Word: painful
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...What decisions have you regretted, younger or nowadays?There's this idea that's written in all scripture that every piece of pain is a learning experience and that everything is in perfect order. If you start telling yourself that enough times, you stop worrying about mistakes you made because they start to not be mistakes. You gotta learn to let go of that, your pain body is something that you gotta learn how to control and work with... But I always say I lost the Beastie Boys. But I don't know, what did I lose? I didn...
Many Americans who were shocked by the clips of Wright's sermons have only known a Disney-fied version of the black church. We know about the good music, but don't listen to the lyrics of pain and suffering. We praise the rousing preaching without paying attention to the words. Civil rights leaders have become aging wise men revered for their inspirational sayings, not radical activists who preached truth to power. "There is so much more going on in black churches than gospel music," says Emilie Townes, professor of African American religion at Yale Divinity School...
...announced the "War on Poverty" in 1964. There he was in Alabama's Black Belt, where people live without sewer systems, dancing as elderly quilters serenaded him with spirituals. And before the broken windows of a shuttered steel factory in Youngstown, Ohio, he said he felt America's economic pain. "People are hurting," he said. "These are difficult times...
...everyone is in a hurry to return, however. Lu Fanglin's investment last August brought him more pain than profit. Over six months, his investment in the stock market shrank from $28,500 to $17,100. He pulled out completely in January. "Anyone who has gone through the last few months could feel nothing but hopeless," Lu says. "I won't get near to the stock market for the rest of my life...
Most of us have a pretty good idea about how we want to die: at home, at peace, quickly, with family, without pain. And at a ripe old age. But progress begets paradox: we've gotten so good at the last goal, it swallowed the others, so we live longer but die slower. Two out of three people die in hospitals or nursing homes, often alone, the process prolonged by a conspiracy of hope, fear, bureaucracy, inertia. When researchers not long ago interviewed family members of the recently deceased, half of them said their loved...