Joie de Vivre A Wretched Man’s Quest To Follow Jesus Christ

In general, I like what Web 2.0 has brought us all in terms of interactivity and the availability and exchange of information, but if there’s one complaint it’d be that I now find myself spending an obscene amount of time just being at the computer than before.

And it is worse if one is a blogger, like myself.

Where previously all I had to do was fire up Thunderbird to check emails then read some articles on a few of my favorite sites — all of which takes at most 2 hours, now I also act on the emails, e.g. returning comments and returning visits to other bloggers who visited my blog and go through a good list of feeds in my Bloglines subscription.

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Here we go again…

Someone has supposedly found a secret image in perhaps the most well-known da Vinci painting — The Last Supper.

Pesci Slavisa, the person who claims to have discovered the secret images, said these secret images of the Virgin Mary and a Knight Templar can only be seen under certain conditions.

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That is, if you don’t want to be obese like them.

According to results of a study done over 32 years from 1971 to 2003, researchers noted that people whose circle of friends included someone who became obese increase their own chances of being obese by a staggering 57 per cent!

The study also stated that obesity is actually quite “contagious” and you aren’t safe from the obesity “disease” even if you’re hundreds or thousands of miles apart from the obese friend.

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A letter from Leong Sze Hian published in this afternoon’s TODAY revealed that a country club here has snail-mailed all its members informing them that S$25 will be charged to their accounts as charitable donation in conjunction with a charity golf tournament.

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Two policemen slept while on duty. One was in the driver’s seat of the patrol car and caught on film. Blogger posts it up, others tag and put it up on Tomorrow.sg. Comments come in from readers, some chiding the poster for exposing the policemen and possibly endangering the policemen’s jobs.

Was the blogger who first posted the picture justified in sharing it?

Perhaps.

However, I am not interested in debating whether it was right or wrong for the blogger to publish the picture. That’s already out of the way — the truth (picture) is (already) out there.

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I’ll admit — I am clueless when it comes to using Facebook.

Given the major hype surrounding it, I’m surprised I’m not even part of the mainstream adoption demographic in terms of usage. So far all that’s in my Facebook account are some ‘vampire’ and ‘zombie’ bites that my friend Jason sent.

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In Part One, we learned that marriage is an institution ordained by God from the very beginning, when Eve was made a help for Adam as God knew that it was no good for man to be alone.

In this second part, we’ll look at the gender roles for men and women in a marriage as instructed in the Bible.

Husbands

Perhaps the most important passage in the Bible on the role of the husband in a marriage is found in Ephesians 5:23

“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.”

– Ephesians 5:23 (KJV)

That sets the tone for any marriage. The husband is the head of the family, just as Christ Jesus is the head of the church.

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