sábado, 12 de janeiro de 2008
Por que eu não posso ter um canadense?
Outubro de 2002
A dra. Laura Schlessinger é uma personalidade do rádio que dá conselhos às pessoas que ligam para seu programa de rádio. Recentemente ela disse que, como judia ortodoxa observadora, a homosexualidade é uma abominação de acordo com Levítico 18:22 e não deve ser aceito sob nenhuma circunstância.
A seguir está uma carta aberta à dra. Laura escrita por um residente da costa leste, que foi postada na internet. É engraçada assim como informativa. (em inglês)
Dear Dr. Laura:
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other specific laws and how to follow them:
When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15:19- 24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?
I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? - Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Your devoted fan,
Jim
sexta-feira, 11 de janeiro de 2008
Quão rico é você?
É só colocar o quanto você recebe por ano (não tem reais na lista, então tem que converter) e ele te diz em que posição social você se encontra no mundo.
Segundo o site, estou entre os 12% de pessoas mais ricas do mundo.
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Tarantino's Way
Ele se auto-intitula The Decapitator e faz intervenções em anúncios, como esse acima.
Clique aqui e veja outras.
A cama dos meus sonhos
Uma cama para quem é louco por tecnologia está em exposiçao no Consumer Electronics Show, em Las Vegas. Batizada 'Starry Night Bed', inclui entre seus recursos um teclado sem fio, conexao WiFi, capacidade para armazenar até 2.000 horas de vídeo, baia para iPod, sistema surround sound, projetor LCD e DVR.
Quando, depois de usar tudo isso, a pessoa conseguir dormir, a cama vai monitorar o sono - através de um sistema que capta vibrações, a cama 'percebe' se a pessoa está roncando e altera a inclinação do colchão até o ronco acabar.
Vai chegar ao mercado no 1o semestre de 2009 custando entre U$ 20 mil e U$ 50 mil.
>> ver fonte aqui.
quinta-feira, 10 de janeiro de 2008
O Mundo Como Eu o Vejo
Um ensaio de Albert Einstein.
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...
"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.
"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."
"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I am quite aware that for any organization to reach its goals, one man must do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
>> ver fonte aqui.
Enlouquecidamente apaixonada por livros
Por isso não poderia deixar de amar as bibliotecas também.
Abaixo, a imagem do meu sonho de consumo.
Clique aqui e veja outras das bibliotecas mais lindas do mundo.
Asteróide 99942 Apophis 2004 MN4
Segundo a NASA, esse asteróide pode atingir a Terra em 2036.
Se isso realmente acontecer, temos algum tempo pra nos prepararmos.
Clique aqui e fique esperto no cronômetro.
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