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I’m still waiting for an over-the-counter learning aid, though. Man, I’d love to be able to go to the pharmacy and pick up a safe, effective, no-prescription thingie to help me better learn Aramaic . . . or canon law . . . or calculus . . . or linguistic theory . . . or history . . . or . . .
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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I would go for being up and alert for a few days straight.
How about a pill for Spanish, or one for Accounting? You just wash ’em down with a glass of water and “boom!”, instant knowledege! Didn’t I see something like this on the Jetsons?
Brad, it’s called cocaine. There are, unfortunately, some side-effects.
I need a little something to re-ignite my power of memory (or a rechargeable memory!)…a few days ago my Mother had to remind me that it is my birthday next week…and then I asked “er,how old will I be, Mum ?”.
Worse still, is that my Dad’s birthday is the day after mine and the penny still didn’t drop even though I went out present buying for him last week!
God Bless.