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I recently saw this comment on FaceBook: It is safe to say that I do not buy into the Christian faith. Growing up in the bible belt I saw to much prejudice coming from people who called themselves Christians. Of course, we've all heard these excuses many times over from folks who have decided to abandon the Christian faith.  But when I read this, I saw for the first time how invalid this type of thinking truly is. Think about it.  We do not apply this test to any other decision we make in life!  When have we ever heard someone say any of the following? *  I'd really like to have a meal at that restaurant, but too many hypocrites eat there. *  I'd love to drive that car, but last week I saw someone run a red light in one just like it! *  I would really like to believe Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation, but just this morning, a person who also believes it was very rude to me! Deciding the truth or falsehood of a set of beliefs based on the misbehav...

It is my pleasure to interview national level bodybuilding competitor Janet Kaufman.  Thanks, Janet for agreeing to be interviewed! You have been bodybuilding for nearly as long as I have been following the sport, which in itself is an incredible achievement.  I believe your first contest was in 1987.  Can you tell us how that came about? I was going to college out of town and came home to see my parents and brother. Keep in mind that I wasn’t athletic in high school.  I tried track and tennis but just never seemed to do any good at it.  When I left to go to college I fell into the usual scene of eating and partying like most college students but if one isn't active, well we all know what happens, I was about 140 pounds of flab.  So when I came home for that visit 23 years ago my brother, who is brutally honest, told me my butt was getting really big.  Well no girl wants to be told her butt is big especially from ...

Chinese Dragon Tattoo - What do you mean? By Me !!!!!! Dragon Tattoo is the most popular tattoo shop in the myth of animal requirements. People find themselves interested in power, grace and spirituality. History and long tradition of dragon almost every culture around the world. This allows them to almost anyone interested in whether they do not even consider the tattoo. Long temptation, especially the real Chinese dragon tattoo. One can not tear their eyes away from it. While the dragon is often depicted in fairy tales bloodthirsty and cruel fire-breathing monster, the dragon symbolizes the opposite. Affectionately known as the Chinese people are descendants of the dragon because the dragon was considered to be intelligent, kind and friendly. They are said to bring much needed rain. The dragon is a snake, the most often do not have wings. They also have five claws. Chinese Dragon is a very specific design. They have 117, 81 positive (yang), while 36 were negative (United Kingdom). Mo...

Chinese Tattoo - Chinese Dragon tattoo meaning By Joshep C China has been very popular tattoo. They are criminals in a phase state and the mafia. Now it seems even Hollywood celebrities seem to have reached the Far East to capture the mysterious and seductive. While this is undeniably a classic, there is a tattoo, can be easily understood, whether or not you can understand the subtle meaning is often not attractive. Aesthetics should be the primary consideration more and more tattoos, and Chinese characters, is very suitable for this purpose. While the tattoo has been talking to pieces of Chinese tattoos add another element, because the audience may ask what you mean typical, which makes the wearer, not only the characteristics of translation, but the explanation behind the decision to make such a statement lasting story. Meaning is an important issue, however, this can make the Chinese tattoo date very quickly. What is often not worn by the tattoo shop or the meaning of the tattoo can...

Tattoo in all subjects tattoo dragon, the dragon is the most durable and unique. By Me !!!! While women tend to like baby (small) on their shoulder or foot long, men prefer larger, fierce dragon is in their arms, shoulders, back or leg tattoo. They are the few popular tattoo subjects, can be extended an arm or a leg down without looking at a distorted or contrived. Dragon design can also be used for armbands. In this article, finally, you will find the latest tattoo dragon design of the site all the recommendations. " border="0" /> On: Dragon Tattoo popularity due in part to new and exciting design of the existing home number, but because of the sharp, expected long fangs, wings and claws, the modern tattoo artists can now produce successfully, to clean and eye-catching element the definition of tattoo image. When Zhang Kui-Hong Jian took up bowls of hot dragon in 'Kung Fu' with his forearm, so imprinted with the dragon and the tiger's Shaolin brand himsel...

Scripture (the Proverbs in particular) are full of a particular type of comparison between two things, behind which lies an implied 2 by 2 matrix. Let me illustrate this using Proverbs 15:17 : Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred. Two situations are compared, but since there are two binary indices (love/hate and calf/vegetables), there are actually 4 possible combinations: 1)  Vegetables with hatred; 2)  Vegetables with love; 3)  Fattened calf with hatred; and 4)  Fattened calf with love. This can conveniently be displayed in the aforementiones 2 x 2 matrix , as follows: Clearly, the best of all worlds would be Beef with Love, and the worst would be Vegetables with Hatred.  Because these are obvious, the Scriptural verses which have this structure compare only the two situations in which you get one good option and one bad option.  These are the two boxes highlighted in yellow.  Proverbs 15:17 indicates...

This essay from Walter Russell Mead is well worth reading. Here are a couple of paragraphs that resonated with me: On the other hand, we did successfully vet the lyrics of the 700-plus hymns in our hymnbook for ’sexist’ lyrics. We have repeatedly made certain that the world understands that we think that poverty, injustice and war are wrong. There is no fashionable virtue that we don’t praise, no unrealistic aspiration of the foundation left that we don’t sprinkle with holy water. Our procedures and our canons are among the most complex and recondite in Christendom. We tithe mint and dill and cumin while the house is burning down. I hate to say this, guys, but I think God mocks us and holds us in derision. I think the disasters we have already experienced and the much greater ones that are coming closer every day are signs of his wrath. I think he is giving us the taste of wormwood and gall: he’s letting us face the full consequences of our own silly deeds. He waited patiently for dec...

Bodybuilders and exercise physiologists talk about three different kinds of muscular contractions: isometric, concentric, and eccentric. In the isometric contraction, the muscle neither shortens nor lengthens; it is static.  In the concentric contraction, the working muscle shortens.  In the eccentric contraction, the working muscle lengthens during the exercise. Novice trainers often focus exclusively on the concentric phase of an exercise, to the virtual exclusion of the eccentric. For example, in the barbell bench press, the point becomes to get the weight up to the top of the range of motion at all cost - which is the concentric phase of the exercise.  The pectoral muscles, anterior deltoids, and triceps brachii are all shortening during this phase. These novice lifters sometimes almost let the barbell free fall back to the starting position, giving very little resistance to its downward motion.   But studies have indicated that the eccentric portion of an exer...