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Parenting Quotes and Sayings

2012-02-27T11:25:00.000Z

A compilation of parenting quotes for expectant parents as well as all those who enjoy parenting. For single moms quotes kindly go here.

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis

Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson

A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided. ~Robert Brault

A mother who is really a mother is never free. ~Honore de Balzac

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Osho

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself. ~Joyce Maynard

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank Howard Clark

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. ~Ron Taffel

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being. ~Evan Bayh

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. ~John F. Kennedy

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~Theodore Hesburgh

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. ~Voltaire

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. ~Buddha

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings. ~Kelly LeBrock

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. ~Miriam Makeba

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. ~Todd Tiahrt

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. ~David Frost

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. ~Roy L. Smith

If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. ~Barbara Colorose

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. ~John Boehner

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out. ~Matthew Broderick

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ~Carl Jung

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. ~Norma Shearer

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. ~Tina Turner

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. ~Christy Turlington

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ~Doug Larson

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. ~Liza Minelli

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? ~Ellen Goodman

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. ~Susie Bright

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. ~Olivia Newton-John

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. ~Bruce Jenner

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. ~Todd Tiahrt

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. ~Roberto Benigni

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship. ~Connie Sellecca

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. ~George Bernard Shaw

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy. ~Kamisese Mara

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free. ~John Walters

Friendship Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings

2012-02-25T16:47:00.000Z

A collection of ancient proverbs on the issue of friendship, as well as, some of the finest thoughts, quotes and sayings on friendship from some of the best thinkers the world has seen.

Friendship Quotes and Sayings

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable. ~Anonymous

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ~St. Thomas Aquinas

The friendship that can cease has never been real. ~St. Jerome

A friend to all is a friend to none. ~Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~Aristotle

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Mencius

True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ~Elbert Hubbard

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~Albert Camus

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. ~Robert Hall

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. ~John D. Rockefeller

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold H. Glasow

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ~Buddha

Friends are born, not made. ~Henry B. Adams

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ~George Washington

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. ~Margaret Walker

Friendship and money: oil and water. ~Mario Puzo

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault

The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ~Francesco Guicciardini

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. ~Joseph Roux

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~Dale Carnegie

Friendship Proverbs and Sayings

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. ~Indian proverb

Gold is proved in the fire, friendship in need. ~Danish proverb

In forming new friendships, forget not old friends. ~Latin proverb

Your friend's enemy might be your best friend. ~German proverb

Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all. ~Moroccan proverb

Presents keep friendship warm. ~German proverb

So long as the pot is boiling, friendship will stay warm. ~Arab proverb

May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together. ~Malagasy proverb

Better an honest enemy than a false friend. ~German proverb

In times of difficulty, friendship is on trial. ~Greek proverb

Distrust is poison to friendship. ~Danish proverb

Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. ~Chinese proverb

Separation secures manifest friendship. ~Indian proverb

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish proverb

Honest advice doesn't destroy true friendship. ~African proverb

A youth that does not cultivate friendship with the elderly is like a tree without roots. ~Ntomba proverb

There are many kinds of fruit that grow on the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship. ~American proverb

The silence resulting from absence has destroyed many a friendship. ~Latin proverb

Friendship is love with intelligence. ~German proverb

Warm food, warm friendships. ~Czech proverb

Friendship is a plant we must often water. ~German proverb

Kind words heal friendship's wounds. ~Danish proverb

If you choose to make friendship with a pig you must be prepared to live in the mad. ~African proverb

To preserve friendship, one must build walls. ~Italian proverb

True friendship does not freeze in the winter. ~German proverb

Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun. ~Japanese proverb

The more intimate the friendship the deadlier the enmity. ~African proverb

Offer not the right hand of friendship to every one. ~Latin proverb

Your friendship is your needs answered. ~Danish proverb

Friendship is an empty word if it only works one way. ~American proverb

A friendship that dies is never reborn. ~Belizean proverb

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ~Spanish proverb

Little presents maintain friendship. ~French proverb

In adversity is when friendship is proven. ~Portuguese proverb

Friendship likes distance. ~Maasai proverb

A frequent accounting, a long friendship. ~Sicilian proverb

As mills require two stones, so friendship requires two heads. ~Armenian proverb

Friendship lasts as long as the pot boils. ~Latin proverb

Better to lose a little money than a little friendship. ~Malagasy proverb

Mutual gifts cement friendship. ~Ivorian proverb

The person who has no enemies also has no friends. ~German proverb

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2012-02-25T09:45:00.002Z

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Overcoming challenges with bunk beds, and a little imagination

2012-02-22T19:22:00.003Z

The world we live in today is a challenging place in many respects. There is a sense of foreboding for many people who are suffering, particularly those who have the knowledge that the challenges that need to be overcome are largely out of our hands. There is an abundance of conflict and upheaval in the world, and as economic tides are posed all the time to crash down on much of the world, the countries that are trying to swim back to the surface are having many citizens who are having a difficult time overcoming the adversity and staying afloat.

In western culture it has become a regular practice to try and make what ever cut possible to spending, getting rid of nearly any kind of extra, eliminating unneeded energy production, reusing items, and doing whatever possible to survive. However, this still is not enough for some. To try and make things work, a common practice right now is to have families work together, or extended families moving in with each other to help lessen the burden. What some soon find out however is that space is nearly worth its weight in gold.

To help regain as much area as possible many families have gone to utilizing bunk beds. For many people these are beds that are looked at as something for children, or a summer camp, but the truth is it has been used by adults for centuries. In fact, some experts believe that some of the first bunk beds were created by the ancient Egyptians.

Now you can find these amazing beds being as comfortable as just about any other kind of bed on the market. It is also possible to get them as big as queen sized, and this can have a wonderful impact on space when you are dealing with a cramped or confined space.

In addition to being immediately beneficial, bunk beds also can host other options as well. They are able to have attachments that will add on to include things like shelving, cabinets, drawers, and even a special desk. This can be a real help to anyone from a business owner and college student, to simply a child needing to do their homework. Plus, bunk beds can also come apart to form two separate beds in the future as you need them to. This is a great option as your space requirements improve, without having to spend extra money.

When it comes to the challenges that the world presents us, it is important that we hold on to our hope and use our imaginations a little bit. Overcoming economic obstacles can be done, the real challenge is doing so without also loosing sight of happiness and your faith that it will all work out. It will if you keep your faith.

How Focus can Help You be a Better Blogger

2012-02-18T08:39:00.000Z

This is a guest post by Bamidele Onibalusi of YoungPrePro.

One major problem that plagues this generation like never before is distractions. We’re now so used and involved with technologies that they’ve become a part of us, and while these has its own advantages I think disadvantages can be overwhelming for someone who doesn’t know what she is doing.

This rings even through for bloggers; it is our work to create; we have to research and curate content for our readers and we have to be the best at what we do, but the distractions we’re dealing with every day is not allowing us to achieve these goals.

Distractions is making a lot of bloggers get mediocre results; most bloggers are so involved with internet technology that they find it difficult to update their blogs and they have zero time to market themselves.

FOCUS Is the Key

In a situation like this what we need is focus. Unfortunately, it is easier said than done and a lot of us still struggle with it even after we think we’re above it. I’ve been working on ways to cure distractions and be my most productive self lately and I’ll be sharing a few tips on how to do the same below.

It’s All About Your Mindset

Something really important you should know when dealing with distractions as a blogger is that it is all about your mindset…and nothing else. Yes, there are tools that can help cut out the distractions, and there are exercises you can do to ensure you’re not being distracted but the reality is that you will end up achieving zero to no results without the right mindset.

Success is extremely difficult to achieve, especially online, due to the distractions we face and a lot of people won’t move forward unless they are able to train themselves into overcoming these distractions.

Personally, I think the first step you can take to help you overcome distractions is to have the right mindset; tell yourself this and make yourself believe it, that you don’t have a choice or any other avenue to succeed except your blogging and be determined to eliminate any obstacle that might stand in your way. Of course, one of these obstacles will be distractions but you have to fight it, and over time you will be able to make yourself believe you have no choice and start getting the results you want.

Tools to Help You Overcome Distractions and Focus More
Of course, having the right mindset is cool but you will hardly be able to win if everything around you is a distraction, which is why it is more important than ever to have some tools. Personally, I believe any blogger is only as good as her tools so I will be sharing some of my favorite tools when it comes to overcoming distractions here.

1. A Standing Table: I’m always at my best when standing when working and that for good reasons too; by standing I experience a new level of pain that ensures I’m only able to focus on the task at hand so I can get done with it asap, it also helps me focus and ensures I’m not a victim of the dangers that comes with sitting for prolonged hours.

2. A Second Computer: I’ve been used to doing most of my writing on my main computer for some time now until recently when I got a new computer. That new computer was the solution I needed to my distractions problem and I find myself being able to focus anytime I turn to it. Since the main purpose of the computer is to help you write you have to make sure the internet is not installed on it, instead, only install apps that aid your writing.

3. Distraction Free Software: Distraction free software like Writeroom for Mac or Darkroom for Windows can be very useful if you want to gain focus as a blogger. The main function of these tools is to block out your entire window and only leave you with one window; a plain one that takes your whole screen and leaves you with an option to write.

4. Music: This might not work for you but it’s worth giving it a try to see if you will be at your best under the influence of good music. Personally, when I find a place boring and I find it difficult to concentrate the solution I turn to is good music. I already have a playlist on my phone loaded with my favorite music and I turn it on whenever I want to write or do something productive. The result is that I feel motivated and pushed to do something and the result is more productivity and focus on my part.

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Facebook Quotes of the day

2012-01-31T21:46:00.001Z

Use your smile to change the world; don't let the world change your smile. ~Anonymous

A man who treats his woman like a princess is a proof that he has been born and raised in the arms of a queen. ~Anonymous

Life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness is. Noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence. ~Anonymous

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~Sir John Lubbock

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. ~Anthony Robbins

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ~Winston Churchill

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. ~Zig Ziglar

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If wealth is the secret to happiness, then the rich should be dancing on the street. But only poor kids do that. If power ensures security, then officials and politicians should walk unguarded. But those who live simply, sleep soundly. If beauty and fame bring ideal relationships, then celebrities should have the best marriages. Live simply. Walk humbly. Love genuinely. Life will become beautiful and meaningful too. ~Anonymous

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ~Leonardo da Vinci

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. ~Golda Meir

Don’t fall for words. Fall for actions. ~Anonymous

If people are talking behind your back, congratulations. It means you are far in front. ~Anonymous

I don't care how much power, brilliance, or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there, you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants. ~Zig Ziglar

Let your past make you better not bitter. ~Anonymous

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. ~Anonymous

Don’t live in the past. You might miss the great things happening in your present. ~Anonymous

Quotes on Attention

2012-01-30T17:45:00.000Z

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ~Richard Moss

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. ~Mary Oliver

Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention. ~Sonia Rumzi

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. ~Dale Carnegie

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me. ~Steve Jobs

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. ~Lou Holtz

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. ~Jim Rohn

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ~George Washington Carver

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. ~David Ogilvy

The true art of memory is the art of attention. ~Samuel Johnson

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ~Alexander Graham Bell

Rape Quotes and Comments

2012-01-23T00:20:00.000Z

The rape of noblewoman Lucretia

There is a saying in Africa that goes like this, "The ax forgets, the tree remembers." This is true about rape too.

What is rape? Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. ("Rape" Wikipedia , January 2012) There are various types of rape such as date rape, gang rape, marital rape, incestual rape, child sexual abuse, prison rape, acquaintance rape, war rape, etc.

Interesting Quotes on Rape:

I prefer to characterize rape simply as a form of torture. Like the torturer, the rapist is motivated by the urge to dominate, humiliate, and destroy his victim. Like a torturer, he does so by using the most intimate acts available to humans -- sexual ones. ~Helen Benedict (Virgin or Vamp, 1992)

Perhaps it is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety. ~Freda Adler (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal, 1975)

Most commonly, rape is a crime of opportunity; the victim is chosen not because of her looks or behavior, but because she is there. ~Helen Benedict (Virgin or Vamp, 1992)

In giving language to my experience, I hope I can make rape less 'unspeakable.' I hope to dispel at least some part of the fear and shame that has made victims mute. ~Nancy Raine (After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back, 1998)

Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it (because we always find a way to blame the woman for letting it happen). In other words, rape is awful— except in war, where the enemy's women are part of the plunder; except in marriage, where a man is entitled by law to have sexual relations with his wife even if against her will; and except in extenuating circumstances where the mere presence of a wornan is cause for a man to rape her. ~Victoria Billings (The womansbook, 1974)

Rape is loss. Like death, it is best treated with a period of mourning and grief. We should develop social ceremonies for rape, rituals, that, like funerals and wakes, would allow the mourners to recover the spirits that the rapist, like death, steals. The social community is the appropriate center for the restoration of spirit, but the rape victim is usually shamed into silence or self-imposed isolation. ~Researcher Metzger (American Journal of Psychiatry, 1976)

I want to see this men's movement make a commitment to ending rape because that is the only meaningful commitment to equality. It is astonishing that in all our worlds of feminism and antisexism we never talk seriously about ending rape. Ending it. Stopping it. No more. No more rape. In the back of our minds, are we holding on to its inevitability as the last preserve of the biological? Do we think that it is always going to exist no matter what we do? All of our political actions are lies if we don't make a commitment to ending the practice of rape. This commitment has to be political. It has to be serious. It has to be systematic. It has to be public. It can't be self-indulgent. ~Andrea Dworkin (I Want a Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape, 1983)

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice. ~Gloria Steinem

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ~Eric Hoffer

I think when a person has been found guilty of rape he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick. ~Billy Graham

Rape is the easiest charge to make and the most difficult to prove. ~Anonymous

Simple Quotes and Short Quotes

2012-01-19T19:12:00.001Z

One Word Quotes

Believe.

Relax.

Patience.

Listen.

Smile.

Love.

2 Words Quotes

Don't worry.

Fear not.

Have faith.

Stay focus.

Move on.

3 Words Quotes

Genius is patience. ~George Louis Leclere

Time is money. ~Benjamin Franklin

Remember to Live. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought is free. ~William Shakespeare

Circumstances alter faces. ~Carolyn Wells

Knowledge is power. ~Thomas Hobbes

Friends are treasures. ~Horace Burns

It is possible.

Never give up.

Life is awesome.

Health is wealth.

Do your best.

Be the change.

All is well.

Nothing is impossible.

Short Funny Quotes

Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed. ~George Bernard Shaw

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed. ~Chris Rock

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable. ~Shimon Peres

Common sense ain't common. ~Will Rogers

When in doubt, tell the truth. ~Mark Twain

Chess is mental torture. ~Gary Kasparov

All diseases run into one, old age. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

All power corrupts, but we need electricity. ~Haythum R. Khalid

Short Wise Quotes

Love all, trust a few. ~William Shakespeare

A prudent question is one half of wisdom. ~Francis Bacon

The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde

A witty saying proves nothing. ~Voltaire

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. ~Diana Black

Eve Teasing and Sexual Harassment

2012-01-14T13:04:00.001Z

During the week I was listening to BBC radio and some woman gave an unfortunate account of sexual harassment she experienced first hand by a group of Indian teen boys at her visit to India. That was the first time I heard of the word Eve Teasing.

I'm first of all not surprised at all at the rise and rise of sexual immorality and perversion in general. I think that is what happens when the world forgets the importance of womanhood and family. This dysfunctional sexual appetite shown by these Indian teens are a direct reflection of what our culture has inherited from its love of pleasure and disdain for responsibility. This sexual molestation has different dimensions in different parts of Asia and the world. It is a big problem in not only India but Japan as well.

"I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?" (Job 31:1 RSV)

Definitions of terms:

Eve teasing is a phrase used for public sexual harassment or molestation of women by men, with use of the word "Eve" being a reference to the biblical Eve, the first woman. It is a sexual perversion that seems to be popular in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Chikan is a Japanese word that refers to the public molestation or the person who commits such an act. It is frequently used to refer to groping, often on crowded Japanese trains.

Frotteurism refers to a paraphilic interest in rubbing, usually one's pelvis or erect penis, against a non-consenting person for sexual gratification. It may involve touching any part of the body including the genital area. A person who practices frotteurism is known as a frotteur. The majority of frotteurs are male and the majority of victims are female, although female on male, female on female, and male on male frotteurs exist.

Immoral fashion among girls and women are catalyst to this. I also believe Japanese pornography and their hentai are contribution to this menace. Likewise, India and surrounding countries have their own share of sexual compromises that has resulted to this most shameful practice by some of their citizens.

Let's return to Christ and be healed from this once and for all:

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:27-28 RSV)

Does Jesus Hate Religion Too?

2012-01-14T01:14:00.001Z

Fellow Christian brother Jeffrey Bethke has come up with an interesting and controversial poem and I'll like to share and make some comments concerning his poem about King Jesus Christ and Religion. The poem is entitled, "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus" Jeffrey Bethke and I both agree to what the Bible says about grace: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV) Amen. Indeed, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:14-16 KJV) Amen.

Below is the poem Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus:

What if I told you, Jesus came to abolish religion?
What if I told you getting you to vote republican, really wasn’t his mission?
Because republican doesn’t automatically mean Christian,
And just because you call some people blind, doesn’t automatically give you vision.
If religion is so great, why has it started so many wars?
Why does it build huge churches, but fails to feed the poor?
Tells single moms God doesn’t love them if they’ve ever been divorced
Yet God in the Old Testament actually calls the religious people whores
Religion preaches grace, but another thing they practice,
Tend to ridicule Gods people, they did it to John the Baptist,
Cant fix their problems, so they try to mask it,
Not realizing that’s just like spraying perfume on a casket
Because the problem with religion is that it never gets to the core,
It’s just behavior modification, like a long list of chores.
Let’s dress up the outside, make things look nice and neat,
Its funny that’s what they do to mummies, while the corpse rots underneath,
Now I ain’t judging I’m just saying be careful of putting on a fake look,
Because there’s a problem if people only know that you’re a Christian by that little section on your Facebook
In every other aspect of life you know that logics unworthy
Its like saying you play for the Lakers just because you bought a jersey
But see I played this game too; no one seemed to be on to me,
I was acting like church kid, while addicted to pornography.
I’d go to church on Sunday, but on Saturday getting faded,
Acting as if I was simply created to have sex and get wasted.
Spend my whole life putting on this façade of neatness,
But now that I know Jesus, I boast in my weakness.
If grace is water, then the church should be an ocean,
Cuz its not a museum for good people, it’s a hospital for the broken
I no longer have to hide my failures I don’t have to hide my sin,
Because my salvation doesn’t depend on me, it depends on him.
because when I was Gods enemy and certainly not a fan,
God looked down on me and said, “I want that man!”
Which is so different from religious people, and why Jesus called em fools
Don’t you see he’s so much better than just following some rules?
Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the bible, and I believe in sin
But my question, is if Jesus were here today, would your church let Him in?
Remember He was called a drunkard and a glutton by “religious men”
The Son of God not supported self-righteousness, not now, not then.

Now back to the topic, one thing I think is vital to mention,
How Jesus and religion are on opposite spectrums,
One is the work of God one is a man made invention,
One is the cure and one is the infection.
Because Religion says do, Jesus says done.
Religion says slave, Jesus says son,
Religion puts you in shackles but Jesus sets you free.
Religion makes you blind, but Jesus lets you see.

This is what makes religion and Jesus two different clans,
Religion is man searching for God, but Christianity is God searching for man.
Which is why salvation is freely mine, forgiveness is my own,
Not based on my efforts, but Christ’s obedience alone.
Because he took the crown of thorns, and blood that dripped down his face
He took what we all deserved, that’s why we call it grace.
While being murdered he yelled “father forgive them, they know not what they do”,
Because when he was dangling on that cross, he was thinking of you
He paid for all your sin, and then buried it in the tomb,
Which is why im kneeling at the cross now saying come on there’s room
So know I hate religion, in fact I literally resent it,
Because when Jesus cried It is finished, I believe He meant it.

Question: Does Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour really and truly hate anything religion? Let's do some search in the Gospel.

"Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not." (Matthew 23:1-3 KJV)

This is one clear example in the Gospel that our Lord Jesus Christ directly points out that the Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. Historically speaking, Moses' seat is a seat representing the authority that the teachers of the Law have tracing its root to the Prophet Moses himself. Our Lord did not totally condemn Religious people all together but encouraged that the people should observe and do whatever these Religious people say except that their lifestyle of hypocrisy should not be blindly followed. For they preach the truth but choose to live a lie. It is unfair to condemn all Religious people because of some very bad nuts.

Also, historically speaking, most Evangelical Christians don't like the word Religion. The word Religious and Religion seem to be foreign to the New Testament revelation and the Gospel of our Lord in the eyes of most Christians today, but this is not the biblical case at all. Let see what the Bible says about Religion, shall we?

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (James 1:27 KJV)

Would the Word of God promote a bad thing? Think about it prayerfully. Thank you.

Is Catholicism A False Denomination?

2012-01-12T12:49:00.001Z

Question: Is Catholicism a false denomination?

Simple answer: No.

Common sense answer: Catholicism is not a denomination to begin with.All denominations have human founder(s). Catholicism has no such founder but claims the Founder of founders, Christ Jesus as its founder.

Answer from Scripture scholar Gamaliel, teacher of Saint Paul the Apostle (see Acts 22:3): "Men of Israel, take care what you do with these men. For before these days Theu'das arose, giving himself out to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him; but he was slain and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing. After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him; he also perished, and all who followed him were scattered. So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone; FOR IF THIS PLAN OR THIS UNDERTAKING IS OF MEN, IT WILL FAIL; BUT IF IT IS OF GOD, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO OVERTHROW THEM. YOU MIGHT EVEN BE FOUND OPPOSING GOD!" (Acts 5:35-39 emphasis mine) The Catholic Church for almost 2000 years since its founding has proved to the world that it is NOT THE WORK OF MAN BUT GOD!

Answer from Church history: Catholicism is the tree from which many fallen branches called denominations crept up from. In other words, Catholicism is that tree planted by the Christ and whose fruits are entrusted to the Apostles and their faithful disciples (successors). See below video for more:

Answer from Devil's advocate: Let's say Catholicism is a denomination. From which body is it coming from? Judaism? If indeed it came from Judaism then Judaism must be the one true Church and all are bond by God and conscience to convert to Judaism. However, this cannot be the case since Catholicism in itself is not an offshoot of Judaism but a fulfillment of Judaism as it's founder fulfilled the Laws and the Prophets. Judaism is to the Old Covenant as Catholicism is to the New.

Money, Wealth, Riches and Poverty

2012-01-08T16:32:00.000Z

You make golden vessels, but Christ himself is starving. You make golden chalices, but fail to offer cups of cold water to the needy. Christ, as a homeless stranger, is wandering around and begging, and instead of receiving Him you make decorations. ~Saint John Chrysostom

I am yet to see anyone out there who becomes rich as a result of making others rich. It almost seems that the rich become wealthy either by keeping others poor directly or indirectly.

This is what Scripture says about money and wealth:

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. (Matthew 6:19-20 RSV)

For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs. (1 Timothy 6:10 RSV)

You honour the altar at church because the body of Christ rests upon it. But those who are themselves the very body of Christ you treat with contempt and you remain indifferent when you see them perishing. ~Saint John Chrysostom

God wants You to Honour Your Parents

2012-01-08T16:15:00.001Z

Today it seems strange if not totally foreign to see adults being submissive and obedient to their parents. Even (most) teens do not obey their parents any longer. Gone are the days when parents had authority over their own children. As a Christian, it is refreshing to know that Jesus Christ was still under the roof of His parent (mother) even at the age of 30 years, before the beginning of His public ministry. In our world today, a matured man at that same age under his parent’s roof (and equally submissive to his parent) would be classified as both lazy and foolish. Isn’t this quite interesting?

The following are what the Scripture says about obedience to our fathers and mothers:

Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you. (Exodus 20:12 RSV)

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 19:3 RSV)

Honour your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you. (Deuteronomy 5:16 RSV)

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 RSV)

Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old. (Proverbs 23:22 RSV)

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures. (Proverbs 30:17 RSV)

For God commanded, 'Honour your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.' (Matthew 15:4 RSV)

Honour your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. (Matthew 19:19 RSV)

For Moses said, 'Honour your father and your mother'; and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die' (Mark 7:10 RSV)

You know the commandments: 'Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honour your father and mother.' (Mark 10:19 RSV)

You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour your father and mother.' (Luke 18:20 RSV)

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honour your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth." (Ephesians 6:1-3 RSV)

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. (Colossians 3:20 RSV)

Living a life as a Christian in poverty

2011-12-29T19:29:00.000Z

Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort once said, “Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food.” I believe from experience and observation that poverty is hunger accompanied with inadequate treated water for consumption. It is not having money to buy enough food (whether good and hygienic food is another issue altogether) as Mahatma Gandhi said, “To a man with an empty stomach food is God.” Poverty can also be the lack of proper houses available for rent at an affordable rate or worst, the lack of shelter itself. Poverty is depending on second-hand clothes because you cannot afford new ones. Poverty can also be the denial of access to quality health services due to your economic and social status. Poverty is not being able to continue schooling, not having a job or the imprisonment of your fundamental privileges not because of political, racial or religious restrictions, rather due to lack of available options in daily living. Poverty in one way or another has impacts on how we participate and interact in our society. As human beings born in liberty in one form or another, we are likely to take certain crucial things for granted such as water, food, clothing just to name a few. This happens because we think they are readily available to our disposal and therefore could be handled in ways that pleases us. I am sorry to say that this careless habits stops at the exposure of poverty and its many impacts in life.

Before I present some ways I believe we Christians can “live” in poverty without compromising our faith, let us give sincere recognition and appreciation of all the various wonderful things that God has seen us through over the years. St. Paul tells us of how our Lord Jesus Christ emptied himself completely for our sake through his humanity, humility, humiliation and death at the cross, that we might share in His Divine richness: “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.” (2 Corinthian 8:9 ASV) One of the focal point of our faith is the Kingdom of God, Heaven. We are warned throughout Sacred Scripture not to lose focus of this. Money is the line that practically divides the rich from the poor. Again, St. Paul tells us in his epistle to Timothy that, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” (1 Timothy 6:10 ASV) One may ask, “How do I manage this unfriendly and unfamiliar sudden change in life?” Well, I can only share what my family and I do and hopes it may enlighten you in a way. We always plan ahead and do our best to make good use of the little food that is available to us. Practically, we do not waste money on junk foods and drinks that one would like to spoil himself with. We cook food that we can eat and we usually do not need to eat three square meals daily. I like to take something light in the morning such as some slice of bread and cocoa drink. I have also trained my body and mind over time in such a way that I can live on two meals daily. I do not eat meat and chicken, only fish. This I believe is a good spiritual exercise as well. It makes me focus more on things of God than the allures of material things such as latest fashion trends and clothing, tech gadgets and unnecessary outings. I am refreshed every time I remember these words of my Lord and Saviour, “Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?” (Matthew 6:25 ASV) It is very relieving in learning how to live without most of the material things that gives me temporary pleasures. I believe these testing times are great opportunities for me to dig deeper into the awesome things of God and to live a life of prayer. Finally, I should add that these trying moments are the times to demonstrate your love and care for one another. You and your family/friend can together contribute some money to buy things like bag of rice, etc and share among yourselves. This I believe is very cost effective. You need each other in these times. I leave you with the words of St. Paul to the church in Philippi, “I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.” (Philippians 4:13 ASV) Yes, I believe by God’s grace you can survive and endure these moments too. Thank you.

PS: I wrote this article to a friend of mine in the year 2009. I am now a full vegetarian, I don't take fish anymore and many things have changed too :)

Prayer for Atheists and Infidels

2011-12-29T12:21:00.000Z

ETERNAL GOD, the Maker of all things, remember
that the souls of unbelievers have been created by
Thee, and that they have been made after thy own
image and likeness. Behold, O LORD, to thy
dishonour, with these very souls hell is filled.

Remember, O GOD, that for their salvation thy
SON JESUS CHRIST underwent a most cruel
death. O LORD, suffer not that thy SON be
despised by unbelievers; but, appeased by the
prayers of holy men and of the Church, the Spouse
of thy most holy SON, remember thy own pity,
and, forgetting their idolatry and their unbelief,
bring to pass that they may at length acknowledge
thy SON JESUS CHRIST, who is our salvation, life,
and resurrection, through whom we are saved and
set free; to whom be glory from age to age without
end. Amen.

Prayer of St Francis Xavier for the Conversion of Infidels.

Why Christmas? Biblical root of Christmas

2011-12-22T01:16:00.001Z

Well, Christmas is all about the prophesied Messiah in the person of Christ Jesus as foretold by the great prophet Isaiah in the days of old. The key verse for the reason for the Christmas season is found in Isaiah chapter 7: We should note that Christmas is the feast day of our Lord's birth (i.e His Incarnation) and not necessary the actual date for His birth. Thank you.

(Isaiah 7:14 HOT) לכן יתן אדני הוא לכם אות הנה העלמה הרה וילדת בן וקראת שׁמו עמנו אל׃

(Isaiah 7:14 LXX) διὰ τοῦτο δώσει κύριος αὐτὸς ὑμῖν σημεῖον· ἰδοὺ ἡ παρθένος ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξει καὶ τέξεται υἱόν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Εμμανουηλ·

(Isaiah 7:14 Vulgate) propter hoc dabit Dominus ipse vobis signum ecce virgo concipiet et pariet filium et vocabitis nomen eius Emmanuhel

(Isaiah 7:14 RSV) Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a virgen shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Imman'u-el.

A man in love is no simple thing

2011-12-19T00:16:00.001Z

Girl: I wonder how boys feel when they are in love. Do they get butterflies? Do they have you on their mind 24/7? Do they wait for you to come online for hours? Do they smile at random times at the thought of you? Do they miss you all the time? Do they think about the smallest things to say?

Boy: We boys don’t get butterflies, we get fireworks. We don’t have you on our mind 24/7, but we do have you on our hearts. Often, yes we wait for you to go online, sometimes simply even just being online makes our heart skip a beat, even if we don’t talk. Whenever you talk to us, our face forms that half-smile; it means we are happy but are trying our hardest to not show it, and fail at hiding it. We do miss you all the time; granted, we’d spend all our time with you if possible. We don’t think of the smallest things you say, we think of every word you say, panicking at every single word, trying to define what it really means, to read between the lines. But wait there’s more.

We would love you in a million ways. And once we start loving you there is no going back for us. No matter how hard we try we will always love a girl that has touched us. Us boys when in love will think of that girl first thing in the morning, and think of that girl last before we sleep at night. Whenever we see a couple, our thoughts immediately jump to that girl, and imagine that the couple was us. Every single detail about her is loved; the way she walks, talks, speaks. The sound of her voice. Her laughter. The sparkle in her eyes. Her shy smile. The way she dresses. That cute face she makes when she’s asleep. And the way she says our name that our hearts just explode with mirth, a simple act that no-one else can replicate.

A boy in love with a girl is no simple thing, though ladies stereotype us guys as simple. A man in love is not simple. No. He will be unpredictable. He will be persistent, stubborn, and given the circumstances, if it means carrying you from one side of the world to the other to win your heart, a man in love would. He will be a martyr, giving his all and asking for almost none. He will show you how to appreciate the beauty of the world in a thousand ways, and then he will tell you how much he appreciates your beauty in a million ways.

A man in love is no simple thing. When he loves, he loves with his entire being. To him, you are everything, his entire universe. Beginning and End.

Funny Ghanaian Police

2011-12-15T19:37:00.002Z

Some where in Ghana, West Africa. . .

The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. ~Nicolas Chamfort

Humility Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs

2011-12-14T21:16:00.001Z

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. ~Johannes Tauler

IN Paradise there are many Saints who never gave alms on earth: their poverty justified them. There are many Saints who never mortified their bodies by fasting, or wearing hair shirts: their bodily infirmities excused them. There are many Saints too who were not virgins: their vocation was otherwise. But in Paradise there is no Saint who was not humble. ~Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ~Henry Ward Beecher

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. ~Hasidic Saying

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons. ~Saint John Climacus

Humility is attentive patience. ~Simone Weil

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility. ~Laurel Lee

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. ~Swami Sivananda

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. ~Saint Augustine of Hippo

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ~Thomas Merton

True humility is contentment. ~Henri Frederic Amiel

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. ~Saint Thomas Moore

Humility is the only certain defense against humiliation. ~Anonymous

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. ~Benjamin Franklin

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. ~Mahatma Gandhi

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God. ~Monica Baldwin

Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James Matthew Barrie

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~Rabindranath Tagore

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ~Isaac Newton

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~George Arliss

Humility makes great men twice honorable ~Benjamin Franklin

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. ~Charles H. Spurgeon

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. ~Kong Fu Zi

Without humility there can be no humanity. ~John Buchan

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces. ~William Gurnall

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ~James Montgomery

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. ~François de la Rochefoucauld

Silly Humility Quotes and Sayings

Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows. ~Helen Nielsen

One may be humble out of pride. ~Michel de Montaigne

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? ~Joan Baez

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

Funny Humility Quotes and Sayings

At the feast of ego everyone leaves hungry. ~Anonymous

Every animal knows more than you do. ~Nez Perce Proverb

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ~C. S. Lewis

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. ~William Penn

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name. ~Muhammad Ali Jinnah

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. ~Lawrence G. Lovasik

Humility is pride in God. ~Austin O'Malley

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. ~Nicholai Velimirovic

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ~George Bernard Shaw

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. ~Dwight David Eisenhower

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. ~Fran Lebowitz

If I had any humility I would be perfect. ~Ted Turner

Women Weight Loss Competition

2011-12-14T15:20:00.002Z

Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you. ~African Proverb

Mandy a 26 years old mother

Skinny is Sexy?
Honestly, I don't know what still inspire most girls and women with the idea that fat is evil and thin is gorgeous; the mentality that the skinnier a female is the better she looks.

Maddy a 16 years old girl

What on earth would make a pretty girl starve herself continually to look 'cute' before her peers and also draw unwanted attention with the opposite gender? Personally from the above two photos, I think the women looked prettier, smarter and gorgeous in their not-so-thin moments than in their artificially forced and often unhealthy starved state now. Their supposedly skinnier state looks unnaturally scarier to me though. Girls and women of today should appreciate themselves first and foremost. I know that obesity is unhealthy and I agree if a lady looses some few pounds but to get to these extreme in the name of fashion of the day is uncalled for. Please women we love you the way you are. Stop fasting, I mean starving to become like a model or so-called celebrities. Stay healthy and keep the balance. Too skinny is unhealthy, it is a sure mark of low self esteem and obesity too is equally dangerous health wise.

For the Guys
Let's stop inspiring girls and women into these dangerous path. Mae West once said, "When women go wrong, men go right after them." Let's take up our responsibilities and be the agents of change. Let's tell the women to live a healthier lifestyle devoid of risky life consequences in the name of beauty which never last anyway. After all, "A woman's polite devotion is her greatest beauty." (African Proverb) Thank you.

Jokes: The Pope Visits New York

2011-12-09T12:31:00.001Z

The Pope goes to New York.

He is picked up at the airport by a limousine.

He looks at the beautiful car and says to the driver, "You know, I hardly ever get to drive. Would you please let me?"

The driver is understandably hesistant and says, "I'm sorry, but I don't think I'm supposed to do that."

But the Pope persists, "Please?" The driver finally lets up. "Oh, all right, I can't really say no to the Pope."

So the Pope takes the wheel, and boy, is he a speed demon! He hits the gas and goes around 100 mph in a 45 zone. A policeman notices and pulls him over.

The cop walks up and asks the Pope to roll down the window.

Startled and surprised, the young officer asks the Pope to wait a minute.

He goes back to his patrol car and radios the chief.

Cop: Chief, I have a problem.

Chief: What sort of problem?

Cop: Well, you see, I pulled over this guy for driving way over the speed limit but it's someone really important.

Chief: Important like the mayor?

Cop: No, no, much more important than that.

Chief: Important like the governor?

Cop: Wayyyyyy more important than that.

Chief: Like the president?

Cop: More.

Chief: Who's more important than the president?

Cop: I don't know, but he's got the Pope DRIVING for him!

Funny Twitter Follow Back

2011-12-07T19:16:00.001Z

Following Someone Doesn't Mean They Will Follow You Back. Simple as that :)

Got Jesus? Leap of Faith

2011-12-04T06:27:00.001Z

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed, be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well. This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but which has become the head of the corner. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:8-12 RSV)

Evil Secrets: Revelations of a former Wizard from Nigeria

2011-11-20T15:32:00.001Z

I just stumbled on a post which I think has some benefits to the spiritually discerning Christian within the context of our daily SPIRITUAL WARFARE. Enjoy!

IT sounds like a fairy-tale. Most would pass it for a creative, fictitious and surreal account of supernatural experiences, not to be taken literally. But this is a true confession. It's the account of a man who lived for over 20 years in a world of darkness and devilry. A man who knew the tricks and traits of the satanic kingdom like the back of his hand and is now ready to expose their dark secrets after receiving his freedom.

Before you read, brace yourself. The contents are shocking but the lessons fundamental. The spiritual world is real. We are in a real battle between good and evil. And confessing Christianity is not just enough – we must commit our lives to God totally.

In this exclusive interview with Read Us, an ex-wizard exposes his former kingdom.

Background
“My name is Adebisi Jude Solomon. I am from Kogi State of Nigeria and I'm 43. I was born into a family of seven. We are only three left - I don't know the whereabouts of the other two. My father was a pagan and one of the community leaders. He didn't believe in going to either church or mosque. He was among those who wanted to live their own life in the sentiment of their own understanding.

“As for me, I didn't care for any religion. I just lived my life the way I liked it. I had authority of my own self – no one told me I should do this or that. The sentiment from my own childhood was that I believed in self-government, self-principle of living. I just wanted to live my life; nobody should displease me and I won't displease anybody.

The Initiation
“When I got into the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, I studied Science Laboratory. At that time, I didn't know about living without a girlfriend. So, I had many affairs with girls. In this process, I came across a lady who initiated me.

“You will not be told you are going to be initiated. You will just have an affair with the person. But she knows you better than yourself – she can tell much about you, your whereabouts, your physical and spiritual backgrounds. They have been monitoring you. In the spiritual kingdom, they monitor people. They see your star, your glory, everything regarding your living. There is no area of your life that is not being studied. It was after my initiation that I got to know I've been initiated by having fun with her physically. It's through a sexual relationship. When you are initiated, they will submit your sperm into the kingdom. That has given them room into your life.

A Bloody Contribution
“I began to see myself in a strange area I did not know. It started from a dream. They will be asking you to bring something - you have to pay an attribute, which is blood. You will see it as if it's a dream, but it's a reality. It will only become clear to your own understanding when you have paid with that blood.

“It started with an accident. I found myself involved in an accident inside a car in a dream – but it was a reality. A week later I was in a car and had an accident. Many people died but I had no injury. That is the first level you enter. You begin to observe that now you are no more just a physical being. That is the process by which you find yourself in the spiritual world.

Joining a Cult
“In this process, I joined a cult – the 'Agu' cult. The same girl will take you to the cult. You need protection. They will begin to threaten your life, saying that you need to protect yourself by joining this cult – though they will tell you it's a gang. You have to do an oath. The oath involves physical blood. They are the ones to bring blood, so you take an oath that you will not betray them. Then you drink the blood. That is another empowerment.

“By then you will begin to cause crises in the school. You begin to shed blood by using an axe or gun to kill people, especially confronting members of other cults. Whoever you kill, that blood is contributed spiritually and increases your level. So both the spiritual and the cult are working hand in hand. There is no cult or herbalist that is not working hand-in-hand with the spiritual world. That is where they get their powers. You don't invoke powers naturally, it's from the spiritual world and it will now manifest in the physical.

Another World
“I began to observe physically that I can sleep for two or three days. You may come in and ask what happened to this person – but I am not there. I am not lying down there but I'm in the other world. You are lying down physically but you are there spiritually. People will think you are sick or sleeping.

“Everything you see in the physical, there is something happening spiritually. Before it can happen physically, it has happened spiritually. Before anything will happen to you, it will first of all manifest in the spirit world – because that is what controls human beings. That is, your spirit-being controls you. That's why sometimes when you are thinking about things - you will begin to have three different thoughts. One will be whispering to you gently, one will be giving you a harsh command and the other one will be saying – I don't know the one to do. The one speaking harshly with authority is not from God, the one whispering to you gently is from God. Your own is the one asking - which do I choose? It's now left for you to decide.

Biological Blood
“I was asked to bring my sisters, so I thought it was to initiate them. Once you are initiated, you can initiate others – by sleeping with them. The power with me was that of causing accident. I was directed to go there with them. We entered the car together to Ilorin. In the process of coming to Ilorin, we had an accident. The two of them died instantly, and many other people died. I was hospitalised. I was not really injured physically, but they will make you like someone in a coma. They know what they are doing.

Fake Coma and Spiritual Carriers
“People will think you are in coma and they will carry you to the hospital. Most of the people that will carry me to the hospital are not human beings. They will come in the midst of multitudes like human beings, and come and pick me – this is my brother, let's rush him to the hospital. They walk in the ranks of human beings. They may enter into somebody to go and use the person for that purpose. The person may finish doing what they want him to do and he will begin to ask what have I done? He doesn't know. Most of the people after the deliverance, they ask – what happened? They don't know. They will enter into a person, carry me to the hospital and after two or three days, I will be released. In that process, I lost my two sisters. I was promoted.

A Ladder of Blood
“In the period you are lying down in the hospital, you are in the spirit-world. Physically they say you are in a coma but you are in the spiritual world. That is where I saw my two sisters. Anybody you kill, you will submit their blood – you will see him or her physically over there. They are the steps of a ladder. Each person killed through you increases your steps and each step you take is promotion. You will be given more spiritual power, and be exposed to more things of the spirit.

Demonic Anger
“I received two powers – because it was my two sisters. I was given transformation and I was given anger. Then I was very quick to get angry. I will get easily offended because the spirit in me was pushing me to get angry. When you step on me or offend me, you will make me angry – I will definitely do something involving your blood. Like if the person is pregnant, you can take the pregnancy, the baby inside the womb, and give her a stone, or plant a fibroid in her. If people are not spiritually alert, you will cause much damage to her.

Spiritual Sickness
“When you see anybody discovering a fibroid, or having symptoms he is not used to - don't leave him or abandon her, saying, 'It's a common thing'. It's not. You don't know the affliction or the kind of person she has encountered that has poisoned her life by anything planted in her body. That thing will begin to eat her gradually. Gradually she is dying.

“Many afflictions you see today are not natural. There is nobody that is born with sickness. Sickness or affliction or diseases today – we call it 'gift' in the spiritual world. You go and give this person a gift. That gift will begin to trouble him. I will still advise the people it's not everyone that gives you a gift that you should accept. Many of the gifts they give to you physically are spiritually possessed, a point of contact whereby when you take it to your house or put it on your body as clothes or eat it as a food, it will affect you.

Transformation
“I can change from male to female, both physically and spiritually. When they have monitored somebody and want me to get them, they will come to you physically to give you an instruction. You and I could be looking at this wall now, and they are giving me instructions – but you will not see it. That is why some people, you will just be discussing with them but they will not be hearing what you are saying. You will think they are thinking of something, but they are busy listening to their master giving them instruction.

“So they will give you instruction. For example, they know your girlfriend. Every girlfriend you have – they know her. I will transform to your girlfriend's image and come to you physically. The appearance will be exactly the same. Spiritually, they will make sure the girl can't turn up. She can't come that way when you are there sleeping with him. That's how I can initiate men as well.

Spiritual Initiation
“In the spiritual aspect, you can initiate someone in the dream. You will just observe – there's somebody sleeping with you, having an affair in the dream. The appearance of the person they will bring will be familiar to you – maybe an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend. You just use their image to go to him, if you observe the physical is tight.

“We also go to the beach or swimming pool – it's another point of initiation. Before you will be convinced to go there, there is something they have planted in that water. When you are swimming, water penetrates into your system. Your skin is open. So the things that have been planted there will be transferred into your skin and it will affect your blood system. Immediately you come into the water, they are seeing you in the spiritual world. It's like they are baptising you. The more you initiate people, the more it increases your position.

Tempting Tactics
“To bring down a spiritual person, they will make sure they first weaken him or her. He will just get tired, exhausted and he will not pray before he sleeps. And they will tempt the person to commit sin. They will push the person to drink. Some people will enter into a beer parlour – they only take one bottle of drink but you see them more intoxicated than the rest of the people. That bottle you drink is not one bottle. An agent is there who will take all the drinks others are drinking and put them into that person's belly. In this state, he commits sin. He has gone against his God. Or they will entice you to blaspheme against God, or have you develop a high sense of pride in yourself.

“They will bring some ladies around you to manipulate you, to seduce you. Where do the girls come from? The kind of lady that comes into your office – who is she? Gradually she just begins to control you. You feel seduced. You go out and ease yourself. Before you come back, what has she done in your office? You will be pushed to lock the office, then you commit fornication or immorality in your office, and you say nobody is seeing you. If you close the whole office, do you close the eyes of God?

The Power Of Monitoring
“Sometime later, I submitted my brother. They asked for him. It was through a road accident too – a motorbike. They commanded another car to hit the two of us. I survived – they found me on the other road inside the gutter with minor injuries. He died. I was promoted again. I was given the power of monitoring, because my brother was the closest person to me. One thing is that your emotions will die. You don't have any emotions. I didn't have any emotions for any human being. I didn't have time for human beings. It was not only my brother who died in that accident, but the thing that will crown you is if it is your own blood. With the power of monitoring, when someone is coming towards you, you will know if this is a human being or a spirit. You will see.

Satanic Symbols
“Every kingdom has its own symbol. Witchdoctors are different from witches. And there are some people who are under witch-possession – witchcraft is tormenting them, but they are not possessed. The one that is a witch – he will have his symbol. It will be like a garment on him or her. If it is a witchdoctor, the symbol will be on his face. For some, you will physically be seeing them walking with their feet – but they are not. They are floating.

“Whatever you see from your kingdom, you would be able to understand. When a person is under witchcraft torment, you as a familiar spirit don't go there, because somebody is taking care of it. You will target those who are strong Christians.

The Fiery Indicator
“For Christians, there is a flame of fire that surrounds them. Such person, you can't harm him spiritually. They will just be tempting him. When he falls into that temptation, that is the point of penetration. The fire reduces. Gradually, they will reduce it until it becomes empty and that's when they now strike.

“Even if you are strong, you will be tempted. But do you give in? How do you yield to that temptation? It is your yielding that matters. Everybody will be tempted. As far as you are in this flesh, you will be tempted. The difference is that God will make a way of escape for you if you are a Christian.

“Every Christian is equal - it's only we who call them names like 'pastor'. But the flame of fire on each body is quite different. For some people it's only on their head, not on their body. Because they are not spiritually alert. You can attack him. They are confessing Christians but not such in heart. They may believe but they are not ready to grow. You can see by the fire the level of the persons' commitment to Christ.

“They will not send someone who is low in our kingdom to a big flame. There are some sets of people they send - level to level. There are levels in Christianity; there are levels in the spiritual world. Everything you are seeing in Christianity is happening in the spiritual world – in Jesus' kingdom. But in our spiritual, ocult world, they don't call the name Jesus Christ. We say, 'the children of that man'. We are not used to it. It's not something you call over there.

The Spirit Of Money
“I was in the third level then. The fourth level was my dad. That's when my dad was involved. Immediately the incident happens, you are picked in a coma, carried to your seat and that's when they give you the new assignment. But they will give you an interval, a period so that people will not be suspicious. My dad was also involved in an accident. I was to celebrate my birthday and I convinced him to travel with me. We had an accident. I went into a coma, he died. I was then given the spirit of finance – money.

“When your finances are tampered with, your joy will be lost. They want to eat your joy. Even if you are a strong Christian or powerful pastor – when your finances are tampered with, you will be affected. So I had the power to tamper with other people's finances and cause businesses to collapse. When you see people acquire money, and they are proud – that is also the spirit of money at work.

Tampering With Destiny
“There are some destined children whose joy they want to terminate. Not everyone is destined. Every child has their own destiny, but some people are more powerful than others. Those are our targets. In the power of monitoring, you see such people – the glory in them. The glory is like a star. The brighter the star, the greater the destiny.

“When you have a bulb outside a compound, you will see flies and insects flying from a distance to come to the light. If the light is not hot, the insects will cover it and everywhere will be dark. But if the light has heat, the insects will die. That is exactly what happens to every destined child. When you are a Christian, you have the fire – that is the difference. So if you are not a Christian and you are a destined child, the destiny will be covered. They will not fulfil their destiny.

“We have various kinds of leaders. Some people could be leaders in their own family, liberation to their own family financially or morally – they are destined. But they can reduce him if the insects have covered his light. That is why you see some leaders, after they have climbed to the top or are in a big position – at the end of their job or tenure in their office, what have they acquired or what do they have to show for it? They can still get to that position but not achieve anything tangible because the light has been covered. The light wants to break out but it has been dampened. At the end of their tenure, ask him - what did you acquire? What is your legacy? There will be nothing to write home about.

Studying In School
“Why study? Who is a lecturer? Most of the lecturers – you can control them to give you anything you need. If he is a born-again person in Christ, that is the person you will have a problem with. I will sit for my exams, but you can't pass better than me. In the spiritual kingdom, you are also trained, spiritually equipped. Everything you will do, they will prepare it for you. They will reveal everything to you – the answers to the exam. They don't want you to be mocked. They don't want other people to know or suspect what you are doing.

“Even when you are a child of Christ, and you read, Jesus will give you more wisdom. He will give you His own wisdom. You may not be there when the lecturer talks, but you can pick the text book and understand. That's God's wisdom.

The Journey To Deliverance
“When God wants to do something for you, He will use every means – so that anything that could hinder it will not come that way. Let me say promptly it was the will of God for me to come here (The SCOAN), to be delivered. What led me here – I went to a place and they were showing Emmanuel TV. I watched someone's testimony and said, “Why don't I come here to get breakthrough for my finances?” I had to earn a living, because the money they give to you is not for yourself – it's to give to people, to afflict them with sickness. I can't use it for myself. So as a human being, I have to get money to eat and earn a living.

“When I entered the church on Sunday morning, the atmosphere was not conducive. They were trying to get me out of the area. When they observe the area you are in is not conducive, they will come to you to get you out. It was a battle. I fought the ushers that day. I wanted to leave, but they did not allow me. So I told them I wanted to go to the toilet. When I came out and got to the steps, the atmosphere outside was also not conducive. There was a spiritual battle going on. I went back inside.

Unwilling To Yield
“When they started worship, it was like a bell in my ears. When you are ringing a loud bell in somebody's ear, it was really like that. In the process, the pastor (T.B. Joshua) came out. He prophesied there is a strong man here in our midst. I knew he saw me. Before he began the prayer, he said that there were some unwilling spirits, people that were unwilling to yield, that we should first of all pray for such people.

“As the prayer began, it was like fire was burning all around me. I didn't know when I came out. I just found myself outside my chair. It was like when you throw someone into hot oil. I later saw myself somersaulting and the spirit left me. I actually felt it come out.

“Afterwards, everything became normal. I could see normally. My emotions returned and I started regretting. I felt like a human being. I began to feel sorry for the people who had died. I began to reason that really I have committed sin against humanity and against God.

Advice To Christians
“When you want to serve God – serve Him in truth and in spirit. If I may quote right – seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Forget about other things. Your mentality first should be the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is not by physical appearances. It is by your inner mind, your spirit being. How do you fortify your spirit being? By living in righteousness, in truth. Let your yes be your yes; let your no be your no. Sincerity, honesty, genuineness.

“Be committed to God. And more over – what empowers you as a Christian is the name of Jesus Christ. Not only Jesus, but Jesus Christ. Conclude it with that name Christ. When you travel all over the world, you see some people bearing Jesus but nobody ever bears Christ. For God has highly exalted His name and He has given Him the name above every other name and every knee shall bow to that name. The second one is the blood of Jesus Christ.

No Turning Back
“Immediately after my deliverance, I received some inspirational songs. On Monday after my deliverance I went to the prayer mountain. I didn't know how to pray. I've never prayed; I've never read the Bible. I met the evangelist there and asked him - how do I pray? What will I say? He told me - first of all thank God for saving you and delivering you. You can begin by singing. I asked him - which song shall I sing? Shall I sing reggae, or disco? He said, just open your heart to the Holy Spirit. I felt something like cold water pour on my head. I felt cold. Songs began to come to me. I began to see myself thanking God. I experienced joy, peace and comfort in me. The song that came to me said: 'I have decided to follow Jesus – no turning back.' I have taken my decision to follow Christ – no more going back!

Mr Jude stayed in The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations for over a month to receive God's Word and learn His ways. Following his rehabilitation and reformation, he was given N200,000 to restart his life on the right foundation – with God Almighty.