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Thanks, Wally, for the links; both were interesting. My history prof made a comment before we began reading the book that when he (my prof) visited the graves of Ben & his wife, it was possibly the “closest they'd been to each other in decades”…okie dokie…so, I kept that comment in the back of my mind while reading his Autobiography figuring he hadn't stayed true to marital vows, maybe.
We need a return to morals & Biblical principals desperately, imo. Right now, I'm very heated up in response to those girls who beat up that other girl and it was all video tape for the “heck of it”. Things such as this didn't happen when I was in school and definitely not when my parents were in school. Society is going downhill.
After the current incident caught on video tape of those cheerleaders beating up the other girl, I wonder if a visit to Alcatraz beforehand might have persuaded them to reconsider their actions? When I visited Alcatraz, getting there via ferry was as much an experience for me as the actual site. Putting aside my seasickness, Alcatraz was a scary place and I would tend to believe that any prison might put a different prospective on kids' thoughts towards crimes. I could be very wrong though…I am very perplexed by kids actions today.
From his autobiography, their life together and her death are never covered with any intensity. So I can't answer that with certainty. He quickly explained that she was, in his opinion, the perfect help mate in family & business to him but after that short bit he rarely wrote about her.
Update on prying remote from spouse: it's a no-go 🙁 …”we're” watching Tiger play the Masters… I'm off to finish my paper for Religion class
Sorry I'm more a plodding, stumbling, centrist, militant Druid... ::)
You forgot to add anti-French. 😀
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For my current history class, we read Ben's Autobiography and I loved it. (Hence my site name, BensGal… ;D) He, very much, was a ladies man but I think this tendency may go along with his ability to “work” the people. Towards the end of the book, the editor included some of Ben's letters to various women in his life. Pretty interesting. He seemed to be a very caring man & I'm thinking some of his relationships were due to loneliness as he wasn't particularly close to his actual family in their early years due to work and political life. I also enjoyed reading "The Prometheus I & II" portion of the book, too. Ben Franklin was amazing, imo.
We have HBO. We have Showtime. We have ESPN. My husband has the remote attached to him. He watches sports & I do homework. Lucky him. Personally, I'd like to view a special about Zachary Taylor…if I could get the remote.
True and it's shocking to me, at least, that I've considered it “free” until I started back to school.
Wally, I like that explanation about confession and it makes sense to me! LOL…I'm also adding that book to my list for my next shopping spree at B&N; sounds like an interesting topic to me.LOL...lurking, pouncing, leftist, militant atheist!
Thank you for the heads-up. Nothing like militant leftist atheists to really start a riot. I will most likely venture towards that board, also. Religion is another exciting topic, imo, especially when combined with History. I've taken an interesting journey with my own religious beliefs (baptised Methodist, grew up Missouri-Synod Lutheran, married a Southern Baptist and I'm now a Byzantine Catholic) so I tend to be very tolerant of other opinions…as long as they are nice! (An interesting topic maybe the current news topic about the Polygamist community situation in Texas.)
