10 Things Jesus Did NOT Say

Perry Noble posted this blog entry this morning and I thought I would pass it along.

Jesus made it pretty clear in John 13:34-35 as to how the world would know we are His disciples…notice He did NOT say, “They will know you are my disciples…

#1 – By the way you forward really stupid, ridiculous emails to one another…and if you refuse to forward them to everyone you have in your contact list then you don’t love me.

#2 – By the way you yell at people who don’t know me for living as if they don’t know me.

#3 – By your T-shirts and bumper stickers!

#4 – By the music you listen to!

#5 – By the political party you support.

#6 – By the denomination you belong to.

#7 – By the way you protest.

#8 – By the products and companies you boycott.

#9 – By the way you look down on those whom you perceive aren’t as good as you.

#10 – By the way you take from one another!

Nope…John 13:34-35 is clear, Jesus didn’t mix His Words…we are called to live this out.

None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us!

Do you tweet? Are your followers smarter than those of your arch nemesis? Now you can find out.

Stupid Fight is the brainchild of one Tom Scott, who decided that you should be able to take on that uppity Neil deGrasse Tyson once and for all by comparing the intelligence of your respective Twitter followers. The program runs a pretty superficial search to find phrases that might indicate a less-than-average intelligence like "UR DA BOMB, DAWG!" or "OMG i luuuuuuuuv huffing paint!" or "Glenn Beck makes a lot of sense."

Enter your Twitter feed and a celebrity's (or just your buddy's as long as he's got 100+ followers) and find out whose friends are Smart as a Whip and whose are Dumb as a Bag of Hammers.

Click on the image above to find out.

Big Picture: Earthquake in Yushu, China

On April 14th, residents of China's remote Yushu County, located on the Tibetan plateau, were awoken by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake. In the sparsely populated villages and the larger town of Gyegu, thousands of wood-earth buildings collapsed and many larger structured heavily damaged or destroyed. The region is difficult to reach for the response teams of the Chinese government outside aid groups - lying at an elevation of 3,700m (12,000 ft) and connected by few roads, most of which were damaged in the quake. Chinese state media now says the death toll has risen to 1,144. Rescuers continue to search for survivors as homeless residents work to recover what they can and set up shelter from the freezing overnight temperatures. (36 photos total)

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The Forbes Fictional 15

Forbes has updated their 15 richest fictional characters with the top spot going to some dude in the Twilight series, but here’s #5:

Clampett, Jed
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No. 5 Clampett, Jed

Net Worth: $7.2 billion
Source: Oil & Gas, Banking
More about Jed Clampett

Price of crude oil nearly doubles in past year and value of Clampett's "Texas Tea" soars. Finally fulfills threat to fire longtime banker Milton Drysdale amid allegations of double-dealing; Granny snipes Drysdale is "such a liar he has to get someone else to call his dog for him." Extended clan thriving: Jethro parlayed sixth-grade education, family fortune into hit reality television drama L.A. Shore; Elly May heading "treat the critters right" campaign for PETA. Member since 1962.

Featured in the television show The Beverly Hillbillies.

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Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing

Epic Airbag Ride And Faceplant

Ever wondered how powerful a car airbag is?

Warning: Mild foul language.

Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing

You Should Always Read The Fine Print

7,500 shoppers unknowingly sold their souls

Thousands of shoppers unknowingly signed their souls over to a computer-game store after failing to read the terms and conditions on their website.

GameStation added the “immortal soul clause” to online purchases earlier this month stating customers granted them the right to claim their soul.

While all shoppers during the test were given a simple tick box option to opt out, very few did this, which would have also rewarded them with a £5 voucher.

The store claims this show 88 percent of people do not read the terms and conditions of a website before they make a purchase.

Bosses also say they will not be enforcing their rights and will now email customers nullifying any claim on their soul.

Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing

Big Picture: Iceland's disruptive volcano

Today, British civil aviation authorities ordered the country's airspace closed as of noon, due to a cloud of ash drifting from the erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The volcano has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. The volcanic ash has forced the cancellation of many flights and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, stranding thousands of passengers. Collected here are photos of the most recent eruption, and of last month's eruptions, which were from the same volcano, just several miles further east. (17 photos total)

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DNA from letters home helps ID Pearl Harbor casualty

Before he died at Pearl Harbor, less than a month after turning 18, Gerald Lehman sent home to Michigan letters that his mother came to treasure.

In them, the teen talked about going through Navy training in Great Lakes, Ill. — falling out of his sleeping hammock once — and how much he liked his new woolen uniform.

In graceful penmanship, he asked about the family dog, Duke; wrote about waiting to ship out from California on the battleship USS Oklahoma; and seeing the mountains and rainbows of O’ahu from the doomed ship.

Unknowingly, Lehman sent home to those who loved him something else, something that wouldn’t be useful until decades later: his own DNA.

Sixty-eight years after he was killed on Dec. 7, 1941, DNA lifted from the envelopes Lehman had licked helped the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command positively identify the young sailor’s remains.

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Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing