Depends on the exact circumstances and how your friend honestly feels about it; but I would say that generally it is never okay.

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Look at MTV or Good Morning America
and watch the images and ideas flash past in a blur of impressionistic
appetizers. No, there is not much room on TV for complexity. You can
partake of our daily banquet without drawing on any intellectual
resources; without either physical or moral discipline. We require
nothing of you; only that you watch; or say that you were watching if Mr. Nielsen's representative should call. And gradually, it must be said, we are beginning

to make our mark on the American psyche. We have actually convinced
ourselves that slogans will save us. "Shoot up if you must; but use a
clean needle." "Enjoy sex whenever with whomever you wish; but wear a
condom."

No. The answer is no. Not no because it isn't cool or smart or because you might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward — but
no, because it's wrong. Because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of
rational human beings trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval
slime by searching for truth and moral absolutes. In the place of Truth
we have discovered facts; for moral absolutes we have substituted moral
ambiguity. We now communicate with everyone and say absolutely nothing.
We have reconstructed the Tower of Babel and it is a television
antenna. A thousand voices producing a daily parody of democracy; in
which everyone's opinion is afforded equal weight, regardless of
substance or merit. Indeed, it can even be argued that opinions of real
weight tend to sink with barely a trace of television's ocean
banalities.

Our society finds Truth too strong a medicine to digest
undiluted. In its purest form Truth is not a polite tap on the
shoulder; it is a hallowing reproach.

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

The sheer brilliance of the Ten Commandments is that they
codify, in a handful of words, acceptable human behavior. Not just for
then or now but for all time. Language evolves, power shifts from
nation to nation, messages are transmitted with the speed of light, man
erases one frontier after another; and yet we and our behavior, and the
Commandments which govern that behavior, remain the same. The tension
between those Commandments and our baser instincts provide the grist
for journalism's daily mill. What a huge, gaping void there would be in
our informational flow and in our entertainment without routine
violation of the Sixth Commandment. Thou shalt not murder.

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Great question.  I'll try to stick to ten.

1 - My face as I'm falling out of a window at age 1.

2 - Holding my baby sister for the first time.

3 - My sister and I holding our cat Kitty in Vienna.

4 - My baptism (with my parents and Maj in the background).

5 - Playing football at Tara.

6 - In college with my BSU friends.

7 - At my new job at Fairfax Hospital picking up my new kitten Pounce from the box full of kittens.

8 - Offloading a patient from our helicopter at the hospital.

9-12 or so - One shot with each significant girlfriend.

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I think every case must be judged individually.  As long as both parties are 19 or older, and they are both of sound mind, no age difference is too much.

And what exactly is large?  I usually date woman 8-16 years younger than myself, and don't think it has ever been a problem or "wrong".

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Not at all.  I believe it is necessary for proper rearing (no pun intended).

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It is purely a Hallmark holiday, created by companies to make $.
   

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I don't think it has changed me that much, especially since I basically haven't blogged much for over a year now.

The only thing I hope it used to do, and will continue to do if I keep at it, is to keep what little writing skills I have slightly honed.

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I don't get sick very often, but I just got over a dozy of something.  (Well, not "just", as I am finally finishing and posting this a month and a half later.)

I think it was just a cold, with perhaps a bit of flu and my normally mild seasonal allergies thrown in, but I was almost completely out of it for about 36 hours.

I was off Super Bowl weekend, and was really looking forward to the game.  While not a fan of either team (I actually pretty much "hate" both teams involved this year, the New York Giants and the New England Patriots.), I just love all things football.  Growing up, football consumed much of my life.  I watched it every weekend, mainly the NFL, but a fair amount of college, and even occasional High School, USFL, and Arena League games.  I played football almost every day back in grade school thru high school.  I collected football cards.  I played tabletop paper football at lunch every day in the cafeteria.  I still own and play a handheld Mattel Electronic Football II game.  More recently, up until about 7 years ago I got together with friends to play touch or tackle football almost every Sunday.  And I was addicted to fantasy football for about ten years, playing it back when we had to use pencil and paper and do all the scores by hand.  But I digress.....

So my sister was throwing a little Super Bowl party, and I was really looking forward to that as much as the game itself.  I love Super Bowl Party food.  Chips, chili, dips, soda, hot dogs; I'm drooling just writing about it.  I had gone out the day before and bought a bunch of stuff for her party, just to make sure she had my favorites on hand.

I had been feeling a little under the weather (what does above the weather feel like?) for a day or so, had the sniffles at work on Thursday.  Friday and Saturday got worse, as I was becoming more and more congested.  I  took some Nyquil on Saturday night, which always work great for me, hoping to knock the cold out and sleep it off.  Sunday was just a horribly awful day for me though.  Whatever congestion I had Saturday tripled by Sunday afternoon.  I literally could not drag myself out of bed on Sunday.  Not only was I incredibly congested and have a horrible headache, but I was amazingly weak and drowsy.  And my mind wasn't working very well at all.  I spent about 36 hours in a state of semi-consciousness.  I couldn't sleep well, as I had to blow my nose every 60 seconds, and the sleep I did get was short bits of "am I dreaming or is this real?"  I'd jerk myself awake, reacting to these strange dreams.  I'd hear the phones ring, and would say hello, but the phones were still several feet away, unanswered..  I'd occasionally have moments where I was conscious enough to know that I should return the phone calls, as perhaps my family and friends were worried about me.  But I could not get my arms and legs to move.  Seriously, I almost feel as if I was drugged.  It was a pretty surreal 36 or so hours.

I was awake enough to use my remotes to turn the game on that evening, and I caught bits and pieces of it.  But is was more like the Stuper Bowl for me.

I could probably drag this out into three full size entries someday, but, for now, I'll just list them.

1 - Discovering and fulfilling God's purposes for my life.

2 - Having a career/job/focus on helping others.

3 - Getting my crap stuff organized.

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