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STRIP CLUBS, DUI MUGSHOTS AND PUBLIC SHAMING

Posted by Mike Foster:

A religious group thought it was a great idea to take pictures of cutomers who frequented a strip club. They then posted those photos on their public website in hopes to embarass the customers and shut down the club.

The Honolulu Police Department posts pics of people arrested for DUI in hopes the humiliation will deter drunk driving.

Oh how we love our public shaming and we preach it as a clever deterrent to bad behavior.

I disagree. I call it a sloppy strategy that drips with judgement and ultimately has very little impact on someone’s choices.

So what do you think? Do these ideas have merit or are they just a dumb idea?

(Btw, the above mug shot is Bill Gates)

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SPREAD SOME LOVE

Posted by Jim Gray

We know how much you love to tell everyone about POTSC.  And we love you for it! So here’s a way to spread the love even further.  Here are some 125×125 ads for you to put on your blog.

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BE BLOWN AWAY

Posted by Jud Wilhite:

On any given night, it is estimated you can see about 30 stars from downtown New York City, about 3,000 from most rural areas, and up to 30 billion with a large telescope. We do not know how many stars exist, but we know there are over 200 billion stars in our galaxy alone. One of the largest known stars has a diameter of almost a billion miles!

An explosion of energy on the surface of the sun, known as a solar flare, recently sent a magnetic cloud toward the earth at a million miles per hour. The cloud was over 30 million miles in diameter. Think of the size and speed of this cloud and remember that God is bigger and faster.

Richard Swenson writes: “If we witness a magnetic cloud thirty million miles in diameter moving a million miles per hour—is God bigger than that? Can He move faster than that? If the center of the sun has temperature of fifteen million degrees centigrade and pressures of seven trillion pounds per square inch—could God walk into the core of the sun, take a nap, and walk back out? Every impressive structure or event in the universe should remind us of a God who is greater than all his works.”

Maybe if I regularly spent more time beholding the vast expanse of the starry heavens—and meditated on the sovereign God who established them and upholds them—I would spend less time questioning his ability to control things in my life.

Maybe we all need to look up tonight at the stars and be blown away again?

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HEY ROOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBB!!!!!!

Posted by Mike Foster:

I dig this video.

I think it brilliantly demonstrates that “the game” isn’t nearly as important as helping Rob find his way home.

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GROUNDED BUMBLE BEES AND THE ART OF FLYING

Posted by Mike Foster:

Chris recently shared this cool POTSC nugget with me.

Bumble Bees are not supose to fly. In fact according to physics, science, and the laws of aerodynamics, it is impossible for them to become airborne.

Aerodynamic engineers have studied the yellow and black insect and have concluded that “theoretically” flight is impossible.

The bee’s puny little wings and its big fat body can only mean one thing…forever grounded.

Yet the bumble bee has overcome the “bad news” about its fate and has learned the art of flying!

So when the critic, naysayer, pessimist or your jerky friend points out why you can’t do something…BE THE BEE!

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