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Armed Forces Day
Armed Forces Day
“Armed Forces Day honors you, the Coast Guardsmen, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines who proudly wear the uniform. Your tireless work and sacrifice, and your ability to unite to overcome complex operational challenges, whether on land, air or sea, keeps our Nation safe, strong and free. Thank you for your service, and for the sacrifice of your families. Semper Paratus,” said Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp.
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The Rapture May 21
Last year, WeCanKnow .com, a Christian-based website in North Carolina, selected metro Atlanta as the site for dozens of billboards proclaiming Christ’s imminent return and the Rapture of Christian believers. In Nashville, similar billboards were paid for by Harold Camping, a Christian author and radio broadcaster in California, who is pushing the idea that May 21 is the date. He mistakenly predicted the same series of events in 1994. He bases that date on an analysis of Scripture.
With so many people skeptical about the date for various reasons, what’s behind the choice of May 21?
Tom Evans, media representative for Family Stations Inc., of which Camping is president and general manager, said, “All the signs that Jesus warned of in the Bible that would precede his return have taken place, and are evident in our world. For example, the re-establishment of the nation of Israel; the complete decay of the church; the dismal state of our world; and the moral breakdown of all of society.”
The belief holds that not only will the Rapture occur next Saturday, but the end of the world will occur on Oct. 21.
Bishop Chandler Jones, however, won’t be holding his breath. Instead, the rector at St. Barnabas Anglican Church in Dunwoody will be performing a wedding May 21 “that will go on exactly as planned.”
“I think it’s very presumptuous to try to predict the time and hour of Jesus’ return because our Lord says in the Gospel that even the Son does not know the hour of his return,” he said.
Jones said he thinks some people may buy into that theory, though, because of the recent number of natural disasters around the world, including earthquakes, tsunamis and floods, and the “anxiety of our times,” including the economy, politics and society.
The Rev. Lynn Eynon, pastor of Woodstock Christian Church, plans to talk about the prediction during his sermon Sunday. Not that he thinks it will happen, however.
“I think the whole concept is foolishness,” said Eynon. “What they’re doing is contrary to Scripture. The Bible says that no man knows the day or hour of his coming. Those dates have come and gone over the years in church history. It’s going to happen eventually, but we’re not going to know the date. It makes Christianity look silly.”
According to the Pew Center for the People and the Press, 41 percent of Americans believe Jesus Christ will return to Earth by 2050.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church “certainly believes Jesus is coming again, and soon,” said Ed Wright, president of the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. “But our understanding of clear Bible teaching on this topic is quite different. ... The almost complete fulfillment of most lines of prophecy, together with the present condition of the world, indicates that his coming is imminent, but we do not know the exact date.”
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dance like a chicken day
dance like a chicken day
The only problem is that events are way too frequent for a chicken dance lover. Therefore, today exists to provide you with another opportunity to dance like a chicken. So, don't pass up this priceless opportunity.
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Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th
The official phobia is called, depending on which shrink manual you're afraid to read, "friggatriskaidekaphobia" (Frigga being the name of the Norse goddess for whom "Friday" is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen), or "paraskevidekatriaphobia."
Either way, just learning to pronounce it is part of the cure.
However, research into the people who suffer a fear of Friday the 13th suggests that these poor souls are so paralyzed by fear that they avoid their normal routines in doing business, taking flights or even getting out of bed.
Although it's not good to let fear dictate your life, it's hard to fault when it gets you one to three additional three-day weekends per year.
Buddha Day May 17 2011
Buddha Day May 17 2011
It is an important to give a summarized description on the Buddhist festivals in India, especially in the main places of worship. The principal annual ceremony for all the Buddhist is the Vaisaka Purnima known in Sri Lanka as Wesak festival and in India as Buddha Jayanti. Vaisaka Purnima day is fixed by the full-moon day of the month Vaisaka, which falls in May. Like all other Buddhist festivals it falls according to the Lunar year. It was of this day of the year, according to the year.
He attained Supreme Enlighten or Buddha hood, beneath the Bodhi-tree at Boddha Gaya. Forty-five years later at the age of eighty, he finally passed away in Parinivana on the same day of the year at Kushinagar. Vaisaka Purnima is celebrated especially in Boddha Gaya, Lumbini and in Kushinara as they are the holy places that were connected with the blessed ones birth, enlighten and the Parinirvana. Buddhists in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Tibet, China, Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Mongolia, Bhutan, Cambodia, Nepal, Japan and quite a number of western Buddhists participate 'Vaisaka' Purnima Day religious activities in a festive mood. Sarnath the capital of Buddhism too celebrates Vaisaka Purnima day in a grand way.
The great Buddhist festival 'Vaisaka' ,although is an occasion for rejoicing doesn't encourage hectic gaiety and abandon. The happiness that the Buddhists feel when they are celebrating it is a tranquil, peaceful joy. The festival has its gay side as well. In most of the Buddhist countries the villages, roads, streets, temples and houses are brightly illuminated with color Lanterns, electric lights and colorful decorations.
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