As we all believe Angels come from Mars...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Best friend copes the dirt
Monday, November 17, 2008
How big?...
It was this big...
Men and their... fibs...
Peter Evans - Fresh Cooking
A Moment of Nothingness
By Min Ko Naing - 88 Student Leader
Courtesy: All Burma Federation of Students
Being a dragon - evolving from having been a snake,
However there is no dragon crest to raise high.
Having imprinted configurations
On ones’ palms,
Yet there is no sign of luck to be proud of.
Everybody enters the race in the river
through their own preparation,
However, when one meets the waterfall unexpectedly,
Some ‘free-riders’ downstream scream in shock,
And some struggling upstream against the tide finally become helpless.
Numbers are increasing year after year,
However, there is no actual age to show people.
It could be still be called a life
Because we are still living and struggling,
However, there is no actual meaning to express.Original Message-Poem
Whislt at Sittwe Prison
Smuggled out of jail by another political prisoner.
To show, where there is a will there is a way...
the TRUTH finds its way OUT
toilet visit goes off with a bang
NOTE to self: never play with a cigarette lighter on the toilet - particularly after spraying the room with air freshener.
For 13-year-old German schoolboy Dennis Bueller, it's a lesson he won't forget.
The Recklinghausen lad was blasted out of the window of his bathroom from the fireball created by his dad's lighter which ignited the air freshener he had sprayed moments earlier.
"I began fiddling with a lighter my dad left in there and suddenly there was this big orange whoosh! of flame. I woke up outside with my clothes burned off me and smelling like a barbecue," Bueller said.
Bueller suffered burns to his face, arms, legs and upper body and will require months of treatment. He will need months of care.
Dad Artur, 31, said: "He said the downstairs loo smelled but I think he realises he was a bit dim in playing with a lighter."
Buddha reincarnation worshipped in Nepal
Second coming ... Ram Bahadur Bamjan re-emerged in Nepal to bless devotees after meditating without food and water for more than three years / AP
PEOPLE from all over the world are flocking to Nepal to worship a teenage boy who many believe is the reincarnation of Buddha.
Followers say Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 18, re-emerged from the Ratanpur jungle, about 160km south of Kathmandu, after meditating without food and water for more than three years, the Associated Press reports.
Ram, who was last spotted in the jungles of southern Nepal in 2005, is believed to have spent months without moving, sitting with his eyes closed beneath a tree.
During meditation Ram is also said to have been bitten by a snake on two separate occasions.
For those who worship such a feat, Ram's appearance was a chance to witness the miracle in the flesh.
Looking healthy and surrounded by a line of Buddhist monks, Ram blessed followers with the touch of the "divine" from atop a podium covered in yellow cloth.
"I got a chance to see God today. They say he is Buddha, but for me he is just God," said Bishnu Maya Khadka.
Ram, who has never claimed to be Buddha, is expected to address his followers on November 18 and then retreat again into the jungle for meditation.
November 13, 2008 01:15pm
Sex and Lust are two different things
Now with the new Family Law ammended where the naughty wanting a harem are to pay maintenance to their Xs, Dear Father Pell has this for us... Now let's pay attention shall we... :)
Sex has the power to purify or corrupt
The Sunday Telegraph
November 16, 2008 12:00am
LUST is still one of the seven deadly sins, but not because Christians are spoilsports. A disordered sexual appetite causes damage.
Healthy sexual desire is a blessing, but like every desire it needs to be trained, well directed and restrained.
We now recognise that sexual addiction is as much a disease as addiction to drugs or alcohol, because habits feed on themselves for good or ill.
Lust is the deadly sin this week because of the recent sad news that NSW is suffering from an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers.
The rate of diagnosed chlamydia among girls and young women is more than double that among teenage boys and young men.
Those aged 16 to 24 had the highest percentage of such infections, and south-east Sydney and the Hunter region were the worst-affected areas.
Lust is more of a problem among older age groups than it is among teenagers, but it's sad to see some of them making trouble for themselves in the future with the threat of infertility, as they are encouraged to drift into disordered patterns of life while still at school.
Across Australia, 50,000 youngsters tested positive for chlamydia last year, more than 12,000 of them in NSW. Disturbingly high rates were found among 15-year-olds.
Doctors estimate the real rate of annual infections at a quarter of a million a year, because many of those infected are either too embarrassed to seek medical help or persist in thinking they're invincible - that such diseases only strike others.
Too many of our young people are sold short on sex, because nobody is telling them the whole truth and many have to learn solely from their mistakes.
They're relentlessly encouraged to reject the traditional Christian teachings on sexuality, usually without any sort of examination or comparative assessment.
It's evidence of a very low estimate of young people's altruism to tell 15- and 16-year-olds that the best answer to sexually transmitted diseases is a condom.
No one is perfect, and our instincts are partially disordered, but human beings are more than a mass of uncontrollable desires.
Sexual activity is lit by a fire, sacred or profane, that in the long term either purifies or corrupts.
It is not as morally neutral as other physical activities. Nor is it a recreational right, because sexual activity should be linked to love.
And love comes from our hearts and changes the core of our being.
Lust is selfish and uses the partner as an object. Love is unselfish, concerned for the loved one.
In the Christian scheme, love, openness to children and sexual activity are linked together as a worthy ideal - a trinity preparing for marriage and family. True love is urged to wait.
Truly human teaching on sexuality recognises the need for ideals as well as human weakness.
Lust is a damaging thing, an easy option, but true love is precious and different.
Cardinal Pell is Australia's most senior Catholic cleric.
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