While on deck, Dave began to daydream... The summertime had finally come for guys like him. The smell of the grass, the chalk line, the warmth of the air beckoned one more time, to step between the lines and win. This was Church League Softball, one more chance for Dave to wipe out some of his past failures. The game featured the two best teams in the league, and Dave didn't just want to win, he wanted to beat the tar out of 'em! You see, this game was against his longtime rival and nemesis, Brock Stanton. Dave's train of thought was broken by that all too familiar voice, Well, if it ain't the strikeout king himself. How you doin', Janzen? I'll give you some credit, at least you showed up for the game. I don't know exactly why. You can't beat us - never have, never will. Dave Janzen has been through quite a lot, and just like millions of other washed-up athletes and weekend warriors, the softball diamond was a welcome retreat. Sports can teach a person a lot about themselves, but it can also teach them a lot about God. This is Dave's journey.
SYNOPSIS The choice of actions and decisions requires skill and wisdom, not just self-interest or just group interest. Containing 21 precepts, The Way to Happiness helps guide one in those choices encountered in life. This might be the first nonreligious moral code based wholly on common sense. FULL DESCRIPTION True joy and happiness are valuable. If one does not survive, no joy and no happiness are obtainable. Trying to survive in a chaotic, dishonest and generally immoral society is difficult. Any individual or group seeks to obtain from life what pleasure and freedom from pain that they can. Your own survival can be threatened by the bad actions of others around you. Your own happiness can be turned to tragedy and sorrow by the dishonesty and misconduct of others. I am sure you can think of instances of this actually happening. Such wrongs reduce one's survival and impair one's happiness. You are important to other people. You are listened to. You can influence others. The happiness or unhappiness of others you could name is important to you. Without too much trouble, using this book, you can help them survive and lead happier lives. While no one can guarantee that anyone else can be happy, their chances of survival and happiness can be improved. And with theirs, yours will be. It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.
A moving memoir of the beloved fortieth president of the United States, by his son. February 6, 2011, is the one hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. To mark the occasion, Ron Reagan has written My Father at 100, an intimate look at the life of his father-one of the most popular presidents in American history-told from the perspective of someone who knew Ronald Reagan better than any adviser, friend, or colleague. As he grew up under his father's watchful gaze, he observed the very qualities that made the future president a powerful leader. Yet for all of their shared experiences of horseback rides and touch football games, there was much that Ron never knew about his father's past, and in My Father at 100, he sets out to understand this beloved, if often enigmatic, figure who turned his early tribulations into a stunning political career. Since his death in 2004, President Reagan has been a galvanizing force that personifies the values of an older America and represents an important era in national history. Ron Reagan traces the sources of these values in his father's early years and offers a heartfelt portrait of a man and his country-and his personal memories of the president he knew as "Dad.
Handbook for Preclears is the legendary self-processing manual that marks the transition from the subject of Dianetics to Scientology. Here are the breakthroughs that revealed the phenomenon of the LIFE CONTINUUM -- a mechanism by which every individual takes on the disabilities of the deceased or departed, until they are no longer living their own life. Here, then, are the answers to getting rid of all those parts of you that aren't really YOU. The book includes: - Expansive essays providing the most complete description of The Ideal State of Man - The Human Mind, how it operates and its underlying purpose - The Control Center, the awareness of awareness unit of the mind, and how it is CAUSE of the body and environment - The Fifteen Acts of self-processing that move an individual from EFFECT to CAUSE -- processes so powerful that this book is now known as the book of miracles This workbook edition of Handbook for Preclears has been specifically designed for ease of use in processing, with space provided to answer processing questions and resulting in a permanent and complete record of one's own case for use in future processing. In self-processing, Handbook for Preclears is used in conjunction with Self Analysis.
What was it like to stand beside L. Ron Hubbard through the first week in May of 1950, when he loosed upon this world Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health? Includes rare correspondence and essays from the era.
L. Ron Hubbard exposed the brutal truth of a psychiatric chemical onslaught, the likes of which this world has never seen. This, then, is the story of 21st century cultural wastage. Also detailed is Mr. Hubbard s clear and understandable solution to all chemical toxins, with the Purification Program and the worldwide network of Narconon rehabilitation centers. Narconon is the by far most successful drug rehabilitation program, with the maximum percentage of those who never revert to drugs again. This volume covers L. Ron Hubbard's development and discoveries, as well as a history of its organizations, that have saved hundreds of thousands of lives by getting them off of drugs permanently.
The son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan presents an intimate assessment of his father's life that features his childhood observations of the qualities that rendered the future 40th President a powerful leader, in an account that also traces the author's effort to learn more about his father's past. 200,000 first printing.
Ethics and the Conditions Man has long found ethics to be a confusing subject. In recent decades it has become more so. How does a person know if what he is doing is right or wrong? When he sees dishonest men hold power, criminals go free and traditional values cast aside, maybe he feels he should take the easy way out. “Others cheat on their taxes, why shouldn't I?” “Other kids shoplift, what's the harm?” But, regardless of anything else, a person has to live with himself. With many pressures pushing and pulling at a person, how can he be sure his choices will be best for himself, his family and every aspect of his life and his future? L. Ron Hubbard achieved a remarkable breakthrough in the field of ethics which included not only simplification and codification of the subject, but development of a workable technology with applicability to our daily lives, one which brings about increased happiness, prosperity and survival. * Do you leave your future up to fate? * Do you feel like your success or failure in life is just a matter of luck? * Feeling helpless about improving your lot in life? For the solutions and answers to these situations, buy and read this booklet.
Contents: Take care of yourself -- Be temperate -- Don't be promiscuous -- Love and help children -- Honor and help your parents -- Set a good example -- Seek to live with the truth -- Do not murder -- Don't do anything illegal -- Support a government designed and run for all the people -- Do not harm a person of good will -- Safeguard and improve your environment -- Do not steal -- Be worthy of trust -- Fulfill your obligations -- Be industrious -- Be competent -- Respect the religious beliefs of others -- Try not to do things to others that you would not like them to do to you -- Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you -- Flourish and prosper.
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