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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats h ave over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.



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If you stop believing what your professor told you had to be true
and if you start thinking for yourself you may come to some
conclusions you hadn't expected. You may find the Bible makes
more sense than you thought or were told to think. Allow yourself
to be ruined, ruined with regard to what you always thought could
be true. Can you believe what you don't understand? You and I
believe everyday what we don't understand unless it comes to
the issue of salvation. - - - Dr. Woodrow Kroll
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A man was walking along a California beach and stumbled across an
old lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it and out popped a genie.

The genie said "OK, OK. You released me from the lamp, blah blah
blah. This is the fourth time this month and I'm getting a little
sick of these wishes so you can forget about three. You only get
one wish!"

The man sat and thought about it for a while and said, "I've always
wanted to go to Hawaii but I'm scared to fly, and I get very
seasick. Could you build me a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over
there to visit?"

The genie laughed and said, "That's impossible. Think of the
logistics of that! How would the supports ever reach the bottom of
the Pacific? Think of how much concrete...how much steel!! No....
think of another wish."

The man said OK and tried to think of a really good wish. Finally,
he said, "I've been married and divorced four times. My wives
always said that I don't care and that I'm insensitive. So, I
wish that I could understand women....know how they feel inside
and what they're thinking when they give me the silent
treatment....know why they're crying, know what they really want
when they say 'nothing'....know how to make them truly happy...."

The genie said, "You want that bridge with two lanes or four?"
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Questions to ponder -

Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
If a word were misspelled in a dictionary, how would we ever know?
Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
Why does fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
Why do 'tug' boats push their barges?
Why do we sing 'Take me out to the ball game', when we are already there?
Why are they called 'stands' when they're made for sitting?
Why is it called 'after dark', when it is really after light?
Doesn't 'expecting the unexpected' make the unexpected expected?
Why are wise man and wise guy opposites?
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
Why is phonics not spelled the way it sounds?
If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?
How come abbreviated is such a long word?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one?
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Carnival of Mirrors
Betsy Childs

It has been years since I've been to a fair, but I have fond memories of
the allurement known as the house of mirrors. In contrast to more
sophisticated and elaborate attractions, a house of mirrors works on the
simple assumption that to be surrounded by mirrors is a disorienting
experience. If you walk through a house of mirrors with companions,
you'll find it difficult to tell which images are reflections and which
are actual people. To make matters more complicated, the designers
exploit the distortive powers of curved glass. One mirror will make you
appear short and squat, while another gives a long, lean reflection.

Sadly, the house of mirrors is all too similar to the disorienting
experience of real life. We constantly seek self-understanding by
measuring ourselves against other people, but this will provide us with as
many different and conflicting reflections as a house of mirrors.(1) If I
compare myself to one person, I may find that I fall short in many
categories, only to realize that I fall short in an equal number of
different categories when I compare myself to someone else. Measuring
myself against someone I perceive as flawed may make me feel good about
myself, but the feeling lasts only until a superior person comes along to
turn my self-image upside down.

Women are especially prone to make physical comparisons; I came upon an
article online that counseled women not to play the comparison game. Yet
the sidebar ad that accompanied the article (hosted by the site of a
well-known women's magazine) flashed pictures of beautiful women along
with products designed to help the reader look like them. The dissonance
would have been ironic if it weren't so common.

The comparison trap extends to areas beyond physical categories. Your
sense of your own intelligence, success, happiness, and even godliness has
a lot to do with the people you compare yourself to. While it would be
nice to smash all of the mirrors so that we wouldn't be always confronted
with distorted images of ourselves, this is not an option. We live in a
world of mirrors, and we cannot run from them.

Mirrors exist because we can't see ourselves; we need them. But the
problem with the comparison game is that it doesn't provide a true
reflection of who we really are. God's Word is the only mirror that
accurately reflects our true identity.

The apostle James wrote, "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive
yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not
do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after
looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like"
(James 1:22-24). It is possible that this man fails to remember what his
own face looks like not because he is forgetful, but because he is
bombarded with images that are not accurate reflections. When I begin
comparing myself to others, I quickly forget my true identity, the
identity which God has made plain in his Word.

Though I may tell myself that I should be as attractive as the women I see
in magazines or as successful as the people who graduated with me from
school, God's Word tells me that, by the grace of God, I am what I am (1
Corinthians 15:10). It tells me I am a new creation, God's work of art,
the salt of the earth and the light of the world (2 Cor. 5:17, Ephesians
2:10, Matthew 5:13-14). For me, reading God's Word once or twice a day
isn't enough to keep sight of these truths. I have found that I have to
memorize it so that it is with me throughout the day as I am assaulted by
distorted images in the glass of the world. When I'm tempted to compare
myself to others, I cannot do better than call to mind the true reflection
that is presented in the mirror of God's Word.


Betsy Childs is associate writer for Ravi Zacharias International
Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.


(1) I'm indebted to John Piper for this metaphor.

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