What you are looking at are the effects of a disease called Podoconiosis. “Podoconiosis (”dust in the feet’) presents as bilateral asymmetrical swelling of the feet and lower legs. It is seen in susceptible families of bare-footed farmers in well-defined fertile volcanic highland zones of Africa, Central and South America, and Indonesia, and also in the lowlands […]
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Do Us All A Favor And Just Be Reasonable
Brian Dodd on September 17, 2011 in Church Leadership, Generosity
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw What Shaw is saying is that a reasonable man sees the world changing, doesn’t change his core beliefs, but will change his methodology […]