Marco writes: "Most of us on the eastern part of the U.S, especially the people from the following seven-states: Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey and Virginia are aware of the Big Game and if you have been following the News, it’s currently at $325 million, the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, which before the next drawing could go over the $363 million record which was split by two winners in 2000.
Now let's just say you were the lucky 1 in 76 million to hit the jackpot, what would do with that money? Even if you choose to take the cash option which is value at $174 million, that is before the three people (I. R. S), who I’ve never messed with take their one third share plus the 2% that goes to the place where you’ve purchased the ticket, a lot of money would remains.
What would you do and would you be psychologically prepared to handle that kind of money? Personally I would take the cash option since I don’t like the 26 years deal. I will be content even if it was just $1million (No taxes of course) and the rest… Oh well can anyone say insane asylum?"

Drlove writes: "Pure morality is an illusion; it does not exist. No man on earth can live a pure righteous life, for we are all sinners and mortals. Each one of us has a dirty bag under our beds. The clergyman who is supposed to ethically right at all time is not immune to immorality.
If you have been paying attention to the Catholic Church Sex Scandals, you would know where I intend to go. Some say: the priesthood clan was founded by some happy men (gays). It’s nothing new. They are accustomed to be sleeping with men and disobey God’s orders: A man must not lie with another man.

Do you think that the Pope should be blamed for those genital happy priests who prey on young boys since he is their leader and God’s surrogate on earth according to the Catholics?
Do you think that the priesthood should be abolished or revised?
Should the priest be allowed to marry?
Is the Catholic Church responsible for the ordeal cause to those young boys?"

TheBlackKnight writes: "The book of Urantia tells us about a cosmic struggle between two forces that pretty much resemble the story of god and Satan; it even uses names like Gabriel, Michael, and Uriel etc. In addition, we find similar stories in the sacred books of the Chaldean, a pre-Christian culture that tells us about the god Marduk, fighting the serpent Tiamat, striking him with the disk of light. Tiamat’s body was buried in what is now known as the Earth. The serpent lies dormant but not dead. All these stories have one thing in common, one entity became rebellious, and was cast out of heaven, and he and his followers fled, and are being fought by the legitimate forces of good. Somehow, the earth and its inhabitants end up in the middle.
My inquiring mind is puzzled, what if we were dealing with extra-terrestrial beings that colonized the earth a long time ago?
We do find pictures of what seems to be UFOs in all the cultures around the world; closer to home, the book of Ezechiel has so many mentions of what a modern mind will call a UFO’s description: And I looked and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst or the fire… "

TheBlackKnight writes: "As humans, we always believe what the mind is conditioned to believe. We have no problems believing that a man was swallowed by a whale, and then was spitted alive by the same whale on some distant shore. We don’t question how a man can walk on water or change water into wine, because the bible said so. No matter how far fetch something is, we believe in it, if we are given a reason to do so, or if our minds were conditioned to believe it. Science on the other hand, does not believe in anything that it cannot dissect, study, categorized and label. Science needs references, analogies, and tangible proofs. The human mind is so controversial.

A few years ago, with my very inquisitive, open and scientific mind, I went to Haiti on a quest: Finding the truth about this phenomenon they call voodoo. My trip took me to some remote places on this wonderful island of ours, and my conception of the world was changed forever. My inquisitive mind was satisfied to the fullest; my scientific mind however, experienced a shock that I will never recover from. I have seen things that will boggle the rational mind, people changing into animals, flying, telling me stuff about my life and myself that no one but me knew, and making prediction that did come true. I was taken to places that I do not believe are on this god giving earth. I spoke to spirits that are more human than you and me, kind, generous, and strong believers of the true god of love. The mystical faith of Haiti, apparently, what is practiced in Haiti today is a black art that has very little to do with real voodoo. I have also seen and fought some real “demons” and I don’t mean the demons referred in the bible. Those entities are spirits of a denser world and their conception of life is different than ours."

Panoramix writes: "I was approached by an American co-worker one time and she told me that she heard about the reste-avec situation in Haiti and how the children were being abused. The "Reste-Avec" scheme is part of Haiti's culture and when viewed from the outside it appears to be something abominable. The reste-avec (staying-with) is a child that the middle/upper class of Haiti uses as a servant in exchange for food, clothing and schooling. The foods they get are often the left over, the clothes are used clothes that don’t fit sometimes and for the education they could spend a lifetime in those school and they still won't know how to read. To the U.S standards this would be classified as child abuse, child labor violations and immoral. The parents of the reste-avec live in rural areas of Haiti and they have to choose between starvation and sending off their child as a reste-avec. They use the reste-avec to fetch water, run errands, clean the house, the courtyard, the car etc... . The daily task loads are a lot for a child to handle. But they worked as hard or harder when they were with their parents and they never had left over to eat, used clothes to wear and they never sat in a so called, classroom. We took a child one time; her name was Rose, from Thomazeau (one of Haiti's province). She had the red hair and the big belly (signs of malnutrition). It took about a year for the red hair to dissappear; the belly was gone in a few months. This is one subject of Haitian culture that is not often discussed. Of course we are not the only nation that does it, but that's just an excuse to stick to our old ways. I'd like to know the KC community's response on this subject, I would post a poll if I could but your comments will do. Is the "Reste-Avec" practice immoral?"

Panoramix writes: "Growing up in Haiti, very often I've heard, how a woman or a man would use a vodou love spell to attract someone they want as their spouse. For example Richard did not want anything to do with Chantal (fictitious characters) . Many times he bragged about Chantal being a one night stand and he'll never marry a girl like that. Three weeks later they are getting married and Chantal was the best thing that ever happened to Richard. Does the love spell exist? Have you ever seen it happened in real life? I have and I'm not sure what to make of it."

Panoramix writes: "This is an extract from an article posted on Haitipressnetwork.com (HPN) on 4/4/02.
"Le ministre Myrto Célestin Saurel a fait savoir que d’ici le mois prochain, une liste d’écoles non autorisées et dont les candidats n’ont pas été validés par le Ministère de l’éducation nationale sera publiée. Elle a signalé que seulement environ quatre-vingts autorisations de fonctionnement ont été délivrées à des établissements scolaires en règle avec le MENJS."
This announcement seems to be on the same line of thought with this article "Haiti’s Educational System.” Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 where it mentioned “If a school receives an "F" for 3 consecutives years, they need to change their license from a school license to a learning center, thus they won't be able to send their students to the State's " Certificat Primaire" exam. This should give schools … in Haiti an incentive to better educate the students in order to keep their license.”"