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Hygienic problems mainly. Also known as Fish pedicure, using fish doctor called "Garra rufa", has been shown to be risk of HIV and epidermic related diseases.
This fad from Asia is just people wanting to try out new things. Not surprising of its popularity...as the Bible says in 2Timothy 4:3 they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts...having itching ears.
Took me a while to get Seth Meyers' joke: "Though on the bright sight, it will kill all the right people".
True, it is fascinating to work on the math of multiverse, pre-big bang stuff...anything that obviously would explain God away, or rather, further away.
If there are two possible path to take, one of faith in God, and the other is the explanation of origin, should we study both? This is where one states that mankind wants to stay away from God when they rejects all works of God but scientific studies.
The impact of life in oneself is therefore interestingly important as well.
I would say: Hey, shouldn't you consider the faith path? Rather than just trying to explain nature as if away from God's hand.
They would reply: Instead of getting stuck in the faith path, why don't you look at all these scientific discoveries.
I would reply: But you are forgetting, the impact on one's life is different depending on which path you choose.
Non-Christians like Christopher Hitchens had definitely though of these, which was why he debated more on the issues of the moral of God. Which is for another topic.
Having a Mormon candidate, Mitt Romney, as their only option...or else it is the Democratic liberal Christian Obama, I would say it is quite funny. I dare not scorn, but I would say to them: This is where jealousy and legalism and preaching only to the choir will get you.
On Saturday, we sent Nadia's mother to the JFK airport. Coincidentally, I met Jessy, the former choir master and pianist for my previous church, and his family who are travelling to Taiwan. It was certainly a long time no see. He's one of the few if not the only one, I knew back then in the chuch, to be filled with zeal.
At church, rehearsed the hymn, "And Can It Be?", to my shock, as I glanced the name of the composer of this SAGINA hymn tune, I thought he was the Restoration Movement-of the Second Great Awakening founder, Thomas Campbell (1763-1854), who was the key source of the superficial Churches of Christ denomination. A different Campbell (1800-1876), he certainly had me marveled, for the SAGINA tune is popular.
And then there is this "The Heavens Resound" Arranged from Beethoven. No one heard of this piece from Beethoven's collections. One commented if it was one of Ludvig's other family member. I checked. It is by Ludvig, from Op. 48 (6 songs) No. 4: Die Ehre Gottes aus de Natur (The Glory of God in Nature)
At worship, the sermon was by Minister David Tong.
He spoke of a quote by Oscar Wilde (a Catholic): The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Since it is a Catholic's view point, it is easily misunderstood. Because for a Catholic, it would apply non-reformation doctrine Predestination of the uncertainty of a believer's own salvation. I said misunderstood because we could put the meaning of the phrase into the right context: That thought the saints here refers to those who are already in Heaven, the sinner referred to in the quote, who has a FUTURE, is the sinner that is obviously elected. Of course, the Arminians and the Catholics would abhor this meaning. But I am not saying, as Rev. Lin later in the service prayed, "the Christians have the future", as if for correction (speaking of which, I would stress that though common practice in the didactics of this church, it is wrong to ONLY correct someone's saying without actually confronting the person in question at any time), because like the Catholics, I cannot be certain of those who are chosen but my own salvation and hope on certain others, and unlike Rev. Lin and the likes of her kind: many traditional Christians of the West today (those who act as if they could judge one's election by their own feelings and how well one treats them) viz. the non-evangelicals. There is of course, another problem, that when one opt to say "Christians" instead of "Sinners", one's repentance may be questionable, but that is for another tale.
At night, Nadia quizzed me on the birthday present she gave me last year. I took a while (5-10 mins) to remember it: The AMNH joint membership. I just hope I am fully prepared for the questionaire of the Marriage Greencard interview in the future that is still long way ahead.
Apparently, I missed this...but no matter. It is good to know there are Americans (New Yorkers) who sincerely love to help immigrants of all kinds out. The DailyNews seems to provide this annually. I'll have to look it up, since this year is special election year (but I think it is only for citizenship not GC).
And came across this information about Greencard through marriage.
Directed by Simcha Jacobovici.
The Exodus Decoded
Opposint reference:
http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2006/09/debunking-the-exodus-decoded.aspx#Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus_Decoded#Credibility
The Ahmose Stele 15 B.C.
Discovered 1947
No access in basement of cairo museum
"Egypt enveloped with darkness"
"During the storm and darkness GOD (singular) manifested His power"
"Statues of egyptian gods toppled to the ground"
Pharaoh was not named in Bible, but this stele calls it Ahmose.
English translation:
http://www.therafoundation.org/articles/chronololy/astorminegyptduringthereignofahmose/view?searchterm=
Father of Ahmose
Seqenenre Tao II
in Cairo Museum
Ahmose I found there also.
Ahmose in hebrew means "the brother of moses", in Egyptian: The moon is born
Hyksos expulsion same as Exodus of Semites?
Hyksos in Avaris (Goshen)
But currently most scholars date exodus to 1270 BC, during Ramese II.
Bible gives information Exodus 480 years before Solomon, in middle of 15th century BC. - Prof. John Bimson of Trinity College
Thus, 1470 BCE.
God's people = Amo Israel
Israelites arrived Egypt some 200 years before Exodus?!
In order to show Tomb at Beni Hassan's 17th Century BC noted Ancient migration from Modern Israel...interesting mural paintings of shepherds.
They are called the Amo.
9 Seals (of Joseph?) found: Yakov Royal Ring
The only time hebrew name on egyptian royal seal. found at Avaris.
then archeological fields are being filled and cultivated.
In Serabit El Khadim, Sinai:
Turquiose mining by egyptians for thousands of years. Bedouins live here, they know which rocks to break for water?
Writing of slave "El, save me" inscription in cave, in oldest Hebrew language.
Eruption and earthquakes of Volcano in Santorini, greece. Brought an end to the Minoan Civilization.
Connection to Plagues?
Pumice of Santorini found in Avaris dated to 1500, 1600 BCE. (18th Dynasty)
Connections of Fault lines in at the Levant, and also Satorini Faultline.
Earthquakes caused blood in water?
Referencing to 1984 in Lake Manu, Lake Nyos both in Cameroon, water turned bloodred, mystery solved by Prof. Kling of Univ. of Michigan, gas leak, iron
dissolved - iron hydroxide. Devoid of oxygen, fish die, frogs do not die by hopping out hence frog plague, lack of clean water-lies, flies, bacterial
epidemic. Then boils and blisters: 1986 disaster at Lake Nyos - similar epidemic there. Hails (ice & fire): Ipuwer Plagues Papyrus mentioned it. Thus,
Santorini Volcanic hails, when eruption went up into high sky. Locusts: weather change caused locusts to land as hail storm clears and temp rose. Darkness:
Final eruption with ash clouds (what about Israel's daylight? too far?). Santorini ash found in Nile delta. Passover: CO2 from gas leak (absurd?), incident
at Lake Nyos August 21st night, landside turns CO2 trapped in water into visible fog, suffocating everything, disappear. 1800 people dead as well as animals.
Egyptian first born males slept on egyptian beds on ground while the rest (their brothers & sisters) on roof tops, sheds and wagons? Israelites sitting at
passover meals felt nothing.
Ahmose's son found dead at 12.
Parting of theYam Suph sea. The Reed sea instead of translated Red Sea.
El Arish Inscription: account of Israelites from Pharaoh's view: Moses as Prince of the Dessert and calls Israelites the evil ones. Moses called king in the Bible?! And the parting of the sea is mentioned: two water hieroglyphs and a 2 knife glyph suggested parting of water. Location of the sea is mentioned as well: Lake El Balah. Now dried...because of the Suez Canal.
Israelites walked on risen land due to quakes of plates. Tsunami then enveloped the Egyptian military with high waves. Still no wall of seas explained. Tsunami waves are not still walls.
Santorini wall paintings found in Greece depicting the journey from Egypt to Greece, by possibly deserting israelites or returning Minoans. Also suggesting contact of Minoans and Goshen Israelite long ago by the time of Exodus.
Grave Stele of Mycenae shows egyptian swords and gold. Tombstone showing egyptian chariot chasing Israelite in the parting of the sea, another showing the drowning.
Hashem El Tarif as Mount Sinai, using triangulation of Timna, Elim and Kadesh Barnea (Deu 1:2). Found water spring remnant at top of mount.
Supposedly Ark of the Covenant sample found in National Archaeological Museum of Athens made by the Homer's Danaoi (sounds like the Danites of Israel tribe).
With some background details...perhaps I don't have to watch it now. Reading Eric Liddell's biography somewhere else is much more edifying.
DoubleHex - thanks for trying but that wasn't the issue. There is a
known issue when the toolbar or send is missing. Here is the fix I
found
a suggestion from the Microsoft Community forum solved my problem.
Deleting the file named outcdm.dat in the C:\Documents and
Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder did the trick.
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