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It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. --Anton LaVey

He he, tekret na pood...

Basta public figure, hagpaton jud ang pubic life...

Kon wa pa masanta, magkadako diay unta ang negosyo...

Quote from: islander on June 09, 2011, 01:28:51 PM
piyongan ra ning interbyuha ni bai bugsay.  kun magkalisod, iya pang bungkagon ang table sa manager, unya iyang iuli nga nahimo nang aparador, naa pay pakapin nga garage.  never underestimate the power of tblanders in their field of specialization, matod pa.

Bwahaha! Seguradong naa puy pakapin nga sofa bed, complete with a sexy unlan!

He he, mangutana ta sa tag-iya...

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ. --Heinrich Heine

He he, wa na maanad sa person-to-person, maglisod nag sabot...

Bwahaha! Malagmit TB member ning tawhana!

Quote from: taga tigbao on June 09, 2011, 12:03:25 PM
Basin ang maproduce ani ang T-BaK didtos pikas thread. Hahahaha

Bwahaha! T-bak nga gisul-ob og GRO?

Quote from: Loaynon SVD on June 05, 2011, 05:45:27 PM
Hi to all members of this Forum! I am very new to this Forum-Tubag Bohol. I was looking for news and info about my hometown Loay then i came accross to this Forum. Daghan sab balita ako nabasa international, national ug labi na mga local news nga makakatawa jud ko sa title pa lang. Salamat jud jamoan sa nagdumala niining Forum-Tubag Bohol.

Welcome to TB, new kid in town. Ako si Botoy, old goat intawon...

Quote from: taga tigbao on June 09, 2011, 11:51:36 AM
Wa ba tay hulagway anang bajehana dihaa?

He he, si Fr. Chic ang mo-produce kay siyay nag-introduce sa idea...

He he, no prob, total partial man ko sa green (hmm, naa pud hinuoy medyo brown)...

He he, solb ang snacks...

Quote from: fharz on June 08, 2011, 09:13:31 PM
W0W! it takes many hours to login here. anyways im glad now im here...
welcome me BOHOLANOS..

Quote from: islander on June 08, 2011, 09:57:53 PM
i'm a boholana and i welcome you, fharz.  thank me, fharz.

please enjoy your time in this forum.

Bwahaha! Mga Bol-anon ra jud!

Quote from: statesville on June 09, 2011, 11:41:45 AM
tubol?..dili mahilam-os kay gahi pero malukdo hinoon igtunga gikan  galangoy

Di tuod mahilam-os pero kon ganganga aron mo-inhale, basin masuyop. Nah, kuyaw kon moungot sa tutonlan, di kaginhawa. Maayog malahos na lang og lamoy...

...na-overfatigue ang ginhawaan...

Hmm, basin diay nagselos ang iring kon maohon? 

Quote from: chicogon on June 09, 2011, 11:29:38 AM
Basin naguol ang salmon kung maligo na unya ang tag-iya sa balay nga gwapang chix. Aguy basin isdang hapyod sad ning kanahan... 

Oi, hala! Kon gwapang chix ang tag-iya basin tuod diay gigamit ning salmon isip gadget, zaon na lang...

Hago baya pud ning pagpangawat...

Quote from: statesville on June 09, 2011, 11:21:00 AM
duha ka adlaw nga siging tagay, nah patay noon..

Kuwang tawon sa praktis tawhana...

Lisod bitaw ning mamugos kay mabaratohon...

Gidugang lang unta kuno, wa iilis...

Hmm, mas bale diay tingaling magmaoy kon mahubog, basin mapugngan pa ang hinanaling pagpanaw... :p

Quote from: tohnichi007 on June 09, 2011, 10:30:12 AM
Aw, siguradong huwasan hehehe

Kon hubog kaayo unya malumos, huwasan sa dayon...

He he, naa pay daghan, Bay Tigs...

Quote from: taga tigbao on June 09, 2011, 10:49:27 AM
Mura kay Salmon man siguro ning isdaa. Kaulion na na sa ijahang teritoryo aron manguwag, mangitlog ug mamatay. Mas wa kasabot ang isda sa ijahang gibati nga naa pa sija sa bath tub. Ang iring naghuwat ra na ug molukso ang salmon. Hahahaha.

Wa kasabot ang salmon sa iyang gibati kay sigon sa iyang kasinatian, bears man ang predator nila, dili cats. Naghunahuna tingali ni nga kaya niya kay nigamay man ang predator...

Quote from: tohnichi007 on June 09, 2011, 10:28:07 AM
Hahaha mao ni giingon ug gudluck ondoy basin katunong ug lain ang mosanay...

He he, ang uban kay bahalag di mosanay, ang importante kuno mao ang lalim nga gimbuhaton alang sa pagsanay...

Quote from: Mulligan on June 09, 2011, 09:46:45 AM
Murag di ma decipher unsa gusto sa iring.  Puede pud wala lang sa iring.  Way paki.  Wa man sya nag eskrima. haha   

Peru balihon nalang pud nato.  Murag di pud kasabot ang isda sa iyang gibati.  hehe   

He he, sakto. Mas lisod espilingon ang sitwasyon para sa isda...

Quote from: chicogon on June 09, 2011, 09:37:39 AM
Iring: "Sashimi ka ron do!"

Isda: "Sasi ba?"

Iring: "Sani banang imong inistoryaan? Pina Anda?

Isda: "Si Kerstin lay kan-a!!!"

Bwahaha! Mas lami tali, ajeje...

Kining maglangoy paingon sa eskwelahan, way makalupig ani nga training. Labi na kon usahay naay mamanhig nga naglutaw nga tubol...

Quote from: chicogon on June 09, 2011, 09:19:07 AM
Aw abi nakog tuas Tsina?!! Bwahahaha!!! 

Aw, kon tua didto, basin naa na roy bigote ala Limahong...

Quote from: tohnichi007 on June 09, 2011, 10:13:08 AM
Maayong pasanayon diay...

Naay pipila nga nagsigi nag pasanay, nangita pa ganig pasanayanan...

Hmm, di baya imposible, pero malagmit wa sa history books...

He he, mao ra bay gadalag bida...

Aw, maayo untag mahuwasan sa kabugnaw sa tubig unya makahinultol pag kapakapa...

Kini hinuong TB members nga bakasyonista, maampingon man ni sila sa atong mga GRO...

Aw, he he, apil jud tingali kon dihay nasakpan...

...samtang wa pa moapas kon hain man mahimutang...

Hmm, wa ko ka-getz. You mean Muslims nga nahimong Catholic priests?

This travesty gets its own entry for several reasons. The so-called “witches” were rounded up and slaughtered for centuries throughout Europe. Casualty numbers vary drastically because records were not well kept, but the average total is anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000 dead, just in the period of c. 1480 to c. 1750.

The hunts had been perpetrated for centuries before, and they were carried out for one or both of two reasons: fear and personal animosity. If a particular person irritated someone, the latter could accuse the former of witchcraft, and the Catholic Church showed up like a bloodhound. Or a nation or local government could suddenly become afraid of the influence of the Antichrist and take care of the matter with the Church’s blessing.

It was established doctrine that witches were not witches by their own volition, but by Satan’s, and so burning them at the stake would purify them by pain so they could enter Heaven. The Church actually believed, and led the populace to believe, that it was doing witches a favor by torturing them and burning them to death. The methods by which to prove a witch were ludicrous, to state the obvious: a mole or birthmark was deemed proof of trafficking with the Devil; uttering blasphemy (and back then it was nearly impossible to open your mouth without offending the Church); denouncement by another witch (and since denouncing another passed the blame, the accused could save himself this way); to be afraid during interrogation; and the most infamous of all, anyone who could swim was most assuredly a witch, since only the Devil could teach someone to conquer water.

Tortures were not always overseen by the Church itself, and thus, the rule of not shedding blood was ignored in these instances. So the tortures became much, much worse: flogging, skinning alive, castration by red-hot pincers, disemboweling, drawing and quartering, head crushing, tooth extraction, de-nailing. Death, if not by torture, was always via burning at the stake.

Another very serious mistake the Church made in pursuing and slaughtering people because of the slightest hint of heresy is that in so doing, it also ordered that all witches’ “familiars” be hunted down, killed and burned. These familiars were pets that witches were believed to keep, whether frogs, or owls, or rats or especially cats. From the 1100s until the late 1300s, cats were slaughtered wholesale all over Europe. When the fleas bearing bubonic plague rode on the backs of rats from the Black Sea area and Western Asia into Italy and Western Europe, there were no cats to check the rats’ spread. The Black Death of c. 1340 to c. 1355 spread so well, in large part, because the rats multiplied out of control. The Plague finally dwindled away because the people were too busy dying to kill cats, and the cats repopulated Europe and brought the rats back down.

It should be noted that witch hunts were not unique to the Catholic Church, as all of the protestant nations in Europe also partook of this cruel abuse. Alas, no one was immune from guilt.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

Because they spanned the entire latter half of the Middle Ages, lasting into the 1800s, the Inquisitions themselves deserve their own entry. Their typically accepted dates are from the 1100s to 1808. The Inquisition still exists today, but torture and execution are no longer allowed. The word itself simply denotes an investigation into possible heresy.

For those seven centuries or so, anyone who roused the anger or suspicion of the Roman Catholic Church was in very real danger of the arrival of Inquisitors, whose job was “to root out and purge the Christian civilized world of heresy and crimes against God.” Torture was not only defended as a means to gain a confession; the Church encouraged it.

Aside from the specific cases mentioned in other entries, it must not be forgotten that the Catholic Church routinely arrested and tortured Jews, Muslims, Waldensianism (Christian), Hussitism (Christian) and numerous other religions and religious sects. These people were given prior warning to vacate the given area (a pogrom), after which anyone found in the area was arrested and given an ultimatum: convert to Christianity or be executed. Anyone who foolishly refused was tortured until he or she did convert, and the Inquisition allowed no exemptions for anyone, men, women, children, the elderly or the disabled.

These tortures were lurid beyond belief, including branding, the rack, hanging by the toes or thumbs, toe crushing, bone breaking, simple beatings, foot roasting, and blinding by red-hot pokers. After such tortures, the condemned was almost always strangled, then burned at the stake. For seven centuries, the Catholic Church was all powerful, even terrifying monarchs, and the Inquisition held absolute sway by the most brutal methods imaginable.

Interestingly the office of the Inquisition still exists today under the name “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

Tyndale dedicated his life to translating the Bible into vernacular English, so the laypeople of England could read it for themselves. This was not expressly against the rules, as mentioned in entry #9, but Tyndale could not get anyone in the Catholic Church to help him with room and board. Everyone was uncomfortable with the Bible being readily accessible to the commoners, because how could the Church then keep power?

Not to be deterred, Tyndale went into hiding in Belgium and Germany, evading capture while he translated the New Testament, finishing it in 1525. It was printed en masse and smuggled all over Europe, especially into England, where the Catholics in charge burned a number of them in public. Tyndale also wrote fearlessly against the divorce of Henry VIII, calling it anti-Scriptural, and infuriating the king. Tyndale finished translating the Old Testament in 1530.

He was finally caught after some help from a backstabbing friend named Henry Phillips, charged with heresy for no other reason than translating the Bible into English, and strangled, then burned at the stake, on 6 October 1536, in Vilvoorde, outside Brussels. The Catholic Church has never apologized. All subsequent English Bibles, including the King James have borrowed extensively from Tyndale’s Bible.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

Along with the next entry [on William Tyndale], this is one of the two most appalling incidents of criminal cowardice in the history of the Catholic Church. Jan Hus (c. 1369 â€" 6 July 1415) was a Czech priest and Catholic reformer who could not stand what he saw as various corruptions rife throughout the Roman Catholic Church. It would take too long to explain every detail of his arguments with the Church, but they can all be simplified to his view that the priests, bishops, archbishops and popes were immoral and given to sin, just as any other human. Thus, any rule the Church established was corrupt, because 100% of the rules necessary for Christian living and salvation had already been written by God in the Bible.

He made no secret of his disdain and outright antagonism for the Church in his Prague pulpit. He was strongly influenced by #10, and when #10 died a peaceful death, Hus carried on in his place. He especially wanted the papal schism to end. There were two popes at the time, Gregory XII and Benedict XIII. In 1409, Alexander V was elected to appease both sides, but this backfired. Hus saw it was one more proof that the Church was a human institution, and no longer divine.

In 1411, indulgences received a sudden surge of popularity following the death of Prague’s Archbishop, Zbynek Zajic, when Antipope John XXIII advocated indulgences to insure that all those under his bishopric would be cleaned of the sin of following Hus. Hus sternly preached against indulgences. So, in 1415, the Church convened the Council of Constance to put an end to the papal schism, but also to put an end to Hus. They tricked him into coming to the Council under a letter of indemnity, which meant they promised to do no harm at all to him. All they wanted was to talk.

While he was there, the Church started the rumor that he was trying to escape the city of Constance (Konstanz). He was not trying to escape, because he wrote his will before leaving Prague. He knew they might try to kill him, and they did, arresting, trying and imprisoning him for heresy. He was held in an underground dungeon, fed very little, contracting the flu and possibly pneumonia. He was ordered to recant his teachings, and he refused, stating that he stood firmly and solely on the Bible, that for the Church to demand his recantation of the Bible was the same as demanding God’s genuflection to the Roman Catholic Church. This infuriated the Church officials, who promptly sentenced him to death. They refused him the Last Rites and burned him at the stake.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

Joan of Arc believed that God had called her to lead the French in kicking the English out of France once and for all. She instigated an uprising in 1429, and led a successful relief force to the besieged city of Orleans, where she aided Gilles de Rais (who, you may recall from another list, was also a savage serial killer), as well as Jean de Dunois and Jean de Brosse, in lifting the siege and routing the English oppressors.

Long story short, Joan roused the political irritation of quite a few Catholic honchos in the area. But when they set about opening up a trial against her, they could find no legitimate evidence. But they opened the trial anyway, and also refused to allow her any legal counsel. This was patently against their own rules. During this farce, the inquisitors (French Bishops who favored the rule of the English), especially Jean LeMaitre, tried to trap Joan with her own words, just like the Pharisees and Sadducees tried to trap Jesus with his own words. And Jesus is probably quite proud of how Joan handled herself, because she calmly and carefully turned all their traps back against them. She left them no ground at all on which to base her execution, so of course, they killed her anyway. They hated her and wanted to kill her. In the end, they had to lie.

Joan of Arc was executed for heresy, not because she claimed to hear the voice of God, not because she defied and killed the English, but because she was said to have worn a man’s clothing while in prison. This was also forbidden, and thus punishable by being burned at the stake. She requested that her last meal be Holy Communion. The Church officials refused, in essence trying everything they could to consign her to Hell. It was even discovered after her death that she had never worn a man’s clothing. Her case was successfully appealed 25 years later, and she was exonerated by the Pope at the behest of St Joan’s mother. Nevertheless, the Church did not canonize her until 16 May, 1920, five hundred years after she was killed.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

The trial of Galileo Galilei is one of the most infamous and embarrassing moments in Catholic history. It still hasn’t gone away. Galileo seems to have been always at odds with the Catholic Church’s hegemony on all education, even though he was good friends with Pope Urban VIII, and dedicated some of his works to him. But he discovered, via his own pet design for the refracting telescope, that Jupiter has moons, and Jupiter’s moons orbit Jupiter, NOT Earth. Know what that means? Orbits are based on gravity, not mankind’s arrogance. This idea is called heliocentrism, which is, Mr. Sun is at the center of the solar system, and Earth, like everything else nearby, orbits Mr. Sun.

Galileo was of the opinion that Nicholas Copernicus was right. The Earth is not the center. The Church didn’t want to hear that. Galileo went to Rome to persuade the Church not to ban Copernicus’s works, and instead of convincing them, the Church officials turned on Galileo and demanded that he desist with his ideas of Heliocentrism. He refused, but did back off for a few years. Urban VIII tried what he dared to help him, but the facts themselves were deemed vehemently heretical, and Galileo was finally brought before an Inquisition (more on those later), and forced under threat of excommunication and torture to “abjure, curse, and detest” heliocentrism.

The legend goes that, seated in a chair in a bare room before the table of Inquisitors, Galileo sighed, put his hands behind his back, crossed his fingers and said something to the effect of, “Fine. The Earth does not move around the Sun.” Then, under his breath, he muttered, “E pur si muove,” which is, “And yet it moves.” How much of this is true cannot be ascertained for certain, but at one point he did let his Italian temper get the better of him (after several years of aggravation), when he stood and bellowed, “The Bible tells you how to go to Heaven! It does NOT tell you how the heavens go!”

The Catholic Church did not lift its ban on heliocentrical thought until 1758. It was not until 1992, 350 years after his death, that a pope, John Paul II, formally apologized for the Church placing Galileo under house arrest for the last 9 years of his life, and denouncing his discoveries which, ironically, were also incorrect as Galileo taught that the Sun was the center of the universe â€" not just our solar system. John Paul II’s successor, Benedict XVI, is on record as stating that the Catholic Church’s “verdict against Galileo was rational and just and the revision of this verdict can be justified only on the grounds of what is politically opportune.” Politically, mind you; not factually.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

The origin of the superstition of Friday the 13th began on Friday the 13th of October, 1307. King Phillip IV of Spain had borrowed a very large amount of money and personnel from the Templars, in order to wage war against the English, and when Pope Clement V sent him word that there were suspicions about the Christian nature of the Templar brotherhood, Phillip seized the opportunity, sending his men out to round up, arrest and imprison all the Templars in Spain.

Phillip accused them of the most atrocious sins imaginable for that time, including apostasy (which means renouncing Christ), heresy, idolatry and even sodomy. Any one of these “crimes” warranted death back then, and the Templars were guilty of precisely none. But Phillip saw an extraordinary chance to eradicate the Templar order from his entire country and seize its incalculable wealth for himself. He bullied Clement V with political embargoes, and Clement acquiesced with an Inquisition convened to investigate these accusations.

The “investigation” involved torturing the Templars via very perverted, horrifying methods, with the single proviso that no blood be spilled. If they died from the torture, it was deemed “righteous punishment.” But none of them did, according to the records we have. Most were put on the rack and stretched until their shoulders dislocated. Some had their testicles crushed in vises, which caused them to bleed profusely, of course, but internally. No blood was spilled. Some were shackled to the dungeon floors and had their feet roasted to the bone in furnaces.

They, understandably, confessed to all sorts of horrible offenses to the Church, including the above mentioned, along with spitting on the cross. As soon as their tortures were over, the recanted their confessions. They may have been in possession of the Shroud of Turin at this time, which constituted idolatry. Clement issued a Papal Bull on 22 November, ordering that Templars be arrested and tortured all over Europe, and they were.

Phillip IV is the most directly to blame, but the Catholic Church was officially and directly responsible in torturing and executing the Templar knights, knowing full well that they were innocent of all charges. Most of the Templars across Europe actually escaped or were acquitted, but those convicted, including the Grandmaster Jacques de Molay, were, to a man, burned at the stake, most after gruesome tortures. He is said to have screamed out of the flames that Phillip and Clement would both meet him before God, “and that right soon.” They both died within a year; Phillip had a stroke and fell off his horse while hunting; Clement died of natural causes, and a rumor persists that his body lay in state during a thunderstorm, when lightning struck the building and burned it to the ground.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

Indulgences are various degrees of the remission of punishments from sins that have already been forgiven. Indulgences are given, not sold, to anyone who performs a Christian act, especially doing a good deed for someone else, or for saying a prayer. This practice really isn’t that un-biblical, in itself, but the problem is that people immediately see it as a “Get Out of Jail Free” card. Sin all you want, then say a Hail Mary, and you’re good to go. It has never worked that way according to the Bible and official Catholic doctrine, and anyone who reads the Pauline Epistles will realize this.

But certain Bishops of the Catholic Church saw indulgences as a very good way to get rich, and it worked magnificently. Threaten an ignorant person with eternal burning, and he’ll give you some money to feel safe again. It got ridiculously out of hand from about 500 until Martin Luther spoke against it in his 95 Theses, in 1517. One of the most notorious abusers of the practice was a man named Johann Tetzel, to whom is attributed this infamous couplet, “As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs.”

These Bishops extorted people for years by horrifying them that they’re departed loved ones were currently frying in Purgatory, and would remain there for a very long time, unless their surviving loved ones paid the Church money. This money would atone for the dead persons’ sins, and they would then enter Heaven. Indulgences are not supposed to be sold. If they were, people with lots of money would be holier than thou art.

Indulgences are still given in the Catholic Church â€" some which remit part of the punishment owed for sin, and some which remit all. The most recent indulgences were granted in 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI, for people who took part in pilgrimages to Lourdes.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

Pope Damasus I commissioned Saint Jerome, in 382, to revise the Vetus Latina, which was the compendium of all biblical texts, translated into Latin. Jerome’s product became known as “versio vulgata,” or “common version.” It was the translation used most often from then on throughout Western Europe, and from 400 to about 1530, the Latin Vulgate was the one and only Bible most Western Europeans ever encountered. It is, in fact, still the only official Bible of the Catholic Church.

Nothing is wrong with any of this, because Jerome’s translation is perfectly accurate and at its time of publication Latin was spoken throughout most of Europe. It is, more or less, the King James Version in Latin, since the King James translators used it as one of their primary guides. But the problem arose when the commoners throughout Europe told their priests, who told their bishops, who told the popes, that the commoners did not understand the first thing about Latin. It was not spoken except in church ceremonies, and thus, in order to learn it, the commoners had to get their priests to teach them. But the priests would not bother teaching them. Why?

Because knowledge is power, and the Catholic Church had all of both. For about 1,000 years, the Bible remained well known only to the church officials, clergy of all orders, and an elect few well educated scholars. It was never counter to any Papal Bull for any person to translate the Bible into another language. However, anyone who intended to do so was strongly admonished by the Pope himself, with every archbishop, bishop and priest of the continent told not to translate the Bible into any language besides Biblical Hebrew, Ancient Greek or Latin. These three languages were almost dead at the time, meaning no one spoke them commonly.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

In a nutshell, John Wycliffe presaged Martin Luther as a Protestant reformer. Wycliffe lived from c. 1328 to 31 December 1384, about a hundred years before Luther, and Wycliffe saw very much the same problems in the Roman Catholic Church. Catholicism itself was fine with him, but the Church was largely corrupt by his day. A lot of its practices will make entries farther down.

Wycliffe wanted people to worship God and Jesus according to the Bible, not according to the popes and their bishops and priests. He saw that people are corruptible, while the Bible is not, and thus, there was no good sense in taking one’s troubles to a priest, so the priest could make one feel better. Communication directly with God, via prayer, was not impossible, but required an understanding of the Bible, and the next entry outlines a specific grievance Wycliffe had with the Church on this subject.

Wycliffe preached in England, and on the Continent, that priests should do nothing more than oversee church services and help the laypeople interpret the Bible for themselves. He argued based on various Bible passages that secular kings and queens had a divine right, direct from God Almighty, to be kings and queens. Thus, their rule should not be opposed by anyone, anymore than God’s rule should be opposed. The popes, however, routinely told Europe’s monarchs what was what in every field of activity.

It didn’t take long for Wycliffe to irritate a few Catholics, especially Pope Gregory XI. Their animosity toward each other may be without rival in the history of the Catholic Church. Gregory issued no less than five Papal Bulls attempting to shut Wycliffe up, but he would not be silent. Wycliffe went so far as to argue that the pope and the Antichrist were practically equivalent, and denounced the papal throne as the throne of Satan on Earth. He may have been the first to declare this now-popular idea (popular among Protestants).

He was the first to translate the complete Bible into English, which did not endear him to the Catholic hierarchy. The Church did not attempt to catch and kill Wycliffe, ostensibly because it could not find him (he traveled extensively in England, France, and the Netherlands), or because it did not like the risk of invading England to get him. He died three days after suffering a stroke during Mass. 30 years later, the Council of Constance ended “the three popes’ reign” and elected Alexander V, who immediately denounced Wycliffe as a heretic, had as many of his books burned as could be found on the Continent and in England, excommunicated and consigned to everlasting flames from the moment of his death. In 1428, Pope Martin V had him dug up and burned at the stake.


[by Flamehorse, http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-catholic-history/

This list is not a denunciation of Roman Catholicism, which dates back to Christ Himself. The Church today is a very honorable institution. But there are a few moments in its history when it did not live up to its own high moral standards. This list constitutes an honest, unflinching look at some black moments in Roman Catholic history.]

Quote from: chicogon on June 09, 2011, 08:49:35 AM
Kung sa iring pa, "Ngyawas, dia kas akong teritoryo do!" 

"Bantay ka inighubas sa tubig, sashimi kang isda ka!"

Quote from: chicogon on June 09, 2011, 08:48:21 AM
Basin fatal attraction ni ehehehe 

He he, basin pud basic instinct...

Encounters such as this are bound to make philosophers out of cats (who, in all likelihood, couldn't help but wonder about the meaning of life, er, of their nine lives)...

Bwahaha! Patay jud kas kantyaw esmokoya ka!

Anthony Weiner's Lewd Photo Gets $50,000 Bid From SugarSugar Dating Site
The Huffington Post  Catharine Smith  First Posted: 06/ 8/11 06:44 PM ET Updated: 06/ 8/11 06:45 PM





SugarSugar.com recently offered Congressman Anthony Weiner $50,000 for the infamous lewd photo he admittedly sent to a woman via Twitter.

The SugarSugar Blog has publicly posted the offer, which company owner Paul Madison insisted is "completely legit," according to Media Bistro.

SugarSugar bills itself as a website aimed at "generous men looking to spoil, and dynamic women looking for financial support with bills, or who just need some excitement in life."

The tongue-in-cheek offer is addressed to "Mr. Weiner's Weiner" and proposes that the bulging crotch shot be re-appropriated as the website's mascot.

From the SugarSugar letter to Weiner:

We thought long and hard about this decision, and have come to the conclusion that it would be in our best interest to extend an offer and declare Weiner's Weiner the talking head for www.SugarSugar.com, to share your brains, prowess and chutzpah with our users.

Why would a dating site want to feature a photo that sparked a huge scandal and may mark the end of Weiner's career?

The site's letter to Rep. Weiner goes on to explain,

[W]e're not just looking for another figure head, we're looking for someone, a rich sugar daddy, who truly embodies the spirit of SugarSugar.com, as is apparent by your lust for younger women on the internet. At the same time, we're looking for someone who is level-headed and will refrain from blowing their load amidst the harsh lights of the media circus your picture has aroused.

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on June 09, 2011, 06:52:12 AM
For her part, former First Lady now Rep. Imelda R. Marcos still refrained from expressing her comment on Vice President Binay’s recommendation on her late husband’s burial.

She said that Binay’s recommendation is a divine plan that should be realized.

Marcos noted that the “real hero” is not judged by the people but by God.

Gibangkong na! 

Quote from: jorgeanna on June 09, 2011, 08:28:14 AM
pareha gyud ta na-observe. murag dli katu-ohan nga panday naay maid kay pinakagamay nga sweldo og maid kay P1500 naman intawn karong panahuna unya pila ra sweldo og panday pero wala ta kahibaw og datu diay pud ang asawa

Hmm, sakto. Basin ang asawa maoy dato, unya ang panday uncomfortable kay dehado siya...

Halin kaayo kay barato ra mag baligya...

Bwahaha! Perti jud diayng gahia!

Quote from: bol-anon nga cebuano on June 09, 2011, 07:10:53 AM
unsa na, naay tinigom?

He he, basin nagkalibanga...

Quote from: bol-anon quo nyur! on June 09, 2011, 08:19:41 AM
DUGANGAN!

He he, abtikang nakatubag. Aw, bisan kinilo lang pud usahay...

Sa Gensan gihapon ni? Daghan diay tingaling uwagon didto...

Sayop jud ning gibuhat sa uban, nga pulihan...

Hmm, di na diay tingali manimahong tai ning dapita...

He he, rocker ang dating...

Aw, bisan magkumbabit, payts na...

Ang pait kon mausban na hinuon kag hilam-os...

Bwahaha! Improved version pa!

Kana maoy butang nga interesado kong mahibawo...

Quote from: islander on June 08, 2011, 09:51:10 AM
nagsalig lang si manoy kay kasagingan ra iyang kontra.  bilib unta ko kun balete pa ang iyang payagon.

Kasagingan ra tuod, pero kon kahibawo ka unsa ang hinagiban nga iyang gigamit, makabilib ka...

Quote from: statesville on June 09, 2011, 01:47:45 AM
unsa kahay gilalisan nga naputong man siya?..panguntan-on nako ang kabaw kaha..

Ayaw lang pangutan-a tong kabaw nga nanungag kay gidid-an og jer-jer. Unreliable witness tong kabawa...

Quote from: islander on June 08, 2011, 10:58:32 PM
naay third party involved--ang kahubog.  wa hibaw-ig wa gani kahibawo ang gahikog kun unsay iyang gibuhat.

Basin gahubog-hubog kay nagbisyo ang asawa? Basin naay kabit?

Mao jud. Mangilog og duwaan...

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on June 09, 2011, 05:21:10 AM
Nganon niabot naman pud ning estorya sa GRO? heheheh

Layo na bitaw kaayo ang estorya. Ang natagak nga t-back gihatag man gud kuno sa pari, unya ang pari nibakasyon man kuno, mao nga ang nahisgotang underwear gamiton kuno isip sumpa sa charms sa mga gwapang GRO sa atoa. Nah, nisawon na jud tuod sa ilawom sa dagat...

Interesting ning kasoha sa Amerika kay Hudeyo ning marokoya unya Muslim iyang asawa...

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on June 09, 2011, 05:52:36 AM
What can we do? Singhag-singhagan nalang ta ani sa mga Intsik. Pagkapait!

Mao ni style sa China ron. Bullying its way to political and economic superpowerdom...

China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan all claim territories in the sea, which covers an important shipping route and is thought to hold untapped oil and gas reserves.

China’s claim is to most of the sea’s 648,000 square miles (1.7 million square km), including the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos.

Manila has accused China of intrusions into its territory, citing six instances, including one in March when two Chinese patrol boats tried to ram a survey ship.

Vietnamese officials have also complained about Chinese activity in the contested waters, accusing Chinese patrol boats of harassing an oil-exploration ship conducting a seismic survey 120 kms (80 miles) off Vietnam’s south-central coast.

One incident this month, in which Chinese vessels placed a buoy and posts in a part of the sea it claims, spurred protests in the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh.

Unaware of specifics

A transcript of the press conference last June 2 in Beijing posted on the Foreign Ministry website indicated that Hong said he was not aware of specific information about China’s reported plan to install deep-water oil rig in the South China Sea for oil and gas exploration, which has invited protests from the Philippines.

“I am not aware of the specific information. I would like to stress that the economic activities conducted by Chinese enterprises in waters under Chinese jurisdiction are completely normal,” Hong said.

The Philippines filed a diplomatic protest after the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reported to the DFA last Feb. 25 that a Chinese Navy vessel fired warning shots near Filipino fishing boats at the Quirino Atoll that is inside Philippine territorial waters near the West Philippine Sea.

The DFA said that these actions of Chinese vessels hamper the normal and legitimate fishing activities of Filipino fishermen in the area and undermine the peace and stability of the region.

The increasing activity of Chinese vessels in the South China Sea also violated maritime jurisdiction, and disobeyed the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties (DOC) in the South China Sea.

The DOC, a basic fundamental pillar of cooperation signed by members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China, intends to reduce tension and peacefully resolve claims over the South China Sea and improve the general political climate in the disputed islands.

A provision in the DOC provides that “the parties undertake to exercise self-restraint in the conduct of activities that would complicate or escalate disputes and affect peace and stability including, among others, refraining from action of inhabiting on the presently uninhabited islands, reefs, shoals, cays, and other features and to handle their differences in a constructive manner.”

Hong said China had stood by its position for centuries.

Conducting missions and patrols by Chinese vessels in waters under Chinese jurisdiction was “completely reasonable.”

By Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star) Updated June 09, 2011 12:00 AM


MANILA, Philippines -  China has accused the Philippines of “harming Beijing’s sovereignty and maritime rights and interests” that complicate the South China Sea dispute.

The China Daily reported Tuesday that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei had claimed that China holds a long-term and consistent position on the South China Sea, and the position remains unchanged for centuries and is in accordance with international laws, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

“China asks the Philippine side to stop harming China’s sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, which leads to unilateral actions that expand and complicate South China Sea disputes. The Philippine side should stop publishing irresponsible statements that do not match the facts,” Hong said.

Beijing also rejected on Tuesday the Philippines’ accusation on the South China Sea issue.

“Chinese vessels were cruising and carrying out scientific studies in waters under China’s jurisdiction, and their activities were in line with the law,” Hong said.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) conveyed to the Chinese embassy on Friday its protest over the increasing presence and activities of Chinese vessels, including naval assets, in the West Philippine Sea.

Even as China belied the incursion of Chinese ships in the West Philippine Sea, the DFA said the presence and actions of Chinese vessels in the area are “confirmed” and “actionable” reports leading to the filing of the diplomatic protest.
This protest followed a series of protests already filed by the DFA since the Reed Bank incident in March.

Rep. Anthony Weiner penis exposed in photo as sexting scandal threatens congressman's career
BY Corky Siemaszko DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Wednesday, June 8th 2011, 12:47 PM
Updated: Wednesday, June 8th 2011, 3:11 PM





Creepy congressman Anthony Weiner's junk has hit the Web.

Two days after the pervy pol admitted to sexting a half dozen women and lying about it, a photo of what Weiner was bragging about to the girls has gone whizzing through the blogosphere.

It happened after conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart made the mistake of showing off the photo on his cell phone to Sirius XM shock jocks Opie and Anthony.

Breitbart, who claims to have gotten the photo of Weiner's wiener from one of the congressman's computer "sexting" conquests, Meagan Broussard, had been reluctant to release it.

But as he was passing his cell phone around, the in-studio video camera was on.

"Wasn't until @AndrewBreitbart left the studio that we realized what was captured on our video camera," Opie Tweeted.

Seconds later, Weiner's business was on the web.

A source who saw the original pictures Breitbart showed earlier in the week confirmed it was the same one the Opie and Anthony crew Tweeted out.

As if Weiner hasn't endured enough humiliation, early reviews of his anatomy weren't great.

"I just threw up in my mouth a little," one respondent wrote into Gawker.com, after it posted the picture.

http://www.nydailynews.com/

Feng Shui: 10 Healthy Living Tips

1. Keep Your Doorway and Entry Space Clear. Do you want to deal with an obstacle the moment you enter your home; something to negotiate your way around? What does it do to your 'flow?' No, you sure don't want to enter your home faced with obstacles. It short circuits your energy, that's what it does!

2. Air Quality Matters. In terms of your health, air quality is your number one priority. I know that some of us live in the country, where clean air is plentiful; and then there are those of us who live in the inner-city where soot and unhealthy particles are floating through the air and landing on our windowsills.

I'm telling you, do whatever it takes to clear and clean your air. You can grow an indoor garden of air-purifying plants, use essential oils to clear the air, maybe an air-purifier?

3. Let There Be Light. Natural light improves your energy level. If there are things cluttering your windowsills or your blinds or windows are in need of cleaning, clear and clean them.

Needless to say, if natural light is not as bright or plentiful as you'd like it to be, there are intelligent, smart indoor lighting products to choose from. As you move into the light, your energy level will improve ten-fold!

4. Sleep Right. You will miraculously find that you will sleep better at night if your bed is positioned so that your head isn't resting towards the door. It just feels right. And, if you are sleeping with someone, sharing your bed ... do not push two box-springs or mattresses together. The great 'divide' divides!

5. Dust Under Things. You may not see the dust under the bed or even in the closets, but it is there and it is blocking the energy flow.

6. Paint Your Kitchen. It is said that by painting your kitchen a pastel color, you are promoting positive energy, and that bright red and orange promotes appetite. What color is your kitchen and how does its vibe feel to you?

7. Three Feet Between Furniture. The rule of thumb is to leave three feet of open space between all furniture, because it allows for free flow of energy and it will ease your mind.

I have tweaked this 3 feet between furniture to three feet between seating areas. For instance, if I were to leave 3 feet between my sofa and coffee table, end table and side chair, I'd have to buy my neighbor's apartment, knock down the walls for it all to fit in, and it would be ugly! Still, no furniture jams, please!

8. Decorate Organically. The use of earth tones, earth materials such as wood and clay promote a sense of calm and comfort. There are so many amazing, sophisticated shades of yummy clay from brown to grey available.

9. De-Clutter. If the magazines are old, if the newspapers are piling up, if you haven't worn that outfit in over 5 years ... for goodness sake, toss it! Even if you follow every one of the above steps - paint your kitchen a pastel color, grow healthy plants for healthy air, dust under the bed - the clutter will negate the benefits and zap your energy big time!

10. The Fridge. Now that you have created good feng shui throughout your home, it is time to stock your fridge with the right stuff. A bounty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

by Janice Taylor
Posted: January 5, 2010 02:02 PM


I understand that most people begin their diets by cutting back on or eliminating high fat and sugary foods. Sounds like a smart place to start? Maybe yes, but maybe no!

This 50-pound big-time-loser is here to tell you that the best way to begin anew is to make sure that the energy in your home is supporting your new healthy eating and living style.

Just for a moment imagine that you have successfully negotiated your way through your work-day, which basically means that you made it out alive! You worked through piles of paper; you managed not to react to irritating people, you enjoyed the happy moments, and much more!

Now, imagine that - after this invigorating day - you are tentatively putting your key in the front door lock, turning the knob and entering. You are met by two weeks worth of newspapers piled high, and/or dirty laundry, and/or an empty fridge, or plants that need watering, or a dog that didn't appreciate your being late and has gnawed his way through your slippers, or dust balls, or stagnant air, or just plain clutter! I don't know what type of disarray you might find in your home, but you do!

Here are some very basic Feng Shui tips that will keep the happy energy flowing!

What is Feng Shui?

Feng Shui translates literally to "wind-water." It is the ancient Chinese art of placement, and its goal is to achieve harmony, comfort and balance in one's environment first and then in one's life.

You can now understand why it is that the perfect way to start anew, to begin your journey to Sveltesville (home of Our Lady of Weight Loss and the Kick in the Tush Club) is to clear your space, so that you can promote free flowing energy throughout your environment! After the energy flows, we can start to fill the fridge with healthy foods!

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on June 06, 2011, 08:56:09 PM
But with the start of the new academic year this June, he is somewhat reluctant, hounded by the thought of an early-morning ritualâ€"wading and swimming for 2 kilometers to his school in Barangay Talon-talon on the mainland.

In some areas during high tide, the water level rises up to 4 feet.

Para wa nay wading and swimming, magkat-on sila ani...

Nia pay laing gapabadlong...