<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315</id><updated>2011-11-27T15:36:59.526-08:00</updated><category term='looking glass1'/><title type='text'>looking-glass</title><subtitle type='html'>notes, jottings........</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>75</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-2671394151486539169</id><published>2008-08-21T08:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-16T23:33:12.047-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='looking glass1'/><title type='text'>the Malay race: Shattering the myth !!!!</title><content type='html'>"Never  expect  yourself  to  be  given  a  good  value........&lt;br /&gt;  create  a  value  of  your  own !"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the million Dollar Question. Is there really a race called the&lt;br /&gt;"Malays"? All anthropologists DO NOT SEEM TO THINK SO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neither do the "Malays" who live on the West Coast of Johor. They'd&lt;br /&gt;rather be called Javanese. What about the west coast Kedah inhabitants&lt;br /&gt;who prefer to be known as "Achenese"? Or the Ibans who simply want to&lt;br /&gt;be known as IBANS. Try calling a Kelabit a "Malay" and see what&lt;br /&gt;response you get. you'll be so glad that their Head-Hunting days are&lt;br /&gt;over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The definition of "Malay" is therefore simply a collection of people's&lt;br /&gt;who speak a similar type language. With what is meant by a similar&lt;br /&gt;type language does not mean that the words are similar. Linguists call&lt;br /&gt;this the "Lego-type" language, where words are added on to the root&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;word to make meaning and give tenses and such. Somehow, the&lt;br /&gt;Indonesians disagree with this classification. They refuse to be&lt;br /&gt;called Malay. Anyhow you may define it.. Watch "Malays in Africa"; a&lt;br /&gt;Museum Negara produced DVD. Also, the "Champa Malays" by the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this classification, they MUST also include the Phillipinos, the&lt;br /&gt;Papua New Guineans, the Australian Aboroginies, as well as the&lt;br /&gt;Polynesian Aboroginies. These are of the Australo Melanesians who&lt;br /&gt;migrated out of Africa 60,000yrs ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting interesting? Read on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Malay" should also include the Taiwanese singer "Ah Mei" who is&lt;br /&gt;Alisan as her tribe are the anscestors of the "Malays". And finally,&lt;br /&gt;you will need to define the Southern Chinese (Funan Province) as Malay&lt;br /&gt;also, since they are from the same stock 6,000yrs ago. Try calling the&lt;br /&gt;Bugis a "Malay". Interestingly, the Bugis, who predominantly live on&lt;br /&gt;Sulawesi are not even Indonesians. Neither do they fall into the same&lt;br /&gt;group as the migrating Southern Chinese of 6,000yrs ago nor the&lt;br /&gt;Australo Melanesian group from Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready for this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bugis are the cross-breed between the Chinese and the Arabs. (FYI,&lt;br /&gt;a runaway Ming Dynasty official whom Cheng Ho was sent to hunt down)&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly, the Bugis were career Pirates in the Johor-Riau Island&lt;br /&gt;areas. Now the nephew of Daeng Kemboja was appointed the First Sultan&lt;br /&gt;of Selangor. That makes the entire Selangor Sultanate part Arab, part&lt;br /&gt;Chinese!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try talking to the Bugis Museum curator near Kukup in Johor. Kukup is&lt;br /&gt;located near the most south-western tip of Johor. (Due south of&lt;br /&gt;Pontian Kechil)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's not even get into the Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Kasturi, Hang&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lekiu, and Hang Lekir, who shared the same family last name as the&lt;br /&gt;other super famous "Hang" family member. Hang Li Poh. And who was she?&lt;br /&gt;The princess of a Ming Dynasty Emperor who was sent to marry the&lt;br /&gt;Sultan of Malacca. Won't that make the entire Malacca Sultanate&lt;br /&gt;downline "Baba" ? Since the older son of the collapsed Malaccan&lt;br /&gt;Sultanate got killed in Johor, (the current Sultanate is the downline&lt;br /&gt;of the then, Bendahara) the only other son became the Sultan of Perak.&lt;br /&gt;Do we see any Chinese-ness in Raja Azlan? Is he the descendant of Hang&lt;br /&gt;Li Poh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next question. If the Baba's are part Malay, why have they been&lt;br /&gt;marginalized by NOT BEING BUMIPUTERA? Which part of "Malay" are they&lt;br /&gt;not? Whatever the answer, why then are the Portugese of Malacca&lt;br /&gt;BUMIPUTERA? Did they not come 100yrs AFTER the arrival of the first&lt;br /&gt;Baba's? Parameswara&lt;br /&gt;founded Malacca in 1411. The Portugese came in 1511, and the Dutch in&lt;br /&gt;the 1600's. Strangely, the Baba's ere in fact once classified a&lt;br /&gt;Bumiputera, but a decided that they were strangely "declassified" in&lt;br /&gt;the 1960's. WHY?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sultan of Kelantan had similar roots to the Pattani Kingdom making&lt;br /&gt;him of Thai origin. And what is this "coffee table book" by the Sultan&lt;br /&gt;of Perlis claiming to be the direct descendant of the prophet&lt;br /&gt;Muhammed? Somehow we see Prof Khoo Khay Khim's signature name on the&lt;br /&gt;book. I'll pay good money to own a copy of it myself. Anyone has a&lt;br /&gt;spare?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, how many of you have met with orang Asli's? the more northern you&lt;br /&gt;go, the more African they look. Why are they called Negrito's? It is a&lt;br /&gt;Spanish word, from which directly transalates "mini Negros". The more&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;southern you go, the more "Indonesian" they look. And the ones who&lt;br /&gt;live at Cameron Highlands kinda look 50-50. You can see the Batek at&lt;br /&gt;Taman Negara, who really look like Eddie Murphy to a certain degree.&lt;br /&gt;Or the Negritos who live at the Thai border near Temenggor Lake (north&lt;br /&gt;Perak). The Mah Meri in Carrie Island look almost like the Jakuns in&lt;br /&gt;Endau Rompin. Half African, half Indonesian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By definition, (this is super eye-opening) there was a Hindu Malay&lt;br /&gt;Empire in Kedah. Yes, I said right. The Malays were Hindu. It was, by&lt;br /&gt;the old name Langkasuka. Today known as Lembah Bujang. This Hindu&lt;br /&gt;Malay Empire was 2,000yrs old.. Pre-dating Borrobudor AND Angkor Watt.&lt;br /&gt;Who came about&lt;br /&gt;around 500-600yrs later. Lembah Bujang was THE mighty trading empire,&lt;br /&gt;and its biggest influence was by the Indians who were here to help&lt;br /&gt;start it. By definition, this should make the Indians BUMIPUTERAS too&lt;br /&gt;since they were here 2,000yrs ago! Why are they marginalized?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, in a nutshell, the "Malays" (anthropologists will disagree with&lt;br /&gt;this "race" definition) are TRULY ASIA !!! (main continent and West&lt;br /&gt;Asia included)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some comments from Michael in answer to some Malays who have&lt;br /&gt;attacked him for penning this commentary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greetings. This is Michael Chick. Unlike others who hide behind&lt;br /&gt;"anonymous synonyms" I came clear with my real name. The post which I&lt;br /&gt;put up was not a figment of my imagination but the end result of 3&lt;br /&gt;years extensive research. As such, the facts presented are clear-cut,&lt;br /&gt;straightforward and unassuming. Perhaps you would all like to chat&lt;br /&gt;with any anthropologist at UM before sending-off any flaming sparks in&lt;br /&gt;my direction again. These Professors should be as Malaysian as any of&lt;br /&gt;you. The subject matter is fact-based. To Bayi, "Contesting Malayness"&lt;br /&gt;is available at Kinokuniya at Takashimaya 4th floor, Orchard road. At&lt;br /&gt;a cost&lt;br /&gt;of S$32. It is also available at National University of Singapore.&lt;br /&gt;Why? Coz it's their textbook. Let me repeat; "Contesting Malayness" is&lt;br /&gt;an NUS textbook, published by NUS Press, written by Professor Tony&lt;br /&gt;Milner .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Achmad Sudarsono, calling the Malays a "race" is akin to calling&lt;br /&gt;the Hokkiens or the Javanese a "race". Please do not confuse the term&lt;br /&gt;"orang" with "Bangsa". What do I mean? The term orang is used by&lt;br /&gt;Malays to describe Orang Bugis, Orang Acheh, Orang Laut, Orand India,&lt;br /&gt;Orang Melayu. And here is where the confusion was.. Orang Melayu&lt;br /&gt;merely refers to the residents of Kampung Melayu near Jambi, near&lt;br /&gt;Palembang. Please use Google Earth to find its exact location.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unless you can say that all "Orang melayu" are descendants of that&lt;br /&gt;village, you simply cannot be called orang Melayu. In fact the name&lt;br /&gt;"Malay" has been traced to Lembah Bujang, where the Indian traders&lt;br /&gt;used to call the locals "Malai" (in Tamil) to describe the locals. The&lt;br /&gt;locals were animistic pagans at that time, and readily adopted Hindu&lt;br /&gt;practices and Indian customs. "Raja" and "Sultan" are Indian titles.&lt;br /&gt;The adat bersanding with the pelamin are of Indian origin. Even the&lt;br /&gt;"gifts-bearing" walk by the groom has its Indian roots. Please attend&lt;br /&gt;an Indian Wedding before flaming me again. Or have a chat with Prof&lt;br /&gt;Nik Hassan who is in charge of the Lembah Bujang archaeological&lt;br /&gt;excavations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malaya, was therefore a derivative from Himalaya . "Sejarah Melayu"&lt;br /&gt;therefore was describing the Kampong Melayu origins. But here is where&lt;br /&gt;from pages 1-3 tell you that Kampong Melayu are descendants of&lt;br /&gt;Iskandar Zulkarnain (Alexander the Great) through the bloodline of a&lt;br /&gt;West Indian Princess. This came from Sejarah Melayu. This book is&lt;br /&gt;cheap. You can buy it at the University Malaya Bookstore for a mere&lt;br /&gt;RM35. It is published by MBRAS (Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic&lt;br /&gt;Society). Its patron member is Tun Hanif (ex-IGP)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please speak with Datuk Prof Zuraina Majid , who excavated "Perak&lt;br /&gt;Man". She will tell you that Perak Man is a descendant of the&lt;br /&gt;Australo-Melanesian stock African. National Museum of the Phillipines&lt;br /&gt;will verify that they came from Taiwan . And National University of&lt;br /&gt;Indonesia will confirm that they came from the Phillipines. Nik Aziz&lt;br /&gt;(PAS leader from Kelantan) will tell you that his grandfather came&lt;br /&gt;from Champa. To all Kelantanese, please explain the newly changed name&lt;br /&gt;of a Kampong near Bachok (close to the Pengkalan Chepa airport) to&lt;br /&gt;"Kampung Champa" to our friends here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please also visit Museum Negara to see the exhibits on the "Dong Song"&lt;br /&gt;brass drums and Gua Cha in Kelantan near Gua Musang to see the&lt;br /&gt;Hoabinhian Caves . Dong Song and Hoabinh are in Indochina . And&lt;br /&gt;therefore, the locals are descendants from that region. The entire&lt;br /&gt;Northern States also have their roots from the Pattani Kingdom ; which&lt;br /&gt;today we call Thailand . In fact, please visit the Kelantan WWII&lt;br /&gt;museum to see the article on how Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan and&lt;br /&gt;Terengganu was part of Thailand from 1943-1945. Then walk over to the&lt;br /&gt;Kelantan State Museum to see the exhibit on Gua Cha to read their&lt;br /&gt;explainations of the Hoabinhian Cultures of Early Kelantan settlers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malaysian Archaeologists call the early settlers Proto Malay. And the&lt;br /&gt;current settlers Deutero Malay. The scientific term is actually,&lt;br /&gt;Australo Melanesian (African) and Austranesian (Chinese, or&lt;br /&gt;Mongoloid).This is a DNA and bone structure classification. Even the&lt;br /&gt;term Negrito transalates from Spanish to mean "mini Negro".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope that I've made myself comprehensible enough. Feel free to ask&lt;br /&gt;any further questions to help clear the air. The "Malays" are NOT a&lt;br /&gt;race. I'm so sorry that you are only hearing this now. The rest of the&lt;br /&gt;Academic World has known it for years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By: Michael Chick on May 30th, 2007&lt;br /&gt;At 2:44 am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To address Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekir, Hang Kasturi, Hang Lekir&lt;br /&gt;and Hang Li Poh.. They were all related by the family name of "Hang".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please visit their graves in Malacca. Their graves are clear-cut&lt;br /&gt;Hindu. This was during the "Great Malacca Empire" when Parameswara was&lt;br /&gt;supposed to have converted to Islam. Why are "Legendary Defenders of&lt;br /&gt;the States' " graves Hindu? They are not having the spiral headstones,&lt;br /&gt;or the Batu Acheh type headstones. Instead, they are solid concrete&lt;br /&gt;blocks with traingular holes for incence and oil-lamp burning. Hang&lt;br /&gt;Tuah's grave (Kampong Keling) is another "conspiracy". Please read the&lt;br /&gt;inscriptions on the side, ". they found a large stone marking a grave,&lt;br /&gt;and therefore it must be Hang Tuah..". This grave was merely designed&lt;br /&gt;to be a tourist destination. Note that there are no names engraved&lt;br /&gt;anywhere. Just a big non-descript stone marking that a human body lies&lt;br /&gt;underneath it. Lastly, why is A muslim buried in Kampong Keling?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;keling meaning Indian?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The subsequent question is why is Hang Tuah removed from current&lt;br /&gt;schoolhistory textbooks? One of two suggestions come to mind. He was&lt;br /&gt;pure fiction (please read Hikayat Hang Tuah before flaming me again),&lt;br /&gt;or as the Bugis Museum Curator in Johor will insist, that Hang Tuah&lt;br /&gt;was Chinese. So were the rest of his "blood brothers". They were all&lt;br /&gt;Chinese; and related to Hang Li Poh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me pose a simple question to you, Why is it, that when you visit&lt;br /&gt;Malacca to see the great historical Malaysian City/ State, you see the&lt;br /&gt;Portugese "A-Famosa" gateway, or the Red Dutch buildings like&lt;br /&gt;Christchurch, or even St. Paul's Church on St. Paul's Hill? Where is&lt;br /&gt;the evidence of "The Great Malaccan Empire"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me help you with that answer. Published by Dewan Bahasa Dan&lt;br /&gt;Pustaka in a publication called "Melayu Journal" in 2005. ".. we had&lt;br /&gt;to look for an icon by which the Malays would be proud of.." Since&lt;br /&gt;Majapahit, Acheh, Lembah Bujang (Langkasuka) were either Hindu, on&lt;br /&gt;Indonesian soil, or both, Malacca was the only location left. The&lt;br /&gt;great Parameswara is, by the way buried on Fort Canning Hill downtown&lt;br /&gt;Singapore , for those of you who want to visit it. They call it the&lt;br /&gt;"Keramat" immediately behind the National Musuem of Singapore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please enlighten me by showing me ONE single piece of evidence of "The&lt;br /&gt;Great Malaccan Empire". Even Dewan Bahasa couldn't. Perhaps any one of&lt;br /&gt;you could. Evidence, and not mere gut-feeling please&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-2671394151486539169?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2671394151486539169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2671394151486539169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2008/08/malay-race-shattering-myth.html' title='the Malay race: Shattering the myth !!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-2522627521197017928</id><published>2008-04-16T09:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T06:26:50.769-08:00</updated><title type='text'>....c'mon, she's no Thacher!</title><content type='html'>Wanita UMNO chief Rafidah Aziz's 'verbal tirade' (to quote the SUN) can best be described as 'rantings' of an old-school madam with a severe 'attention-seeking' disorder after being unceremoniously-booted out of the cabinet. Iron Lady? On the contrary as I do not see anything 'iron-clad' or 'lady-like' about this individual whose chequered career remains blotted with the unresolved and poorly-explained AP issue. The term 'iron-lady' must definitely be a misnomer if it was meant to compare her with Britain's late Margaret Thacher whose tenure as Prime Minister has remained unblemished to this day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her 'nit-wit' statements describing the practice of the PM hurriedly handing power to the DPM as being unprecedented are laughable. So too was the unceremonious dumping of a senior woman Minister (no prices for guessing who that was) from the cabinet without warning or fanfare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spurred by today's cyber-technology, political-trends tend to change with such speed and awe that it has simply no place for 'dinosaur-mindsets' that refuse to go with the flow. Anything can happen. The ball, as they say in soccer, IS ROUND.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-2522627521197017928?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/2522627521197017928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=2522627521197017928' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2522627521197017928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2522627521197017928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2008/04/cmon-shes-no-thacher.html' title='....c&apos;mon, she&apos;s no Thacher!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3663236374228816283</id><published>2008-04-16T08:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T06:28:25.449-08:00</updated><title type='text'>'Cheeky' threat to bloggers</title><content type='html'>'The Truth Hurts' best describes information Minister, Shabery Cheek's veiled threat to bloggers that they are 'not untouchable' (the SUN/pg8/16thApril/08). The 'cheek' of him (pun intented).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of wasting taxpayer's money by dragging these so-called 'miscreants' to court, wouldn't it be wiser of the honourable Minister to suggest a government-backed blog-panel to refute the alleged half-truths and lies that supposedly litter the blogsphere? Wiser still would be for him to take the blog-articles in stride with 'a pinch of salt' and use it to cure the various ills that plague the administration he subscribes to. If the BN is seeking answers to its pathetic performance in the recently-concluded elections, they should look no further than the local blogsites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of wasting time with fad-technologies such as cyber-forensics to nab bloggers, which also involve the taxpayer's money, the good Minister would be better off improving the broadcasting-quality of RTM's radio and TV stations which are currently, best described as 'graveyard channels'&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3663236374228816283?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3663236374228816283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3663236374228816283' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3663236374228816283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3663236374228816283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2008/04/cheeky-threat-to-bloggers.html' title='&apos;Cheeky&apos; threat to bloggers'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3865071198021468659</id><published>2008-04-12T09:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T06:30:08.033-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Snake &amp; the bunny</title><content type='html'>Once upon a time, in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned&lt;br /&gt;bunny and an orphaned snake. By a surprising coincidence, both were&lt;br /&gt;blind from birth. One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest,&lt;br /&gt;and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny&lt;br /&gt;tripped over the snake and fell down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's quite ok," replied the snake. "Actually, my story is as yours. I&lt;br /&gt;too have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell&lt;br /&gt;you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out what you&lt;br /&gt;are so at least you'll have that going for you."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So the snake&lt;br /&gt;slithered all over the bunny, and said, "Well, you're covered with&lt;br /&gt;soft fur, you have really long ears, your nose twitches, and you have&lt;br /&gt;a soft cottony tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, thank you, thank you," cried the bunny, in obvious excitement. The&lt;br /&gt;bunny suggested to the snake, "Maybe I could feel you all over with my&lt;br /&gt;paw, and help you the same way that you've helped me." So the bunny&lt;br /&gt;felt the snake all over, and remarked, "Well, you're smooth and&lt;br /&gt;slippery, and you have a forked tongue, no backbone and no balls. I'd&lt;br /&gt;say you must be either a team leader, supervisor or possibly someone&lt;br /&gt;in senior management!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3865071198021468659?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3865071198021468659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3865071198021468659' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3865071198021468659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3865071198021468659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2008/04/snake-bunny.html' title='Snake &amp; the bunny'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-1101872216925996462</id><published>2007-12-27T10:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T06:33:02.428-08:00</updated><title type='text'>a so-called 'infidel' succeeds where muslims have failed.........making a muslim invalid child happy!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/R3PtpB5PL0I/AAAAAAAAAOM/OEB9c0qH_lk/s1600-h/capt_6b52f7261ea040d38d4ffaed9a2097fe_saving_ala_a_ny381.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148720088153534274" style="" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/R3PtpB5PL0I/AAAAAAAAAOM/OEB9c0qH_lk/s320/capt_6b52f7261ea040d38d4ffaed9a2097fe_saving_ala_a_ny381.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;GI saves Iraqi boy in long-shot adoption&lt;br /&gt;By CARRIE ANTLFINGER, Associated Press Writer Sun Dec 23, 1:14 PM ET&lt;br /&gt;MAUSTON, Wis. - Capt. Scott Southworth knew he'd face violence, political strife and blistering heat when he was deployed to one of Baghdad's most dangerous areas. But he didn't expect Ala'a Eddeen.&lt;br /&gt;Ala'a was 9 years old, strong of will but weak of body — he suffered from cerebral palsy and weighed just 55 pounds. He lived among about 20 kids with physical or mental disabilities at the Mother Teresa orphanage, under the care of nuns who preserved this small oasis in a dangerous place.&lt;br /&gt;On Sept. 6, 2003, halfway through his 13-month deployment, Southworth and his military police unit paid a visit to the orphanage. They played and chatted with the children; Southworth was talking with one little girl when Ala'a dragged his body to the soldier's side.&lt;br /&gt;Black haired and brown eyed, Ala'a spoke to the 31-year-old American in the limited English he had learned from the sisters. He recalled the bombs that struck government buildings across the Tigris River.&lt;br /&gt;"Bomb-Bing! Bomb-Bing!" Ala'a said, raising and lowering his fist.&lt;br /&gt;"I'm here now. You're fine," the captain said.&lt;br /&gt;Over the next 10 months, the unit returned to the orphanage again and again. The soldiers would race kids in their wheelchairs, sit them in Humvees and help the sisters feed them.&lt;br /&gt;To Southworth, Ala'a was like a little brother. But Ala'a — who had longed for a soldier to rescue him — secretly began referring to Southworth as "Baba," Arabic for "Daddy."&lt;br /&gt;Then, around Christmas, a sister told Southworth that Ala'a was getting too big. He would have to move to a government-run facility within a year.&lt;br /&gt;"Best case scenario was that he would stare at a blank wall for the rest of his life," Southworth said.&lt;br /&gt;To this day, he recalls the moment when he resolved that that would not happen.&lt;br /&gt;"I'll adopt him," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before Southworth left for Iraq, he was chief of staff for a state representative. He was single, worked long days and squeezed in his service as a national guardsman — military service was a family tradition. His great-great-greatgrandfather served in the Civil War, his grandfather in World War II, his father in Vietnam.&lt;br /&gt;The family had lived in the tiny central Wisconsin city of New Lisbon for 150 years. Scott was raised as an evangelical Christian; he attended law school with a goal of public service, running unsuccessfully for state Assembly at the age of 25.&lt;br /&gt;There were so many reasons why he couldn't bring a handicapped Iraqi boy into his world.&lt;br /&gt;He had no wife or home; he knew nothing of raising a disabled child; he had little money and planned to run for district attorney in his home county.&lt;br /&gt;Just as important, Iraqi law prohibits foreigners from adopting Iraqi children.&lt;br /&gt;Southworth prayed and talked with family and friends.&lt;br /&gt;His mother, who had cared for many disabled children, explained the difficulty. She also told him to take one step at a time and let God work.&lt;br /&gt;Southworth's decision was cemented in spring 2004, while he and his comrades watched Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion of the Christ." Jesus Christ's sacrifice moved him. He imagined meeting Christ and Ala'a in heaven, where Ala'a asked: "Baba, why didn't you ever come back to get me?"&lt;br /&gt;"Everything that I came up with as a response I felt ashamed. I wouldn't want to stand in the presence of Jesus and Ala'a and say those things to him."&lt;br /&gt;And so, in his last weeks in Iraq, Southworth got approval from Iraq's Minister of Labor to take Ala'a to the United States for medical care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___&lt;br /&gt;His parents had filed signatures so he wouldn't miss the cutoff to run for district attorney. He knocked on doors, telling people he wanted to be tough on criminals who committed injustices against children.&lt;br /&gt;He never mentioned his intention to adopt Ala'a.&lt;br /&gt;He won office — securing a job and an income.&lt;br /&gt;Everything seemed to be in place. But when Southworth contacted an immigration attorney, he was told it would be nearly impossible to bring Ala'a to the United States.&lt;br /&gt;Undaunted, Southworth and the attorney started the paperwork to bring Ala'a over on humanitarian parole, used for urgent reasons or significant public benefit.&lt;br /&gt;A local doctor, a cerebral palsy expert, a Minneapolis hospital, all said they would provide Ala'a free care. Other letters of support came from a minister, the school district, the lieutenant governor, a congressman, chaplain, a sister at the orphanage and an Iraqi doctor.&lt;br /&gt;"We crossed political boundaries. We crossed religious boundaries. There was just a massive effort — all on behalf of this little boy who desperately needed people to actually take some action and not just feel sorry for him," Southworth says.&lt;br /&gt;He mailed the packet on Dec. 16, 2004, to the Department of Homeland Security.&lt;br /&gt;On New Year's Eve, his cell phone rang. It was Ala'a.&lt;br /&gt;"What are you doing?" Scott asked him.&lt;br /&gt;"I was praying,'" Ala'a responded.&lt;br /&gt;"Well, what were you praying for?"&lt;br /&gt;"I prayed that you would come to take me to America," Ala'a said.&lt;br /&gt;Southworth almost dropped the phone. Ala'a knew nothing of his efforts, and he couldn't tell him yet for fear that the boy might inadvertently tell the wrong person, upending the delicate process.&lt;br /&gt;By mid-January, Homeland Security called Southworth's attorney to say it had approved humanitarian parole. Within three hours, Southworth had plane tickets.&lt;br /&gt;He hardly slept as he worked the phones to make arrangements, calling the American embassy, hotels and the orphanage. His Iraqi translator agreed to risk his life to get Ala'a to the embassy to obtain documentation. Like a dream, all the pieces fell into place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Southworth returned to Iraq for the first time since a deployment that left him emotionally, physically and spiritually exhausted.&lt;br /&gt;His unit had trained Iraqi police from sunup to sundown; he saw the devastation wrought by two car bombings, and counted dead bodies. Mortar and rocket attacks were routine. Some 20 in his unit were wounded, and one died. He knew that nothing could be taken for granted in Baghdad.&lt;br /&gt;So when he saw Ala'a in the airport for the first time since leaving Iraq, he was relieved.&lt;br /&gt;"He was in my custody then. I could hug him. I could hold him. I could protect him.&lt;br /&gt;"And forever started."&lt;br /&gt;They made it to Wisconsin late Jan. 20, 2005. The next morning, Ala'a awoke to his first sight of snow.&lt;br /&gt;He closed his eyes and grimaced.&lt;br /&gt;"Baba! Baba! The water is getting all over me!"&lt;br /&gt;"It's not water, it's snooooow," Southworth told him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police found Ala'a abandoned on a Baghdad street at around 3 years old. No one knows where he came from.&lt;br /&gt;In all his life in Iraq, Ala'a saw a doctor 10 times. He surpassed that in his first six months in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;Ala'a's cerebral palsy causes low muscle tone, spastic muscles in the legs, arms and face. It hinders him when he tries to crawl, walk or grasping objects. He needs a wheelchair to get around, often rests his head on his shoulder and can't easily sit up.&lt;br /&gt;Physical therapy has helped him control his head and other muscles. He can now maneuver his way out of his van seat and stabilize his legs on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;"I'm not the same guy I used to be," he says.&lt;br /&gt;He clearly has thrived. At 13, he's doubled his weight to 111 pounds.&lt;br /&gt;Ala'a's condition doesn't affect his mind, although he's still childlike — he wants to be a Spiderman when he grows up.&lt;br /&gt;Ala'a's English has improved and he loves music and school, math and reading especially. He gets mad when snow keeps him home, even though it's his second favorite thing, after his father.&lt;br /&gt;At first, he didn't want to talk about Iraq; he would grow angry when someone tried to talk to him in Arabic. But in the fall of 2006, Scott showed Ala'a's classmates an Arabic version of "Sesame Street" and boasted how Ala'a knew two languages and could teach them.&lt;br /&gt;Soon he was teaching his aide and his grandmother, LaVone.&lt;br /&gt;LaVone is a fixture in Ala'a's life, supporting her son as he juggles his career and fatherhood. One day, she asked Ala'a if he missed his friends in Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;Would he like to visit them?&lt;br /&gt;Big tears filled his eyes.&lt;br /&gt;"Well, honey, what's the matter?" asked LaVone.&lt;br /&gt;"Oh, no, Grandma. No. Baba says that I can come to live with him forever," he pleaded.&lt;br /&gt;"Oh, no, no," he grandmother said, crying as well. "We would never take you back and leave you there forever. We want you to be Baba's boy forever."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___&lt;br /&gt;Southworth knew once he got Ala'a out of Iraq, the hardest part would be over. Iraq had bigger problems to deal with than the whereabouts of a single orphan.&lt;br /&gt;On June 4, Ala'a officially became Southworth's son. Though he was born in the spring of 1994, they decided to celebrate his birthday as the day they met — Sept. 6.&lt;br /&gt;Life has settled into a routine. Father and son have moved into a new house with an intercom system, a chair lift to the basement and toilet handles. Southworth showers him, brushes his teeth and washes his hands. He has traded in his Chrysler Concorde for a minivan — it was too hard to lift his son out of the car.&lt;br /&gt;In October, the Wisconsin's deputy adjunct general gave Southworth, now a major, permission to change units because of Ala'a. His former unit was going to Guantanamo Bay for a one-year deployment, and he didn't want to leave his son behind, at least for now.&lt;br /&gt;He hopes one day to marry to his longtime girlfriend and have more children. He may run for Congress or governor someday — he's already won re-election once, and plans to run again next fall.&lt;br /&gt;Not everything is perfect. Ala'a never encountered thunderstorms in Baghdad, and the flash-boom reminds him of bombs. He is starting to get over it, although he still weeps during violent storms.&lt;br /&gt;But Ala'a — who picked out his own name, which means to be near God — knows he's where he belongs. Southworth always says Ala'a picked him, not the other way around. They were brought together, Southworth believes, by a "web of miracles."&lt;br /&gt;Ala'a likes to sing Sarah McLachlan's song, "Ordinary Miracle," from "Charlotte's Web," one of his favorite movies. His head and body lean to one side as he sings off-key.&lt;br /&gt;"It's just another ordinary miracle today. Life is like a gift they say. Wrapped up for you everyday." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-1101872216925996462?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/1101872216925996462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=1101872216925996462' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1101872216925996462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1101872216925996462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/12/so-called-infidel-succeeds-where.html' title='a so-called &apos;infidel&apos; succeeds where muslims have failed.........making a muslim invalid child happy!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/R3PtpB5PL0I/AAAAAAAAAOM/OEB9c0qH_lk/s72-c/capt_6b52f7261ea040d38d4ffaed9a2097fe_saving_ala_a_ny381.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3289181191119705702</id><published>2007-12-27T09:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-12T08:33:13.050-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Honest Reporting</title><content type='html'>Dear Friends:&lt;br /&gt;Over the last seven years, HonestReporting has been challenging anti-Israel media bias and achieving impressive results. 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Surprisingly, its not the party-chief that's to be blamed here but the herd-minded Indian themselves who retained him, thus, allowing this drama to go on for 25 years not unlike a b-grade &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;tamil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; movie that never ends even after 3 intermissions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inboxdollars.com/?r=timo455"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.inboxdollars.com/graphics/creative/banners/125x125/banner_static_125x125_01.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;......apart from raising the awareness-level one notch, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;HINDRAF's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; weekend drama will generally be seen as having failed in it's &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;targetted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; objectives. Why? Simply because it decided to bark up the wrong tree....the Brit High Comm.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inboxdollars.com/?r=timo455"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.inboxdollars.com/graphics/creative/banners/125x125/banner_static_125x125_01.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;.......it would have been more effective if they peacefully-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;seiged&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the MIC &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Hq&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (with permit) and clamoured for the party chief's ouster. Even more effective would be to seriously embark on an aggressive campaign, preferably door-to-door (with permit) in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Sg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Siput&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (the cobra's lair) urging folks there to refrain from accepting sweeteners (immediate monetary handouts) from this &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;toupeed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-Santa and unceremoniously dump him for good this coming elections.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Sg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Siput&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; holds the key to the welfare and political health of every Malaysian Indian. If they can destroy the 'cobra's nest' by winning the hearts and minds of the Siputians, they would have won half the battle....unshackled every &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;indian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; from their slave-like existence (no, I'm not being too harsh) The other half would be to find a able replacement and get back on track where they left off 25 years ago (no, I'm not &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;exaggerating).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inboxdollars.com/?r=timo455"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.inboxdollars.com/graphics/creative/banners/125x125/banner_static_125x125_01.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;........the welfare of any community, home or abroad, always depends on the performance of their elected leader. Last weekend's drama is testimony to the fact that, that leader in question has served his time....past his shelf-life.......must go......show has ended....sorry, no more intermissions......&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;FINETTO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!!!!!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.richmails.net/?r=timo455@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;img alt="Work at Home" src="http://www.richmails.net/images/logo2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3347368605475162662?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3347368605475162662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3347368605475162662' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3347368605475162662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3347368605475162662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/hindraf-result-of-b-grade-tamil-movie.html' title='HINDRAF----The result of a b-grade Tamil movie gone bad.......'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-2721987812011803212</id><published>2007-11-27T04:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-12T08:59:57.591-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IS YOUR TREASURE PURSE FULL OF HOLES???</title><content type='html'>“You earn money but then you lose it all as if you had put it into a purse full of holes” (Hag. 1:6b). God makes it plain that you cannot serve two masters; God and worldly riches (Matt. 6:24). The first of the Ten Commandments states that He is the Lord your God and you must not have any other god but Him (Ex. 20:1-3). This is not to say that God has anything against money nor does He say you must live without it. “But remember the Lord your God! It is He who gives you the power to become rich” (Deut. 8:18). If and when He allows you to have an abundance of money, be careful not to put it into a purse with holes. The Pharisees, in their pursuit of material things, had never learned to live by faith. They believed the Lord materially blessed all that He loved. They had spiritually diseased eyes and coveted wealth and thus became slaves to the master of greed. Their desire for money was so great they were falling down in their service to the true Master, God (Matt. 6:19-24). Jesus taught that unless you seek first the Kingdom of Heaven that you are putting treasures in purses with holes and warned that your heart will be wherever your treasure is. Better to store your heart and treasures in a Holy purse where they cannot be destroyed (Matt. 6:19-21).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inboxdollars.com/?r=timo455"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.inboxdollars.com/graphics/creative/banners/125x125/banner_static_125x125_01.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only cash money is considered wealth and kept in “holey” purses. James teaches that if you wish someone well but do nothing to meet their needs that you have let your treasure (blessing) slip through the holes (James 2:15-16). It was James who said the tongue could burn holes in treasure purses, tearing down others and spreading its evil throughout the whole body. Peter stabbed holes in his purse when he denied Jesus (Matt. 26:69-75) but quickly sewed them up with the threads of repentance. Judas, on the other hand did not have a sewing kit and the thirty pieces of silver that he “earned” by giving Jesus over to the enemies, dropped out onto the Temple floor and he hanged himself (Matt. 26:14-16, 27:3-5). A harsh reality is that some would rather “think” Jesus dead than have Him controlling their lives! Which of your purses have holes in them? Career? Family? Forgiveness? Giving? “Holy” habits will mend “holey” purses! Giving keeps your purse filled to the brim (Luke 6:38, Mark 4:24). Remember also that the cheerful giver God loves (2 Cor. 9:7) does not mean just money but giving of your time as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inboxdollars.com/?r=timo455"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.inboxdollars.com/graphics/creative/banners/125x125/banner_static_125x125_01.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan who gave compassion, physical help, time and money (both in the present and the future) to the man who had been beaten and robbed and left on the side of the road to Jericho (Luke 10:25-37). After telling the story Jesus then said; “then go and do what he did”. Later in this same chapter, Jesus visited the home of two sisters. Martha’s purse was filled with “busy holes” but Mary’s was stuffed with worship blessings. “Mary has chosen the better thing and it will never be taken away from her: (Luke 10:38-42). The money changers in the Temple lost their profits because of “holey” greed and dishonest trading (Matt. 21:12-13). This works the same way today! “If you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you” (Luke 6:34)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inboxdollars.com/?r=timo455"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.inboxdollars.com/graphics/creative/banners/125x125/banner_static_125x125_01.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus also told the story of a man with two sons. The younger son asked (demanded) his inheritance so that he could leave the life he knew and travel the world. His father gave in to his wishes, divided the property and his son went far away to another country. There he wasted his money on foolish living, fell into hunger and poverty. He was forced to work harder than he had ever worked for his father and was hungry enough to eat with the pigs he was tending. “So he got up and went to his father” (Luke 15:11-20). Don’t miss the part about “getting up”. You may have “holey” purses and you might squander all that you have been given, but all you need to do is “get up” and go to the FATHER and He will reinstate you. Through repentance and forgiveness you will find you have more blessings than you had before you went out on your own. “The Father will give you whatever you ask in my name” (John 15:16); “We have confidence before God and receive from Him anything we ask, because we obey His commands and do what pleases Him” (1 John 3:22); “Go! It will be done just as you believed it would” (Matt. 8:13).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inboxdollars.com/?r=timo455"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.inboxdollars.com/graphics/creative/banners/125x125/banner_static_125x125_01.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is another purse we all have and it holds our time here on earth. We need to be extra careful to keep the holes in this one mended. Be careful not to SPEND your time feasting, drinking or worrying about worldly things. Be ready all the time for Jesus’ Second Coming. “Pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:34-36). “Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal. 6:7). I am assured that Jesus Christ is able to protect what He has trusted to me until that Day (2 Tim. 1:13) and until that Day we must protect the good deposit that we were given with the help of the Holy Spirit (2 Tim. 1:14). Do not put the truth of the gospel, your salvation or your faith in God in purses with holes. All of these things are just too precious to be lost through neglect. Especially since the holes are so easy to mend. “Fan into flame the gift of God” (2 Tim. 1:6); “Do not put out the Spirit’s fire” (1 Thess. 5:19); “Devote yourselves to prayer” (Col. 4:2); “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts” (Heb. 3:15). Love mends the holes and is well worth the effort; “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Cor. 2:9, Isa. 64:4)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;----by Polly Gwinn, a simple farmer's wife inspired by the good book.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.richmails.net/?r=timo455@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;img alt="Work at Home" src="http://www.richmails.net/images/logo2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-2721987812011803212?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/2721987812011803212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=2721987812011803212' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2721987812011803212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2721987812011803212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/is-your-treasure-purse-full-of-holes.html' title='IS YOUR TREASURE PURSE FULL OF HOLES???'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-8586368111585763622</id><published>2007-11-25T08:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-12T08:37:32.931-07:00</updated><title type='text'>VIRUS ALERT!!!!! PC Users take note!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Fwd: delete it immediately&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subject: delete it immediately&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please circulate to all. Thanks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please Be Extremely Careful&lt;br /&gt;Especially if using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.&lt;br /&gt;This information arrived this morning direct from both Microsoft and Norton.&lt;br /&gt;Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;You may receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point presentation&lt;br /&gt;'Life is beautiful.'&lt;br /&gt;If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES; and&lt;br /&gt;delete it immediately;&lt;br /&gt;If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying:&lt;br /&gt;'It is too late now; your life is no longer beautiful.'&lt;br /&gt;Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who&lt;br /&gt;sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password.&lt;br /&gt;This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;AOL has already confirmed the severity; and the antivirus software's&lt;br /&gt;are not capable of destroying it.&lt;br /&gt;The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner.'&lt;br /&gt;PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS and ask them to&lt;br /&gt;PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;A PUBLIC-SERVICE MSG BY AN 'INFIDEL'......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;.....MUSLIMS ARE ALSO WELCOME TO HEED!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.richmails.net/?r=timo455@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;img alt="Work at Home" src="http://www.richmails.net/images/logo2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-8586368111585763622?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/8586368111585763622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=8586368111585763622' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8586368111585763622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8586368111585763622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/virus-alert-pc-users-take-note.html' title='VIRUS ALERT!!!!! PC Users take note!!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-687382435162918889</id><published>2007-11-25T07:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-12T09:03:44.560-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Only God Knows Why THIS LITTLE MUSLIM BABY FINDS COMFORT IN THE ARMS OF AN 'INFIDEL'........</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;...maybe she senses the healing spirit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;of his Christian beliefs!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/R0mZUtifcdI/AAAAAAAAANU/zqRpiTVRJ1U/s1600-h/image0013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136805431093457362" style="WIDTH: 275px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 311px" height="300" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/R0mZUtifcdI/AAAAAAAAANU/zqRpiTVRJ1U/s320/image0013.jpg" width="275" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subject: FW: This is what SHOULD be in the News.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the good stories &amp;amp; just so beautiful.........have a look&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This needs to make headline news...not some of the other junk that makes the news these days!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a tough, but heart-warming story...with a picture of John Gebhardt in Iraq&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inboxdollars.com/?r=timo455"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.inboxdollars.com/graphics/creative/banners/125x125/banner_static_125x125_01.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is a real Star of the war, and represents what the Western world is trying to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This, my friends, is worth sharing with the WORLD! Go for it!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You'll never see things like this in the news. Please keep this going. Nothing will happen if you don't, but the public needs to see pictures like this and needs to realize that we're making a difference. Even if it is just one little girl at a time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust our sails .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.richmails.net/?r=timo455@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;img alt="Work at Home" src="http://www.richmails.net/images/logo2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-687382435162918889?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/687382435162918889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=687382435162918889' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/687382435162918889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/687382435162918889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/subject-fw-this-is-what-should-be-in.html' title='Only God Knows Why THIS LITTLE MUSLIM BABY FINDS COMFORT IN THE ARMS OF AN &apos;INFIDEL&apos;........'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/R0mZUtifcdI/AAAAAAAAANU/zqRpiTVRJ1U/s72-c/image0013.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3313938189833953546</id><published>2007-11-25T07:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-15T20:54:21.421-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HALF-NAKED GOD BLOGGER speaks of infidels........this time via another blogpage!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;note: my comment which is usually disabled appears at bottom of his crap!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;House of Ideas&lt;br /&gt;Big, Strong, Diverse, Fair and Successful&lt;br /&gt;Home&lt;br /&gt;About&lt;br /&gt;Hirsi Ali, infidel retard&lt;br /&gt;By menj Comments (0) Trackbacks (0)&lt;br /&gt;That is the only conclusion that one can surmise after reading her contradictory statements in an interview she had with the libertarian Reason magazine. Austrolabe did a good job of exposing who she is: a lying and sinful infidel retard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I think I am really being kind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is of course not anything new, if one were to probe in deeper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In her earlier book, The Caged Virgin, which came out last year, Ms Hirsi Ali wrote that her sister came to the Netherlands to avoid being “married off”. In Infidel, however, she says Haweya came to recover from an illicit affair with a married man that ended in abortion.&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;Curiously, Infidel described Aziza as a Kenyan Arab educated in Saudi Arabia. So was she a Saudi-trained Sunni pimping Wahhabi-style Islam or an Iranian-trained Shiite fundamentalist trying to win support for the Iranian Revolution? Or something else entirely?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infidels are all the same, no matter the form.&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically each day to your feed reader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tags:&lt;br /&gt;Topics: Religion&lt;br /&gt;Trackbacks &amp;amp; Pingbacks&lt;br /&gt;No trackbacks/pingbacks yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Comments&lt;br /&gt;……ok, fine but are’nt u using an infidel device (the PC) to communicate with ur hypocritical kind????…..c’mon, gv us a break!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Comment by yhto on November 25, 2007 @ 11:06 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3313938189833953546?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3313938189833953546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3313938189833953546' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3313938189833953546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3313938189833953546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/half-naked-god-blogger-speaks-of.html' title='HALF-NAKED GOD BLOGGER speaks of infidels........this time via another blogpage!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-1629969729556026822</id><published>2007-11-25T05:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T06:23:28.601-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SATAN wants to see you badly and offer free consultation/diagnosis on your PC.........interested???</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;......the moment you say 'yes', you're a gonna!!!....look out the window from your home or office and watch out for an ugly-green (dirty turquoise) Wira Aeroback with its tailgate almost falling off (sorry! reg. no. could not be provided). He could be waiting outside right now, saying his dark prayers, hoping your PC crashes........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;......remember, Satan's not the stereotyped red-man with horns. He can also look charming with a smile. looking hip-hop and cool and incredibly polite....BUT he's not there for your well-being...on the contrary......he wants your soul (your money).........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.......willing to travel outstation and such....will do anything for your soul/money....and he'll hold your PC as a ransom to get it (money/soul)...the phone no. provided (see previous posting) appears to have been shut off, probably due to the heat from his victims..........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;........he could surface tomorrow with a new number, new identity, new look.....watch out for the classifieds especially the Sun where his kind thrive (sorry Sun)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;........a fellow-blogger that goes by the blog-name of &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;9w2bsd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; commented that instead of ping-flooding the PPS, I should try the Ministry Of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. Sorry to say that this guy is suffering from the 'TTTA' (Talking Through The Anus) Syndrome. 1st of all, we all know the red-tape when it comes to our Public Service. 2ndly, I'd like to ask this guy whether the PPS is his family concern.......to put it simply, whether his father owns PPS.......it beats me why this guy has to get his undies all twisted into a naught over my postings........or maybe he's got blond hair, wears a earring and drives a Wira Aeroback......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;...........pls treat this as a public-service msg........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-1629969729556026822?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/1629969729556026822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=1629969729556026822' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1629969729556026822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1629969729556026822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/satan-wants-to-see-you-badly-and-offer_25.html' title='SATAN wants to see you badly and offer free consultation/diagnosis on your PC.........interested???'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3866988973150990358</id><published>2007-11-24T18:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T18:40:27.855-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SATAN IS A MF LOCAL CHINK come to remove the soul of your PC.........</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;RED ALERT: ALL PC USERS, DOMESTIC &amp;amp; OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU COULD BE NEXT!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BEWARE: PC RIP-OFF ARTIST ON THE PROWL&lt;br /&gt;Please be aware whom you call the next time your PC breaks down.&lt;br /&gt;Avoid calling individuals who advertise in newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;Check them out first. Ask for calling-cards, where they operate from, check their invoices to see if they have valid addresses.&lt;br /&gt;Avoid at all cost this particular individual&lt;br /&gt;Goes by the name of PETER SOO, Tel:0172691232&lt;br /&gt;Regularly advertises in the Sun (newspaper)&lt;br /&gt;Late twenties, blonde-dyed hair with a earing on the left ear.&lt;br /&gt;Drives a ugly-green Proton Aeroback (reg. number unknown)&lt;br /&gt;Claims to be operating as family business from USJ but&lt;br /&gt;produces NO calling-cards or invoices/bills with NO letter-heads.&lt;br /&gt;He usually checks your PC and says he must take back the CPU&lt;br /&gt;for repairs. Thats where the rip-off begins. His usual minimum quotation&lt;br /&gt;DOUBLES when the CPU is returned claiming there were other damages. He even shows you the damaged replaced parts BUT those are usually taken from other PCs. These so-called parts are usually put away in his bag to avoid the customer from examining closely.&lt;br /&gt;He then claims to have upgraded your PC with additional parts and costs BUT politely adds that he could remove them if you do not need them. That prompts you to agree with additional costs thrown in.&lt;br /&gt;Finally you get a bill thats 3 times the original quote and you will have to accept it.&lt;br /&gt;If your PC breaks down again, forget about back-up service cos this guy would not answer your calls or come up with vague excuses that he is outstation or his grandmother is in hospital. (a month ago, this grandmother passed away in Penang. Last week, she was admitted to UH, KL) I mean this guy has the uncanny ability to do it without a conscience and with impunity.&lt;br /&gt;REMEMBER THE NAME, REMEMBER THE TELEPHONE NUMBER AND AVOID ALL THE HEARTACHES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#000099;"&gt;This is a social-service message!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3866988973150990358?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3866988973150990358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3866988973150990358' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3866988973150990358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3866988973150990358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/satan-is-mf-local-chink-come-to-soul-of.html' title='SATAN IS A MF LOCAL CHINK come to remove the soul of your PC.........'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3362237683349039540</id><published>2007-11-24T10:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T10:47:12.421-08:00</updated><title type='text'>NakedGodBlogger Gets a penile-erection knowing AussieHowie lost.......</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(but still choses to disable my comments which now, proudly appear below)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critical Thoughts&lt;br /&gt;Brutally honest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Home About&lt;br /&gt;The enemy of my enemy is my friend&lt;br /&gt;Nov&lt;br /&gt;24&lt;br /&gt;Filed under: Dunia, Politik&lt;br /&gt;menj @ 11:03 pm&lt;br /&gt;John Howard, the Australian stooge of the American government, has lost. He suffered the same fate of former Spanish premier Aznar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;Comment 1&lt;br /&gt;Try not to poke your little BUMI nose into other people's affairs…….Howie is doing fine….so is Bush and all those satanic infidels……..but Malaysia, the land of so-called ’self-righteous’ people arent doing that well….what with PM Lah-lah Lembik loosing his grip. Now, here's one area you can lend your warped 'intellect' and make things better for you and your kind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment by yhto — November 25, 2007 @ 2:35 am &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3362237683349039540?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3362237683349039540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3362237683349039540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3362237683349039540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3362237683349039540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/nakedgodblogger-gets-penile-erection.html' title='NakedGodBlogger Gets a penile-erection knowing AussieHowie lost.......'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-1277311683765109400</id><published>2007-11-24T09:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T09:47:37.274-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Naked-God-Blogger posts a parliament hansard touching on Christian Icons in Convent Schools</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;...&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;but chooses to unsportingly disable my comment which now appears below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critical Thoughts&lt;br /&gt;Brutally honest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Home&lt;br /&gt;About&lt;br /&gt;Christian icons in convent schools&lt;br /&gt;Nov 23&lt;br /&gt;Filed under: Kritikan, Pendidikan, Sosial&lt;br /&gt;menj @ 12:56 pm&lt;br /&gt;This has been in existence for some time already, I wonder why is it only now that they decide to bring this up in Parliament? The timing for this issue to be raised is certainly most suspect, although I have no objection that this is indeed a serious matter. You can read the parliament hansard here (pp. 143-144).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A translation of this excerpt follows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuan Syed Hood bin Syed Edros [Parit Sulong]: Yang Di-Pertua, I would like to touch on a particular issue related to the Ministry of Education, which are Christian missionary schools such as Convent, La Salle, Methodist, etc. I was made to understand that the Board of Directors at these schools are partially administered by churches in foreign countries such as Vatican City. I was also made to understand that the application to build a “surau” [Muslim prayer room] in some of these schools had to go through the approval of these Board of Directors whereby they are partially administered by the Church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, it is shameful to me that the school administration are still controlled by the Church. I was also made to understand that many Muslim parents send their kids to these schools, and that they have complained that sometimes, the school starts with church songs. I do not know if this is true, but what I discovered from these parents are the display of religious symbols. I feel disappointed that in an Islamic country, Malaysia, if I go to a convent school, the statue of St. Mary is displayed in the front of the school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Datuk Haji Mohamad bin Haji Aziz [Sri Gading]: [Stands up]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuan Syed Hood bin Syed Edros [Parit Sulong]: Please proceed, Yang Berhormat for Sri Gading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Timbalan Yang di-Pertua [Datuk Dr. Yusof bin Yacob]: Yes, Yang Berhormat for Sri Gading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Datuk Haji Mohamad bin Haji Aziz [Sri Gading]: I am not shocked at all, Yang Berhormat for Parit Sulong. It’s not just a simple question. The question is, why has this happened? One. During the last Hari Raya, I was told by a father that when Aidilfitri was celebrated, these types of schools were not closed. Thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuan Syed Hood bin Syed Edros [Parit Sulong]: Not only the statues, but fellow Yang Berhormat, go and see for yourselves, Christian crosses are displayed in front of schools. I do not understand [why] the Ministry of Education [is allowing for this], did their officers not see this, or is it our policy to allow such a thing? Nevertheless, I, as a responsible person to my religion, race, and country, my view is that these statues need to be demolished, th crosses need to be destroyed and Church influences of these schools must be ended. Also, the funds that are collected at these schools. Do we have a report? If possible, the Ministry should reveal the funds for these schools. I was made to understand that these schools are also sponsored by the Church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m not sure where the Yang Berhormat for Parit Sulong got his information from but I can say with certainty that while these Christian religious icons which predate Merdeka did and still does exist in these former missionary-type schools (particularly prevalent in Convent Girls Schools where I have personally seen the Christian Cross and a huge Statue of Mary being displayed prominently at the foyer), no such influence from the Vatican City or difficulties in having a surau exist, and the principals of these schools are elected directly by the Government. As far as I know, these schools are funded and run by the Ministry of Education (and hence, the Government), just like any national-type school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It does disturbs me, however, to see the Christian icons being displayed prominently which is in direct violation of Article 3 of the Federal Constitution, and that is certainly one point that I must concede in agreement. And while I strongly agree that Christian religious icons in these convent schools definitely should be removed, the rest of the information provided by the MP of Parit Sulong are most certainly baseless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Comments »&lt;br /&gt;Is this the article you are talking about?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Article 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Islam is the religion of the Federation; but other religions may be practised in peace and harmony in any part of the Federation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. In every State other than States not having a Ruler the position of the Ruler as the Head of the religion of Islam in his State in the manner and to the extent acknowledged and declared by the Constitution, all rights, privileges, prerogatives and powers enjoyed by him as Head of that religion, are unaffected and unimpaired; but in any acts, observance or ceremonies with respect to which the Conference of Rulers has agreed that they should extend to the Federation as a whole each of the other Rulers shall in his capacity of Head of the religion of Islam authorize the Yang di-pertuan Agong to represent him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. The Constitution of the States of Malacca, Penang, Sabah and Sarawak shall each make provision for conferring on the Yang di-Pertuan Agong shall be Head of the religion of Islam in that State.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Nothing in this Article derogates from any other provision of this Constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution the Yang di-Pertuan Agong shall be the Head of the religion of Islam in the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Labuan; and for this purpose Parliament may by law make provisions for regulating Islamic religious affairs and for constituting a Council to advise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong in matters relating to the religion of Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Comment 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;…unless the msian govt has the courage &amp;amp; the conviction to transform that huge demonic eddifice on top of Genting into a massive Islamic complex, then I must say the powers-that-be can kiss their ‘Islamic Status’ goodbye!!!!! MALAYSIA TECHNICALLY DOES NOT QUALIFY….cos it still does benefit frm taxes derived from liquour, pork and gaming activities….all haram in all religions.&lt;br /&gt;Comment by yhto — November 24, 2007 @ 2:22 am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-1277311683765109400?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/1277311683765109400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=1277311683765109400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1277311683765109400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1277311683765109400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/naked-god-blogger-posts-parliament.html' title='Naked-God-Blogger posts a parliament hansard touching on Christian Icons in Convent Schools'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-8104831255653809934</id><published>2007-11-24T08:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T08:57:40.489-08:00</updated><title type='text'>NAKED-GOD-BLOGGER says US is the great satan !!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(if US is Great Satan, I wonder what that makes him.....a great prophet???)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) — Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The students were arrested Tuesday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities said. Two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy were charged with obscenity, a felony. An 11-year-old boy, the alleged lookout, was charged with being an accessory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore,” said Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley. “But this comes pretty close.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Authorities said the incident happened March 27 at the school, which houses students from kindergarten through 12th grade. A high school teacher normally watches the fifth-grade class at the time, but went to an assembly for older students and the class was inadvertently left unattended, Buckley said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The class, which had around 10 other students, was alone for about 15 minutes, he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“When no teacher showed up, the four began to have sex in the classroom with the other elementary students in the classroom with them,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It took a day for authorities to find out about the incident. A student who had been in the class told a high school student about it the next day, Buckley said. The student told a teacher, and school officials notified the sheriff’s office. Detectives began questioning students Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This happened in the Great Satan State of America so it is no surprise. However I fear that if things are heading where they are now with the social problems currently in the midst, it will be just a matter of time before we head into this direction, nau’zubillahi min zaalik!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330000;"&gt;Comment 1&lt;br /&gt;So, how come u using PC when its an invention of the infidels….from the land of the great Satan……u hypocrite, u should be running up and down the street buck-naked shouting your views instead of using the tools of satan…..I bet u hv a tv…..a phone?…….a car?……..and what not….Malaysia too has great satans in the ruling coalition engaged in unislamic practices like preferential-treatment and self-imposed (not God) special status……u have crap not flushed down for 50 yrs in the Govt’s sewage system and here u r griping &amp;amp; groaning like an old bitch about the US……what gives bro???….are satan’s riches bugging u????……….thinking of selling ur soul?????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment by yhto — November 25, 2007 @ 12:50 am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-8104831255653809934?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/8104831255653809934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=8104831255653809934' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8104831255653809934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8104831255653809934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/naked-god-blogger-says-us-great-satan.html' title='NAKED-GOD-BLOGGER says US is the great satan !!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-642668891464982919</id><published>2007-11-24T08:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T08:28:39.708-08:00</updated><title type='text'>COGNITIVE DISSONANCE as explained by Naked-God-Blogger</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;...followed by by comments below (which were disabled).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When presented with multimedia evidence documenting their crimes, one particular commenter (&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;that's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; emitted&lt;/span&gt; a strong reaction to the idea that they worship (&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;talking cock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; “a half-naked Jew”. Of course I admit however that the description was inaccurate; I should have said “a bloodied, half-naked Jew executed as a Roman criminal swinging from a cross”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe this state of denial is referred to as cognitive dissonance in medical psychology. While on one hand, they will accuse you of being a liar and manipulative in describing their demi-god, on the other hand the description of what they worship is certainly goddamned true. Ever watched Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of Christ” lately? See how they depicted the person they claim to “revere”, in no uncertain terms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for where we stand as Muslims, we believe that the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, was born of a virgin, he was a mighty Prophet of God who preached God’s message and while his enemies attempted to hunt him down and kill him, he was saved from crucifixion and was raised up to Allah. Glory be to Allah azza wa jalla who has not begotten a Son and is not in need of a Son, and we also bear witness that Jesus alaihissalam is Rasul Allah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;comment 1&lt;br /&gt;……COGNITIVE DISSONANCE…ha! a white man’s terminology……..same applies to you my dear friend……frm our viewpoint, u, my friend are also in self-denial!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment by yhto — November 24, 2007 @ 2:31 am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;comment 2&lt;br /&gt;….a scientist condemning his field of study has more credibility than a layman condemning science. Likewise a Christian condemning Christianity has more credibility than a layman doing the same. Outsiders throwing stones at a house should go home and put their own house in order first. Naked-god blogger should hv the courage to study Christian theology for at least 6 yrs b4 he qualifies as a credible critic. Otherwise he’s just another frog croaking in the night whom no one listens to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment by yhto — November 24, 2007 @ 2:45 am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-642668891464982919?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/642668891464982919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=642668891464982919' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/642668891464982919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/642668891464982919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/cognitive-dissonance-as-explained-by.html' title='COGNITIVE DISSONANCE as explained by Naked-God-Blogger'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-859984178926956979</id><published>2007-11-24T06:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T07:34:43.130-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Half-Naked-God blogger (penulis Tuhan Setengah Bogel)</title><content type='html'>.......posted a multimedia clip (not his) on Christian Violence, then congratulated himself by getting a private penile-erection over his 'victorious deeds' which he thinks warrants a place in the International Religious Archives......but my fair comments on the subject were unsportingly disabled (as expected). So, here's a replay followed by my comments (ABLED), warts and all.......watch the video first, compiled by a white nut &amp;amp; slavingly presented by his wacko proxy........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBwiaSlBWw"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBwiaSlBWw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment 1&lt;br /&gt;.......&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;muslim bro, hi....writers like you will come and go and die off without a whimper BUT that old rugged cross WILL withstand the test of time and FOOLS till the end of days. Non-believers? Well, they've got eternal damnation waiting for them come end of days....period!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;the skewered sentiments expressed in your blog are totally understandable being born and bred on a book by force, without question and nil options. We understand u hv to score points with ur kind to survive. That's normal, human but hardly spiritual as u'd like us all to believe. U speak about the 'speck in another person's eye without paying attention to beam in your own'........if u and ur kind are so perfect, y not offer solutions to current world problems???....Well, I thought so.&lt;br /&gt;c'mon bro, gv us all a break. Hey! What if all 'infidels' packed up and left for another solar-system. Can you and your kind rule planet earth in peace??? ........if your answer is 'yes', then my name is mickey-mouse!!!!!.....hey! dont forget, when the infidels leave, they are going to take all their ideas and inventions and discoveries and what not. So, what will u and ur kind be left with????? Only leaves to cover ur privates. Speaking of leaves, I still c u like the whiteman's maple.............ganja leaves would suit u better....believe me...its more symbolic of ur persona!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;speaking of half-naked man, my question is this.... how can u comment on a subject when ur articles appear to hv been written by a person who's clueless as a monkey's arse. Just cos u got a library of bibles doesnt make u an authority on the subject. American satanist Anton Lavey has tons of the Koran and related literature. Does that make hm an authority on the subject? Hardly. U know y? He's like u .......making comments from the outside, without understanding concepts........to put it simply, clueless as a monkey's arse...BIG TIME!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;There a myriad of issues back home that needs addressing like the preferential-treatment the govt practices on a particular race. Isnt that UNISLAMIC?? Why do Malay muslims like u choose to ignore it. Frankly I thnk dats much more worse than worshipping a half-naked man swinging on a branch (wow! dats heavy description). If u and ur like want to claim bumi-status, what about the asli in our jungles?? Isnt dat UNISLAMIC??? Why is the rallying cry of a certain malay party BANGSA, UGAMA, NEGARA? Since when did race &amp;amp; religion go hand in hand? Religion is for all and not for a particular race. For godsake, even the jews stopped calling themselves special ages ago.&lt;br /&gt;u seem well-read, but a little off-centre (personal observation) like Iranian head-honcho who simply loves speaking through his presidential anus....I mean the man simply takes delight in allowing his rear end do all the talking. Holocaust a myth?......I mean did ds fella really attend school or what. Please, for god's sake, take note that the primary functions of the anus is solely for excretion and the occassional fart. If the good lord intended for it to b used otherwise, he would have made adjustments. The last I saw, its still there for unloading ONLY. TTTA (talking thru the anus) usually happens when a person doesnt spend enough time washing and cleaning it after use. Please make adjustments if u belong to this category.&lt;br /&gt;Coming back to the cross, some religious fellas up north made a polis rport cos they saw a cross-sign on a piece of biscuit. What next? Make a polis report when u arrive at a t-junction, make a polis report when ur kids recite the alphabet 't'? Make a polis report when its time to add or substract in Math? Do u know in how many areas u can improve the mentality of this lot and here u are whining and groaning like an old bitch about some guy sweating on a cross.&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I must b taking too much of ur time and am sure u've got a lot to say in response to ds coment or&lt;br /&gt;maybe u mite jus DISABLE it so others mite not read it. Watever ur decision, I just hope u aply ur godgiven intellect on improving ur lot especially in areas of faith.&lt;br /&gt;A quik analysis of ur articles strike me as being written by a fella who has a deep-seated hatred for the white-man and so feels justified by attacking his god. Correct me if I am wrong. At least the half-naked man taught believers to 4gv &amp;amp; 4get, turn the other cheek which has kept them ahead of non-believers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;click &lt;a href="http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion"&gt;http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion&lt;/a&gt; and see if we have the right to dish dirt at each other's religion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Comment 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;….the multimedia clip wasnt done buy u so pls dont stake claim and self-glorification……it was done by some white-nut who doesnt know his own elbow from his arse and slavingly presented by a malay-nut……and since when did the holocaust have anything to do with the half-naked God????…….the Nazi-nut renounced his religion long b4 he became Fuehrer. Like I said reading your blogs are like bogging (crapping) next to a septic-tank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-859984178926956979?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/859984178926956979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=859984178926956979' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/859984178926956979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/859984178926956979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/naked-god-blogger-penulis-tuhan.html' title='Half-Naked-God blogger (penulis Tuhan Setengah Bogel)'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-589045902653661693</id><published>2007-11-21T20:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-22T06:16:26.804-08:00</updated><title type='text'>BEWARE!!!!!!!! PC Rip-Off Artist On The Prowl!!!</title><content type='html'>BEWARE: PC RIP-OFF ARTIST ON THE PROWL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please be aware whom you call the next time your PC breaks down.&lt;br /&gt;Avoid calling individuals who advertise in newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;Check them out first. Ask for calling-cards, where they operate from, check their invoices to see if they have valid addresses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avoid at all cost this particular individual&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goes by the name of PETER SOO, Tel:0172691232&lt;br /&gt;Regularly advertises in the Sun (newspaper)&lt;br /&gt;Late twenties, blonde-dyed hair with a earing on the left ear.&lt;br /&gt;Drives a ugly-green Proton Aeroback (reg. number unknown)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claims to be operating as family business from USJ but&lt;br /&gt;produces NO calling-cards or invoices/bills with NO letter-heads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He usually checks your PC and says he must take back the CPU&lt;br /&gt;for repairs. Thats where the rip-off begins. His usual minimum quotation&lt;br /&gt;DOUBLES when the CPU is returned claiming there were other damages. He even shows you the damaged replaced parts BUT those are usually taken from other PCs. These so-called parts are usually put away in his bag to avoid the customer from examining closely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He then claims to have upgraded your PC with additional parts and costs BUT politely adds that he could remove them if you do not need them. That prompts you to agree with additional costs thrown in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally you get a bill thats 3 times the original quote and you will have to accept it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your PC breaks down again, forget about back-up service cos this guy would not answer your calls or come up with vague excuses that he is outstation or his grandmother is in hospital. (a month ago, this grandmother passed away in Penang. Last week, she was admitted to UH, KL) I mean this guy has the uncanny ability to do it without a conscience and with impunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REMEMBER THE NAME, REMEMBER THE TELEPHONE NUMBER AND AVOID ALL THE HEARTACHES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#000099;"&gt;This is a social-service message!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-589045902653661693?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/589045902653661693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=589045902653661693' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/589045902653661693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/589045902653661693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/beware-rip-off-artist-on-prowl.html' title='BEWARE!!!!!!!! PC Rip-Off Artist On The Prowl!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-1589560158258283239</id><published>2007-11-20T10:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T10:23:36.474-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Lord's Prayer (Sir Cliff's Millenneum Prayer)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube-video-codes.com/watch?v=p1cG-4YSyhQ"&gt;http://www.youtube-video-codes.com/watch?v=p1cG-4YSyhQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-1589560158258283239?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/1589560158258283239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=1589560158258283239' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1589560158258283239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1589560158258283239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/lords-prayer-sir-cliffs-millenneum.html' title='The Lord&apos;s Prayer (Sir Cliff&apos;s Millenneum Prayer)'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-870145549585405219</id><published>2007-11-18T05:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-18T06:37:28.021-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MULASIE'S IDNIE DILEMMA</title><content type='html'>&gt; Ethnic rivalry in Mulasie usually is portrayed as rivalry between the&lt;br /&gt;&gt; majority Mulla population and the large Chonis minority. But sandwiched&lt;br /&gt;&gt; between the two are Mulasie's Idnies. They make up about 2 million or&lt;br /&gt;&gt; 8% of the population but according to some estimates they account for&lt;br /&gt;&gt; around 2% of the nation's corporate wealth. This disparity is leading to&lt;br /&gt;&gt; rising tensions from a group that the authorities normally take for&lt;br /&gt;&gt; granted.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; The Idnie community is split into Mosleems and Indoos. The Mosleems,&lt;br /&gt;&gt; known locally as the 'Momak, tend to blend more easily with the&lt;br /&gt;&gt; dominant Mullas - both being Mosleems means that intermarriage is not&lt;br /&gt;&gt; uncommon. (Former PM, Matay Mot is the product of such&lt;br /&gt;&gt; a union.) The Indoos on the other hand are far more marginalised.&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Politically weak and disorganised, they tend to be largely ignored by&lt;br /&gt;&gt; the government.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Many are very poor. But despite this, as non-Mullas and non-Mosleems, they&lt;br /&gt;&gt; do not qualify for Manjatra status - the status given to Mullas which&lt;br /&gt;&gt; gives the Mullas preferred access to university places, government share&lt;br /&gt;&gt; distributions and other such privileges. Some of the poorest work as&lt;br /&gt;&gt; rubber tappers.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Several years ago a visit to several rubber estates in the northern state&lt;br /&gt;&gt; of Kedah revealed unbelievable poverty and physical condition of the rubber tappers&lt;br /&gt;&gt; which was surprising as Mulasie is not a poor country. The&lt;br /&gt;&gt; plight of the tappers is akin to that of the aborigines in the more&lt;br /&gt;&gt; remote parts of Australia except that the Australian government pours&lt;br /&gt;&gt; billions into the community but with little discernable effect.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Mulasie's Idnies are among those to suffer the greatest displacement&lt;br /&gt;&gt; from the million or more legal and illegal Indonesian migrants now in&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Mulasie . Sporadic ethnic unrest now beaks out between poor Idnies and&lt;br /&gt;&gt; resident Indonesians but rarely is such unrest reported in the Mulasie&lt;br /&gt;&gt; media - the government directs the local media either not to report it&lt;br /&gt;&gt; or not to highlight it.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Growing resentment too derives from the demolition of Indoo temples by&lt;br /&gt;&gt; the various state governments. Dozens have been destroyed in the last&lt;br /&gt;&gt; few years. All or most targeted for demolition have been built on land&lt;br /&gt;&gt; to which the temples have no title. Typically the demolitions proceed&lt;br /&gt;&gt; with a court order and as such are reasonable. The real issue is why do&lt;br /&gt;&gt; so many of Mulasie's Idnies need to squat on land that isn't theirs in&lt;br /&gt;&gt; the first place?&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; But it is the manner in which the demolitions are carried out which&lt;br /&gt;&gt; unnecessarily raises tensions. The authorities who enforce the&lt;br /&gt;&gt; demolition orders invariably are Mullas and Mosleem giving such&lt;br /&gt;&gt; demolitions unfortunate religious rivalry overtones. Sometimes the idols&lt;br /&gt;&gt; are smashed before worshippers are given a chance to remove them to a&lt;br /&gt;&gt; safe place, action which is insensitive at best and a deliberate&lt;br /&gt;&gt; provocation at worst. The most recent temple to be demolished was at&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Chah Ilam, near Koolay Lamput, Mulasie's capital on October 30. Scuffles broke out and&lt;br /&gt;&gt; people were manhandled.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; In another perceived sleight, the most important Idnie festival&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Thavoli this year fell on November 8. The (Mulla) ruling party's&lt;br /&gt;&gt; annual General Assembly was staged on 5-9 November without stopping&lt;br /&gt;&gt; for Thavoli even though Thavoli is one of Mulasie 's gazetted public&lt;br /&gt;&gt; holidays. The Mulla politicians of yesteryear would not have been this&lt;br /&gt;&gt; insensitive.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Many better educated Idnies are migrating. Those who remain are&lt;br /&gt;&gt; becoming more strident politically.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; On August 12, around 2,000 Mulasie Idnies protested outside the prime&lt;br /&gt;&gt; minister's office to demand better treatment. The protest might have&lt;br /&gt;&gt; been bigger but according to organisers the police blocked as many as 15&lt;br /&gt;&gt; buses carrying Idnies from entering the area on the basis that the bus&lt;br /&gt;&gt; drivers did not have valid driving licences.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; On August 30, a class action was filed in London by a group of activists&lt;br /&gt;&gt; against the UK government for bringing indentured labourers from Idnia&lt;br /&gt;&gt; during the colonial era and failing to "protect" them thereafter&lt;br /&gt;&gt; including during the fifty years since Mulasie's independence. The suit&lt;br /&gt;&gt; will go nowhere of course but it is a calculated attempt to embarrass&lt;br /&gt;&gt; the Mulasie government internationally to force it to better look&lt;br /&gt;&gt; after the welfare of the Idnie minority. And on November 25, a petition&lt;br /&gt;&gt; with what activists claim will have 100,000 signatures will be presented&lt;br /&gt;&gt; to the British High Commission in Koolay Lamput in support of the legal&lt;br /&gt;&gt; action.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; But what of the Idnies' political leaders?&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Mamee Vindaloo is head of the Mulasie Idnie Conjob (I-NO-SEE) party and has&lt;br /&gt;&gt; been so since 1979. He is also Mulasie's Public Works Mandoor. Vindaloo&lt;br /&gt;&gt; completely dominates the I-NO-SEE which his critics claim he runs almost&lt;br /&gt;&gt; along feudal lines.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; He was the subject of a major scandal in the early 1990s when the&lt;br /&gt;&gt; government allocated ten million shares in the country's national&lt;br /&gt;&gt; telephone company to Tapioca, an Idnie cooperative company set up by the&lt;br /&gt;&gt; I-NO-SEE. The company accepted only one million shares. The other nine&lt;br /&gt;&gt; million were then given to three companies which Vindaloo described as&lt;br /&gt;&gt; I-NO-SEE-linked companies, but which, according to his critics, were actually&lt;br /&gt;&gt; linked to his relatives. The three companies made tens of millions of&lt;br /&gt;&gt; dollars in capital gains on the shares. Meanwhile Tapioca became almost&lt;br /&gt;&gt; insolvent.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Former prime minister Matay Mot when asked why he didn't sack&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Vindaloo from his cabinet given this and other scandals replied that he had&lt;br /&gt;&gt; no control over the I-NO-SEE's internal processes and that he was obliged to&lt;br /&gt;&gt; have in the cabinet whomever the I-NO-SEE chose as its leader. To be fair,&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Matay also mentioned that Vindaloo had an appalling job, given how&lt;br /&gt;&gt; politics is played out in the Idnie community with the constant and&lt;br /&gt;&gt; seemingly trifling demands for gifts and direct assistance. But&lt;br /&gt;&gt; essentially, Vindaloo is part of the wider malaise of political leadership&lt;br /&gt;&gt; from which Mulasie suffers from today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-870145549585405219?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/870145549585405219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=870145549585405219' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/870145549585405219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/870145549585405219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/mulasies-dilemma.html' title='MULASIE&apos;S IDNIE DILEMMA'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3667192207657254764</id><published>2007-11-17T08:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T08:09:15.329-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Golden Compass: Wrong Direction For Kids</title><content type='html'>There will be a new children's movie out in December called 'The&lt;br /&gt;Golden Compass'. The movie has been described as 'atheism for kids'&lt;br /&gt;and is based on the first book of a trilogy entitled 'His Dark&lt;br /&gt;Materials' that was written by Phillip Pullman. Pullman is a militant&lt;br /&gt;atheist and secular humanist who despises C. S. Lewis and the&lt;br /&gt;'Chronicles of Narnia'. His motivation for writing this trilogy was&lt;br /&gt;specifically to counteract Lewis' symbolisms of&lt;br /&gt;Christ that are portrayed in the Narnia series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly, Pullman's main objective is to bash Christianity and promote&lt;br /&gt;atheism. Pullman left little doubt about his intentions when he said&lt;br /&gt;in a 2003 interview that 'my books are about killing God.' He has&lt;br /&gt;even stated that he wants to 'kill God in the minds of children'. It&lt;br /&gt;has been said of Pullman that he is 'the writer the atheists would be&lt;br /&gt;praying for, if atheists prayed.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While 'The Golden Compass' movie itself may seem mild and innocent,&lt;br /&gt;the books are a much different story. In the trilogy, a young&lt;br /&gt;streetwise girl becomes enmeshed in an epic struggle to ultimately&lt;br /&gt;defeat the oppressive forces of a senile God. Another character, an&lt;br /&gt;ex-nun, describes Christianity as 'a very powerful and convincing&lt;br /&gt;mistake.' In the final book, characters representing Adam and Eve&lt;br /&gt;eventually kill God, who at times is called YAHWEH. Each book in the&lt;br /&gt;trilogy gets progressively worse regarding Pullman's hatred of Jesus&lt;br /&gt;Christ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The Golden Compass' is set to premier on December 7, during the&lt;br /&gt;Christmas season (and staring Nicole Kidman although it remains a mystery as to why she agreed to the part since she announced her reconversion to Catholicsm since leaving the mindless Scientology Church) and will probably be&lt;br /&gt;heavily advertised. Promoters hope that unsuspecting parents will&lt;br /&gt;take their children to see the movie, that they will enjoy the movie,&lt;br /&gt;and that the children will want the books for Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please consider a boycott of the movie and the books. Also, pass this&lt;br /&gt;information along to everyone you know (including church leaders).&lt;br /&gt;This will help to educate parents, so that they will know the agenda&lt;br /&gt;of the movie. This message is for those  of you who have kids or&lt;br /&gt;friends with kids, grandkids or have influence with kids. So many&lt;br /&gt;things today are darkness concealed in what appears to be innocent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3667192207657254764?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3667192207657254764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3667192207657254764' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3667192207657254764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3667192207657254764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/golden-compass-wrong-direction-for-kids.html' title='The Golden Compass: Wrong Direction For Kids'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-712459445319891168</id><published>2007-11-17T07:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T07:36:06.256-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Good Lord's 10 little guidelines!!!!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>TEN GUIDELINES FROM GOD&lt;br /&gt;Effective Immediately,&lt;br /&gt;please be aware that there are changes YOU need&lt;br /&gt;to make in YOUR life. These changes need to be&lt;br /&gt;completed in order that I may fulfill My promises&lt;br /&gt;to you to grant you peace, joy and happiness in&lt;br /&gt;this life. I apologize for any inconvenience,&lt;br /&gt;but after all that I am doing, this seems very&lt;br /&gt;little to ask of you. Please, follow&lt;br /&gt;these 10 guidelines&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. QUIT WORRYING:&lt;br /&gt;Life has dealt you a blow and all you do is sit&lt;br /&gt;and worry. Have you forgotten that I am here&lt;br /&gt;to take all your burdens and carry them for you?&lt;br /&gt;Or do you just enjoy fretting over every little&lt;br /&gt;thing that comes your way?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. PUT IT ON THE LIST:&lt;br /&gt;Something needs done or taken care of. Put it&lt;br /&gt;on the list. No, not YOUR list. Put it on MY&lt;br /&gt;to-do-list. Let ME be the one to take care&lt;br /&gt;of the problem. I can't help you until you turn&lt;br /&gt;it over to Me. And although My to-do-list&lt;br /&gt;is long, I am after all... God. I can take care&lt;br /&gt;of anything you put into My hands. In fact,&lt;br /&gt;if the truth were ever really known, I take&lt;br /&gt;care of a lot of things for you that you never&lt;br /&gt;even realize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. TRUST ME:&lt;br /&gt;Once you've given your burdens to Me,&lt;br /&gt;quit trying to take them back. Trust in&lt;br /&gt;Me. Have the faith that I will take care of&lt;br /&gt;all your needs, your problems and your trials.&lt;br /&gt;Problems with the kids? Put them on My list.&lt;br /&gt;Problem with finances? Put it on My list.&lt;br /&gt;Problems with your emotional roller coaster?&lt;br /&gt;For My sake, put it on My list. I want to&lt;br /&gt;help you. All you have to do is ask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. LEAVE IT ALONE:&lt;br /&gt;Don't wake up one morning and say,&lt;br /&gt;"Well, I'm feeling much stronger now, I think&lt;br /&gt;I can handle it from here." Why do you think&lt;br /&gt;you are feeling stronger now? It's simple.&lt;br /&gt;You gave Me your burdens and I'm taking&lt;br /&gt;care of them. I also renew your strength&lt;br /&gt;and cover you in my peace. Don't you&lt;br /&gt;know that if I give you these problems back,&lt;br /&gt;you will be right back where you started?&lt;br /&gt;Leave them with Me and forget about&lt;br /&gt;them. Just let Me do my job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. TALK TO ME:&lt;br /&gt;I want you to forget a lot of things.&lt;br /&gt;Forget what was making you crazy.&lt;br /&gt;Forget the worry and the fretting because&lt;br /&gt;you know I'm in control. But there's one&lt;br /&gt;thing I pray you never forget. Please, don't&lt;br /&gt;forget to talk to Me - OFTEN! I love YOU!&lt;br /&gt;I want to hear your voice. I want you to&lt;br /&gt;include Me in on the things going on in your life.&lt;br /&gt;I want to hear you talk about your friends&lt;br /&gt;and family. Prayer is simply you having&lt;br /&gt;a conversation with Me. I want to be your&lt;br /&gt;dearest friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. HAVE FAITH:&lt;br /&gt;I see a lot of things from up here that you&lt;br /&gt;can't see from where you are. Have faith in&lt;br /&gt;Me that I know what I'm doing. Trust Me;&lt;br /&gt;you wouldn't want the view from My eyes.&lt;br /&gt;I will continue to care for you, watch over you,&lt;br /&gt;and meet your needs. You only have to trust Me.&lt;br /&gt;Although I have a much h bigger task than you,&lt;br /&gt;it seems as if you have so much trouble just&lt;br /&gt;doing your simple part. How hard can trust be?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. SHARE:&lt;br /&gt;You were taught to share when you were&lt;br /&gt;only two years old. When did you forget?&lt;br /&gt;That rule still applies. Share with those who are&lt;br /&gt;less fortunate than you. Share your joy with&lt;br /&gt;those who need encouragement. Share your&lt;br /&gt;laughter with those who haven't heard any in&lt;br /&gt;such a long time. Share your tears with those&lt;br /&gt;who have forgotten how to cry. Share your faith&lt;br /&gt;with those who have none.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. BE PATIENT:&lt;br /&gt;I managed to fix it so in just one lifetime&lt;br /&gt;you could have so many diverse experiences.&lt;br /&gt;You grow from a child to an adult, have children,&lt;br /&gt;change jobs many times, learn many trades,&lt;br /&gt;travel to so many places, meet thousands&lt;br /&gt;of people, and experience so much. How can&lt;br /&gt;you be so impatient then when it takes Me&lt;br /&gt;a little longer than you expect to handle&lt;br /&gt;something on My to-do-list? Trust in My&lt;br /&gt;timing, for My timing is perfect. Just&lt;br /&gt;because I created the entire universe in&lt;br /&gt;only six days, everyone thinks I should&lt;br /&gt;always rush, rush, rush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. BE KIND:&lt;br /&gt;Be kind to others, for I love them just&lt;br /&gt;as much as I love you. They may not dress&lt;br /&gt;like you, or talk like you, or live the same way&lt;br /&gt;you do, but I still love you all. Please try&lt;br /&gt;to get along, for My sake. I created each&lt;br /&gt;of you different in some way. It would be&lt;br /&gt;too boring if you were all identical.&lt;br /&gt;Please, know I love each of your differences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. LOVE YOURSELF:&lt;br /&gt;As much as I love you, how can you not&lt;br /&gt;love yourself? You were created by me for&lt;br /&gt;one reason only -- to be loved, and to love&lt;br /&gt;in return. I am a God of Love. Love Me.&lt;br /&gt;Love your neighbors. But also love yourself.&lt;br /&gt;It makes My heart ache when I see you&lt;br /&gt;so angry with yourself when things go&lt;br /&gt;wrong. You are very precious to me.&lt;br /&gt;Don't ever forget......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: I received this from a friend and I have&lt;br /&gt;no idea who wrote it, but I was so touched&lt;br /&gt;by it, that I had to share it with you.&lt;br /&gt;I hope that you will be blessed by&lt;br /&gt;it and will share it with others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Touch someone with your love.&lt;br /&gt;Rather than focus upon the thorns of life,&lt;br /&gt;smell the roses and count your blessings!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- End: AdBrite --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-712459445319891168?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/712459445319891168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=712459445319891168' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/712459445319891168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/712459445319891168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/good-lords-10-little-guidelines.html' title='The Good Lord&apos;s 10 little guidelines!!!!!!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-8142800041480809821</id><published>2007-11-17T06:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T07:00:54.278-08:00</updated><title type='text'>GOD &amp; THE SPIDER...sorry spiderman, you're no match!!!!</title><content type='html'>God and the Spider&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During World War II, a US marine was separated from his unit on a Pacific&lt;br /&gt;island. The fighting had been intense, and in the smoke and the crossfire he&lt;br /&gt;had lost touch with his comrades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alone in the jungle, he could hear enemy soldiers coming in his direction.&lt;br /&gt;Scrambling for cover, he found his way up a high ridge to several small&lt;br /&gt;caves in the rock. Quickly he crawled inside one of the caves. Although safe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the moment, he realized that once the enemy soldiers looking for him&lt;br /&gt;swept up the ridge, they would quickly search all the caves and he would&lt;br /&gt;be killed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As he waited, he prayed, Lord, if it be your will, please protect me.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever your will though, I love you and trust you. Amen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After praying, he lay quietly listening to the enemy begin to draw close.&lt;br /&gt;He thought, well, I guess the Lord isn't going to help me out of this one.&lt;br /&gt;Then he saw a spider begin to build a web over the front of his cave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As he watched, listening to the enemy searching for him all the while, the&lt;br /&gt;spider layered strand after strand of web across the opening of the cave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hah, he thought. What I need is a brick wall and what the Lord has sent&lt;br /&gt;me is a spider web. God does have a sense of humor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the enemy drew closer he watched from the darkness of his hideout and&lt;br /&gt;could see them searching one cave after another. As they came to his, he&lt;br /&gt;got ready to make his last stand. To his amazement, however, after glancing&lt;br /&gt;in&lt;br /&gt;the direction of his cave, they moved on. Suddenly, he realized that with&lt;br /&gt;the spider web over the entrance, his cave looked as if no one had entered&lt;br /&gt;for quite a while. Lord, forgive me, prayed the young man. I had forgotten&lt;br /&gt;that in you a spider's web is stronger than a brick wall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all face times of great trouble. When we do, it is so easy to forget the&lt;br /&gt;victories that God would work in our lives, sometimes in the most surprising&lt;br /&gt;ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember: Whatever is happening in your life, with God, a mere spiders web&lt;br /&gt;can become a brick wall of protection. Believe He is with you always and you&lt;br /&gt;will see His great power and love for you. Have an awesome day, and know&lt;br /&gt;that someone who thinks you're great has thought about you today!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ author unknown ~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- Begin: AdBrite --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a target="_top" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;afsid=1" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- End: AdBrite --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-8142800041480809821?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/8142800041480809821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=8142800041480809821' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8142800041480809821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8142800041480809821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/god-spidersorry-spiderman-youre-no.html' title='GOD &amp; THE SPIDER...sorry spiderman, you&apos;re no match!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-4238347995170686889</id><published>2007-11-15T06:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-15T07:27:38.858-08:00</updated><title type='text'>FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS..Heaven Is For Real !!!</title><content type='html'>The international ministry "Light for the Nations" presents:&lt;br /&gt;Revelations of&lt;br /&gt;Heaven and Hell&lt;br /&gt;to 7 Columbian Youths&lt;br /&gt;Together as a group, these 7 Columbian youths were taken by Jesus Christ and shown Heaven and Hell. Hear their account of the Glories of Heaven and misery of Hell.&lt;br /&gt;Due to the recording, we could only record 6 testimonies, Originally transcribed from Spanish Audio,&lt;br /&gt;Illustrations/Pictures were added later, and were not part of the testimony.&lt;br /&gt;Revelations on Heaven&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;--- (1st Testimony, Esau) ---&lt;br /&gt;2 Corinthians 12:2 :&lt;br /&gt;I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago - whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God know- was caught up as far as the third heaven.&lt;br /&gt;We were in the room, when we had the first experience. The room started to fill again with a light from the presence of the Lord. It was so powerful that it lit up the entire room. The room was full of His glory, it was beautiful to be before Him.&lt;br /&gt;Jesus told us, "My sons, now I will show you My Kingdom, we will go to my Glory." We took each others hands and were lifted up. I looked down and noticed that we were going out of our own bodies. As we left our bodies we were dressed with white robes and started to go up at a very high speed.&lt;br /&gt;We arrived in front of a pair of doors which was the entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven. We were astonished at what was happening to us. Thankfully, Jesus the Son of God was there with us, along with two angels who each had four wings.&lt;br /&gt;The angels began to talk to us, but we didn't understand what they were saying. Their language was very different from ours, neither was it like any Earthly language. These angels were welcoming us and they opened those immense doors. We saw a wonderful place, with many different things. When we came inside, a perfect peace filled our hearts. The Bible tells us that God would give us peace that surpasses all human understanding (Philippians 4:7)&lt;br /&gt;The first thing I saw was a deer, so I asked one of my friends, "Sandra, are you looking at the same thing I am looking at?" She was no longer crying or shouting anymore, as when we were shown Hell. She was smiling and said: "Yes Esau, I am looking at a deer!" Then I knew that everything was real, we were really in the Kingdom of Heaven. All the horrors that we saw in Hell were soon forgotten. We were there enjoying the glory of God. We went to where the deer was, behind it stood an absolutely huge tree! It was in the center of the paradise.&lt;br /&gt;The Bibles tells us in Revelation 2:7 "Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. I will grant the victor to eat from the tree of life that stands in the paradise of God"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tree is a symbol of Jesus, because Christ is Eternal Life. Behind the tree was a river of crystalline water. It was so clear and beautiful, like we never had seen before on Earth. We just wanted to stay in that place. Many times we said to the Lord, "Lord please! Do not take us out of this place! We want to be here forever! We don't want to go back to Earth!" The Lord answered us, "It is necessary that you go back to give testimony of all the things that I have prepared for those who love Me because I am coming back very soon and my reward is with Me."&lt;br /&gt;When we saw the river, we hurried there and got inside of it. We remembered the scripture that says that whoever believes in the Lord, from his belly shall run rivers of living water. (John 7:38) The water from this river seemed to have life in itself, so we immersed ourselves in it. Inside and outside of the water we could breath normally. That river was very deep and there were many different colors of fish swimming in it. The light inside and out of the river was normal; in Heaven light did not come from a specific source, everything was just brightly lit up. The Bible tells us that the Lord Jesus is the light of that city (Revelations 21:23). With our hands, we took some of the fish out of the water; they didn't die. So we ran to the Lord and asked Him why. The Lord smiled and answered that in Heaven there is no more death, no more crying, and no more pain. (Revelations 21:4)&lt;br /&gt;We left the river and ran to every place we could find, we wanted to touch and experience everything. We wanted to bring everything back home with us, because we were so amazed at the things in Heaven. They simply cannot be explained sufficiently with words. When the Apostle Paul was taken to Heaven, he saw things that he could never explain with words, because of the greatness of the things in the Kingdom of Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12) There are things we saw that we have almost no way of describing.&lt;br /&gt;We then came to a very immense area; a very wonderful and beautiful place. This place was full of precious stones: gold, emeralds, rubies and diamonds. The floor was made of pure gold. We then went to a place where there were three very large books. The first one was a Bible made of gold. In Psalms it tells us that the Word of God is eternal and that the Word of God remains in Heaven forever. (Psalms 119:89) We were looking at a huge golden Bible; the pages, the scripture, everything was made of pure gold.&lt;br /&gt;The second book we saw was bigger than the Bible. It was open and an angel was sitting there writing inside the book. Together with the Lord Jesus we got closer to see what the angel was writing. The angel was writing all of the things that were happening on the Earth. Everything that has happened; including the date, the hour, everything is recorded there. This is done so the Word of the Lord can be fulfilled where it says that the Books were opened, and that the people on the Earth were judged according to their works that were written in those books (Revelations 20:12). The angel was writing all the things that people were doing here on Earth, good or bad, as it is written.&lt;br /&gt;We continued to the place where the third book was. It was even bigger than the last book! The book was closed, but we got closer to it. All seven of us together took the book down from its stand, according to command of the Lord, and we put it on a pillar.&lt;br /&gt;The pillars and columns in Heaven are so wonderful! They are not made like the ones on the Earth. The columns were like a braid, they were made of different precious stones. Some were made of diamonds, others were made of pure emeralds, others were made of pure gold, and others were made of a combination of many different type of stones. I then understand that God really is the owner of all things, as it is written in Haggai 2:8, "The gold is mine, and silver is mine." I understood that God is absolutely rich and He owns all the riches in the world. I also understood that the world in all its fullness belongs to our God, and He wants to give it to all those who ask in faith.&lt;br /&gt;The Lord said, "Ask me and I will give you the nations for an inheritance." (Psalms 2:8) This book that we put on the column was so big that in order to turn a page we had to walk each page to the other side of the book. We tried to read what was in that book, as the Lord asked us. At first, it was difficult to read because it was written in strange characters that we could not understand. It was different from any Earthly language; it was something totally Heavenly. But with the help of the Holy Ghost, we were given the grace to understand it. It was like a bandage was taken off our eyes and we could then understand the writing; as clear as our own language.&lt;br /&gt;We could see that all seven of our names were written in the book. The Lord told us that it was the Book of Life. (Revelations 3:5) We noted that the names written in the book were not the names we were called on Earth; these names were new, so the Word of God can be fulfilled when it says that He would give us a new name that no one else knows but the person who receives it. (Revelations 2:17)&lt;br /&gt;In Heaven, we were able to pronounce our names, but once the Lord brought us back to Earth those names were taken from our memories and our hearts. The Word of God is eternal, and it has to be fulfilled. My friends, the Bible says, (Revelations 3:11) Don't let anyone take your crown, do not let any one to usurp or remove that place that the Father has ready for you. In Heaven, there are millions of things that are wonderful, we just can't express it with our mouths. But I want to tell you something, "God is waiting for you!" However it is only the people that perseveres until the end, who will be saved! (Mark 13:13)&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;--- (2nd Testimony, Ariel) ---&lt;br /&gt;When we started to go up to the Kingdom of Heaven, we came to a beautiful place with precious doors. In front of the doors were two angels. They started to talk, but their speech was angelical and we could not understand what they were saying. But the Holy Ghost gave us understanding. They were welcoming us. The Lord Jesus put His hands on the doors and they opened. If Jesus were not with us, we would never have been able to come inside Heaven.&lt;br /&gt;We began to appreciate everything in Heaven. We saw a huge tree, the Bible describes this tree as the "Tree of Life." (Revelation 2:7) We went to a river, and saw a lot of fish inside. Everything was so amazing that my friends and I decided to go inside the water. We began to swim under that water. We saw the fish moving around and they caressed our bodies. They didn't swim away as normally happens on Earth; the presence of the Lord calmed the fish. The fish could trust us because they knew that we were not going to harm them. I was so blessed and marveled that I grabbed one of the fish and took it out of the water. What was so amazing was that the fish was very quiet enjoying the presence of the Lord even in my hands. I put the fish back into the water.&lt;br /&gt;I could see in the distance that there were white horses in Heaven, as it is written in the word of God in Revelation 19:11. "Then I saw heaven open and a white horse appeared. Its rider is called Faithful and True; justly He Judges and wages war." Those horses were the ones that the Lord will use when He comes to the Earth to take His people, His church. I walked to the horses and began to pat them. The Lord followed me and allowed me to ride one of them.&lt;br /&gt;When I started to ride, I felt something that I had never felt before on Earth. I began to experience the peace, the freedom, the love, the holiness that a person can have in that beautiful place. I started to enjoy everything that my eyes could see. I just wanted to enjoy everything in that beautiful paradise that the Lord has prepared for us.&lt;br /&gt;We also could see the wedding banquet table, everything was already served. It had no beginning or end. We saw the chairs prepared for us. There was also crowns of eternal life that are ready to be taken by us. We saw delicious foods that are already set, for all of those that will be invited to the Wedding of the Lamb.&lt;br /&gt;Angels where there with some white cloth for the cloaks that the Lord is preparing for us. I was amazed looking at all these things. The Word of God tells us that we have to receive that Kingdom of God like little children. (Mathew 18:3) When we were in Heaven we were like children. We started to enjoy everything there; the flowers, the residences... the Lord even allowed us to go inside the residences.&lt;br /&gt;Then God took us to a place that had many children. The Lord was in the middle of them and He started to play with them. He made sure to spend enough time with each of them and He enjoyed being with them. We got close to the Lord and asked Him, "Lord are these children the ones who are going to be born on Earth?". The Lord answered, "No, these children are the ones who were aborted on the Earth". Upon hearing that, I felt something inside of me that made me shake.&lt;br /&gt;I remembered something I had done in the past, when I did not know the Lord. At that time, I was in a relationship with a woman and she got pregnant. When she told me she was pregnant, I did not know what to do so I asked her for some time to make a decision. Time passed and when I went to her to tell my decision, it was already too late because she already had an abortion. That marked my life. Even after I accepted the Lord in my heart, that abortion was something that I could not forgive myself of. But God did something that day, He allowed me to enter that place and told me, "Ariel, do you see that girl that is there? That girl is your daughter." When He told me that, I saw the girl, I felt the wound, I had in my soul for such long time, started to heal. The Lord allowed me to walk close to her and she got close to me. I took her in my hands and saw her eyes. One word I heard from her lips, "Daddy". I understood and I felt that God had mercy on me and had forgiven me, but I had to learn to forgive myself.&lt;br /&gt;Dear friend, whoever reads this, I want to tell you one thing. God has already forgiven your sins, now you have to learn to forgive yourself. I give thanks to God for allowing me to share this testimony with you. Lord Jesus Christ I give you the honor and glory! This testimony is of the Lord, He allowed us to receive this revelation. I hope that each one of our brothers that reads this testimony shall receive also the blessing of this testimony and take it to bless many others.&lt;br /&gt;God bless you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;--- (3rd Testimony) ---&lt;br /&gt;(Revelations 21:4)&lt;br /&gt;And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.&lt;br /&gt;When we arrived, these big doors were opened for us, and I started to see a valley full of flowers. The flowers were beautiful and their smell was exquisite. We started to walk and experience a total freedom like we had never felt on the Earth. We felt a peace that filled our hearts and while we looked at the flowers we noticed that they were unique; each petal was different, genuine, and had a unique color.&lt;br /&gt;Inside my heart, I said to my Lord that I wanted to have a flower like one of these. The Lord gave an expression of agreement, I got close to a flower and started to pull it. But nothing happened, I could not pull the flower out of the ground. I couldn't even pull the petals or leaves off of the flower. Then the Lord broke the silence and said, "Here everything must be done in love." He touched the flower and it surrendered itself to the hand of the Lord. He then gave it to us. We continued walking and the smell from the flowers was still with us.&lt;br /&gt;We arrived at a place with a set of very beautiful doors. These doors were not simple, they were very ornate in their craftsmanship and had precious stones engraved on them. The doors opened and we entered into a room with many people. Everybody was running here and there making preparations. Some of them carried rolls of shining white cloth over their shoulders, others were carrying spindles of golden thread, and yet others were taking some kind of plates with something like shields inside them. Everyone was running with effort.&lt;br /&gt;We asked the Lord why there was so much effort and hurry. Then Lord bid a young man to come close. This man had a roll of cloth on his shoulders. He came and looked at the Lord, reverently. When the Lord asked him why he was carrying that roll of cloth, he just looked at the Lord and said, "Lord you know what this cloth is for! This cloth is used to make the robes of the redeemed, the robes for the great Bride." Upon hearing this, we felt a great joy and peace. Revelation 19:8 tells us: "And it has been granted to her to be dressed in pure, resplendent linen. For the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints."&lt;br /&gt;When we came out of that place we felt even more peace, because it was beautiful to see that the Lord Himself was making something nice for us. He has the place and the time for you because you are important to Him. When we came out of that place, our eyes got lost in every detail in Heaven. It's like each thing had life in itself, and every object there was giving glory to God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we came to a place where there were millions and millions of children, of all ages. When they saw the Lord, all of them wanted to hug Him, to feel more of His love, because He was their passion. Jesus was the passion of each child there. We felt like crying after seeing how the Lord spoiled each one of these children, how He kissed them and held their hands.&lt;br /&gt;We saw how angels got close to the Lord, bringing Him babies wrapped in linen. The Lord caressed, touched, and gave them a kiss on their foreheads and then the angels took them back with them. We asked the Lord why there were so many children there, were those children going to be sent to the Earth. The Lord sounded touched for a moment, and He said, "No, these children will not be sent to the Earth! These are the ones that were aborted on the Earth, whose parents don't want to have them. These are my children and I love them." I nodded my head, and even my voice trembled to ask the Lord such a question.&lt;br /&gt;When I didn't know the Lord, the true Life that He is, I made mistakes and sinned like everybody else. Among those sins was an abortion I had. There was a moment where I had to be face to face with the Lord and ask Him, "Lord, is the baby I aborted, long ago, here?". The Lord answered, "Yes." I started walking to one of the sides and I saw a beautiful little boy. Close to his feet stood an angel. The angel was looking at the Lord, and the boy had his back facing us.&lt;br /&gt;The Lord told me, "Look, there is your boy." I wanted to see him so I ran over to him, but the angel stopped me with his hand. He showed me that I had to listen to the boy first. I started to hear what the little boy was saying. He was talking and looking in the direction of the other children. He asked the angel, "Are my daddy and my mommy coming here soon?" The angel, looking at me, answered to him, "Yes, your daddy and your mommy are just about to come."&lt;br /&gt;I do not know why I was given the privilege of hearing these words, but in my heart I knew that these words were the best gift that the Lord could give to me. This little one was not talking with anger, or pain, maybe knowing that we did not let him be born. He was simply waiting with the love that God had placed in his heart.&lt;br /&gt;We continued walking, but I kept the image of that boy in my heart. I know that each day I have to make an effort to be able to be with him one day. I have one more reason to go there, because someone is waiting for me in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Word of God tells us in Isaiah 65:19, "I too will rejoice over Jerusalem and Will delight in My people. No more will there be heard in her the voice of weeping or the voice of crying."&lt;br /&gt;We came to a place with some small mountains, and the Lord Jesus came dancing. In front of Him was a crowd of people dressed in white robes and they lifted their hands with green olive branches. When they waved the branches in the air, they released oil. God has great things prepared for you! Now is the time for you to put your heart before Him.&lt;br /&gt;God bless you.&lt;br /&gt;--- (4th Testimony) ---&lt;br /&gt;In the Kingdom of Heaven, we saw wonderful things as it is written in the Word of God, 1 Corinthians 2:9, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, neither has the human heart thought of what God has prepared for those who love Him."&lt;br /&gt;When we arrived at the Kingdom of Heaven it was so spectacular and wonderful to see so many things; so many big things and to feel the glory of the Lord. It was so special; a place with lots of children. We could say that there were millions of children in that place.&lt;br /&gt;We saw children of different ages, Heaven was divided into sections. We saw some kind of baby-house that sheltered kids aged 2-4. We also noticed that the children in the Kingdom of Heaven grow up and there was a school where the children are taught the Word of God. The teachers are angels and they teach the children worship songs and how to glorify the Lord Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;When the Lord arrived, we could see the immense joy of our King. Even though we could not see His face, we could see His smile, it filled the entire place. When He arrived, all the children ran to Him! In the middle of all those children, we could see Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ on Earth. She was a beautiful woman. We did not see her on a throne and neither was anyone worshiping her. She was there as one of the other women in heaven, like all other people on Earth she had to win her salvation. She had a white robe and a golden belt around her waist, and her hair reached down to her waist.&lt;br /&gt;On Earth, we have listened to many people as they worship Mary as the mother of Jesus, but I want to tell you that the Word of God says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but by Me." (John 14:6) The only entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven is Jesus of Nazareth.&lt;br /&gt;We also noticed there was no Sun or Moon. The Word of God tells us in Revelation 22:5 "And night shall be no more; they will need neither lamplight nor sunlight, for the Lord God will be their light, and they shall reign for ever and ever."&lt;br /&gt;We could see the glory of God. We find it difficult to explain the horrors we saw in hell, but it is even more difficult to try to explain the celestial things we saw and the perfection of our Maker. When we were there, the wanted to run and see everything. We could lay down on the grass, and we could feel the glory of God. That soft whistle; that soft wind that caressed our faces, it was something wonderful.&lt;br /&gt;In the middle of the sky, we could see a huge cross made of pure gold. We believe that this was not a symbol of idolatry but more like a symbol showing that through the death of Jesus on the cross, we have entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven.&lt;br /&gt;We continued walking in Heaven. It was fascinating to walk with the Lord Jesus Christ. There we could know for sure, who is the God that we are serving...Jesus of Nazareth. Many of us on Earth think there is a God up there, just waiting for us to commit a sin, so He can punish us and send us to hell. But that is not reality. We could see the other face of Jesus, a Jesus that is a friend; a Jesus that cries when you cry. Jesus is a God of love, compassion and mercy; He takes us in His hands to help us continue in the way of salvation.&lt;br /&gt;The Lord Jesus also allowed us to meet a person from the Bible. We meet King David, the King David mentioned in the scriptures. He was a good looking man, tall and his face reflected the Glory of God. The whole time we were in the Kingdom of Heaven, the only thing that King David did was dance, dance, dance and give all the glory and the honor to God.&lt;br /&gt;To those who are reading this testimony, I want to tell you that in the Word of God is says in Revelations 21:27 "But nothing unclean nor anyone practicing immorality and falsehood shall ever enter it, but only those whose names have been recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life." And I also want to tell you that only the brave ones take hold of the Kingdom of Heaven.&lt;br /&gt;God Bless you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;--- (5th Testimony) ---&lt;br /&gt;(2 Corinthians 5:10)&lt;br /&gt;For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, so that each may receive as his due what he practiced while in the body, whether good or bad&lt;br /&gt;In the Kingdom of Heaven, we could see the New Jerusalem which the Bible tells us about in John 14:2, "In My Father's house are many dwelling places. If this were not so, I would have told you. For I am going away to prepare a place for you." We could see the city and enter it; it is a real and wonderful city! Jesus went there to prepare those dwelling places for us.&lt;br /&gt;In the city and we could see that each residences or house had the owner's name written in front of the house. This city is not yet inhabited, but it is ready for us. We were allowed to go inside the houses and see all the things inside. But later when we left the city, we forgot the things we saw, those memories were taken away from us. However, we can remember that the columns of the houses are plated with precious metals and have many different types of precious stones encrusted in them. They also have pure gold in them.&lt;br /&gt;The gold of this city is like the Bible describes; it is almost transparent, and so shiny. The gold on Earth can not be compared in luster and beauty to the gold that is in Heaven.&lt;br /&gt;After this, we were taken to a place that had lots of containers. Inside those containers were crystallized tears. Those were the tears that the sons of God shed on the Earth. They were not tears of complaints, but tears that people shed when they are in the presence of God; tears of repentance, tears of gratitude. God keeps these tears as a precious treasure in Heaven, just like it is mentioned in Psalms 56:8, "Thou takest note of my roaming; and put my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?"&lt;br /&gt;We also came to a place where many many angels were. Although in Heaven we could see many different types of angels, this place had just one special type. We saw that Jesus, has a specific angel for each person. He also showed us that this angel will be close to us during our entire existence. He introduced us to the angels assigned to us. We got to see their characteristics, but God told us that we are not allowed to reveal these things to others. We read in Psalms 91:11, "For He gives His angels orders regarding you, to protect you wherever you go."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We came to a place with many lockers, within them were many different flowers. Some flowers were open, beautiful and radiant. But other were kind of droopy, and some others ones were even shriveled. We asked Jesus what the meaning of all those flowers were? He answered, "It is because the life of each of you is like one of these flowers." He took one of the radiant flowers and said, "This flower shows the condition of the communion that you have with Me." He left that flower and took another one that was down. He said, "Look, this person is down because they are having a trial, or a difficulty. There is something in this life that is interrupting the communion with Me. Do you know what I do with these flowers when they are down in order to make them brilliant and healthy again?" He then took the flower in His hand and said, "I shed my tears over them and I raise them up." We saw how in a powerful way this flower began to have life again and raise up and its colors began to appear again.&lt;br /&gt;Then He took one of the shriveled flowers and He threw it into the fire and said, "Look, this person had known me and walked away from Me. Now he dies without me and it is thrown to the fire." (John 15:5-6)&lt;br /&gt;When we left there, we saw a beautiful castle very far in the distance. Nobody dared to get close to that castle, and we believe that is what the Scriptures talk about in Revelation 22:1, "He then showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing forth from the throne of God and of the Lamb." We believe that the castle was probably located near the presence and throne of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While experiencing all these things in the Kingdom of Heaven, we had so much joy in our hearts, we had a peace that passes all understanding. (Philippians 4:7) We understood as it is written in 1 Peter 1:4, "to an inheritance imperishable , unsullied, and unfading that is kept safely in heaven for you."&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;--- (6th Testimony) ---&lt;br /&gt;(Luke 22:30)&lt;br /&gt;"that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will be seated on thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel."&lt;br /&gt;In that marvelous place, God allowed us to see the most beautiful reception hall that we ever thought could exist anywhere in the universe. We saw a giant throne with two chairs in pure gold and precious stones that do not exist on Earth. In front of the giant throne was a table that had no end, on it was white tablecloth. It was so white that we couldn't compare it to anything on Earth.&lt;br /&gt;All manner of exquisite and refined foods was set on the table. We saw grapes the size of oranges, and the Lord Jesus Christ let us taste some of them. We still can remember their taste, it was something so wonderful! My brother and friend, you can't imagine all the things that are ready in the Kingdom of Heaven and what God has already prepared for you. (1 Corinthians 2:9)&lt;br /&gt;Also on the table, God allowed us to see the bread, the "Manna". This was the bread of God that the Scriptures tells us about. We were allowed to enjoy the taste along with many other wonderful things that don't even exist on Earth.&lt;br /&gt;These things are waiting for us as our incorruptible inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven. We will enjoy some amazingly exquisite and delicious foods when we inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. We were amazed that the chairs were set on both sides of the table. These beautiful chairs had names written on each one. We could read clearly our names on those chairs, but our names were not the same ones that we have here on Earth. They were the new names that nobody else knew but ourselves. (Revelations 2:17)&lt;br /&gt;What was written in the Word of God surprised us, "Do not rejoice that the demons submit to you, rejoice because your names are written in the Heaven." (Luke 10:20) There were a lot of chairs! There is enough space for all of those who want to come to the Kingdom of Heaven. There were also chairs that were taken away from the table. That means that there are men and women who got tired of serving God, and their names were erased from the Book of Life and they are set away from the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.&lt;br /&gt;God also allowed us to see men from the Bible, the wonderful saints that we read about in Scriptures. We were surprised to see Abraham. Abraham was an elder, but not in his body or his appearance. He was an elder by the wisdom that he had. Abraham's hair was totally white, but each hair was like glass filaments or diamond filaments. What surprised us the most was that he was even younger than we are. In Heaven, all of us will rejuvenate and be young. We were also surprised by his words. Abraham told us something that we will never forget. He welcomed us to the Kingdom of Heaven and told us that soon we would be in that place, because the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is approaching quickly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-4238347995170686889?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/4238347995170686889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=4238347995170686889' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/4238347995170686889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/4238347995170686889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/first-good-newsheaven-is-for-real.html' title='FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS..Heaven Is For Real !!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-2737182742771167057</id><published>2007-11-15T06:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-15T06:38:21.121-08:00</updated><title type='text'>NOW, FOR THE BAD NEWS......So Is Hell !!!</title><content type='html'>The international ministry "Light for the Nations" presents:&lt;br /&gt;Revelations of Heaven and Hell&lt;br /&gt;by 7 Columbian Youths&lt;br /&gt;Together as a group, these 7 Columbian youths were taken by Jesus Christ and shown Heaven and Hell. Hear their account of the Glories of Heaven and misery of Hell.&lt;br /&gt;Due to the recording that this was translated from, we could only record 6 testimonies&lt;br /&gt;Originally transcribed from Spanish Audio Illustrations/Pictures were added later, and were not part of the testimony&lt;br /&gt;Translation help by Claudia Alejandra Elguezabal&lt;br /&gt;Revelations on Hell&lt;br /&gt;--- (1st Testimony) ---&lt;br /&gt;(Luke 16:19) There was a rich man that dressed in purple and fine linen, who enjoyed luxurious living every day. In front of his gate a beggar named Lazarus was placed, covered with sores, and hungering to be fed crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. The beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried, and while suffering tortures in hades, he looked up and from a distance saw Abraham with Lazarus in his bosom. So he called out, Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip his finger tip in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this fire.&lt;br /&gt;But Abraham said, Son, remember that you enjoyed the good things in your lifetime while Lazarus had the bad things; now he is being comforted here but you are suffering anguish. Besides, there is a great chasm fixed between you and us, so that those who want to cross from here to you are unable; neither can they cross from your side to us.&lt;br /&gt;The Bible, the word of God, is very clear about the subject of heaven and hell. In this portion that we have just read, the Lord tells us about two places: Heaven and Hell, the condemnation or the salvation. There is no intermediate place. Purgatory does not exist. Limbo does not exist, where men exist for a while after they have departed from the Earth and then go to heaven; the Bible is very clear about that.&lt;br /&gt;(April 11th 1995) God gave us a revelation that would change the trajectory of our lives. We had just begun to know about God and His Word. We are seven youth to whom God has given the privilege and great responsibility of sharing this revelation with the world.&lt;br /&gt;Everything started about approximately 10:00 a.m. We were praying and were prepared to go out on a picnic later on that day. Suddenly around 10 am, a very powerful white light shone through one of the windows. When the light appeared, all of us immediately started to speak in tongues and were baptized with the Holy Ghost.&lt;br /&gt;In that moment, all of us were astonished and fascinated with what we saw. That glorious light was illuminating the entire room. The light was much stronger than the light from the sun. In the middle of the light, we saw a host of angels dressed in white. These angels were so beautiful, tall, and very good looking.&lt;br /&gt;In the middle of all those angels we saw something amazing -- the figure of a Man. This image was a special being, a man who was dressed in a very white mantle and robes. His hair was like gold threads. We could not see His face because it was too brilliant. However, we saw a golden belt around His chest, with gold lettering that said: "King of Kings and Lord of Lords ." He was wearing pure gold sandals on His feet, and His beauty was without equal. When we saw the presence of that Man, all of us fell to our knees.&lt;br /&gt;Then we started to hear His voice. It was very special and wonderful; every word drilled into our hearts like a double-edged sword; just like it is written in the word of God (Hebrews 4:12). He spoke to us in very simple but powerful words. We audibly heard Him say to us, "My little children, don't be afraid, I am Jesus of Nazareth, and I have visited you to show you a mystery so you can show and tell to towns, nations, cities, churches, and all places. Where I tell you to go, you will go, and where I tell you not to go, you will not go."&lt;br /&gt;The Holy Bible, the Word of God, says in Joel 2:28 "It shall come to pass after this that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions." These are the times that God is preparing for everyone.&lt;br /&gt;Then something strange happened, a rock appeared in the middle of the room, and the Lord, who was with us, made us get on that rock. The rock was about eight inches above the floor, and a huge hole appeared in the floor. It was a huge, black, terrifying hollow or cavern. Soon, we fell on top of the rock and went down through the hollow in the floor. It was dark and it lead us to the center of the earth.&lt;br /&gt;While we were in that gloomy darkness, we were so scared! We were so afraid that we said to the Lord, "Lord we don't want to go to that place! Don't take us to that place Lord! Take us out of here Lord!" The Lord answered us with a very beautiful and compassionate voice, "This experience is necessary so you can see and tell others."&lt;br /&gt;We were in a horn-shaped tunnel, and we stared to see shadows, demons and figures that moved from one place to another. We kept going deeper and deeper down. In just a matter of seconds, we felt an emptiness and a great fear.&lt;br /&gt;We then arrived at some caverns; at some horrible doors, like a labyrinth. We didn't want to go inside. We noticed a terrible smell and a heat that choked us. Once we entered, we saw terrible things, frightful images. The entire place was engulfed in flames; and in the middle of these flames, there were bodies of thousands of people. They were suffering in great torment. The sight was so horrifying, we didn't want to see what was shown to us.&lt;br /&gt;The place was divided into different sections of torment and suffering. One of the first sections that the Lord allowed us to see was the "Valley of the Cauldrons" as we called it. There were millions of cauldrons. The cauldrons were inlaid at the level of the ground; each of them was burning with lava inside. Inside each one was the soul of a person who had died and gone to hell.&lt;br /&gt;As soon as those souls saw the Lord, they started to shout and screamed, "Lord, have mercy on us! Lord give me a chance to get out of this place! Lord, take me out and I will tell the world that this place is real!" But the Lord didn't even look at them. There were millions of men, women and young people in that place. We also saw homosexuals and drunkards in torment. We saw all of these people shouting in such great torment.&lt;br /&gt;It shocked us to see how their bodies were destroyed. Worms were coming in and out of their empty eye sockets, mouths, and ears; and were penetrating the skin all through their bodies. This fulfills the word of God written in the book of Isaiah 66:24 "They shall go forth; they shall gaze upon the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against Me; for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched; they shall be an abhorrence to all mankind." Also in Mark 9:44,"Where their worm never ceases and the fire is not put out." We were just horrified at what we were watching. We saw flames about 9 to 12 feet high. Within each flame, there was the soul of a person that has died and went to hell.&lt;br /&gt;The Lord allowed us to see a man who was inside of one of the cauldrons. He was upside down and the flesh on his face was falling in pieces. He remained watching the Lord intently; and then started to shout and call on the name of Jesus. He said, "Lord have mercy! Lord give me a chance! Lord take me out of this place!" But the Lord Jesus didn't want to look at him. Jesus simply turned his back on him. When Jesus did this, the man started to curse and blaspheme the Lord. This man was John Lennon, the member of the satanic music group "The Beatles." John Lennon was a man who mocked and made fun of the Lord during his life. He said that the Christianity was going to disappear and Jesus Christ would be forgotten by everyone. However, today this man is in hell and Jesus Christ is alive!! Christianity hasn't disappeared either.&lt;br /&gt;As we started to walk on the edges of that place, the souls extended their hands to us and begged for mercy. They asked Jesus to take them out of there, but the Lord would never even look at them.&lt;br /&gt;Then we started going through different sections. We came to the most terrible section of hell, where the worse torments happen; the center of hell. The most concentrated forms of torment; such torments that a human being could never express them. The only people here where those who knew Jesus and the Word of God. There were pastors, evangelists, missionaries, and all types of people that had once accepted Jesus and knew the truth; but lived a double life.&lt;br /&gt;There were also backsliders; their suffering was a thousand times worse than any one else. They were shouting and begging the Lord for mercy, but the word of the Lord says in the book of Hebrews 10:26-27, "For if we go on sinning willfully after acquiring the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer left any sacrifice for sins, but some dreadful anticipation of judgment and of a fierce fire that is to devour those who oppose God."&lt;br /&gt;Those souls were there because they preached, fasted, sung and lifted their hands in the church but in the streets and homes they were in adultery, fornication, lying, robbery. We can not lie to God. The Bible says that he to whom much has been given much also will be required. (Luke 12:48)&lt;br /&gt;God then allowed us to see two women that had once been Christian sisters while on the earth, but they didn't live a righteous life before the Lord. One said to the other, "You cursed wretch! It's your fault that I am in this place! You didn't preach to me a holy gospel! And because you didn't tell me about the truth, I am now here in hell!" They would say these things to each other in the midst of the flames, and they hated each other because there is no love, mercy or forgiveness in hell.&lt;br /&gt;There were thousands of souls who had known the Word of God, but their lives weren't clean before the holy presence of the Lord. "You cannot play with God or with the flames of the hell either!" the Lord said. He also told us, "My sons, all the suffering on the earth concentrated in just one place is nothing, NOTHING compared with the suffering that a person has in the best parts of hell." If it is that terrible for those who suffer least in hell, how much worse must it be for those in the center of hell, who once knew the Word of the Lord and walked away from it. Then the Lord told us that we that we could play with the fire on the earth, but never with the fire in hell.&lt;br /&gt;We continued walking through different places and the Lord showed us many different people. We could see that all the people there had approximately six different type of torments. There were souls tormented by demons with all types of punishments. Another terrible punishment was their own conscience saying , "Remember when they preached to you, remember when you heard the Word of God, remember when they told you about hell and you laughed about it!" Their own consciences tormented them; just like the worms that crossed all over their bodies, like the consuming fire that was thousands and thousands times more hotter than we know. This was the reward that the devil has for all those who seek him and follow him.&lt;br /&gt;The Word of the Lord says in Revelation 21:8 "As for the cowardly, however, and the unbelieving, and the fearful, the murderers, the immoral, those practicing magic arts, and idolaters, and all liars- their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."&lt;br /&gt;Next, the Lord showed us a man that had murdered six people. These six people now surrounded him, and were shouting at him saying, "It is your fault that we are all in this place, YOUR FAULT!" The murderer tried to cover his ears because he didn't want to listen to them, but he could not avoid listening since in hell all your senses are much more sensitive.&lt;br /&gt;Souls in that place were tormented with an intolerable thirst for water that can not be satisfied in any way; like the Bible story of Lazarus and the rich man. (Luke 16:19) The rich man in Hell wanted only one single drop of water, that would have been enough. The Word of the Lord says in Isaiah 34:9, "The streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch."&lt;br /&gt;In that place, every souls was in the middle of the fire. People saw mirages of crystal-clear rivers in the middle of the fire; but when they tried to reach them, the rivers turned into fire. They also saw trees with fruit that gave out water; but when they tried to take them, they burned their hands and demons would ridicule them.&lt;br /&gt;Then God took us to a place much worse than the other places that we had seen. We saw the lake of fire and brimstone. On one side of that lake there was a smaller lake. In that smaller lake, there were millions and millions and millions of souls crying and begging the Lord to have mercy on them. They said to Him, "Lord please! Take us out of here at least just a little moment! Please give me the chance to go out!!!" However, the Lord could not do anything for them because their judgment was already set.&lt;br /&gt;Among those millions and millions of people, the Lord allowed us to focus on one man whose body was half-way submerged in the lake of fire. The Lord let us understand and know his thoughts. The name of that man was Mark. We were amazed by the things this man said to himself, in his thoughts. We learned an eternal lesson when we heard the following thoughts, "I would give anything to be in your place now! I would give anything to go back to the earth just for one minute. I wouldn't care if I were the most miserable, most sick, most hated, or the poorest man in the world, I would give anything to go back! Just for one minute on the earth." The Lord Jesus was holding my hand. Jesus replied to Mark's thoughts saying, "Mark, why would you like to come back to the earth even for just one single minute?" With a crying and tormented voice, he told Jesus, "Lord! I would give anything to go back to the earth just for one single minute simply to repent and be saved."&lt;br /&gt;When the Lord heard what Mark had said, I saw blood come from Jesus' wounds and tears filled His eyes as He said, "Mark, it is too late for you! Worms are set for your bed and worms will cover you." (Isaiah 14:11) When the Lord said this to him, he sank in the lake forever. Sadly, all those souls have no more hope. Only we on Earth have the chance to repent today and go to Heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ.&lt;br /&gt;I now leave you with my sister to continue this testimony, thank you.&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--- (2nd Testimony, Lupe) ---&lt;br /&gt;God bless you dear beloved brothers. Let's read the Word of the Lord from Psalms 18:9. "He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under His feet" When the Lord reached for my hand, I grabbed His hand and we started to descend down that tunnel. The tunnel grew darker and darker to the point that I could not even see my other hand, that wasn't holding onto the Lord's hand.&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly, we passed something dark and sparkling; which was making noise. The darkness was so dense, your hand could not even find the walls of the tunnel. Our descent was so fast, that I felt like my soul was separating from my body.&lt;br /&gt;Soon I noticed a very rotten smell; like the smell of rotten flesh. It was getting much worse each moment. Then I heard the voices of millions and millions of souls. They were endlessly shouting, crying out and moaning. I was so frightened that I turned to the Lord and said, "Lord where are you taking me? Lord have mercy on me! Please have mercy on me!" The Lord only said, "It is necessary that you see this, so you can tell everyone else."&lt;br /&gt;We continued down through this horn-shaped tunnel until we arrived at place that was entirely dark. Like pulling a heavy curtain from my eyes, I then saw millions and millions of flames. Even worse, I heard these agonizing screams but couldn't see anyone. I was really scared. I said to the Lord, "Oh please Lord have mercy on me! Oh please Lord have mercy on me! Don't take me to this place! Forgive me!" At this time, I didn't think that I was just a spectator in hell, I thought it was the day of reckoning. Standing before the Lord Jesus, I was shaking violently because I really thought this was the end of my life.&lt;br /&gt;We drew closer to a big flame ahead of us; it was huge and burning with fury. I continued going down slowly, seeing multitudes of flames and hearing millions of souls crying with one voice.&lt;br /&gt;Then I saw a wooden table that was not being consumed by the fire. It had what appeared like beer bottles on it. These looked refreshing, but they were full of fire. As I was looking at this, a man suddenly appeared. His flesh was almost completely destroyed and what was left of his clothes were muddy and burning. He had lost his eyes, mouth, and all his hair from the fire. He could see me, even though he had no eyes. I tell you it is the soul of a person that thinks, reasons and truly sees; not your natural body.&lt;br /&gt;The man extended his skinny hand towards the Lord and started to cry out, saying, "Lord, have mercy on me! Lord have mercy on me! I am in pain! I am burning! Please have mercy and take me out of this place!" The Lord looked at him with pity, and I started to feel something warm in my hand. I looked and it was blood...the blood of Jesus! The Lord's blood came from His hand while He was watching this suffering man engulfed in flames.&lt;br /&gt;Then the man turned his gaze in the direction of the table and walked towards the bottles. He grabbed a bottle but as he was about to drink from it, fire and smoke shot out of the bottle. He put his head back and screamed like I have never heard before. He cried with such great pain and sorrow and then started to drink what was in this bottle. But the bottle was full of acid and his throat was totally destroyed by it. You could see the acid passing through his stomach and hurting him.&lt;br /&gt;The number 666 was engraved on the forehead of this man. On his chest was a plate made of some unknown metal which couldn't be destroyed, not even by the heat or the worms. It has some letters written on it, but we could not understand them. The Lord, in His great mercy, gave us an interpretation of what was written. "I am here because I am a drunkard." He begged the Lord for mercy, but the Word of God is very clear when it tell us in 1 Corinthians 6:10 "thieves, greedy people, drunks, slanderers, and robbers will not inherit the kingdom of God."&lt;br /&gt;The Lord showed me this man's last moments on earth, just like a movie or film. It was like a big television screen showing me his last seconds before death. The man's name was Luis and he was in a bar drinking. I saw the same table and the same bottles in that bar. Around this table were his friends. (I can tell you this now, there is only ONE TRUE FRIEND, and His name is JESUS CHRIST. He is the faithful friend.) Luis was drinking and his friends were already drunk. His best friend took a bottle, broke it and started stabbing Luis. When he saw Luis lying on the floor he ran away, but Luis bled to death on the floor. The saddest thing was that he died without the Lord.&lt;br /&gt;In the middle of all this, as all those souls in hell were crying out, I asked the Lord, "Oh Lord, please tell me, did this man know about you? Did he know about your salvation?" The Lord sadly replied, "Yes Lupe, he knew about me. He accepted me as his personal savior, but he did not serve me." Then I felt even more fear. Luis cried louder and shouted, "Lord this hurts! This hurts! Please have mercy on me!" He extended his hand again towards the Lord, but Jesus took my hand instead and we walked away from the flame. The flames consuming Luis became more violent, and he cried louder, "Have mercy on me! Have mercy on me!!" He was then lost in the flames.&lt;br /&gt;We continued walking, this place was just so huge and scary! We approached another flame and I said to the Lord, "Lord, no! Please I don't want to see anymore of this! I beg you to forgive me! Please forgive me! I don't want to see this!" So I closed my eyes, but it didn't matter, open or closed I still saw everything. This flame started to go down slowly and I began to see a woman. She was covered with mud, and the mud was full of worms. She had very few hairs left, and she was caked with worm-infested mud. She was consumed by worms all around and she shouted, "Lord have mercy on me! Lord have mercy on me and forgive me! Look at me! This hurts! Have mercy on me! Take away these worms! Take me out of this torment because it hurts so much!" The Lord simply looked at her with great sorrow. As we held His hand, we could feel the pain and sorrow in the Lord's heart for all the lost souls, eternally burning in the flames of hell.&lt;br /&gt;This woman had no eyes or lips, but she could still see and feel; all the pain was just stronger. She had a bottle in her hands, full of acid, but she believed it was perfume. I could see that it was acid and every time she sprayed her body, it burned her. Nevertheless, she still kept applying this acid on her body over and over. She kept saying that it was an expensive perfume. She also believed that she was wearing a beautiful necklace, but all I saw were serpents wrapped around her neck. She believed that she was wearing very expensive bracelets, but I saw they were actually worms, about a foot long, furiously digging into her bones. She said that her jewelry was all she had, but I saw scorpions and worms all over her body. She had a metal plate, that everyone wears in hell. It read "I am here for robbery."&lt;br /&gt;This woman had no remorse for her sin. The Lord asked her, "Magdalena, why are you in this place?" She answered, "It didn't bother me to steal from others. The only thing I cared about was having my jewelry and getting more expensive perfumes. I didn't care who I robbed, as long as I looked good."&lt;br /&gt;I held onto Christ's hand as I saw the worms burrow through her entire body. Magdalena turned around looking for something. I asked the Lord once more, "Lord, did this person know about you?" And the Lord answered, "Yes, this person knew me."&lt;br /&gt;Magdalena started to look around, saying, "Lord where is that woman who talked to me about You? Where is she? I have been in hell for 15 years." All people in hell can remember everything. Magdalena kept asking, "Where is this woman? I can't see her!" I knew her body could not turn around because her flesh remained in the same position. She tried to turn and look into other flames, to find that woman who talked to her about God. The Lord replied, "No! No, Magdalena, she is not here. That woman that told you about Me is with Me in the Kingdom of Heaven."&lt;br /&gt;Upon hearing this, she threw herself down in the flames and which burned her even more. Her metal plate condemned her as a thief. I want you to read in the Word of the Lord in Isaiah 3:24. "It shall be, that instead of a sweet smell, there will be rottenness; instead of a girdle, a rope; instead of well-set hair, baldness; instead of a rich robe, a wrapping of sack-cloth; instead of beauty, a branding mark."&lt;br /&gt;As we continued walking with the Lord, I saw a very big column filled with worms. Around it was a slide made of red-hot metal. On this column there was a brightly-lit billboard that could be seen from anywhere. The Billboard read, "Welcome all liars and gossipers." At the end of the slide was a small boiling lagoon. It looked like burning brimstone. Then I saw a totally naked person coming down the slide. As they slid, their skin would peel off and stick to the slide. When they fell into the burning lagoon, their tongue expanded until it exploded and worms appeared in place of the tongue. This began their torment. The Word of God says in Psalm 73:18-19 "Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors."&lt;br /&gt;After seeing this, we were taken back, out of Hell. I just want to tell you that Heaven and Hell are even more real than this physical world that we know. It is here where you decide what direction you want to go; to spend eternity with Jesus or to a burning hell. The Lord kept saying to us, "Without holiness no man will see me, without holiness no man will see me." (Hebrews 12:14) That is why I tell you the same thing now, "Without holiness you can not see the Lord."&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--- (3rd Testimony, Sandra) ---&lt;br /&gt;Let's go to the Word of the Lord in Matthew 10:28 "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell"&lt;br /&gt;Whenever a soul arrives in hell, that person acquires a body of death. The Lord Jesus took my hand and we began to go downwards through a very deep dark tunnel that led to the center of the Earth. We arrived at a place with several doors; one of them opened and we entered with the Lord. I would not let go of the Lord's hand, because I knew if I did, I would stay in hell forever.&lt;br /&gt;Upon entering that door, I saw was an enormous wall. There were thousands of people hung from their heads by hooks, with shackles that bound their hands to the wall. We also saw many thousands of people standing in the midst of flames everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;We went in front of one of the flames and it started to go down slowly. Soon I could see a person inside, and when he spoke, I could tell it was a man. The man was wearing a priest's garments, which were totally filthy and shredded. Worms were slithering inside and out, all over this man's body. He looked charred and burnt by the fire. His eyes were plucked out and his flesh was melting and falling to the ground. But after the flesh would all fall off, it would grow back, and the whole process would resume.&lt;br /&gt;When he saw Jesus he said, "Lord have mercy on me, have mercy on me! Please let me out of here just a moment! Just a minute!" On this man's chest was a metal plate that read, "I am here for robbery."&lt;br /&gt;When Jesus came close, He asked the man, "What is your name?" The man answered, "Andrew, my name is Andrew, Lord" The Lord asked him, "How long you have been here?" Andrew answered, "I have been here for a very long time." The man began to tell his story. He said he had the responsibility of collecting tithes and organizing monetary distribution to the poor in his Catholic church. However, he would steal the money instead. With eyes full of compassion, the Lord asked the man, "Andrew, have you ever heard the gospel?" Andrew replied, "Yes Lord, there was one Christian woman that went to the church and she preached the gospel once, but I didn't want to accept it. I didn't want to believe it, but I believe it now! Now I believe that this is real! Please Lord take me out of here, at least just one moment!"&lt;br /&gt;As he was speaking, worms were crawling through his eye sockets, exiting his ears, and coming inside again through his mouth. He tried to pull them off with his hands but it was impossible. He was shouting horribly and kept begging God for mercy. He kept asking Jesus to take him out of that place. Even worse, there were demons tormenting him, constantly piercing him with their spears. The demons looked just like one of the toy dolls that we have here on earth called "The Jordanos". I saw those dolls in hell, but they were not dolls anymore; they were alive and demonic. They were abut 3 feet tall and had very sharp teeth. Blood came out of their mouths and their eyes were completely red.&lt;br /&gt;They were stabbing Andrew with all their might, as well as all of those who were in these parts of hell. When I observed this, I asked the Lord how was it possible for a doll on the earth, to look exactly like that demon. The Lord told me that those were spirits of sadness.&lt;br /&gt;As we continued, we saw thousands of people in torment. Whenever a soul saw the Lord, they tried to reach Him with their skinny hands. I noticed a woman that started to shout when she saw Jesus. She screamed, "Lord please have mercy on me! Take me out of this place!" She was suffering a lot and she extended her hands towards the Lord. She kept begging Him to take her out of that place at least just one second. She was totally naked and covered with mud. Her hair was all dirty and worms were slithering up and down her body. She tried to take them off with her hands, but every time she scraped some away they multiplied even more. The worms were about 6-8 inches long. The Word of the Lord says in Mark 9:44, "Where their worm never ceases and the fire is not put out"&lt;br /&gt;It was so terrible seeing this woman and hearing her cries as the worms voraciously ate her flesh. There was a metal plate embedded in her chest that could not be destroyed by the flames. It read, "I am here for fornication." In the same manner of her sin, this woman was forced to fornicate in hell with a very disgusting and fat snake. The snake had huge thorns around its body, about 6-8 inches long. The snake penetrated her private parts and traveled up her body to her throat. When the snake entered her, she started to scream.&lt;br /&gt;She begged the Lord more intensely to take her out of that place, "Lord, I am here for fornication, I have been here for 7 years, since I died from AIDS. I had six lovers, and I am here for fornication." In hell she had to repeat her sin over and over. She had no rest day or night, suffering the same way all the time. She tried to extend her hands toward the Lord, but the Lord just told her, "Blanca, it is too late for you. Worms shall be your bed, and worms shall cover you." (Isaiah 14:11) When the Lord said those words, a blanket of fire covered her, and I could no longer see her.&lt;br /&gt;We continued walking, seeing thousands and thousands of people. There were young people, adults and elderly people suffering in torment. We arrived in a place that looked like a big swimming pool of fire, with thousands of men and women inside of it. Each of them had metal plate on their chest that read: "I am here for not giving tithes and offerings" When I read that, I asked the Lord, "Lord, how can this be possible, that people are here for this reason??" The Lord responded, "Yes, because these people thought that tithes and offerings were not important, when my Word shows it as a command." In Malachi 3:8-9 it says "Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me. But you say, 'How have we robbed Thee?' In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you."&lt;br /&gt;The Lord told me that when His people withhold their tithes, it hinders the work of the Lord, and then the Gospel is not preached. People in this place suffered a thousand times worse than others, because they knew the Word of the Lord and disobeyed.&lt;br /&gt;We continued walking and the Lord showed me a man. I could see from his waist to his head, and I started to have a vision of how he died. His name was Rogelio. He was in his car while a person got close to preach the gospel to him, and gave him a Bible. But Rogelio ignored that person's warning and continued on his way, without knowing that a few minutes later his car would crash. It fell into a precipice, and he soon died.&lt;br /&gt;The moment he crashed, the Bible opened to Revelation 21:8, "As for the cowardly, however, and the unbelieving, and the depraved, the murderers, the immoral, those practicing magic arts, and idolaters, and all liars- their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death." When Rogelio read this verse, he died and arrived in hell.&lt;br /&gt;He had only been there one month and still had some flesh on his face. However, he was suffering like everybody else. At first, he did not know why he was in Hell. I think when that Christian got close to his car, it was the only and last chance for him to accept the Lord Jesus. The same way that many have had the opportunity to accept Him. Today, I invite you to open your heart to Jesus; He alone is the way, the truth, the life. (John 14:6) Only through Him we can be saved into the Kingdom of Heaven. (Acts 4:12) The Lord also asks us to follow His ways in holiness and honor. God bless you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--- (4th Testimony) ---&lt;br /&gt;God bless you brothers. When the Lord took my hand, I could see that I was standing on a rock, and behind us, I saw an angel. We began to go down through a tunnel with incredible speed. Quickly, I turned and saw that the angel was gone, and I felt so afraid. I asked the Lord, "Lord, where is the angel? Why is he not here anymore?" The Lord said, "He cannot go where we are about to go."&lt;br /&gt;We continued downward and then stopped abruptly, like an elevator. I saw several tunnels; and we went through the one my sister Sandra spoke about. The tunnel where people were hanging off of hooks by their heads, with shackles on their wrists. The wall that had people on it seemed infinitely long. Millions of people were hanging on it. They had worms all over their bodies. I looked ahead and saw that there was another wall, exactly the same as the other. I said to the Lord, "Lord! There are so many people in this place!" Instantly, a scripture verse entered my mind; one that I did not recognize. The Lord told me, "Hell and Sheol are always hungry." (Proverbs 27:20)&lt;br /&gt;We left there and soon arrived at a place we called, "The Valley of the cauldrons". These cauldrons were full of a boiling mud, and we got close to one of them. The first person that I saw was a woman. Her body floated and sank with the boiling mud, but when the Lord looked at her, she stopped moving and remained suspended in the mud at waist-level. The Lord asked, "Woman what is your name?" She answered, "My name is Rubiella."&lt;br /&gt;Her hair was full of boiling mud and flesh hung from her bones, which were charred black from the fire. Worms entered through the holes of her eyes, came out from her mouth, entered again through her nose and exited her ears. When the worms could not enter, they simply made a hole to enter the other parts of the body, which caused indescribable pain.&lt;br /&gt;She shouted, "Lord, please! Take me out of this place. Have mercy on me! I can not continue like this any longer! Make it stop Lord! I can not stand it any more! Please have mercy on me!" The Lord asked her why she was there. She said she was there because of vanity, which was the same word written on the metal plate on her chest. In her hand was a normal looking bottle, but to her it appeared to be a very expensive perfume. Rubiella had to take the bottle, which was full of acid, and spray it all over her body. This caused, all the flesh that was sprayed to melt, causing her great pain.&lt;br /&gt;She shouted to the Lord, "Lord please, have mercy on me! I can not be here any longer! Just a single second Lord." I am not saying that it is a sin to use a perfume, but the Lord told us that the woman was there because of her perfume, as the Word of the Lord tells us in Deuteronomy 5:7 "You shall not have other gods before me." She was there because her beauty, perfumes, and vanity were first place in her life. However, the Lord Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords! He has to be the first in your life; that is why she was there. With sadness, the Lord looked at her and said, "Rubiella, it is too late for you, worms shall be your bed, and worms shall cover you." When the Lord said that, a blanket of fire totally covered her. While her body was being consumed inside that cauldron, she suffered horrible pain.&lt;br /&gt;We then got far away from there and arrived at a place with giant doors. As we approached them, they opened for us. On the other side we saw a giant cavern. As I looked up I saw different color lights were moving like a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, we heard music; salsa, ballenato, rock, and different kinds of popular music that people hear on the radio. The Lord made a movement with His hand, and we saw millions and millions of people hung up with chains in their hands. They were jumping wildly over the fire.&lt;br /&gt;The Lord looked at us and said: "Look, these are the wages for the dancers." They had to jump wildly up and down to the beat of the music. If salsa was playing, they had to jump to that beat, if any other kind of music was playing, they had to jump to that beat. They could never stop jumping. But worse than that, their shoes had 6 inch spikes on the bottom. Whenever they jumped it would pierce their feet, and they never had a moment's rest. When someone would try to stop, demons would come at once and stab them with spears, cursed them, and saying, "Praise him! This is your kingdom now, Praise Satan! Praise him! You can't stop, praise him! Praise him! You have to praise him! You have to jump! You have to dance! You can not stop one single second."&lt;br /&gt;It was terrible that many of the people were Christians who knew the Lord, but they were in night clubs when they died. Maybe you are asking, "Where does it say in the Bible that it is wrong to dance?" In James 4:4, the Word of God says: "Do you not realize, you adulteresses, that friendship with the world is enmity toward God? Therefore, whoever determines to be a friend of the world becomes God's enemy." Also, in 1 John 2:15-17, "Neither love the world nor the things in the world. Whoever loves the world has not the Father's love in his heart, because everything in the world, the passions of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the proud display of life have their origin not from the Father but from the world. And the world with its lust passes away, but he who does the will of God remains for ever." Remember the world will pass away, all this will perish, but the one who does the will of God stands forever.&lt;br /&gt;My friends and brothers, when we left this place, we saw something like bridges that divided hell into different sections of torment. We saw a spirit walking over a footbridge. It looked just like a doll that we have seen on the Earth; we call them Treasure Trolls. They have different color hair, with an old man's face but a kid's body; without sexual parts. Their eyes are full of evil. The Lord explained that these were spirits of loss. This spirit had a spear in his hands and was walking pompously on that footbridge, like a queen or like a pretty runway model.&lt;br /&gt;As he walked, he stabbed people down below his spear. He would curse them saying, "Remember the day you were outside of a Christian church and you did not want to come inside? Remember the day they preached to you and you did not want to listen? Remember the day they gave you a gospel tract and you threw it away?" The lost souls would try to cover the area where their ears used to be. They would reply to the demon, "Shut up! Shut up! Don't tell me anymore! I don't want to know more, shut up!" However, the evil spirit enjoyed doing that because of the pain it inflicted on the souls.&lt;br /&gt;We continued walking with the Lord. Upon looking at a mass of people, we noticed one man was shouting louder than the others who were burning there. He was saying, "Father, Father, have mercy on me!" The Lord was not going to stop to look at this man, but when He heard the words "Father" He shook and turned around. Jesus looked at him and told him, "Father? You call me Father? No, I am not your Father and neither are you my son. If you were my son, you would now be with me in the Kingdom of Heaven. You are sons of your father the devil." Immediately a blanket of fire came up and totally covered his body.&lt;br /&gt;The Lord told us the story of this man's life. The man called Him Father because he had known Him. He used to go to church and listen to God through His Word, and he had received many promises of God. So we asked, "What happened Lord? Why is he here then?" The Lord replied, "He was living a double life; he lived one way at home, and another at church. He thought in his heart, 'Well, there is no one that lives close to me, not the pastor or any other brother, so I can do whatever I want'. But he forgot that the eyes of the Lord are set on all our ways and that no one can lie or hide from the Lord."&lt;br /&gt;The Word of the Lord tells us, "Don't lie to your selves God can not be deceived. Because everything a man sows, the same he will harvest." (Galatians 6:7) This man was suffering a thousand times worse than others. He was paying a double condemnation: one for his sins, and one for thinking he could deceive the Lord.&lt;br /&gt;Today, people try to rank the gravity of sins; they think that homosexuals, thieves, and murderers are greater sinners than liars or gossips. But in the eyes of the Lord, all these sins have the same weight and the same pay. The Bible tells us, "The wages of sin is death" "the soul that sins will die." (Romans 6:23) (Ezekiel 18:20) My friends and brothers, I invite you now to accept Jesus' invitation. Jesus is extending His hand of mercy to you if you repent. The Word of the Lord tells us that the one that changes his ways and repents will be given mercy. It is much better to believe now, than to wait and find out the hard way later. God bless you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--- (5th Testimony) ---&lt;br /&gt;The Word of God tells us in Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord"&lt;br /&gt;When we went down there, I felt the pain and experience of being dead. I was very frightened by what I saw. I realized there were many, many people there; all were shouting and crying out. It was total darkness, but with the presence of the Lord, the darkness disappeared. We saw thousands and thousands of souls all crying out for help and mercy. They cried out to the Lord to take them out of that place. We also felt great pain because we knew the Lord suffered tremendously whenever He saw them.&lt;br /&gt;Many cried out to the Lord to take them out just for a minute, just for a second. The Lord would ask them, "Why do you want to go out?", and they would answer, "Because I want to be saved! I want to repent and be saved!" However, it was too late for them.&lt;br /&gt;Dear people that are listening to me now, now is the only opportunity to choose our eternal destination. You can either choose an eternal place of salvation, or an eternal place of condemnation.&lt;br /&gt;We went down further. I saw that the floor we were walking on was being destroyed by fire; mud and flames were coming out of it. There was also a terrible smell everywhere. We felt so upset and nauseous from the smell and the shouts of all the people.&lt;br /&gt;We saw a man, far away, who was waist deep in burning mud. Whenever he took out his arms, the flesh from his bones would fall off, into the mud. We could see a grey mist inside his skeleton, so we asked the Lord what it was. This type of mist was in every person in hell. The Lord told us it was their souls trapped inside of a sin body; like it is written in Revelation 14:11 "And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name."&lt;br /&gt;We began to understand many things that we had been ignoring on Earth; most importantly, the clearest message was that our lives on Earth determine where we spend eternity.&lt;br /&gt;As we walked hand in hand with the Lord, we realized the Hell had many different places with various levels of torment. We came to a place with many cells which contained tormented souls. The souls were being tormented by many types of demons. The demons would curse the souls, saying, "You cursed wretch, praise Satan! Serve him like you did when you were on Earth!" The souls suffered terribly from the worms; and the fire was like an acid over all their body.&lt;br /&gt;We saw two men inside one prison cell, each had daggers in their hands and were stabbing each other. They would say to each other, "You cursed wretch! It's because of you that I'm here! You made me come here because you blinded me to the truth and didn't let me recognize the Lord! You didn't let me receive Him! Many times I had the chance and you didn't let me accept Him! That is why I'm here, tormented day and night!"&lt;br /&gt;Through a vision, the Lord showed us their lives on Earth. We saw them in a bar together. An argument started which lead to a fight. They were already drunk. One of them took a broken bottle and the other pulled out a knife. They fought until each one was mortally wounded and died. The two men were doomed to repeat that scenario forever. They were also tormented by the memory that they had been best friends on the Earth, like brothers in their love for each other.&lt;br /&gt;I want to tell you today, there is just one real friend, and His name is Jesus of Nazareth. He is the real friend. He is the faithful friend, who is with you at every moment.&lt;br /&gt;As we continued walking and we saw a woman inside another cell, she was rolling over in the mud. Her hair was all messed up and full of mud. Inside the same cell was a big and fat snake. It move close to her, surrounded her body, and went inside of her starting with her lower parts. She was forced to have sexual contact with that snake. In that place all the men and women that lived in fornication were forced to repeat it there. However, they had to do it with snakes covered with 6 inch spikes. The snake destroyed her body every time it went inside of her. She cried out to the Lord and asked Him to stop it. She did not want to suffer any more. "Make it stop! I won't do it again! Please! Make it stop!" she begged the Lord as the snake came inside and destroyed her body over and over again.&lt;br /&gt;We tried to cover our ears to her cries but we could still hear her. We tried even harder to cover our ears, but that didn't help. We said the Lord, "Please Lord we don't want to see and hear to this anymore! please!" The Lord said, "It is necessary that you see this, so you can tell the rest, because my people are being destroyed, my people are ignoring the true salvation, the true road to the salvation."&lt;br /&gt;We continued walking and we saw a giant lake with thousand and thousands of people in the midst of flames. They waved their hands asking for help, but there were many demons flying over that place. These demons used spears with S-curved spearheads to hurt all the people burning in that lake. The demons mocked and cursed them saying, "You cursed wretch! Now you must worship Satan! Praise him, praise him as you did when you were on the Earth!" There were thousands and thousands of people. We were so scared, we felt that if we did not hold the Lord's hand we would be left in that horrifying place. We were terrified from the things we were feeling.&lt;br /&gt;In the distance we saw a man standing up, who was very great pain and agony. He had two demons flying over him, tormenting him. They would dig their spears inside his body and take out his ribs. They also made fun of him all the time. Even further, the Lord showed me that he was tormented from always worrying about the family he had left on the Earth. The man didn't want his family to arrive in the same place of torment. He was worried because he never gave them the message of salvation. He was tormented because he remembered that they once had the chance to receive this message. He was a very important person to give this message to his family, but he preferred to ignore it, and now he was worried about his sons and his wife.&lt;br /&gt;The torment continued as the demons cut off his arms, he fell into the burning mud. Because of the pain from the burning mud, he wiggled like a worm from one place to another. His flesh fell from his bones because of the heat. He then started to slither like a snake, trying to get out of there. But every time he tried to go, the demons pushed him back and he went deeper inside the mud.&lt;br /&gt;We then saw a number of demons in one place. Something caught my attention, I noticed that one of the demons was missing a wing. I asked the Lord, "Lord, why is this demon missing one wing?" The Lord said, "That demon was sent up to the Earth with one purpose, but he did not accomplish his task, and he was cast back to Hell by one of the servants of God. Then Satan came and punished him, and cut off one of his wings." Then we understood that as Christians, we have all authority and power in the Name of Jesus to cast out all demons and principalities.&lt;br /&gt;Dear friends that are listening these words right now, this testimony is not for condemnation but salvation; so you can test yourself and see the condition of your heart before the Lord. This is so that you can change your ways, for salvation and not for condemnation. Right now, lift your heart before the Lord and confess your sins, so if the Lord came at this moment you could go with Him instead of going to that place of torment where there is crying and gnashing of teeth. There, you will really understand why Jesus paid such a high price at Calvary's cross.&lt;br /&gt;We saw many people in Hell who were ignorant of why they were there. Their lives were full of activities that they didn't think were sins. Dear friend, test yourself! Do not think that lying, stealing, being vain are okay things to do! These are all sin before the eyes of the Lord! Dear brothers, turn away and stop doing these things! I'm giving you this message so you can stop willfully sinning, and look even more to the face of the Lord.&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--- (6th Testimony) ---&lt;br /&gt;Psalms 62:12 "And Thee, O Lord, belongs covenant love, for Thou rewardest every man according to his work"&lt;br /&gt;On the morning the Lord visited us in that room, He took us by the hand and we started to go down. My heart was totally full of fear, I can't even describe it. I just knew that I could not loosen the hand of my Savior. I felt that Jesus was my Life and my Light and all my hope was in Him; otherwise I would be left behind in that place. I never thought that I would ever go to that place. I didn't even believe such a place existed. Even as a Christian, I had always thought that purgatory was Hell, but God showed me the reality of Hell.&lt;br /&gt;When we arrived in Hell, I felt the place shook. And all the demons there ran to hide, because not one of them could endure the presence of the Lord. We heard the captive souls shout even louder, because they knew that Jesus of Nazareth was there. They all knew that there was just one person that could possibly get them out. They had that hope, even though it was a false hope.&lt;br /&gt;We walked hand in hand with Jesus, and arrived at the section of fornication. Jesus turned to look at a woman who was totally covered with the fire. When Jesus saw her, she started to go out slowly from the fire, although her sufferings never stopped. We could see she was totally naked and saw all of her physical characteristics. Her body was totally dirty, and she stunk. Her hair was all messed up, and she had a yellowish green mud on her. She had no eyes and her lips were falling to pieces. She had no ears, just the holes. With her hands, which were bones charred black, she took the flesh that was falling from her face and tried to put it back on. But this gave her even worse pain.&lt;br /&gt;She then shook and shouted even more; her shouts never ended. She was full of worms, and there was a serpent wrapped around her arm. It was very thick and had thorns around its body. She had the number 666 engraved on her body; the number of the Beast mentioned in the book of Revelation. (Revelations 4:9-11) She also had a metal plate embedded on her chest, made from some unknown metal, it was never consumed by the fire. On the plate was something written in a strange language, but we could understand what was written on it. It read, "I am here because of fornication."&lt;br /&gt;When Jesus saw her He asked her, "Elena, why are you in this place?" While Elena was answering the Lord her body twisted with the pain of her torments. She said that she was there because of fornication. She asked the Lord for forgiveness over and over again.&lt;br /&gt;Then we started to see the event of her death. When she died, she was having sex with one of her lovers, because she thought that the person she was living with was gone on a trip. However, he came back from his job and found her in bed with someone else. He then went to the kitchen and took a big knife and stuck it in Elena's back. She died and was taken to Hell, exactly the way she died; totally naked.&lt;br /&gt;In Hell, everything materialized and she still had that big knife in her back, causing her great pain. By this time, she had already been in Hell 7 years and she could remember each moment of her life and death. She also remembered when someone tried to preach to her about Jesus; that He was the only one who could save her. But now it was too late for her and everyone else in Hell.&lt;br /&gt;The Word of the Lord talks a lot about fornication, and it is very clear. Fornication is having sexual relationships outside of marriage. 1 Corinthians 6:13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body." also in 1 Corinthians 6:18 "Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body."&lt;br /&gt;When Jesus finished talking with her, she was covered with a big blanket of fire and we could no longer see her. But we heard the sound of her flesh burning and those horrifying screams, I can't even describe them with words.&lt;br /&gt;As we continued to walk with the Lord, He showed us all the people there: the idol worshipers, those who used and practiced witchcraft, the immoral, adulterers, liars, and homosexuals. We were very scared, the only thing we wanted to do was leave. But Jesus kept saying that it was necessary to look so we could tell others, so they might believe.&lt;br /&gt;We continued with Jesus, holding His hand even tighter. We came to a section that really made an impression on me. We saw a young man, 23 years old, suspended waist-high in the middle of a fire. We couldn't see exactly what his torment was, but the number 666 was engraved on him. He also had a metal plate on his chest that read, "I am here for being normal." When he saw Jesus, he extended his hand towards Jesus begging for mercy. The Word of God says in Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way of death."&lt;br /&gt;When we read the plate that said "I am here for being normal", we asked the Lord, "Lord, how come!? Is this possible that a person can come to this place for this reason?" Then Jesus asked him, "Andrew, why are you here in this place?" He answer, "Jesus, when I was on Earth, I thought that just killing and stealing were sins, and that is why I never tried to get close to you." In Psalms 9:17 is says "The wicked shall be turned into Hell, all the heathen that forget God."&lt;br /&gt;Andrew made a big mistake by classifying sins, like many people do today. The Bible is very clear when it says that the wages of the sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. (Romans 6:23) Further, when the Bible talks about sin, it never classifies sins, because all of them are just sins. Andrew had the chance to know and accept Jesus but he didn't take the opportunity that God had given to him. Maybe he had a thousand opportunities to know the Lord, but he never wanted to know Him and that was the reason he was there. Then a big blanket of fire covered his body and we never saw him again.&lt;br /&gt;We continued walking with Jesus. In the distance we saw something falling down, like chunks of material. When we got closer, we saw that it was people that were falling into Hell at that moment. People that just died on the Earth without having accepted Jesus Christ in their hearts, they were arriving in Hell.&lt;br /&gt;We saw a young man, many demons ran towards him and began to destroy his body. Immediately his body began to fill with worms. He shouted, "No! What is this? Stop! I don't want to be in this place! Stop it! This must be a dream! Take me out of this place!" He didn't even know that he was dead, and that he died without Jesus in his heart. The demons were making fun of him and always tormenting his body. Then the number 666 appeared on his forehead, and a metal plate on his chest. Even if we couldn't see the reason he came to Hell, we knew for sure that he would never get out again.&lt;br /&gt;The Lord told us that the torments of all these people in Hell would be even stronger on the day of the Judgment. If they are suffering in such a terrible and horrifying way now I can't imagine how will they suffer after the day of the Judgment.&lt;br /&gt;We didn't see any children there. We just saw thousands and thousands of young people; men and women of many nationalities. Nevertheless, in hell there are no more nationalities or social levels, all come to be tormented and punished. There was one thing that everybody wanted, and that was a chance to go out, at least for a second. They also wanted to have one drop of water to refresh their tongues, like the story of the rich man in the Bible. (Luke 16:19) But this wasn't possible anymore, they choose where they wanted to spend their eternity. They decided to spend it without God. God never sends anyone to the Hell, everyone arrives there according to their own acts. In Galatians 6:7 "Make no mistake, God will not be mocked. What a person sows, he will reap."&lt;br /&gt;Today you have the great opportunity to change your eternal destiny. Jesus is still available now, and the Bible says that while we have life we also have hope. Today you have life, don't miss this opportunity, it can be the last one.&lt;br /&gt;God bless you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-2737182742771167057?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/2737182742771167057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=2737182742771167057' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2737182742771167057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2737182742771167057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/first-bad-newshell-is-for-real.html' title='NOW, FOR THE BAD NEWS......So Is Hell !!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-515486605485625214</id><published>2007-11-15T00:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-15T01:06:41.235-08:00</updated><title type='text'>When everything else fails....prayer helps!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;This came in the mail this morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and just 75 cents in my pocket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their father was gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The boys ranged from three months to seven years; their sister was two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their Dad had never been much more than a presence they feared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they would scramble to hide under their beds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He did manage to leave $15 a week to buy groceries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that he had decided to leave, there would be no more beatings, but no food either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there was a welfare system in effect in southern Indiana at that time, I certainly knew nothing about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I scrubbed the kids until they looked brand new and then put on my best homemade dress, loaded them into the rusty old 51 Chevy and drove off to find a job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The seven of us went to every factory, store and restaurant in our small town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No luck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The kids stayed crammed into the car and tried to be quiet while I tried to convince who ever would listen that I was willing to learn or do anything. I had to have a job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still no luck. The last place we went to, just a few miles out of town, was an old Root Beer Barrel drive -in t hat had been converted to a truck stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was called the Big Wheel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An old lady named Granny owned the place and she peeked out of the window from time to time at all those kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She needed someone on the graveyard shift, 11 at night until seven in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She paid 65 cents an hour, and I could start that night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I raced home and called the teenager down the street that baby-sat for people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bargained with her to come and sleep on my sofa for a dollar a night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She could arrive with her pajamas on and the kids would already be asleep&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This seemed like a good arrangement to her, so we made a deal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That night when the little ones and I knelt to say our prayers, we all thanked God for finding Mommy a job. And so I started at the Big Wheel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I got home in the mornings I woke the baby-sitter up and sent her home with one dollar of my tip money-- fully half of what I averaged every night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the weeks went by, heating bills added a strain to my meager wage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tires on the old Chevy had the consistency of penny balloons and began to leak. I had to fill them with air on the way to work and again every morning before I could go home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One bleak fall morning, I dragged myself to the car to go home and found four tires in the back seat. New tires!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was no note, no nothing, just those beautiful brand new tires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Had angels taken up residence in Indiana ? I wondered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made a deal with the local service station.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In exchange for his mounting the new tires, I would clean up his office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember it took me a lot longer to scrub his floor tha n it did for him to do the tires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was now working six nights instead of five and it still wasn't enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christmas was coming and I knew there would be no money for toys for the kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found a can of red paint and started repairing and painting some old toys. Then I hid them in the basement so there would be something for Santa to deliver on Christmas morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clothes were a worry too. I was sewing patches on top of patches on the boys pants and soon they would be too far gone to repair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Christmas Eve the usual customers were drinking coffee in the Big Wheel. There were the truckers, Les , Frank, and Jim, and a state trooper named Joe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few musicians were hanging around after a gig at the Legion and were dropping nickels in the pinball machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The regulars all just sat around and talked through the wee hours of the morning and then left to get home before the sun came up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it was time for me to go home at seven o'clock on Christmas morning, to my amazement, my old battered Chevy was filled full to the top with boxes of all shapes and sizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I quickly opened the driver's side door, crawled inside and kneeled in the front facing the back seat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reaching back, I pulled off the lid of the top box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside was whole case of little blue jeans, sizes 2-10!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I looked inside another box: It was full of shirts to go with the jeans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I peeked inside some of the other boxes. There was candy and nuts and bananas and bags of groceries. There was an enormous ham for baking, and canned vegetables and potatoes.&lt;br /&gt;There was pudding and Jell-O and cookies, pie filling and flour. There was whole bag of laundry supplies and cleaning items.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there were five toy trucks and one beautiful little doll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I drove back through empty streets as the sun slowly rose on the most amazing Christmas Day of my life, I was sobbing with gratitude.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I will never forget the joy on the faces of my little ones that precious morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, there were angels in Indiana that long-ago December. And they all hung out at the Big Wheel truck stop....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE POWER OF PRAYER. I believe that God only gives three answers to prayer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. "Yes!"&lt;br /&gt;2. "Not yet."&lt;br /&gt;3. "I have something better in mind."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You maybe going through a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that you cannot imagine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My instructions were to pick four people that I wanted God to bless,&lt;br /&gt;and I picked you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please pass this to at least four people you want to be blessed and a copy back to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's continue to pray for one another. Here is the prayer:....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and email buddies reading this right now. 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Generally, says natural health researcher Mike Adams, they should avoid foods that contain ingredients known to cause cancer, such as refined sugars and grains , hydrogenated oils, and nitrates. But which foods are the absolute worst?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The top five cancer-causing foods are:&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;HOT-DOGS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;PROCESSED MEATS &amp;amp; BACONS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;DOUGHNUTS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;FRENCH FRIES&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acrylamides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;CHIPS, CRACKERS &amp;amp; COOKIES&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All are usually made with white flour and sugar. 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If you worry about what&lt;br /&gt;may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have&lt;br /&gt;worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to&lt;br /&gt;worry twice."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Pray&lt;br /&gt;2. Go to bed on time.&lt;br /&gt;3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed.&lt;br /&gt;4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time&lt;br /&gt;schedule, or that will compromise your mental health.&lt;br /&gt;5. Delegate tasks to capable others.&lt;br /&gt;6. Simplify and unclutter your life.&lt;br /&gt;7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough,&lt;br /&gt;two are often too many.)&lt;br /&gt;8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places.&lt;br /&gt;9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult&lt;br /&gt;projects over time; don't lump the hard things all&lt;br /&gt;together.&lt;br /&gt;10. Take one day at a time.&lt;br /&gt;11. Separate worries from concerns. If a situation is&lt;br /&gt;a concern, find out what God would have you do and let&lt;br /&gt;go of the anxiety. If you can't do anything about a&lt;br /&gt;situation, forget it.&lt;br /&gt;12. Live within your budget; don't use credit cards&lt;br /&gt;for ordinary purchases.&lt;br /&gt;13. Have backups; an extra car key in your wallet, an&lt;br /&gt;extra house key buried in the garden, extra stamps,&lt;br /&gt;etc.&lt;br /&gt;14. K.M.S. (Keep Mouth Shut). This single piece of&lt;br /&gt;advice can prevent an enormous amount of trouble.&lt;br /&gt;15 Do something for the Kid in You everyday.&lt;br /&gt;16 Carry a Bible with you to read while waiting in&lt;br /&gt;line.&lt;br /&gt;17. Get enough rest.&lt;br /&gt;18. Eat right.&lt;br /&gt;19. Get organized so everything has its place.&lt;br /&gt;20. Listen to a tape while driving that can help&lt;br /&gt;improve your quality of life.&lt;br /&gt;21. Write down thoughts and inspirations.&lt;br /&gt;22. Every day, find time to be alone.&lt;br /&gt;23. Having problems? Talk to God on the spot. Try to&lt;br /&gt;nip small problems in the bud. Don't wait until it's&lt;br /&gt;time to go to bed to try and pray.&lt;br /&gt;24. Make friends with Godly people.&lt;br /&gt;25. Keep a folder of favorite scriptures on hand.&lt;br /&gt;26. Remember that the shortest bridge between despair&lt;br /&gt;and hope is often a good 'Thank you Jesus.'&lt;br /&gt;27. Laugh.&lt;br /&gt;28. Laugh some more!&lt;br /&gt;29. Take your work seriously, but not yourself at all.&lt;br /&gt;30. Develop a forgiving attitude (most people are&lt;br /&gt;doing the best they can).&lt;br /&gt;31. Be kind to unkind people (they probably need it&lt;br /&gt;the most).&lt;br /&gt;32. Sit on your ego.&lt;br /&gt;33. Talk less; listen more.&lt;br /&gt;34. Slow down.&lt;br /&gt;35. Remind yourself that you are not the general&lt;br /&gt;manager of the universe.&lt;br /&gt;36 . Every night before bed, think of one thing you're&lt;br /&gt;grateful for that you've never been grateful for&lt;br /&gt;before.&lt;br /&gt;IF YOU'VE GOT NO PROBLEM WITH THESE RULES, THEN YOU ARE PRIME CANDIDATE FOR THE STRESS-FREE CLUB.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-5586958345638261463?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/5586958345638261463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=5586958345638261463' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5586958345638261463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5586958345638261463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/feeling-stressed-out-latelyclik-if-you.html' title='Feeling stressed-out lately???.........'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-7222882943471746695</id><published>2007-11-13T06:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-13T08:01:00.327-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RznIoDEUmTI/AAAAAAAAAMw/-H-d0HPujIg/s1600-h/keratanakhbar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132353840709146930" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RznIoDEUmTI/AAAAAAAAAMw/-H-d0HPujIg/s320/keratanakhbar.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(see accompanying story below)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;"I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to the father but through me.........&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;(john.14.6)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;READ NEW TESTAMENT. READ THE BIBLE.......&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;SUPERNATURAL IN ORIGIN, ETERNAL IN DURATION, DIVINE IN AUTHORSHIP INFALLIBLE IN AUTHORITY, INEXHAUSTIBLE IN MEANING, UNIVERSAL IN READERSHIP, UNIQUE IN REVELATION, PERSONAL IN APPLICATION AND POWERFUL IN EFFECT.....It is given to you here in this life, it will be open at the judgement, it is established for ever. Come to it with awe, read it with reverence, frequently, slowly, prayerfully.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Wake-up call!!!!!.....The following was found in my mail this evening...read!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X tau la berapa panas berita ni ... saya belum dengar lagi. Saya cuma forwardkan aje...&lt;br /&gt;Bukan maksud nak mempersendakan tapi agak2 bahasa apa yang di pakai ... ??? Klau takat menjerit, biasa la...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panas: Kisah Saintis Rusia Rakam Suara Siksa Kubur&lt;br /&gt;Posted on Wednesday, October 17 @ 09:31:19 MYT&lt;br /&gt;Topic:Kajian Dan Penyelidikan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ﺍﻠﺴﻼﻢﻋﻠﻴﻜﻡ&lt;br /&gt;Jeritan Siksa Kubur&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ada satu kisah yang disebarkan di Nusantara ini oleh beberapa pihak (orang Islam) mengenai seorang saintis Rusia bernama Dr. Azzacove yang telah secara tidak sengaja terakam suara-suara jeritan yang sedang mengalami siksaan jauh di bawah bumi. Beliau diberitakan memperoleh rakaman itu menggunakan 'super-sensitive microphone'. Saya sendiri telahpun mendengar rakaman yang dikatakan itu dan mendapati bahawa bunyinya memanglah agak menyeramkan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dua orang anak lelaki saya sendiri telah memberitakan hal ini kepada saya. Menurut mereka, kisah 'bunyi siksa kubur' ini telah diceritakan oleh 'guru' atau 'motivator' Muslim dalam kursus motivasi yang mereka hadiri (dari dua kursus motivasi yang berasingan). Untuk mengetahui dengan lebih lanjut, anda boleh muat-turun 2 rakaman suara jeritan siksa kubur (.mp3) itu melalui pautan berikut:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)Rakaman Suara Siksa Kubur 1 (596 kb)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.megasutra.com/sounds/hellscreams.mp3"&gt;http://www.megasutra.com/sounds/hellscreams.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2)Rakaman Suara Siksa Kubur 2(2.42 mb)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.megasutra.com/sounds/jeritanbawahtanah.mp3"&gt;http://www.megasutra.com/sounds/jeritanbawahtanah.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berikut saya salinkan isi kandungan antara laman-laman web yang menyebarkan berita ini:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petikan Kisah Dari Laman Di Malaysia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suara-suara manusia yang tidak sengaja dirakamkan di lapisan kerak/perut bumi. Suara-suara yang ter'rakam' ini sungguh gerun dan seolah-olah sedang diseksa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Penemuan terakhir ini adalah penemuan yang sangat mengejutkan pendengaran kami, dengan penemuan ini banyak dari peneliti kami yang berhenti dari pekerjaan ini kerana ketakutan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pada awalnya kami hanya hendak mendengarkan pergerakan bumi dengan interval tertentu dan mendengarkan Super Sensitive Microphone yang masuk ke dalam bilik-bilik atau lubang-lubang bumi dan reruntuhan galian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pada awalnya kami menyangka apa yang kami dapat itu adalah geselan dari alat-alat kami pada dinding-dinding perut bumi, tetapi suara ini menghancurkan seluruh logika kami.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setelah beberapa penyesuaian kami mendapat kesimpulan bahawa suara ini berasal dari interior bumi, jadi seakan-akan di dalam perut bumi ini ada ruang lain yang berbeda dari tempat yang kami gali, dan dari ruangan tersebutlah kami tidak mempercayai apa yang kami dengar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kami mendengar dari ruang bumi yang lain itu ada suara manusia berteriak keras dalam kesakitan. Walaupun satu suara didengar, kami dapat mendengar ribuan bahkan jutaan latar belakang suara manusia yang sedang dalam kesakitan akibat penyeksaan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setelah penemuan yang sangat menakjubkan ini, setengah dari peneliti kami berhenti kerana takut. Yang sangat mengejutkan lagi, bagi orang Soviet itu adalah setelah suara tersebut dirakam, pada malam yang sama, keluarlah semacam gas atau kabut yang terang dari lokasi penggalian gas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gas atau kabut tersebut keluar dengan membentuk pilar-pilar dan tulisan yang membentuk seperti sayap kelawar (seperti lafaz ALLAH, wallahu a'lam), lalu menampakkan dengan sendirinya dengan bahasa Rusia yang ertinya AKU TELAH MENAKLUKKAN atau AKU TELAH MENUNDUKKAN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tulisan itu terlihat di awan di Siberia yang gelap. Kejadian itu sangat tidak masuk akal orang-orang Soviet karena sedang akan diteror. Beberapa saat setelah itu datanglah ambulan ke kumpulan orang-orang tersebut dan memberikan ubat yang dapat menghilangkan memori dengan singkat. Sebagai perawat kepada korban yang melihat keajaiban itu (ini mungkin agar kejadian ini tetap dirahsiakan).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biarpun saya tidak percaya adanya syurga dan Injil, tetapi sebagai ilmuwan sekarang saya percaya adanya NERAKA. Ia sangat sukar diungkapkan dengan kata-kata, apa yang kami temukan, apa yang kami lihat dan apa yang kami dengar. Dan sekarang kami yakin bahawa kami lanjutkan kerja menggali lagi, maka kami akan dekat sekali dengan PINTU NERAKA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lalu Dr. Azzacove meneruskan penjelasan, "Mesin penggali tiba-tiba berputar dengan sangat cepat ketika kami mencapai salah satu kulit bumi, suhunya menunjukkan hingga 2000 darjah Fahrenhait, lalu kami mendekatkan mikrofon itu di sana untuk mendengarkan pergerakan bumi, tetapi yang terdengar adalah suara manusia, bahkan teriakan manusia dalam kesakitan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pertama kami mengira suara itu adalah suara mesin. Tetapi setelah melakukan kajian ulang atas suara itu, suara yang terdengar adalah suara manusia bukan hanya satu orang, mungkin jutaan manusia yang sedang dalam seksaan dan kesakitan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apakah anda tahu kenapa Jacques Costeau, seorang penjelajah dalam air berhenti beberapa saat sebelum dia mati? Dia berhenti kerana dia juga pernah mendengar suara jeritan manusia di dalam air ketika ia sedang menjelajah di dalam air. Dan dalam kesempatan lain juga salah satu anak buahnya menemukan hal yang sama ketika ia sedang melakukan penjelajahan di sekitar SEGITIGA BERMUDA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setelah ia sembuh dari kejutan yang kritikal, kemudian ia menceritakan bahwa ia mendengar jeritan manusia yang banyak yang sedang diseksa di dalam perut bumi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Menakjubkan bukan? Renung-renungkan dan ambillah iktibar di sebalik artikel ini.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segeralah bertaubat sebelum terlambat. 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title='Jesus Take The Wheel.....and get us back on track!!!!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-6490899762342041627</id><published>2007-11-12T06:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T09:08:06.452-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Stick to what you have been destined for Mr. PM....or do the most honourable thing.......</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000099;"&gt;If you are unable to execute your duties as a good moderate PM (which you have been destined for in the first place), then do the most honourable thing and step down. 22 years of vomit-inducing 'ultraism' is more than a human can take.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hon. PM assumed the mantle of the premiership with all the gusto of a newly-fired rocket with much-awaited promises of wiping out corruption. Heck, he even sent Christmas cards to churches in his inaugral year as PM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, now he's just down to a whimper.No more christmas-cards and totally-oblivious to the corruption around him. Destined to serve as a moderate PM after 22 years of 'ultraism', he appears to have lost that decision-making edge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can his re-marriage make things better? No, I think he's a 'spent-bullet'. Which explains why the MCCBCHST's call on the PM to take careful stock of the Kg. Rimba Jaya incident (Herald, pg.1,11th Nov.07) is nothing more than an excercise in futility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- End: AdBrite --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-6490899762342041627?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/6490899762342041627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=6490899762342041627' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6490899762342041627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6490899762342041627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/stick-to-what-you-have-been-destined.html' title='Stick to what you have been destined for Mr. PM....or do the most honourable thing.......'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-8513776011543867131</id><published>2007-11-10T05:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T06:32:20.635-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Humour---The Pope &amp; The Rabbi</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Pope invited the Chief Rabbi to the Vatican. He was delighted to accept. When he was shown into the Pope's inner 'sanctum'----he was particulary intrigued by the gold telephone on his desk. 'What's that?' he asked. 'Oh' said the Pope, it's just my private line to God. 'May I try it?' asked the chief Rabbi. 'Of course; of course,' said the Pope. When he put the receiver down, the Chief Rabbi asked courteously: 'How much was the call?' 'To you' said the Pope with a smile, 'just 10,000 lira.' (US1=1,300 lira approx)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Chief Rabbi was anxious to return the Pope's hospitality, and invited him to meet him in Jerusalem. The Pope gladly accepted, but was equally intrigued when he saw a golden telephone on the chief Rabbi's desk. 'What's that?' he asked. 'Oh,' said the chief Rabbi, 'just my private line to God.' 'May I try it?' asked the Pope. 'Certainly, certainly,' said the Chief Rabbi. When he put the receiver down , the Pope asked, somewhat anxiously: 'How much was the call?' 'Oh, nothing, nothing,' said the chief Rabbi, putting an affectionate hand on the shoulder of the Pope. 'It was just a local call.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;------Eric James, &lt;/em&gt;Collected Thoughts (&lt;em&gt;Christian Action 1990), p.19&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-8513776011543867131?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/8513776011543867131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=8513776011543867131' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8513776011543867131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8513776011543867131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/humour-pope-rabbi.html' title='Humour---The Pope &amp; The Rabbi'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-8170570823276369997</id><published>2007-11-10T05:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T05:46:31.211-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Justfied Eternal Sacred Undeniable Supreme</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#000099;"&gt;J.E.S.U.S.----Believe &amp;amp; heal thyself....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-8170570823276369997?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/8170570823276369997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=8170570823276369997' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8170570823276369997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8170570823276369997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/justfied-eternal-sacred-undeniable.html' title='Justfied Eternal Sacred Undeniable Supreme'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-4948342291939114923</id><published>2007-11-09T09:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-09T10:07:22.524-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry! 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Tickets sold out!!!!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-216363711544437362</id><published>2007-11-09T08:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-09T08:17:05.394-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thought for the day</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#000099;"&gt;.....the 'fuse that will ignite change has already been lit'.........it cannot be stopped!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-216363711544437362?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/216363711544437362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=216363711544437362' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/216363711544437362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/216363711544437362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/thought-for-day.html' title='Thought for the day'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-311738767006790287</id><published>2007-11-09T08:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-09T08:05:52.380-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey! What's your name???</title><content type='html'>Significance of Names&lt;br /&gt;Since history began, the Chinese always believed in the significance of&lt;br /&gt;one's name. They have developed a very comprehensive system of naming&lt;br /&gt;one's children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They believe that the name of a person strongly&lt;br /&gt;influences one's destiny and fate. Astrologers, fortune&gt; tellers,&lt;br /&gt;academics and monks are consulted when choosing a name for the new&lt;br /&gt;born.&lt;br /&gt;The other cultures, however do not really believe in it and tend to&lt;br /&gt;brush it off as superstition. Whether you believe it or not, however,&lt;br /&gt;the other cultures are not spared of this correlation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, the Chinese surname LEE&lt;br /&gt;(or LI) is associated with power&gt; and success such as Lee Kuan Yew, Lee&lt;br /&gt;Teng Hui (former Taiwan&gt; President), Li Peng (China 's ex PM), Li Ka Shing&lt;br /&gt;(HK tycoon) and LEE Iacocca - once Chrysler's chief, and Lee Van Cliff,&lt;br /&gt;the actor.&lt;br /&gt;One very good example is Lee Iacocca, whose first name&lt;br /&gt;IACOCCA stands for : I Am Chairman Of Chrysler Corporation&lt;br /&gt;America, Coincidence? ..........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at the following familiar examples :&lt;br /&gt;MAHATHIR ( Malaysia's PM): My Assets Halved After The&lt;br /&gt;Hit In Ringgit !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SUHARTO ( Ex president of Indonesia ) :&lt;br /&gt;Should U Have Additional Rupiahs Thrown Out !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUSH ( American President ) : Beat Up Saddam Hussein !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CLINTON : Call Lewinsky,I Need The Oral Now !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, no one can beat this latest casualty in bad naming :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OSAMA :Oh Shit, American Missiles Again!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With all these, you better believe in the 5000 year old Chinese culture&lt;br /&gt;Make sure we choose good names for our children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-311738767006790287?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/311738767006790287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=311738767006790287' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/311738767006790287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/311738767006790287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/hey-whats-your-name.html' title='Hey! What&apos;s your name???'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-8927112746092393736</id><published>2007-11-09T07:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-09T07:46:27.681-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tallest!, Longest!, Biggest!......so what?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RzR-LDEUmLI/AAAAAAAAALo/Uzfd-CcCHcM/s1600-h/ATT0008410.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130864603748931762" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RzR-LDEUmLI/AAAAAAAAALo/Uzfd-CcCHcM/s320/ATT0008410.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RzR-EDEUmKI/AAAAAAAAALg/QQEJF_2iBN8/s1600-h/ATT000965.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130864483489847458" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RzR-EDEUmKI/AAAAAAAAALg/QQEJF_2iBN8/s320/ATT000965.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RzR97DEUmJI/AAAAAAAAALY/-rF2qBv9wJg/s1600-h/ATT000936.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130864328871024786" style="WIDTH: 320px; 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(click on the pix to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;............just imagine on this very same planet these edifices are taking shape lie children in extreme hunger and despair helplessly watching flies nimble at their decaying bodies right before their very eyes while countries which could make a difference in these children's lives are busy outdoing each other with meaningless monoliths.....man may be progressing technologically but NOT SPIRITUALLY.....this imbalance will be their undoing....tallest, longest, shortest, widest, narrowest....doesnt matter....it will all come crashing down to earth inevitably .......BLESSED ARE THE POOR FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD, BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT HUNGER, FOR THEY SHALL BE SATISFIED..........St.Luke 6.20/21 ..........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt; 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Island, I enquired from the locals as to why I could not find any scenic spots frequently featured in glossy holiday brochures touting the island to be one of the world's most beautiful.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;I was surprisingly informed that it was &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Pangkor&lt;/span&gt; Island that was featured BUT &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Pangkor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Laut&lt;/span&gt;, a gem of an island that sits a little distance off the main island. I enquired further as to how I could get there and was told I could not unless I was a guest at the pricey &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Pangkor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Laut&lt;/span&gt; Resort.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;My question is,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; since when did state governments permit a private entity to run rough-shod over a whole island. How can a private entity privatise a whole island, thus cutting off accessibility to the locals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;What next??? &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Langkawi&lt;/span&gt;??? Or even &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Penang&lt;/span&gt;?? Imagine a whole island cleared off locals so the 'big boys' with big bucks could play. I thought situations like these only existed in predated Bond movies. Imagine touting an island as one of the world's beautiful BUT not accessible to locals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Furthermore, this sets an unhealthy precedent to other corporate groups who might have similar ambitions of gobbling up whole islands or large tracts of controversial land to the detriment of the locals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Unlike public infrastructures that are accessible to all, like &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;KLIA&lt;/span&gt; where the landowners were handsomely compensated, the same cannot be said of pricey holiday resorts (in this case a whole island) which appear to be the domain of only the well-heeled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;It is also ironic that the 'head-honcho' of this corporate entity in question had the gall to be featured in a local tabloid, singing praises to his lord on how his newly-found religion shaped his life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Perhaps he fancies himself a modern-day crusader come to conquer lands armed with a smile and the almighty dollar. As a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Msian&lt;/span&gt; born &amp;amp; bred, I strongly insist that at least parts of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Pangkor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Laut&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;be accessible to locals. After all they have been there for ages and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;DO NOT &lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#000099;"&gt;deserve to be pushed around.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Come, on, lets not bring the good name of our lord into the picture as I honestly doubt he would have approved of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;situation&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;A few months ago, this corporate entity won a RM1&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;bil&lt;/span&gt; river cleaning job. APPLAUSE!!!!!....I just hope they do not get to corporatise the river otherwise we'd have to pay big bucks to wade, swim or row or even take a 'pee' or a 'crap' once in a while along its banks. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-7595226219152071346?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/7595226219152071346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=7595226219152071346' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/7595226219152071346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/7595226219152071346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/one-of-worlds-most-beautiful-islands-is.html' title='One of the world&apos;s most beautiful islands is in our backyard BUT guess what???.....its not accessible to locals unless you&apos;ve got big bucks!!!!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3676003309068094377</id><published>2007-11-07T07:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T09:17:16.190-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ARE YOU ANGRY?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"&gt;"Any Joe can become angry-that's easy; but to be angry with the right person, and the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way---that's not within everybody's power and is not easy.".......&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;man! I wished I came up with this line BUT it was from some 'Joe' named ARISTOTLE.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3676003309068094377?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3676003309068094377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3676003309068094377' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3676003309068094377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3676003309068094377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_07.html' title='ARE YOU ANGRY?'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-7859185294984226292</id><published>2007-11-07T06:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T09:19:20.637-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes! commentator Hamzah.......</title><content type='html'>Thanks for the posting, can you list the positive actions that other kaum had done for the Malays since 1957?..........comment from Hamzah in response to 'Wanton Abuse...'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;My response: Yes my good friend, their hard work which made it possible for you to enjoy your special privileges in the first place. (the word 'special' indicates 'above the rest' or something along the lines. If the other 'kaum' werent here, would there be a need to consider yourself 'special'?...No, I do not think so. So, you see, the presence of the other races, working and contributng to the economy has provided you the opportunity to bestow the 'special privilege' status upon yourself and that itself speaks volumes about the immense contribution from the other races). I'm actually surprised you asked that question.....the answers are actually all round you......and good, I see you're beginning to see that it ain't a religious issue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-7859185294984226292?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/7859185294984226292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=7859185294984226292' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/7859185294984226292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/7859185294984226292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/yes-commentator-hamzah.html' title='Yes! commentator Hamzah.......'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-5753605137712950760</id><published>2007-11-06T20:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T09:22:31.289-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Israel an illegal state???...says who and since when???</title><content type='html'>Jewish History Series (Part 6 of 68)Isaac and His Sons by Rabbi Ken Spiro&lt;br /&gt;History repeats itself. Whatever groove Abraham or Isaac or Jacob are going to carve, their descendants are going to get stuck in it.&lt;br /&gt;We are continuing the story of the Jewish people, which at this point in our chronology is the story of a family, taking place in the 18th century BCE or 3,700 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;We have so far covered the story of Abraham, the first Jew, who took upon himself the mission of spreading monotheism throughout the world. And his family is going to carry on this mission -- to bring the idea of God into the world and re-elevate humanity back to its ideal state.&lt;br /&gt;Abraham had two sons by two different wives. Ishmael with Hagar, the Egyptian, and Isaac with Sarah, his wife who was supposed to be barren. It is Isaac who elects to follow his father's mission.&lt;br /&gt;We will not take the time here to go through stories of Isaac's life as this is not a Bible series per se. What we want to focus on is the patterns that a set for the rest of Jewish history, because as we noted earlier, "the actions of the fathers are assigned to the children."&lt;br /&gt;The wheels of a wagon traveling on a dirt path -- or even on a stone road after a long-enough period of time -- make a groove or rut. And the problem with a rut is that once you get in it's hard to get out; we all know the expression "stuck in a rut." If you establish a good pattern, you stay in it. You establish a bad pattern, the same thing, it's hard to break.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever groove Abraham or Isaac or Jacob are going to carve, for better or for worse, their descendants are going to get stuck in it.&lt;br /&gt;Unless they take the trouble to fill in the grooves, put some asphalt down there, dig up the paving stones, put new ones in, which is a lot of work, they're going to be haunted by the early patterns throughout history.&lt;br /&gt;RE-RUNS&lt;br /&gt;One of the great patterns we see with Isaac is a re-run of a situation that Abraham also confronted. The Book of Genesis (chapters 20 and 21) relates that Abraham went to the land of the Philistines and he lived among them for a while. But he had some problems -- for example, they tried to take his wife, Sarah.&lt;br /&gt;A few years later, (Genesis, chapter 26) Isaac faces the same situation. He's living amongst the Philistines somewhere on the coastal area of Israel and they try to take his wife, Rebecca. Also his servants start to have problems with the servants of Abimelech, the King of the Philistines.&lt;br /&gt;And what happens eventually? The Philistines throw Isaac out, even though he's done nothing to deserve it as far as the Bible tells us. In addition, they plug up all the wells that Isaac has dug -- an illogical act given the value of water in the arid climate of the Middle East and the difficulty of digging wells. (This demonstrates an oft-repeated pattern of the anti-Semite who hurts himself in an effort to obliterate Jewish presence.)&lt;br /&gt;But then something interesting happens -- Abimelech comes after Isaac and he says, "I see that we prospered because of you." Because once Isaac leaves, things go downhill for the Philistines. Their economy collapses. Nothing's going well, and the Philistines come to realize it's because of the Jews. So the king offers a treaty and asks Isaac to return.&lt;br /&gt;This is the great pattern of Jewish interaction with non-Jews in history. The Jews are often invited in. The country does incredibly well because of their contribution. Then for no reason -- I'm aware of virtually no example in history of Jews ever doing anything that caused them to be hated the way we've been hated -- the country decides to throw the Jews out, undermining its own economy in the process. So the Jews are thrown out, the country suffers. This is what's going to happen over and over again. It's schizophrenia -- a love/hate relationship.&lt;br /&gt;THE TWINS&lt;br /&gt;Isaac is married to Rebecca. Rebecca is pregnant with twins, and the twins are fighting in the womb already -- it's a difficult pregnancy for Rebecca. When they're born there is a rivalry between them. And what are the twins' names? Jacob and Esau.&lt;br /&gt;Although they are twins, Jacob and Esau have totally different personalities and they are also physically very different. The Bible describes Esau as hairy and Jacob as smooth-skinned. Esau is a hunter, a man of action. Jacob is a scholar; he's not a man of action.&lt;br /&gt;It's also clear from the narrative that Isaac is favoring Esau who is the first-born of the twins. He's a couple of minutes older but that's significant when it comes to who will be the one to inherit the family mantle.&lt;br /&gt;Rebecca is clearly favoring Jacob. The Bible says that women have binah yeserah, an added intuitive intelligence. Over and over again in the stories of the Bible, the men make the stupid mistakes, and the women do the right thing.&lt;br /&gt;When Isaac is old, he decides to give each of his sons a blessing, and, of course, he wants to give an extra-special blessing to the first-born, Esau.&lt;br /&gt;When a great man like an Isaac makes a blessing, that blessing affects spiritual forces and becomes a reality.&lt;br /&gt;Although Esau doesn't really want the blessing of the first-born with all the responsibility to carry on his father's mission, he does want the blessing of wealth and power which goes along with it. But Rebecca realizes that the blessing has to go to Jacob as he is the one who is willing and able to change the world in the manner of Abraham.&lt;br /&gt;So while Esau is off hunting to catch something for his father's dinner so he'll bless him, what does Rebecca do? She covers Jacob's arms with a goat skin so they will feel hairy like Esau's. And Isaac, who is blind, is fooled.&lt;br /&gt;THE SYMBOLS&lt;br /&gt;It's a mistake to read the Bible stories on a simplistic, first-grade Sunday school level. This is not the story of some old, blind man who's confused by his wife and son. There are very profound things going on here.&lt;br /&gt;When Isaac encounters Jacob pretending to be Esau, he remarks:&lt;br /&gt;"The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." (Genesis 27:22)&lt;br /&gt;This is because the voice symbolizes the power of the intellect, and the hands symbolize the power of action, of might and of sword.&lt;br /&gt;Esau, who embodies the power of might and sword, will, through his descendants, give rise to the Roman Empire or "Edom" as the Bible calls it. And, of course, it is the Romans (as in Roman Catholic Church) that converted the world to Christianity, the other great monotheistic faith. (Later there was a split between the Roman Christians and the Eastern Orthodox Christians, and later still the Protestant Christians split off.)&lt;br /&gt;So, in Esau, we see yet another example of an offshoot of the children of Abraham, who, like Ishmael, does not carry on the mission, yet becomes a great power.&lt;br /&gt;Very interesting pattern going on here. This is nothing less than a cosmic struggle. These two -- Jacob and Esau -- started fighting in utero, and they're going to be fighting throughout history. Later, these powers coalesce; Rome gives rise to the Western culture and it continues to fight the Jewish people.&lt;br /&gt;It's not an even battle ever. Rome will always be stronger in the physical sense, but the Jews will be stronger in the intellectual, spiritual sense. So we see that this is where the struggle begins and it's going to carry on throughout all of history.&lt;br /&gt;AMALEK&lt;br /&gt;The descendants of Abraham can't help but be great; even if they don't become Jews they become people who have a huge impact on the world. Indeed, the greatest enemies of the Jews come from within the family.&lt;br /&gt;Who is the ultimate enemy of the Jewish people in history? The nation of Amalek. This is the people that symbolize evil, and there is a commandment in the Bible to wipe them off the face of the earth, because their pathological hatred for Jews is so great, if they have a chance they will wipe the Jews off the face of the earth.&lt;br /&gt;The nation of Amalek, the Bible tells us, comes into being when a son of Esau takes for a concubine a woman named Timna, who may have been his daughter. (See Genesis 36:10-12.) From this union came Amalek, the patriarch of a nation with a pathological hatred of the Jew.&lt;br /&gt;Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who wrote the chief work of the Kabbalah, the Zohar, some 2,000 years, said that "Esau hates Jacob is the way of the world." These are the laws of physics, so to speak, that describe the interaction between the Jews and descendants of Esau. No matter what happens, the descendants of Esau are going to hate the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;So we have a confrontation between Esau and Jacob. Jacob steals the blessing and then Esau shows up and finds out what happened. And patriarch Isaac realizes that he's been tricked. He's not angry, however, because he sees now that Jacob is capable of action and can carry on the mission.&lt;br /&gt;Now Rebecca, realizing that Esau's resentment will only grow until he going to want to kill his brother, sends Jacob away. She tells him to go to Haran where she tells Jacob to take a wife.&lt;br /&gt;MR. WHITE&lt;br /&gt;In Haran lives Laban -- Lavan, in Hebrew, meaning "white" -- Rebecca's ne'er-do-well brother. His name points up God's sense of humor -- Mr. White turns out to be one of the biggest crooks in the Bible. Jacob turns up penniless on his uncle's doorstep and falls in love with his cousin Rachel. He wants to marry her but Laban insists he work seven years for her hand. At the end of the seven years, Laban substitutes Rachel's older sister Leah and demands Jacob work another seven years to get Rachel. In the end, Jacob winds up with four wives -- Leah, Rachel, and their handmaidens Zilpah and Bilhah and he has 12 sons and 1 daughter.&lt;br /&gt;Unlike previous generations, all the sons are going to be totally dedicated to the mission. They are the core group -- an extended family that is going to make the nation that is going to change the world.&lt;br /&gt;Despite Laban's attempts to keep him dependent and working for peanuts, Jacob manages to accumulate a big fortune, which becomes another great pattern in Jewish history. The Jew with his hands tied behind his back, when given the slightest opportunity will do remarkably well, even in a very hostile business environment.&lt;br /&gt;Jacob then realizes that he has to go back to the Land of Israel because he has a mission. Just as Abraham knew that this was the only place where Jewish potential could be realized, so too Jacob realizes that this is the only place to be. So he gathers up all his belongings and he heads back.&lt;br /&gt;REUNION&lt;br /&gt;And this brings us to another scene which becomes a powerful pattern in Jewish history. The re-uniting of Jacob and Esau.&lt;br /&gt;As he makes his way home, Jacob hears that Esau is coming out to meet him with an army of 400 men. In response, always using his brains, he sends gifts.&lt;br /&gt;They meet. Esau doesn't try and kill Jacob although it's very clear that he still hates him. He says, "My brother, it's good to have you back. You come with me to Har Sa'ir, where I live and we'll go into business together. With your brains and my brawn we'll dominate the whole Middle East."&lt;br /&gt;There's no question, if these two had united as a team, what a force they would have had in human history. Imagine the physical power of the Romans linked with the spiritual and intellectual power of the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;But Jacob says, "You go ahead of me. I'll catch up later." Now we know from the narrative Jacob never goes to Har Sa'ir to live with Esau.&lt;br /&gt;The great biblical commentator Rashi explains, quoting the Prophet Ovadiah, that they will meet again -- at the end of days. In effect, Jacob, representing the great intellectual, spiritual force in human history, is saying to Esau, the great physical force: "I give you permission to go on ahead and dominate human history physically. But at the end of days, when the 'lion lies down with the lamb,' then we'll get together. Then the Jews will be on top."&lt;br /&gt;This doesn't mean in the end Jews are going to conquer the world and make a great empire. In the end, the whole world will come to recognize one God and live with one standard of morality in peace and brotherhood. The Jewish mission will be fulfilled then, but in the meantime, Esau is going to be on top.&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately the struggle of history will be between Jewish ideas and the ideas of Esau and the culture that he's going to create in human history. That's the cosmic battle: good versus evil. This is a very powerful idea and the dominating pattern of Jewish history.&lt;br /&gt;NEXT: JOSEPH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=473149&amp;amp;zs=3330305f323530" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-5753605137712950760?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/5753605137712950760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=5753605137712950760' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5753605137712950760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5753605137712950760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/is-israel-illegal-statesays-who-and.html' title='Is Israel an illegal state???...says who and since when???'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3788650395765939540</id><published>2007-11-06T20:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T20:42:29.314-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Commentator Hamzah, u can relax!!!!</title><content type='html'>...........my dear Hamzah who commentated on my blog 'Wanton abuse....', my article was not directed to the likes of you . U know why???....'cos u do not belong to the 'Rich Malay' category.......wanna know how I know?????......'cos if u did, u wouldnt waste time on blogsites....u wanna contribute, b positif.......contrary to your remarks, non-muslims HAVE been enganging in a lot of action and have been doing so since independence (not the kind of action ala-Muslim terrorist) but positive, peaceful action....haloh bro, if we were not engaged in such positive actions, this country would hv politically disintegrated ages ago. Furthermore, my dear friend, this is not a religious issue....there is a very big difference between a Malay and a muslim. If u are not clear on the subject, go consult your 'enlightened' friends. Wake up!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3788650395765939540?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3788650395765939540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3788650395765939540' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3788650395765939540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3788650395765939540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/commentator-hamzah-u-can-relax.html' title='Commentator Hamzah, u can relax!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-6147467902930958744</id><published>2007-11-06T06:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T06:24:18.010-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WANTON ABUSE OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Kindred spirits passed this piece of eye-opener to me.....care to read???&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; In 2004, Morgan Stanley issued a report that estimated that over&lt;br /&gt;100Billion US Dollars (360 Billion Ringgit) had been lost to Malay&lt;br /&gt;patronage in the 20 years preceding 2003. (1984 to 2003) One economist&lt;br /&gt;estimates that in the 36 years of its' existence, the NEP has been&lt;br /&gt;used to channel over ONE TRILLION RINGGIT to the Malay community&lt;br /&gt;through ASN, ASB and other related Govt policies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 1970, the Govt has used the NEP to divert education, employment&lt;br /&gt;and every other conceivable benefit to the Malays. These measures have&lt;br /&gt;largely been successful with all the top posts in GLCs, Government,&lt;br /&gt;Universities, Public listed companies and practically every single&lt;br /&gt;area that the Govt has any control over being reserved for one race.&lt;br /&gt;No company may be listed with a lower than 30% Bumi equity but there&lt;br /&gt;is absolutely no problem if it is otherwise. Some industries have a&lt;br /&gt;mandatory 51% Bumi ownership and some industries are reserved&lt;br /&gt;exclusively for them. Petronas for example only employs Malays for&lt;br /&gt;it's top managerial and executive positions and awards contracts only&lt;br /&gt;to Malays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ALL Govt and Municipal contracts are reserved to class "F" Bumi&lt;br /&gt;contractors. All the proposed projects under the 9th Malaysia Plan&lt;br /&gt;thus far are reserved for 100% Bumi owned companies. Even open tender&lt;br /&gt;projects are awarded to Malays even if their prices are higher with&lt;br /&gt;blatantly inferior materials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Micro business loans, business licenses, discounts on property&lt;br /&gt;purchases, new Govt employment, EVEN LICENSES FOR HAWKER STALLS are&lt;br /&gt;reserved for one race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The list goes on and on but the summary is that the Malays now&lt;br /&gt;believes undoubtedly that he is racially privileged and it is their&lt;br /&gt;supposedly God-given right!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ASLI's figures of 45% are opposed to the Govt's 18.9% because,&lt;br /&gt;firstly, equity value is calculated at par value. For example, if you&lt;br /&gt;hold 1,000 Maxis shares of RM 5/- market value each, the Govt says&lt;br /&gt;that it is only worth RM 250.00 as these shares have a par value of 25&lt;br /&gt;cents each. If you owned a company with a paid up value of RM 2/- but&lt;br /&gt;conducted business worth millions of Ringgit worth of transactions,&lt;br /&gt;the Govt values that company at RM 2/-.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chief setbacks of the abuses of the NEP are rampant corruption and&lt;br /&gt;  cronyism, worsening racial polarization, unrelenting brain drains,&lt;br /&gt;warped educational system, thwarted economic competitiveness,&lt;br /&gt;ineffectual bureaucracy, retarded economic growth and perverted social&lt;br /&gt;values. Such anachronistic and regressive policy has no place in the&lt;br /&gt;present globalizing world, and for that matter, in any civilized&lt;br /&gt;society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PM Badawi recently intensified the imprint of the perverted NEP&lt;br /&gt;philosophy by prohibiting inter-religious and inter-racial discourse&lt;br /&gt;which would otherwise have contributed to greater understanding and&lt;br /&gt;harmony among the races. Consider the hegemony this has created....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jasin MP's saga of cheating millions from Customs over timber&lt;br /&gt;imports went unpunished. APs are reserved for Bumis only and despite&lt;br /&gt;the millions that each of them make year after year, a senator's son&lt;br /&gt;has the audacity to clone the APs several times and the whole thing&lt;br /&gt;gets swept under the carpet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Port Klang councilor buys a 43,000 sq ft plot of land set aside for&lt;br /&gt;low cost housing valued at 1.8 million Ringgit for 180k and builds a&lt;br /&gt;palace without any approval. He gets fined RM 5,000 and still has 30&lt;br /&gt;days from today to submit his building plans. Yesterday, despite all&lt;br /&gt;the bad press this issue got, the Selangor state Govt confirms his&lt;br /&gt;position as still the state assemblymen representative and that of his&lt;br /&gt;son and daughter in law as councilors. The message is clear. Power has&lt;br /&gt;shifted from the people to the executive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole issue of Bumi chauvinism started at last year's UMNO&lt;br /&gt;assembly when the very very vocal UMNO Youth leaders stated in short&lt;br /&gt;that "It's our turn to be rich." This greed is not going to end. We as&lt;br /&gt;a nation of loyal citizens have to put a dent into this rubbish for&lt;br /&gt;the sake of our children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We don't need a change in Govt. We need a stronger opposition. We need&lt;br /&gt;to send a message to the powers that be that we will not accept second&lt;br /&gt;class status for our children.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-6147467902930958744?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/6147467902930958744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=6147467902930958744' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6147467902930958744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6147467902930958744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/wanton-abuse-of-social-contract.html' title='WANTON ABUSE OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-8174855613373169786</id><published>2007-11-05T09:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-05T09:30:23.169-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Inside-Out</title><content type='html'>The Lord works from the inside-out. The World works from the Outside-In. The World would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the people out of the slums. The world would mould men, by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would change human behaviour, BUT Christ can change Human Nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;---Ezra Taft Benson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Title_Color = 'B47B10';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF';&lt;br /&gt;   var AdBrite_Border_Color = '6F3C1B';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-8174855613373169786?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/8174855613373169786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=8174855613373169786' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8174855613373169786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8174855613373169786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/inside-out.html' title='Inside-Out'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-4089415670439450205</id><published>2007-11-05T07:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-05T09:13:11.831-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Structural Injustice</title><content type='html'>Christians frequently restrict the scope of ethics to a narrow class of 'personal' sins. A few years ago in a study of over 1,500 ministers, researchers discovered that the theologically conservative pastors speak out on sins such as drug abuse and sexual misconduct. But they fail to preach about sins of institutionalized racism, unjust economic structures and militaristic institutions which destroy people just as do alcohol and drugs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is an important difference between consciously willed, individual acts (like lying to a friend or committing an act of adultery) and participation in evil social structures. Slavery is an example of the latter. So is the Victorian factory system where ten-year old children worked twelve to sixteen hours a day. Both slavery and child labour were legal. But they destroyed people by the millions. They were institutionalized or structural evils. The Bible condemns both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ronald J Sider, 'Rich Christians&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;in an age of hunger' (Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton 1978), p.120&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" href="http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=473149&amp;amp;afsid=1" target="_top"&gt;Your Ad Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-4089415670439450205?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/4089415670439450205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=4089415670439450205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/4089415670439450205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/4089415670439450205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/var-adbritetitlecolor-b47b10-var_05.html' title='Structural Injustice'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-4953149798739371394</id><published>2007-11-04T08:37:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T08:37:37.933-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 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The Omega (begining &amp; end)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/Ry4KsqIt_DI/AAAAAAAAAKY/fzhOxVheugo/s1600-h/e10-410621_thumb_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129048787962952754" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/Ry4KsqIt_DI/AAAAAAAAAKY/fzhOxVheugo/s320/e10-410621_thumb_s.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/Ry4KeKIt_CI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/N-fkhgBuQe4/s1600-h/m52-377604_thumb_s.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;...he hath no servant, but they called him MASTER.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;no degree but they called him TEACHER,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;no medicines but they called him HEALER,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;no army but kings feared HIM,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;won no military battles but CONQUERED THE WORLD,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;committed no crime but WAS CRUCIFIED,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 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The Omega (begining &amp; end)'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/Ry4KsqIt_DI/AAAAAAAAAKY/fzhOxVheugo/s72-c/e10-410621_thumb_s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-6690470527935098774</id><published>2007-11-04T05:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T08:15:26.440-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Nuclear Power In the Hands Of Warped Minds Spell DOOMSDAY!!!!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>The church separated from state ages ago in order not to be seen as interfering in matters pertaining to politics. Therefore it is spiritually &amp;amp; morally wrong for Cardinal Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice &amp;amp; Peace, to express his support for the development of a nuclear energy programme in Iran (Herald, pg.8, International News, Nov.4, 2007)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As to why he made that statement is anybody's guess. Perhaps he likes Saeed Jalili, Iran's new nuclear negotiator. Whatever his motives were, one must realise that Iran has been proven to be a major sponsor of international terrorism. NUCLEAR CAPABILITY IN THE WRONG HANDS IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER!!!!!! There are no two ways about it. The Cardinal's analogy that one can use a knife to cut bread or kill someone, simply DOES NOT hold water where Iran is concerned. Furthermore, cutting bread with knives is the last thing on the minds of Iranians (they eat it with their fingers) as they consider eating food with cutlery, a western culture. The knives are used for more sinister purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Iran's track record of being an untrustworthy international player in the political arena, her nuclear ambitions must be nipped in the bud to prevent another 9/11 from occurring. The international community remembers too vividly how the Clinton administration took it easy when Osama bin Laden posed as a threat to western concerns. When the inevitable happened, it was simply too late. It took the Bush administration to do the dirty job of cleaning up the mess which is still an ongoing process. The US simply cannot afford to take it easy now and Cardinal Martino's comments isn't helping the situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In view of the Iranian President's declaration that the holocaust is a myth and Israel must be wiped off the map (dream on Mr President) one must realise that nuclear capability in the hands of this deeply-flawed man could spell DOOMSDAY in the region with a rippling effect that would definitely be felt worldwide.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-6690470527935098774?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/6690470527935098774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=6690470527935098774' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6690470527935098774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6690470527935098774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/nuclear-power-in-hands-of-warped-minds.html' title='Nuclear Power In the Hands Of Warped Minds Spell DOOMSDAY!!!!!!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-6464944367670533171</id><published>2007-11-03T07:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-03T07:04:39.341-07:00</updated><title type='text'>KING OF KINGS</title><content type='html'>THE BIRTH OF JESUS&lt;br /&gt;Every day of the year we should remember the birth of Jesus.He came from heaven,born as a baby in Bethlehem.He is the Christ which means the Anointed One.He was anointed to be Prophet, Priest, and King.&lt;br /&gt;He is King of king sand Lord of lords.He is the creator of heaven and earth and all that is in them.Therefore the heavens declare His glory and the skies His handiwork.His name is Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,and the Prince of Peace.&lt;br /&gt;He is the First and Last,and no one is before Him or above Him.His name is above every name for He existed before the beginning of time.&lt;br /&gt;He was named Jesus which means Savior for He shall save His people from their sins.He also is Emanuel, which means "God with us."He is the Lamb of Godwho takes away the sins of the world.&lt;br /&gt;In Him is life which is the light of the world.This light is shining in a dark wordbut the world does not understand Him or His coming.He is the true light that gives direction to all in the world.Although, He came to His own creation,He was not received.Yet, if you will receive Him,believe in His name,He will give you the right to become a child of God.&lt;br /&gt;Every day of the year we should be celebratingGod’s coming to earth as a manin order to redeem His creationfrom the clutches of the forces of evil.&lt;br /&gt;Let us honor Christ by giving of ourselves to help others in the same way He came to help.Only in this way is there hope for our nation and society.&lt;br /&gt;Jesus loved so much that He gave His life.What we can give is very little in comparison,yet what we give will be blessed by God and used to perform great things for Him.&lt;br /&gt;Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8 WEB)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abetterhope.com/whois/solidrock.html"&gt;Previous Page - My Hope Is Built On Jesus &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abetterhope.com/whois/coming.html"&gt;Next Page - Jesus Is Coming Again&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abetterhope.com/whois/index.html"&gt;Who Is Jesus? - Contents Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abetterhope.com/index.html"&gt;A Better Hope - Homepage. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for Visiting This Page&lt;br /&gt;Created April 1999 URL: http://www.abetterhope.com/whois/birth.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-6464944367670533171?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/6464944367670533171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=6464944367670533171' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6464944367670533171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6464944367670533171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/birth-of-jesus-every-day-of-year-we.html' title='KING OF KINGS'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-9100700065630280727</id><published>2007-11-01T22:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T07:44:23.886-08:00</updated><title type='text'>...Malaysia DOES NOT need silver-spooned fearlessness!!!!</title><content type='html'>I laughed myself silly reading the article on UY2's (umno yth 2) take on the need to be fearless (Sun.2nd.Nov.07) That's really a good one. I mean it would have had more effect if he gave the speech in a clown's costume. C'mon lah, you really gotta hand it to this guy. Here he is, sitting on his high horse of special privilege, then touches on a subject which he claims to be an authority on but in all reality, clueless as a monkey's arse. He might as well been speaking through his vice-presidential anus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The colonialists left 50 years ago. So, who might I ask are he and his kind fighting against??? I mean really, these people are beginning to sound like disgruntled native Americans squatting on a wretched reservation.......far from it. They take &amp;amp; take &amp;amp; take &amp;amp; take, fattening themselves in the process at the expense of the working stiff tax-payer all in the name of Malay rights. As I see it, the only demons these people are fighting against are their own pathetic inadequacies. If this clown wants to talk about the need to be fearless, lets see him walk the talk and not holler with the proverbial silverspoon in his trap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then he blows his silver trumpet (pun intended) about his glowing achievements in setting up MyTeam. It's 'his' team alright BUT i'ts not going places. The only thing 'his' team has achieved is to shore up his own pompous popularity. Alleviate the standards of Malaysian soccer? Dream on!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You can take a 'monkey' from a kampung and give him an Oxford education BUT you simply cannot take the kampung out of him" best describes this clown who seriously thinks he can hoodwink poor common folk like us with his imported oratorial savvy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If he and his kind are preparing to wave the keris this coming 'clown assembly' I would strongly suggest they replace it with the silver spoon. C'mon lah!, you gotta admit it would be more meaningful. When Hang Tuah did it, it was symbolic....I could comprehend with it. When SHAMeless did it last year, it simply didnt cut ice with Malaysians. No meaning....just 'sandiwara' to score points with his ignorant lot back in his constituency. Hey! SHAMeless, who were you actually waving the keris at?? Non-malays??? You gotta be kidding!!! If every single non-malay packed up and left this country, the only thing you would be waving would be the shirt off your back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eh! Helo!! Grow up lah....50 yrs on and it looks like you're still stuck in your own infantilism (childishness). Single-race parties are on the way out...no place in this globalised world. Face the harshness of reality or end up in total oblivion where you rightfully belong. The winds of change are at your doorstep. Conform or perish.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-9100700065630280727?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/9100700065630280727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=9100700065630280727' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/9100700065630280727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/9100700065630280727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/11/malaysia-does-not-need-silver-spooned.html' title='...Malaysia DOES NOT need silver-spooned fearlessness!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-997455875815736405</id><published>2007-10-29T11:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-29T11:25:25.668-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Israel an illegal state??? C'mon, new kids on the block shouldn't teach their grandfather (people who've been here before them) to suck eggs!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_5_The_Promised_Land.asp"&gt;http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_5_The_Promised_Land.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jewish History Series (Part 5 of 68)The Promised Land by Rabbi Ken Spiro&lt;br /&gt;God gave Abraham and his family the Land of Israel as a laboratory where his descendants are supposed to create the nation that's the model for the world.&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish story begins in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 12, when God first speaks to Abraham, and continues through to the end with the death of Jacob and Joseph. This segment can best be described as the development of the "family" of Israel, which in the Book of Exodus will become a "nation."&lt;br /&gt;In the last installment of these series we examined the patterns set into history when God sent Abraham on his journey.&lt;br /&gt;Abraham had been born in Ur Kasdim in Mesopotamia (today's Iraq) then moved with his father to Haran (today's northern Syria/southern Turkey) and that is where he got the instruction to go to Canaan, the Promised Land, which will become the Land of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;God said to Abram: "Go from your land ... to the land that I will show you." (Genesis 12:1)&lt;br /&gt;This is a key statement and the promise is repeated several times. For example:&lt;br /&gt;On that day, God made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river the Euphrates. The land of the Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites; the Chitties, Perizites, Refaim; the Emorites, Canaanites, Gigashites and Yevusites." (Genesis 15:18-21)&lt;br /&gt;"And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your temporary residence, all the land of Canaan as an eternal possession and I will be a God to them." (Genesis 17:8)&lt;br /&gt;We say that Judaism is God, Torah and the Land of Israel. The Land of Israel is not a pay off. God did not say to Abraham: Support me and if monotheism spreads throughout the world, I will give you a good piece of real estate for your own. God gave Abraham and his family the Land of Israel as a laboratory where his descendants are supposed to create the nation that's the model for the world.&lt;br /&gt;A SPIRITUALLY SENSITIVE PLACE&lt;br /&gt;The Land of Israel is a special place; it's the only place on the planet earth where the Jewish people can achieve their mission. A model nation cannot come to be anywhere else. So, it is very important to understand the Jewish relationship with the land.&lt;br /&gt;And because it's a special place, a spiritually sensitive place, a place of tremendous potential, it's also a place where one has to behave in a special manner. The Jews were only given the land because of their mission. If they abandon the mission, they lose the land. This is another very important lesson in Jewish history which is repeated, and it is also one of the most often repeated prophecies: "If you don't keep Torah, the Land will vomit you out."&lt;br /&gt;Throughout the early part of the Bible, God is constantly talking about giving the Jewish people the Land of Israel and reaffirming that commitment.&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, the great 11th century Biblical commentator Rashi, asks a question of the very first sentence in the Bible: Why does God begin with the creation of the universe?&lt;br /&gt;If the Bible is a book of theology for the Jews, why not begin with the creation of the Jewish nation and go immediately to the story of Exodus. That's when the Jews become a nation, get the Torah, and go into the land.&lt;br /&gt;And Rashi answers, quoting an ancient oral tradition that in the future, the nations of the world will say "you are thieves" to the Jewish people. You have stolen the land from the Canaanite tribes. So God begins the Bible here at the creation of the universe to tell the world: "I am the Creator of the Universe. Everything is mine. I choose to give the Land of Israel to the Jewish people."&lt;br /&gt;CLAIMS OF CONQUEST&lt;br /&gt;Every other nation in the world bases its claim to its land on conquest. A people came (for example, the English or the Spanish) conquered the indigenous people (for example, the Indians) took the land, settled it, and called it by a new name (for example, United States of America). "Might makes right" is the historical claim of almost all nations in history.&lt;br /&gt;However, the Jewish people base their claim on God's promise. It is a moral claim because God is God and God is by definition truth, and God is by definition morality. God gave the Jewish people the Land of Israel. Without that, the only claim the modern State of Israel can make is it is stronger and was able to take the land from the Arabs.&lt;br /&gt;This is a very important thing, and essential for the State of Israel -- which is not a religious state and often far removed from Jewish values -- to realize that the Bible gives the Jews a moral claim.&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, the early founding fathers of the modern state, even if they were not religious, were deeply steeped in the realization of Biblical heritage of the Jewish people and their connection to the land. Ben Gurion had an appreciation of the necessity of anchoring a modern, even secular Israeli state in Judaism and Jewish tradition. (We'll get more on Zionism later in this series.)&lt;br /&gt;ISHMAEL&lt;br /&gt;After Abraham arrives in the Promised Land, he is faced with a dilemma. His wife Sarah is barren, and she wants Abraham to have an offspring. So she suggests that Abraham take a surrogate wife, Hagar, who joined Abraham's camp when he passed through Egypt. Hagar is the daughter of the Pharaoh and she had elected to travel with Abraham as Sarah's maidservant. Great people have great servants. And so Abraham takes Hagar as his second wife and from that relationship is going to come a child by the name of Ishmael.&lt;br /&gt;Ishmael will not want to carry on Abraham's mission. Ishmael will go off and found his own lineage; this is all recorded in the Bible, in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 16.&lt;br /&gt;In human history, we're going to have two great monotheistic faiths, which are going to appear later, after Judaism is already established for more than 2,000 years: Christianity and Islam.&lt;br /&gt;Islam is a religion which originated with the Arab peoples. The Arabs, according to their own tradition and according to the Jewish tradition, are the descendants of Ishmael. One of the great attributes of Arab culture is hospitality. And the Bible tells us that Abraham was famous for hospitality.&lt;br /&gt;It seems therefore that even though Ishmael does not carry on Abraham's mission he can't help but be great. He's blessed. By the way, the Bible says specifically that Ishmael is going to be great and that he's going to be at odds with the rest of the civilized world.&lt;br /&gt;"You shall call his name Ishmael ... And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall live in the presence of all his brothers. (Genesis 16:11-12)&lt;br /&gt;SUPERNATURAL BEGINNING&lt;br /&gt;When it is clear that Ishmael will not carry on the mission, God tells Abraham, who is then 99, that Sarah, who is 90, is going to become pregnant. And this is how Isaac is born, supernaturally.&lt;br /&gt;As we noted earlier, this is what defines the Jewish people. The Jews never should have been there. The Jews certainly shouldn't have survived, yet they did and still are here.&lt;br /&gt;Before Sarah conceives God tells Abraham:&lt;br /&gt;"Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an eternal covenant to his descendants after him. And as for Ishmael ... I have bless him and I will make him fruitful and will increase him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes and I will make him into a great nation. But I will establish My covenant with Isaac who Sarah will bear to you at this time next year." (Genesis 17:19-21)&lt;br /&gt;So Isaac is the person who will carry on the mission of Abraham, the mission of the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;NEXT: ISAAC AND HIS SONS&lt;br /&gt;Author Biography:Rabbi Ken Spiro is originally from New Rochelle,NY. He graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Russian Language and Literature and did graduate studies at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He has Rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem and a Masters Degree in History from The Vermont College of Norwich University. Rabbi Spiro is also a licensed tour guide by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and five children where he works as a senior lecturer and researcher on Aish HaTorah outreach programs.&lt;br /&gt;ORDER KEN SPIRO'S BOOK "WORLDPERFECT: THE JEWISH IMPACT ON CIVILIZATION"&lt;a title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0757300561/friendsofaishhat/" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0757300561/friendsofaishhat/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; What it would take to constitute a perfect world? Ken Spiro questioned more than 1,500 people of various backgrounds, revealing six core elements: respect for human life; peace and harmony; justice and equality; education; family; and, social responsibility. A highly readable and well-documented book about the origins of values and virtues in Western civilization as influenced by the Greeks, Romans, Christians, Muslims and, most significantly, the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;"This is a book that everyone in the world should read"Kirk Douglas-Actor and author&lt;a title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0757300561/friendsofaishhat/" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0757300561/friendsofaishhat/" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to order WorldPerfect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This article can also be read at: &lt;a title="http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_5_The_Promised_Land.asp" href="http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_5_The_Promised_Land.asp" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_5_The_Promised_Land.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like the Jewish History Series? 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C&apos;mon, new kids on the block shouldn&apos;t teach their grandfather (people who&apos;ve been here before them) to suck eggs!!!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-6557317103373767341</id><published>2007-10-29T06:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-29T06:20:11.876-07:00</updated><title type='text'>...hell is for real...conclusive evidence!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.av1611.org/hell.html"&gt;http://www.av1611.org/hell.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;"&gt;I dedicate this message to the Association Of Corrupted Malaysian Politicians....approval pending!!!!  &lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;THE POSITIONS U HOLD ARE ELECTED ONES AND NOT YOUR BIRTHRIGHT!!!!!!....U can hoodwink the people who voted for u and perhaps get away with it BUT U CANNOT ESCAPE WHATS AWAITING AT THE END OF DAYS!!!!! click on the link and find out....hv a nice day!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-6557317103373767341?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/6557317103373767341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=6557317103373767341' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6557317103373767341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6557317103373767341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/10/hell-is-for-realconclusive-evidence.html' title='...hell is for real...conclusive evidence!!!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-7145116328714212123</id><published>2007-10-25T11:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T21:14:31.846-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TajMahal. Shocking truth. Photographic Evidence.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyK66aIt_AI/AAAAAAAAAKA/rMzd7YM_2UU/s1600-h/image0077.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125864838512114690" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyK66aIt_AI/AAAAAAAAAKA/rMzd7YM_2UU/s320/image0077.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;red lotus at apex of entrance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyK0zaIt-_I/AAAAAAAAAJ4/CocFXtsJh4c/s1600-h/image0088.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125858121183263730" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyK0zaIt-_I/AAAAAAAAAJ4/CocFXtsJh4c/s320/image0088.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;rear view of taj and 22 apartments&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyK0ZaIt--I/AAAAAAAAAJw/z_bVvyivq3s/s1600-h/image0099.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125857674506664930" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyK0ZaIt--I/AAAAAAAAAJw/z_bVvyivq3s/s320/image0099.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;view of sealed doors and windows in back&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyK0E6It-9I/AAAAAAAAAJo/m8pp6dOPkvs/s1600-h/image01010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125857322319346642" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyK0E6It-9I/AAAAAAAAAJo/m8pp6dOPkvs/s320/image01010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;typical vedic-style corridors&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKzvKIt-8I/AAAAAAAAAJg/K-Ld3q6Yh-E/s1600-h/image01111.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125856948657191874" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKzvKIt-8I/AAAAAAAAAJg/K-Ld3q6Yh-E/s320/image01111.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the music-house---a contradiction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKzdqIt-7I/AAAAAAAAAJY/VuNbkIbhvVs/s1600-h/image01313.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125856648009481138" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKzdqIt-7I/AAAAAAAAAJY/VuNbkIbhvVs/s320/image01313.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a marble apartment on ground floor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKzM6It-6I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/qs8slqA7g6w/s1600-h/image01414.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125856360246672290" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKzM6It-6I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/qs8slqA7g6w/s320/image01414.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the OM in the flowers in the walls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKy7qIt-5I/AAAAAAAAAJI/bATM9NM8Uq0/s1600-h/image01515.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125856063893928850" style="CURSOR: hand" height="304" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKy7qIt-5I/AAAAAAAAAJI/bATM9NM8Uq0/s320/image01515.jpg" width="229" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;staircase that leads to lower levels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKypqIt-4I/AAAAAAAAAJA/HjbD3wvjzTA/s1600-h/image01616.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125855754656283522" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKypqIt-4I/AAAAAAAAAJA/HjbD3wvjzTA/s320/image01616.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;300 foot long corridor inside apartments&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKyWKIt-3I/AAAAAAAAAI4/LlovTa6V7Cg/s1600-h/image01717.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125855419648834418" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyKyWKIt-3I/AAAAAAAAAI4/LlovTa6V7Cg/s320/image01717.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;one of the 22 rooms in the secret lower level&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyIv2aIt-2I/AAAAAAAAAIw/qHYoSMOnPv8/s1600-h/image01818.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125711937676376930" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyIv2aIt-2I/AAAAAAAAAIw/qHYoSMOnPv8/s320/image01818.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;interior of one of the 22 secret rooms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyIve6It-1I/AAAAAAAAAIo/As-CJXjUmK0/s1600-h/image01919.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125711533949451090" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyIve6It-1I/AAAAAAAAAIo/As-CJXjUmK0/s320/image01919.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;interior of another of the locked rooms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDkQKIt-0I/AAAAAAAAAIg/Rstv49Agd0w/s1600-h/image02020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125347342197586754" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDkQKIt-0I/AAAAAAAAAIg/Rstv49Agd0w/s320/image02020.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;vedic design on ceiling of locked room&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDjy6It-zI/AAAAAAAAAIY/VhxnutKba7I/s1600-h/image02121.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125346839686413106" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDjy6It-zI/AAAAAAAAAIY/VhxnutKba7I/s320/image02121.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;huge ventilator sealed shut with bricks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDjdKIt-yI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/EFzDe5cvYVA/s1600-h/image02222.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125346466024258338" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDjdKIt-yI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/EFzDe5cvYVA/s320/image02222.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;secret walled door that leads to other rooms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDjHqIt-xI/AAAAAAAAAII/vWBl_clcCEs/s1600-h/image02323.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125346096657070866" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDjHqIt-xI/AAAAAAAAAII/vWBl_clcCEs/s320/image02323.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;secret bricked door that hides more evidence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDiz6It-wI/AAAAAAAAAIA/yYCcE5DcDc8/s1600-h/image02424.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125345757354654466" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDiz6It-wI/AAAAAAAAAIA/yYCcE5DcDc8/s320/image02424.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;palace in baranpur where Mumtaz died&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDieqIt-vI/AAAAAAAAAH4/aOiPzw_4djc/s1600-h/image02525.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125345392282434290" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyDieqIt-vI/AAAAAAAAAH4/aOiPzw_4djc/s320/image02525.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pavillion where Mumtaz is said to be buried&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-7145116328714212123?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/7145116328714212123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=7145116328714212123' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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Photographic Evidence.....'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RyK66aIt_AI/AAAAAAAAAKA/rMzd7YM_2UU/s72-c/image0077.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-2497950279586627073</id><published>2007-10-24T05:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-17T00:10:38.572-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-2497950279586627073?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/2497950279586627073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=2497950279586627073' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2497950279586627073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/2497950279586627073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-4480680719697163341</id><published>2007-10-22T01:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T11:36:23.538-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Shah Jehan??, You've been a naughty boy!!!!</title><content type='html'>Hidden Truth of TAJ MAHAL ... must read ...shocking………&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW READ THIS. No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says theTaj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient Hindu temple palace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya ) . In the course of his research O ak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court chronicle, Badshahnama,Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz's burial . The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur stillretains in his secret collection two orders from Shah Jahan for surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as a burial place fordead courtiers and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers. For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried in such mansions. Oak's inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He says the term " Mahal " has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries from Afghanisthan to Algeria . "The unusual explanation that the term TajMahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects. Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," he writes. Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a woman's name to derive the remainder as the name for the building."Taj Mahal, he claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva's Palace . Oak also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale created bycourt sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists . Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates the love story. Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal predates Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Miller of New York took a fewsamples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years after Mumtaz's death), describes the life of the cit y in his memoirs. But he makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz's death, also suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan's time. Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu templeratherthan a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj ! Mahal have remained sealed since Shah Jahan's time and are still inaccessible to the public. Oak asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples . Fearing political backlash, Indira Gandhi's government tried to have Prof. Oak's book withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the first edition dire consequences . There is only one way to discredit orvalidate Oak's research. The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal under U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate. 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font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt; &lt;font color="navy"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secret bricked door that hides more  evidence &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;font face="Tahoma" size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;img id="EC_EC_EC_EC_EC_EC_EC_EC__x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x0000_i1175" src="c:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/Local%20Settings/Application%20Data/IM/Runtime/Message/%7BEA8A5103-7416-456A-8901-F7CEF11D6B91%7D/Show%5Cimage02323.jpg" height="322" width="265"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt; &lt;font color="navy"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palace in Barhanpur where Mumtaz  died&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;font face="Tahoma" size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; 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font-size: 18pt; color: navy; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW  READ THIS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who  believes the&lt;br /&gt;whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True  Story, Oak says&lt;br /&gt;the&lt;br /&gt;Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="red" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: red; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Hindu  temple palace of &lt;font color="navy"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;Lord  Shiva&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="navy" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: navy; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;  (then known as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="red" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: red; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Tejo  Mahalaya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="navy" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: navy; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;  ) . In the course of his research O&lt;br /&gt;ak discovered that the Shiva temple  palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from&lt;br /&gt;then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In  his own court chronicle,&lt;br /&gt;Badshahnama,&lt;br /&gt;Shah Jahan admits that an  exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra&lt;br /&gt;was taken from Jai SIngh for  Mumtaz's burial . The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur&lt;br /&gt;still&lt;br /&gt;retains in his secret  collection two orders from Shah Jahan for&lt;br /&gt;surrendering the Taj building.  Using captured temples and mansions, as a&lt;br /&gt;burial place for&lt;br /&gt;dead courtiers  and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example,  Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried&lt;br /&gt;in such  mansions. Oak's inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He says&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the  term "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face="Tahoma" size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="red" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: red; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Mahal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="navy" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: navy; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;  " has &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="red" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: red; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;never  been used for a building in any Muslim countries&lt;br /&gt;from Afghanisthan to  Algeria . &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="navy" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: navy; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;"The  unusual explanation that the term Taj&lt;br /&gt;Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was  illogical in atleast two respects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, her name was never  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="red" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: red; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Mumtaz  Mahal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="navy" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: navy; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;  but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="red" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: red; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Mumtaz-ul-Zamani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="navy" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: navy; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;,"  he writes.&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a  woman's&lt;br /&gt;name to derive the remainder as the name for the building."Taj  Mahal, he&lt;br /&gt;claims, is a corrupt version of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="red" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: red; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Tejo  Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva's Palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font face="Tahoma" size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="navy" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: navy; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;.  Oak&lt;br /&gt;also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale  created&lt;br /&gt;by&lt;br /&gt;court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy  archaeologists . Not a&lt;br /&gt;single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time  corroborates the love story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, Oak cites several documents  suggesting the Taj Mahal predates&lt;br /&gt;Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple  dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by&lt;br /&gt;Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof.  Marvin Miller of New York took a&lt;br /&gt;few&lt;br /&gt;samples from the riverside doorway  of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed&lt;br /&gt;that the door was 300 years older  than Shah Jahan. European traveler Johan&lt;br /&gt;Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra  in 1638 (only seven years after Mumtaz's&lt;br /&gt;death), describes the life of the  cit y in his memoirs. But he makes no&lt;br /&gt;reference to the Taj Mahal being  built. The writings of Peter Mundy, an&lt;br /&gt;English visitor to Agra within a year  of Mumtaz's death, also suggest the&lt;br /&gt;Taj was a noteworthy building well  before Shah Jahan's time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prof. Oak points out a number of design and  architectural inconsistencies&lt;br /&gt;that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being  a typical Hindu temple&lt;br /&gt;rather&lt;br /&gt;than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj !  Mahal have remained sealed&lt;br /&gt;since Shah Jahan's time and are still  inaccessible to the public&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="red" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: red; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;.  Oak&lt;br /&gt;asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects &lt;br /&gt;commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples  .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="navy" face="Tahoma" size="5"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: navy; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;  Fearing political&lt;br /&gt;backlash, Indira Gandhi's government tried to have Prof.  Oak's book&lt;br /&gt;withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian  publisher of the&lt;br /&gt;first edition dire consequences . 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The early lessons of Jewish history reveal a pattern, so we have to pay extra special attention to anything that happens at this period of time.&lt;br /&gt;When we meet Abraham in the Bible in the Book of Genesis, he is already 75 years old, which is interesting because we'd love to know what Abraham did as a little kid and what sports he played, etc. But God doesn't want to fill our brains with extraneous information. He only wants to give us the messages we need to learn, because He's trying to teach us and guide us.&lt;br /&gt;The story of Abraham begins when God first speaks to him. This means that Abraham lived his whole life without prophecy, without any kind of outside confirmation that his ideology of monotheism is correct, and this says a lot about Abraham's dedication to truth.&lt;br /&gt;In an entirely polytheistic world, Abraham chose to see the reality of one God and to dedicate himself to a mission -- if necessary, at the cost of his own life -- of bringing that reality to human consciousness. He did so not because God needs people to die for Him, but because that's reality.&lt;br /&gt;It's one thing if God is regularly speaking to you, you'll take any pain to live in that reality, but to just go on the basis of your own conviction takes some doing. And this gives us a little indication of what a great human being Abraham was and what a tremendous idealist he was. He did not mind standing "on the other side" -- and that is the meaning of the word Ivri, "Hebrew."&lt;br /&gt;And this is why I call Abraham "the proto-Jew." From Abraham onward, we see this idealism -- an uncompromising drive to "change the world" -- in the Jewish personality.&lt;br /&gt;Abraham passed on this drive to his descendants, who have been at the forefront of virtually every major advance, cause, or social movement in world history. (Jews have not only been awarded a disproportionate number of Nobel prizes for their intellectual contributions, but have led movements such as communism, socialism, feminism, civil rights, labor unions, etc.) Notes non-Jewish historian Ernest Van den Haag:&lt;br /&gt;Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture? (Ernest Van den Haag, Ernest, The Jewish Mystique.)&lt;br /&gt;The answer to Van den Haag's question is understanding the personality of Abraham.&lt;br /&gt;THREE PATTERNS&lt;br /&gt;So now let's take a look at how Abraham is introduced in the Bible -- not for purposes of Bible study but to identify the sweeping patterns we encounter here, of which we can identify three.&lt;br /&gt;Number one:&lt;br /&gt;God said to Abram, "Go from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. (Genesis 12:1)&lt;br /&gt;We see here that God is not like Charles Dickens. Dickens got paid by the word, and he would be as verbose as possible. God is the exact opposite. So the question we have to ask is: Why does God, who uses words so sparingly throughout the whole Bible, repeat this command so emphatically? "Separate yourself completely, not just from your land, but from your birthplace, from your father's house."&lt;br /&gt;If you grew up in a specific house for a specific period of time, that will always be home for you. When you think of home, no matter where you've lived after that and how comfortable you've been, you'll always think about it as home. There's a very deep connection. So God is saying to Abraham: "Separate yourself on the most basic emotional level."&lt;br /&gt;More importantly, from the macrocosmic, historical perspective, God is saying to Abraham, and therefore the Jewish people: "Separate yourself completely and go in a different direction."&lt;br /&gt;The journey that God is directing Abraham to undertake is not just a physical journey, it's a journey through history that is going to be different from anyone else's. Abraham is going to become a father to a nation that is not reckoned among the rest of the nations, a nation that dwells alone.&lt;br /&gt;This is the first unique characteristic of Jewish history.&lt;br /&gt;Number two we learn in the next verse:&lt;br /&gt;"I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you and make your name great; and you will be a blessing." (Genesis 12:2)&lt;br /&gt;This verse conveys God's promise that He will be actively involved in Jewish history: "I will make you ..."&lt;br /&gt;In the 17th century when Blaise Pascal, the great French enlightenment philosopher, was asked by Louis XIV for proof of the supernatural, he answered, "The Jewish people, your Majesty." Why? Because he knew Jewish history and he realized that for the Jewish people to survive to the 17th century, violated all the laws of history. Can you imagine what he'd say seeing the Jews made it to the 20th century?! Jewish history is a supernatural phenomenon.&lt;br /&gt;Jewish people should have never come into existence. With Abraham's wife Sarah being barren, that should have been it. Abraham would have died, and his mission would have died with him. But it didn't. A miracle happened.&lt;br /&gt;Thus we learn that the Jewish people come into being miraculously and survive all of human history miraculously, outliving some of the greatest empires that ever were.&lt;br /&gt;This is so because the Jews are a nation with a unique mission, a nation with a unique history. Things happen to the Jews that don't happen to other peoples.&lt;br /&gt;To live for 2000 years as a nation without a national homeland is not normal. It's unique in human history. To re-establish a homeland in the place that was yours 2000 years ago is not normal. It's unique in human history.&lt;br /&gt;And number three:&lt;br /&gt;"I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and through you, will be blessed all the families of the earth." (Genesis 12:3)&lt;br /&gt;God is saying here to Abraham that he and his descendants -- the Jews -- will be under God's protection. The nations and peoples who are good to the Jews will do well. Empires and peoples that are bad to the Jews will do poorly. And the whole world is going to be changed by the Jewish people.&lt;br /&gt;That is one of the great patterns of history. You can literally chart the rise and fall of virtually all the civilizations in the western world by how they treated the Jews. A part of it is supernatural for sure, whether it's Spain or Germany or Poland or America or Turkey. We will see this as we go through the timeline.&lt;br /&gt;Part of it, by the way, is not so supernatural, because if you have a group of people living within your country -- an educated, driven, dedicated, loyal, creative, well-connected people -- and you're nice to them and you allow them to participate and contribute in a meaningful way, your country is going to benefit. If you crush those people and expel them, you're going to suffer, because of the economic fallout. But, of course, there's much more going on than just that.&lt;br /&gt;So we have a third pattern -- that the rise and fall of nations and empires is going to be based on how they treat the Jews, which is an amazing idea, and one you can clearly demonstrate in human history.&lt;br /&gt;You can see the incredibly positive impact the Jews have had on the world. The most basic of all is that the Jews have contributed the values that are now linked with democracy -- the values that come from the Torah -- respect for life, justice, equality, peace, love, education, social responsibility etc.&lt;br /&gt;So from these three verses in Genesis we see the key underlying patterns of Jewish history.&lt;br /&gt;Abraham's journey is the paradigm. His personal life and the life of his immediate descendants is going to be a mini-version, a microcosm, of what Jewish history is all about.&lt;br /&gt;NEXT: THE PROMISED LAND&lt;br /&gt;Author Biography:Rabbi Ken Spiro is originally from New Rochelle,NY. He graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Russian Language and Literature and did graduate studies at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He has Rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem and a Masters Degree in History from The Vermont College of Norwich University. Rabbi Spiro is also a licensed tour guide by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and five children where he works as a senior lecturer and researcher on Aish HaTorah outreach programs.&lt;br /&gt;ORDER KEN SPIRO'S BOOK "WORLDPERFECT: THE JEWISH IMPACT ON CIVILIZATION"&lt;a title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0757300561/friendsofaishhat/" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0757300561/friendsofaishhat/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; What it would take to constitute a perfect world? Ken Spiro questioned more than 1,500 people of various backgrounds, revealing six core elements: respect for human life; peace and harmony; justice and equality; education; family; and, social responsibility. A highly readable and well-documented book about the origins of values and virtues in Western civilization as influenced by the Greeks, Romans, Christians, Muslims and, most significantly, the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;"This is a book that everyone in the world should read"Kirk Douglas-Actor and author&lt;a title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0757300561/friendsofaishhat/" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0757300561/friendsofaishhat/" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to order WorldPerfect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This article can also be read at: &lt;a title="http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_4_Abrahams_Journey.asp" href="http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_4_Abrahams_Journey.asp" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_4_Abrahams_Journey.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like the Jewish History Series? 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Treasurer Peter Costello , seen as heir apparent to&lt;br /&gt;Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the&lt;br /&gt;country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state, and&lt;br /&gt;its laws were made by parliament. "If those are not your values, if&lt;br /&gt;you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then&lt;br /&gt;Australia is not for you", he said on National Television&lt;br /&gt;  "I'd be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws&lt;br /&gt;governing people in Australia : one the Australian law and another&lt;br /&gt;Islamic law that is false. If you can't agree with parliamentary law,&lt;br /&gt;independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law and have&lt;br /&gt;the opportunity to go to another country, which practices it, perhaps,&lt;br /&gt;then, that's a better option", Costello said.&lt;br /&gt;  Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced to leave, he&lt;br /&gt;said those with dual citizenship could possibly be asked to move to&lt;br /&gt;the other country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told&lt;br /&gt;reporters that Muslims who did not want to accept local values should&lt;br /&gt;"clear off. Basically people who don't want to be Australians, and who&lt;br /&gt;don't want, to live by Australian values and understand them, well&lt;br /&gt;then, they can basically clear off", he said.&lt;br /&gt;  Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by&lt;br /&gt;saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques.&lt;br /&gt;Quote: "IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It.&lt;br /&gt;I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some&lt;br /&gt;individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we&lt;br /&gt;have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of&lt;br /&gt;Australians."&lt;br /&gt;  "However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the&lt;br /&gt;'politically correct' crowd began complaining about the possibility&lt;br /&gt;that our patriotism was offending others. I am not against&lt;br /&gt;immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a&lt;br /&gt;better life by coming to Australia " "However, there are a few things&lt;br /&gt;that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some&lt;br /&gt;born here, need to understand." "This idea of Australia being a&lt;br /&gt;multi-cultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and&lt;br /&gt;our national identity. And as Australians, we have our own culture,&lt;br /&gt;our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle."&lt;br /&gt;  "This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles,&lt;br /&gt;trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought&lt;br /&gt;freedom"&lt;br /&gt;  "We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese,&lt;br /&gt;Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to&lt;br /&gt;become part of our society . Learn the language!"&lt;br /&gt;  "Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right&lt;br /&gt;wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on&lt;br /&gt;Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly&lt;br /&gt;documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of&lt;br /&gt;our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another&lt;br /&gt;part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our&lt;br /&gt;culture."&lt;br /&gt;  "We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask&lt;br /&gt;is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment&lt;br /&gt;with us."&lt;br /&gt;  "If the Southern Cross offends you, or you don't like "A Fair Go",&lt;br /&gt;then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this&lt;br /&gt;planet. We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change,&lt;br /&gt;and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. By&lt;br /&gt;all means, keep your culture, but do not force it on others.&lt;br /&gt;  "This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow&lt;br /&gt;you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done&lt;br /&gt;complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our&lt;br /&gt;Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take&lt;br /&gt;advantage of one other great Australian freedom,&lt;br /&gt;  'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'."&lt;br /&gt;  "If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come&lt;br /&gt;here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-6341529228984134112?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/6341529228984134112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=6341529228984134112' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6341529228984134112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6341529228984134112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/10/world-needs-leaders-like-these.html' title='THE WORLD NEEDS LEADERS LIKE THESE'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-5388176885620279841</id><published>2007-06-03T05:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-03T23:32:46.639-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LEAK IN OUR CIVIC VIRTUE? Whose???</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I just read the usual rantings &amp; ravings of UMNO youth2, (griping &amp;amp; groaning like an old b_ _ch who hasn't been laid for 9 months) about some 'leak in our civic virtue'. (Toilet Tabloid Jun 3rd,07) .I just wonder whose he was referring to. The Government or the people. If it was the latter, then I think he's got a major leak in his head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know, Govt.-controlled paper, so this green-horn upstart thinks it's a blank-check for him to crap to glory and expects readers to buy it. He should, in fact, be directing his 'leaky' views to the PM and his cabinet. It's not the people who are responsible for the shoddy workmanship in public structures. It's the government. Period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The people vote you in, expecting nothing but the best from you but you dish out crap. Now you say there's a 'leak in our civic virtue'. Speak for yourself!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look, If you and the team you work for are unable to fulfill the people's aspirations, RESIGN WITH DIGNITY as the Koreans do or go jump off a building as the Japanese do. At least they do it with their honor and dignity intact BUT DO NOT 'LEAK ON THE PEOPLE'. You are there 'cos of them!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-5388176885620279841?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/5388176885620279841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=5388176885620279841' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5388176885620279841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5388176885620279841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/06/leak-in-our-civic-virtue-whose.html' title='LEAK IN OUR CIVIC VIRTUE? Whose???'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3494132193692840731</id><published>2007-06-01T03:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-02T06:46:35.719-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The LJ verdict: All is not lost!!!</title><content type='html'>Three judges presided. Only one came to court with his 'family-jewels' intact. As for the other two, well they chose to leave theirs at home. Hence the verdict that put paid to the hopes and aspirations of an individual who wanted nothing but an ordinary life in the country of her birth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;But then again, could we blame the two in question???. Look, I'm sure these poor guys must've agonised 'blood, sweat &amp; tears' before arriving at this decision. They must've confronted their numerous fears before deciding to throw in the towel.......simply gave in to the dark side......Darth Vader, Maul and the whole sinister bunch. Told Yoda to go fly a kite. How tragic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;OK, on a serious note, let's examine those fears.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;1) fear of being ostracised by their families (man! that's a tough one to take)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;2) fear of loosing their pension (ouch!! that hurt)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;3) fear of being sneered at public functions (a definite no, no)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;4) fear of being transferred to remote areas (what?...and miss the bright lights? No way!!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;5) fear of being in cahoots with the 'infidels' (very heavy!!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;6) fear of being snubbed by their children (sorry! no more good night kisses!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;7) fear of loosing their 'jewels' (hence the reason for leaving them at home) to the lynch-mob with a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;herd mindset that gathered outside the courtroom (sorry! no 'jewel' re-attachment surgeons in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;this country)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;8) fear of their children being deprived of opportunities like scholarships, house/car loans etc (unable &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;keep up with the Joneses)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;9) fear of loosing their membership at their local country-club (sorry! cannot sign for drinks anymore)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;10) WORST OF ALL, fear of their wives 'closing-shop' albeit temporarily which could send them &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;scurrying to scandulous situations ( hello Ricky? Got pretty girl? wife close shop today lah!!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Get my drift?....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;As for L.J., all is not lost. This so-called 'landmark' decision (hey! what's so landmark? dah biasa...as expected) has in fact provided her with solid-grounds for seeking political-asylum, perhaps in a more 'socially-civilised' country that would be more conducive if she's harbouring hopes of bearing &amp;amp; raising kids. It could be a blessing in disguise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;If anyone thinks this decision is a setback, think again. It has only served to stir up more emotions, thus spurring the need for a greater change this country needs and believe you me, that change is already knocking on our doors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Whatever consequences that transpire from this episode, L.J. can be assured that her name will be remembered a lot more than those two 'BUDUGAs' who came to court minus their 'jewels'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"  &gt;GOD IS GREAT! THE COMPASSIONATE! THE MERCIFUL! IN ALL FAIRNESS.....Amen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3494132193692840731?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3494132193692840731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3494132193692840731' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3494132193692840731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3494132193692840731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/06/lj-verdict-all-is-not-lost.html' title='The LJ verdict: All is not lost!!!'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-1027921405485899035</id><published>2007-05-31T06:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-31T06:10:45.974-07:00</updated><title type='text'>AFC SAGA</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;This letter was drafted on the 14th of May '07 when the issue was at a feverish pitch. It might seem irrrelevant now since FAM has erred in it's aggreement. But I simply couldn't resist including it in my blog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE FOOTBALL FRATERNITY WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO KNOW THAT THE AFC TROPHY CABINET HAS HAD ANOTHER 3 ADDITIONS TO ITS COLLECTIONS EVER SINCE THE MU SAGA BROKE OUT IN THE PRESS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, it's not in the form trophies or shields BUT in the form a pair of chromium-plated ball-bearings (at least that's what it look like) encased in glass.....not one BUT 3 sets of them sitting proudly among the other coveted trophies &amp; shields. Is the suspense getting to you as to what this is all about??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, the 3 sets of bearings are just to signify the fact that the FAM president, deputy president and general secretary have collectively surrendered their testicles to the AFC. An unusual trophy one might think to be sitting with the other spoils of the AFC but definitely a fitting one, given the fact that none of the FAM bigwigs had the gonads to tell the half-baked Qatari businessman to go take a flying f_ _k at the moon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The saving grace (about this whole affair) has to be the PM's insistence that the Devils should be allowed to do their thing in KL. Malaysians should certainly be proud to know that at least our beloved PM has his (you know what I mean) intact and in the right place.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-1027921405485899035?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/1027921405485899035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=1027921405485899035' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1027921405485899035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1027921405485899035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/05/afc-saga.html' title='AFC SAGA'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3929991956927901447</id><published>2007-05-31T01:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-31T03:57:27.993-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Any M'sian Schumachers out there?????</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The streets of KL boasts some of the most daredevil motorists &amp; motorcyclists on this planet but sadly they seem to be inconspiciously missing when it matters most.....on the F1 track. Instead, M'sians have to put up with overated, under-achievers who seem better off strutting their stuff in hair-cream commercials.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Currently, we have one competing in A1. Having tasted F1 , he should be kicking butt and grabbing podium finnish on every round BUT instead appears to be struggling to even keep up with the novices. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;If only F1 talent-scouts spent more time during weekend nights on the streets of KL and the surrounding tolled highways, then maybe we could come up with some real competition to give the Alonsos and Raikkonens a good run for their money. No doubt, we have the talent, though hidden they may be BUT totally lack managerial apptitude....END!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3929991956927901447?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3929991956927901447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3929991956927901447' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3929991956927901447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3929991956927901447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/05/any-msian-schumachers-out-there.html' title='Any M&apos;sian Schumachers out there?????'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3211909606832107009</id><published>2007-05-30T05:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-30T05:50:42.270-07:00</updated><title type='text'>the eco-system needs serious balancing...</title><content type='html'>People who abuse the blog to INSULT, BELITTLE and take cheap below-the-belt pot-shots at the faiths/beliefs of others ought to be bundled-up alive and flung between the tyres of a speeding behemoth 24-wheel (more wheels the better) trailer......yes, me included!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their mangled remains should then be used as fertiliser to enrich the drought-ridden farmlands of famine-ridden countries or simply fed to wildlife which are being endangered by man's self-serving greed disguised as development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Only then, yes and only then will the eco-system be balanced!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3211909606832107009?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3211909606832107009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3211909606832107009' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3211909606832107009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3211909606832107009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/05/eco-system-needs-serious-balancing.html' title='the eco-system needs serious balancing...'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-8672123513093424658</id><published>2007-05-30T04:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-03T23:43:37.279-07:00</updated><title type='text'>...homegrown Osamas ripe for the pluckin'.....</title><content type='html'>Sadly, there appears to have emerged a blogger who has decided to embark on a lone &lt;em&gt;crusade &lt;/em&gt;( hey, wait a minute. I can't use that word since it's derived from the word 'cross'. OK I shall use the word 'loonade' since this blogger considers the moon sacred. Moon...luna...loonade. Got it?....Jeez).......ok lone &lt;em&gt;loonade&lt;/em&gt; to take 'below-the-belt' pot-shots at other people's faiths/beliefs whom he considers 'fallacy'. How boring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not know how he's got so much time &amp; energy to indulge in such negativity. Perhaps he's been paid to do this or maybe he was deprived of love, hugs &amp;amp; kisses when he was young, to spew so much venom at this point in his life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I try to place a face on this writer (apart from his mugshot that frequently appears in his blog) based on his writings and the only image I keep receiving is the cursed, twisted &amp;amp; demented creature &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOLLUM &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;from the movie &lt;em&gt;LORD OF THE RINGS.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While many might find his views revolting, I on the contrary, find it extremely educational. No, not by WHAT he says but WHY he says it. It does give one a panaromic view of the mind of a convoluted &lt;em&gt;MF &lt;/em&gt;terrorist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, all he needs to do is to find his &lt;em&gt;b_lls &lt;/em&gt;between his legs and some gunpowder and walla! we have our own homegrown &lt;em&gt;OSAMA. &lt;/em&gt;Keep writin' fella. We wanna hear more. As long as you keep your hands off that powder-keg, I guess it's ok for you to knock yourself out at other people's expense....Jeez!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-8672123513093424658?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/8672123513093424658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=8672123513093424658' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8672123513093424658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/8672123513093424658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/05/homegrown-osamas-right-for-pluckin.html' title='...homegrown Osamas ripe for the pluckin&apos;.....'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-3206793274878886173</id><published>2007-05-30T04:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-30T04:11:19.113-07:00</updated><title type='text'>1st the good news! Gwen Stefani's comin to town......</title><content type='html'>.....and now, the bad news. She's gonna be struttin' her stuff (yes, sexy gyrations &amp; all) dressed up in a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;burqa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (afghan dress that covers one from head to toe) and her audience are solely to be comprised only of JAIS officials and their immediate family members all decked in similar costumes.......yes, including her back-up dancers and band-members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha! Jus kiddin'. But, hey! this scenario is highly possible knowing that we've got some very 'enlightened' fellows running the country.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-3206793274878886173?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/3206793274878886173/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=3206793274878886173' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3206793274878886173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/3206793274878886173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/05/1st-good-news-gwen-stefanis-comin-to.html' title='1st the good news! Gwen Stefani&apos;s comin to town......'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-6877818397796851554</id><published>2007-05-29T04:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-29T05:02:11.692-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Eye On Malaysia On The Wane. Why?</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;'Eye on Malaysia on the wane' moaned a local tabloid. Why???. 'Cos the name itself is misleading that's why. How can one see Malaysia when one can hardly see the whole of KL? &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;WHAT A LOAD OF POPPY-COCK!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Hello! Even the much bigger London Eye had the modesty to name itself LONDON EYE and not EYE ON ENGLAND.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"&gt;Malaysians maybe a friendly lot BUT they are also grade-one boasters until it comes back and hits them right between the eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-6877818397796851554?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/6877818397796851554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=6877818397796851554' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6877818397796851554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/6877818397796851554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/05/eye-on-malaysia-on-wane-why.html' title='Eye On Malaysia On The Wane. Why?'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-5433978736780948658</id><published>2007-05-29T04:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-29T04:49:21.509-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Different Strokes For Different Folks</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;An overglamourised British homo (cant think of any less-polite term) was proudly featured in a tabloid part or wholly-owned (not sure) by a political party that threw an ex-DPM in jail, accusing him of so-called 'despicable' acts which this British homo swears by everyday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt; WHAT A LOAD OF BULL-CRAP!!!!!!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000066;"&gt;Readers should wipe their sorry asses with this newspaper and send it back to the editors as a sign of protest. This tabloid operates without any morals or ethics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000066;"&gt;(see 'Cover Story' , pg.26, Mon.28/May '07) clue: this tabloid bears the name of a particular race but publishes in English.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-5433978736780948658?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/5433978736780948658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=5433978736780948658' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5433978736780948658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5433978736780948658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/05/different-strokes-for-different-folks.html' title='Different Strokes For Different Folks'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-683984531296552742</id><published>2007-05-12T04:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-03T23:46:28.097-07:00</updated><title type='text'>AFC President: Not very clever...</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;YOU SIMPLY CANNOT TELL THE KING NOT TO VISIT A VILLAGE SIMPLY BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO CELEBERATE SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;AFC President, Mohamed Hammam must definitely be speaking through his PRESIDENTIAL ANU_S when he told the revered Red Devils (in not exactly the same words) to GO TO HELL. Well, that's what you get when you put a businessman at the helm of a football association. He begins to think like a businessman and before you know it, begins to talk like one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;It may be fine if he was a celeberated American tycoon BUT unfortunately he's just an average Asian businessman and not very clever one at that. Hammam shouln't flatter himself into thinking that MU's interested in cornering the Asian market simply because there isn't any market to corner in the first place especially when minnows like Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam are co-hosting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;C'mon HAMMAM, get real &amp;amp; wake up. EITHER BE A GOOD BUSINESSMAN OR BE A GOOD AFC PRESIDENT. YOU SIMPLY CANNOT BE BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-683984531296552742?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/683984531296552742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=683984531296552742' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/683984531296552742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/683984531296552742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/05/afc-president-not-very-clever.html' title='AFC President: Not very clever...'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-1334952371668462145</id><published>2007-04-20T04:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-03T23:48:41.742-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What next, AhMADinejad???</title><content type='html'>Muslim leaders the world over think they can sore popularity-points with thier own kind back home by ranting &amp; raving the most ridiculous slogans ever against the west.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one that takes the cake must be the one that states the holocaust was a myth by Iran's 'nuclear-mouthed small man'. Coming a close second must definitely be Libya's Gaddafi with his mindless claims that William Shakespeare was an Arab ( based on his popy-cock theory that 'Shakespeare' was actually a 'shiek').&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jewish lands existed even in Biblical times. Therefore the commonly-held argument by muslims that Israel is an illegal state set up in 1948 simply holds no water in the the history-books. In fact, 1948 should be viewed as a homecoming of sorts .......the reclaiming of that which had been rightfully theirs (Jewish) in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran's Mahmoud AhMADinejad must definitely be speaking through his presidential an_s when he suggested that the holocaust was a myth &amp;amp; his hot-air theories should be treated by the international community as such. Nevertheless, like Saddam, Hitler &amp;amp; Idi Amin before him, it looks like the Iranian head-honcho is destined for the rubbish-bins of history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Americans might have been on the verge of paranoia when Saddam boasted of his weapons of mass-destruction, thus invading Iraq only to find that it was an empty boast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A similar situation could exist in Iran. For all the president's boastful rhetoric of wiping Israel off the map, his so-called arsenal of nuclear weaponry could just be a rotting bunch of china-made firecrackers way past it's shelf-life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-1334952371668462145?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/1334952371668462145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=1334952371668462145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1334952371668462145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/1334952371668462145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-next-ahmadinejad.html' title='What next, AhMADinejad???'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-5106520564577947479</id><published>2007-04-18T07:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-18T07:19:13.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'>HIGH ON MALAYSIA</title><content type='html'>While Londoners were humble enough to name their world's largest ferris-wheel as the London-Eye (and not EYE ON ENGLAND mind you), extremely boastful Malaysians had to take it a step further (although their's were not as high) and name it eye on Malaysia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello, wake up lah, it looks exactly the one (ok maybe a little smaller) I rode on 30 years ago at a joget fun fair in Ipoh Road.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/954553163750528315-5106520564577947479?l=finn54.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/feeds/5106520564577947479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=954553163750528315&amp;postID=5106520564577947479' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5106520564577947479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/954553163750528315/posts/default/5106520564577947479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://finn54.blogspot.com/2007/04/high-on-malaysia.html' title='HIGH ON MALAYSIA'/><author><name>http://fin54.blogger.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02081075439595214970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-954553163750528315.post-6545495240724018707</id><published>2007-04-16T02:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-16T03:03:36.084-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What did TUDM (Tun Dr. Mahathir) actually say to Shah Rukh???</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azzPcFYcDS4/RiNJ2AXvVPI/AAAAAAAAAAM/pJM-4IrF6Co/s1600-h/Tun+&amp;+ShahRukh.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053964399001162994" style="DISPLAY: block; 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