RISK

There are 3 frogs on a leaf. If one of them decided to jump off the leaf into the water, how many frogs are there left on the leaf?

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Three.

Because the frog only DECIDED to jump! It didn't!

Ponder over this, my friends. Are you not unlike the frog; who decides to do this, decide to do that, but ended up not doing any? In life, we have to make many decisions. Some easy; some hard. Most mistakes are not made by wrong decisions. Most mistakes ARE made due to indecisions. We have to live with the consequences of our decisions. And that is RISK.

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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out to another is to risk involvement,

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return,To live is to risk dying,

To hope is to risk despair,To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken because....

the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.

He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change,

grow or live.Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited

all freedom.Only a person who risks is free.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change;

and the realist adjusts the sails.

FAMOUS QUOTES IV

~ Round 4 – The Underdogs Team ~

Mae West: It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men.

Anonymous: Marriage is the price men pay for sex; sex is the price women pay for marriage.

Jim Backus: Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Amy Carmichael: You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

E. Y. Harburg: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.

Mason Cooley: Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.: You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Gene Mauch: I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Herb Kelleher: Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.

Anonymous: Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

Jean Cocteau: Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Anonymous: The secret of life is not to do what you like but to like what you do.

Kevin Costner: When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Walter Winchell: Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

LOVE HURTS...

It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is most painful is to love someone
and never finding the courage to let the
person know how you feel.

Maybe God wants us to meet
a few wrong people
before meeting the right one
so that when we finally
meet the right person,
we should know how to be grateful for that gift.

Love is when you take away the feeling,
the passion, the romance -
and you find out you still care for that person.

A sad thing about life
is when you meet someone
that means a lot to you,
only to find out in the end,
that it was never bound to be
and you just have to let go.

When one door of happiness closes,
another opens but often we look
so long at the closed door
that we don't see the one
which has been opened for us.

The best kind of friend
is the one you could sit on a porch,
and swing with,
never say a word,
and then walk away
feeling like that was the best
conversation you've had.

It's true that we don't know
what we've got until we lose it,
but it's also true that we don't know
what we've been missing until it arrives.

Giving someone all your love
is never an assurance that they'll love you back,
don't expect love in return,
just wait for it to grow in their
hearts but if it doesn't,
be content it grew in yours.

There are things you love to hear
but you would never hear
it from the person from whom
you would like to hear it,
but don't be deaf to hear it from the person
who says it with his heart.

Never say goodbye
when you still want to try ,
never give up when
you still feel you can take it,
never say you don't love that person
anymore when you can't let go.

Love comes to those who still hope,
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe ,
even though they've been betrayed,
need to love those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.

It takes a minute
to have a crush on someone,
an hour to like someone
and a day to love someone,
but it takes a lifetime
to forget someone.

Don't go for looks,
it can deceive,
don't go for wealth,
even that fades away.
Go for someone
who makes you smile
because only a smile
makes a  dark day seem bright.
Hope you find that person.

There are moments in life
when you really miss someone
that you want to pick them
from your dreams
and hug them for real.
Hope you dream of that someone.

Dream what you want to dream,
go where you want to go,
be what you want to be,
cause you have only one life
and one chance to do all the
things you want in life.

May you have enough happiness
to make you sweet,
enough trials to make  you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human,
enough hope to make you happy
and enough money to buy me gifts
Always put yourself in other's shoes.
If you feel that it hurts you,
it probably hurts the person, too.

A careless word may kindle strife,
a cruel word may wreck a life,
a timely word may level stress,
a loving word may heal and bless.

The beginning of love
is to let those we love
be perfectly themselves,
and not to twist them with our own image,
otherwise, we love only
the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

The happiest of people
don't necessarily have the best of everything
they just make the most of everything
that comes along their way.

Happiness lies for those who cry,
those who hurt, those who
have searched and those who have tried.
For only they can appreciate
the importance of people
who have touched their lives.

Love starts with a smile,
develops with a kiss and ends with a tear.

The brightest future
will always be based on a forgotten past,
you can't go on well in life
until you let go of your past
failures and heartaches.

When you were born,
you were crying
and everyone around you was smiling,
live your life so that when you die,
you're smiling
and everyone around you is crying.
 

FAMOUS QUOTES III

~ ROUND 3 – THE WRITERS TEAM ~

Zig Ziglar: You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

W. Somerset Maugham: At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Thomas Huxley: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Phillips Brooks: Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Cyril Connolly: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

G. K. Chesterton: There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Sam Ewing: It's not the hours you put in your work that count, it's work you put in the hours.

Edgar Watson Howe: A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

Helen Rowland: To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

Peter De Vries: The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Thomas à Kempis: A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

William Shakespeare: O powerful love that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

John Churton Collins: Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

H. L. Mencken: It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Mark Twain: It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Kahlil Gibran: When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.' And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Elbert Hubbard: If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.

ALL about THE WIFE's HUMOUR

  # My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

 # My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

# A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

 # I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

 # I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There was water in the carburettor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."

# The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

# After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know, I  was a fool when I married you." The husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice."

# When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

# I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months - I don't like to interrupt her.

# My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate. So I got two girlfriends.

# The trouble with being the best man at a wedding is that you never get to prove it.

# A man, upon his engagement, went to his father and said, "I've found a woman just like mother!" His father replied, "So what do you want from me, sympathy?"

# Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

# If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep

# I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always.

# It’s not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

# Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

# A man was complaining to a friend: "I had it all - money, a beautiful house, a big car, the love of a beautiful woman-then, BAM!, it was all gone!" "What happened?"  Asked his friend "My wife found out...

# Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

# I think one of the greatest things about marriage is that as both husband and father, I can say anything I want to around the house. Of course, no one pays the least bit of attention.

# A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

# A man meets a genie. The genie tells him he can have whatever he wants, provided that his mother-in-law gets double. The man thinks for a moment and then says, "Okay, give me a million dollars and beat me half to death."

# Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

# How do most men define marriage? A very expensive way to get your laundry done free.

# The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

# Words to live by: Do not argue with a spouse who is packing your parachute

# First guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!" Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive.

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THUS GOD CREATED -INDIA

God was in the process of creating the universe.

  

    And he was explaining his subordinates ..............."Look everything should be in balance. For every 10 deer's there should be a lion. Look here my fellow angels; here is the country of the United States. I have blessed them with prosperity and money. But at the same time I have given them insecurity and tension.... And here is Africa. I have given them beautiful nature. But at the same time, I have given them climatic extremes.... And here is South America. I have given them lots of forests. But at the same time, I have given them lesser land so that they would have to cut off the forests... So you see fellows, everything should be in balance." One of the angels asked... "God, what is this beautiful country here?" God said "Aha...that is the crown piece of all.INDIA. “My most precious creation. It has understanding and friendly people. Sparkling streams, serene mountains. A culture which speaks of the great tradition that they     live. Technologically brilliant and with a heart of gold....." The angel was quite surprised "But God you said everything should be in balance."  

 God replied "Look at the neighbors I gave them”!!

HANDICAP

 Ramhluna Hnamte

Mizoten rualbanlo kan tih hi Saptawngin disabled people/person an ti a. Tunlai chuan ‘disabled’ pawh ti phal tawh lovin ‘Differently Abled people/person’ an ti tawh nghe nghe. ‘Disabled’ han tih khan thil engmah ti thei lo ah kan chhuah lek lekin a lang a, thiam taka ‘Differently Abled’ an lo ti ta hi a fuh khawp mai. Mizotawng chuan dah dawn ta i la, ‘thil engmah ti thei lo ni bik lovin mi pangai tih dan ang lo deuha an tih theih ti ve thei tho’ tihna a ni deuh duah awm e, tawi fel deuha han dah dan ka thiam tlat lo, a thiam zawkte dahah ti mai ang. ‘Disabled’ han tih ngawt dawn chuan Joni Eareckson Tada te hi chuan mi pangngai tam tak aiin tih theih a ngah zawk fe si awm e. Chuvangin, ‘Differently Abled’ tih hi a dik riau a ni.

Pianphunga rualbanlo han tih hian pian tirh atanga rualbanlo sa te, accident avanga rualban zo ta lo te pawh an awm a, rualbanlo te hi khawvel sorkar hrang hrangte hian an ngai pawimawh em em a, an pualin khawvel ram hrang hrangte hman turin December ni 3 hi Rualbanlote Ni, ‘World Disability Day’ ah an lo puang ta hial a nih hi. India sorkar emaw Mizoram sorkar emaw in engtin nge he ni hi an hman dawn chu ka hre lo a, helam panga mawhphurtu pawl te pawh an awm a, programme te pawh an duang turah ngai mai ila. He ni pual hian khawvel pum huap mi lar tak tak, mahse ‘Pianphunga rualbanlo’ kan tih ang chi ni si te chung chang tlem han ziak ve tha in ka hria a, mi tu emaw talin hlawkpui nan an lo hman pawh ka beisei.

Mizote hi tunhma chuan pianphunga rualbanlo leh mi ang lo kan tih ang chi ho chhawnchhaih a, bawlzan ching tak hnam kan ni thin a, a pawiin kan hnam changkanlohna lian tak pakhat pawh a ni thin. Tlema huihphai deuh bawl chiam a, bawl at zual te pawh kan nei thin awm e. Tunah erawh chuan heti lam kawngah kan lo harh chhuak ta a, bawl ai chuan khawngaihna nena anmahni chhawmdawl duhna thinlung kan lo nei ta hle a, a Kristianin a Mizo khawp mai. Khawvel pum huap chu sawi loh Mizo zingah pawh rualbanlo lehkha thiam sâng tak tak, mitdel chunga MA passed te, infiamna lama thei tak tak te pawh sawi tur an awm nual mai, kan sawi vek seng lo ang.

Joni Eareckson hi tleirawl tuai nalh tak, kum 17 lek a la nih laiin a tui chennaah a chesual hlauh mai a, a ring ruh a sawh tliak a, a ban leh a ke zawng zawng a zeng ta vek a, a lu chiah che theiin a dam chhungin wheel chair-ah a thut a ngai ta a ni. A tirah chuan Pathian chungah pawh a vui hle thin, a bei a dawng em em a, mahni intihhlum te pawh a tum hial thin. Hetianga a chetsual hma hian Joni hian Pathian hnenah a nun thlak danglam ngai a awm chuan thlak danglam turin a tawngtai thin a. Chutia khum laizawla ditip melh renga mut a han ngai ta mai leh chet sawn dawn pawha midangte tanpuinaa wheel chair hmanga che vel thei ta chauh a han ni ta mai chu a tawngtaina Pathianin a chhan dan em ni dawn tih a ngaihtuah nasa mai a. Chutia a in ngaihtuahna atang chuan Joni chu a lo harh chhuak ta a ni. Hei hi a tawngtaina Pathianin a chhanna ni ngeia hriatna a nei ta tlat mai. A taksa dang che thei lo mahse a lu a che thei a, a mit leh beng a tha a, a tawng thei bawk a, a ka, a lei leh ha te engkim a tha vek. Chu chu Pathian tan hman tangkai a tum ta a ni.

Pathian hnenah inkawl tir thar lehin harh tharna a lo chang leh ta. Wheel chair a thu chungin Pathian hmangaihna thu a puang chhuak a, chu chu Pathian pawhin mal a sawm a, Joni chu Pathian thusawitu lar tak a lo ni mai. A rawngbawlna atangin mi tam tak an piangthar a, an in hmuchhuak bawk. Chumai a la ni lo, a ka leh ha te hmang tangkaiin lemziaktu ropui leh lar tak a lo ni ta bawk. Lemziahna brush chu seh kawhin kut ke kim neite aimaha mawi leh nalhin lemziak a lo thiam leh ta. A lemziak (painting) te chu man man tak takin an hralh a, a lem ziak hmangin mi thinlungah thu a sawi ta bawk. Chu mai a la ni lo cheu, Joni hian lehkhabu a ziaka ni satliah lova, lehkhabu hralh tla tak tak a ziak a, a lehkhabute chu best seller an tihte a ni nawk mai. Lehkhabu hi 30 chuang a ziak a ni. Lemchan thiam a la ni cheu bawk. A chanchin rilru khawih tak chu amah ngeiin film-ah siamin a chang bawk a ni. Rawngbawlna lamah ‘Joni and Friends’ invuahin Ministry a din a, pianphunga rual banlo te zingah uar takin rawng an bawl bawk. America rama Kristian radio station-ah a sermon te tih chhuah reng a ni bawk.

Joni hian Award chi hrang hrang a dawng tam hle a, University leh College  hrang hrang atangin Honorary doctorate degree 5 leh Bachelor of Letters a dawng bawk. Duh se chu a hming bulah Dr. a dah tam thei hle dawn a nih chu! 1982 khan kum 32 mi niin Ken Tada nen in neiin Pathian rawng an bawl dun a, April ni 1, 2009 khan Indiana Wesleyan University Society of World Changers-ah lawmluh (inducted) a ni a, hemi tum hian Honorary Doctorate degree an hlan nghal nghe nghe. Helen Keller pawh hi Joni Eareckson ang deuh bawka rualbanlo a ni. A mit a tha lo a, a beng a tha lo bawk. Lehkhabu 14 a ziak a, articles tam tak a ziak a, mitdelte leh pianphunga rualbanlo te pualin lecture pe in khawvel a hrut chhuak hial a, rualbanloh vanga mi beidawngte hnenah beiseina thar leh tumruhna a pe nasa hle.

Stephen Hawking hi kan hre theuh ang. Kum 21 a tlin hnu lawk 1963 khan natna khirh tak, hriatna thazam khawih chhe chi, motor neurone disease an tih Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) a vei tih hmuhchhuah a ni. A natna avang chuan wheel chair-a nawr a ngai a, computer hmanga tawng thei chauh a ni ta. Mahse khawvela scientist ropui berte zinga mi a nih bakah a lehkhabu ‘A Brief History of Time’ chu Science khawvelah ngaihsan hlawh tak a ni. Khawl hmanga tawngin lecture pek a thulh chuang lo.

Greek mifing leh hlaphuah thiam ‘The Illiad leh the Odyssey’ ziaktu Homer hi mitdel niin an sawi bawk. Hmeichhe huaisen Joan of Arc kha phungzawl (epileptic) ching nia sawi a ni. Zaithiam lar chuai thei lo Elton John hi mit chhe uchuak tak a nih bakah epileptic a sawi a ni ve bawk.

English poet lar tak John Milton pawh hi kum 43 a tlin hnuah a mit a del a, a mitdel hnu pawhin hlaphuah leh thuziah a bansan chuang lo. A thuziak lar tak ‘Paradise Lost’ pawh hi a mitdel hnua a ziak a ni. German composer lar tak Ludwig van Beethoven pawh hi kum 28 a nihin a beng a ngawng a, mahse a beng ngawn vangin a hlaphuah a thulh chuang lo.

Incredible Hulk film serial a lo chang tawh thin Lou Ferrigno hi bengngawng a ni bawk. Novel tam tak lo ziak tawh, ‘Madame Bovary’ lar puitu Gustave Flaubert hi epileptic a ni. Film star lar Michael J.Fox pawh hi neuromuscular (hriatna thazam leh tihrawl) natna vei a ni. Chutiangin The Messiah phuahtu George Frederick Handel leh hmanlai General ropui Hannibal te pawh kha epileptic an ni.

Pianphunga rualbanlo han tih hian taksa a lang chhuak khawpa piangsual kher lo, bengngawng (bengngawng han tih hian bengchhet tihna te pawh a ni tih hria ila), mitdel, phungzawl nei leh a dangte pawh huam vek ta ila. Zaithiam Jose Feliciano hi mitdel a ni. Grammy Awards 6 a dawng tawh a, Grammy nomination 11 zet a hmu bawk. 1973 khan Best Folk Guitarist Award chu Guitar Player Magazine-in a lo hlan tawh bawk. African American zaithiam Stevie Wonder hi chu Zofaten ‘I Just call To Say I Love You’ hla avang pawh hian kan hre deuh vek awm e. A ni pawh hi mitdel a ni a, chuti chung chuan pianphung pangngai zaithiam tam tak aiin rimawi khawvelah a hlawhtling a nih hi.

Tunlai zaithiam lar tak Michael Bolton pawh hi a beng lehlam ngawng niin an sawi. Soft rock hla lar pui em emtu Michael Bolton hi a beng lehlam chhet mahse a aw a lai chuang lo va, a zaithiamna a chuai chuang lo. Album pawh maktaduai 53 teh meuh a hralh a ni.

Zaithiam lam han hrut zel ila. Jeff Healey Band lar tak maia an guitarist leh vocalist Jeff Healey pawh hi mitdel a ni, mahse an band larzia leh amah mimal pawh a larzia chu an band hminga a hming an hman danah hian a chiang reng mai. Jeff Healey hi nikum 2008, March ni 2 khan a lo boral nghe nghe.

African American jazz singer lar tak Ray Charles pawh hi kum 7 a nih atangin a mit a del a, mahse chu chuan rimawi khawvela a tuina a hmet mit zo chuang lo. Jazz leh soul singer lar tak, khawvel hriat niin gospel hlate pawh tam tak a record a, kum 73 mi niin ni 10.6.2004 khan a boral.

Country singer lar tak, lung kuai em ema zai thin Ronnie Milsap hi piantirh ata mitdel a ni. Chuti chung chuan rimawi khawvelah a hlawhtling berte zinga mi niin Grammy Award winner a ni.

Fakna hla (hymn) tha tak tak phuahtu Fanny Crosby hi thla 6 mi lek a la nih laiin damlohna avangin a mit a del a, nikhua a lo hriat hnu pawhin a mit a del avangin vawikhat mah a vui lo an ti. School te kalin lehkha a zir a, zirtirtuah te tangin English leh History a zirtir thin. Kristian hla 9000 zet a phuah a, a hun lai chuan ‘Hymn Queen’ an ti hial. Kan hlabu-ah pawh a hlaphuah tam tak kan seng lut a nih hi. Vawikhat chu Pastor pakhatin Pathianin talent tha tak tak a pek rualin a mit a del tlat mai chu pawi a tih pui thu a hrilh ngawt mai a. Fanny chuan rang zetin ‘Khai mai mai thin a, ka pian tirh khan Pathian hnenah thil dil dawn ta ila, mitdel hi ka dil ang,’ a ti daih mai. Pastor-in engvang maw tia a zawh chuan, ‘Vanram ka thlen huna ka mit ka men hunah ka Chhandamtu hmuh hmasak ber ka duh a, chu hun ka ngaihtuah chuan he dam chhunga mitdela awm mai mai te chu engah mah ka ngai lo. Chhandamtu hmuh hlan ka nghakhlel ber mai,’ tiin a chhang a ni.

Fanny hian hlaphuah mai bakah lehkhabu tha tak tak engemaw zat a ziak bawk. Kum 95 mi niin 12.2.1915 khan kumkhuaa a chhandamtu kianga mitvara awm tawh turin khawvel a chhuahsan.

Daily Bread hlui tawh taka ka chhiarah chuan Chicago-a pianphunga rualbanlo pakhat chung chang a ziak a. He pa hi a hming tarlan a ni lo a, mitdel a nih mai bakah kut leh ke a nei lo bawk. Ringtu tha tak a ni a, a chantawkah a lungawi em em. Kut leh ke nei lo mahse Bible chhiar ve theih a duh si a, mitdelten kuta khawiha an chhiar theih chi Braille hawrawp a zir ta a. Kut a neih si loh avangin a leiin Braille hawrawp chu liakin a zir ta a ni. Tichuan a lei hmangin Braille Bible a lo chhiar thei ta a, mi tam tak hnenah Pathian thu a hrilh theih mai bakah nitin Pathian thu chhiarin Pathian a pawl thei ta a ni.

Mizo zingah pawh pianphunga rualbanlo sawi tur an awm nual kan tih tawh kha. Pu Zadawla, Pathianthu hriltu lar tak pawh hi piantirh ata mitdel niin an sawi. Mitvar nazawng aiin Pathian lehkhabu chhung thu, bung leh chang chu a hre daih zawk a, a thusawi atanga piangthar tam tak an awm. A rawngbawlna a nung em em a ni.

Pu Lalsangluaia Sailo, Pu Luaia tia hriat lar, Samlukhai lal fapa hi a tet laiin zeng hri mak takin a man a, hnungzang pawngin tiang tawite hawlin kunin a kal thei. Thluak tha tak a nih avang leh lehkhathiam a nih avangin Tlabung khuaah Primary School a din a, Pu Luaia School tih a ni thin. A school naupangte chu an ziak a mawi a, chhiarkawp an thiam em em bawk a, a zirtir chhuah mithiam tam tak an chhuak a ni.

MIZORAM

Just an extract from my Thesis 1st Chapter

Mizoram at a glance

Perching on the high hills of North Eastern corner, Mizoram is a storehouse of natural beauty with its endless variety of landscape, hilly terrains, meandering streams deep gorges, rich wealth of flora and fauna. Flanked by Bangladesh on the west and Myanmar on the east and south, Mizoram occupies an importance strategic position having a long international boundary of 722 Kms. Its Location is Latitude 21^o 58' and 24^o 35' N Longitude 92^o 15' & 93 ^o 29' E. It also shared Inter State Border with Assam - 123 Kms; with Tripura - 277 Kms and with Manipur - 95 Kms.

Mizoram is a mountainous region which became the 23rd State of the Union in February 1987. The Area covered is 21,087.00 Sq. Kms. The Population of the state today is 8, 91,058 (Male:   459783; Female: 431275). The Sex Ratio is 938 female per 1000 male. The state is well known in its Literacy Rate being second Highest in the country with 88.49 %( Male- 90.69 and Female- 86.13). Mizoram has the most variegated hilly terrain in the eastern part of India. The hills are steep and are separated by rivers which flow either to the north or the south creating deep gorges between the hill ranges. The average height of the hills is about 900 metres. Mizoram has a pleasant climate. It is generally cool in summer and not very cold in winter. The entire area is under the direct influence of the monsoon. During winter, the temperature varies from 11 C to 21 C and in the summer it varies between 20 C and 29 C.Winter in Mizoram is wonderfully blue, and in the enchanting view of wide stretches of a vast lake of cloud. Mizoram has great natural beauty and endless variety of landscape and is very rich in flora and fauna. Almost all kinds of tropical trees and plants thrive in Mizoram. The hills are marvelously green.

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A THEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO POLITICS

Politics is an important issue in the world today. And we are surrounded by the presence of politics in the news and in our daily lives.  How should Christians approach the issue of politics? What issues need to be made important? Should we stick with a party vote? Can we serve God by working for the values of His Kingdom in our country’s politics? In this paper I will look at what theological methods we can use to begin answering these questions.

            What authorities should Christians use to tell us how to vote and live in our political world? For Christians the ultimate authority is God. He has the first and the last say in our lives, and how we should lead them. God has given us several sources of authority in order to study Him. According to teachings of John Wesley, God has given us four different sources of authority for doing theology: the Scriptures, the Church, reason, and our experiences. This is referred to as the Wesleyan Quadrilateral.

God has given us His Word in the Scriptures to guide and teach us. Thus, God’s Word, the Bible, is the authority many Christians turn to first (and with good reason). The Bible is God’s specific revelation to us. It is “God-breathed.” We can use the commands given in the Bible to guide us in how we vote and interact in politics. For example, one can know that one of the Ten Commandments is “Thou shall not kill.” A person who believes we must follow this command and who believes in the sanctity of human life because we are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) might use this authority to form their opinions about the issue of abortion.

            Scripture also has words to say about how we should respect our government. Romans 13:1 says, “Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God” (NIV). In Jeremiah, God is speaking to His people who have been exiled to a pagan land (which some may compare to the United States today…) and He encourages them to support the government there anyway. “And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare” (Jeremiah 29:7 NLT). Even when we are living in a godless nation, we are commanded to pray for our nation. But there are instances where we are given the example to defy the authority of government when it clashes with the authority of God (Acts 4:19, Exodus 1:17). God’s authority must come first, but in the majority of cases we are to submit to the authority of our government.

            According to Wesley’s quadrilateral method of theology, another source of authority is the Church, and the traditions held within it. When we are seeking guidance for politics, it is difficult to find straight answers in our churches in these modern days. Churches are just as divided politically as any other group. And if we look to the tradition of the church, this doesn’t really help because back when the Church was united, the political system wasn’t anything like what it is today and they don’t really deal with the same issues. But a person can always turn to their church for guidance on issues, drawing on the knowledge of spiritual leaders who might be able to direct them towards God’s will on a matter.

            Another source of authority is our sense of reason and logic. This is a big one in politics, because for many in the secular world, reason is the ultimate source of authority. Christians should use their reason to back up the authority of Scripture and the Church, but we must remember that the authority of God (as passed down through the Scriptures and His Church) must carry a greater weight in our decisions than our reason, which is ultimately flawed because we are fallen creatures. But reason is still a gift from God and a valid source of authority. For example, one could use their powers of reasoning to arrive at an opinion about an economic issue. We may see all the options and use our reason to anticipate the implications of all the alternatives in order to arrive at the best one. Reason can lead us to the decision that would be best for our nation and most honoring to God.

            The last source of authority in Wesley’s quadrilateral is our experience. This is the most subjective and personal source of the four, so although it is a valid source of authority, it is probably the one we should be most wary of. Many people will vote on a certain issue because of how it directly pertains to them in the workplace or in life. In this case, they are using their experience as a basis for their political view.

One can also turn to natural theology to direct their political views. Natural theology is how God has revealed himself to the world in general, through nature or anything else in His creation. For example, we see God’s creation all around us—that which He called good. These observations may influence our views about environmental issues. We might see God’s beautiful creation and know that it is something that needs to be preserved.

As we have seen, we have been given many different sources of authority by God with which we can use to form our opinions about many different issues. Even still, Christians may disagree on a number of issues, because they may try to solve them with different sources of authority. Or even using the same kinds of authority may still lead to differing opinions. It is up to us to discern what God’s will is for a situation based on all the decision-making tools he has provided us with. Maybe we will never know what is ultimately right for an issue in this life. But we can certainly use all our resources to try to discover that.

           

FAMOUS QUOTES-II

~ Round 2 – The Thinkers Team ~  

Francis Bacon: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty. 

Laozi: Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.  

Baruch Spinoza: Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.  

Bernard Baruch: Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.  

Benjamin Disraeli: Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.  

Leonardo da Vinci: Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.  

Havelock Ellis: Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.  

Cicero: Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.  

Confucius: The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please. 

Erich Fromm: Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.' Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.' Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.' 

Alfred North Whitehead: The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.  

Jefferson Davis: Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.

CRAZY QUOTES

1. I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb and I also know that I'm not blonde.      Dolly Parton

2. You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.       Erica Jong

3. I think-therefore I'm single. Lizz Winstead-

4. When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. Elayne Boosler-

5. Behind every successful man is a surprised  woman. Maryon Pearson-

6. In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a women.
    Margaret Thatcher-

7. I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.   Zsa Zsa Gabor-

FAMOUS QUOTES

Round 1 – The Presidential Team

John F. Kennedy: And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.  

Abraham Lincoln: It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

   

Ronald Reagan: Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.  

Mao Zedong: Politics is war carried out without bloodshed, while war is politics carried out with bloodshed.

John F. Kennedy: Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.  

Bill Clinton: As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.  

Abraham Lincoln: It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. 

Georges Pompidou: A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. 

Jimmy Carter: America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.  

Franklin D. Roosevelt: We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.  

Woodrow Wilson: I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

CUTE LITTLE POEM

                                                                 



WhEn I sAw YoU...
I WaS aFrAiD tO tALk To YoU...
WhEn I tALkEd To YoU...
i WaS aFrAiD To HoLd YoU...
WhEn I HoLd YoU...
I WaS AfRaId To LoVe YoU...

NoW ThAt I LoVe YoU ...
I'm AfRaiD To LoSe YoU...


SoMeTiMeS LoVe HuRtS...
BuT IF iT DoEsN't HuRt...
ThEn It IsN't LoVe...
HoLd On 2 Da PeRsOn U LoVe...
BeFoRe ThEy SLiP AwAy...
oR eLsE U CaN NeVeR Get ThEm BaCk...

AROUND THE CORNER

I like this poetry/exhortation By Henson Towne, 

my first reading of this was in my High school days, am really impressed and inspired by it...

it is based on true story
    
        

Around the corner I have a friend,
        In this great city that has no end,
        Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
        And before I know it, a year is gone.
        And I never see my old friends face,
        For life is a swift and terrible race,
        He knows I like him just as well,
        As in the days when I rang his bell.
        And he rang mine
        if, we were younger then,
        And now we are busy, tired men.
        Tired of playing a foolish game,
        Tired of trying to make a name.
        "Tommorow" I say "I will call on Jim"
        "Just to show that I'm thinking of him."
        But tommorow comes and tommorow goes,
        And distance between us grows and grows.
        Around the corner!- yet miles away,
        "Here's a telegram sir"
        "Jim died today."
        And that's what we get and deserve in the end.
        Around the corner, a vanished friend.
        Remember to always say what you mean.
        If you love someone, tell them.
        Don't  be afraid to express yourself.
        Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you.
        Because when you decide that it is  the right time,
        it might be too late.
        Seize the  day.
        Never have regrets.
        And most importantly, stay close to  your friends and family,
        for they have helped make you the  person that you are today.
        Pass this along to your friends.
        It could make a  difference.
        The difference between doing all that you can  or having
        regrets which may stay with you forever.


        "It's  nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."
    
        "Of all things you wear, smile is most important."