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‘After Life’ season three review: Ricky Gervais’ humanist hit goes out on a high

The final scene, moving and poignant, is among its creator’s greatest works ByJames McMahon14th January 2022 Facebook Twitter

They don’t make television like After Life anymore. They don’t make them much like Ricky Gervais either. This, the third and final instalment of the polarising writer/actor/comedian’s Netflix dramedy about grief is unapologetically nasty, saccharine, lovely and poignant. It’s also often a bit of a mess, a little bit like life itself.

• READ MORE: Ricky Gervais: “The people in After Life aren’t freaks. Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp – they’re freaks!”

Much of your enjoyment of the series will hang around how you view the character who anchors the show – recently bereaved local newspaper journalist Tony Johnson. If you’re looking for a hero, Tony isn’t it. He’s often mean, a bit prejudiced, arrogant, he thinks he’s right about everything, the self-absorbed master of his own universe. And yet when the character achieves a genuine realisation – that life is brief and fragile, but worth having a good go at – it’s all the more powerful for being so. The final series wraps up with a scene as poignant as anything Gervais has put his name to before.

If there’s a criticism of Gervais’ work, it’s in his perceived world view. Perhaps fittingly for a creator so vocal about animal welfare, it often seems like he doesn’t care much for his own species. This is challenged in season three – there’s a scene in a child’s cancer unit late on which is arresting due to the moral contortion a character we thought we knew performs. However, few are the human characters who emerge from After Life covered in glory. The fictional town of Tambury is populated by those on the fringes – the postman without boundaries, the inappropriate drama teacher, the psychopath therapist – bumbling through, their flaws not disguised but exposed and dragging on the floor. And yet back to that final scene, in which Gervais looks at the chaos of life, the futility of our species lurch towards death, and still proposes that we all still deserve a shot at happiness. There’s a lot of nihilism there. There little spirituality or cosmic meaning in the way Gervais, through Tony, tells the stories of the town’s many misfits. The final episodes of After Life, more than any that have come before, stare into the abyss and say: ‘Shall we have a nice cup of tea?’

All of which means that After Life isn’t for everyone. Though filled with them, it’s not for those who only want to laugh. It’s not for those who are looking for a television show to make progressive points about gender or race or any of the other facets of the ‘culture wars’ that rage all around us. It’s not for those who want lightness nor grace, nor unproblematic viewing. And because of this, Gervais’ show is resolutely human. There is, after all, little as problematic as people. If you don’t like that, then the frivolity of Emily in Paris is just the click of a button away. Either way, it’s unlikely that Gervais especially cares. Like we say, they don’t make shows like After Life all that much anymore. And they don’t make them all that much like Gervais either.

‘After Life’ season three is streaming on Netflix now

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World Exclusive: After Life Season 3: The First few Minutes

After Life | Season 3 Official Trailer | Netflix

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episodes will be released on January 14th.

Just Three Things. Written for #Afterlife by Ricky Gervais and Andy Burrows

January 29, 2022

Ricky Gervais

London, W1F 0LE
UK

Dear Ricky,

Matt: We’ll do sort of a road trip. Get some snacks and CDs. It’ll be great. 

Tony: Yeah. Cheers. 

Matt: Okay, good.

Tony: ( sighs ) Well, that’s the rest of my day sorted. I’m playing him at table tennis, and then he’s driving me to Midlake to scatter my dad’s ashes. 

Coleen: Sounds like quite an exciting day. 

Tony: ( sighs ) Yeah. What a bunch of losers we are. 

Kath: Speak for yourself. 

Tony: Well, I was. But also for anyone else who’s a loser like me. Matt thinks he’s adventurous ’cause he owns a cagoule. Lenny gets excited if he finds an uneaten biscuit in his pocket. Come on. 

Lenny: You’re right. ( sighs ) 

Kath: I’ve absolutely nothing interesting in my life. 

Tony: Well, that’s not true. 

Kath: Got a pretend boyfriend. I hate my job. I’d rather do what you do, but I’ve lost my nerve. Yeah, I can’t date anymore. All the best men are taken. You know, or gay or mental. I made a list for my perfect bloke. How tragic is that? 

Coleen: Oh, yeah, I’ve done that. 

Kath:What’s on yours? Own car, house, own business, no kids. Smart, you know, proper bloke. What was on yours? 

Coleen: Must have a face…

Tony: . ( Tony chuckles ) Kath. Fancy a coffee? Yeah

Kath: . ( sighs ) I can’t be bothered anymore. I mean, what’s the point, eh? 

Tony: Yeah, I know how you feel.

YES BOTH TONY JOHNSON AND RICKY GERVAIS KNOW THAT FEELING AND HAVE ASKED THAT SAME QUESTION ”What’s the point!!!!!”

In episode 5 of ABSOLUTELY MENTAL we have this question from Ricky Gervais around the 3 minute mark. 

“If there is no afterlife what is the point of having this experience if it ends?”

Kath asks the same question in AFTERLIFE.

When Kath, asks, “If your an atheist, and you don’t believe in heaven and hell and all that, how come you don’t go around raping and murdering as much as you want?” Tony’s answer is, “I do. I do go around raping and murdering as much as I want, which is not at all.”

Kath: If death is just the end then what is the point? 
Tony: What is the point in what? 
Kath: What is the point in living? Why don’t you just kill yourself?

Tony: So if you are watching a movie and you are really enjoying it. Maybe a movie with Kevin Hart in it. Then someone points out there is an end eventually. Do you just say “Forget it. What’s the point and you turn it off?” 
Kath: No because you can watch it again. 
Tony: Well, I think Life is precious because you can’t watch it again. I mean you can believe in an afterlife if it makes you feel better, but it doesn’t mean it is true. But once you realize you are not going to be around forever I think that is what makes it magical. One day you will eat your last meal, smell a flower, and hug your friend for the last time. You might not know it is the last time, but that is why you should do everything you love with passion. Treasure the few years you got because you know that is all there is.
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On his Twitter Live broadcast of April 13, 2020 Ricky Gervais seemed to contradict his argument with Kath. He asserted, “Your favorite meal? What if it was your final meal? Couldn’t really enjoy that. Would they rush you as well. You don’t have time for pudding because you are being executed at 2 pm. Brings the whole meal [mood] down. I am not enjoying this. I am not enjoying this sticky toffee pudding. The priest is looking at his watch.”

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You contradict yourself with this example the death row inmate not getting to enjoy the meal because he knows that the 2pm execution is coming very soon! Let me give you an example from Woody Allen. 

There’s an old joke – um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ’em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life – full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.

Woody Allen, Annie Hall: ScreenplayTags: humour, life

Is there a relationship in those who believe in God and good behavior? . I noticed in Woody Allen’s film “Crimes and Misdemeanors” you can see how Allen’s agnostic worldview permits him to allow the lead character to have his mistress killed when she threatens to call the cops. Judah noted, “God is a luxery I can not afford.” Earlier in the film Judah is terrified when he thinks there is a living God that will punish him in an afterlife, but only after he convinces himself there is no God is he at peace with his decision to have this troublesome lady killed. Check out this movie on Netflix and you will see what I mean about this potential moral problem that atheists can not answer. (I have looked this question many times in my previous posts.)

I know how much you and Richard Dawkins hold Bertrand Russell in high esteem. Let me quote from the article below. For though Bertrand Russell was an atheist, he was an outspoken social critic, denouncing war and restrictions on sexual freedom. Russell admitted that he could not live as though ethical values were simply a matter of personal taste, and that he therefore found his own views “incredible.” “I do not know the solution,” he confessed.” [7]

Let me share a portion of an article by William Lane Craig with you.

The Absurdity of Life without God

William Lane Craig

SUMMARY

Why on atheism life has no ultimate meaning, value, or purpose, and why this view is unlivable.

Francis Schaeffer has explained this point well. Modern man, says Schaeffer, resides in a two-story universe. In the lower story is the finite world without God; here life is absurd, as we have seen. In the upper story are meaning, value, and purpose. Now modern man lives in the lower story because he believes there is no God. But he cannot live happily in such an absurd world; therefore, he continually makes leaps of faith into the upper story to affirm meaning, value, and purpose, even though he has no right to, since he does not believe in God.

Let’s look again, then, at each of the three areas in which we saw life was absurd without God, to show how man cannot live consistently and happily with his atheism.

Meaning of Life

First, the area of meaning. We saw that without God, life has no meaning. Yet philosophers continue to live as though life does have meaning. For example, Sartre argued that one may create meaning for his life by freely choosing to follow a certain course of action. Sartre himself chose Marxism.

Now this is utterly inconsistent. It is inconsistent to say life is objectively absurd and then to say one may create meaning for his life. If life is really absurd, then man is trapped in the lower story. To try to create meaning in life represents a leap to the upper story. But Sartre has no basis for this leap. Without God, there can be no objective meaning in life. Sartre’s program is actually an exercise in self-delusion. Sartre is really saying, “Let’s pretend the universe has meaning.” And this is just fooling ourselves.

The point is this: if God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

Value of Life

Turn now to the problem of value. Here is where the most blatant inconsistencies occur. First of all, atheistic humanists are totally inconsistent in affirming the traditional values of love and brotherhood. Camus has been rightly criticized for inconsistently holding both to the absurdity of life and the ethics of human love and brotherhood. The two are logically incompatible. Bertrand Russell, too, was inconsistent. For though he was an atheist, he was an outspoken social critic, denouncing war and restrictions on sexual freedom. Russell admitted that he could not live as though ethical values were simply a matter of personal taste, and that he therefore found his own views “incredible.” “I do not know the solution,” he confessed.” [7] The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong cannot exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.”

But Dostoyevsky also showed that man cannot live this way. He cannot live as though it is perfectly all right for soldiers to slaughter innocent children. He cannot live as though it is all right for dictators like Pol Pot to exterminate millions of their own countrymen. Everything in him cries out to say these acts are wrong—really wrong. But if there is no God, he cannot. So he makes a leap of faith and affirms values anyway. And when he does so, he reveals the inadequacy of a world without God.

Back to Woody Allen’s CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS and the issue of MIGHT MAKES RIGHT and I encourage you to watch that film and answer the question “How could I convince Judah not to eliminate his troublesome mistress when he has every reason to do so?”

Francis Schaeffer (January 30, 1912 – May 15, 1984^[1]) 

This issue also was covered by Solomon in ECCLESIASTES.Below Francis Schaeffer discusses ECCLESIASTES. 

Ecclesiastes 4:1

 Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

Between birth and death power rules. Solomon looked over his kingdom and also around the world and proclaimed that right does not rule but power rules.

Ecclesiastes 7:14-15

¹⁴ In the day of prosperity be happy, but in the day of adversity consider—God has made the one as well as the other so that man will not discover anything that will be after him.

¹⁵ I have seen everything during my lifetime of futility; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

¹⁴ There is futility which is done on the earth, that is, there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked. On the other hand, there are evil men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I say that this too is futility.

We could say it in 20th century language, “The books are not balanced in this life.”

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Now let’s look at what it means to have a relationship with Christ according to the scriptures. 

Our views below (this material is from Campus Crusade for Christ) concerning how to go to heaven.

Just as there are physical laws that govern

the physical universe, so are there spiritual laws
that govern your relationship with God.

God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.

https://c0.pubmine.com/passback.html

God’s Love
“God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16, NIV).

God’s Plan
[Christ speaking] “I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly”
[that it might be full and meaningful] (John 10:10).

Why is it that most people are not experiencing that abundant life?

Because…

Man is sinful and separated from God.
Therefore, he cannot know and experience
God’s love and plan for his life.

Man is Sinful
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

Man was created to have fellowship with God; but, because of his own stubborn
self-will, he chose to go his own independent way and fellowship with God was broken.
This self-will, characterized by an attitude of active rebellion or passive indifference,
is an evidence of what the Bible calls sin.

Man Is Separated
“The wages of sin is death” [spiritual separation from God] (Romans 6:23).

Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for man’s sin.
Through Him you can know and experience
God’s love and plan for your life.

He Died In Our Place
“God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

He Rose from the Dead
“Christ died for our sins… He was buried… He was raised on the third day,
according to the Scriptures… He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve.
After that He appeared to more than five hundred…” (1 Corinthians 15:3-6).

He Is the Only Way to God
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to
the Father but through Me’” (John 14:6).

We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord;
then we can know and experience God’s love and plan for our lives.

We Must Receive Christ
“As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children
of God, even to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12).

We Receive Christ Through Faith
“By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God; not as result of works that no one should boast” (Ephesians 2:8,9).

When We Receive Christ, We Experience a New Birth
(Read John 3:1-8.)

We Receive Christ Through Personal Invitation
[Christ speaking] “Behold, I stand at the door and knock;
if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him” (Revelation 3:20).

Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (repentance) and trusting
Christ to come into our lives to forgive our sins and to make us what He wants us to be.
Just to agree intellectually that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross
for our sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experience.
We receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of the will.

These two circles represent two kinds of lives:

Which circle best represents your life?
Which circle would you like to have represent your life?

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The following explains how you can receive Christ:

You Can Receive Christ Right Now by Faith Through Prayer
(Prayer is talking with God)

God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude
of your heart. The following is a suggested prayer:

Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.

Does this prayer express the desire of your heart? If it does, I invite you to pray this
prayer right now, and Christ will come into your life, as He promised.

Now that you have received Christ

The answer to find meaning in life is found in putting your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. The Bible is true from cover to cover and can be trusted.

Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher, everettehatcher@gmail.com, http://www.thedailyhatch.org, cell ph 501-920-5733, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002

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Free To Choose 1980 – Vol. 06 What’s Wrong with Our Schools? – Full Video

Milton Friedman chose the emphasis on school choice and school vouchers as his greatest legacy!

The Ever-Stronger Case for School Choice

If Winston Churchill was commenting on America’s governmentschools instead of the Royal Air Force, he would have said, “never have so many paid so much to achieve so little.”

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I won’t keep anyone in suspense.

The message of today’s column is that government schools are becoming ever-more expensive while producing ever-more dismal outcomes.

As a nation, we have two choices.

We can continue to pour more money into monopoly, government-run systems that never produce better results.

Or we can learn from the evidence and harness the benefits of competition and innovation with school choice.

Let’s look at some more data and research.

In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Dennis Epple, Richard E. Romano, and Miguel Urquiola were largely agnostic on the desirability of choice.

But their research included some very favorable analysis.

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. …multiple positive findings support continued exploration. …for some subgroups or outcomes, vouchers can have a substantial positive effect on those who use them. …Evidence on both small scale and large scale programs suggests that competition induced by vouchers leads public schools to improve.… The most robust finding is that voucher threats induce public schools to improve. …In addition, recent evidence from small-scale experiments in the United States finds substantial gains in years of school for recipients… More encouraging results on the effect of small-scale programs come from developing countries. …interesting evidence comes from India. While vouchers there delivered modest test-score gains, they did so at one-third the cost per student of public schools. …In the case of Sweden’s large-scale voucher program, …recent work features evidence of significant gains… Recent research also tends to support the finding that voucher competition has improved the performance of public schools.

Since I’ve written about choice programs in nations such as Canada, Sweden, Chile, and the Netherlands, I’m glad the study mentioned some of the international evidence.

Moreover, I’ve also noted that proponents of school choice have been gaining ground.

Francis Suarez, the Mayor Miami, wants more progress. A National Review article he co-authored with Corey DeAngelis makes the case for expanded options.

School choice is the civil-rights issue of the 21st century. Choosing the right school opens opportunity, it shapes success, it prevents failure, and it unleashes economic opportunity. …We believe the best way to improve our schools and invest in our future is to expand parent-driven school choice. …Miami has always led on school choice. In 1996, T. Willard Fair, the president of the Urban League of Greater Miami, partnered with Governor Jeb Bush to start Florida’s first charter school in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood.…Since then, Miami-Dade County has launched 140 charter schools, serving more than 70,000 students, and more than 440 private schools that serve tens of thousands of students with school-choice scholarships. Miami has done well, but now we need to do better. …Moreover, the students who benefit from increased school-choice options are overwhelmingly from historically discriminated-against communities. In a 2019 study, the Urban Institute found students using the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship for lower-income families — 24,502 students in Miami-Dade used them last year — are far more likely than their public-school peers to enroll in colleges and earn bachelor’s degrees. And a 2020 study published by the National Bureau for Economic Research found that, as that same program grew, students in the district schools most affected by competition saw higher test scores.

The moral of the story is that school choice is a win-win for taxpayers and students.

Now let’s shift to the politics of school choice.

That normally means focusing on the baleful role of teacher unions, which place their personal self interest above student outcomes.

But there’s also the red-vs.-blue dynamic. In a report for the American Enterprise Institute, Jay Greene and Lindsey Burke analyze some of the challenges of trying to enact bipartisan choice legislation.

…in their quest for broader support, choice proponents have conceded to Democrats’ policy demands that ultimately weaken the options available to families: limited student eligibility, heavy-handed standardized tests and regulations, caps on scholarship amounts and student participation, and admissions regulations. Not only has that approach weakened many school choice programs, but it doesn’t appear to have actually won Democratic policymakers’ support. It may have even alienated Republican policymakers who were on the fence about supporting school choice.…Any Democratic support has been for modest or heavily regulated programs, such as the voucher program in Louisiana. The Louisiana voucher program suffers under a mountain of regulations that has discouraged private schools from participating, so much so that only one-third of the state’s private schools will accept the vouchers. …What does this all mean for private school choice proponents? It means supporters should not be afraid to make what is likely our most compelling case: that education freedom is fundamentally about enabling parents to choose learning environments that align with their values. …choice proponents should embrace and be vocal about school choice allowing families an escape hatch from government schools pushing an agenda that runs counter to their values. In other words, choice proponents should be unafraid to appeal to Republicans. …proponents have not made the cultural case for choice to the Republican base, for fear of losing Democratic legislative allies, who, it turns out, weren’t really there to begin with.

I’m a policy wonk rather than political pundit, so my only comment is that proponents shouldn’t give up on bipartisanship.

There’s new legislation in Georgia to enable choice and it has several Democratic cosponsors. If enacted, this could be even bigger news than last-year’s victory in West Virginia.

And I’ve already lauded the powerful words of Justin Wayne, a Democratic member of Nebraska’s legislature.

Speaking of politics, another complication is that charter schools (a type of choice in the government system) may undermine private schools.

Christopher Bedford explains this problem in an article for the Federalist.

Search the Lehigh Valley papers and you’ll find Catholic school after Catholic school closing down. In March 2018, Our Lady Help of Christians in Allentown closed its doors. In June 2020, Sacred Heart School in Bath and St. Francis Academy in Bally shut down. And last May, Trinity Academy in Shenandoah became the latest victim. …Charter schools are booming in Pennsylvania. …enrollment at charters rose by 25,000 last year; about 10 percent of all children in the state are enrolled in them. There are at least 14 charter schools in the Lehigh Valley region so far. …Often, in fact, the arrival of a charter is the death knell for a parochial school. In New York state, a 2012 study found that for every charter school that opened, a parochial school closed. …This is the kind of mutilated, self-defeating “victory” we see on the right far too often. Democratic teachers unions were weakened, and public school bureaucrats faced some small level of competition. …But in the big picture, parents and their children are still at the mercy of a government bureaucracy… Still, for a lot of parents, the choice is simple: They know public schools are poisonous, and now they have an alternative that doesn’t cost them a dime in tuition. And so, charter schools are booming, while parochial schools are slowly withering and dying.

This creates a quandary.

Charter schools are better than regular government schools.

But it would be a Pyrrhic Victory if the expansion of such schools undermines the vitality of private schools.

P.S. Many rich folks on the left believe in private schools, but only for their own kids.

P.P.S. There’s also evidence that school choice is better for children’s mental health since it’s associated with lower suicide rates. That’s a nice fringe benefit, much like the data on school choice and jobs.

P.P.P.S. Getting rid of the Department of Education would be a good idea, but the battle for school choice is largely won and lost on the state and local level.

Educational Choice, the Supreme Court, and a Level Playing Field for Religious Schools

The case for school choice is very straightforward.

• Monopoly government school systems cost a lot of moneyand do a bad job.The interests of the education bureaucracy rank higherthan the educational needs of kids. Poor families are especially disadvantaged.
• School choice puts parents in charge. Lots of evidence, including from overseas, shows choice improves educational outcomes. And private schools cost less, so taxpayers also win.

The good news is that there was a lot of pro-choice reform in 2021.

West Virginia adopted a statewide system that is based on parental choice. And many other states expanded choice-based programs.

But 2022 may be a good year as well. That’s because the Supreme Court is considering whether to strike down state laws that restrict choice by discriminating against religious schools.

Michael Bindas of the Institute for Justice and Walter Womack of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference make the case for a level playing field in a column for the New York Times.

In 2002, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution allows school choice programs to include schools that provide religious instruction, so long as the voucher program also offers secular options. The question now before the court is whether a state may nevertheless exclude schools that provide religious instruction. The case, Carson v. Makin, …concerns Maine’s tuition assistance program. In that large and sparsely populated state, over half of the school districts have no public high schools. If a student lives in such a district, and it does not contract with another high school to educate its students, then the district must pay tuition for the student to attend the school of her or his parents’ choice. …But one type of school is off limits: a school that provides religious instruction. That may seem unconstitutional, and we argue that it is. Only last year, the Supreme Court, citing the free exercise clause of the Constitution, held that states cannot bar students in a school choice program from selecting religious schools when it allows them to choose other private schools. …The outcome will be enormously consequential for families in public schools that are failing them and will go a long way toward determining whether the most disadvantaged families can exercise the same control over the education of their children as wealthier citizens.

The Wall Street Journal editorialized on this issue earlier this week.

Maine has one of the country’s oldest educational choice systems, a tuition program for students who live in areas that don’t run schools of their own. Instead these families get to pick a school, and public funds go toward enrollment. Religious schools are excluded, however, and on Wednesday the Supreme Court will hear from parents who have closely read the First Amendment.…Maine argues it isn’t denying funds based on the religious “status” of any school… The state claims, rather, that it is merely refusing to allocate money for a “religious use,” specifically, “an education designed to proselytize and inculcate children with a particular faith.” In practice, this distinction between “status” and “use” falls apart. Think about it: Maine is happy to fund tuition at an evangelical school, as long as nothing evangelical is taught. Hmmm. …A state can’t subsidize tuition only for private schools with government-approved values, and trying to define the product as “secular education” gives away the game. …America’s Founders knew what they were doing when they wrote the First Amendment to protect religious “free exercise.”

What does the other side say?

Rachel Laser, head of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, doesn’t want religious schools to be treated equally under school choice programs.

Here’s some of her column in the Washington Post.

…two sets of parents in Maine claim that the Constitution’s promise of religious freedom actually requires the state to fund religious education at private schools with taxpayer dollars — as a substitute for public education. This interpretation flips the meaning of religious freedom on its head and threatens both true religious freedom and public education.…The problem here is even bigger than public funds paying for praying, as wrong as that is. Unlike public schools, private religious schools often do not honor civil rights protections, especially for LGBTQ people, women, students with disabilities, religious minorities and the nonreligious. …If the court were to agree with the parents, it would also be rejecting the will of three-quarters of the states, which long ago enacted clauses in their state constitutions and passed statutes specifically prohibiting public funding of religious education. …It is up to parents and religious communities to educate their children in their faith. Publicly funded schools should never serve that purpose.

These arguments are not persuasive.

The fact that many state constitutions include so-called Blaine amendments actually undermines her argument since those provisions were motivated by a desire to discriminate against parochial schools that provided education to Catholic immigrants.

And it’s definitely not clear why school choice shouldn’t include religious schools that follow religious teachings, unless she also wants to argue that student grants and loans shouldn’t go to students at Notre Dame, Brigham Young, Liberty, and other religiously affiliated colleges.

The good news is that Ms. Laser’s arguments don’t seem to be winning. Based on this report from yesterday’s Washington Post, authored by Robert Barnes, there are reasons to believe the Justices will make the right decision.

Conservatives on the Supreme Court seemed…critical of a Maine tuition program that does not allow public funds to go to schools that promote religious instruction. The case involves an unusual program in a small state that affects only a few thousand students. But it could have greater implications… The oral argument went on for nearly two hours and featured an array of hypotheticals. …But the session ended as most suspected it would, with the three liberal justices expressing support for Maine and the six conservatives skeptical that it protected religious parents from unconstitutional discrimination.

I can’t resist sharing this additional excerpt about President Biden deciding to side with teacher unions instead of students.

The Justice Department switched its position in the case after President Biden was inaugurated and now supports Maine.

But let’s not dwell on Biden’s hackery (especially since that’s a common affliction on the left).

Instead, let’s close with some uplifting thoughts about what might happen if we get a good decision from the Supreme Court when decisions are announced next year.

Maybe I’m overly optimistic, but I think we’re getting close to a tipping point. As more and more states and communities shift to choice, we will have more and more evidence that it’s a win-win for both families and taxpayers.

Which will lead to more choice programs, which will produce more helpful data.

Lather, rinse, repeat. No wonder the (hypocritical) teacher unionsare so desperate to stop progress.

P.S. There’s strong evidence for school choice from nations such as Sweden, Chile, and the Netherlands.

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Why Milton Friedman Saw School Choice as a First Step, Not a Final One

On his birthday, let’s celebrate Milton Friedman’s vision of enabling parents, not government, to be in control of a child’s education.

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Kerry McDonald

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Libertarians and others are often torn about school choice. They may wish to see the government schooling monopoly weakened, but they may resist supporting choice mechanisms, like vouchers and education savings accounts, because they don’t go far enough. Indeed, most current choice programs continue to rely on taxpayer funding of education and don’t address the underlying compulsory nature of elementary and secondary schooling.

Skeptics may also have legitimate fears that taxpayer-funded education choice programs will lead to over-regulation of previously independent and parochial schooling options, making all schooling mirror compulsory mass schooling, with no substantive variation.

Friedman Challenged Compulsory Schooling Laws

Milton Friedman had these same concerns. The Nobel prize-winning economist is widely considered to be the one to popularize the idea of vouchers and school choice beginning with his 1955 paper, “The Role of Government in Education.” His vision continues to be realized through the important work of EdChoice, formerly the Friedman Foundation for Education Choice, that Friedman and his economist wife, Rose, founded in 1996.

July 31 is Milton Friedman’s birthday. He died in 2006 at the age of 94, but his ideas continue to have an impact, particularly in education policy.

Friedman saw vouchers and other choice programs as half-measures. He recognized the larger problems of taxpayer funding and compulsion, but saw vouchers as an important starting point in allowing parents to regain control of their children’s education. In their popular book, Free To Choose, first published in 1980, the Friedmans wrote:

We regard the voucher plan as a partial solution because it affects neither the financing of schooling nor the compulsory attendance laws. We favor going much farther. (p.161)

They continued:

The compulsory attendance laws are the justification for government control over the standards of private schools. But it is far from clear that there is any justification for the compulsory attendance laws themselves. (p. 162)

The Friedmans admitted that their “own views on this have changed over time,” as they realized that “compulsory attendance at schools is not necessary to achieve that minimum standard of literacy and knowledge,” and that “schooling was well-nigh universal in the United States before either compulsory attendance or government financing of schooling existed. Like most laws, compulsory attendance laws have costs as well as benefits. We no longer believe the benefits justify the costs.” (pp. 162-3)

Still, they felt that vouchers would be the essential starting point toward chipping away at monopoly mass schooling by putting parents back in charge. School choice, in other words, would be a necessary but not sufficient policy approach toward addressing the underlying issue of government control of education.

Vouchers as a First Step

In their book, the Friedmans presented the potential outcomes of their proposed voucher plan, which would give parents access to some or all of the average per-pupil expenditures of a child enrolled in public school. They believed that vouchers would help create a more competitive education market, encouraging education entrepreneurship. They felt that parents would be more empowered with greater control over their children’s education and have a stronger desire to contribute some of their own money toward education. They asserted that in many places “the public school has fostered residential stratification, by tying the kind and cost of schooling to residential location” and suggested that voucher programs would lead to increased integration and heterogeneity. (pp. 166-7)

To the critics who said, and still say, that school choice programs would destroy the public schools, the Friedmans replied that these critics fail to

explain why, if the public school system is doing such a splendid job, it needs to fear competition from nongovernmental, competitive schools or, if it isn’t, why anyone should object to its “destruction.” (p. 170)

What I appreciate most about the Friedmans discussion of vouchers and the promise of school choice is their unrelenting support of parents. They believed that parents, not government bureaucrats and intellectuals, know what is best for their children’s education and well-being and are fully capable of choosing wisely for their children—when they have the opportunity to do so.

They wrote:

Parents generally have both greater interest in their children’s schooling and more intimate knowledge of their capacities and needs than anyone else. Social reformers, and educational reformers in particular, often self-righteously take for granted that parents, especially those who are poor and have little education themselves, have little interest in their children’s education and no competence to choose for them. That is a gratuitous insult. Such parents have frequently had limited opportunity to choose. However, U.S. history has demonstrated that, given the opportunity, they have often been willing to sacrifice a great deal, and have done so wisely, for their children’s welfare. (p. 160).

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Voucher Programs Today

Today, school voucher programs exist in 15 states plus the District of Columbia. These programs have consistently shown that when parents are given the choice to opt-out of an assigned district school, many will take advantage of the opportunity. In Washington, D.C., low-income parents who win a voucher lottery send their children to private schools.

The most recent three-year federal evaluationof voucher program participants found that while student academic achievement was comparable to achievement for non-voucher students remaining in public schools, there were statistically significant improvements in other important areas. For instance, voucher participants had lower rates of chronic absenteeism than the control groups, as well as higher student satisfaction scores. There were also tremendous cost-savings.

In Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program has served over 28,000 low-income students attending 129 participating private schools.

According to Corey DeAngelis, Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation and a prolific researcher on the topic, the recent analysis of the D.C. voucher program “reveals that private schools produce the same academic outcomes for only a third of the cost of the public schools. In other words, school choice is a great investment.”

In Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program was created in 1990 and is the nation’s oldest voucher program. It currently serves over 28,000 low-income students attending 129 participating private schools. Like the D.C. voucher program, data on test scores of Milwaukee voucher students show similar results to public school students, but non-academic results are promising.

Increased Access and Decreased Crime

Recent research found voucher recipients had lower crime rates and lower incidences of unplanned pregnancies in young adulthood. On his birthday, let’s celebrate Milton Friedman’s vision of enabling parents, not government, to be in control of a child’s education.

According to Howard Fuller, an education professor at Marquette University, founder of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, and one of the developers of the Milwaukee voucher program, the key is parent empowerment—particularly for low-income minority families.

In an interview with NPR, Fuller said: “What I’m saying to you is that there are thousands of black children whose lives are much better today because of the Milwaukee parental choice program,” he says. 
“They were able to access better schools than they would have without a voucher.”

Putting parents back in charge of their child’s education through school choice measures was Milton Friedman’s goal. It was not his ultimate goal, as it would not fully address the funding and compulsion components of government schooling; but it was, and remains, an important first step. As the Friedmans wrote in Free To Choose:

The strong American tradition of voluntary action has provided many excellent examples that demonstrate what can be done when parents have greater choice. (p. 159).

On his birthday, let’s celebrate Milton Friedman’s vision of enabling parents, not government, to be in control of a child’s education.

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January 28, 2022

Ricky Gervais

London, W1F 0LE
UK

Dear Ricky,

“JUST SOUNDS?” OR DO THESE SOUNDS CONVEY A MESSAGE? IF THE WORLD WAS MEANINGLESS AND THE WORLD WAS ABSURD THEN HOW COULD THERE BE MEANINGFUL WORDS TO BEGIN WITH?

Tony: ( sighs ) There’s no honor anymore. 

man: Have you done a big, farmyard poo? 

Tony: Oh, for [Pete’s]sake. 

man: You okay?

Tony: Yeah, why?

man: You just said, “For [Pete’s] sake,” 

Tony: so… And you assumed summat had annoyed me? Like someone making unnecessary noise? 

Lenny: Oh [shoot]. ( sighs ) 

man: He’s a baby. ( chuckles ) 

Tony: Yeah, but he’s not the one making all the noise, is he? You are. 

man: To keep him amused. ‘Cause if he was crying, that would annoy people. 

Tony: No, ’cause he’s a baby. You making all the noise is the annoying bit. 

man: They’re sounds. They shouldn’t concern you. You talk to your friend. I talk to my child.

Tony: But you can’t hear every word I’m saying, can you? 

Man: So what? There’s noise around. That’s life.

Tony Okay. Good point. Who’s a noisy prick? You are! You big annoying prick! 

Man: Well, that’s pathetic. 

Tony: Sorry, I’m talking to a friend. 

Man: Saying things others don’t want to hear.

Tony: So are you, but you don’t care,

I know that you are active in the  BRITISH HUMANIST ASSOCIATION so I thought this short quote below may interest you.

H. J. Blackham was the founder of the BRITISH HUMANIST ASSOCIATION and he asserted:

“On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing, and every pretense that it does not is a deceit. If there is a bridge over a gorge which spans only half the distance and ends in mid-air, and if the bridge is crowded with human beings pressing on, one after the other they fall into the abyss. The bridge leads nowhere, and those who are pressing forward to cross it are going nowhere….It does not matter where they think they are going, what preparations for the journey they may have made, how much they may be enjoying it all. The objection merely points out objectively that such a situation is a model of futility“( H. J. Blackham, et al., Objections to Humanism (Riverside, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1967).

Ricky, you are a humanist and you have said many times in AFTER LIFE that ultimately life doesn’t have meaning. For instance, the gentleman in season two who is mailing his letters in a dog waste bin and he comments that eventually we all will end up in a dog waste bin eventually. I can think of no greater illustration of meaninglessness and Solomon in ECCLESIASTES also notes in 9:4 Anyone who is among the living has hope —even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! And in 3:19 Solomon asserts: Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.

Francis Schaeffer noted:

The greatest dilemma for those who hold this world-view, however, is that it is impossible to live consistently within it. We saw how this was true of David Hume. Likewise the playwright Samuel Beckett can “say” that words do not communicate anything – and that everything, including language, is absurd – yet he must use words to write his plays, even plays about meaninglessness. If the words that Beckett uses did not convey meaning to his hearers, he could not say that everything, including words, is meaningless.
The list of contradictions can be extended endlessly. The truth is that everyone who rejects the biblical world-view must live in a state of tension between ideas about reality and reality itself.
Thus, if a person believes that everything is only matter or energy and carries this through consistently, meaning dies, morality dies, love dies, hope dies. Yet! The individual does love, does hope, does act on the basis of right and wrong. This is what we mean when we say that everyone is caught, regardless of his world-view, simply by the way things are. No one can make his own universe to live in.
The reason for this, as we have said all along, is that the individual is confronted with two aspects or reality that do not basically change: the universe and its form and the mannishness of man. Humanists argue that everything is finally only matter or energy and end up with no answers to the big questions. They arrive at only meaninglessness, relative morality, relative knowledge. But humanists actually live as if there is meaning and real morality.They act, for example, as if cruelty is not the same as noncruelty, or justice the same as injustice. Also, humanists do have knowledge, knowledge of a world in which causality is real and science is possible.

King Solomon closed the Book of Ecclesiastes (Richard Dawkins’ favorite Book of the Bible) with these words, “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with^[d] every secret thing, whether good or evil.”

The answer to find meaning in life is found in putting your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. The Bible is true from cover to cover and can be trusted.

After Life – Season 3 Episode 3 Recap & Review

14/01/2022 by Greg Wheeler

The Last Request

Episode 3 of After Life Season 3 starts with Tony honoring his dad’s last request. In a home video, we see him discussing death, and specifically how he wants his ashes to be scattered in Mid Lake after he dies. The destination in question is a pub called The Traveler’s Friend, a place where he actually proposed to Tony’s mum.

Back in the present, we return to the Tambury Gazette where two obnoxious men running a podcast – Ratty and Nonce – show up and immediately start cursing and causing a ruckus. They want to promote their show, which allows “men to be men.”

After this rather rude start to the day, Tony heads off to visit Ewen, a man who’s banned from the all-you-can-eat buffet in town. That’s a whole different situation, but the real meat and potatoes of the story is Tony heading off to scatter his dad’s ashes.

Just prior to that though, there’s a really nice moment in the office where Kath, feeling down in the dumps following her reading, is invited out for a coffee with Tony. On the way, Kath runs into a lawyer called Charles, and the two seem to hit it off immediately. It’s especially nice because Tony actually gives some solid, honest advice for her too, urging her to just act herself around him.

Unfortunately Kath does the exact opposite during her date. She lies and claims she’s a doctor. This only opens up more questions during their date, especially when someone starts choking at a table across the room.

Meanwhile, James starts to regret his choice of moving in with Brian. Seeing life from the other side, with the place a mess and boxes stacked up to the ceiling (not to mention Brian using the toilet while he’s having a bath) sees James contemplate his life choices.

In Mid Lake, Tony gets to work scattering his dad’s ashes. They find the pub and scatter his ashes, but the bar owner immediately takes offence. He’s pretty rude and Tony eventually throws the ash right in his face. “I hope that was his c*ck” He says. (There is more but I won’t write that here!)

As Matt and Tony leave, they reflect on what’s happened and laugh it off.

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The Episode Review

The middle chapter of this series starts to slow things down, with the different subplots ticking by and revolving around the idea of moving on and making sense of one’s life. This actually works pretty well across the chapter and seeing James realize that life isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence is a great way of reinforcing that.

Meanwhile, Kath’s lies go against Tony’s advice, and that’s likely to be her downfall. She’s almost certainly going to get called out for that and I wouldn’t be surprised if this trend continues until she hits a breakthrough.

With the character relationships continuing to develop, it’ll be interesting to see what direction the second half of this season takes.

Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher, everettehatcher@gmail.com, http://www.thedailyhatch.org, cell ph 501-920-5733, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002

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Adrian Rogers: Crossing God’s Deadline [#2037] chapter 29

By Adrian Rogers

Proverbs 29:1

This study is based upon the message of Adrian Rogers can be heard online at www.lwf.org.

Already it is fall and we’re approaching the end of another year. Soon we’ll be “crossing the deadline” for 2013 and entering 2014.

Here’s a question: Can a person spiritually pass the point of no return? Can he or she so stubbornly and arrogantly sin against God, be so willfully rebellious, that God will give up on them? The answer is yes, and that’s what this study will examine.

Joseph Addison Alexander described it this way in his poem “The Hidden Line.” Here are the first two stanzas:

There is a time, we know not when,
A place, we know not where,
That marks the destiny of men
To glory or despair.

There is a line by us unseen
That crosses every path,
The hidden boundary between
God’s patience and His wrath.

It is a gripping poem, and you can read the rest of it here: bit.ly/19OQqU8 

But more important by far is what God has to say on this subject.

1. Turn to Proverbs 29:1. This verse is terrifying in some ways. We are going to study 4 specific elements of this passage carefully:

“He that being often _____________ and ________________ his neck shall suddenly be _____________ and that without ____________.”

You say, “But, Pastor, God is a God of infinite love.” Yes, He is a God of love, but that’s not all the truth—only part of the truth. When you take part of the truth and make part of the truth all of the truth, that part of the truth becomes an untruth. We need to see all of what God says on the subject.

The Niagara River, rushing down to Niagara Falls, is at first placid and slow. But it reaches a point where it rises and picks up speed. Those who are wise to the ways of this river say you can be in the river for a long time, but there is a spot called “the point of no return.” When you come to that place, you’re not going to turn around and go back. You’re going over the falls if you pass that point. It is the point of no return.

Four Definite Truths of Proverbs 29:1

Truth #1—God Speaks Through Spiritual Conviction

“He that being often reproved…”

God does convict us. We are often reproved. Nobody goes to hell unloved, unwarned, or unconvicted. No one will stand before God in accusation.  

2. Do you recall a time when you sensed strongly that the Holy Spirit was convicting you about something? What was the situation and how did you respond?
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God strives with us, knocks on our heart’s door, reproves us, calls us over and over again. If He had only warned us just one time, God would have shown us glorious mercy, wouldn’t He? God speaks, bringing spiritual conviction.

God has several ways of speaking.

a. Through His Holy Spirit

Here are three wonderful verses (among many) about the Holy Spirit’s role in speaking to us:

• Turn to John 16:13

“Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not ___________ of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He _______ and He will ________ _______ things to come.”

He is the Spirit of what? ___________

• Turn to 1 Timothy 4:1

“Now the Spirit ______________ expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;”

• Turn to Genesis 6:3

“And the Lord said, My _________ shall not _________ strive with man, for that he also is flesh…”

The Holy Spirit speaks—His Spirit to our spirit—convicting our hearts.

Judging by these verses, we can say that one of the Spirit’s roles is to _____________ us.

Perhaps you’ve been driving along or doing dishes. Maybe you’ve been out on the football field or about to go to sleep. You feel the Spirit of God speaking to you.  
The lost person feels the tug of the Holy Spirit. He knows he’s a sinner, he knows doing wrong and needs to be saved. God’s Holy Spirit is gently but strongly speaking.

b. Through Sickness

Turn to Psalm 119:67. David confessed, “Before I was___________, I went astray.” (Psalm 119:67)

Sickness can be a messenger from God to tell us how temporal our life is. Sickness brings our thoughts into focus. We realize we’re not going to be on this earth forever.

c. Through sorrows

Through the loss of a loved one God speaks to our hearts. Perhaps when you went to the graveside of your mother you didn’t know the Lord. You thought, “I’ll never see my godly mother again unless I get saved.” Maybe God has spoken to you through the death of a child or some financial reverse. God speaks through sorrows.

d. Through sweetness

Whether you are saved or lost, God speaks through His goodness.

Or despisest thou the riches of His ____________ and ______________ and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?Romans 2:4

Do you recall a time when you felt the voice of God through His goodness?_______
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God will reprove by something so simple as the smile of a baby, the beauty of a flower, the glory of a sunset.

e. Through His servants

God has reproved the lost person. He loves them too much to let them go to hell without being reproved.

Maybe you heard a gospel message that deeply moved you. Someone witnessed to you or shared a Gospel tract. God speaks through His soul-winners. God sent a special messenger of love to you.

There’s not a person who has not been spoken to by the Holy Spirit. God has spoken to you, over and over again.

Truth #2 — Beware of Stubborn Rebellion.

“…reproved and hardeneth his neck.”

What does this look like? It’s saying “No” to this prompting of the Holy Spirit, jutting out your chin saying, “I will not do what God would have me do.”

There is more than one way to say “no.” Do any of these seem familiar?

a. Procrastination.

“One of these days I’m going to give my heart to the Lord. I’ll do it tomorrow.”

But God’s Word says (turn back just 2 chapters to Proverbs 27:1)

 “Boast not thyself of ______________, for thou knowest not what ___ _____ may bring forth”  

Dr. R. G. Lee once observed, “Tomorrow’s a time only found on the fool’s clock.” It never gets here.

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The story is told that a convocation of demons met together one time to cook up better schemes for damning mankind.

One demon said, “Let’s tell them there’s no God.” Another demon answered, “That’ll never work—the fact of God is so obvious, only a few would believe that.” 

“Well, then let’s tell them God isn’t a God of love.” 

“No—God’s handiwork, God’s love is shown everywhere.” 

“Well, let’s just tell them there’s no hope.” 

“No, the Gospel has been preached around the world!”

Then one crafty demon, known for his cunning, stood up and said, “I know what to do. Let’s tell them there is a God, that He’s a God of love, that He has made provision for people; that they need to be saved; they ought to be saved. But tell them just simply to postpone it.” 

Applause broke out.  “Yes!” they said. “We’ll get more people by procrastination than any other way.” People harden their neck by procrastination.

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b. Pride.  Turn to Proverbs 16:18

“Pride goeth before _______________, and a ___________ ________ before a fall.”

So many today are prideful. When God’s Holy Spirit says, “Come, accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and make it public,” the devil will come and sit next to you saying, “Hey, you’re going to make a fool of yourself. Don’t humiliate yourself. Don’t admit your need.” Pride will escort you to hell in chains forged on the anvil of a hard heart.

c. Pleasures of this world.

Turn now to 2 Timothy 3. The apostle Paul is preparing Timothy for what he will encounter in people in these “last days.” (Verse 1: “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.”)

Paul goes through a list of behaviors of people who do not know Christ:

2 “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of ______________ more than lovers of God;”

The lost person thinks, “If I come to Jesus, look what I’ll have to give up.” The pleasures of sin are real—but the Bible says they last only for a season.

If we’re honest with ourselves, each of us has stood at some crossroads in life and had to decide between on the one hand a worldly pleasure we knew was wrong  and on the other, what we knew our Father wanted us to choose.  Do you recall such a moment in your own life? What was your decision then? ________________ _______________________________________________________________________

Don’t get the idea that when you come to Jesus you give up something. The Bible also speaks of the pleasures of righteousness and being in God’s company:

• “At Thy right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
• “The Lord thy God is the sun and a shield, no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
• “God gives us richly all things to enjoy.”

Truth #3 — There Will Come a Time of Sudden Destruction

“…shall suddenly be destroyed.“

There comes a time when a person crosses the deadline. God will bring judgment. He is a God of love, but He is also a God of wrath.

a. It may come through delusion.

The destruction may be in your head. God will destroy your ability to think right. 
Turn to 2 Thessalonians 2 :11-12.

“For this cause ______ shall send them strong _____________that they should believe a ____ 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. ”

Who sent the delusion? ________. “Pastor, I thought God was here to teach us the truth. Do you mean God would delude a person? God wants people to believe the lie? Why would God send people strong delusion?”

Answer:  “12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had _______________ in ______________________.”

Normally we would rightly say that the opposite of truth is error.  In this passage here is where some “Digging Deeper” must occur.  The opposite of truth in this context is not error, it is sin!

A CLOSER LOOK AT TRUTH VERSUS SINGod spoke to them; God gave them truth over and over again. But they made their choice: they did not believe the truth, “but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”Here is the progression:—A person is faced with the truth  —They are often reproved  —They love not the truth  —They know if they receive the truth they’ll have to turn from their sin  —They have pleasure in unrighteousness  —They harden their neck  —They refuse the truth so they can embrace their sin,Then the opposite of truth here is unrighteousness. Because they chose sin over truth, God says, “All right, with your sin you will be given strong delusion.”  There may be the destruction of the mind through delusion.

b. It may come through desertion.

Did you know you can’t be saved just anytime you get ready to be saved? Don’t get the idea that one day you’ll just whistle and say, “God, come save me.”

Turn to John 6:44. Who is speaking? _______

“No man can ________ unto _____ except the ____________ which sent Me _________ him.”

How many people can be saved without the active work of the Holy Spirit? ______ Unless the Holy Spirit of God brings you under conviction, you’ll never be saved. It’s not preaching that puts you under conviction. The Holy Spirit must bring you under conviction.

The Bible teaches that you can so insult God, you can say no to the Holy Spirit so many times, God’s Holy Spirit will cease to work in your heart.

Turn to Romans chapter 1 for a moment.  Starting in verse 16 and following, how many times does it say “God gave them up”? ________. And verse 28 in enlarges on this point to say, “God gave them _____.”

We looked at Genesis 6:3 before (“My Spirit will not always strive with man“) for the truth that the Holy Spirit does the convicting. But look again.  Is there an expiration date on God’s willingness to call?_________

Truth #4: Past the Deadline, There Is a Settled Destiny

“…and that without remedy.”

No one dies and stands before God and asks God for a second chance. There’ll be no second chance.

a. Turn to Hebrews 9:27. How many times is it possible for a person to die? _____

b. After death, what occurs? ________________________”

c. Turn to Luke 16. Begin reading with verse 19, Jesus’ description of a rich man   who died.
In verse 22, the rich man died and was buried. What were his circumstances immediately after death? (v. 23) ________________________________________
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Whether this is literal or physical makes no difference. God describes the place called hell as having fire.

d. What did the rich man beg for? __________________________________________ 
God, through Abraham, reminded this one who had crossed God’s deadline,  “Son, just remember in your lifetime all of the things that happened, how good I was to you and you didn’t repent. Now there’s a great gulf fixed. Lazarus can’t come where you are and you can’t go to where he is [heaven].”

e. Who is telling this story? _____________

f. Is there anywhere in this story where God allows a second chance after physical death? _______________

Some say: “Well, I may land in hell, but I’ll behave real good and it’ll be my stepping stone into heaven.” Friend, hell is described as a “bottomless pit.” How could you use a bottomless pit as a stepping stone? How could you ever get out of a bottomless pit?

SUMMARY

• God loves you with an infinite love.
• He has spoken to you over and over again.
• He’s used Holy Spirit conviction, circumstances, and second chances.
• But only here in this life.
• He is speaking to you today.
• God says if you continue to harden your neck, you’ll be destroyed.
• Then there will be no second chance.
• It will be without remedy, without hope.

God reproves you because He loves you so much. He wants to save you today.

“What if I’ve crossed the deadline?”

If you call upon Him, you haven’t.

Anyone who wants to be saved can. The man who crosses the deadline has no desire to be saved. But if you have a desire to be saved, that’s because the Holy Spirit of God is still working in you. If you want to be saved, you can be saved.

“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Acts 2:21

If you were to show me one time, one place where anybody asked Jesus to save them and He didn’t, I’d close my Bible and never preach again. I promise you on the authority of the Word of God, He’ll save you today if you trust Him.

As you read this, you may be safe and secure—you gave your heart of Jesus long ago. But you know people who are not—people fear one day soon may be caught in the web described in Proverbs 29. We pray this study helps you show them how to secure a settled destiny—with Christ in heaven.

If you would like to hear this message in full, please call 1-800- L-O-V-E G-O-D (1-800-275-5683) and request CD #2037, “Crossing God’s Deadline.”

Proverbs 29 New Living Translation

Proverbs 29New Living Translation

29 Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism
    will suddenly be destroyed beyond recovery.

² When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice.
    But when the wicked are in power, they groan.

³ The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father,
    but if he hangs around with prostitutes, his wealth is wasted.

⁴ A just king gives stability to his nation,
    but one who demands bribes destroys it.

⁵ To flatter friends
    is to lay a trap for their feet.

⁶ Evil people are trapped by sin,
    but the righteous escape, shouting for joy.

⁷ The godly care about the rights of the poor;
    the wicked don’t care at all.

⁸ Mockers can get a whole town agitated,
    but the wise will calm anger.

⁹ If a wise person takes a fool to court,
    there will be ranting and ridicule but no satisfaction.

¹⁰ The bloodthirsty hate blameless people,
    but the upright seek to help them.^[a]

¹¹ Fools vent their anger,
    but the wise quietly hold it back.

¹² If a ruler pays attention to liars,
    all his advisers will be wicked.

¹³ The poor and the oppressor have this in common—
    the Lord gives sight to the eyes of both.

¹⁴ If a king judges the poor fairly,
    his throne will last forever.

¹⁵ To discipline a child produces wisdom,
    but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.

¹⁶ When the wicked are in authority, sin flourishes,
    but the godly will live to see their downfall.

¹⁷ Discipline your children, and they will give you peace of mind
    and will make your heart glad.

¹⁸ When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild.
    But whoever obeys the law is joyful.

¹⁹ Words alone will not discipline a servant;
    the words may be understood, but they are not heeded.

²⁰ There is more hope for a fool
    than for someone who speaks without thinking.

²¹ A servant pampered from childhood
    will become a rebel.

²² An angry person starts fights;
    a hot-tempered person commits all kinds of sin.

²³ Pride ends in humiliation,
    while humility brings honor.

²⁴ If you assist a thief, you only hurt yourself.
    You are sworn to tell the truth, but you dare not testify.

²⁵ Fearing people is a dangerous trap,
    but trusting the Lord means safety.

²⁶ Many seek the ruler’s favor,
    but justice comes from the Lord.

²⁷ The righteous despise the unjust;
    the wicked despise the godly.

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John MacArthur on Proverbs (Part 7) “Pursue your work”

May 21, 2013 – 1:05 am

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John MacArthur on Proverbs (Part 6) “Enjoy your wife and watch your words”

May 16, 2013 – 1:23 am

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John MacArthur on Proverbs (Part 5) “Control your body”

May 14, 2013 – 1:44 am

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John MacArthur on Proverbs (Part 4) “Bad company corrupts…”

May 9, 2013 – 1:10 am

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John MacArthur on Proverbs (Part 3) “Guard your mind and obey your parents!!”

May 7, 2013 – 1:43 am

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John MacArthur on Proverbs (Part 2) What does it mean to fear the Lord?

May 2, 2013 – 1:13 am

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The Wisdom of Solomon and the Book of Ecclesiastes

July 8, 2013 – 12:01 am

Ecclesiastes 6-8 | Solomon Turns Over a New Leaf Published on Oct 2, 2012 Calvary Chapel Spring Valley | Sunday Evening | September 30, 2012 | Pastor Derek Neider _____________________ I have written on the Book of Ecclesiastes and the subject of the meaning of our lives on several occasions on this blog. In this series on Ecclesiastes I […]By Everette Hatcher III | Posted in Current Events | Edit | Comments (0)

Why is Solomon so depressed in Ecclesiastes? by Brent Cunningham

July 3, 2013 – 7:00 am

Ecclesiastes 1 Published on Sep 4, 2012 Calvary Chapel Spring Valley | Sunday Evening | September 2, 2012 | Pastor Derek Neider _____________________ I have written on the Book of Ecclesiastes and the subject of the meaning of our lives on several occasions on this blog. In this series on Ecclesiastes I hope to show how […]By Everette Hatcher III | Posted in Current Events | Edit | Comments (0)

Robert Leroe on Ecclesiastes (Mentions Thomas Aquinas, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, King Solomon, King Rehoboam, Eugene Peterson, Chuck Swindoll, and John Newton.)

June 19, 2013 – 1:30 am

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Solomon was the author of Ecclesiastes

June 11, 2013 – 1:55 am

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Ecclesiastes: Solomon with Life in the Fast Lane

June 3, 2013 – 1:19 am

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Ecclesiastes a scathing and self-deprecating attack on hedonism and secular humanism by Solomon

May 31, 2013 – 1:17 am

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Solomon was right in his cynicism–unless……unless there is a God who created us and cares about us

May 22, 2013 – 1:34 am

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The Humanist takes on Solomon and the Book of Ecclesiastes

May 20, 2013 – 1:13 pm

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Tom Brady , Coldplay, Kansas, Solomon and the search for satisfaction (part 3)

December 23, 2011 – 11:12 am

Tom Brady “More than this…” Uploaded by EdenWorshipCenter on Jan 22, 2008 EWC sermon illustration showing a clip from the 2005 Tom Brady 60 minutes interview. _______________________ Tom Brady ESPN Interview Tom Brady has famous wife earned over 76 million dollars last year. However, has Brady found lasting satifaction in his life? It does not […]By Everette Hatcher III | Posted in Current Events | Edit | Comments (0)

Adrian Rogers on gambling

July 18, 2013 – 12:44 am

Adrian Rogers: How to Be a Child of a Happy Mother Published on Nov 13, 2012 Series: Fortifying Your Family (To read along turn on the annotations.) Adrian Rogers looks at the 5th commandment and the relationship of motherhood in the commandment to honor your father and mother, because the faith that doesn’t begin at home, […]By Everette Hatcher III | Posted in Adrian Rogers, Current Events | Edit | Comments (0)

Book of Ecclesiastes

July 17, 2013 – 1:40 am

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Adrian Rogers: Are fathers necessary?

July 16, 2013 – 12:43 am

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Tom Brady, Coldplay, Kansas, Solomon and the search for satisfaction (part 2)

December 22, 2011 – 11:56 am

Tom Brady “More than this…” Uploaded by EdenWorshipCenter on Jan 22, 2008 EWC sermon illustration showing a clip from the 2005 Tom Brady 60 minutes interview. To Download this video copy the URL to http://www.vixy.net ________________ Obviously from the video clip above, Tom Brady has realized that even though he has won many Super Bowls […]

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After Life – Season 3 Episode 1 Recap & Review

14/01/2022 by Greg Wheeler

Zebra Crossing

Episode 1 of After Life Season 3 begins with Emma watching old videos of Tony and Lisa. He’s been keeping her at arm’s length and she’s trying desperately connect with him. That’s only exacerbated by Matt inviting Tony over to his house that night. He’s no exactly happy about it, making his disdain known. “What a sh*t day already,” He sighs.

That sh*t day extends to Tony’s journalist gig too, which sees him visit Penny, a self-published author. She’s also a medium in her free time too and the novel’s story is… interesting, to say the least.

On the way back home, Tony goes to cross the zebra crossing and a car doesn’t bother stopping. This, I may add, is a real pet peeve many of us Brits have! Anyway, Tony bemoans not having a brick so he can smash through their back window.

At the office, Kath arrives with Colin, who makes it quite clear that they’re not an item, on account of his face. It’s a nice little quip, and it breaks up Tony’s touching moments with Anne at the graveyard, which follows soon after.

Tony admits he’s stuck in two minds; one knows Lisa died and there’s no coming back. The other, comes from feeling Lisa’s energy and lingering presence, guiding him through life. This explains his indecisiveness in embracing his ties with Emma.

The dinner goes ahead that night, with Matt and Jill joined by Emma and Tony. It’s incredibly awkward, conversation is stifled and when Lisa’s painting is brought up, everything is laid out on the table.

Tony eventually leaves, being sure to smash a car window with the houseplant he’s given by Matt as a present. In his absence, Emma tries to grapple with the fact she’s always going to be second-best to Lisa.

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The Episode Review

After Life returns with a solid opening chapter, one that reintroduces all of our characters, adds a few new jokes and manages to continue Tony’s journey to finding his purpose post-Lisa.

This show has always been excellent at juggling dark comedy with poignant drama and this episode is no exception. Ricky Gervais is great in this role and some of the observational comedy – like the zebra crossing gag – is completely on the money and brilliantly true to life.

It looks like we’ve got quite the treat in store for us this season!

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episodes will be released on January 14th.

Just Three Things. Written for #Afterlife by Ricky Gervais and Andy Burrows

January 27, 2022

Ricky Gervais

London, W1F 0LE
UK

Dear Ricky,

Tony’s life was filled with laughter when Lisa was alive. Take a look at the beginning of episode 1 of season 3:

( Tony and Lisa laughing ) Lisa: They do make it look easy, don’t they, on the telly? 

Tony: On the Olympics? 

Lisa: Yeah. 

Tony: Yeah. I don’t think you’ll make it this year. 

Lisa: No? 

Tony: No. 

Lisa: Oh God. Oh my God! 

Tony: Yeah.

Lisa: We’re just going around.

Tony: People are looking. 

Lisa: They’re not! 

Tony: People are looking at me and going, “Aw.” 

Lisa: No, they’re looking at me and going, “Aw.” 

Tony: They’re going, “Look at him. He’s trying to help her, but she’s…” Lisa: He’s not trying to help her! ( Tony laughs ) He’s just laughing at her and filming her! That’s not helping!

Probing the area of LAUGHTER was one of Solomon’s first places to start. In Ecclesiastes 2:2 he starts this quest but he concludes it is not productive to be laughing the whole time and not considering the serious issues of life. “I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?” (2:2).   Then Solomon  asserted the nihilistic statement in Ecclesiastes 2:17: “So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”

Keith Krell in his article, “3. Trivial Pursuits (Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:26),“ notes:

What would it take to make you happy? What if you had the wealth of Bill Gates or Donald Trump? Would this make you happy? What if you had the success of Oprah or Martha Stewart? Do you think you could be happy? What if you had the brains of Carl Sagan or Stephen Hawking? Do you think you could be happy? Let me guess. Your answer is, “I don’t know, but I’d sure like to give it a try.”

A few people have been able to possess wealth, success, and intelligence just as I described. Solomon, the third king of Israel, was one of them. In some ways he had everything. He had a thousand wives and concubines, enormous wealth, international respect, and unparalleled wisdom. What he didn’t always have, however, was a reason for living. He didn’t always have happiness. He fits the pattern of the highly gifted, extremely ambitious person who climbs the ladder of success—only to contemplate jumping off once he’s reached the top.³⁹

In the first eleven verses of Ecclesiastes chapter one, Solomon examined three broad categories in his search for the key to life: human history, physical nature, and human nature. Now in 1:12-2:26, he narrows his search to his own personal experience.⁴⁰ In a sense he takes us on his own spiritual sojourn as he searches for satisfaction in life. In the memoirs that follow Solomon informs us that he sought satisfaction in four broad categories, but wound up empty-handed.

• Humor (2:2). Solomon writes, “I said to myself, ‘Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself.’ And behold, it too was futility. I said of laughter, ‘It is madness,’ and of pleasure, ‘What does it accomplish?’”⁵⁷ Solomon mocks “laughter” as “madness.” I’m not surprised he labeled it “madness.” Do you really think the leading comedians of our day are sincerely satisfied with life? Has humor given them an inside track on human happiness? Hardly.⁵⁸It is easy to seek to lose ourselves in comedy and entertainment whether it is in a theater, in front of our TV, or on-line. Although it can seem like a great escape, it leaves us empty in the end.

Solomon’s experiment was a search for meaning to life “under the sun.” Then in last few words in the Book of Ecclesiastes he looks above the sun and brings God back into the picture: “The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.”_____

The answer to find meaning in life is found in putting your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. The Bible is true from cover to cover and can be trusted.

Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher, everettehatcher@gmail.com, http://www.thedailyhatch.org, cell ph 501-920-5733, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002

PS: Try out the film series HOW SHOULD WE THEN LIVE? by Francis Schaeffer on You Tube. It shows how Humanism has been to blame for many of the problems in the western world in the 
past and the alternative worldview of Biblical Christianity.

Francis Schaeffer pictured above

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