U.S. Economy Grinds to Halt as Nation Realizes Money Just a Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion
The Onion, February 16, 2010
WASHINGTON--The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct.
What began as a routine report before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday ended with Bernanke passionately disavowing the entire concept of currency, and negating in an instant the very foundation of the world's largest economy.
"Though raising interest rates is unlikely at the moment, the Fed will of course act appropriately if we…if we…" said Bernanke, who then paused for a moment, looked down at his prepared statement, and shook his head in utter disbelief. "You know what? It doesn't matter. None of this--this so-called 'money'--really matters at all."
"It's just an illusion," a wide-eyed Bernanke added as he removed bills from his wallet and slowly spread them out before him. "Just look at it: Meaningless pieces of paper with numbers printed on them. Worthless."
According to witnesses, Finance Committee members sat in thunderstruck silence for several moments until Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) finally shouted out, "Oh my God, he's right. It's all a mirage. All of it--the money, our whole economy--it's all a lie!"
Screams then filled the Senate Chamber as lawmakers and members of the press ran for the exits, leaving in their wake aisles littered with the remains of torn currency.
As news of the nation's collectively held delusion spread, the economy ground to a halt, with dumbfounded citizens everywhere walking out on their jobs as they contemplated the little green drawings of buildings and dead white men they once used to measure their adequacy and importance as human beings.
At the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday morning's opening bell echoed across a silent floor as the few traders who arrived for work out of habit looked up blankly at the meaningless scrolling numbers on the flashing screens above.
"I've spent 25 years in this room yelling 'Buy, buy! Sell, sell!' and for what?" longtime trader Michael Palermo said. "All I've done is move arbitrary designations of wealth from one column to another, wasting my life chasing this unattainable hallucination of wealth."
"What a cruel cosmic joke," he added. "I'm going home to hug my daughter."
Sources at the White House said President Obama was "still trying to get his head around all this" and was in seclusion with his coin collection, muttering "it's just metal, it's just metal" over and over again.
"The president will be making a statement very soon," press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters. "At the moment, though, his mind is just too blown to comment."
A few U.S. banks have remained open, though most teller windows are unmanned due to a lack of interest in transactions involving mere scraps of paper or, worse, decimal points and computer data signifying mere scraps of paper. At a Bank of America branch in Spokane, WA, curious former customers wandered aimlessly through a large empty vault, while several would-be robbers of a Chase bank in Columbus, OH reportedly put their guns down and exited the building hand in hand with security guards, laughing over the inherent absurdity of the idea of $100 bills.
Likewise, the real estate industry has all but vanished, with mortgage lenders seeing no reason to stop people from reclaiming their foreclosed-upon homes.
"I don't even know what we were thinking in the first place," said former banker Nathan Collins of Brandon, MS, as he jimmyed open a door to allow a single mother and her five children to move back into their house. "A bunch of people sign a bunch of papers, and now this family has no place to live? That's just plain ludicrous."
The realization that money is nothing more than an elaborate head game seems to have penetrated the entire country: In Wilmington, DE, for instance, a collection agent reportedly broke down in joyful sobs when he informed a woman on the other end of the phone that he had absolutely no reason to harass her anymore, as her Discover Card debt was no longer comprehensible.
For some Americans, the fog of disbelief surrounding the nation's epiphany has begun to lift, with many building new lives free from the illusion of money.
"It's back to basics for me," Bernard Polk of Waverly, OH said. "I'm going to till the soil for my own sustenance and get anything else I need by bartering. If I want milk, I'll pay for it in tomatoes. If need a new hoe, I'll pay for it in lettuce."
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Now this is interesting!
If you like to hear something as interesting as
"The Earth is not flat" was once considered crazy
but people risked their lives for it....
then please watch
http://freehovind.com/watch-_6814048597272982882
He did his homework well!
"The Earth is not flat" was once considered crazy
but people risked their lives for it....
then please watch
http://freehovind.com/watch-_6814048597272982882
He did his homework well!
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Precious health ... and how to get and keep it naturally
Today here is something amazing about health and natural ways to keep and /or get it...
Just click on the link, or select, copy and then past it in the internet site space
Breussbook to read
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=dd1_eXnrrGQC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=Gustav+Freiherr+von+Pohl&source=bl&ots=WJ_0h60MUc&sig=SXmC3LnT9O1rI7iXa0gBL2FeGas&hl=en&ei=zC8bSsquLd3MjAfWr-XqDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#v=onepage&q=Gustav%20Freiherr%20von%20Pohl&f=false
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http://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http://www.fitnessthroughfasting.com/images/my-fasting-testimony-21662.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.fitnessthroughfasting.com/my-fasting-testimony.html&h=185&w=292&sz=14&tbnid=5V2vEqPR5EQM2M:&tbnh=73&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3DTom%2BCoghill&usg=__cjFQGvOwKIlscgJuDsEJ1LruDAE=&ei=-BZ7S5ChOMaq4QaX75C4Cg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=5&ct=image&ved=0CB8Q9QEwBA
http://www.fasting.ws/juice-fasting/featured/detox-retreat-asia
http://www.fasting.ws/juice-fasting/make-healthy-juice-recipes/heavy-heavy-metal-detoxification-with-cilantro-coriander
Have a good weekend, love to hear from you....
Manuela
Just click on the link, or select, copy and then past it in the internet site space
Breussbook to read
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=dd1_eXnrrGQC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=Gustav+Freiherr+von+Pohl&source=bl&ots=WJ_0h60MUc&sig=SXmC3LnT9O1rI7iXa0gBL2FeGas&hl=en&ei=zC8bSsquLd3MjAfWr-XqDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#v=onepage&q=Gustav%20Freiherr%20von%20Pohl&f=false
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http://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http://www.fitnessthroughfasting.com/images/my-fasting-testimony-21662.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.fitnessthroughfasting.com/my-fasting-testimony.html&h=185&w=292&sz=14&tbnid=5V2vEqPR5EQM2M:&tbnh=73&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3DTom%2BCoghill&usg=__cjFQGvOwKIlscgJuDsEJ1LruDAE=&ei=-BZ7S5ChOMaq4QaX75C4Cg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=5&ct=image&ved=0CB8Q9QEwBA
http://www.fasting.ws/juice-fasting/featured/detox-retreat-asia
http://www.fasting.ws/juice-fasting/make-healthy-juice-recipes/heavy-heavy-metal-detoxification-with-cilantro-coriander
Have a good weekend, love to hear from you....
Manuela
Thursday, 18 February 2010
They said it couldn´t be done, but he did it....
"Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'"—Jim Rohn
Boy, 7, raises $160,000 for Haiti appeal
CNN, January 25, 2010
He's no Wyclef Jean or George Clooney, but that hasn't stopped seven-year-old Charlie Simpson from raising more than £100,000 ($161,000) for the Haiti earthquake.
Simpson from Fulham, west London had hoped to raise just £500 for UNICEF's earthquake appeal by cycling eight kilometers (five miles)around a local park.
"My name is Charlie Simpson. I want to do a sponsored bike ride for Haiti because there was a big earthquake and loads of people have lost their lives," said Simpson on his JustGiving page, a fundraising site which launched his efforts.
"I want to make some money to buy food, water and tents for everyone in Haiti," he said.
And with that simple call, messages of support flooded the site.
"Such a big heart for a young boy, you're a little star!" wrote one supporter. "Well done Charlie. A real celebrity," said another.
More donations began pouring in after the story caught the attention of the British media—with many cheering Simpson on towards the £100,000 mark.
Even British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is spreading the message. His "Downing Street" Twitter alias said: "Amazed by response to the great fundraising efforts of 7 yr old Charlie Simpson for the people of Haiti."
David Bull, UNICEF UK executive director described Simpson's efforts as "very bold and innovative."
"It shows he connects with and not only understands what children his own age must be going through in Haiti," Bull said in a press statement.
"The little seed—his idea—that he has planted has grown rapidly and his is a place well deserved in the humanitarian world.
"On behalf of the many children in Haiti, I thank Charlie for his effort."
Haitian doctor takes 100 patients into his home
Mike Melia, Associated Press, January 16, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--It wasn't long after Tuesday's earthquake leveled nearly all of the houses next to Claude Surena's that neighbors started showing up at his doorstep.
For years, the 59-year old pediatrician had treated the sick at his two-story hillside home near the center of the Haitian capital.
Suddenly, he was running a triage center, treating more than 100 victims on his shaded, leafy patio with food and supplies salvaged from ruined homes.
His undamaged house provides at least a minimum level of comfort away from the devastation--even for the dying--while thousands of others in the city lie in the dirt under a merciless sun waiting for attention from a handful of doctors.
"I have to thank whoever brought me," said Steve Julien, who says the last thing he remembers before he blacked out was rescue workers calling his name as they dug through the rubble of his house.
When he woke up, he was lying on a mattress inside Surena's soothing oasis.
"It was a blessing from God my house is safe," he said. "We at least have been able to do something for everyone."
The patients show physical and emotional wounds from having their homes collapse on them. Julien, 48, is among the least severely injured, with only a few scrapes and a sore body. Others have compound fractures and festering wounds.
Surena said at least 10 patients are in critical need of more substantial help.
The injured sing Christian hymns as they huddle close together beneath sheets strung up as tents, but the earthquake still haunts them. Aftershocks rattled the city as recently as Friday morning.
"Sometimes they just start crying. We still get some movement," said Surena, who is also the local district chairman for Haiti's disaster relief agency.
The conditions at his home are far from ideal. Plastic buckets serve as toilets, and for some patients Surena can do little more than change dressings on infected wounds. But they are better off then many in Port-au-Prince, the capital city of 3 million people.
The patients say they know Surena is doing his best.
Meanwhile, he keeps everyone at his house because they have nowhere else to go.
He sent three patients in urgent need of surgery to a hospital on the airport road Thursday, but he took them back in after they were refused admission.
"They would have left their bodies on the street," Surena said.
Boy, 7, raises $160,000 for Haiti appeal
CNN, January 25, 2010
He's no Wyclef Jean or George Clooney, but that hasn't stopped seven-year-old Charlie Simpson from raising more than £100,000 ($161,000) for the Haiti earthquake.
Simpson from Fulham, west London had hoped to raise just £500 for UNICEF's earthquake appeal by cycling eight kilometers (five miles)around a local park.
"My name is Charlie Simpson. I want to do a sponsored bike ride for Haiti because there was a big earthquake and loads of people have lost their lives," said Simpson on his JustGiving page, a fundraising site which launched his efforts.
"I want to make some money to buy food, water and tents for everyone in Haiti," he said.
And with that simple call, messages of support flooded the site.
"Such a big heart for a young boy, you're a little star!" wrote one supporter. "Well done Charlie. A real celebrity," said another.
More donations began pouring in after the story caught the attention of the British media—with many cheering Simpson on towards the £100,000 mark.
Even British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is spreading the message. His "Downing Street" Twitter alias said: "Amazed by response to the great fundraising efforts of 7 yr old Charlie Simpson for the people of Haiti."
David Bull, UNICEF UK executive director described Simpson's efforts as "very bold and innovative."
"It shows he connects with and not only understands what children his own age must be going through in Haiti," Bull said in a press statement.
"The little seed—his idea—that he has planted has grown rapidly and his is a place well deserved in the humanitarian world.
"On behalf of the many children in Haiti, I thank Charlie for his effort."
Haitian doctor takes 100 patients into his home
Mike Melia, Associated Press, January 16, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--It wasn't long after Tuesday's earthquake leveled nearly all of the houses next to Claude Surena's that neighbors started showing up at his doorstep.
For years, the 59-year old pediatrician had treated the sick at his two-story hillside home near the center of the Haitian capital.
Suddenly, he was running a triage center, treating more than 100 victims on his shaded, leafy patio with food and supplies salvaged from ruined homes.
His undamaged house provides at least a minimum level of comfort away from the devastation--even for the dying--while thousands of others in the city lie in the dirt under a merciless sun waiting for attention from a handful of doctors.
"I have to thank whoever brought me," said Steve Julien, who says the last thing he remembers before he blacked out was rescue workers calling his name as they dug through the rubble of his house.
When he woke up, he was lying on a mattress inside Surena's soothing oasis.
"It was a blessing from God my house is safe," he said. "We at least have been able to do something for everyone."
The patients show physical and emotional wounds from having their homes collapse on them. Julien, 48, is among the least severely injured, with only a few scrapes and a sore body. Others have compound fractures and festering wounds.
Surena said at least 10 patients are in critical need of more substantial help.
The injured sing Christian hymns as they huddle close together beneath sheets strung up as tents, but the earthquake still haunts them. Aftershocks rattled the city as recently as Friday morning.
"Sometimes they just start crying. We still get some movement," said Surena, who is also the local district chairman for Haiti's disaster relief agency.
The conditions at his home are far from ideal. Plastic buckets serve as toilets, and for some patients Surena can do little more than change dressings on infected wounds. But they are better off then many in Port-au-Prince, the capital city of 3 million people.
The patients say they know Surena is doing his best.
Meanwhile, he keeps everyone at his house because they have nowhere else to go.
He sent three patients in urgent need of surgery to a hospital on the airport road Thursday, but he took them back in after they were refused admission.
"They would have left their bodies on the street," Surena said.
What are we going do about it?
Homeless people dying in the cold Northern parts of the world, I read again,
and prayed for them, and then remembered how Abbé Pierre, a well loved man who motivated people after the 2. world war to help those less fortunate than others, to share what they could do without. It was also a cold winter, and he told people via Radio to look outside their houses and if they see someone outside in the cold, to share with them a jacket, or blanket, that they didn´t need, or bring a cup of hot soup etc, and people did! It started the Emmaus movement, which collected from those who had more than they needed to give to those who were in need.
That would be a solution.... like in the wonderful movie: "Pay it forward".
If each of us gives a little we can do a lot!
Just look around, where there are people, there is always an opportunity for
kindness.
And even if it is just a smile or a kind word, a listening ear, or a phone call, we all can make a difference for someone.
"A little bit of love and caring goes a long, long way!"
So if we see someone in need, what are we going to do about it?
We often feel sorry, and /or complain about these problems, but "what are we going to do about it?" We don´t have to be helpless victims, we CAN do SOMETHING...
Even a prayer for someone can change a lot! So what are we waiting for?
Let´s do it! It is more blessed to give than to receive, and you never loose by giving....
and prayed for them, and then remembered how Abbé Pierre, a well loved man who motivated people after the 2. world war to help those less fortunate than others, to share what they could do without. It was also a cold winter, and he told people via Radio to look outside their houses and if they see someone outside in the cold, to share with them a jacket, or blanket, that they didn´t need, or bring a cup of hot soup etc, and people did! It started the Emmaus movement, which collected from those who had more than they needed to give to those who were in need.
That would be a solution.... like in the wonderful movie: "Pay it forward".
If each of us gives a little we can do a lot!
Just look around, where there are people, there is always an opportunity for
kindness.
And even if it is just a smile or a kind word, a listening ear, or a phone call, we all can make a difference for someone.
"A little bit of love and caring goes a long, long way!"
So if we see someone in need, what are we going to do about it?
We often feel sorry, and /or complain about these problems, but "what are we going to do about it?" We don´t have to be helpless victims, we CAN do SOMETHING...
Even a prayer for someone can change a lot! So what are we waiting for?
Let´s do it! It is more blessed to give than to receive, and you never loose by giving....
Saturday, 13 February 2010
St. Valentine and Real Love
Every February 14, for about 1700 years, people have remembered St Valentine, a man who died because he was in love.
He discovered a unique type of love. A love so exciting, so powerful, so overwhelming as to make the romance of Romeo and Juliet look like puppy love, and the affairs of Josephine and Napoleon, Anthony and Cleopatra, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor look second rate.
From the moment he became a Christian until he was murdered, the threat of death and terrifying torture dangled over his neck every day. But nothing could stop him. He was in love. With innocent Christians suffering unspeakable horrors, dying like flies around him, he was unfazed by the question as to why a God of love would allow such things. He knew a secret.
In the times in which he lived, multiplied thousands were tortured to death. Rather than compromise, they chose to endure indescribable agonies, because each of them was in love – with the same person. God.
All his life, Valentine heard stories of hardship, torture and martyrdom. One day he would shed no tears. They would finally kill him, too. Yet instead of despising the God who allowed this, he just loved him more.
‘How could a God of love let innocent people like you suffer, Valentine?’
‘I’m not innocent,’ St. Valentine whispers.
‘Oh, come on, Valentine! You’re such a good man!’
‘Only one Innocent ever suffered,’ replies Valentine.
The rantings of arm-chair philosophers differ markedly from the findings of people with the deepest experience of both God and suffering. Valentine knew the power of God’s love and comfort in the midst of severe suffering. Such depth of experience does not come cheaply and cannot be passed on by words alone. Intense experience and intimacy with God is a common price. For nearly 2,000 years Valentine’s experience has been reproduced by the torment of thousands of Christian martyrs who have agonised in triumph, rejoicing in the goodness of God.
By the laws of aerodynamics bumble-bees cannot fly, it was once claimed . But people who know bumble-bees could not be hoodwinked. A scientific explanation might elude them, but they know bumble-bees fly. Similarly, people like Valentine who really know God, even those who have suffered as much as is humanly possible, know what they know: God’s love is as mind-boggling as his power. Gaining insight in this matter might not be scientifically satisfying, but it is truth proven by cold reality.
‘When you know God,’ breathed a Nazi concentration camp inmate, ‘you don’t need to know why.’ The hearts of thousands leap in agreement.
No clever argument, however, and no supposed spiritual experience can hide one unavoidable fact: a holy, all-powerful God would yearn to wipe out every cause of pain. And if he eradicated everyone who has ever caused pain by selfishness, cheating, lying, gossiping or hurtful remarks, who would be left?
‘Suffering is God’s fault!’ we sneer, conveniently forgetting times our anger, greed and lies hurt others. We spurn God’s laws, hurt each other, and then have the audacity to blame God for the resulting disaster. Naturally, there is a degree of hurt we deem excusable, and for some suspicious reason the hurt we have inflicted happens to fall within the standard we arbitrarily set. It is like failing an exam and then moving the pass mark to make our score look good. A holy God could not be partner to such hypocrisy. To wipe out some people who cause suffering and spare you and me would make God guilty of gross injustice. If there is a God of love, the people he loves and longs to place in an pain-free world are the very ones who cause humanity’s suffering.
All suffering can be tracked back to human wrong-doing - not necessarily the action of anyone presently alive, but to someone’s deliberate disregard of God and his ways. And why didn’t God strike that person dead before others could be hurt? Because to be fair he should do the same to you and me.
Only a maniac or an ego-maniac would dare demand justice from God. We have each added to humanity’s pain.
Yet humanity can boast one perfect Person. And he suffered. He appeared as the uniquely perfect human who preached impossibly high standards, claimed they were God’s requirements and actually lived them. Turning the cheek, loving his enemies, just as he had preached, Jesus yielded to abuse and torture, somehow absorbing within his mangled body the horrific consequences of all humanity’s sin. Yet our only Innocent gladly suffered the injustice to free the guilty from suffering eternal justice. In this cataclysmic exchange, the Innocent and the guilty traded places, making it spiritually legal for his suffering to end your suffering. As incredible as it seems, this has ushered us to the brink of a new world where the longing deep within us will be met - deceit, abuse, and hurtful actions will be swallowed by goodness; misery will dissolve in endless joy.
But temporary earthly pain continues for a wonderful reason. A paradise of harmony, trust, openness and love would quickly spoil if just one of its citizens acted remotely like we presently behave. To enter a perfect world without shattering its perfection, would require a personality transformation more radical than ever seen on earth. Through Jesus’ intervention, God can perform this miracle and make us fit for such a world, but he won’t abuse us by forcing a personality change upon us against our will. We must be willing to let God take our pet sins from us and let him, in his unlimited wisdom and love, rule every part of our lives.
Humanity quivers on the brink of extinction, mesmerised by sin like serpent’s prey. Each moment that God suppresses his explosive urge to extinguish evil, is a moment in which billions of us have yet another chance to come to our senses and let Jesus deliver us from our infatuation with sin. But the end of this period of grace is hurtling toward us. Soon all suffering will cease. All wrongdoing will be destroyed, along with everyone still caught in its deadly embrace.
Many of us would go to any lengths - even to accusing our Judge of injustice - in an unconscious attempt to push the spotlight away from the recesses of a dirty conscience. If only we could smear God, narrowing the gap between his perfection and our shabby behaviour, we’d feel better.
It would be the height of hypocrisy to dare criticise God for not always interfering when tragedy looms. Time after time we have each proved by our actions that we don’t want his love and wisdom cramping our style.
But there must be a Day of reckoning. All evil must be removed. Even the self-righteous have been demanding it for millennia, though they have no idea what they are asking. Our response before that awesome moment will determine whether we’ll be around to enjoy an evil-free environment.
You Can Find Love
What Your Secret Dreams Tell You
Finding the perfect partner
Many of the most popular people in the world have not found love that lasts. For you, however, it can be different.
It could seem that deep inside of you is a hole that not even a hundred lovers could fill. Yet still there is hope.
Be brave enough to dream
How beautiful must a woman be before she no longer needs love? How many times must a man see pictures of naked women to kill the pain of loneliness?
Everything within us cries out for love. Nothing can take its place. Scientists have studied people who cannot stop sex habits that have nothing to do with love – looking at pictures, showing themselves to people, sex telephone calls, and so on. They found that even these dear people are usually driven by a need for love. [1]
Yet being in love has its dangers. People’s beliefs and habits change. Their minds and bodies begin to grow old. At any moment we could lose the one we love through death, or any number of things. The greater our love the greater the pain we are in danger of suffering.
Our present life disappoints us, but most of us are too scared to even think about the things we would really like to find in a partner. We fear that thinking about this would only increase our painful desire for a partner we can never have. Our secret wishes seem beyond reach, yet still they remain, like a dull pain that will not go away.
Just for a moment, face your deepest desires, no matter how impossible they seem. Be brave enough to see what they show.
You ache for someone you:
* will forever be proud of
* can trust completely
* can be totally yourself with.
Your secret wish is for someone:
* who has not just heard of everything you have suffered and enjoyed since birth, but was there with you
* who always and fully understands you
* whose intelligence, strength and beauty will not grow less as the years go by.
You need someone who:
* meets your needs so exactly that it seems you were made for each other
* always brings the best out of you, helping you reach the highest you are capable of
* not just feels your pain but can always help you no matter how serious your needs become
* knows your darkest secret, your every thought, and yet thinks highly of you
* can always be with you, no matter where you are, the moment you want your partner
* will forever love you with a love so great that it always thrills and satisfies.
You want someone who always helps you, yet never stops your growth as a person; someone you will never get tired of, and yet someone who will never change.
Lastly, you do not want the constant fear of losing the person who means the most to you. You need a lover who could never be hit by sickness or injury or death.
This is stupid (foolish)!
A person would have to be God to satisfy us! And how could he help? We are flesh and blood. God, if he exists, is some distant, unknowable Spirit. The thought of a friendship with God is stupid.
Or is it? In places totally unknown to us, almost anything could exist – even a God ready to surprise us by breaking into our lives. Why do we have deep desires that could never be satisfied? Is the God who made us playing cruel games? Or did he put within you those wishes for a perfect partner because he wants to meet those needs by becoming your closest friend? Could it be that God seems cold and unfeeling only because you hardly know him? If God does not have feelings or cannot love or speak, that would mean we have more abilities than our Maker. That makes no sense. If we can do these things, our Maker can do all that and more. God is warm.
But God spoils our fun! Or is it sin that ends up spoiling fun? Sin promises so much and gives bad feelings later. It gives a headache after drinking too much. It gives the unwanted baby and the sex disease. Sin brings shame, pain, and guilt. Speak to people who have been hurt by someone’s sin – people who have had things stolen from them, people whose husband or wife suddenly left them, people hurt by drunk drivers, people who have been lied to or had bad lies told about them. And what about those who find they cannot stop doing bad things that they once liked doing but now hate? Ask any of these people whether God’s ways spoil happiness or make happiness.
But God is dull and boring! Are you sure? The God who can do anything – things so wonderful that we cannot even think of them? Would not it be a life full of surprises to be in love with the only Person who can always do more than you could dream?
This exciting Person can give you never-ending friendship. He has endless power. Only he can fill the big empty feeling inside you. He is the perfect partner you painfully wish for.
But I need someone I can touch. God knows your every need.
The greatest romance
You are deeply loved. To other people you might be just one of thousands, but not to the One who made you. In the eyes of the one Person who really matters, you are special. You mean so much to him that what God wants with you is like a perfect marriage.
Believing in someone does not make you married. Neither does believing in God give us the right to live with God. It is not enough to walk down a church. True marriage is believing in someone so completely that you give all that you are, and all that you have, to that person for life. Your Maker wants to do that for you. But it takes two partners to make a marriage work.
If a homeless girl married a rich man, he would gain her shame and she would gain his honor. She would get his riches and he would have to pay everything she owes people. For this to happen, she must turn from other men and give herself (and the few things she owns) to this man in marriage. He would give her everything he has, if she gave him everything she has.
In a similar way, if we give to God everything we have – our time, abilities, friendships, and everything we own – he will give us everything that he has. We hand over to Jesus the shameful things we have done, giving up even our favorite wrong things. They become his. That is what killed him. In return, Jesus’ goodness and perfection becomes ours, so that we can enjoy the closest friendship with the Holy God.
By becoming one with God, we give him the right to do whatever he likes with everything we own, but the Owner of the universe makes his riches available to us. We trade our abilities, for his unlimited power, and our attempts to run our lives, for his unlimited wisdom. We give him our time on earth and he gives us eternity.
In every way you gain from God’s offer and he loses. But God is in love with you. He wants this holy union more than you can imagine. Do not make him sad by holding back.
A marriage made in heaven
The following is like a wedding in which you give yourself to the Lord, and so make him your God. In turn, the King of kings makes you worthy to be spiritually joined to him, and he promises to give himself completely to you. If the following describes your feelings, you can make it your prayer by reading it to God.
Dear God,
It hurts to admit how bad I have been. Even though I have caused you sorrow, you sent your Son, Jesus. He gave his life and defeated death so that I do not have to receive the punishment I deserve.
You have given yourself totally for me and I long to return your great love, by giving myself to you. I want to please you with all I have. I will love, honor and obey you. I hand over my sins, giving up even those wrong things that I like. I accept that you now treat me as if I had never done a thing wrong in my life and that you have now given me the power to live a life that pleases you.
Thank you that we have now begun a friendship so close and so powerful that not even death can break it.
The Lord of heaven and earth knows your secret thoughts. If you prayed the full prayer honestly, you have entered a new spiritual world. That is hard to believe. Everything seems the same. But not from heaven’s view. Your life-changing ‘marriage’ has begun.
The proof lies not in your feelings (such as whether you feel guilty or happy), but in the honesty of the Holy God. He has given his word (in the Bible) that whoever turns from sin and looks to Jesus to be made clean, has a totally new future. God is no liar!
If this is the first time you have sincerely prayed such a prayer, you need further help immediately. E-mail me now. Just a few words from you allows me to pray for you, and to send you more help.
manuelamueller.b@gmail.com
The perfect partner
Years ago, young lovers used to let go of reality and let their dreams run wild. Even though they were often not religious people they found themselves using religious words:
* She idolizes him (makes him her idol)
* He adores her (adore is another word for worship)
* You are divine
* He is heavenly
* He worships the ground she walks on
* A marriage made in heaven.
As these people learned, hidden below the surface of our mind is the awareness that religion and the greatest love we could wish for, somehow belong together.
The ache deep within you will remain until you enjoy an exciting and fulfilling closeness with the One who made you. God is the perfect partner you yearn for. Yet his very perfection makes him unapproachable. Almighty God is frighteningly pure, totally good, completely without fault. We are not. God is so perfect, he is like blinding light. We are like darkness compared to him. And darkness is destroyed in the presence of light.
Back to real life
We come crashing back to earth. There is an answer, but to understand how wonderful the answer is, we must consider the size of the problem. Facing the problem is so unpleasant that we want to block it out, like people in a dark prison suddenly seeing bright sunlight. Yet facing truth will free you like nothing else can.
If we went into a hospital and met a doctor washed totally clean ready to operate, he could not touch us. We may seem clean, but not by the standards he must keep. We are like that in the presence of the holy Lord. We may be as good as the next person, but by the unreachable perfection of his standards we are moral lepers - spiritually diseased. God must keep his distance.
That seems an over-reaction. Being surrounded by imperfection all our lives has clouded our ability to see ourselves clearly. Deep down we suspect the worst but we run from it like people refusing cancer checks, even though early treatment brings life, not death.
Part of us feels good when we hear of a terrible crime that we would never do. And we take secret pleasure when people who had seemed to be good do wrong. It is not unkindness that leads us to feel this way, so much as a desperate attempt to silence the screams of our own guilty heart. We try to fill our lives with endless activity so that we do not have to think of it. Yet deep down we know we stand dirty in the presence of a pure and perfect God. Even when we think we have pushed it out of our minds, it controls us more than we realize. One way to ease guilt feelings is to find fault with anyone who might give the appearance of living a better life than us. So we find fault, seldom realizing why we do it. Some of us even try accusing God of doing wrong. If only we could muddy his name, we could feel better about our own failures.
We reject God’s laws, hurt each other, and then have the cheek to blame God for the mess we cause. ‘Why do the innocent suffer?’ we complain, forgetting the times our anger, greed and lies have hurt the innocent. Of course, there is a certain amount of hurt we say is not so bad, and the hurt we have caused just happens to be the sort of thing we say is not too bad. It is like failing a test at school and then moving the pass mark to make our own mark look good. A holy God could play no part in such dishonesty.
If God is a God of love, why does he allow all the evil in this world? To anyone not blinded by their own double standards, the reason is obvious. God longs to destroy all evil, and the time is fast approaching when he will (2 Peter 3:9-13). But how, without being totally unfair, could he do this without destroying you and me?
Don’t worry! This story has a happy ending! There are rich rewards for those with the courage to face facts we inwardly know to be true. God can make us more beautiful than we dare dream. So we have no need to act like burn patients smashing mirrors.
Becoming beautiful
Should we change and never so much as think another wrong thought, it would not help. If having sex made you sick with AIDS, deciding to never again have sex will not heal you. Having sin in our past is like having AIDS in our blood. No-one can change the past.
Some things would be wrong for God to do. Think of a man in court found guilty of dangerous driving. The judge happens to be his close friend. Would it be right for the judge to say his guilty friend is innocent? Or could he punish the dangerous driver less because he is his friend? Only a worthless judge could allow law-breaking to go unpunished or be soft with some people just because they are his friends.
And God is our Judge, because there is no such thing as a self-made person. None of us decided to be born, or can even design our children’s finger prints. God made the brains we think with. The Lord is maker – and therefore owner – of all things. Everything we have ever used or abused belongs to him. Like it or not, that means we must answer to God for our every action. Our selfishness has hurt people. It would be very wrong for the Judge of everyone to ignore the wrong we have done. We are the ones who get angry at God when other people do wrong and go unpunished. So although God loves you more than words can say, he must declare you guilty. And the penalty be paid.
That leaves just two choices. Either you pay the penalty, or someone pays it for you.
It would be foolish for me to consider taking your punishment. I have my own wickedness to answer for. But the Son of God, two thousand years ago, left his heavenly judgment seat and came to earth. He became the only human who has lived a perfect life. In the brightness of his purity, our best attempts at doing good look like mud. So when Jesus willingly suffered the pain and shame of dying like an outlaw (a criminal), something of earth-shaking importance was happening. The innocent Son of God was taking upon himself full blame for your sin.
As he was dying, Jesus suffered great pain in his body, and yet the pain in his heart and spirit was greater still. On the cross the only person who forever had been one with God cried, ‘My God, why have you left me?’ Father God had to turn away from his dear Son, treating him as the worst person on earth, until the horrific penalty was paid in full. After suffering the full penalty for the wrong things we have done, Christ broke through to life again, blasting a path for us to follow.
You are the center of this heart-stopping display of love, the greatest love the universe has known. Will you continue to reject it?
Enjoy the greatest love affair
By dying in our place Jesus has made it legal for anyone, though guilty, to go completely free. But there is something you must do before you can walk free.
To be friends with the Lord of the universe; to have God’s power flowing through you; to reach the heights you were made for, you must make a choice. To explain, let us return to the dangerous driver.
A judge would have to set the full penalty ($500) for his friend’s wrongdoing. It is quite legal, however, to give his friend money. It is then up to the guilty man whether he chooses to accept the judge’s gift.
It would break Jesus’ heart if you ignore his offer to suffer for you. That means you must pay the penalty yourself. That is the last thing he wants. More than anything, God wants to save you from the horrors of hell and give you a fulfilling, life-changing partnership with him. But you must accept the gift. That involves admitting that you need the gift – that only Jesus’ death can take away your guilt.
There is one more thing. What if the dangerous driver wants to keep breaking road rules? If he plans to continue driving badly, he is a danger to others. It would be wrong to let him go unpunished.
Similarly, it would be wrong for God to let us go unpunished if we plan to continue breaking God’s laws.
I tremble at the thought of all the thousands of people who have tragically missed this point. A second picture will show how important it is.
You are trapped in a sea of wrongdoing. Deep waters reach cliffs that cannot be climbed. No one can swim forever. The depths frighten you, except for one spot. You have found a place where the deadly waters seem nice. How can anyone believe your cries for help if you are enjoying yourself? And what is the point of saving you if you are hell-bent on diving back into the deadly sea after every attempt to save you? No one who has a suicidal desire to keep doing wrong can be saved.
This does not mean you must start living a life without sin before we can enjoy God’s goodness. We are in sin’s death grip. Only Jesus can break the deadly hold that wrongdoing has on us. But do you want Jesus to set us free from everything he says is wrong? Do you want your favorite type of wrongdoing to be forever taken from you?
God honors us by considering our wishes. If we do not want him to be our God – letting him be in total control of our lives – it saddens and horrifies him, but in his gentleness he will let us go our own way. No one has suffered the pain of rejected love like God.
You can never be forced to love someone. The Giver has done all he can. Now you must choose.
To ignore our Maker is the most selfish thing anyone could do. Every good thing we ever enjoyed comes from God. (Even sin’s short-lived pleasure, that slippery shadow of the real thing grabbed while making him sad, is possible only because God gave us the ability to have nice feelings.) Every wonderful thing we take without thinking comes from him. He even holds together the atoms in our body. He looks after even those who do not want him, giving them time after time to respond to his astounding love. They do not want God to move in their lives, but he does anyhow – showering them with a thousand soft, warm, beautiful, delicious, refreshing, thrilling and uplifting gifts. At death, however, those who on earth wanted to be free from God are finally given their wish. That is the final horror. All love, beauty, fulfillment and joy come from the God who made everything. To be cut off from him forever is too terrifying to think about.
If you want to stop doing what God says is wrong, however, and you rely on the fact that Jesus died for your sins, you let God do what he wants so much to do – pay what you owe to justice and treat you as if you are as perfect as Jesus Christ. That makes you so pure in God’s eyes that you need no longer be kept out of his presence. You can then begin an endless friendship with the most wonderful Person in the universe. from
http://net-burst.net/love/lover.htm
He discovered a unique type of love. A love so exciting, so powerful, so overwhelming as to make the romance of Romeo and Juliet look like puppy love, and the affairs of Josephine and Napoleon, Anthony and Cleopatra, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor look second rate.
From the moment he became a Christian until he was murdered, the threat of death and terrifying torture dangled over his neck every day. But nothing could stop him. He was in love. With innocent Christians suffering unspeakable horrors, dying like flies around him, he was unfazed by the question as to why a God of love would allow such things. He knew a secret.
In the times in which he lived, multiplied thousands were tortured to death. Rather than compromise, they chose to endure indescribable agonies, because each of them was in love – with the same person. God.
All his life, Valentine heard stories of hardship, torture and martyrdom. One day he would shed no tears. They would finally kill him, too. Yet instead of despising the God who allowed this, he just loved him more.
‘How could a God of love let innocent people like you suffer, Valentine?’
‘I’m not innocent,’ St. Valentine whispers.
‘Oh, come on, Valentine! You’re such a good man!’
‘Only one Innocent ever suffered,’ replies Valentine.
The rantings of arm-chair philosophers differ markedly from the findings of people with the deepest experience of both God and suffering. Valentine knew the power of God’s love and comfort in the midst of severe suffering. Such depth of experience does not come cheaply and cannot be passed on by words alone. Intense experience and intimacy with God is a common price. For nearly 2,000 years Valentine’s experience has been reproduced by the torment of thousands of Christian martyrs who have agonised in triumph, rejoicing in the goodness of God.
By the laws of aerodynamics bumble-bees cannot fly, it was once claimed . But people who know bumble-bees could not be hoodwinked. A scientific explanation might elude them, but they know bumble-bees fly. Similarly, people like Valentine who really know God, even those who have suffered as much as is humanly possible, know what they know: God’s love is as mind-boggling as his power. Gaining insight in this matter might not be scientifically satisfying, but it is truth proven by cold reality.
‘When you know God,’ breathed a Nazi concentration camp inmate, ‘you don’t need to know why.’ The hearts of thousands leap in agreement.
No clever argument, however, and no supposed spiritual experience can hide one unavoidable fact: a holy, all-powerful God would yearn to wipe out every cause of pain. And if he eradicated everyone who has ever caused pain by selfishness, cheating, lying, gossiping or hurtful remarks, who would be left?
‘Suffering is God’s fault!’ we sneer, conveniently forgetting times our anger, greed and lies hurt others. We spurn God’s laws, hurt each other, and then have the audacity to blame God for the resulting disaster. Naturally, there is a degree of hurt we deem excusable, and for some suspicious reason the hurt we have inflicted happens to fall within the standard we arbitrarily set. It is like failing an exam and then moving the pass mark to make our score look good. A holy God could not be partner to such hypocrisy. To wipe out some people who cause suffering and spare you and me would make God guilty of gross injustice. If there is a God of love, the people he loves and longs to place in an pain-free world are the very ones who cause humanity’s suffering.
All suffering can be tracked back to human wrong-doing - not necessarily the action of anyone presently alive, but to someone’s deliberate disregard of God and his ways. And why didn’t God strike that person dead before others could be hurt? Because to be fair he should do the same to you and me.
Only a maniac or an ego-maniac would dare demand justice from God. We have each added to humanity’s pain.
Yet humanity can boast one perfect Person. And he suffered. He appeared as the uniquely perfect human who preached impossibly high standards, claimed they were God’s requirements and actually lived them. Turning the cheek, loving his enemies, just as he had preached, Jesus yielded to abuse and torture, somehow absorbing within his mangled body the horrific consequences of all humanity’s sin. Yet our only Innocent gladly suffered the injustice to free the guilty from suffering eternal justice. In this cataclysmic exchange, the Innocent and the guilty traded places, making it spiritually legal for his suffering to end your suffering. As incredible as it seems, this has ushered us to the brink of a new world where the longing deep within us will be met - deceit, abuse, and hurtful actions will be swallowed by goodness; misery will dissolve in endless joy.
But temporary earthly pain continues for a wonderful reason. A paradise of harmony, trust, openness and love would quickly spoil if just one of its citizens acted remotely like we presently behave. To enter a perfect world without shattering its perfection, would require a personality transformation more radical than ever seen on earth. Through Jesus’ intervention, God can perform this miracle and make us fit for such a world, but he won’t abuse us by forcing a personality change upon us against our will. We must be willing to let God take our pet sins from us and let him, in his unlimited wisdom and love, rule every part of our lives.
Humanity quivers on the brink of extinction, mesmerised by sin like serpent’s prey. Each moment that God suppresses his explosive urge to extinguish evil, is a moment in which billions of us have yet another chance to come to our senses and let Jesus deliver us from our infatuation with sin. But the end of this period of grace is hurtling toward us. Soon all suffering will cease. All wrongdoing will be destroyed, along with everyone still caught in its deadly embrace.
Many of us would go to any lengths - even to accusing our Judge of injustice - in an unconscious attempt to push the spotlight away from the recesses of a dirty conscience. If only we could smear God, narrowing the gap between his perfection and our shabby behaviour, we’d feel better.
It would be the height of hypocrisy to dare criticise God for not always interfering when tragedy looms. Time after time we have each proved by our actions that we don’t want his love and wisdom cramping our style.
But there must be a Day of reckoning. All evil must be removed. Even the self-righteous have been demanding it for millennia, though they have no idea what they are asking. Our response before that awesome moment will determine whether we’ll be around to enjoy an evil-free environment.
You Can Find Love
What Your Secret Dreams Tell You
Finding the perfect partner
Many of the most popular people in the world have not found love that lasts. For you, however, it can be different.
It could seem that deep inside of you is a hole that not even a hundred lovers could fill. Yet still there is hope.
Be brave enough to dream
How beautiful must a woman be before she no longer needs love? How many times must a man see pictures of naked women to kill the pain of loneliness?
Everything within us cries out for love. Nothing can take its place. Scientists have studied people who cannot stop sex habits that have nothing to do with love – looking at pictures, showing themselves to people, sex telephone calls, and so on. They found that even these dear people are usually driven by a need for love. [1]
Yet being in love has its dangers. People’s beliefs and habits change. Their minds and bodies begin to grow old. At any moment we could lose the one we love through death, or any number of things. The greater our love the greater the pain we are in danger of suffering.
Our present life disappoints us, but most of us are too scared to even think about the things we would really like to find in a partner. We fear that thinking about this would only increase our painful desire for a partner we can never have. Our secret wishes seem beyond reach, yet still they remain, like a dull pain that will not go away.
Just for a moment, face your deepest desires, no matter how impossible they seem. Be brave enough to see what they show.
You ache for someone you:
* will forever be proud of
* can trust completely
* can be totally yourself with.
Your secret wish is for someone:
* who has not just heard of everything you have suffered and enjoyed since birth, but was there with you
* who always and fully understands you
* whose intelligence, strength and beauty will not grow less as the years go by.
You need someone who:
* meets your needs so exactly that it seems you were made for each other
* always brings the best out of you, helping you reach the highest you are capable of
* not just feels your pain but can always help you no matter how serious your needs become
* knows your darkest secret, your every thought, and yet thinks highly of you
* can always be with you, no matter where you are, the moment you want your partner
* will forever love you with a love so great that it always thrills and satisfies.
You want someone who always helps you, yet never stops your growth as a person; someone you will never get tired of, and yet someone who will never change.
Lastly, you do not want the constant fear of losing the person who means the most to you. You need a lover who could never be hit by sickness or injury or death.
This is stupid (foolish)!
A person would have to be God to satisfy us! And how could he help? We are flesh and blood. God, if he exists, is some distant, unknowable Spirit. The thought of a friendship with God is stupid.
Or is it? In places totally unknown to us, almost anything could exist – even a God ready to surprise us by breaking into our lives. Why do we have deep desires that could never be satisfied? Is the God who made us playing cruel games? Or did he put within you those wishes for a perfect partner because he wants to meet those needs by becoming your closest friend? Could it be that God seems cold and unfeeling only because you hardly know him? If God does not have feelings or cannot love or speak, that would mean we have more abilities than our Maker. That makes no sense. If we can do these things, our Maker can do all that and more. God is warm.
But God spoils our fun! Or is it sin that ends up spoiling fun? Sin promises so much and gives bad feelings later. It gives a headache after drinking too much. It gives the unwanted baby and the sex disease. Sin brings shame, pain, and guilt. Speak to people who have been hurt by someone’s sin – people who have had things stolen from them, people whose husband or wife suddenly left them, people hurt by drunk drivers, people who have been lied to or had bad lies told about them. And what about those who find they cannot stop doing bad things that they once liked doing but now hate? Ask any of these people whether God’s ways spoil happiness or make happiness.
But God is dull and boring! Are you sure? The God who can do anything – things so wonderful that we cannot even think of them? Would not it be a life full of surprises to be in love with the only Person who can always do more than you could dream?
This exciting Person can give you never-ending friendship. He has endless power. Only he can fill the big empty feeling inside you. He is the perfect partner you painfully wish for.
But I need someone I can touch. God knows your every need.
The greatest romance
You are deeply loved. To other people you might be just one of thousands, but not to the One who made you. In the eyes of the one Person who really matters, you are special. You mean so much to him that what God wants with you is like a perfect marriage.
Believing in someone does not make you married. Neither does believing in God give us the right to live with God. It is not enough to walk down a church. True marriage is believing in someone so completely that you give all that you are, and all that you have, to that person for life. Your Maker wants to do that for you. But it takes two partners to make a marriage work.
If a homeless girl married a rich man, he would gain her shame and she would gain his honor. She would get his riches and he would have to pay everything she owes people. For this to happen, she must turn from other men and give herself (and the few things she owns) to this man in marriage. He would give her everything he has, if she gave him everything she has.
In a similar way, if we give to God everything we have – our time, abilities, friendships, and everything we own – he will give us everything that he has. We hand over to Jesus the shameful things we have done, giving up even our favorite wrong things. They become his. That is what killed him. In return, Jesus’ goodness and perfection becomes ours, so that we can enjoy the closest friendship with the Holy God.
By becoming one with God, we give him the right to do whatever he likes with everything we own, but the Owner of the universe makes his riches available to us. We trade our abilities, for his unlimited power, and our attempts to run our lives, for his unlimited wisdom. We give him our time on earth and he gives us eternity.
In every way you gain from God’s offer and he loses. But God is in love with you. He wants this holy union more than you can imagine. Do not make him sad by holding back.
A marriage made in heaven
The following is like a wedding in which you give yourself to the Lord, and so make him your God. In turn, the King of kings makes you worthy to be spiritually joined to him, and he promises to give himself completely to you. If the following describes your feelings, you can make it your prayer by reading it to God.
Dear God,
It hurts to admit how bad I have been. Even though I have caused you sorrow, you sent your Son, Jesus. He gave his life and defeated death so that I do not have to receive the punishment I deserve.
You have given yourself totally for me and I long to return your great love, by giving myself to you. I want to please you with all I have. I will love, honor and obey you. I hand over my sins, giving up even those wrong things that I like. I accept that you now treat me as if I had never done a thing wrong in my life and that you have now given me the power to live a life that pleases you.
Thank you that we have now begun a friendship so close and so powerful that not even death can break it.
The Lord of heaven and earth knows your secret thoughts. If you prayed the full prayer honestly, you have entered a new spiritual world. That is hard to believe. Everything seems the same. But not from heaven’s view. Your life-changing ‘marriage’ has begun.
The proof lies not in your feelings (such as whether you feel guilty or happy), but in the honesty of the Holy God. He has given his word (in the Bible) that whoever turns from sin and looks to Jesus to be made clean, has a totally new future. God is no liar!
If this is the first time you have sincerely prayed such a prayer, you need further help immediately. E-mail me now. Just a few words from you allows me to pray for you, and to send you more help.
manuelamueller.b@gmail.com
The perfect partner
Years ago, young lovers used to let go of reality and let their dreams run wild. Even though they were often not religious people they found themselves using religious words:
* She idolizes him (makes him her idol)
* He adores her (adore is another word for worship)
* You are divine
* He is heavenly
* He worships the ground she walks on
* A marriage made in heaven.
As these people learned, hidden below the surface of our mind is the awareness that religion and the greatest love we could wish for, somehow belong together.
The ache deep within you will remain until you enjoy an exciting and fulfilling closeness with the One who made you. God is the perfect partner you yearn for. Yet his very perfection makes him unapproachable. Almighty God is frighteningly pure, totally good, completely without fault. We are not. God is so perfect, he is like blinding light. We are like darkness compared to him. And darkness is destroyed in the presence of light.
Back to real life
We come crashing back to earth. There is an answer, but to understand how wonderful the answer is, we must consider the size of the problem. Facing the problem is so unpleasant that we want to block it out, like people in a dark prison suddenly seeing bright sunlight. Yet facing truth will free you like nothing else can.
If we went into a hospital and met a doctor washed totally clean ready to operate, he could not touch us. We may seem clean, but not by the standards he must keep. We are like that in the presence of the holy Lord. We may be as good as the next person, but by the unreachable perfection of his standards we are moral lepers - spiritually diseased. God must keep his distance.
That seems an over-reaction. Being surrounded by imperfection all our lives has clouded our ability to see ourselves clearly. Deep down we suspect the worst but we run from it like people refusing cancer checks, even though early treatment brings life, not death.
Part of us feels good when we hear of a terrible crime that we would never do. And we take secret pleasure when people who had seemed to be good do wrong. It is not unkindness that leads us to feel this way, so much as a desperate attempt to silence the screams of our own guilty heart. We try to fill our lives with endless activity so that we do not have to think of it. Yet deep down we know we stand dirty in the presence of a pure and perfect God. Even when we think we have pushed it out of our minds, it controls us more than we realize. One way to ease guilt feelings is to find fault with anyone who might give the appearance of living a better life than us. So we find fault, seldom realizing why we do it. Some of us even try accusing God of doing wrong. If only we could muddy his name, we could feel better about our own failures.
We reject God’s laws, hurt each other, and then have the cheek to blame God for the mess we cause. ‘Why do the innocent suffer?’ we complain, forgetting the times our anger, greed and lies have hurt the innocent. Of course, there is a certain amount of hurt we say is not so bad, and the hurt we have caused just happens to be the sort of thing we say is not too bad. It is like failing a test at school and then moving the pass mark to make our own mark look good. A holy God could play no part in such dishonesty.
If God is a God of love, why does he allow all the evil in this world? To anyone not blinded by their own double standards, the reason is obvious. God longs to destroy all evil, and the time is fast approaching when he will (2 Peter 3:9-13). But how, without being totally unfair, could he do this without destroying you and me?
Don’t worry! This story has a happy ending! There are rich rewards for those with the courage to face facts we inwardly know to be true. God can make us more beautiful than we dare dream. So we have no need to act like burn patients smashing mirrors.
Becoming beautiful
Should we change and never so much as think another wrong thought, it would not help. If having sex made you sick with AIDS, deciding to never again have sex will not heal you. Having sin in our past is like having AIDS in our blood. No-one can change the past.
Some things would be wrong for God to do. Think of a man in court found guilty of dangerous driving. The judge happens to be his close friend. Would it be right for the judge to say his guilty friend is innocent? Or could he punish the dangerous driver less because he is his friend? Only a worthless judge could allow law-breaking to go unpunished or be soft with some people just because they are his friends.
And God is our Judge, because there is no such thing as a self-made person. None of us decided to be born, or can even design our children’s finger prints. God made the brains we think with. The Lord is maker – and therefore owner – of all things. Everything we have ever used or abused belongs to him. Like it or not, that means we must answer to God for our every action. Our selfishness has hurt people. It would be very wrong for the Judge of everyone to ignore the wrong we have done. We are the ones who get angry at God when other people do wrong and go unpunished. So although God loves you more than words can say, he must declare you guilty. And the penalty be paid.
That leaves just two choices. Either you pay the penalty, or someone pays it for you.
It would be foolish for me to consider taking your punishment. I have my own wickedness to answer for. But the Son of God, two thousand years ago, left his heavenly judgment seat and came to earth. He became the only human who has lived a perfect life. In the brightness of his purity, our best attempts at doing good look like mud. So when Jesus willingly suffered the pain and shame of dying like an outlaw (a criminal), something of earth-shaking importance was happening. The innocent Son of God was taking upon himself full blame for your sin.
As he was dying, Jesus suffered great pain in his body, and yet the pain in his heart and spirit was greater still. On the cross the only person who forever had been one with God cried, ‘My God, why have you left me?’ Father God had to turn away from his dear Son, treating him as the worst person on earth, until the horrific penalty was paid in full. After suffering the full penalty for the wrong things we have done, Christ broke through to life again, blasting a path for us to follow.
You are the center of this heart-stopping display of love, the greatest love the universe has known. Will you continue to reject it?
Enjoy the greatest love affair
By dying in our place Jesus has made it legal for anyone, though guilty, to go completely free. But there is something you must do before you can walk free.
To be friends with the Lord of the universe; to have God’s power flowing through you; to reach the heights you were made for, you must make a choice. To explain, let us return to the dangerous driver.
A judge would have to set the full penalty ($500) for his friend’s wrongdoing. It is quite legal, however, to give his friend money. It is then up to the guilty man whether he chooses to accept the judge’s gift.
It would break Jesus’ heart if you ignore his offer to suffer for you. That means you must pay the penalty yourself. That is the last thing he wants. More than anything, God wants to save you from the horrors of hell and give you a fulfilling, life-changing partnership with him. But you must accept the gift. That involves admitting that you need the gift – that only Jesus’ death can take away your guilt.
There is one more thing. What if the dangerous driver wants to keep breaking road rules? If he plans to continue driving badly, he is a danger to others. It would be wrong to let him go unpunished.
Similarly, it would be wrong for God to let us go unpunished if we plan to continue breaking God’s laws.
I tremble at the thought of all the thousands of people who have tragically missed this point. A second picture will show how important it is.
You are trapped in a sea of wrongdoing. Deep waters reach cliffs that cannot be climbed. No one can swim forever. The depths frighten you, except for one spot. You have found a place where the deadly waters seem nice. How can anyone believe your cries for help if you are enjoying yourself? And what is the point of saving you if you are hell-bent on diving back into the deadly sea after every attempt to save you? No one who has a suicidal desire to keep doing wrong can be saved.
This does not mean you must start living a life without sin before we can enjoy God’s goodness. We are in sin’s death grip. Only Jesus can break the deadly hold that wrongdoing has on us. But do you want Jesus to set us free from everything he says is wrong? Do you want your favorite type of wrongdoing to be forever taken from you?
God honors us by considering our wishes. If we do not want him to be our God – letting him be in total control of our lives – it saddens and horrifies him, but in his gentleness he will let us go our own way. No one has suffered the pain of rejected love like God.
You can never be forced to love someone. The Giver has done all he can. Now you must choose.
To ignore our Maker is the most selfish thing anyone could do. Every good thing we ever enjoyed comes from God. (Even sin’s short-lived pleasure, that slippery shadow of the real thing grabbed while making him sad, is possible only because God gave us the ability to have nice feelings.) Every wonderful thing we take without thinking comes from him. He even holds together the atoms in our body. He looks after even those who do not want him, giving them time after time to respond to his astounding love. They do not want God to move in their lives, but he does anyhow – showering them with a thousand soft, warm, beautiful, delicious, refreshing, thrilling and uplifting gifts. At death, however, those who on earth wanted to be free from God are finally given their wish. That is the final horror. All love, beauty, fulfillment and joy come from the God who made everything. To be cut off from him forever is too terrifying to think about.
If you want to stop doing what God says is wrong, however, and you rely on the fact that Jesus died for your sins, you let God do what he wants so much to do – pay what you owe to justice and treat you as if you are as perfect as Jesus Christ. That makes you so pure in God’s eyes that you need no longer be kept out of his presence. You can then begin an endless friendship with the most wonderful Person in the universe. from
http://net-burst.net/love/lover.htm
Friday, 12 February 2010
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose
Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable
By Henry Samuel in Paris, Daily Telegraph, 08 Feb 2010
Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away his fortune He is in the process of selling his luxury 3,455 sq ft villa with lake, sauna and spectacular mountain views over the Alps, valued at £1.4 million.
Also for sale is his beautiful old stone farmhouse in Provence with its 17 hectares overlooking the arrière-pays, on the market for £613,000. Already gone is his collection of six gliders valued at £350,000, and a luxury Audi A8, worth around £44,000.
Mr Rabeder has also sold the interior furnishings and accessories business--from vases to artificial flowers--that made his fortune.
"My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Money is counterproductive--it prevents happiness to come."
Instead, he will move out of his luxury Alpine retreat into a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit in Innsbruck.
His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these.
"For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness," he said. "I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years," said Mr Rabeder.
But over time, he had another, conflicting feeling. "More and more I heard the words: 'Stop what you are doing now--all this luxury and consumerism--and start your real life'," he said. "I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need. I have the feeling that there are lot of people doing the same thing."
However, for many years he said he was simply not "brave" enough to give up all the trappings of his comfortable existence.
The tipping point came while he was on a three-week holiday with his wife to islands of Hawaii.
"It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realised how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five star lifestyle is," he said. "In those three weeks, we spent all the money you could possibly spend. But in all that time, we had the feeling we hadn't met a single real person--that we were all just actors. The staff played the role of being friendly and the guests played the role of being important and nobody was real."
He had similar feelings of guilt while on gliding trips in South America and Africa. "I increasingly got the sensation that there is a connection between our wealth and their poverty," he said.
Suddenly, he realised that "if I don't do it now I won't do it for the rest of my life".
Mr Rabeder decided to raffle his Alpine home, selling 21,999 lottery tickets priced at just £87 each. The Provence house in the village of Cruis is on sale at the local estate agent.
All the money will go into his microcredit charity, which offers small loans to Latin America and builds development aid strategies to self-employed people in El Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile.
Since selling his belongings, Mr Rabeder said he felt "free, the opposite of heavy".
But he said he did not judge those who chose to keep their wealth. "I do not have the right to give any other person advice. I was just listening to the voice of my heart and soul."
By Henry Samuel in Paris, Daily Telegraph, 08 Feb 2010
Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away his fortune He is in the process of selling his luxury 3,455 sq ft villa with lake, sauna and spectacular mountain views over the Alps, valued at £1.4 million.
Also for sale is his beautiful old stone farmhouse in Provence with its 17 hectares overlooking the arrière-pays, on the market for £613,000. Already gone is his collection of six gliders valued at £350,000, and a luxury Audi A8, worth around £44,000.
Mr Rabeder has also sold the interior furnishings and accessories business--from vases to artificial flowers--that made his fortune.
"My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Money is counterproductive--it prevents happiness to come."
Instead, he will move out of his luxury Alpine retreat into a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit in Innsbruck.
His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these.
"For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness," he said. "I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years," said Mr Rabeder.
But over time, he had another, conflicting feeling. "More and more I heard the words: 'Stop what you are doing now--all this luxury and consumerism--and start your real life'," he said. "I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need. I have the feeling that there are lot of people doing the same thing."
However, for many years he said he was simply not "brave" enough to give up all the trappings of his comfortable existence.
The tipping point came while he was on a three-week holiday with his wife to islands of Hawaii.
"It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realised how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five star lifestyle is," he said. "In those three weeks, we spent all the money you could possibly spend. But in all that time, we had the feeling we hadn't met a single real person--that we were all just actors. The staff played the role of being friendly and the guests played the role of being important and nobody was real."
He had similar feelings of guilt while on gliding trips in South America and Africa. "I increasingly got the sensation that there is a connection between our wealth and their poverty," he said.
Suddenly, he realised that "if I don't do it now I won't do it for the rest of my life".
Mr Rabeder decided to raffle his Alpine home, selling 21,999 lottery tickets priced at just £87 each. The Provence house in the village of Cruis is on sale at the local estate agent.
All the money will go into his microcredit charity, which offers small loans to Latin America and builds development aid strategies to self-employed people in El Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile.
Since selling his belongings, Mr Rabeder said he felt "free, the opposite of heavy".
But he said he did not judge those who chose to keep their wealth. "I do not have the right to give any other person advice. I was just listening to the voice of my heart and soul."
Thursday, 11 February 2010
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear
Oh what priviledge to carry, everything to God in prayer,
Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear,
all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer....
Thank you so much for your prayers, they helped right away.
The same day that our car broke down, after desperate prayer
(we really need a car!) Michel´s sister brought him to
his music class. There he saw on his teacher´s car a sign: "For Sale"
just the day before his teacher had put it on.
We got the car today (we had to borrow some money,
but it is a good car in good condition) and we are absolutely amazed!
So thanx again for your prayers.
" When we pray, things happen and things will be different."
Let´s also pray for all those poor peopl ein the cold in Monglia and other places, and the
traumatised ppl from Haiti, all the ppl in orphanages and prisons,
hospitals, refugee camps and old folk home etc., all those in need.
Our prayers can help!
Thanx again.
Much love, Manuela
Oh what priviledge to carry, everything to God in prayer,
Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear,
all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer....
Thank you so much for your prayers, they helped right away.
The same day that our car broke down, after desperate prayer
(we really need a car!) Michel´s sister brought him to
his music class. There he saw on his teacher´s car a sign: "For Sale"
just the day before his teacher had put it on.
We got the car today (we had to borrow some money,
but it is a good car in good condition) and we are absolutely amazed!
So thanx again for your prayers.
" When we pray, things happen and things will be different."
Let´s also pray for all those poor peopl ein the cold in Monglia and other places, and the
traumatised ppl from Haiti, all the ppl in orphanages and prisons,
hospitals, refugee camps and old folk home etc., all those in need.
Our prayers can help!
Thanx again.
Much love, Manuela
Monday, 8 February 2010
100 things most of us don´t know....
100 Real Facts (Strange but true)
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips. ( for more info. check http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/)
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. [Really?]
19. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. [tsk tsk]
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
30. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
37. There are more chickens than people in the world.
38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
49. A snail can sleep for three years.
50. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded.
54. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “Go hang yourself.”
56. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed eople do.
59. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
61. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
62. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
66. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
67. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70. Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
71. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72. More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a french kiss.
73. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74. Coca-Cola was originally green.
75. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
80. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. [??]
81. It is impossible to lick your elbow. [someone would probably try to do this after reading. haha]
82. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. [haha]
94. All polar bears are left handed.
95. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96. Butterflies taste with their feet.
97. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
98. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
100. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. [you gaoota love the man!]
1. 109 random things you should know..
1
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
3 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
4
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
5
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
6
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
7
Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
8
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
9
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
10
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
11
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
12
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
13
The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
14
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
15
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
16
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
17
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
18
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
19
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
20
Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
21
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
22
To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
23
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
24
The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
25
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
26
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
27
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
28
Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
29
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
30
In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
31
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
32
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
33
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
34
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
35
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
36
Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
37
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
38
There are more chickens than people in the world.
39
It’s against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
40
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
41
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
42
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
43
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each
morning.
44
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
45
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
46
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
47
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
48
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
49
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
50
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
51
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
52
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
53
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
54
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
55
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
56
“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
57
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang Yourself.”
58
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
59
“Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
60
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
61
The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every Letter in the English language.
62
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
63
China has more English speakers than the United States.
64
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
65
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
66
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
67
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
68
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
69
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
70
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua—-anatahu - a New Zealand hill.
71
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
72
Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
73
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
74
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
75
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
76
Coca-Cola was originally green.
77
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
78
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
79
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
80
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
81
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
82
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
83
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
84
People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
85
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
86
The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
87
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
88
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
89
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
90
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
91
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
92
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
93
Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
94
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
95
A snail can sleep for three years.
96
All polar bears are left handed.
97
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
98
Butterflies taste with their feet.
99
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
100
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
101
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
102
Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
103
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
104
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
105
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
106
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
107
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
108
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
109
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
1. 100 Real Facts (Strange but true)
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips. ( for more info. check http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/)
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. [Really?]
19. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. [tsk tsk]
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
30. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
37. There are more chickens than people in the world.
38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
49. A snail can sleep for three years.
50. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded.
54. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “Go hang yourself.”
56. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed eople do.
59. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
61. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
62. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
66. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
67. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70. Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
71. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72. More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a french kiss.
73. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74. Coca-Cola was originally green.
75. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
80. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. [??]
81. It is impossible to lick your elbow. [someone would probably try to do this after reading. haha]
82. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. [haha]
94. All polar bears are left handed.
95. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96. Butterflies taste with their feet.
97. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
98. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
100. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. [you gaoota love the man!]
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips. ( for more info. check http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/)
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. [Really?]
19. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. [tsk tsk]
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
30. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
37. There are more chickens than people in the world.
38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
49. A snail can sleep for three years.
50. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded.
54. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “Go hang yourself.”
56. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed eople do.
59. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
61. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
62. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
66. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
67. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70. Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
71. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72. More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a french kiss.
73. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74. Coca-Cola was originally green.
75. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
80. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. [??]
81. It is impossible to lick your elbow. [someone would probably try to do this after reading. haha]
82. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. [haha]
94. All polar bears are left handed.
95. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96. Butterflies taste with their feet.
97. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
98. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
100. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. [you gaoota love the man!]
1. 109 random things you should know..
1
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
3 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
4
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
5
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
6
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
7
Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
8
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
9
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
10
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
11
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
12
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
13
The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
14
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
15
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
16
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
17
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
18
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
19
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
20
Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
21
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
22
To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
23
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
24
The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
25
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
26
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
27
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
28
Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
29
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
30
In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
31
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
32
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
33
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
34
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
35
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
36
Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
37
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
38
There are more chickens than people in the world.
39
It’s against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
40
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
41
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
42
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
43
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each
morning.
44
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
45
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
46
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
47
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
48
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
49
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
50
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
51
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
52
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
53
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
54
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
55
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
56
“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
57
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang Yourself.”
58
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
59
“Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
60
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
61
The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every Letter in the English language.
62
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
63
China has more English speakers than the United States.
64
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
65
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
66
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
67
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
68
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
69
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
70
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua—-anatahu - a New Zealand hill.
71
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
72
Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
73
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
74
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
75
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
76
Coca-Cola was originally green.
77
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
78
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
79
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
80
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
81
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
82
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
83
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
84
People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
85
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
86
The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
87
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
88
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
89
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
90
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
91
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
92
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
93
Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
94
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
95
A snail can sleep for three years.
96
All polar bears are left handed.
97
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
98
Butterflies taste with their feet.
99
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
100
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
101
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
102
Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
103
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
104
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
105
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
106
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
107
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
108
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
109
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
1. 100 Real Facts (Strange but true)
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips. ( for more info. check http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/)
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. [Really?]
19. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. [tsk tsk]
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
30. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
37. There are more chickens than people in the world.
38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
49. A snail can sleep for three years.
50. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded.
54. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “Go hang yourself.”
56. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed eople do.
59. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
61. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
62. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
66. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
67. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70. Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
71. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72. More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a french kiss.
73. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74. Coca-Cola was originally green.
75. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
80. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. [??]
81. It is impossible to lick your elbow. [someone would probably try to do this after reading. haha]
82. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. [haha]
94. All polar bears are left handed.
95. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96. Butterflies taste with their feet.
97. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
98. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
100. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. [you gaoota love the man!]
Friday, 5 February 2010
Sooner or later you find when you keep seekeing
Why I've turned to God at 70, by Ringo Starr
By Ben Todd, Daily Mail, 03rd February 2010
John Lennon caused a worldwide storm by claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Now, more than four decades on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has acknowledged a humbler place in the grand scheme of things. The drummer says he has found God—after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment.
He admitted he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle experimenting with marijuana and LSD and afterwards when he suffered alcohol and cocaine problems in the late 1970s. But the musician, who has since become teetotal and quit his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that religion now plays an important role in his life. Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: 'I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
'For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s. 'I stepped off the path there for many years and found my way back onto it, thank God.'
In his latest interview Starr—a vegetarian who is married to former Bond girl Barbara Bach and now splits his time between homes in Los Angeles, London and Monaco—also told how he finds it far easier to deal with life now he is approaching his 70th birthday in July. He said: 'Seventy's not as big as 40 was. … I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life.'
By Ben Todd, Daily Mail, 03rd February 2010
John Lennon caused a worldwide storm by claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Now, more than four decades on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has acknowledged a humbler place in the grand scheme of things. The drummer says he has found God—after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment.
He admitted he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle experimenting with marijuana and LSD and afterwards when he suffered alcohol and cocaine problems in the late 1970s. But the musician, who has since become teetotal and quit his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that religion now plays an important role in his life. Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: 'I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
'For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s. 'I stepped off the path there for many years and found my way back onto it, thank God.'
In his latest interview Starr—a vegetarian who is married to former Bond girl Barbara Bach and now splits his time between homes in Los Angeles, London and Monaco—also told how he finds it far easier to deal with life now he is approaching his 70th birthday in July. He said: 'Seventy's not as big as 40 was. … I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life.'
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Nature....
Elephants attack in Orissa exactly after one year of persecutions
Fr. Sunil De Silva, Archdiocese of Colombo, 09.12.2009
In July 2008 a severe persecution of Christians broke out in the Indian state of Orissa. A 22 year old nun was burnt to death when angry mobs burnt down an orphanage in Khuntpali village in Barhgarh district, another nun was gang raped in Kandhamal, mobs attacked churches, torched vehicles, houses of Christians were destroyed, and Fr. Thomas Chellen, director of the pastoral center that was destroyed with a bomb, had a narrow escape after a Hindu mob nearly set him on fire. The end result saw more than 500 Christians murdered, and thousands of others injured and homeless after their houses were reduced to ashes.
Recently a strange and dramatic event took place in Orissa, which has many people talking and wondering. In recent months, herds of wild elephants have begun to storm villages that are home to some of the worst persecutors of Christians during the troubles. In one village, where in August a year ago the Christians had to run for their lives while their homes were being destroyed by rioters, a herd of elephants emerged from the surrounding jungle exactly one year later, at the same time of the day of the attack.
These elephants first attacked a rock crusher machine owned by a key leader of the persecution movement. They then went on to destroy his house and farms.
Hundreds of villagers have been forced to take shelter in camps in the Indian state of Orissa after repeated attacks by a herd of elephants. Seven people have been killed and several others injured in attacks by a herd of 12-13 elephants over the past few weeks in Kandhamal district. Over 2,500 people living in 45 villages have been affected by the attacks, district chief Krishen Kumar said.
It is, however, unclear why this herd of elephants migrated from the Lakheri sanctuary in a neighbouring district. He said the herd had travelled some 300km into Kandhamal, and even entered a town in the district. Wildlife officials were camping at the site of the attacks and trying to find out why the elephants had come out of their sanctuary.
The villagers say elephants attack their areas in herds, causing heavy destruction. Gaining momentum, they rampaged through other non-Christian homes, demolishing gardens and singling out the home of persecutors, leaving Christian homes untouched.
These strange attacks have spread, and according to a report, the elephants have already destroyed more than 700 houses in 30 villages, and killed five people. Nobody in this area has seen or even imagined the unique appearance of a herd of wild elephants such as this.
The elephants are not ordinary elephants; they appear to be on a mission. Typically, smaller elephants enter a village first, appearing to survey the community. They then rejoin the larger herd, and larger elephant soon follow and get the job done.
The ministry partner in India stated "We think that it might have something to do with the avenging the blood of martyrs. In fact the fear of God has fallen on the local people, who have labeled these elephants "Christian elephants."
With little help coming from the administration, the villagers have taken to road blockades. "The elephants have destroyed crops and selected houses." But officials too express helplessness.
Fr. Sunil De Silva, Archdiocese of Colombo, 09.12.2009
In July 2008 a severe persecution of Christians broke out in the Indian state of Orissa. A 22 year old nun was burnt to death when angry mobs burnt down an orphanage in Khuntpali village in Barhgarh district, another nun was gang raped in Kandhamal, mobs attacked churches, torched vehicles, houses of Christians were destroyed, and Fr. Thomas Chellen, director of the pastoral center that was destroyed with a bomb, had a narrow escape after a Hindu mob nearly set him on fire. The end result saw more than 500 Christians murdered, and thousands of others injured and homeless after their houses were reduced to ashes.
Recently a strange and dramatic event took place in Orissa, which has many people talking and wondering. In recent months, herds of wild elephants have begun to storm villages that are home to some of the worst persecutors of Christians during the troubles. In one village, where in August a year ago the Christians had to run for their lives while their homes were being destroyed by rioters, a herd of elephants emerged from the surrounding jungle exactly one year later, at the same time of the day of the attack.
These elephants first attacked a rock crusher machine owned by a key leader of the persecution movement. They then went on to destroy his house and farms.
Hundreds of villagers have been forced to take shelter in camps in the Indian state of Orissa after repeated attacks by a herd of elephants. Seven people have been killed and several others injured in attacks by a herd of 12-13 elephants over the past few weeks in Kandhamal district. Over 2,500 people living in 45 villages have been affected by the attacks, district chief Krishen Kumar said.
It is, however, unclear why this herd of elephants migrated from the Lakheri sanctuary in a neighbouring district. He said the herd had travelled some 300km into Kandhamal, and even entered a town in the district. Wildlife officials were camping at the site of the attacks and trying to find out why the elephants had come out of their sanctuary.
The villagers say elephants attack their areas in herds, causing heavy destruction. Gaining momentum, they rampaged through other non-Christian homes, demolishing gardens and singling out the home of persecutors, leaving Christian homes untouched.
These strange attacks have spread, and according to a report, the elephants have already destroyed more than 700 houses in 30 villages, and killed five people. Nobody in this area has seen or even imagined the unique appearance of a herd of wild elephants such as this.
The elephants are not ordinary elephants; they appear to be on a mission. Typically, smaller elephants enter a village first, appearing to survey the community. They then rejoin the larger herd, and larger elephant soon follow and get the job done.
The ministry partner in India stated "We think that it might have something to do with the avenging the blood of martyrs. In fact the fear of God has fallen on the local people, who have labeled these elephants "Christian elephants."
With little help coming from the administration, the villagers have taken to road blockades. "The elephants have destroyed crops and selected houses." But officials too express helplessness.
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
What will be next? And an amazing cat....
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."—C.S. Lewis
Airports Could Get Mind-Reading Scanners
Bill Christensen, technovelgy.com, Jan 29, 2010
Israeli company, WeCU Technologies is building a mind-reading scanner that can tell if a given traveler is a potential danger—without the subject's knowledge. WeCU Technologies (pronounced "we see you") is creating a system that would essentially turn the public spaces in airports into vast screening grounds:
"The system ... projects images onto airport screens, such as symbols associated with a certain terrorist group or some other image only a would-be terrorist would recognize, company CEO Ehud Givon said.
"The logic is that people can't help reacting, even if only subtly, to familiar images that suddenly appear in unfamiliar places. If you strolled through an airport and saw a picture of your mother, Givon explained, you couldn't help but respond.
"The reaction could be a darting of the eyes, an increased heartbeat, a nervous twitch or faster breathing, he said. The WeCU system would use humans to do some of the observing but would rely mostly on hidden cameras or covert biometric sensors that can detect a slight rise in body temperature and heart rate," as reported in Raw Story.
Science fiction writers have been playing with the idea of mind-reading machines for a long time. For example, you may recall the Veridicator from H. Beam Piper's 1962 novel Little Fuzzy:
"There was a bright conical helmet on his head, and electrodes had been clamped to various portions of his anatomy. On the wall behind him was a circular screen which ought to have been a calm turquoise blue, but which was flickering from dark blue through violet to mauve. That was simple nervous tension and guilt and anger at the humiliation of being subjected to veridicated interrogation. "
More recently, the Farscape science fiction series introduced the Aurora Chair, which was designed to extract information more efficiently than conventional interrogation methods. "The chair" is employed throughout the Peacekeeper military is believed one of the most effective means of gaining information from unwilling subjects. The chair can painfully sort through its subject's memories, pushing farther and harder depending on the setting. It is designed to sort through and uncover the mind's "layers".
Hopefully, the TSA won't start sponsoring research into Aurora Chair technology...
Book profiles furry angel of death: Oscar the cat
By Ray Henry, AP, Jan 31, 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)—The scientist in Dr. David Dosa was skeptical when first told that Oscar, an aloof cat kept by a nursing home, regularly predicted patients' deaths by snuggling alongside them in their final hours.
Dosa's doubts eroded after he and his colleagues tallied about 50 correct calls made by Oscar over five years, a process he explains in a book released this week, "Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat." (Hyperion, $23.99) The feline's bizarre talent astounds Dosa, but he finds Oscar's real worth in his fierce insistence on being present when others turn away from life's most uncomfortable topic: death.
"People actually were taking great comfort in this idea, that this animal was there and might be there when their loved ones eventually pass," Dosa said. "He was there when they couldn't be."
Dosa, 37, a geriatrician and professor at Brown University, works on the third floor of the Steere House, which treats patients with severe dementia. It's usually the last stop for people so ill they cannot speak, recognize their spouses and spend their days lost in fragments of memory.
He once feared that families would be horrified by the furry grim reaper, especially after Dosa made Oscar famous in a 2007 essay in the New England Journal of Medicine. Instead, he says many caregivers consider Oscar a comforting presence, and some have praised him in newspaper death notices and eulogies.
The nursing home adopted Oscar, a medium-haired cat with a gray-and-brown back and white belly, in 2005 because its staff thinks pets make the Steere House a home. They play with visiting children and prove a welcome distraction for patients and doctors alike.
After a year, the staff noticed that Oscar would spend his days pacing from room to room. He sniffed and looked at the patients but rarely spent much time with anyone—except when they had just hours to live.
He's accurate enough that the staff—including Dosa—know it's time to call family members when Oscar stretches beside their patients, who are generally too ill to notice his presence. If kept outside the room of a dying patient, he'll scratch at doors and walls, trying to get in.
Nurses once placed Oscar in the bed of a patient they thought gravely ill.
Oscar wouldn't stay put, and the staff thought his streak was broken.
Turns out, the medical professionals were wrong, and the patient rallied for two days. But in the final hours, Oscar held his bedside vigil without prompting.
Airports Could Get Mind-Reading Scanners
Bill Christensen, technovelgy.com, Jan 29, 2010
Israeli company, WeCU Technologies is building a mind-reading scanner that can tell if a given traveler is a potential danger—without the subject's knowledge. WeCU Technologies (pronounced "we see you") is creating a system that would essentially turn the public spaces in airports into vast screening grounds:
"The system ... projects images onto airport screens, such as symbols associated with a certain terrorist group or some other image only a would-be terrorist would recognize, company CEO Ehud Givon said.
"The logic is that people can't help reacting, even if only subtly, to familiar images that suddenly appear in unfamiliar places. If you strolled through an airport and saw a picture of your mother, Givon explained, you couldn't help but respond.
"The reaction could be a darting of the eyes, an increased heartbeat, a nervous twitch or faster breathing, he said. The WeCU system would use humans to do some of the observing but would rely mostly on hidden cameras or covert biometric sensors that can detect a slight rise in body temperature and heart rate," as reported in Raw Story.
Science fiction writers have been playing with the idea of mind-reading machines for a long time. For example, you may recall the Veridicator from H. Beam Piper's 1962 novel Little Fuzzy:
"There was a bright conical helmet on his head, and electrodes had been clamped to various portions of his anatomy. On the wall behind him was a circular screen which ought to have been a calm turquoise blue, but which was flickering from dark blue through violet to mauve. That was simple nervous tension and guilt and anger at the humiliation of being subjected to veridicated interrogation. "
More recently, the Farscape science fiction series introduced the Aurora Chair, which was designed to extract information more efficiently than conventional interrogation methods. "The chair" is employed throughout the Peacekeeper military is believed one of the most effective means of gaining information from unwilling subjects. The chair can painfully sort through its subject's memories, pushing farther and harder depending on the setting. It is designed to sort through and uncover the mind's "layers".
Hopefully, the TSA won't start sponsoring research into Aurora Chair technology...
Book profiles furry angel of death: Oscar the cat
By Ray Henry, AP, Jan 31, 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)—The scientist in Dr. David Dosa was skeptical when first told that Oscar, an aloof cat kept by a nursing home, regularly predicted patients' deaths by snuggling alongside them in their final hours.
Dosa's doubts eroded after he and his colleagues tallied about 50 correct calls made by Oscar over five years, a process he explains in a book released this week, "Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat." (Hyperion, $23.99) The feline's bizarre talent astounds Dosa, but he finds Oscar's real worth in his fierce insistence on being present when others turn away from life's most uncomfortable topic: death.
"People actually were taking great comfort in this idea, that this animal was there and might be there when their loved ones eventually pass," Dosa said. "He was there when they couldn't be."
Dosa, 37, a geriatrician and professor at Brown University, works on the third floor of the Steere House, which treats patients with severe dementia. It's usually the last stop for people so ill they cannot speak, recognize their spouses and spend their days lost in fragments of memory.
He once feared that families would be horrified by the furry grim reaper, especially after Dosa made Oscar famous in a 2007 essay in the New England Journal of Medicine. Instead, he says many caregivers consider Oscar a comforting presence, and some have praised him in newspaper death notices and eulogies.
The nursing home adopted Oscar, a medium-haired cat with a gray-and-brown back and white belly, in 2005 because its staff thinks pets make the Steere House a home. They play with visiting children and prove a welcome distraction for patients and doctors alike.
After a year, the staff noticed that Oscar would spend his days pacing from room to room. He sniffed and looked at the patients but rarely spent much time with anyone—except when they had just hours to live.
He's accurate enough that the staff—including Dosa—know it's time to call family members when Oscar stretches beside their patients, who are generally too ill to notice his presence. If kept outside the room of a dying patient, he'll scratch at doors and walls, trying to get in.
Nurses once placed Oscar in the bed of a patient they thought gravely ill.
Oscar wouldn't stay put, and the staff thought his streak was broken.
Turns out, the medical professionals were wrong, and the patient rallied for two days. But in the final hours, Oscar held his bedside vigil without prompting.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Another good news!
"A World without cancer" by G. Edward Griffin
is possible!
If you know someone who has cancer, please tell them to look at these sites, which have helped many to get proper healing, without all the bad side effects
http://curezone.com/diseases/cancer/breuss.asp
http://curezone.com/foods/laetrile.asp
http://curezone.com/diseases/cancer/
http://www.healthfreedom.info/Cancer%20Essiac.htm
As Meryl Streep said in: "First do no harm"
A lot of information and hope is withhelp from us...
So to make a wise decision about our life, body and future, let´s inform ourselves....
There is hope, and there is help available.
And prayer and faith helps a lot!
Please let us know if you or someone you know needs prayer.
Monday, 1 February 2010
Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich,
played by Julia Roberts, a true story,
have you seen this movie?
We just saw it and are very impressed and encouraged by it.
It is worth watching and shows what one person
with determination and love for others can do,
even if she has a lot against her...
A real miracle, a David against Goliath story,
played very well by Julia Roberts and others.
Please see also the commentaries and
comments by the real Erin Brockovich.
Have a good week,
Manuela
played by Julia Roberts, a true story,
have you seen this movie?
We just saw it and are very impressed and encouraged by it.
It is worth watching and shows what one person
with determination and love for others can do,
even if she has a lot against her...
A real miracle, a David against Goliath story,
played very well by Julia Roberts and others.
Please see also the commentaries and
comments by the real Erin Brockovich.
Have a good week,
Manuela
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