https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/2012/where-the-swiss-place-their-hopes thoughts and family activities in an industrial suburb Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:06:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.7 https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/2012/where-the-swiss-place-their-hopes#comment-167453 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:06:10 +0000 http://www.morbidcornflakes.ch/thduggies_blog/?p=545#comment-167453 That’s an interesting point, and begs the question: can hope be grounded in anything non-spiritual?

]]> https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/2012/where-the-swiss-place-their-hopes#comment-167191 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:32:59 +0000 http://www.morbidcornflakes.ch/thduggies_blog/?p=545#comment-167191 Well, if you add together those who hope in God, those whose hope is in Jesus Christ, those who consider the Dalai Lama to be divine, and those who see Barack Obama as some sort of messiah — not to mention those who worship the self above all — and maybe throw in some vestige of ancestor worship along with the worship of youth and good looks, and you have a portrait of a population with a very spiritual ground of hope!

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