When will we learn to be comfortable with our individual silences?

When will we begin to hear the silent echo of our unspoken songs?

Maybe then, wedged between a decade of urgent whispers, and angry embraces,

we will find, all the conversations, we thought we never had.

“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 1 Corinthians 1:17″

I am an odd person. Everyday my coworkers enforce that self-perception in a myriad of ways. I don’t know if a day goes by when something about me becomes a new object of ridicule. They have teased the way I talk, the way I dress, my hair, and even the way I walk.Now I understand I am peculiar person. I have waged a war on normalcy for most of my life. Although, I had no concept of just so hard people can be on things that are different. Even friends have tried to fix me and change me for my own good. I suppose it is for my own good. I used to laugh and I still do, but the laughter that was once a lighthearted shrug of the shoulders is now a bit more self-effacing than usual.

I’m not saying that this is a better way to live. A lot of my differences are faults. My lack of attention to details, my warped sense of direction, and ignorance of any fashion sense are all things I sometimes wish I could erase for myself. They are not sins, but they are dreadfully inconvenient quirks that cause more than a few problems in the course of living.

This Christmas I have been thinking of the oddness of the story. A manger? Shepherds witnessing a heavenly host? Two teenagers and an unplanned pregnancy? Taxes? I hate taxes. It goes to show what man uses for evil God can use for good. Many of the people who would call me weird venerate this story, but I wonder who would really recognize the specialness of it if they had not had the priviledge of being in on the secret of who was being born that day.

A savior has been born in Bethlehem to two teenage parents. No really the shepherds told me after they say a bunch of angels in the sky. Where is the baby? Oh the savior of the world is in a feeding trough in a stable. What an odd collection of happenings surround the birth of God’s son. I wouldn’t have done it that way. It goes to show that God can take any odd collection of circumstances for his purposes. He will even use an odd collection of characteristics like me for His purposes. It is a comforting thought. It is my Christmas thought.

Naqal ke liye bhi aqal ki zaroorat hoti hey. But a copycat rarely uses his own brain. Have you watched latest promotion by Mobilink? It’s about SIM lagao offer.(lagta hey logon ne Mobilink ki SIMs nikalna shuru ker di hein). How, stupidly and unsuccessfully, Mobilink has copied the Ufone style.  Actually Mobilink tried to exploit the popularity of Ufone’s TV commercials but the advertising “strategists” of Mobilink should have thought that Ufone had introduced this funny, humorous and casual approach in Pakistan. Now whenever viewers watch such type of ad they recall Ufone, no matter who shoots runs and pays for it.

So it’s my sincere suggestion to Mobilink that it should stick to its native style instead of foolishly imitating Ufone.

What I need is just a place to think. A quiet place where I am free to think whatever I  want and to express my views. Of course, it will be better if I can make a lot of friends in that place and communicate with them. That can not be better. I am always “craving” for a friend with whom I can say what I want to say and get feedbacks.

It is just too lonely here by myself. Steve Jobs said, “Stay hungry, stay foolish”. I must confess that I am always hungry and foolish, that’s no kidding& no kidding at all. I always feel that this is a world too crazy for me live in. I am doing my best to stay put and to feel and sense the genuine things in the world.

I, like everyone, am afraid that I will just be a pile of rubbish in the coming future. You can say that I am keeping low key, but I know and only do I know that it is true. I can not be confident. How I wish that it is true that 2012 is really the end of the world.

I also, like everyone, have my hobby. They are just what I like. To play with the Linux distros and trim the XP， listening  music and watching movie…

What I want is just a peaceful life, I hope I can make it in the days to come.

batman costumes for kids is a bad idea for xmas present…

video credit to: TVMaxwell

i had a good laugh ….

Foolish human. I whisper delicate lullabies into yer ear while ye sleep, and ye love me for it. But, only amongst the night hour. For when the sun is agleam enough to see yer glowing face, ye only dwell on that and forget all of me. Ye tread past me and  can not even see. For the children can, they always believe. A child is not determined by her age, nay, but by her heart.

1. Baring it all
 
PETA aren't Michael Vick fans, but that doesn't mean they're opposed to employing models who play with the pigskin. The Atlanta Falcons' Tony Gonzales is the latest (quasi-) celebrity to bear it all for an ad campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In an ad out this month, the vegan tight end posed in the buff with wife October to discourage people against donning fur, joining the likes of Dennis Rodman and Paul McCartney as notables who have stripped for the cameras.

2. Too Soon?
 
In 1991, less than a month after police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer for murdering 17 men in Ohio and Wisconsin, PETA paid The Des Moines Register $11,214 to run an ad likening the gruesome crime spree — which involved sodomy, necrophilia and cannibalism — to practices within the meatpacking industry. Explaining their decision to run the spot, which was rejected by Milwaukee's newspapers, the Register's national advertising director said the PETA campaign wasn't unlawful, fraudulent, libelous … or in bad taste. "We were most concerned about separating it from the obituaries," Nancy Jo Trafton-Dyer told USA Today. Protests against the ad soon followed, which PETA's co-founder and national director, Ingrid Newkirk, dismissed as "mock outrage" from the same people who do "nothing in their communities to make sure no one grew up to be another Jeffrey Dahmer."

3. Naughty Veggies
 
When NBC declined to air a saucy PETA ad featuring scantily clad women embracing their vegetables during the 2009 Super Bowl, the organization sniffled that the network had something against female vegetarians. NBC might have shot back that PETA cares more about the dignity of animals than of women. Testing the adage that "sex sells," the animal-rights group cites in the commercial that "studies show vegetarians have better sex," and proceeds to show simulated foreplay between the nearly nude women and their veggies of choice. The ad, deemed too hot for ABC talk show The View also inspired a reenactment reenactment by co-host and comedian Whoopi Goldberg. Bet you're glad you missed that one.

4. American Kennel Klub?
 
There's no room for timidity when you're comparing someone to the Ku Klux Klan. That seems to be the driving principle behind PETA's multi-platform campaign accusing the American Kennel Club of prizing "pure bloodines" much in the manner that the Klan does. In addition to a video spot, above, the group launched an online quiz challenging people to try and tell the AKC and the KKK apart, and protested outside the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at New York City's Madison Square Garden in February wearing white robes and hoods. But was the blitz successful? Onlookers in New York seemed befuddled. "Most passers-by seemed more puzzled than offended," the Associated Press reported at the time. A few snapped pictures on their cell phones, and woman stopped to ask, "Is this really the KKK?" Not exactly the message PETA was going for.

5. What on a Plate?
 
When PETA launched its "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign in 2003, the animal-rights organization quickly went from kosher to controversial. The exhibit featured eight 60 sq. ft. panels juxtaposing scenes from Nazi death camps with images of factory farms and slaughterhouses. (For example: a photo of concentration-camp inmates crammed into bunkers displayed alongside a snapshot of chickens stuffed into wired cages.) The disturbing comparisons were apparently inspired by Yiddish author and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who once wrote of animals: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis." Singer's grandson was even recruited to help promote the campaign. But rallying behind a Jewish vegetarian didn't deter virulent criticism. Groups like the Anti-Defamation League, which fights anti-Semitism, were horrified that the murder of some 6 million Jews in World War II was trivialized, and Germany's high court banned the exhibit altogether. It took Newkirk almost two years to release an apology for the stunt.

6. Cookies n' (Breast) Milk
 
In September 2008, PETA sent a letter to Ben and Jerry's with a simple request: start making ice cream with milk from humans instead of cows. "The breast is best!" it read. The gross-out scheme—intended, PETA said, to assuage cows' suffering and boost human health—was inspired by reports that a Swiss restaurateur planned to start making the same substitution in his food. Not surprisingly, it never caught on. PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk later admitted to TIME that it was a stunt designed to draw attention to the fate of cows forcibly impregnated so they will lactate and calves who face being shipped to inhumane veal farms. "It isn't very feasible at all," she said. "But it was great fun to suggest it."

7. Fried Chicken Cruelty

When Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders died in 1980, he didn't exactly rest in peace. Just steps from Sanders' grave site in Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery, the group produced a new headstone in 2008 with a seemingly innocent poem about how KFC is a "Kind Friend of Chickens." In reality, the poem was acrostic: the first letter of each line spelled out, in bright-red letters: "KFC Tortures Birds." The cemetery had the headstone removed.

8. Lactose Intolerence?
 
When a 2008 study suggested milk might exacerbate autism, PETA took the opportunity to fashion a typically tasteless ad campaign. In a nod to the famous "Got Milk?" spot, PETA put up a "Got Autism?" billboard in Newark, N.J., suggesting a direct link between dairy and the disease — an argument for which scant evidence exists. Several autism groups rallied to get billboard removed.

9. Fashion Faux Pas

Since its inception in 1980, one of PETA's primary aims has been to rid the world of fur garments harvested from animals. In the same way that police departments hold annual gun buyback programs across the nation — taking guns from people, no questions asked, in exchange for money or gift cards — PETA started collecting fur clothing from reformed wearers in 1988. But what does one do with all that fur? PETA chose to hand them out to the homeless and ship them to Iraq. Newkirk's logic? "When the homeless are wearing fur, you know fur has hit rock bottom."

10. Happy Mother's Day!

Nothing makes for a cheerier Mother's Day celebration than invoking the plight of caged pigs. In 2008, PETA put a naked pregnant woman in a pen in London to encourage people to eat vegetarian — and to call attention to the fact that all days are bad days for knocked-up sows. The temperature in London at the time was a brisk 40°, suggesting that the exhibitionist who played along may have been as nutty as whomever dreamed up this act of lunacy in the first place.

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i wonder how the ladies use this…???

You came on so strong, convincing me that you wanted me

That your interest was more than just passing

And I couldn’t help but relent

Because no one before you had been so persistent

How quickly your interest faded

And I’m left wondering what was real and what was my sad imagination

I am left feeling jilted

Feeling lonely

Feeling foolish

I learned from you that a fool is born everyday

An at this very moment when I think of you

I realize that I’m the biggest fool there is.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anonymous

sometimes you just gotta shit with your kid…

Stop screaming at her!

She’s not screaming at you, you bastard. Why are you screaming at her? Why do you always have to yell and shout and scream? Why do you always have to insist on the same subject over and over and over again?! We get it after the first time you say it. We aren’t stupid. Or maybe we are. She’s foolish anyway to stay with you. And I am stupid indeed, for not standing up for you. I’m just scared as always. Stupid scared little girl.

Stop screaming already! We all heard you! Maybe even our upstairs neighbor as well. Or maybe that’s the whole point, huh?

I’m starting to hate the sound of your voice…

You look at me with your bloodshot eyes,
And come at me wearing this filthy disguise.
You say it’s all you have,
But now I know your truth from your lies.

Don’t spread your disease here,
I understand your fake,
Don’t try to lie to me dear.

You expect me to believe these simple little lies,
I’m calling you out.
You’ve run out of tries.
You’ve given me much doubt.

Breathe a new wave in,
Then ask yourself,
What have we become?

What do i say?
It’s me, don’t worry.
I’m sorry, but no, it’s you.

It’s time to change.
Oh, and goodbye.

It isn’t true that times are changing

’Coz I can feel: everything is the same way.

So now I’ll change

We tried to hide, ooh, and we lied…

But it didn’t work…

I know what I know and you

Know what is that I know.

You won’t let me to tell it to anyone.

We always play foolish games

And we don’t know where to stop

You like to treat me bad

And I like to see you suffer.

Boy, you could have a wonderful time with me

But you wanted nothing good for me…

I know what I know and you know what is that I know.

You won’t let me to tell it to anyone…

We always play foolish games

And we don’t know where to stop (nooo)

You like to treat me bad

And I like to see you suffer.

Tunes Up! Classics apresenta o remix da Ashanti com o Notorious B.I.G., “Unfoolish”. A música tem como base o hit da cantora, “Foolish”, que na primeira semana do seu lançamento, colocou-a como a primeira mulher a ter os dois principais lugares da Billboard Hot 100 (“Foolish” e “What’s Luv?), batendo novo recorde com “Always on Time”, quando conseguiu, na mesma semana, ter três músicas entre os Top 10 da Billboard Hot 100, feito superado somente pelos Beatles. A participação do B.I.G. confere à música a qualidade e o peso da rima característicos do gangster. Letra da música.

Romans 1:24

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

I thought we would contrast those that are thankful for all that God has done for them with those who are not thankful.  In times past the Gentiles thought instead of rejoicing and being thankful for all that God has done for them that they would rather not be thankful.  They no longer glorified God as the creator but instead they put him in the same position as the creatures that He had created.  Man decided that God was no longer higher than creation or even man himself and decided not to give glory to God that he deserved.  But instead man decided to complain and groan about what is going on in life and this is the ultimate manifestation of unthankful ness.  The result of them being unthankful is that God gave them up and over to a reprobate mind.  I know that sometimes it is hard for us to be thankful but we need to remember that in everything we need to give thanks for this is the will of God for us.

Rejoicing in Grace,
Keith

2 Cor 5:14-15

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