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Rating: ★ Category: Books Genre: Religion & Spirituality Author: Rick Warren This review is somewhat belated, as I am long 'finished' with this book, and am only attaching the review as extracted from my Facebook account: ________________________________________________________________ Despite its popularity as a self-help guide for many of today's churches and their members in living out a purposeful, supposingly godly lives, I found the underlying man-bound, earthy nature of the concepts presented by the author hardly more inspiring than any other secular motivational speaker around the world today. What despaired me further was in learning at first-hand how after studying this book's contents, some individuals, whom I had esteemed for their hitherto unquestionable moral authority, even suggested that this book can be compared with the Holy Word of God. Not for those with shallow faith seeking to deepen it, and even not for those already with a firm foundation in ...

Rating: ★★★★★ Category: Movies Genre: Drama Among the recent films that caught my attention on HBO recently... An excellent film set in the early tumultuous years of the Cold War, but with numerous flashbacks to the treacherous days before World War 2 as well, revolving around the protagonist played by Matt Damon - the supposed pioneering father of the counter-intelligence family within the Central Intelligence Agency from its inception. The story delves deep into the dark intrigues that meander through the lives of individuals who have to bear the burden of state security to the point of being consumed by their profession, resulting in severe damage to their personal lives and moral character and standing in society. In retrospect, I find within myself a kindred spirit that echoes loudly against what I have learned about the character portrayed by the protagonist - a stubbornly closed person, intensely principled in his profession without remorse; and at the same time living a life of...