbed the steep es-carpment which led to the city and were ready for battle when the day dawned. The French forces, led by General Montcalm, left their fortifications to go out and face them.
The battle took place on a field owned by Abraham Martin, one of the first settlers at Quebec, and a Protestant. Both generals died in the battle, but the British prevailed and a year later also took Montreal, giving them control of Canada as it was then. The battle site, known as the Plains of Abraham, is now a park and a major tourist draw.
At first, the British imposed English civil law and required an oath of allegiance to the British crown for anyone seeking employ-ment or to do business with the new regime. Catholics were not permitted to take this oath.
The Quebec act of 1774 restored French civil law and recognized the French language and the Roman Catholic church. Outwardly it appeared they had abandoned the policy of assimilation. However, those first fifteen years had given the new English settlers sufficient time to get their hands on the major sources of revenue.
This suited the Roman Catholic church quite well. For the following two centuries, it had uncontested authority over a people com-prised of farmers, labourers, loggers, govern-ment clerks, notaries, doctors, shopkeepers, and owners of other small businesses. The church controlled education and health care. Big business was almost entirely in the hands of the English and the church was content to have it that way.
Montreal became the largest city in Can-ada and the business centre of the country. There were four department stores in down-town Montreal—Eaton, Simpson, Morgan, and Ogilvy—where the staff spoke only Eng-lish. A little further to the east was Dupuis Frères, the lone department store where the staff spoke French.
Most large financial institutions had their headquarters in Montreal, with manage-ment that was entirely English-speaking, and they showed no interest in doing business in Quebec outside of Montreal. Canada’s larg-est railway, the Canadian National, was head-quartered in Montreal. It was a government-owned business, formed in 1918 to take over operations of its insolvent predecessors. Don-ald Gordon was president from 1950 to 1966. He was once asked why there were no French-Canadians among the 17 vice presidents of the CNR. He replied that the CNR promoted people solely based on merit, implying that there were no French-Canadians qualified for
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such a position of responsibility. Other examples of that thinking by An-
glophone (English-speaking) businessmen abound. Another well-known incident oc-curred in the early years of the Quiet Revo-lution, when the Lesage government was planning to take over privately owned hydro-electric companies. At a cocktail party, an An-glo businessman approached the Minister of Natural Resources and asked, “What makes you think people like you (meaning French-Canadians) can run Shawinigan Light and Power?”
Subsequent history shows that they could do well at it. Hydro-Québec, the government-owned electric company, provides electricity at rates that are lower than almost anywhere else in North America and earns a profit of a billion dollars a year or more.
Investors created several small banks in the latter part of the 19th century to serve the francophone population of Québec, ne-glected by the big Anglo institutions. In 1900 Alphonse Desjardins helped organize the first caisse populaire (people’s bank, or credit union). These institutions served a need that was not being met, and grew rapidly. By the end of the 20th century, most of the banks had merged into the Banque National du Canada, now one of Canada’s major banks. The federa-tion of Caisses Populaires Desjardins has also grown to be a major financial force, including the ownership of insurance and investment companies.
With the rise of francophone power, the Anglo banks had moved their headquarters to Toronto. Now they are making belated at-tempts to get a foothold in the Quebec mar-ket.
The Canadian National Railway never earned a profit during the tenure of Donald Gordon, or at any time while it was govern-ment-owned. When the government priva-tized CN Rail in 1996, its first president as an independent company was Paul Tellier, a French-Canadian, who trimmed and steered it into becoming a highly profitable business.
Nowadays, the people in Montreal with big money have French names. None of the five department store chains mentioned earlier are in business anymore. The Hudson’s Bay Com-pany, known in French as la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson, bought three of them and op-erates one store in downtown Montreal.
If you travel through a town in Quebec today, you will be apt to see a branch of the
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Banque Nationale, a Caisse Populaire, a Ro-man Catholic church that is half full on a Sunday morning, and a Salle du Royaume (Kingdom Hall) of the Témoins de Jéhova ( Jehovah’s Witnesses). The Witnesses estab-lished credibility during the 1940s and 50s by continuing to proselytize despite the govern-ment’s attempts to ban them. The provincial government passed several laws designed to stop their activities and jailed some of them for defying those laws. The courts did not al-
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I Was AfraidThree people were born into the world. The Creator placed within each one of them the gift of uniqueness. “Take care of this gift, nur-ture it, and may it bring forth fruit,” he whis-pered into their souls, “for it is yours and yours alone, and no one else can do the tasks that are yours to do. This gift will empower you for life, and for service. Go, and use it wisely.” The three went forth and their lives were very dif-ferent.
To the one had been given the gift of mu-sic, the ability to write, to see the unseen, and to care for those around her. Beautiful and dynamic gifts. Gifts capable of transforming minds, and men, and changing the courses of nations both for the good and for the evil. She found many opportunities to apply the gifts that she had been given in her life as a wife and a mother. Throughout life she added to the original gifts she had been given. Intercessory prayer, sympathy, and a willingness to provide direction, encouragement, and advice to the mothers who followed after her. A strong and safe home was created, and stable Christian children went forth into the world.
To the second had been given the gift of limitless energy and the ability to finish the tasks that he started. He could have gone far into the world, as worldly men count success. His could have been the life of the entrepre-neur, successful in business where others failed, seeing opportunities to make money where others saw risk. Yet he remembered where his gifts came from and dedicated them in service to God. Many opportunities came his way to speak a word of encouragement to
his fellowman. As he applied himself to his gifts, he added to them the gift of dynamic leadership, and the ability to pursue scriptures until the truth of them became plain and sim-ple.
To the third had been given the gift of a pleasing personality. People enjoyed being around him and he had many friends. He loved the praise of men and applied his gift to influence people to see things his way. He be-came an important man in the world.
All three appeared before their Creator on the final day of reckoning.
To the elderly mother – “Well done, thou good and faithful. You have taken your gifts, cultivated them, and have changed the world for the better. You were given a little and have done much.”
To the aged leader and preacher of the gos-pel was heard another well done. “Through the applied effort of your gifts, you have made the Church a safer place for my lambs. You were given little and have produced much.”
The man of the world came last. He was quick to explain. “I was afraid, afraid of los-ing friends, afraid of being a nobody, so I just quietly hoped I was serving you as I made my way through the world.” To him the Creator’s words were low and solemn. “Why? You knew the gift that you had been given wasn’t yours to use as you wanted. I never asked for a lot, just faithfulness in what I placed in front of you.” The Creator’s words were fair and just. What the man had been given was taken away and he was sent away, lost, because of using God’s gift for himself.
What does it all mean? Can a 2,000-year-old parable teach us something today? The culture is so different. Maybe something of
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(Th)Inkthe real meaning was lost in translation. The truth of the matter is, it may have meant some-thing different to the people who first heard it than it does to us today. Does that matter? The Gospel is alive. It’s relevant for our day. So, what can we take from the parable?
Each of the individuals in the parable had been given something, something that was not theirs to keep and would one day be re-turned to the Giver. Their task was to watch over it, to guard it, and use it wisely. In broad terms, we have been given much that fits that description.
Life! Life has been given to each one of us and we know it’s not permanent. Maybe it’s not quite right to say we’ll give it back some-day, but we know we will give account.
Opportunity! Today we have so many op-portunities. How many of them will we give account for someday?
Individuality. We are all so different! Then to stop and think about how the Creator loves each one of us, and how he must enjoy diver-sity, and what it must be like to create so many, so uniquely. And all of us, short and tall, weak and strong, women and men, boys and girls — created in His image. We’ll be held account-able for all of that. What are you doing with your uniqueness?
As life unfolds, each individual is permitted to make many choices. The person gifted with an ear that hears music and a foot that taps the beat can become a rapper, a rock singer, or a beacon of hope to the sick and the old. That’s a choice the one without that gift doesn’t have to make. The one gifted with the ability to make money has to decide whether he’ll become a multi-millionaire or whether he’ll become a helper to the needy around him. You and I may not need to make a choice in either of those things, but we will in something similar. Some seem to have it all and some not so much. The one with little can feel jealous or he can be thankful that less is required of him. Another choice.
And so many are afraid. They hide their Creator-given gift because of the “what ifs.” Maybe you’ve been given the gift of seeing needs around you, but what if your help won’t be appreciated, or you won’t do it just right? Maybe you’re a preacher and you see the spiri-tual drought; you know where to get water, but you’re afraid that in the delivery of the water, some will spill on you so you bury your gift. And the list could go on and on and on. So many gifted people with so many choices
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on how to use their gift. School board, youth leaders, song leaders, teachers - have you been afraid? You’ve seen the task, you have the gift, but what if your toes get stepped on? Maybe it’s safest to just lie low and hope that this, too, will pass. But what of the gift? When the Cre-ator asks you what you did with your ability to lead singing, will you say, “I was afraid.” What about the problem that came up in school board meeting? You are a middle-born; you have the gift of negotiating and smoothing the road. Were you afraid? Afraid of what oth-ers would think of you? Afraid to stick your neck out and get involved? Maybe, as a youth leader, you have leadership talent, but you’re afraid to speak up, to get in the front, to lead, because the youth might not like you if you do. You reason that if you leave things as they are you won’t get hurt. Are you burying your tal-ent?
Maybe we feel we don’t really have a gift
for the task we see ahead of us. And maybe we don’t, at least not the full gift. Sometimes I wonder if God gives us half a gift and then it’s up to us to add to that gift until it becomes a whole, mature gift. Maybe you’re a gifted ana-lyzer who can quickly understand complex problems, yet you lack the skill to communi-cate that answer in a way that’s appreciated. Think of Moses - he could have doubled his leadership skills by putting forth the effort to master speaking effectively. The gifted seam-stress might have to work extra hard on con-viction to know what appropriate apparel is. Sometimes it hardly seems fair that a talent could be both a blessing and a curse, something that could be used for so many good things or it could be used to destroy one’s self. A gifted singer or preacher may need to add humility to their gift before it’s really worth something, and the one blessed with the ability to make money might struggle with covetousness.
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Why would God give someone a beautiful gift that has an inherent flaw? To prove us? If we recognize our talent, two things can happen:
1. We can work to develop our talent(s) in a way that is pleasing to the Creator and fulfills the mission He has for us.
2. We can work to overcome the inherit weaknesses of the gift that we’ve been given.
“I was afraid” must be some of the saddest words in the King James Bible. How many, many lost opportunities are found in these three words? How many heartaches, disap-pointments, and failures have resulted from them? How many times have they been the excuse behind why I didn’t do what I knew was mine to do? And why are we afraid? In the parable of the talents, it appears that the master would have been satisfied with the one-talent man putting his talent in the bank. How hard would that have been? How much risk was really involved? Why was he afraid? We’re not asked to solve the world’s problems. Just simple little tasks are placed in front of us. A word to speak here, a hand to lift there, a word to write now and then, a song to sing, a prayer to pray. Oh, that we would not excuse ourselves with “I was afraid.” — Bradley
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Price Display on Sheds
Today I want to show you how we display prices on our storage sheds.
We had coroplast signs made of the shed sizes we usually get for inventory.
This would include: 8x12, 10x12, 10x16, 10x20, 12x20, and 12x28.
As you can see in the photo, there is a space where we put the price, using a dry-erase marker.
When the signs arrived from the printer (they were printed 4-up), we cut the 24x18 coroplast to get four 12x9 signs. Then we ap-plied pieces of dry-erase vinyl: 2 1/4” x 8.5” where we want to mark the shed price and 2
1/4” x 5” where the monthly payment goes. We staple the sign to the shed with a hammer stapler.
Dry-erasing is nearly impossible after the signs have been outside a few days.
Yet the letters and numbers can be erased with rubbing alcohol and a small cloth rag. Take care to not smear off the side of the dry-erase vinyl. If you do, the marker will perma-nently mark the once-clean white coroplast.
We’ve been using the same set of coroplast signs we bought five years ago, but we’ve dis-carded a few because of wear.
Of course, these can’t be stapled to metal sheds, so we bought some magnetic material and made a few signs for metal sheds.
There are a lot of companies on the inter-net that specialize in printing coroplast signs – some as low as $6 a piece for 18x24 coro-
plast signs in quantities of 20. (That’s only $2 a piece after you cut it into four pieces).
You will also need artwork; I will send you a pdf at no charge. My email is [email protected]. The dry-erase vinyl can be pur-chased from Express Sign Supply, Murray KY.1-866-492-8565. - Larry
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to ManI explain to many of my patients in the hos-pital that, with a few exceptions, we cannot heal people. What medicine can do is remove some of the impediments to healing. We can close wounds, remove faulty parts, remove harmful bacteria, and help our bodies to shed toxins. Beyond that, it is up to a higher power
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Smallpox victim
For young children, the death rate was 80%. Those who survived were marked by terrible scarring or permanent blindness. Some lost part of their lips, nose, or ears. This disease was especially hard on the Native Americans, killing more than bullets did. The most effec-tive treatment was to isolate the sick so that it could not spread. In 1721 the entire city of Boston fled to escape a smallpox outbreak. People noted that milkmaids (girls who milked cows) grew up to have nice clear skin. Somehow they were free from smallpox. Further examination revealed that they con-tracted cowpox, a very mild disease that left no scarring This protected them from get-ting smallpox. Someone tried purposefully exposing children to cowpox to see if it pro-tected them from smallpox, and it worked! Thus the first vaccine was developed. Many people were skeptical of it and refused to al-low their children to be purposefully exposed to cowpox. Today smallpox has been almost eradicated due to vaccination. In fact,only the military is routinely vaccinated because smallpox is still considered a potential bio-terrorist threat. Polio is another terrible dis-ease that is almost extinct due to vaccination.
So, just how do we get sick? Our bodies have a complex immune system that destroys invaders. Without this immune system, we could not survive long. Part of that immune system attacks anything that it does not recognize. The other part is tuned to recog-nize specific organisms. But our specific im-mune system is far more effective than the non-specific immune system. When we are ambushed by an organism that we have not
to restore health. That admission comforts many people and it removes magic from the equation. They intuitively know that there is a higher power, a God that loves them and wants to help. This admission from a health care worker is faith-affirming. The problem is that we have a curse hanging over our heads inherited from Adam and Eve because of sin.
Until a couple hundred years ago, few things inspired more terror in people than smallpox. It was caused by a virus, but people did not know about viruses; they were un-able to see them and so it was a mystery. It was also deadly and disfiguring. About 30% of the people who acquired this disease died within two weeks of the onset of symptoms.
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faced before whether virus, bacteria, or fun-gus, we are overwhelmed by the attack and we become sick. We just haven’t had the time to develop specific defenses to this organism. This attack would not have been successful if we had been previously exposed to that en-emy. This is where vaccines come in. A vac-cine triggers our immune system to develop a specific immune response to combat a spe-cific enemy.
A vaccine may be made from dead bacte-ria or an organism that is very similar to the infectious organism, as is the case with small-pox/cowpox. Most modern vaccines contain only a specific protein found on the surface of the organism by which our body may recog-nize the real enemy. Some vaccines have live viruses which are rendered unable to infect people, but call our body’s defenses to come to the rescue and develop specific immunity. That is why a vaccine may cause us to run a slight fever and feel a little sick. Our body is busy mounting a full assault against an un-known enemy.
Then there is herd immunity. When there is a group of people (a herd if you will) that has a well-developed, specific immune sys-tem, it protects the weak individuals from disease. Thus vaccination is not just protect-ing the person receiving it but also those around them.
Much like the skeptics to the cowpox ex-posure a couple hundred years ago, there are some who are reluctant to accept vaccina-tions today. Some people do not understand how vaccines work and are therefore skepti-cal. Some objections come down to timing. Many of the childhood vaccines are started in the 2-4 month time frame. That is because infants are just losing an acquired immunity which they automatically get from their mothers. They are vulnerable at that time and benefit from the protection of childhood vaccines the most. This also happens to be the time frame in which children die from SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Parents whose lives have been traumatized by SIDS naturally noted that it was immediately fol-lowing the administration of childhood vac-cines when their child was affected. Instead, it is likely that SIDS is caused by simple suf-focation. Thus the crusade to educate new parents to lay their newborn on his back. Re-member “Back to Bed.” This has saved lives.
Another much publicized correlation with childhood vaccines is autism. Autism
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spectrum disorder affects about 1 out of ev-ery 59 children. It is characterized by the inability to relate with, and communicate with, other people. Most children develop coping mechanisms that help them work around their limitations and they function in society very well. Others are affected much more severely and they have great difficulty understanding and getting along with other people. The timing of the onset of symptoms looks suspicious in relation to the timing of childhood vaccines. Distraught parents have noted this and raised suspicion against vac-cines as being the cause. Careful research has proven that vaccines are not the cause of au-tism, but affected parents continue to doubt. They point to the apparent rise in cases of au-tism at the same time that childhood vacci-nation increased. The label of autism is fairly recent and societal pressures that could have an impact have also changed.
The presence of adjuvants have also come into question. Adjuvants are substances which are added to vaccines to make them more effective. Different ones are used for different vaccines, but one which has caught people’s attention is thimerosal. You see, thi-merosal contains mercury. We have all heard about the risk of mercury in products such as tuna, and we are scared of it. The reason is that mercury accumulates in our tissues and our body has difficulty getting rid of it. Because of this, people balk at getting vaccinated. They don’t want to be injected with mercury. But the truth is that mercury is not all the same. Tuna contains methylmercury and thimerosal contains ethylmercury. The difference is that the human body has no problem in purging ethylmercury. That is why thimerosal is used. In addition, thimerosal is only used in the flu vaccine that is drawn from multi-dose vials. It is easy to ask for flu vaccine without thi-merosal if you are still uncomfortable, but the vast majority of vaccines used in humans contain no mercury. Some people would have you believe that all vaccines contain mercury, which is not the case.
There are some risks to vaccines. These risks are minimal and vastly outweighed by the benefits. Vaccines are the closest thing we have to “the magic bullet.” The flu killed 80,000 people in last year’s flu season. It is true that most of those were weakened indi-viduals, but we can do our part to reduce the spread of this disease by getting vaccinated. Do it for their sakes. - Mark
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Gossip or Concern?In our time of WhatsApp chats and status-es, news and information is quickly passed around. This can be helpful in some situations, but other times turns into gossip. One defini-tion of gossip is “idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others.”
Messages telling of a tragedy or someone’s personal pain are passed around with “Let’s keep them in our prayers.” Are we using that as a pretense to spread news? Maybe we should examine our motive before telling others. If
it’s someone we’re not personally acquainted with, does it need to be shared? Sometimes we try to find out more details about a situa-tion by contacting someone who is involved. Are we doing this out of genuine concern or just gratifying our curiosity? If we really are only passing the message around so that we can pray for the people involved, we don’t need to know all the details. Putting a “praying for you” status on WhatsApp has the same effect. Why not privately message the person we are praying for instead of letting our contacts know about it?
Chats can consume a great amount of time and become burdensome for those who aren’t able to keep up or don’t appreciate be-ing inundated with unnecessary messages. One example is “happy birthday” wishes put on a congregational or extended family chat. Wouldn’t it be more meaningful to personally message that person?
Before passing on a message or posting a status, let’s ask ourselves is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If the answer to any of these ques-tions is “no” the message should go no further. - Anonymous
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