A quotation from Bruce Holland Rogers
And so, you see, simplicity
Requires that our lot
Be that we exit, when we must,
With only what we brought.
Bruce Holland Rogers (b. 1958) American author [pseud. Hanovi Braddock]
“A Common Night,” Fantastic Alice (1995) [ed. Margaret Weis]
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📝 Plot:
After a violent incident at the French Embassy in Tel Aviv, a young French woman is accused of killing her husband. A French diplomat and an Israeli investigator uncover conflicting testimonies that blur truth and guilt. As cultural tensions, hidden motives, and psychological pressure mount, the case becomes a gripping exploration of identity, justice, and the fragile nature of reality.
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🎭 Cast:
Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Reda Kateb, Dominique Valadié, Ariane Ascaride, Judith Chemla, Noa Koler, Aloïse Sauvage, Tzahi Grad, Roy Nik, Tchéky Karyo, Corentin Fila, Hélène Alexandridis, Vassili Schneider, Evelin Hagoel, Uri Gavriel…
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🎬 Possessions (2020)
Subtitles available:
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BDG feature: Collecting Mugs and Practicing Non-Attachment
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Hype for the Future 60F: Capitals of the Caribbean
Overview This post is dedicated to the capital cities and capital towns of the different islands located within the Caribbean, including, but not limited to, the Greater and Lesser Antilles chains. Also to be included are the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire, though not San Andrés nor surrounding outlying islands of Colombia significantly closer to the Nicaraguan coast than the Colombian. Sovereign States Bahamas 🇧🇸: Nassau Cuba 🇨🇺: Havana Jamaica 🇯🇲: […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/hype-for-the-future-60f-capitals-of-the-caribbean/
#Jesus strongly warned about the dangers of #greed.
He gave a parable regarding the dangers of putting one's trust in material #wealth: what happens after you die and you have to stand before God and all that wealth remains on the earth?
We can get caught up in trying to protect ourselves with money and other #possessions and prove deaf to the cries and needs of others.
#Jesus strongly warned about the dangers of #greed.
He gave a parable regarding the dangers of putting one's trust in material #wealth: what happens after you die and you have to stand before God and all that wealth remains on the earth?
We can get caught up in trying to protect ourselves with money and other #possessions and prove deaf to the cries and needs of others.
👿L'évêque diligenta une enquête qui conclut à des #possessions démoniaques. On procéda donc à des exorcismes sans que ceux-ci ne viennent calmer l'atmosphère. L'une des sœurs, Madeleine Bavent, parut la plus atteinte: déclarant avoir été ensorcelée par Mathurin Picard, ancien directeur du couvent, elle fut condamnée à la détention à vie par l'officialité d'Évreux.
👨⚕Le 21 août 1647, un arrêt du parlement de #Rouen conclut l'affaire : l'ancien et le nouveau directeur spirituel du couvent - Mathurin Picard et Thomas Boullay, que de nouvelles dénonciations avaient accusés - convaincus de #sorcellerie furent brûlés, l'un vif, l'autre mort.
A quotation from Roger Corless
We make ourselves miserable by first closing ourselves off from reality and then collecting this and that in an attempt to make ourselves happy by possessing happiness. But happiness is not something I have, it is something I myself want to be. Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over my body.
Roger J. Corless (1938–2007) Anglo-American religious academic, Buddhist scholar, ecumenicist
The Vision of Buddhism: the Space under the Tree, Part 2 “The Space” (1989)
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-06-26), The Adventurer, No. 67
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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and the moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days, my friends, will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1933-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Not what I Have but what I Do is my Kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 4 (1834)
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph of a charitable man, which has very much pleased me. I cannot recollect the words, but the sense of it is to this purpose: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-09-27), The Spectator, No. 177
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What Do We Get from Work? [Sermon]
At another church there was a man who was ill. He had an untreated chronic disease that he said he had cured. It was causing him a lot of difficulty.
We didn’t see him often, but he was a decent person.
He got to a point where he could not pay his bills, so he stopped paying rent. He believed he could not be evicted because he was on disability.
He was wrong.
When the eviction order came down, he wanted to find a place to store his possessions. He had a lot of stuff.
He asked whether he could store them in the church.
We said we didn’t have a place for storage of people’s possessions. This upset him greatly, as he said his possessions defined him.
He lost nearly all of his possessions and ended up staying in motels until he ended up in a nursing home, where he died.
Let’s go to God in prayer.
God of wisdom, may the words that I speak, and the ways they are received by each of our hearts and minds, to help us to continue to grow into the people, and the church, that you have dreamed us to be.
Amen.
When people get to a certain age, they often downsize. They move into a smaller house or apartment. They sell, give away, or otherwise dispose of many possessions.
These are things they spent money on. Usually they got this money through labor. And now the things they worked for are going away.
There was a reason these things were purchased:
Tools needed for a project.
Fabric, thread, wood, metal, and other components of things we made – or meant to make.
Musical instruments for… playing music.
Electronics for playing music and videos.
Blu-Ray discs, DVDs, LaserDiscs, VHS Tape, BetaMax;
MP3 players, CDs, cassettes, 8-tracks, LPs and 45s.
Clothes that we can’t – or won’t – wear anymore.
Toys and games we don’t play with anymore.
Decorative items.
Souvenirs from places we have been.
It seems a shame to dispose of them. They mean – or meant – something to us. But we can’t move to a smaller place with all of this stuff.
Maybe you’re familiar with Marie Kondo’s tidying principle:
“Does this spark joy?”
in which we hold each item in our hand and ask whether this is an item that sparks joy.
When I tried this I put all of my bills in recycling.
A minimalist named Joshua Becker disagrees with Marie Kondo.
He says we should ask a different question about each item:
“Does it help me fulfill a greater purpose with my life?”
Whatever rule we use to decide what to keep and what should go away can also be the rule for what we acquire.
When we are making a purchase, we can ask “Does this spark joy” or “Does it help me fulfill a greater purpose with my life?”
And when we purchase a gift for someone else, we can ask those same questions about how the gift recipient will feel about the gift.
We acquire a lot of stuff. And it costs money to buy stuff. And then we have to have a place to store that stuff. And that costs money. And then we have to buy things to organize the stuff. And that costs money.
And, for most of us, that money came from our labor.
So much of what we get from working is stuff, places to keep stuff, and ways to organize stuff. And often, that stuff keeps us from moving forward with our lives, as we labor on to maintain and organize stuff.
And when we leave this life, as the teacher in Ecclesiastes says in chapter 2 verse 18,
“I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to my successor”
= Ecclesiastes 2:18, NRSVue
or, as the title of the 1936 play says, “You Can’t Take It with You.”
In our Gospel reading, there is a dispute over inheritance and someone asks Jesus to direct the brother to divide it with them.
Jesus replies
“Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”
– Luke 12:15, NRSVue
And then Jesus talks about a man whose land produced so much that he would build larger barns to store all of his stuff, so he has everything he needs to live for many years.
And the man dies that very night.
Objects may make us happy for a moment. But after a while, objects become additional weight we carry around. Even money and investments must be managed.
If what we get from our work is more work, what are we working for?
But what if our work created beauty? What if our work reduced the suffering of others? What if our work made the world better for ourselves and for others?
This week, I want to challenge all of us, and especially our graduates going on to university, to think about what we get from our work.
Is it more work?
Or is it a better world?
Amen.
* Scripture quotations marked NRSVue are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/about-the-nrsvue
* Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the King James version of the Bible.
"Help, I #Hoard Things"
The #Science Behind Why We Hold Onto #Possessions and Expert Tips on Letting Them Go
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N.B. man with cancer sells ‘conglomeration of acquired goodies’ to declutter
A few weeks after he had time to process his cancer diagnosis, Gerry Carroll said he wanted to make sure he found a way to get rid of some of his possessions.
#cancer #death #possessions #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11206798/n-b-man-cancer-declutter/
N.B. man with cancer sells ‘conglomeration of acquired goodies’ to declutter
A few weeks after he had time to process his cancer diagnosis, Gerry Carroll said he wanted to make sure he found a way to get rid of some of his possessions.
#cancer #death #possessions #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11206798/n-b-man-cancer-declutter/
