Vell's Rainbowfied Life.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

The beginning of my adulthood on 23/10/06 was terrible. How I celebrate it? STUDYING! I had to spend the night at Jiayi's to study. I think this year's birthday was my worst ever in my whole life. Studied for exam that was coming the next 2 days was NIGHTMARE. To add on the misery was my aching hip. Quite a number of my friends wished me though, but I was still unhappy coz I didn't even get to enjoy myself. Argh! It isn't good to be born in the middle or end of the year coz those are exams months. Anyway..On my birthday itself, we went over to Jul's and she gave me some small presents combined together :D Thx Jul~ She purposely missed wishing me on sms coz she wanna surprise me. Oh..Her hamsters got 6 babies! They're simply adorable! Hope to have a pet again. I used to keep hamsters several times. But their bedding stink terribly. Made me neglect cleaning their cage. But Jul found a good one coz the pet shop sell that pebble-like bedding. Jul said she gonna give me 1 baby if they survive. Yay~ But I'm afraid it'd get lonely. So maybe I'd buy another gender once I get Jul's.

Oh yah..I dyed my hair on my birthday. Rot at home, watched anime, nobody chat with me on MSN, and Yun bought black dye coz she was bored with her hair colour. So both of us are back in black :) Kindda miss my old colour hair (before it was dyed at all). The DIY dye-ing wasn't so good though. It left some yellow or brown patches coz it wasn't covered nicely during the process. But I'm quite satisfied coz I'd look good again in feminine clothings. It was tough to match the clothes when I got my yellow hair coz my wardrobe isn't very interesting to begin with. Hm..I'm expecting more presents btw, coz my cell group is gonna give me 1. And some of the closer ones are giving me personal presents :D

Too bad that I didn't get to spend the day with my cg. Planned for an overnight cycling together as a cg big day. But it was cancelled due to the haze. However, I'm quite relieved that it was cancelled coz or else my back would get worse. Cycling requires alot of movement at the bottom of the body, right? It'd cause my hip to lose it all.

Vell Signed off ♥ 6:39 PM

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Why is There Suffering in the World? P.4-by Pat Robertson

To illustrate again how man contributes to his own suffering, consider what has happened in Africa. The northern plain of that continent was once a beautiful, fertile, wooded area. But over several centuries, people cut down all the trees. As a result, the topsoil eroded and there was nothing left but desert. Without the protective cover of the trees, temperatures in the region rose steadily. The people moved farther sourth, seeking fertile land. As they moved southward, they continued cutting the trees, and consequently the desert moved southward. Today there are 3.5million square miles of desert in the northern part of Africa. In northern Africa and in many other areas of the world, men have disturbed the ecological balance in nature. As a result, poverty and hunger are worse and worse.

India has a similar problem. India was once one of the most fertile lands in the entire world. But the Indian people have embraced a philosophy that says rats and cows are sacred. So the cows eat up much of the vegetation, and the rats devour a good deal of the grain. Given a new understanding of nature, proper agricultural techniques, a forestation program, and a cleansing of rivers which are now polluted, India could be agriculturally self-sustaining.

The problem is not caused by and act of God, but it stems from man's foolishness over a period of years, perhaps centuries. And the problems are steadily compounded over successive generations.

There are other forms of suffering that men bring on themselves. Consider, for example, such diseases as genital herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, and AIDS. These all result from a conscious lifestyle that is opposed to God's Word and breaks God's laws. God did not send herpes. It is a natural consequence of immorality. When it spreads, it becomes an incurable disease, affecting millions and millions of people.

Vell Signed off ♥ 11:23 PM

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Why is There Suffering in the World? P.3-by Pat Robertson

Much sickness, too, is man-made. Some of it is because of improper nutrition. People do not eat the right things. God gives us natural sugar, but we bleach it and make it white. We eat white bread, when whole wheat is much better for us. God give us naturally fibrous fruit and plants, but we boil the fiber away. We do the same thing with oranges, when we squeeze the juice out of them and throw away the pulp, which is a beneficial part. We also peel potatoes and eat only the inside. In doing so, we throw away the part that God made to help us stay healthy.

It is probable that 75 to 80% of the illness in the United States are psychosomatic. We have not learned to cast all our cares upon God, as we are advised to do in 1 Peter 5:7, and so we let our worried and harried minds make us sick.

We also make ourselves sick voluntarily through doing such things as smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and ingesting drugs. Automobile accidents cause 56,000 deaths in our country each year - and half of those involve drunken driving.

The technological state of our society contributes to suffering too. If there were no automobiles, there would be no deaths and injuries resulting from highway accidents. Our air would not be polluted with smoke from factories and automobile exhaust if there were no cars and factories. All of these things are part of the price we pay for our state or civilization. If we do not want to pay the price, we can go back to a more primitive society. In today's world, our lifestyle is a large contributor to sickness and disease.

Vell Signed off ♥ 10:23 PM

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Why is There Suffering in the World? P.2-by Pat Robertson

You might say that suffering is a result of freedom. God has given man a certain amount of freedom. If man were merely a robot, an automation, then God could always force him to do what is right. But God gives man the freedom either to love and obey Him or to rebel against Him. When man rebels against God, he hurts not only himself but also his fellow man.

Something else to remember about suffering is that God set up certain natural laws to govern the universe. If it were not for the law of gravity, we would all go floating off into space. But that same law is going to cause pain to people who jump from the tops of tall buildings!

Consider the hurricane, the earth's way of releasing pent-up heat and energy. Heat from the southern climates has to move north and be discharged from the earth. When that happens, it causes a violent wind to blow. That wind, in turn, stirs up huge waves when it passes over the ocean. The hurricane is not meant to cause suffering, but if people ignore the warnings of nature, they will be injured by hurricanes.

The same is true of faultlines, such as the San Andreas Fault. Faultlines are necessary to keep the earth from just breaking apart. But if people insist upon building houses on the San Andreas Fault - as they do - then they are going to suffer when an earthquake comes. Such suffering does not result from God's intentions, but comes rather from man's foolishness. We can either go along with natural forces and accommodate ourselves to them, or we can ignore them and be hurt by them.

Vell Signed off ♥ 12:08 PM

Friday, October 06, 2006

Why is There Suffering in the World? P.1 -by Pat Robertson

Suffering touches everyone who lives on this planet. All you have to do is pick up a daily newspaper or listen to a news broadcast to know that a great many people are suffering. They suffer because of automobile accidents or because of terrible diseases or because of crime. Some suffer because they were born in poverty, others because they were born in countries ruled by dictators. There are many causes of suffering, and the list could go on for pages. But our question is not concerned with causes. We are looking for the reasons for suffering.

To say there is suffering because there is crime, or because there are auto accidents, is not nearly enough. Our question goes far beneath the surface, where it hits at the very roots of human pain and anguish.

The 1st thing to be said about suffering is that most of it comes about because of the activities of a powerful supernatural being called Satan, or the devil. He delights in hurting man and in trying to turn man away from God. Very often people blame God when they suffer, but is it God's fault? Satan takes great pride in seeing God gets the "credit" for his misdeeds.

Suffering is also caused by man's rebellion against God and by the evil in men's hearts. How much suffering has been caused in the modern world, for instance, by Cummunism, or by men hurting other men? Godless dictators hurt their own people, and they hurt the people of neighbouring nations as well. As the result of godless dictatorships, there is suffering in the form of poverty and disease, and in every form of heartbreak.

Vell Signed off ♥ 11:45 PM