Ok, I know this song gets old after the 100th hearing but it’s still one of my favorites. Merry Christmas everyone, peace and blessings to you all!
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Howdy and thanks for stopping by! I'm weirdly obsessed with individual liberty and feel it's not given enough credit as being a necessary factor for living a truly empowered and fulfilled life.
Whether it's self serving politicians who are constantly trying to make victims out of us, or the negative fixed narratives we impose on ourselves that limit what we can do, we are constantly giving up personal power over to some person or thing which ironically only shrinks our world further.
This blog is about sticking up for freedom and hopefully opening up a deeper conversation on what it's meaning is, how it enhances our own empowerment and why it's so important to protect.
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Lol Arch!
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Hahaha! besides this one, I can’t stand Rockin’ ‘Round the Christmas Tree…but thank you for the Christmas well wishes. I hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year! 🙂
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Well you can’t please everyone now, can you! LOl, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well irtfyblog! 🙂
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NEVER gets old. My teenagers think its fantastic and we all sing along every time it plays.
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Oh fun!
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Well trish, heard the tune of course but this is the first time I saw this vid! Yay.
All the best of holiday joy to ya also. God bless.
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God bless you as well ColorStorm, all the best as well for 2016! 🙂
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Haven’t seen this in forever.
Merry Christmas Tricia
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Yeah, brings back MTV memories for me. Merry Christmas to you as well James!
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I left this on Ark’s blog, and I’d like to leave it here too:
Since Deuteronomy was written (c. 750-800 BCE), the priests of Judaism covered their asses by saying that their god ordered the people to pay him 10% of their income – which the priests would gladly hold for him until he had time to pop in and pick it up himself. Further, the priests were allowed to eat the burnt offerings, which they quietly referred to as barbeque. Clearly the concept of the religious order of the day expecting 10% hasn’t ended, but is still alive and well in Christianity.
I have suggested to many religious – so far to no avail – that rather than giving their 10% to keeping the doors of their church open or their priests in holy water, that I couldn’t possibly imagine their god being angry with them if instead, they donated that 10% to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
St. Jude’s, was begun by American entertainer, Danny Thomas, and continued by his daughter, Marlo (of TV’s “That Girl” fame), since Mr. Thomas’ death in 1991.
At St. Jude’s, NO FAMILY pays a dime toward their child’s cancer treatment, and the results of the cancer research done there are shared with cancer institutes all over the world, free of charge. Get that? NO FAMILY has to sit back and watch their beloved child waste away because the family didn’t have enough money to give their child a chance at life.
If anyone is wondering what the World might want for Christmas, I would suggest a donation to St. Jude’s – if only twenty dollars, every bit helps. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital can be accessed at stjude.org – no child should ever die, there’s time enough later for that.
If their god has a problem with that, then I have a problem with him.
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Yes St Jude’s is a great charity AS ARE are many of the works churches do with the tithes they get. Whoever one choose to drop their money may it bless the works it provides and the people receiving it.
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“AS ARE are many of the works churches do with the tithes they get.”
Regrettably, many of those insist that if you want a free meal, you have to listen to a sermon. St Jude’s has no such requirement. They help unconditionally.
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Merry Christmas Arch
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Merry Christmas Tricia. Be safe, healthy and happy!!
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You as well Jonathan!
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Actually, it was someone else who let in the light. We cockroaches are still running, trying to figure out why He is not stomping on us.
Merry Christmas!
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Indeed it was someone else Tom, Merry Christmas to you as well!
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Merry Christmas Tricia!
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Merry Christmas! 🙂
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Merry Christmas Tricia and a Prosperous 2016.
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The 1st time I have seen the video of a song I really enjoy Tricia. Amazing how young some of the faces I recognised such as Phil Collins and Bono (from U2) are from 31 years ago.
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and God’s blessings for 2016. Thank you for all your camaraderie! 🙂
~Carl~
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Yeah, it’s kind of a neat video to watch. I remember when it first came out (back when MTV used to actually play music videos) and it never occurred to me I’d still be listening to many of the artists it featured.
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas as well Carl and wising you many blessings as well for 2016! Looking forward to reading more of your posts too. 🙂
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It is quite funny how music channels such as MTV (we have Much Music in Canada), don’t nearly play as much music as they used to.
Thank you always for your kind words! 🙂
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