For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
All we are is dust in the wind, dude.
Welcome to the Hall of Presidents.
Be excellent to each other and. . . Party on, dudes!
I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit.
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was.