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magic mushrooms
A Czech composer has composed more than 2000 melodies which, he says, come from mushrooms. When asked how he creates these bizarre compositions he explains, "I record music that mushrooms sing to me."
thin abuse
A Dutch lobby group called Small Intestines Anonymous wants to ban “thin” from the dictionary because they claim it’s “insulting.” The group says “thin” is a term of abuse used by “fat over-rulers.”
Antz
A giant ant colony, stretching more than 96 km, has been discovered under Melbourne. The ants, imported from Argentina in 1939, are ranked among the world’s 100 worst animal invaders. The ants live in much smaller groups in their homeland but have merged colonies in Australia to create one massive colony.
dead wrong!
A Belgian woman is having trouble registering her new car because the vehicle registration authorities say she is dead. The woman explained, “They wouldn’t accept my word that I was still alive.” There was a bright side. Later, she tried to pay her taxes on the Internet but found out that, according to the bureaucrats, she is still nonexistent. A government spokesman has promised to do his best to solve the problem.
Ireland’s
lost glory
According to a new theory, the lost city of Atlantis may well be found to be Ireland. Scientists were amazed that the relationship between Plato’s description and Ireland’s geographical features hadn’t been seen before. Just like Atlantis, Ireland is 480 km long by 320 km wide, and widest across the middle. They both have a central plain surrounded by mountains.
silenzio
It seems that the music industry is catering for a new form of composition: silence. For sale online, at Apple’s iTunes music store, there are 17 utterly silent “songs.” If this new craze breaks out, what will parents have to complain about to their teenage children?
stoney weather
A woman from South Africa says that wherever she goes she’s been plagued by a hail of stones. After being evicted from her own village, and living 30 kilometres away she says the showers still fall.
Seal of approval
Matthew Williams, age four, enjoys the company of New Zealand fur seals Mav and Kali, who are undergoing “people familiarisation” training at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. The performing seals are encouraged to stroll around the zoo to assist them in feeling more comfortable being around humans (and likewise humans around furry mammals).—AAP
Sources: www.ananova.com, www.theage.com.au, Reuters
The Signs of the Times of August 31, 1953, reported the tumult surrounding the recent publication of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. Apparently it was greeted with denunciation and protest, and even the threat of burning in a Sunday morning church service.
“Most of the great translations generated a good deal of heat at the time they were issued,” wrote Alfred Jorgensen. There were outcries made against the English Revised Version of 1881 and 1885. Even the translators of our time-honoured Authorised Version had reason to suspect that they would be “maligned by self-conceited bretheren.”
Where did our Bible come from? Why do some renderings contain books that others don’t? Over 118 years the Signs of the Times has continued to uphold the Bible as God’s inspired Word, and continues to in Harold Harker’s “Your Bible: What’s in and what’s not” (page 57), in which he answers these questions.
Extract from Signs of the Times, November 2004.
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