Unclean Joke:
An unclean joke (dirty joke) describes jokes, prose, poems, black comedy, blue comedy and skits that deal with topics that are considered to be in poor taste or overly vulgar by the prevailing morality of a culture. Subjects of taste tend to center on sex, a particular ethnic group, or gender. Other topics include violence, particularly domestic abuse; excessive swearing or profanity; "toilet humor"; national superiority or inferiority, dead baby jokes, pedophilic content, and any other topics generally considered impolite or indecent. Generally, the point of the joke is to induce laughter by evoking a feeling of shock and surprise in the comedian's audience.
In Ephesians 5:4, Paul tells us to avoid "filthiness (obscenity), foolish talk or jesting - things that have no place [among you]". It is very clear from Ephesians 5:4 what most definitively should be avoided, namely, anything that has any sexual or scatological content whatsoever. This impression is strengthened by the two words which precede it, namely "filthiness" and "foolish talk or jesting things". The first word is clear enough as to the type of language being prohibited - we are to avoid talk (and humor) which is obscene in any way. The second word covers extreme buffoonery of every sort, and sometimes has somewhat broader connotations as well, i.e., facetiousness, using witticisms, etc., all of which are consistent with humor that conflicts with biblical teachings. Playing the fool is something always frowned upon by scripture generally (Prov.10:10).
UFO Card Disk:
Unidentified flying object (UFO) of extraterrestrial origins are purported to operate using a card disk and reader.
UFO Port:
Some people believe that the Giza Pyramids and Teotihuacan were ancient alien space ports. When observed from an aerial view, the pyramids are analogous of our solar system. Some of the building structures could have served as landing pads.
Tehuti, the Egyptian god of the moon and of wisdom is said to have arrived in Egypt through a portal, in his pyramid-shaped spaceship, in the land that the Egyptians would call Khem.
Uncle Walt:
Walter Elias Disney also known as "Uncle Walt," was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist.
Allegedly there is a dark side to Disney that few people know about. According to some sources, Walt Disney is a reputed pedophile. For instance, Kenneth Anger in his book Hollywood Babylon II, p. 192, "Some animators stated that the boss [Walt Disney] seemed to have fallen in love with the boy. There may be some truth in this..." The boy, who Walt fell in love with, was a small young attractive boy actor named Bobby Driscoll who signed up in 1946 with Disney.
Disney is also allegedly racist (he thought hiring African Americans would "have spoiled the illusion at Disneyland") and anti-Semitic (a reputation due largely to his membership in an executive organization that was famously hostile to Jews). See Disneyland, CA
Undrinkable:
Not fit to be drunk because of impurity or poor quality.
Unruly:
Boisterous: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline. Disobedient: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers."
USA Anarchy:
Anarchism in the United States spans a wide range of anarchist philosophy, from individualist anarchism to anarchist communism and other less known forms. America has two main anarchist traditions, native and immigrant, with the native tradition being strongly individualist and the immigrant tradition being collectivist and anarcho-communist.
USA Collapse:
The U.S. economy is collapsing due to the country's rising debt level. The U.S. is now deeply in the red as a country because of a combination of the Great Recession, the resulting federal stimulus and financial bailout programs, two wars, the Bush tax cuts, and a growth in social entitlement programs. The U.S. is in the early stages of a complete and total breakdown of it's economic system.
US of America:
Atrocities abound throughout the history of the United States. The slaughter of the American Indians and the enslavement, brutalization, and oppression of Africans are just two examples.
US Ruined: See USA Collapse
Usually:
The word "usually" can be defined as occurring, encountered, experienced, observed frequently in accordance with regular practice and procedure. When someone "usually" does something, the behavior is characterized as habitual in nature. People are creatures of habit. A habit is a behavior plan or tendency that we develop from repeated exposure to certain types of situations.
According to a study in an issue of Nature, led by Ann Graybiel of MIT's McGovern Institute, important neural activity patterns in a specific region of the brain change when habits are formed, change again when habits are broken, but quickly re-emerge when something rekindles an extinguished habit -- routines that originally took great effort to learn.
"We knew that neurons can change their firing patterns when habits are learned, but it is startling to find that these patterns reverse when the habit is lost, only to recur again as soon as something kicks off the habit again," said Graybiel, who is also the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS).
"It is as though somehow, the brain retains a memory of the habit context, and this pattern can be triggered if the right habit cues come back," Graybiel said. "This situation is familiar to anyone who is trying to lose weight or to control a well-engrained habit. Just the sight of a piece of chocolate cake can reset all those good intentions."
Habits become ingrained with repetition and over time become a natural part of your routine. According to the Bible in order to eliminate bad habits, for every bad habit you "put off," find some useful activity to "put on" in its place.
"That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph.4:22-32).
Ephesians 4:22-24 shows that major changes must occur when we are converted to serve God. Old practices and attitudes must be replaced by new ones. Do not just put off the old man. Put on the new man. Note the examples: Speak truth instead of falsehood (v25), work and give to others instead of stealing (v28), speak good instead of evil (v29), show kindness and forgiveness instead of anger and bitterness (v31,32).
Suppose you decide you want to watch less TV, so you turn it off, but sit in front of it with nothing else to do. Soon you will turn it on again. But if you become actively involved in family activities, Bible study, etc., soon you will replace it with other habits.
If you don't change the way you do things, live your life, or make decisions, you will never grow or mature or feel better about life as a whole. Successful people recognize the need for change early. They embrace it. Because of this, they are also usually quick to see when something is not working in their lives and are not afraid to change it.
Breaking old habits is not an easy thing to do and is, in fact, impossible in our own strength. But Paul reminds us "I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13). The only way for you to break away from your bad habits is not to depend on your own efforts ("I") but to look to Christ.
The "I" is the ego. The word ego is taken directly from Latin, where it is the nominative of the first person singular personal pronoun and is translated as "I myself" to express emphasis. The Latin term ego is used in English to translate Freud's German term Das Ich, which literally means "the I".
The ego allows greed, limiting thoughts and uncontrolled desires to dominate our behavior, actions and reactions. The ego falsely believes that by some how satisfying those desires it will lead to our happiness. Happiness is not something to be achieved or acquired. It is not a destination.
We all have habits, whether bad or good. The bad habits must be recognized and addressed. Good habits must be faithfully practiced.
Utah Church:
This is a reference to the Mormon Church. In 1847, the first party of Mormon emigrants, led by Brigham Young, reached the Salt Lake Valley. The term "Mormon" is most often used to refer to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
To learn more, please watch:
Banned Mormon Cartoon
Vaccination:
Vaccinations, or immunizations stimulate the immune system, the natural disease-fighting system of the body. The vaccine process works by collecting samples of the actual virus, then growing and altering them in the laboratory to make a weakened strain of the disease. That weakened strain is put into a serum and administered into the body (usually by injection). According to most doctors, the body's immune system is more capable of naturally attacking and destroying the weakened virus, and thus develops the ability to effectively fight off the actual disease should the person ever be exposed to it. In order to develop the weakened viral strain, there must be a medium or "cell culture" to grow it in. The virus invades the culture cells, feeds off the cell, matures, and multiplies. The cell cultures are a single type of cell that multiplies itself in a predictable fashion and can be sustained in a laboratory setting for years, even decades. These long-lasting cell cultures are called "cell lines." The original cells that start these cell lines have been taken from a wide variety of sources, from monkey embryo and kidney cells, to chicken and rabbit embryos, and from aborted babies.
There are two particular fetal cell lines that have been heavily used in vaccine development. They are named according to the laboratory facilities where they were developed. One cell line is known as WI-38, developed at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, PA. The other is MRC-5, developed for the Medical Research Council in England. WI-38 was developed by Dr. Leonard Hayflick in 1962, by taking lung cells from an aborted female baby at approximately the end of the third month of pregnancy. Dr. Hayflick's article published in the scientific journal, Experimental Cell Research states that three cell lines, WI-26, WI-38, WI-44 were all developed from aborted babies. "All embryos were obtained from surgical abortions and were of approximately three months' gestation1." In another journal article (American Journal of Diseases of Childhood) from an international conference on Rubella, Dr. Stanley Plotkin who developed a Rubella vaccine using WI-38, addressed a question as to the origin of WI-38. Dr. Plotkin stated, "This fetus was chosen by Dr. Sven Gard, specifically for this purpose. Both parents are known, and unfortunately for the story, they are married to each other, still alive and well, and living in Stockholm, presumably. The abortion was done because they felt they had too many children. There were no familial diseases in the history of either parent, and no history of cancer specifically in the families."
Many vaccines are produced in animal tissues. Animal vaccines might seem like the answer, but vaccines that do not provide 100% protection against illness and can actually make things worse. In the Bible, God warns not to mix the blood of man with the blood of animals. The bible teaches that there are unclean animals and that we are not to put the unclean into our bodies (Deuteronomy 14). All vaccines are made with foreign proteins (viruses and bacteria), and some vaccines are made with genetically engineered viral and bacterial materials. According to medical professionals, the healthy immune system is able to recognize invading bacteria and viruses and produce substances (antibodies) to destroy or disable them. Immunizations prepare the immune system to ward off a disease. When there is widespread vaccination, viruses can spread without any visible disease. Repeated, vaccination exhausts the immune system. It gives a false sense of security and, in doing so; it opens the door wide to all kinds of illnesses. Ineffective vaccines also create strong selective pressure driving the evolution of new strains that can dodge the immune attack provoked by the vaccine. See also CDC Flu Shot, Heath Vaccine,Chemical Vaccine, Attenuated
Vacuuming:
Small particles are generally measured in fractions of a meter. One µm (micrometers - formerly microns) equals one one-millionth (10-6) of a meter. The most harmful Respirable Size Particle (RSP) is 0.3 µm. The average vacuum cleaner only filters particles from 30 to 50 µm, thus exhausting harmful respirable allergens back into the air.
Research shows that about 70-90% of what we vacuum up is gray/brown dust that contains a significant amount of dead skin cells. Somewhere between 5 and 25% of that debris is carpet or smaller fibers that have been loosened by traffic or by the mechanism of the vacuum itself. About 5% of the waste collection is hair. The remaining vacuumed debris is actually what can be the most dangerous for allergy sufferers containing fur, food particles, insects, mites, sand and mineral dust, pollen and other plant parts, carbon and other pollution particles, and paper and packing materials. Other vacuumed microbes include soil and skin organisms, bacteria and mold spores like penecillium, ascoporium, aspergillus and alternarium. There may even be allergenic animal dander - even if there is no pet in the home.
It may not sound too threatening that only a small percentage of the vacuumed debris is made up of allergens and microbes. But consider that one gram of dust can contain more than a million bacteria, thousands of fungal spores, hundreds of pollen grains (depending on time of year) as well as live house dust mites. Wood floors or tiles are best in a home, but if you have carpets or prefer carpet in your home, experts recommended using a HEPA Vacuum for controlling dust and other allergens. See Dust Mite
Vanquish:
"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good" (Rom.12:21).
Vanquish means to beat: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; to defeat, to overcome.
According to the Bible, "Be not overcome of evil" - Be not "vanquished" or "subdued" by injury received from others. Do not, by giving place to evil, become precisely the same character which you condemned someone else for being. Overcome evil with good - That is, subdue or vanquish evil by doing good to others. Maintain your Christian principles amidst all opposition, and thus show the power of the gospel. See Overtaken
Vatican Alien:
The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones. In an interview published by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes said that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.
Vatican Hill:
One of the hills on the side of the Tiber opposite the traditional Seven Hills of Rome. It may have been the site of an Etruscan town called Vaticum. In the 1st century A.D., the Vatican Hill was outside the city limits and so could feature a circus (the circus of Nero) and a cemetery. St. Peter's Basilica is built over this cemetery, the traditional site of St. Peter the Apostle's grave. There was another cemetery nearby, which was opened to the public on 10 October 2006, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums.
The Vatican Hill is not one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome, although it was included within the city limits of Rome during the reign of Pope Leo IV, who, between 848 and 852, expanded the city walls to protect St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican. Thus, Vatican Hill has been within the walls and city limits of Rome (until the Lateran Treaties in 1929 it was part the Rione of Borgo) for over 1100 years.
Before the Avignon Papacy (1305-1378), the headquarters of the Holy See were located at the Lateran Palace. After the Avignon Papacy the church administration moved to Vatican Hill and the papal palace was (until 1871) the Quirinal Palace, upon the Quirinal Hill. Since 1929, part of the Vatican Hill is the site of the State of the Vatican City. However, the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, is not St. Peter's in the Vatican, but Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, which is extra-territorially linked, as indicated in the Lateran Pacts signed with the Italian state in 1929.
Vegas City:
Las Vegas is the most populous city in Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping and fine dining. Las Vegas, which bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, is famous for the number of casino resorts and associated entertainment. The city's tolerance for various forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City.
In 2011, it was reported that the city's unemployment rate of 14.2% in August was among the nation's highest. The suicide rate of 34.5 people per 100,000 annually was also the nation's highest. For those who weren't part of the 14,000 homeless, the housing market was a disaster.
Vegas Magician:
Vegas is full of magicians and illusionists. Magicians like David Copperfield, Lance Burton, Criss Angel, Penn and Teller, etcetera perform in almost every major hotel casino on the Las Vegas strip. See Illusion
Venezuela:
Caracas, Venezuela is known as the “witch capital” of a world! Foreign Policy magazine called Caracas the world's homicide capital. Rampant kidnappings, theft and violence make the capital and country one of the world's most dangerous.
Although Santeria and other spiritualist religions have been present in Venezuela since Spanish colonial days, the rise of black magic, including that practiced by paleros, is relatively new, said Maria Garcia de Fleury, a comparative religions professor at New Sparta University in Caracas.
"We've always had a little witchcraft, but nothing like what has been unleashed recently," De Fleury said. "This is not Venezuelan."
Grave-plundering at the Southern Municipal Cemetery and others in Caracas has reached epidemic proportions. Priests, academics and the victims' families blame black-magic practitioners known as "paleros," who use skulls and other human bones to initiate members into an African-based cult that spread to Venezuela from Cuba and is growing rapidly. "People have lost faith in Western science and traditional values," said Rafael Camero, an anthropology professor at the Central University of Venezuela, "so they turn to black magic to solve problems that the state can't."
Santeria, which combines Catholicism and African and indigenous spiritualism, was brought to the New World by slaves from Africa centuries ago and still thrives, particularly in Cuba, Haiti, Brazil and, increasingly, Venezuela. It is also popular in regions of the United States with strong Caribbean immigrant communities, such as south Florida, Washington and Los Angeles, areas where hundreds of thousands are thought to practice it.
Although most Santeria followers steer clear of the use of human remains and Satanism, the paleros embrace them. They use bones in black magic rituals in which the objective is to cast evil spells on enemies: to induce bad luck for an unfaithful spouse, a car accident for unwanted in-laws, a serious illness for a business competitor.
Venus Day:
Venus day is Friday. Friday is the day of the week falling between Thursday and Saturday. The word for Friday is derived from Latin dies Veneris, "day of Venus". In astrology, Friday is connected with the planet Venus. Venus is known as the morning star or Lucifer.
Verify God:
Atheism is a belief system that ardently denies the existence of God. According to Atheists, there is a lack of scientific or historical evidence to substantiate a belief in God. They rely on empirical data, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and subjective reasoning to support their claims. Many atheists spend much time and effort attempting to "disprove" that God exists and demand that believers verify God's existence. According to Romans chapter 1 Atheists know that God exists, but they want to control their own lives and not submit to the Lord. God calls the atheist a FOOL: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Ps.14:1). When confronted by such persons, the Bible tells us: "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him" (Prov.26:4). If you know in your heart that God is real and you are confident that God exists, then you have nothing to prove to anyone. Therefore, never argue with a fool.
NEVER ARGUE WITH A FOOL
By Dr. M C Gupta
It is best not to argue,
But if you do at all,
Never do so with a fool.
A fool can defeat all.
He does not care for the facts.
He does not know debate.
He’s a stranger to reason.
Logic he can negate.
In the end the fool will win,
His logic is so strong!
Decides what he does not like
And then it must be wrong!
It’s better to keep quiet
When challenged by a fool.
Else, to prove his own wisdom,
He will make you a tool.
It is hence my policy
To not respond to those
Who ask questions not to learn
But to be bellicose.
Verishield:
VeriShield Protect from Verifone is a card swipe device that claims almost instant encryption of cards. Verifone, Inc. is a well-known brand in electronic payment solutions. The new Verishield unit uses Hidden Triple Data Encryption Standard (H-TDES) from a company called Semtek Innovation Solutions Corp.
Void Trance:
Void trance or void meditation involves learning how to control your thoughts and body in order to easier achieve trance states. The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect for demonic possession. The symptoms of demonic possession may include change in behavior, seizures, lewd behavior,smell of sulfur, drastic change in voice, and rapid weight loss. The Bible commands us to take every thought captive (2 Cor. 10:3-5) and to be sober and vigilant (1 Peter 5:8). We must always be alert. Trance leads to a condition of altered conscousness which is accompanied by an absence of awareness of physical surroundings. See A Meditation
Vonage Wi-fi:
Vonage is a publicly-held commercial voice over IP (VoIP) network and SIP company that provides telephone service via a broadband connection. Wi-fi is a wireless network that uses ethernet protocol. In 2005, Vonage made plans to sell a wi-fi phone. Wi-Fi phones combine two technologies: Wi-Fi and VoIP, which lets Internet connections double as inexpensive phone lines. Typically, VoIP subscribers use a wired phone line, whether a home phone or any number of phones in an office. Vonage sees an opportunity to create wireless versions of their services using Wi-Fi.
Vortices:
Vortices (vortexes) are places where subtle electromagnetic energies move in and out of the Earth and are consequently places with concentrated energies. There are twelve roughly evenly distributed geographic areas that are alleged by Ivan Sanderson to have the same mysterious qualities popularly associated with the Bermuda Triangle. The best-known of these are the Bermuda Triangle itself, the Devil's Sea near Japan and the South Atlantic Anomaly.
May also refer to polar votexes. The stratospheric polar vortex is a large-scale region of air that is contained by a strong west-to-east jet stream that circles the polar region. This jet stream is usually referred to as the polar night jet. The polar vortex extends from the tropopause (the dividing line between the stratosphere and troposphere) through the stratosphere and into the mesosphere (above 50 km). Low values of ozone and cold temperatures are associated with the air inside the vortex.
The polar vortex drives winter weather across the Northern hemisphere. Every Autumn, reducing temperatures allows air above the Arctic to become as cold as -100'C (-148F), and in turn this allows the jet stream to gain momentum. Something different is happening with the polar vortex this year. Arctic sea expansion has been extremely slow to start, meaning less cold temperatures over the Arctic. This has in turn lead to a much weaker polar vortex.
The absence of a wandering polar vortex may partly explain the early spring-like weather. February is growing warmer faster than the other months, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Based on temperature data from 1895 to 2016, February is warming at a rate of 3.1 degrees Fahrenheit (1.7 degrees Celsius) per century. The runner-up, March, is warming at a rate of 2.5 F (1.3 C) per century, and the month with the slowest warming rate is September, at 0.8 F (0.4 C) per century. None of the months are cooling down over time.
An unclean joke (dirty joke) describes jokes, prose, poems, black comedy, blue comedy and skits that deal with topics that are considered to be in poor taste or overly vulgar by the prevailing morality of a culture. Subjects of taste tend to center on sex, a particular ethnic group, or gender. Other topics include violence, particularly domestic abuse; excessive swearing or profanity; "toilet humor"; national superiority or inferiority, dead baby jokes, pedophilic content, and any other topics generally considered impolite or indecent. Generally, the point of the joke is to induce laughter by evoking a feeling of shock and surprise in the comedian's audience.
In Ephesians 5:4, Paul tells us to avoid "filthiness (obscenity), foolish talk or jesting - things that have no place [among you]". It is very clear from Ephesians 5:4 what most definitively should be avoided, namely, anything that has any sexual or scatological content whatsoever. This impression is strengthened by the two words which precede it, namely "filthiness" and "foolish talk or jesting things". The first word is clear enough as to the type of language being prohibited - we are to avoid talk (and humor) which is obscene in any way. The second word covers extreme buffoonery of every sort, and sometimes has somewhat broader connotations as well, i.e., facetiousness, using witticisms, etc., all of which are consistent with humor that conflicts with biblical teachings. Playing the fool is something always frowned upon by scripture generally (Prov.10:10).
UFO Card Disk:
Unidentified flying object (UFO) of extraterrestrial origins are purported to operate using a card disk and reader.
UFO Port:
Some people believe that the Giza Pyramids and Teotihuacan were ancient alien space ports. When observed from an aerial view, the pyramids are analogous of our solar system. Some of the building structures could have served as landing pads.
Tehuti, the Egyptian god of the moon and of wisdom is said to have arrived in Egypt through a portal, in his pyramid-shaped spaceship, in the land that the Egyptians would call Khem.
Uncle Walt:
Walter Elias Disney also known as "Uncle Walt," was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist.
Allegedly there is a dark side to Disney that few people know about. According to some sources, Walt Disney is a reputed pedophile. For instance, Kenneth Anger in his book Hollywood Babylon II, p. 192, "Some animators stated that the boss [Walt Disney] seemed to have fallen in love with the boy. There may be some truth in this..." The boy, who Walt fell in love with, was a small young attractive boy actor named Bobby Driscoll who signed up in 1946 with Disney.
Disney is also allegedly racist (he thought hiring African Americans would "have spoiled the illusion at Disneyland") and anti-Semitic (a reputation due largely to his membership in an executive organization that was famously hostile to Jews). See Disneyland, CA
Undrinkable:
Not fit to be drunk because of impurity or poor quality.
Unruly:
Boisterous: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline. Disobedient: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers."
USA Anarchy:
Anarchism in the United States spans a wide range of anarchist philosophy, from individualist anarchism to anarchist communism and other less known forms. America has two main anarchist traditions, native and immigrant, with the native tradition being strongly individualist and the immigrant tradition being collectivist and anarcho-communist.
USA Collapse:
The U.S. economy is collapsing due to the country's rising debt level. The U.S. is now deeply in the red as a country because of a combination of the Great Recession, the resulting federal stimulus and financial bailout programs, two wars, the Bush tax cuts, and a growth in social entitlement programs. The U.S. is in the early stages of a complete and total breakdown of it's economic system.
US of America:
Atrocities abound throughout the history of the United States. The slaughter of the American Indians and the enslavement, brutalization, and oppression of Africans are just two examples.
US Ruined: See USA Collapse
Usually:
The word "usually" can be defined as occurring, encountered, experienced, observed frequently in accordance with regular practice and procedure. When someone "usually" does something, the behavior is characterized as habitual in nature. People are creatures of habit. A habit is a behavior plan or tendency that we develop from repeated exposure to certain types of situations.
According to a study in an issue of Nature, led by Ann Graybiel of MIT's McGovern Institute, important neural activity patterns in a specific region of the brain change when habits are formed, change again when habits are broken, but quickly re-emerge when something rekindles an extinguished habit -- routines that originally took great effort to learn.
"We knew that neurons can change their firing patterns when habits are learned, but it is startling to find that these patterns reverse when the habit is lost, only to recur again as soon as something kicks off the habit again," said Graybiel, who is also the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS).
"It is as though somehow, the brain retains a memory of the habit context, and this pattern can be triggered if the right habit cues come back," Graybiel said. "This situation is familiar to anyone who is trying to lose weight or to control a well-engrained habit. Just the sight of a piece of chocolate cake can reset all those good intentions."
Habits become ingrained with repetition and over time become a natural part of your routine. According to the Bible in order to eliminate bad habits, for every bad habit you "put off," find some useful activity to "put on" in its place.
"That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph.4:22-32).
Ephesians 4:22-24 shows that major changes must occur when we are converted to serve God. Old practices and attitudes must be replaced by new ones. Do not just put off the old man. Put on the new man. Note the examples: Speak truth instead of falsehood (v25), work and give to others instead of stealing (v28), speak good instead of evil (v29), show kindness and forgiveness instead of anger and bitterness (v31,32).
Suppose you decide you want to watch less TV, so you turn it off, but sit in front of it with nothing else to do. Soon you will turn it on again. But if you become actively involved in family activities, Bible study, etc., soon you will replace it with other habits.
If you don't change the way you do things, live your life, or make decisions, you will never grow or mature or feel better about life as a whole. Successful people recognize the need for change early. They embrace it. Because of this, they are also usually quick to see when something is not working in their lives and are not afraid to change it.
Breaking old habits is not an easy thing to do and is, in fact, impossible in our own strength. But Paul reminds us "I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13). The only way for you to break away from your bad habits is not to depend on your own efforts ("I") but to look to Christ.
The "I" is the ego. The word ego is taken directly from Latin, where it is the nominative of the first person singular personal pronoun and is translated as "I myself" to express emphasis. The Latin term ego is used in English to translate Freud's German term Das Ich, which literally means "the I".
The ego allows greed, limiting thoughts and uncontrolled desires to dominate our behavior, actions and reactions. The ego falsely believes that by some how satisfying those desires it will lead to our happiness. Happiness is not something to be achieved or acquired. It is not a destination.
We all have habits, whether bad or good. The bad habits must be recognized and addressed. Good habits must be faithfully practiced.
Utah Church:
This is a reference to the Mormon Church. In 1847, the first party of Mormon emigrants, led by Brigham Young, reached the Salt Lake Valley. The term "Mormon" is most often used to refer to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
To learn more, please watch:
Banned Mormon Cartoon
Vaccination:
Vaccinations, or immunizations stimulate the immune system, the natural disease-fighting system of the body. The vaccine process works by collecting samples of the actual virus, then growing and altering them in the laboratory to make a weakened strain of the disease. That weakened strain is put into a serum and administered into the body (usually by injection). According to most doctors, the body's immune system is more capable of naturally attacking and destroying the weakened virus, and thus develops the ability to effectively fight off the actual disease should the person ever be exposed to it. In order to develop the weakened viral strain, there must be a medium or "cell culture" to grow it in. The virus invades the culture cells, feeds off the cell, matures, and multiplies. The cell cultures are a single type of cell that multiplies itself in a predictable fashion and can be sustained in a laboratory setting for years, even decades. These long-lasting cell cultures are called "cell lines." The original cells that start these cell lines have been taken from a wide variety of sources, from monkey embryo and kidney cells, to chicken and rabbit embryos, and from aborted babies.
There are two particular fetal cell lines that have been heavily used in vaccine development. They are named according to the laboratory facilities where they were developed. One cell line is known as WI-38, developed at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, PA. The other is MRC-5, developed for the Medical Research Council in England. WI-38 was developed by Dr. Leonard Hayflick in 1962, by taking lung cells from an aborted female baby at approximately the end of the third month of pregnancy. Dr. Hayflick's article published in the scientific journal, Experimental Cell Research states that three cell lines, WI-26, WI-38, WI-44 were all developed from aborted babies. "All embryos were obtained from surgical abortions and were of approximately three months' gestation1." In another journal article (American Journal of Diseases of Childhood) from an international conference on Rubella, Dr. Stanley Plotkin who developed a Rubella vaccine using WI-38, addressed a question as to the origin of WI-38. Dr. Plotkin stated, "This fetus was chosen by Dr. Sven Gard, specifically for this purpose. Both parents are known, and unfortunately for the story, they are married to each other, still alive and well, and living in Stockholm, presumably. The abortion was done because they felt they had too many children. There were no familial diseases in the history of either parent, and no history of cancer specifically in the families."
Many vaccines are produced in animal tissues. Animal vaccines might seem like the answer, but vaccines that do not provide 100% protection against illness and can actually make things worse. In the Bible, God warns not to mix the blood of man with the blood of animals. The bible teaches that there are unclean animals and that we are not to put the unclean into our bodies (Deuteronomy 14). All vaccines are made with foreign proteins (viruses and bacteria), and some vaccines are made with genetically engineered viral and bacterial materials. According to medical professionals, the healthy immune system is able to recognize invading bacteria and viruses and produce substances (antibodies) to destroy or disable them. Immunizations prepare the immune system to ward off a disease. When there is widespread vaccination, viruses can spread without any visible disease. Repeated, vaccination exhausts the immune system. It gives a false sense of security and, in doing so; it opens the door wide to all kinds of illnesses. Ineffective vaccines also create strong selective pressure driving the evolution of new strains that can dodge the immune attack provoked by the vaccine. See also CDC Flu Shot, Heath Vaccine,Chemical Vaccine, Attenuated
Vacuuming:
Small particles are generally measured in fractions of a meter. One µm (micrometers - formerly microns) equals one one-millionth (10-6) of a meter. The most harmful Respirable Size Particle (RSP) is 0.3 µm. The average vacuum cleaner only filters particles from 30 to 50 µm, thus exhausting harmful respirable allergens back into the air.
Research shows that about 70-90% of what we vacuum up is gray/brown dust that contains a significant amount of dead skin cells. Somewhere between 5 and 25% of that debris is carpet or smaller fibers that have been loosened by traffic or by the mechanism of the vacuum itself. About 5% of the waste collection is hair. The remaining vacuumed debris is actually what can be the most dangerous for allergy sufferers containing fur, food particles, insects, mites, sand and mineral dust, pollen and other plant parts, carbon and other pollution particles, and paper and packing materials. Other vacuumed microbes include soil and skin organisms, bacteria and mold spores like penecillium, ascoporium, aspergillus and alternarium. There may even be allergenic animal dander - even if there is no pet in the home.
It may not sound too threatening that only a small percentage of the vacuumed debris is made up of allergens and microbes. But consider that one gram of dust can contain more than a million bacteria, thousands of fungal spores, hundreds of pollen grains (depending on time of year) as well as live house dust mites. Wood floors or tiles are best in a home, but if you have carpets or prefer carpet in your home, experts recommended using a HEPA Vacuum for controlling dust and other allergens. See Dust Mite
Vanquish:
"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good" (Rom.12:21).
Vanquish means to beat: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; to defeat, to overcome.
According to the Bible, "Be not overcome of evil" - Be not "vanquished" or "subdued" by injury received from others. Do not, by giving place to evil, become precisely the same character which you condemned someone else for being. Overcome evil with good - That is, subdue or vanquish evil by doing good to others. Maintain your Christian principles amidst all opposition, and thus show the power of the gospel. See Overtaken
Vatican Alien:
The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones. In an interview published by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes said that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.
Vatican Hill:
One of the hills on the side of the Tiber opposite the traditional Seven Hills of Rome. It may have been the site of an Etruscan town called Vaticum. In the 1st century A.D., the Vatican Hill was outside the city limits and so could feature a circus (the circus of Nero) and a cemetery. St. Peter's Basilica is built over this cemetery, the traditional site of St. Peter the Apostle's grave. There was another cemetery nearby, which was opened to the public on 10 October 2006, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums.
The Vatican Hill is not one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome, although it was included within the city limits of Rome during the reign of Pope Leo IV, who, between 848 and 852, expanded the city walls to protect St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican. Thus, Vatican Hill has been within the walls and city limits of Rome (until the Lateran Treaties in 1929 it was part the Rione of Borgo) for over 1100 years.
Before the Avignon Papacy (1305-1378), the headquarters of the Holy See were located at the Lateran Palace. After the Avignon Papacy the church administration moved to Vatican Hill and the papal palace was (until 1871) the Quirinal Palace, upon the Quirinal Hill. Since 1929, part of the Vatican Hill is the site of the State of the Vatican City. However, the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, is not St. Peter's in the Vatican, but Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, which is extra-territorially linked, as indicated in the Lateran Pacts signed with the Italian state in 1929.
Vegas City:
Las Vegas is the most populous city in Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping and fine dining. Las Vegas, which bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, is famous for the number of casino resorts and associated entertainment. The city's tolerance for various forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City.
In 2011, it was reported that the city's unemployment rate of 14.2% in August was among the nation's highest. The suicide rate of 34.5 people per 100,000 annually was also the nation's highest. For those who weren't part of the 14,000 homeless, the housing market was a disaster.
Vegas Magician:
Vegas is full of magicians and illusionists. Magicians like David Copperfield, Lance Burton, Criss Angel, Penn and Teller, etcetera perform in almost every major hotel casino on the Las Vegas strip. See Illusion
Venezuela:
Caracas, Venezuela is known as the “witch capital” of a world! Foreign Policy magazine called Caracas the world's homicide capital. Rampant kidnappings, theft and violence make the capital and country one of the world's most dangerous.
Although Santeria and other spiritualist religions have been present in Venezuela since Spanish colonial days, the rise of black magic, including that practiced by paleros, is relatively new, said Maria Garcia de Fleury, a comparative religions professor at New Sparta University in Caracas.
"We've always had a little witchcraft, but nothing like what has been unleashed recently," De Fleury said. "This is not Venezuelan."
Grave-plundering at the Southern Municipal Cemetery and others in Caracas has reached epidemic proportions. Priests, academics and the victims' families blame black-magic practitioners known as "paleros," who use skulls and other human bones to initiate members into an African-based cult that spread to Venezuela from Cuba and is growing rapidly. "People have lost faith in Western science and traditional values," said Rafael Camero, an anthropology professor at the Central University of Venezuela, "so they turn to black magic to solve problems that the state can't."
Santeria, which combines Catholicism and African and indigenous spiritualism, was brought to the New World by slaves from Africa centuries ago and still thrives, particularly in Cuba, Haiti, Brazil and, increasingly, Venezuela. It is also popular in regions of the United States with strong Caribbean immigrant communities, such as south Florida, Washington and Los Angeles, areas where hundreds of thousands are thought to practice it.
Although most Santeria followers steer clear of the use of human remains and Satanism, the paleros embrace them. They use bones in black magic rituals in which the objective is to cast evil spells on enemies: to induce bad luck for an unfaithful spouse, a car accident for unwanted in-laws, a serious illness for a business competitor.
Venus Day:
Venus day is Friday. Friday is the day of the week falling between Thursday and Saturday. The word for Friday is derived from Latin dies Veneris, "day of Venus". In astrology, Friday is connected with the planet Venus. Venus is known as the morning star or Lucifer.
Verify God:
Atheism is a belief system that ardently denies the existence of God. According to Atheists, there is a lack of scientific or historical evidence to substantiate a belief in God. They rely on empirical data, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and subjective reasoning to support their claims. Many atheists spend much time and effort attempting to "disprove" that God exists and demand that believers verify God's existence. According to Romans chapter 1 Atheists know that God exists, but they want to control their own lives and not submit to the Lord. God calls the atheist a FOOL: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Ps.14:1). When confronted by such persons, the Bible tells us: "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him" (Prov.26:4). If you know in your heart that God is real and you are confident that God exists, then you have nothing to prove to anyone. Therefore, never argue with a fool.
NEVER ARGUE WITH A FOOL
By Dr. M C Gupta
It is best not to argue,
But if you do at all,
Never do so with a fool.
A fool can defeat all.
He does not care for the facts.
He does not know debate.
He’s a stranger to reason.
Logic he can negate.
In the end the fool will win,
His logic is so strong!
Decides what he does not like
And then it must be wrong!
It’s better to keep quiet
When challenged by a fool.
Else, to prove his own wisdom,
He will make you a tool.
It is hence my policy
To not respond to those
Who ask questions not to learn
But to be bellicose.
Verishield:
VeriShield Protect from Verifone is a card swipe device that claims almost instant encryption of cards. Verifone, Inc. is a well-known brand in electronic payment solutions. The new Verishield unit uses Hidden Triple Data Encryption Standard (H-TDES) from a company called Semtek Innovation Solutions Corp.
Void Trance:
Void trance or void meditation involves learning how to control your thoughts and body in order to easier achieve trance states. The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect for demonic possession. The symptoms of demonic possession may include change in behavior, seizures, lewd behavior,smell of sulfur, drastic change in voice, and rapid weight loss. The Bible commands us to take every thought captive (2 Cor. 10:3-5) and to be sober and vigilant (1 Peter 5:8). We must always be alert. Trance leads to a condition of altered conscousness which is accompanied by an absence of awareness of physical surroundings. See A Meditation
Vonage Wi-fi:
Vonage is a publicly-held commercial voice over IP (VoIP) network and SIP company that provides telephone service via a broadband connection. Wi-fi is a wireless network that uses ethernet protocol. In 2005, Vonage made plans to sell a wi-fi phone. Wi-Fi phones combine two technologies: Wi-Fi and VoIP, which lets Internet connections double as inexpensive phone lines. Typically, VoIP subscribers use a wired phone line, whether a home phone or any number of phones in an office. Vonage sees an opportunity to create wireless versions of their services using Wi-Fi.
Vortices:
Vortices (vortexes) are places where subtle electromagnetic energies move in and out of the Earth and are consequently places with concentrated energies. There are twelve roughly evenly distributed geographic areas that are alleged by Ivan Sanderson to have the same mysterious qualities popularly associated with the Bermuda Triangle. The best-known of these are the Bermuda Triangle itself, the Devil's Sea near Japan and the South Atlantic Anomaly.
May also refer to polar votexes. The stratospheric polar vortex is a large-scale region of air that is contained by a strong west-to-east jet stream that circles the polar region. This jet stream is usually referred to as the polar night jet. The polar vortex extends from the tropopause (the dividing line between the stratosphere and troposphere) through the stratosphere and into the mesosphere (above 50 km). Low values of ozone and cold temperatures are associated with the air inside the vortex.
The polar vortex drives winter weather across the Northern hemisphere. Every Autumn, reducing temperatures allows air above the Arctic to become as cold as -100'C (-148F), and in turn this allows the jet stream to gain momentum. Something different is happening with the polar vortex this year. Arctic sea expansion has been extremely slow to start, meaning less cold temperatures over the Arctic. This has in turn lead to a much weaker polar vortex.
The absence of a wandering polar vortex may partly explain the early spring-like weather. February is growing warmer faster than the other months, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Based on temperature data from 1895 to 2016, February is warming at a rate of 3.1 degrees Fahrenheit (1.7 degrees Celsius) per century. The runner-up, March, is warming at a rate of 2.5 F (1.3 C) per century, and the month with the slowest warming rate is September, at 0.8 F (0.4 C) per century. None of the months are cooling down over time.
