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Jesus’ key thoughts on money are presented in the Sermon on the Mount. In ( Matt 6:19-24 ), He says to invest in the life to come. We do this through liberal giving – not a set church-tax of ten percent of our income, but open-heartedness. In this Scripture passage, between the initial thought of laying up treasures in heaven and the truth that we cannot serve both God and money, are verses 22 and 23 which talk about the eye being “the lamp of the body.” The verses seem to make little sense, in the context of money, until it is appreciated that, in Jewish thought, to have an “evil eye” is to be stingy and mean-spirited, while to have a “good eye” is to be generous.

Jesus did not have money. Jesus carried no money. We can know for sure that Jesus was not rich in monetary terms in this life because the Bible gives us stories and examples that prove that Jesus did not carry money.
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We know this is so because when the Pharisees tried to trap Him, and He told them to “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s,” He first had to ask them to bring Him a coin ( Matt 22:15-21 ).

Also, in Matthew 17:24-27 we read that Jesus told Peter to catch a fish, open its mouth and there he would find money to pay the Temple tax. Jesus carried no money. He looked to His Father in heaven to supply His needs.


Jesus never asked people for money. He never hinted at His needs. Money that was given to Jesus and His disciples was held in community and used to feed the poor. Jesus, deliberately it seems, gave charge of the money-bag to Judas, who stole from it ( John 12:4-6). Judas was the person Jesus knew would betray Him – an interesting and telling choice as keeper of the money-bag.

However, for someone who made the decision to forsake money and possessions, Jesus had a lot to say, and to teach, about what our attitude to money should be.

My impression is that this is because, while God recognises that we live in a world where commerce is part of life, and we are to be responsible in handling what is entrusted to us, we are not to love or to serve money above God. We are to learn to be dependent on Him, rather than to find our security in this world’s institutions and currency.

It also seems that God assesses our attitude to Him by measuring our heart attitude to money and possessions.

1.Marriage is traditionally rooted in a patriarchal structure, where a woman assumed her husband’s name along with certain traditional roles within the family, e.g. housekeeping, cooking and childrearing. This is an increasingly outdated concept, particularly as same sex marriage is on the rise, more women remain in the workforce after marriage and many men assume the role of primary caregivers to a couple’s children


4.Sex outside of marriage is more and more openly accepted—marriage is no longer a prerequisite to sanctioned physical relationships between consenting adults.
5.There is an increase in cohabitation outside of marriage. Cohabitation does not necessarily lead to marriage, but rather could lead to serial monogamy or lifelong partnerships and families without marriage.
6.More children are being born outside of marriage. Unplanned pregnancies do not necessarily lead to marriage or adoption, but rather can often lead to co-parenting by parents who cohabit or are not together. Advances in assisted reproduction technology are another major factor in the increasing number of babies born to unmarried people

The first argument that marriage might be outdated is the divorce rate


As this culture becomes more individual focused, bonds with others for survival becomes less important. We now pay people to do the things we used to accomplish in a partnership. Restaurants and fast food chains, once relegated to occasional familyoutings, are a main source of nourishment. There are agencies that will deliver “home-cooked meals” to you or have them ready for pick-up. Cleaning staff, once limited to the rich or to businesses, are being used by the middle-class. Both parents are working, focusing on their careers, their paths toward self individuation, and more tedious tasks like yard work are being hired out. The point, partnerships are less necessary than they were 60 years ago.

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Married people have too many expectations towards one and other. When they can't live up to the expectations they might get a divorce.

It seem that the vows no longer "till death do us part," but rather " for as long as i am getting something." It's like permissive liberalism has completely marred the concept of traditional marriage.
In my opinion why get married if you can break it. You can find people living together but not married are happy. Instead of marrying someone but your like a prison. So why do we need marriage, just to prove that you are legally married or to prove that you own this man/woman

However, with ever rising amounts of premarital sex, single parent families and children born outside of wedlock, as well as the decline in adherence to religion and the welcome inclusion of the Gay community, for some, marriage is losing much of its appeal and seems to be becoming a bit outdated


Today, more and more people are stripping themselves of morals (and in conjunction with that, clothing as well). People are starting to believe that sex before marriage is perfectly fine, and in that, there is no reason to be married. The truth is that those people are insecure and afraid that there will never be that one person for them, so they say, "Why get married?"

People have become too selfish and lazy in my opinion for a marriage to work like it did in the olden days. Besides, divorce has become so "normal" that it is no longer seen as a big deal, which, in turn, makes the vows taken upon marriage completely meaningless. People forget that a marriage is supposed to be a partnership and that it needs constant work and upkeep by both partners. "for better or for worse" remember? That means working through the hard times, not giving up because "we fell out of love"

Marriage is outdated

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I want to be nailed on the cross like Jesus christ

Which governor is betterr than abia state governor

He shook hands with peter obi

How much is school fees

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3) Waiter
This person insists on serving people in the middle of the meeting. The ridiculous thing about food in meetings is, no one wants it. They are either ridiculous snacks that would excite a 5-year old or there are weightier issues to deal with


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6) Angry Preacher
This is mostly bosses. Meetings are called and from the moment the meeting starts to when it ends, all that come out of their mouth is complaints, threats together with three litres of saliva landing on helpless victims across the entire boardroom. The whole delivery is like that of an angry preacher threatening his frightened congregation of gloom and doom in the eternal fire of hell as their backsides get branded with tattooes of their uncountable sins. Only this time the hell is suspension or summary dismissal.



7) Cock-Blocker Extraordinaire
We all hate this type. The scenario that unmasks this type plays itself out slowly. The meeting has dragged on like a village wedding being conducted by an ageing pastor who repeats all his sentences. Thrice. The long torturous proceedings finally appear to be coming to an end when you hear those sweet words, “… and unless anyone has anything to add, that’s the end of the meeting.” That is when the devil nudges this type by sticking one of his horns up their rear end and the discomfort forces them open their mouths and say something. That has to be the only reason I can think of why someone would want to say something after a meeting that has taken unusually long to end finally looks like it is approaching the much awaited home-stretch. They are most possibly the guys who run after the teacher after the lesson was over to remind him that he had not given homework

I hate meetings. Let me rephrase. I LOATHE meetings. I understand they are supposed to be productive and help people brainstorm but I hate them because of several types of people who just make most meetings unbearable. Granted, there are some meetings I enjoy. They indeed help move things forward but a huge number – like 90% – are meetings I would rather have a kid repeatedly hit me in the nut sack with a bat than experience the agony they bring.
And the cause of this loathing is some types of people who make them unbearable



1) Mr. My way or this is war
This guy is the best guy you can ever have in the meeting – until you disagree with him. That is when his true colors come out. In his head, he is supposed to speak and everyone else is supposed to punctuate his words and ideas with exclamations of WOW and several lorries of confetti and glitter. The moment you go against what his general point of view or idea is, he will come at after you with guns, arrows and his grandmother’s crooked walking stick



2) Coitus Interuptus
In the county of annoying little pricks, this guy is the governor. He will interrupt every statement made in the meeting at the slightest opportunity. You’d be forgiven for thinking the crippled hamster running on the creeky wheel in his brain threatens to stop if this person shuts up for anything longer than five hurried seconds. If he had his way, he’d also frequently interrupt himself – the boardroom equivalent of masturbation

I consider myself a Christian , but with one exception, believe in and accept Reincarnation on faith, just as I believe and accept Christianity on faith also.

I believe that one can be a Christian and believe in Christ's teaching, and also believe in Reincarnation.

I am also aware that Reincarnation is in the Bible, but was the concept was discouraged by church leaders for many reasons.


First problem with the "Karma" idea is that if we COULD pay for our sins, why would we need a Savior? So in an insidious manner, Karma reduces Jesus to a teacher rather than a Savior and thus questions the Divinity of Christ.

2) the early christians didnt fully understand re incarnation and found it difficult teaching it to converts.



3)A person who believes in reincarnation assumes responsibility for his own spiritual evolution through rebirth. He does not need priests, confessionals, and rituals to ward off damnation He needs only to heed his own acts to himself and others. A belief in reincarnation eliminates the fear of eternal hell that the Church uses to discipline the flock. In other words, reincarnation directly undermines the authority and power of the dogmatic Church. No wonder reincarnation made the Defenders of the Faith so nervous

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5. Hearing Loss
OK, maybe music can't cure hearing loss, but it may help prevent it. A study of 163 adults, 74 of them lifelong musicians, had participants take a series of hearing tests. The lifelong musicians processed sound betterthan non-musicians, with the gap widening with age. "A 70-year-old musician understood speech in a noisy environment as well as a 50-year-old non-musician," explains Linda Searling at theWashington Post

3. The Damaging Effects of Brain Damage
Of the 1.5 million Americans who sustain brain damage each year, roughly 90,000 of them will be left with a long-term movement or speech disability. As treatment, researchers use musicto stimulate the areas of the brain that control these two functions.
When given a rhythm to walk or dance to, people with neurological damage caused by stroke or Parkinson's disease can "regain a symmetrical strideand a sense of balance." The beats in music help serve as a footstep cue for the brain.
Similarly, rhythm and pitch can help patients sing what words they can't say. A study of autistic children who couldn't speak found that music therapy helped these children articulate words. Some of these kids said their first words ever as a result of the treatment.
"We are just starting to understand how powerful music can be. We don't know what the limits are." says Michael De Georgia, director of the Center for Music and Medicine at Case Western Reserve University's University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.



4. Teen Loitering
Public libraries, malls, and train stations already know this: Teenagers typically don't like classical music. In fact, they dislike it so much that "it sends them scurrying awaylike frightened mice," says theLA Times. The theory is that when the brain hears something it dislikes, it suppresses dopamine, "the pleasure chemical." And as teenagers' moods fall, they go elsewhere to find something to bring it back up.
So if you want the neighbor kids to get off your lawn, turn up the loudspeaker

Music is a splendid thing. It can cheer you up when you're sad, make you dance like a fool, and allow you to drown out the world when you need to. But music has its scientific uses, too. The documentary Alive Insidedetails how dementia patients react positively when given iPods filled with their old favorite songs. The music seems to help them "come alive" again. While listening to familiar songs, many of the documentary's patients can sing along, answer questions about their past, and even carry on brief conversations with others.
"Music imprints itself on the brain deeper than any other human experience," says neurologist Oliver Sacks, who appears in the film. "Music evokes emotion, and emotion can bring with it memory."
The documentary follows recent studies showing that music can improve the memories of dementia patients, and even help them develop new memories.
Here, a look at some other things music has been known to "cure"




1. Low Birth Weight
Babies born too early often require extended stays in the hospital to help them gain weight and strength. To help facilitate this process, many hospitals turn to music. A team of Canadian researchers found that playing music to preemies reduced their pain levels and encouraged better feeding habits, which in turn helped with weight-gain. Hospitals use musical instruments to mimic the sounds of a mother's heartbeat and womb to lull premature babies to sleep. Researchers also say that playing calming Mozart to premature infants significantly reduces the amount of energy they expend, which allows them gain weight.
It "makes you wonder whether neonatal intensive care units should consider music exposure as standard practice for at-risk infants," says Dr. Nestor Lopez-Duran at child-psych.org



2. Droopy Plants
If music helps babies grow, can it do the same thing for plants? Dorothy Retallack says yes. She wrote a book in 1973 calledThe Sound of Music and Plants, which detailed the effects of musicon plant growth. Retallack played rock music to one group of plants and easy listening music to another, identical group. At the end of the study, the 'easy listening' plants were uniform in size, full and green, and were even leaning toward the source of the music. The rock music plants had grown tall, but they were droopy, with faded leaves, and were leaning away from the radio

3. The Damaging Effects of Brain Damage
Of the 1.5 million Americans who sustain brain damage each year, roughly 90,000 of them will be left with a long-term movement or speech disability. As treatment, researchers use musicto stimulate the areas of the brain that control these two functions.
When given a rhythm to walk or dance to, people with neurological damage caused by stroke or Parkinson's disease can "regain a symmetrical strideand a sense of balance." The beats in music help serve as a footstep cue for the brain.
Similarly, rhythm and pitch can help patients sing what words they can't say. A study of autistic children who couldn't speak found that music therapy helped these children articulate words. Some of these kids said their first words ever as a result of the treatment.
"We are just starting to understand how powerful music can be. We don't know what the limits are." says Michael De Georgia, director of the Center for Music and Medicine at Case Western Reserve University's University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.



4. Teen Loitering
Public libraries, malls, and train stations already know this: Teenagers typically don't like classical music. In fact, they dislike it so much that "it sends them scurrying awaylike frightened mice," says theLA Times. The theory is that when the brain hears something it dislikes, it suppresses dopamine, "the pleasure chemical." And as teenagers' moods fall, they go elsewhere to find something to bring it back up.
So if you want the neighbor kids to get off your lawn, turn up the Tchaikovsky




5. Hearing Loss
OK, maybe music can't cure hearing loss, but it may help prevent it. A study of 163 adults, 74 of them lifelong musicians, had participants take a series of hearing tests. The lifelong musicians processed sound betterthan non-musicians, with the gap widening with age. "A 70-year-old musician understood speech in a noisy environment as well as a 50-year-old non-musician," explains Linda Searling at theWashington Post


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11 Problems Music Can Solve


by Jessica Hullinger



Music is a splendid thing. It can cheer you up when you're sad, make you dance like a fool, and allow you to drown out the world when you need to. But music has its scientific uses, too. The documentary Alive Insidedetails how dementia patients react positively when given iPods filled with their old favorite songs. The music seems to help them "come alive" again. While listening to familiar songs, many of the documentary's patients can sing along, answer questions about their past, and even carry on brief conversations with others.
"Music imprints itself on the brain deeper than any other human experience," says neurologist Oliver Sacks, who appears in the film. "Music evokes emotion, and emotion can bring with it memory."
The documentary follows recent studies showing that music can improve the memories of dementia patients, and even help them develop new memories.
Here, a look at some other things music has been known to "cure"




1. Low Birth Weight
Babies born too early often require extended stays in the hospital to help them gain weight and strength. To help facilitate this process, many hospitals turn to music. A team of Canadian researchers found that playing music to preemies reduced their pain levels and encouraged better feeding habits, which in turn helped with weight-gain. Hospitals use musical instruments to mimic the sounds of a mother's heartbeat and womb to lull premature babies to sleep. Researchers also say that playing calming Mozart to premature infants significantly reduces the amount of energy they expend, which allows them gain weight.
It "makes you wonder whether neonatal intensive care units should consider music exposure as standard practice for at-risk infants," says Dr. Nestor Lopez-Duran at child-psych.org




2. Droopy Plants
If music helps babies grow, can it do the same thing for plants? Dorothy Retallack says yes. She wrote a book in 1973 calledThe Sound of Music and Plants, which detailed the effects of musicon plant growth. Retallack played rock music to one group of plants and easy listening music to another, identical group. At the end of the study, the 'easy listening' plants were uniform in size, full and green, and were even leaning toward the source of the music. The rock music plants had grown tall, but they were droopy, with faded leaves, and were leaning away from the radio

6 Symbols That We Turned Into Words




1. SLASH
A recent article by Anne Curzanexplains how the slash (/) has become a proper word among young people. Her students not only speak the wordslashin places where the symbol would be found in writing, they write it out instead of using the symbol in status updates and text messages. (Does anyone care if my cousin comes visits slash stays with us Friday night?) Even more interesting,slashhas taken on a different meaning than the and/or one implied by the symbol. It can be used to follow up on a comment, or add an afterthought (I really love that hot dog place on Liberty Street. Slash can we go there tomorrow?) To Curzan this development of a new kind of conjunction is "like a rare bird sighting in the world of linguistics: an innovation in the slang of young people embedding itself as a function word in the language."



2. HEART
The heart probably first made its way into written language with the classic "I ♥ Mom" tattoo, but it became really prominent during the 1970s' "I Love New York" tourism campaign. The logo for the campaign substituted a red heart for the wordlove, and soon imitators were putting it on mugs and T-shirts proclaiming love for all kinds of things. Then the symbol turned back into a word, not meaning love, but heart. This seems to have begun with the 2004 movieI ♥ Huckabees, which was read out loud as "I Heart Huckabees" (though it was also called "I Love Huckabees". Now people heart to heart everything. They heart it so much.



3. HASHTAG
The hash (#) symbol took on special importance in Twitter for its use in hashtags, keys that could be used to group or organize tweets. Hashtags soon became a way for people to make meta-comments or asides about what they were saying ("Watching wheel of fortune and eating oreos #livingthedream". People started introducing hashtags in their speech by saying the word hashtag and then, to bring it full circle, started writing the wordhashtagto introduce meta-comments ("Yay for the selfie screen on vine. Hashtag so excited!", even when they could have used the much more economical (#)



4. DOT DOT DOT
DOT DOT DOT means so much more than you think!
— It's A Teen Thing! (@ohteenquotes) May 21, 2012
The ellipsis (…) is a useful way to indicate a pause or, at the end of a sentence, to hint that there is more to say, but you're not going to say it right now. It's perfect for coy social media dialogue. Lately those who want to really emphasize the coyness or the awkwardness that an ellipsis can represent, as well as show that they are well aware they are taking advantage of those functions, write it out asdot dot dot("I need more friends to hang out with because when my like 4 friends are busy I'm just like dot dot dot". It can even be used along with ellipses ("I'm wearing children's size 10-2 socks right now..... Yea, dot dot dot...."



5. PERIOD
Not all of our symbols-turned-words come from the modern era of social media. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the period (.) punctuation mark has been used as the adverbperiod, indicating "end of story; nothing more to say about it": "I have never and will never ride a jet ski, period."



6. QUOTE UNQUOTE
Quote-unquotehas also been around for a while. At first the words more closely followed the structure of the actual quote symbols, with the quoted (or ironically quoted) words appearing betweenquoteandunquote, but it became a compound, similar toso-called,that no longer follows the rules of actual quotation marks

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