PLAGIARISM

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Back in college, around 1958, a guest

speaker one day said something to this effect;

"The person who is original, is one who has

read so broadly that they forgot where they

read it."

Perhaps that is a polite way to say that none 

of us are original, or we just stole it from 

some one else.

Either way, it is one of the failures of 

human nature that is not new.

Back about AD 23-79

Pliny the Elder, the Roman statesman

and philosopher said;

"When collating authorities I have found 

that the most professedly reliable and 

modern writers have copied the old

authors word for word, without

acknowledgement."

God himself around 630 - 580 BC

through the prophet Jeremiah said,

"Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets,

says the Lord, who steal my words from one

another"  (Jeremiah 23:30 RSV)

Perhaps this last quote should be a 

warning to some of our modern preachers

and teachers.

Either way you have seen it on the internet

just as I have.  You see some things posted

by so many people that you do not know

who started it.

Or the thinking of most people.  It is the 

same as the masses who follow some stupid

leader shouting slogans.

It has been well said, "That the masses

are nearly always wrong."

Pardon me, but I want to try to do my

own thinking.

BEWARE OF BARGAINS

Yep!

That's a tie.

It's a poor photo, but a nice tie.

I confess, I admit and I apologize, that there was a time

in my life when it was proper for me to wear a white

shirt and tie every day.  Sorry about that.

But then, I did one of the smartest things in my life.

I wanted off of the merry-go-round of that life style.

So I moved to the hills more than forty years ago.

And, yes, this culture does not require a tie.  Even

on Sunday.  If you see someone coming with a tie

on - WATCH OUT.

It is true that a tie is proper once in a while.  So I 

might wear a tie once or twice a year, maybe.

Now I have a wife who tries to take good [That's,

GOOD.] care of her husband.  Also, she cannot

pass up a bargain - even here in the hills.

The result was that over the years she had accumulated

about seventy five ties for me.  AND, I DON'T EVEN

WEAR TIES.

Where is the bargain in that?

God told us;

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures

on earth, where moth and rust consume

and where thieves break in and steal, but

lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,

where neither month nor rust consumes

and where thieves do not bread in and

steal.  For where your treasure is, there

will you heart be also.

(Matthew 6:19-21 RSV)