Articles from Tor Constantino | Selfgrowth.com
- We Need to be More Than Merely a Collection of Needs
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Submitted on Jun 12, 2010 from Tor ConstantinoAs Americans we spend a lot of time and energy satisfying various appetites. Many people enjoy a good meal, a good glass of wine or breathing in a fine cigar on occasion. Taking those appetites or needs a step further, it’s safe to say that many married, consenting adults enjoy the emotional ...
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( 2 votes) - The Importance of Giving - Part 2
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Submitted on Jun 12, 2010 from Tor ConstantinoThe first installment of this series addressed how most people consider their financial donations to church or charity as TRANSACTIONAL – similar to a purchase or exchange of goods. However, in God’s eyes that type of giving is TRANSFORMATIONAL, since it works toward broadening our ...
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( 2 votes) - The Importance of Giving - Part 3
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Submitted on Jun 12, 2010 from Tor Constantino“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” - Benjamin Franklin This is a great quote that succinctly sums up the problem with money - namely you can never have enough of it due to our human inclination ...
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( 2 votes) - The Importance of Giving – Part 1
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Submitted on Jun 12, 2010 from Tor ConstantinoI’m a volunteer member on the board of our local church, Potomac Valley Assembly – here’s the link (http://www.pvachurch.com/pwsite/index.php). Since I’ve got my MBA degree, the board selected me as treasurer. It’s an honor to serve in that role and there are some insights that I’ve learned ...
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( 4 votes) - Don't Let Your Own Funeral be the First Time You Enter a Church
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Submitted on Jun 12, 2010 from Tor ConstantinoI spent most of my Sundays growing up as a kid being dragged to some kind of charismatic church; a tent meeting or guest-preacher service. Mostly I was bored. Often I would sleep under the seats. Sometimes I’d smuggle in Matchbox cars and drive them along the curvey armrests of the pews. And ...
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( 3 votes) - Famous Physicist Stephen Hawking's Blind Faith in Science and Aliens
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Submitted on Jun 12, 2010 from Tor ConstantinoI know you should never start a written piece with a question, but I have to ask - why do scientists scoff at the premise of God BUT wholeheartedly embrace the idea of alien existence? It’s a rhetorical question because I get the fact that God can’t be rigorously tested via the scientific ...
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( 2 votes) - Mystery Solved, We Evolved From Little More than Beer Foam - Not!
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Submitted on Jun 12, 2010 from Tor ConstantinoI'll explain my sensationalized "beer foam" headline in a minute, but we need some background first. A recent article written at ScienceDaily.com, which appears to be based on a press release from a biochemist at Brandeis University, touts the following headline: "First Large-Scale Formal ...
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( 1 vote) - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit.....
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Submitted on Jun 12, 2010 from Tor ConstantinoI got to thinking about the concept of “happiness” the other day and decided that I will no longer pursue it. Don’t get me wrong, the “…pursuit of happiness…” is very quotable, it sounds great and looks great on paper – especially when that paper happens to be the Declaration of Independence, ...
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