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ABC News Pope Criticizes Materialism New York Times - 1 hour ago Pope Benedict XVI led a communion Mass before a crowd estimated by the organizers at 400000 on Sunday in Sydney. By TIM JOHNSTON SYDNEY - In his final address on Sunday to hundreds of thousands of young Catholics gathered in Australia, Pope Benedict ... Video: Pope's visit challenged in Australia - 20 July 2008 AlJazeeraEnglish Pope Benedict XVI says Madrid will host World Youth Day 2011 Times Online TIME - The News-Press - Catholic Explorer - Reuters all 6,155 news articles ... Source: xml.news.aol.com --- 39 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a "spiritual desert" was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 39 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI urged young people Sunday to reject what he said was the 'spiritual desert' spreading throughout the world and to embrace Christianity to build a new age free from greed and Materialism. At a Mass before more than 200,000 young Roman ... Source: www.salon.com --- 39 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a "spiritual desert" was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind. Speaking at a Mass before some 350,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims and a likely televisi... ...
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The 1920s are largely perceived as a time of Materialism when America woke up to life beyond daily chores and family F Scott Fitzgerald in his book The Great Gatsby develops a character who appears materialistic but is actually quite the idealist ... Source: consumerist.com --- 21 days ago
Over at the US News & World Report Alpha Consumer blog there's an interview with Tim Kasser, author of The High Price of Materialism, about why and how Materialism will not make you happy. In fact,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... Source: www.neatorama.com --- 19 days ago
In the same vein as the post above, U.S. News and World Report’s Alpha Consumer blog by Kimberly Palmer has an intriguing interview with Tim Kasser, author of The High Price of Materialism about how owning things may actually make you unhappy: Why do you think that is the case, that people who are less materialistic [...] ... Source: www.overheardinnewyork.com --- 16 days ago
Guy #1 : What do you think about calories? I don't believe they're real. Guy #2 (humoring him) : Yeah... Guy #1 : Yeah, I don't know about atoms either. --F Train Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-08-11 ... Source: www.dailynews.com --- 39 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI urged young people Sunday to reject what he said was the "spiritual desert" spreading throughout the world and to embrace Christianity to build a new age free from greed and Materialism. ... Source: www.crownheights.info --- 22 days ago
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Materialism is becoming a cancer to the American Jewish community. Our children feel entitled. They are often spoiled. They take and do not know how to give back. They are part of a me generation where self-absorption is lifetimes calling. Thats why this summer I arranged for three of my teenage children to work as volunteers in the childrens camp of Rabbi Yossi Turk in Cordoba, Argentina. The work is not easy and our children, while working very hard, also complained that there werent enough recreational outlets. I reminded them that Rabbi Turk and his wife have been in Cordoba ensuring that thousands of Israeli backpackers have a place for Shabbos not for two weeks, but for 22 years. You dont hear them complaining.The experience for my children was profound. They were inspired by the site of Jews who devote their entire lives to the spiritual education of others and parents who have to send most of their kids six thousand miles away to Jewish schools in the United States. For the last week of their stay I met my children in Buenos Aires. We toured the Jewish community, including the Jewish Community Center, Amia, which was bombed in July, 1994, killing 85, and which has since been rebuilt. A highlight was a two-day jaunt to Montevideo, Uruguay, where we witnessed the inspirational work of Rabbi Leizer and Rochi Shemtov, living there for 23 years, their seven children all studying far away from home, in ... Source: www.scienceblogs.com --- 2 days ago
New Evidence Debunks 'Stupid' Neanderthal Myth : Blades were first produced by Homo sapiens during their colonization of Europe from Africa approximately 40,000 years ago. This has traditionally been thought to be a dramatic technological advance, helping Homo sapiens out-compete, and eventually eradicate, their Stone Age cousins. Yet when the research team analysed their data there was no statistical difference between the efficiency of the two technologies. In fact, their findings showed that in some respects the flakes favoured by Neanderthals were more efficient than the blades adopted by Homo sapiens. ... Now that it is established that there is no technical advantage to blades, why did Homo sapiens adopt this technology during their colonization of Europe? The researchers suggest that the reason for this shift may be more cultural or symbolic. Eren explains: "Colonizing a continent isn't easy. Colonizing a continent during the Ice Age is even harder. So, for early Homo sapiens colonizing Ice Age Europe, a new shared and flashy-looking technology might serve as one form of social glue by which larger social networks were bonded. Thus, during hard times and resource droughts these larger social networks might act like a type of 'life insurance,' ensuring exchange and trade among members on the same 'team.'" Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... ... Source: www.thekansan.com --- 20 days ago
In 65 days, I will be Mrs. Cari Cusick. I write this with both joy and trembling. Joy because I’ll be Mrs. Cari Cusick. Trembling because sometime between now and then, I have pull off a wedding. I pride myself on being an organized sort of gal, so compulsive list-making and detail-orientation are no big deal. And it’s going to be a simple ceremony with a cake and punch reception, so it’s not as if I’m attempting the social event of the century. The problems stem not from what I have left to do, but from the constant pressure that I should be doing — and spending — so much more. After all, weddings have become quite the industry. A Google search indicates the average wedding is costing between $20,000 and $28,000. (Our budget is a small percentage of that.) It’s easy to get caught up in the bridal magazines and yards of tulle and gazillion etiquette rules and forget that most Web sites and magazines we brides turn to for help are really just trying to sell us stuff. Everything has an emotional, sentimental selling pitch that sounds something like “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. It should be your special day. You should have whatever you want. Cost should not be an issue.” Sounds decent, except the subliminal message they’re using to sell us stuff is really one of two untrue sentiments. One, it’s OK if you go into mounds of debt (or put your parents in such a predicament) even though cost is no predictor of the happiness of your ... Source: cruciality.wordpress.com --- 14 days ago
‘We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the [...] ... Source: www.businesspundit.com --- 14 days ago
Alpha Consumer’s Kimberly Palmer recently posted a telling interview with professor and Materialism expert Tim Kasser. Here are my favorite excerpts: Kasser: (I found) that when people were especially focused on goals that pertained to money and possessions and wealth, they were less happy. A materialistic lifestyle tends to perpetuate feelings of insecurity, to lead people to [...] ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 10 days ago
The Associated Press Give up worldly goods and help save the earth. Oh, and save lots of money. ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 39 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a ``spiritual desert'' was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind. ... Source: www.oprah.com --- 39 days ago
These incidents made me question something last night. I was driving at 2.30am, slow to a job, I thought that I evaded a "Wallaby" (small version of a kangaroo) it was crossing the road and decided to return to my side and I hit it and probably killed it, very distressing it was to me as I love animals and they are so beautiful, poor little darling. 2 mintues later, I park my car, get out, 100 metres up the road, I hear a car screaming around a corner, it was speeding, too fast for the corner, the driver lost control, hit the gutter and flipped the vehicle on it's side. Myself and 2 other's at the job, ran to help, other people were there. They were all ok. 2 young guys, early 20's, one was 19 and the driver. Anyway! one was concussed and gashed, the other in shock, the driver angry, because they were all drunk and it was his brother's car. They were all ok. So later, I talked with another lady at the job, about my Wallaby experience, she said to me, "Was there much damage to your car"? I replied, "I don't know, I'm too scared to look, I'm more concerned about the poor animal that I hit"? Anyway, that was the coversation. Anyway! The other lady who gave first aid to them, told us that, "the driver was 19, he was drunk, his licence is gone, he'll lose his job and the car which was his brother's utility or pick-up truck, was worth 30K". For some reason, what I heard was a news story that emphasises loss of material and cost, not about t ... Source: www.kojakfull.com --- 38 days ago
AP - Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a “spiritual desert” was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind. ... Source: www.insideworld.com --- 38 days ago
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I have a secret fantasy: I want to be Carrie Bradshaw. Years ago, I would watch episodes of Sex and the City and be enthralled. I was a writer! I loved shoes! I had (well, crushed on) a Mr. Big! Clearly, Carrie and I were one and the same. Fast-forward five years, I live in a studio apartment and balance my basil plant on a radiator cover (an idea while not copied, adapted from Carrie). However, while I’m still buying at the warehouse outlets, suddenly my heroine shops couture, and pays more for shoes than my whole wardrobe is worth. Sure, she always loved her Manolo Blahniks – but when did she start to be able to afford them??? And, more importantly, what am I doing wrong that I can’t? SATC style epitomizes high fashion: an excellent way to make us paycheck-to-paycheck girls feel bad about ourselves. But there is a way to appreciate our fab four and still feel well, fabulous, ourselves – and it starts with finding great buys on similar fabulous products! (Cause, then, doesn’t that make US the smart ones?) Case in point: Pivotal in the movie is a pair of $790 Dior Extreme sandals (seen at left). I don’t know about you, but if I have $790…it’s going to pay my rent. However, an almost identical pair of Luchiny Mandy sandals exists at Endless.com for around fifty bucks! – allowing me to get “Carrie-d” away…and not be homeless! I may still live in a 300-square-foot apartment and be Big-less, but at least I have hot shoes – and (some) cash i ...