Word: validators
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...never did drugs. Drinking was never a problem. But I've done a lot of research, and those [morals] are very valid. The interesting thing about the 12 steps is that they work, and not just for addictive people. I'm very interested in psychology. I dabble in that stuff with my friends. I spend most of my fun time arguing, pontificating, discussing those things...
With this success in his back pocket, Romney has a valid claim to the title of come back king—something which he will not soon let Mass. voters forget...
...groups? Many groups, not just blacks, have suffered at the hands of others in our history. Descendants of Chinese railway laborers, Irish famine refugees, American Indians, Jews and more recent Asian immigrants have all faced the same problems of racism and discrimination, and would have just as valid a claim on reparations...
...never did drugs. Drinking was never a problem. But I've done a lot of research, and those [morals] are very valid. The interesting thing about the 12 steps is that they work, and not just for addictive people. I'm very interested in psychology. I dabble in that stuff with my friends. I spend most of my fun time arguing, pontificating, discussing those things...
...such a rocky start in America isn't really such bad news as Downing and his subjects sometimes intimate it is. If the insights made available by a spiritual institution are separate?and bigger?than the imperfect individuals who achieve and transmit them, that means they're still valid even after those individuals lose the thread and mess up. American Zen, that peculiar hybrid of Japanese and American sensibilities that was planted on California's shores in the '60s by Suzuki, Baker and others, may have been damaged by the scandals and embarrassments that Downing chronicles, but that...