Free Dr Pepper!!!

Dr. Pepper has made good on it's promise... saying that if Guns and Roses ever finished their album 'Chinese Democracy', company will offer a free drink to America! Of course Dr. Pepper never thought this album would ever finish. Recording started in 1994... and in 2005, after spending $13 million, it has officially became the most expensive record NEVER made! Against all odds, Guns and Roses is finally releasing the album this Sunday.

Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper's Web site. They'll be honored until Feb. 28.

So maybe one day, against all odds, perhaps China will also someday really become democratic? ;)

Anyway, read something interesting from the 'how people grow' book again... author talked about that biblically, opposite of bad isn't 'good', but 'love'. Whenever we feel guilty, ashamed, depressed, or generally 'bad' about ourselves, what we really need to counter that with isn't to try to feel 'good' about ourselves, whether by building self confidence/esteem or whatever means... What is important is that we need to feel 'love'. It's only after we feel accepted by love, then we can possibly begin to work on those other issues.

This is why a good loving supportive fellowship is important. This is what we naturally seek too... people often seek love, just that often in the wrong places. Sometimes we can seek love thru sex, but of course our sex partners most likely will make you feel worse cause there really isn't love involved. Some may seek love thru marriage. Even in marriages, are people really loving their spouses more... or loving themselves more? In a marriage where if you love yourself more than your spouse, then naturally this marriage will also make you feel bad. Even in churches, are the people in it really love their brothers as much as themselves?

Wherever we are, it's our natural tendency to love self more than anything else for protection. And as we receive less loving support from others, we end up having to compensate loving ourselves more rather than loving others... so the vicious cycle continues... and our morality collapse just as our economies collapse. I suppose this is what Jesus meant by 'For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.' If we lose ours lives for Him... or for Love... that is how we find out what life is really all about!

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