Lying? When?

A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17."

The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon, the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how many had read Mark 17.

Every hand went up.
The minister smiled and said, "Mark has only 16 chapters. I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying."


..........NOTE......
           (for me)

Ang pagsisinungaling ay kasalanan na hindi maiiwasan, may mga bagay na mahirap aminin kung kaya napipilitan na magsinungaling ang isang tao. Ngunit minsan ay kailangan mong pangatawanan ang mga pinagsinungalingan mo. Sa pagiging pranka, hindi maiiwasan na masasaktan mo ang damdamin ng mga tao sa paligid mo. Masakit ngunit totoo, mas maiging sinaktan mo siya dahil sinabi mo ang totoo, kaysa sa napangiti mo siya sa isang kasinungalingan.


May mga bagay na dapat malaman ang isang tao na hindi niya pwedeng basta basta na lamang ipagkakalat at ipagyayabang. Lahat ay may pantay pantay na karapatan na ipahayag ang mga saloobin ngunit sadyang marupok at mapangahas ang mga tao. Minsan ay gumagawa siya ng mga bagay nang hindi pinag-iisipan kung ano ang kahihinatnan at kung anu-ano at sinu-sino ang madadamay sa mga kalalabasan, kung ito ba ay makabubuti o makakasama.

        Kahalintulad ng isang guro na naatasang magsiwalat at magpalaganap ng mga wastong kaalaman ngunit sa likod ng bawat edukasyon na kanyang ipinamamahagi ay ang mga lihim na mula pa nun bata pa siya ay pinakatagu-tago na niya at kahit kanino ay di niya ninais ipaalam.
          Nahihirapan na marahil ang iba kung kaya sa ihip ng tadhana ay natutumba at bumibigay sila. Bagaman pinagtibay sila ng kanilang pananalig ,silay tiyak na magagapi sapagkat ang nakatayo sa altar ng kanilang paniniwala ay ang mga pekeng panginoon, na nangingintab sa ginto na sinamsam nila sa mga tangang sumasamba sa kanila, na patuloy na nabubulag sa mga kunwaring tulong at kalingang inilalaan sa kanila ng mga hangal na panginoon. Ang tenga ng panginoon nila ay banat at unat na kunwari ay pinakikinggan ang lahat ng nasasakupan ngunit ang katotohanay matagal na silang bingi.Nabingi sila sa kalansing ng pera na ibinulsa nila galing sa kaban ng mga taong tunay na nagmamay-ari ng kayamanan. Ninakaw nila ang barya na pinaghirapan ng mga aba kung kanilang tawagin. Baryang dugot pawis ang pinuhunan upang kamitin ang kakaunting barya na umaakit  sa mga sakim na bayani-kuno ng lansangan  na pangunahing kutong ng lansangan. kutong nga ba? marahil kutong nga? siguro nga kutong. sige na nga kutong nga talaga.
          Bakit nga ba hindi nagtataka ang mga kaanib ng mga pinunong ito kung bakit ang kahirapan ay tila institusyon na, na kung ayaw mong makibagay ay tiyak na mahuhuli ka sa lipunan. Ngunot ang lubhang nakapagtataka ay kung bakit ang mga dukha, kahit anong pagpapagal ang gagawin ay tila nakatali na ang buhay sa haligi ng kahirapan at kung bakit ang mga mayayaman ay animoy  nakajet patungo sa tagumpay.
Ano nga ba ang kulang? Alin nga ba ang mali?
Sino ang hindi kumikilos? Sino ang dapat sisihin at sino ang dapat mamulat?
Simulan mo sa sarili mo kaibigan  ko.


Minsan, mas maigi na itago mo na lang ang mga opinyon mo kaysa sa sabihin mo ito at maging sanhi ng isang magulong usapan.

Alin ang mahirap gawin, ang magsinungaling ka sa sarili mo o ang magsinungaling ka sa kapwa mo.
Kailan nga ba dapat maging pranka at kailan nga ba dapat maging tahimik na lang?
Tulad ng pakikisama, bakit kailangan mong ngumiti at makipag-usap sa tao na hindi mo naman gusto kausapin? Kasi nakikisama ka at ayaw mo ng gulo. Ayaw mo ng awkwardness sa pagitan ng grupo.  Ngunit agsisinungaling ka sa sarili mo. Pinipilit mo ang sarili mo sa bagay na hindi mo naman gusto.
Ngunit alam mong iyon ang ikabubuti ng lahat.

Ang mundo ay umiiikot para sa lahat, kaya nararapat lang na bawat kilos at salita natin ay nakaayon sa damdamin ng pangkalahatang madla. Dahil sa bawat masayang kabayo ay  katumbas ng umiiyak na damo. Korny no?....Marahil nga, ngunit ang buhay sa mundo ay isang malaking give and take relationship. May mga pagkakataon na kailangan mong magparaya para sa ikasasaya ng iba. At minsan, kailangan mong apakan ang iba para makatayo ka. Sabi nga nila na hindi mo kailangang mang-apak ng damdamin ng iba para makaangat ka sa buhay. Ngunit hindi mo maiiwasan na may masasaktan sa bawat hakbang na gagawin mo upang mga-usad ka sa buhay.#

sick?

Are you feeling weird about your self? Are you thinking that you are nuts to feel something wrong or react differently hen you are in a certain situation? I got this on my email and Im happy enough to share this to you from rdasia.com.

Hanger
 Do you start to feel positively witchy when a too-long meeting makes you eat lunch an hour later than usual? You’re probably "hangry", a new phrase folks are using to describe hunger-related mood swings, according to MSNBC.com. When blood sugar levels dip too low, according to the site, the body’s ability to process the brain chemical serotonin is affected, resulting in crabbiness, anger, and a low threshold for frustration.



E-Book Moments
The theory that people remember less of what they read from digital books (on iPads and Kindles) than from paper-based books, as coined by Time magazine. Some experts believe that reading on paper provides more opportunities for memorizing and retaining information because you can relate words to their location on the page (left side, right side, near a chart, etc.), which helps cement the material in your mind.


Tight Pants Syndrome
A cluster of symptoms—including abdominal pain, heartburn, and reflux a few hours after meals—that predominantly affects overweight men who wear poor-fitting pants with too-tight waistlines, according to ABC News Medical Unit. Doctors are also seeing a comparable version in women, in which skinny jeans can contribute to pelvic pain, yeast infections, and itching. Bottom line: Don’t suffer too much for beauty’s sake, advises Orly Avitzur, MD, a Tarrytown, NY-based neurologist. If it hurts to wear a new trend or a too-tight favorite piece of clothing, skip it.



Surgeon Enthusiasm
The measure of how likely a surgeon is to recommend an operation for a condition that can be treated in other ways. A recent study suggested that this eagerness helps explain why surgery rates for back problems and other tough-to-treat ills vary wides across the country: You're almost 25 times more likely to get spinal fusion in Idaho Falls, Idaho, for instance, than in Bangor, Maine. (Source: Study in the journal Spine.)


Decision Fatigue
The notion that the mental work of making decisions over and over again can warp your judgment and lead to poor choices. In one example, an Israeli study found that judges granted more parole requests early in the day than they did after making a series of rulings. According to the New York Times, "the more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain."


Thirdhand Smoke
It sticks around for hours, days or even months after a cigarette is smoked: a residue of toxins (lead, cyanide, and arsenic among them) that clings to virtually all surfaces in a room, a car , and other enclosed spaces long after the smoke is gone. Researchers have found that thirdhand smoke can combine with nitrous acid, a common indoor air pollutant, to form a carcinogen that can be inhaled by anyone in a room. (Source: Study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.)




Self-Compassion
You have it if you're as kind and understanding about your own shortcomings as you are about a friend's. It's a hot topic in psychology, the New York Times reports, and the focus of two new books: Self-Compassion: Stop beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind, by Kristin Neff, PhD, and The Self-Compassion Diet, by Harvard psychotherapist Jean Fain. "Self-compassion is the missing ingredient in every diet and weight-loss plan, " Dr. Fain told the Times.



Broga
Attention, downward-facing dudes. You may not know it yet, but you're practicing broga: yoga for men with strength-building moves—and without the chanting. Namaste, man


Sweatworking
Forget the martinis: One way to impress clients today is to get them spinning—at the gym, that is. Can't come to terms? Box it out, and close the deal in the steam room.


Coregasm
You may want to wait on this one till you get home. Forty percent of women in a survey experienced exercise induced orgasms on more than ten occasions. Kind of makes you want to sit up and take notice!

Going back to school?....read this

Ah, you're sick of your school bus being late everyday? Or you dont like the new driver your parents hired. Whatever it is that you are complaining about your daily commute to the school, you should learn to thank that you are sitting their going to school with the less danger you can think of. Unlike these unlucky ones who needs to face the danger just to go to school.


                                             Los Pinos zip wire, Colombia

Forget the perils of bullies on the school bus—for the children of Los Pinos, 
a village in the Colombian jungle, the trip to and from class holds rather more dramatic dangers. With their settlement cut off from neighboring communities by a 1,200-foot-deep gorge that takes two hours to walk around, the kids get across using 1,300-foot zip wires.

Every morning, around a dozen of them arrive at the launch pad, armed with their own pulley, 
rope and—crucially—a piece of wood to use as a brake so they don’t slam into the tires on the other side at 40mph. Smaller pupils are bundled into hessian sacks and tied to older children.

Some 60 adults brave the trip daily, too, often transporting supplies. Nobody knows what the zips’ weight limits are, but locals have carried animals, large food parcels and even furniture across, and the steel cables haven’t broken. Yet.

                                               Hussaini Bridge, Pakistan

 If there’s one thing worse than navigating a rickety wooden suspension bridge, it’s having to do so while looking at its broken predecessor dangling alongside. But that’s the routine of villagers in Hussaini, northern Pakistan, who need to cart firewood, crops and livestock across the 635-foot-long structure to reach their farmland.

A strong gust of wind lifted up the old bridge a couple of years ago, then smashed it back down, dislodging most of the slats and rendering it useless. But the new bridge hasn’t had an easy time of it, either. A recent landslide caused the water levels of the Hunza River below to rise so much that the bridge was submerged for weeks. Indeed, even under normal conditions, the Hunza is no gentle stream. To put it bluntly, if you fell 
off the bridge into the rapid-riddled torrent, you wouldn’t be sculling to safety.

Locals try to keep the bridge patched up as best they can, relying on bits of wood, twine—and hope. But it’s still not so much a serious river crossing as something resembling an Indiana Jones film set—or possibly the Bridge of Death in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

                                                 Yungas Road, Bolivia

This mountain pass is also known as El Camino de la Muerte, or “the Road of Death”
—and the nickname’s not a jokey exaggeration. Up to 250 people a year have been killed on this 38-mile-long stretch since it was carved into the mountainside in the 1930s and became a key route for trucks traveling from Bolivia’s capital La Paz to rain forest settlements in the north.

The road is about as wide as a dining table is long—not ideal when you’re trying to creep a truck round a hairpin bend with a 3,000-foot sheer drop on one side. Add a smattering of landslides, torrential rain, and another truck coming in the other direction (even if there is the occasional narrow passing place), and suddenly your local highway seems much more palatable.

Since 2006, a less-dangerous bypass has provided an alternative to the worst parts of the route. But, even so, the memorial crosses and floral tributes that appear at regular intervals along the Yungas Road show that it remains far from accident free.

                                 Yakutsk, Russia

When it’s freezing cold outside, the thought of leaving your warm bed and waiting on a frigid train platform can fill even the hardiest with dread. So spare a thought for commuters in the eastern Siberian city 
of Yakutsk—they regularly have to brave temperatures below minus -49°F.

Just starting a car in such conditions can, of course, prove impossible (wealthier residents use heated garages that cost around $32,000—some four times the average annual salary). But if travelers manage that, they then have to brave roads that are so thickly coated in ice that winter tires are little help. There are dozens of accidents each week, as cars skate across junctions and career off roads.

Waiting too long at the bus stop can be fatal, too—especially for older people, who can quickly develop respiratory problems. And permafrost means an underground tube system is out. The city will finally be linked to Russia’s over-ground rail network late this year, though, so at least residents will find it easier to get away.

                                        Tokyo rail system, Japan

You know a city’s got transport issues when it’s coined a specific phrase, tsukin jigoku, 
to describe “commuter hell”.

And Tokyo’s commuter lingo doesn’t stop there—or get much cheerier. White-gloved train pushers, known as oshiya, are employed to cram the rail network’s 8.7 million daily passengers into carriages. Meanwhile, sleazy travelers who take advantage of the cramped situation are labeled chikan—loosely translated as “train gropers”. As well as being sex pests, they also create paranoia. A girl recently caused chaos in 
a carriage by spraying Mace at a number of innocent businessmen after she’d unwittingly straddled a clarinet case.

The fact that there are plans to reduce Tokyo’s train capacity to 150 per cent in the next two years demonstrates the extent of the city’s problem. The Tōzai Metro line frequently operates at 199 per cent capacity. Passengers 
can just about grasp a newspaper, but there’s no chance of holding it up and reading it.

                                           Beijing, China

Singer Katie Melua claims that there are “nine million bicycles in Beijing”, but it’s the five million cars she wants to worry about. Even in crowded international capitals like London, where rush-hour traffic crawls along at under 10mph, there are just three million cars—or 432 cars per square mile. In Beijing, that figure is 1,226 and, though Beijing is half the size of London, the average commuting time is around 12 minutes longer at 52 minutes.

The Chinese capital’s economic growth over the last decade or so has resulted in 1,900 new vehicles on the road each day, and poor public transport doesn’t provide much of an alternative. What’s more, you don’t get ahead in a country of 1.3 billion people by waiting your turn, so a traffic jam on a two-lane highway can quickly turn into four-lane gridlock as drivers nose into gaps.

Last August, a jam starting in Beijing grew into a 60-mile tailback that stretched all the way to Inner Mongolia and lasted nine days. For now, investing in a pair of sneakers and walking to work is probably the best option.

note...I intentionally didn't edit this article from readers digest site, since this is a delicate issue and information.  They have the rights to be acknowledge by what they posed and researched. I just wanted t share what I read and I wanted to tell each one of us that every little things are to be thankful for.

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charge to experience

If you fail, never just take it as failure, always put in mind that from it you will learn something. Like after waking up all night to study for your exam, you ended up sleeping whole day long which lead you to miss your exam. Lesson is, study day by day, slowly and shortly but surely. So you wont have to cram on your exam days.

Here are some examples you should take a read too. Its alright to laugh.

"When holding a DVD in one hand and food in the other, remember which hand has what when you take a bite."

"When running errands where one stop involves going to a bank and one involves dropping off a firearm, drop off the firearm first."

"If you’re prone to impulse purchases, stick to shoes, not tattoos."

"When attending a funeral, never clap after the eulogy, regardless of how meaningful and heartfelt it was."



When buying, also remember this;

"Can you tell me who the author of Shakespeare is?"

"I’m looking for a book, but I only know the title, not the author. It’s called Dante’s Inferno."

"I definitely don’t want nonfiction. I like autobiographies and history."

"Do you have Shakespeare in English?"

"Can I buy colgate, I like that red Close-up."




..at amusement


My friend was working at an amusement park when a couple stopped him. “Excuse me,” said the woman, pointing to a pond. “What is that water made out of?”
Bemused, my friend replied, “Two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.”
“See?” she said to her boyfriend. “I told you it wasn’t real.”



All those things are done mistakenly once. Dont ever do a mistake twice or it cant be a mistake anymore. It could be a sign of something you might not like.

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