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shipping issue

coronaa — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:49:41 +0800

so i bought an item from lazada

have yet to receive it

more than a month in transit?!

lazada also already sent me email to confirm if i have received item or not coz need to file refund within 7 days

so amacam?

its meme time

coronaa — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:03:44 +0800

sked pipu 14 floor

Rate Coronaa's ginger bread man

coronaa — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:34:08 +0800

New York Times: The Christmas Revolution

coronaa — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 10:50:50 +0800

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Peter Wehner
BECAUSE the Christmas story has been told so often for so long, it’s easy even for Christians to forget how revolutionary Jesus’ birth was. The idea that God would become human and dwell among us, in circumstances both humble and humiliating, shattered previous assumptions. It was through this story of divine enfleshment that much of our humanistic tradition was born.

For most Christians, the incarnation — the belief that God, in the person of Jesus, walked in our midst — is history’s hinge point. The incarnation’s most common theological take-away relates to the doctrine of redemption: the belief that salvation is made possible by the sinless life and atoning death of Jesus. But there are other, less familiar aspects of Jesus’ earthly pilgrimage that are profoundly important.

One of them was rejecting the Platonic belief that the material world was evil. In Plato’s dualism, there was a dramatic disjuncture between ideal forms and actual bodies, between the physical and the spiritual worlds. According to Plato, what we perceive with our senses is illusory, a distorted shadow of reality. Hence philosophy’s most famous imagery — Plato’s shadow on the cave — where those in the cave mistook the shadows for real people and named them.

This Platonic view had considerable influence in the early church, but that influence faded because it was in tension with Christianity’s deepest teachings. In the Hebrew Bible, for example, God declares creation to be good — and Jesus, having entered the world, ratified that judgment. The incarnation attests to the existence of the physical, material world. Our life experiences are real, not shadows. The incarnation affirms the delight we take in earthly beauty and our obligation to care for God’s creation. This was a dramatic overturning of ancient thought.

The incarnation also reveals that the divine principle governing the universe is a radical commitment to the dignity and worth of every person, since we are created in the divine image.

But just as basic is the notion that we have value because God values us. Steve Hayner, a theologian who died earlier this year, illustrated this point to me when he observed that gold is valuable not because there is something about gold that is intrinsically of great worth but because someone values it. Similarly, human beings have worth because we are valued by God, who took on flesh, entered our world, and shared our experiences — love, joy, compassion and intimate friendships; anger, sorrow, suffering and tears. For Christians, God is not distant or detached; he is a God of wounds. All of this elevated the human experience and laid the groundwork for the ideas of individual dignity and inalienable rights.

In his book “A Brief History of Thought,” the secular humanist and French philosopher Luc Ferry writes that in contrast with the Greek understanding of humanity, “Christianity was to introduce the notion that humanity was fundamentally identical, that men were equal in dignity — an unprecedented idea at the time, and one to which our world owes its entire democratic inheritance.”

Indeed, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (blessed are the poor in spirit and the pure in heart, the meek and the merciful), his touching of lepers, and his association with outcasts and sinners were fundamentally at odds with the way the Greek and Roman worlds viewed life, where social status was everything.

“Christianity placed charity at the center of its spiritual life as no pagan cult ever had,” according to the theologian David Bentley Hart, “and raised the care of widows, orphans, the sick, the imprisoned, and the poor to the level of the highest of religious obligations.” Christianity played a key role in ending slavery and segregation. Today Christians are taking the lead against human trafficking and on behalf of unborn life. They maintain countless hospitals, hospices and orphanages around the world.

We moderns assume that compassion for the poor and marginalized is natural and universal. But actually we think in this humanistic manner in large measure because of Christianity. What Christianity did, my friend the Rev. Karel Coppock once told me, is to “transform our way of thinking about the poor and sick and create an entirely different cultural given.”

One other effect of the incarnation: It helps those of us of the Christian faith to avoid turning God into an abstract set of principles. Accounts of how Jesus interacted in this messy, complicated, broken world, through actions that stunned the people of his time, allow us to learn compassion in ways that being handed a moral rule book never could.

For one thing, rule books can’t shed tears or express love; human beings do. Seeing how Jesus dealt with the religious authorities of his day (often harshly) and the sinners and outcasts of his day (often tenderly and respectfully) adds texture and subtlety to human relationships that we could never gain otherwise.

Christians have often fallen short of what followers of Jesus are called to be. We have seen this in the Crusades, religious wars and bigotry; in opposition to science, in the way critical thought is discouraged and in harsh judgmentalism. To this day, many professing Christians embody the antithesis of grace.

We Christians would do well to remind ourselves of the true meaning of the incarnation. We are part of a great drama that God has chosen to be a participant in, not in the role of a conquering king but as a suffering servant, not with the intention to condemn the world but to redeem it. He saw the inestimable worth of human life, regardless of social status, wealth and worldly achievements, intelligence or national origin. So should we.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/25/opini...n.html?referer=

Coronaa wishes u lot a joyful n Merry Christmas!

coronaa — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 22:41:48 +0800

lol my bf kena kacau gay

coronaa — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:20:55 +0800

so funny

he say he was at sc to service car

then got this chinese gay unker

keep checking him out n looking at him

then he go bayar time d gay unker follow him stand near2 n smile2 all

hahahaahhahahahahahahahaa

mcm kiut je komplen kena kacau gay

inb4 untung la gay pun nak kat balak ko

sigh i baru kena speed trap

coronaa — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:39:02 +0800

speed limit is 80kmh

wasnt paying attention n doing abt 90

suddenly saw d mata hiding between pillars in d middle of d highway divider under d flyover pointing d 'gun' at me

x berbaloi langsung kena

celaka betul

baik i speed 140

sigh

Coronaa reviews Star Wars: The Force Awakens

coronaa — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 03:07:05 +0800

[@Vexation]

it was awesome but could hv been better!

esp d part after sukses liao WTFFFFF leia no hug chewwy first dafuqqqqq

den i realize coz maybe thts her....

k la hv to watch it again lol

Star Wars Malaysian Premiere!

coronaa — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 12:15:29 +0800

who else watching at midnight? hehehehe

FOUR MORE HOURS

START LIAO

what happened at d petrol station?

coronaa — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:26:01 +0800

why got so many ppl queuing to pump petrol?!?!

ini haribulan 13

amacam?????????

indian /k/ help me please!

coronaa — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:11:29 +0800

where can i find putu mayam???? is there a restaurant anywhere tht serves it?

wtb grass trimmer

coronaa — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:18:39 +0800

am looking for a grass trimmer

cant rmb it it was bnd or bosch but d model i saw was rated 250w

im afraid it wont be powerful enough

amacam ktards?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha

coronaa — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:11:12 +0800

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buying superdrive enclosure and caddy

coronaa — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:58:10 +0800

so ive found a vast price diff

some superdrive enclosures going for 200 bucks

n some superdrive caddys going for a mere 40

wud thr b issues if i were to buy d cheaper ones?

aliexpress shipping problem

coronaa — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:08:34 +0800

hi guys

so i bought somethin on aliexpress

shipping company: Yanwen China

i track via yanwen website n it shows arrival in msia on 16/11/2015

more than a week havent got anything

any idea? file dispute?

where can i find cheapo number plate replacement?

coronaa — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:54:22 +0800

need d back plate alphabets n digits

went to ask accessory shop they quote rm80 for 1 isnt tht bloody ridiculous

friend was telling me to check brothers in kelana jaya but traffic along ldp is sooooo bad

any hardware stores?

should i buy this powerbank?

coronaa — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:11:16 +0800

i checked funko-pop products n mcm bukan ori je

sigh

takut after buy phone pulak rosak sbb pakai powerbank ciplak

Need your help (iPhone issue)

coronaa — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 03:21:51 +0800

hi guys, i need your help. i have changed my phone's password before sleep last night and when i woke up i totally forgot the new password.

end up now the iPhone is disabled and need to connect to itunes.

i don't know what to do but now google-ing to find the answer to solve the problem. please help.

inb4, padan muka.

Oh boyyy...cupid corner is so...

coronaa — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 00:33:30 +0800

Cringeyyyyy sialllllll lol

N some of d threads in thr r hilarious

The high quality of our govt doctors

coronaa — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:57:57 +0800

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/fl...therapy.709451/

Take a look lol