THE PIC OF 5 MOST UNIQUE HABITS

Stanley, A Transgender act like babies

 Dutchman Wim Hof, The Iceman

Casie, Eating her Husband cremation ashes

 

Berta, Drinking Nail Polish

Sarah Carmen, Woman Orgasm 200x total Every Day

5 Most Unique Habits

Behavior is the act of a person who is affected by the customs, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, power, persuasion or genetics. Behaviorcan be grouped into reasonable behavior, acceptable, bizarre behavior, anddeviant behavior. In sociology, behavior is considered as being shown to others and therefore is an act of very basic human social.

Behavior can change to habit. Behaviors aredone repeatedly and lasts longer, it could be categorized as a habit. Many things affect a person's behavior turns into ahabit. Such emotion, power, feelings and so on. Here is the unique habits that shock the world ;).

1. A Transgenderact like babies

       Some people saythe best age of a person's life is when theywere babies. At that time, a person can get what they want, ranging from food, drinkor other things. Not only that, the toddler periodis mostly spent playing, sleeping and other fun activities. Maybe it was the one that affects a person's transgender named Rileyto behave like a baby. Not just a matter ofbehavior, way of dressing 25-year-old Riley that was not unlike a toddler. In fact, almostevery day Rileywearing diapers.
      At five years ago, Riley was a man who lived in the timeBuffalo, New York. But Riley who loved life baby, then choose to become atransgender and turned into a woman. Riley is also very obsessed tobecome a baby. He then not only dress but also wearingher diapers ordiaper a baby commonlyused. Every dayfor 12 hours, Rileywearing only pajamas, drinking a bottle of milk, put a pacifier during sleep often speakslike a baby who can not talk. Her bedroom was transformed into a baby'sbedroom. A similar case occurred in a mannamed Stanley ThorntonJunior who was 29 years old.

      In his personal blog, writes Riley if the past 15years of his childhood, his back turned. At age 20 he has changed his name to Riley. In the blog previously mentioned ifthe name is Fabine. Still on the blog,at the age of 21 years he has identified himself as a genderdifferent from the birth certificate.

2. Men Who Do not Feel Cold

      His name Dutchman Wim Hof, also known as the Iceman. Dutchman Wim Hof, TheIceman.This man was able to swim in the icy water andbury himself in ice.In fact he had climbed Mount Blanconly with shorts!.The scientists can not explain this physical condition, how can 48-year-old man was resistant evenat home in temperaturesas cold as it should be fatal to the average person.

3. Eating her Husband cremation ashes

      Losing a loved one is certainly left a deep sadness. It’s hard to forget it. As that experienced by Casie, when her husband Shawn passed away. Her feelings and emotions become unstable. This condition was bring her to the strange habits, which until now is still living,eating ashes of her husband whohad been cremated. This couple married in 2008.

     Casie's mother named Linda says, the age oftheir marriage is just too short, but they live happily until Shawn had died because of a sudden asthma attack. ForCasie, then the world seemed to have stopped spinning .Casie always carried her husband’s crematory ashes with her wherever she goes. Casie want to be close to him even though his figure was turned into ashes. 

      But the strange habit  happening when her husband crematory ash for the first time spilled into his hands. Because feelings of love, affection and do not want to removehim, Casie then lickingcremated in her hand . Since then, Casie can not stop her habits, always eating her husband’s crematory ashes. In fact, the ash had remained a part of it. In a television show, Casie said if her husband cremated it tasted likerotten eggs, sand, and sandpaper. What do Casiecertainly surprised a number of people, including law. Not just out of habit, but whatdo Casie alsocan be harmful to health. The cremated ashes can contains chemicals that can cause psychosis if swallowed.

4. Drinking Nail Polish

       Everyone knows if the nail polish contains harmfulchemical elements are very high. Instead of drinking it, to inhale that someone would think twice for fear of adverse effectsof chemicals on the health of their body. However, a 23-year-old woman named Bertha's almost every daydrank five bottles of nail polish.

      Bertha said she did not remember when was the first time tasting nail polish until makes her addictive. She just remember if that habit started from her hobby on paint her nails. Bertha said she did not even get throughthe days without fixingher nail polish.
      From the video footage uploaded on YouTube, we can see how terrible the brushwhen Bertha putnail polish on his tongue and licked until clean. Although you can imagine if all the nail polish has the same taste, but Bertha says blue is his favorite color. Bertha was really like and need nail polish to get through her days. However, her family is very concerned with the damage in her body that could happen. Bertha had do severalmedical  check up, but it still can’t detect the influence the effect of drink nail polishto her body.

5. Woman Orgasm 200x totalEvery Day

      Her name is Sarah Carmen, she was 24 years oldand lives in England. Sarah Carmen, SexualArousal Syndrome sufferer(PSAs). Sarah Carmen is agreat woman because she can easilyget a stimulus from anything to orgasm until  200x a day! Imagine that!This condition is also called Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAs) that causes increased blood flow to the sex organs.Sarah said, occasionallyshe did a lot of sexjust to appease her. And for the men did not seem tobother them because she can climax easily.

PIC OF THE 5 WEIRD DISEASE IN THE WORLD

Walking Corpse Syndrome

 Alice In Wonderland Syndrome

 Pica Syndrome

 Progeria Syndrome

Werewolf Syndrome

5 WEIRD DISEASE IN THE WORLD

1.  WALKING CORPSE SYNDROMS

     A syndrome caused by mental stress which patients complain of a loss of some or all of his body. They often felt had died and become a walking corpse.This illusion is usually expanded that patients can smell his own rotting flesh and feel worms crawling through their skin. This syndrome is usually experienced by people who suffer from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. But people who suffer from migraines, tumors or trauma are also reported frequently experiencing this strange disease.

   Treatment should follow the diagnosis of all the basics, as well monothera peutic the most strategic combinations that have been reported. Antidepressants, Antipsychotic and mood stabilsers also used. Many positive reports useful to Electroconvulsive Therapy, mostly combined with pharmacotherapy. Walking corpse syndrome is not a contagious disease.

2.  ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNDROMS

    Alice In Wonderland Syndrome or called Todd's Syndrome or Mikropsia disorientation is a condition where there is a nerve that affects visual perception in humans. Patients with this syndrome will feel to see something like friends, animals, or objects being smaller than reality. In general, the perceived object appears very far or very close at the same time.For example, a dog will look as big as a mouse or the car will be shrunk to scale. the condition is associated with the perception of course, it happened because the error with the brain processes of the information structure not because of eyes damages.This disease can not be cured, but there are medications to reduce symptoms significantly.

3.  PICA SYNDROMS

   Pica is a type of eating disorder and at the same time a mental disorder that is characterized by consumption and ingestion of non-food and non-nutritive items like clay, dirt, sand, paper, glue, buttons, toothpaste, soap, chalk and many others. Some people may see sufferers as just “freaky eaters”, but this condition is very dangerous especially among small children because the things that they eat are not edible and certain ingredients like lead is very poisonous and can damage the stomach linings and may even kill.

   The most commonly affected by pica eating disorder are children as young as two years. At this stage the behavior is not really diagnosed as pica eating disorder because children typically put things in their mouths as part of their growing stage. Pica among pregnant women is also common and the condition is overcome by the time of the childbirth, but some carry on the pica eating disorder even after giving birth. Persons with mental retardation or developmental disabilities are also likely to develop pica eating disorder.

4.  PROGERIA

     Progeria is caused by a single tiny defect in a child's genetic code, but it has devastating and life-changing consequences. On average, a child born with this disease will die at the age of 13. When they see their bodies fast forward through the normal process of aging they show a striking development of physical symptoms, often including premature baldness, heart disease, thinning bones and arthritis. Progeria is extremely rare, there are only about 48 people living with it in the whole world. However, ever be found where there is a family of her five children suffering from progeria.

5. WEREWOLF SYNDROMS

    When he was two years old, Abys DeJesus starting to look weird, feathers appear on the face and parts of her body, and then the doctor said she had a condition known as Human Werewolf Syndrome. The disease is called werewolf syndrome because people with it look like werewolves - except without the sharp teeth and claws. In Mexico, a large family of people have hair covering their faces and upper bodies. Two brothers even offered a part in the X-Files but they rejected the offer.

Notes from the Cave

We will soon be leaving for the 30-minute drive to Cincinnati for Thanksgiving.  It will be at the house of my wife's aunt, which is where we have generally been celebrating Thanksgiving since my wife's grandparents' died.  My in-laws live two doors down from my wife's aunt, and the grandparents, when they were living, lived across the street.  Small town scenario in a large metropolis.

M has been slaving in the kitchen all morning, and it's about 269 degrees in there.  I helped by washing a pan for her :)

I recently finished a fantastic historical novel set in the 12th century called Lionheart, by Sharon Kay Penman.  As the name implies, it is about the life of Richard I, specifically his exploits on the Third Crusade in the early 1190's.

I'm now on to a Robert McCammon novel called Mister Slaughter.  Over the last year, McCammon has become my new favorite author.  I just LOVE his books.  Sitting down to read a McCammon book is like sitting down with an old friend.  I haven't disregarded my previous favorite, Wilbur Smith, but I've read all of Smith's 35+ books now and he only publishes a new one every couple of years or so.  Over 80 now, his newer books just don't have the spark of the older ones.

Work has been interesting of late.  Our lead tech on 2nd shift has been out for a few weeks, so I have been given the duty of temporary lead tech (with no extra pay of course).  It has been very hard - harder, I suppose, than I would have expected.  In addition to handling departmental calls and crises, as well as a few administrative tasks, I also still have to do my part as a regular old x-ray tech - namely, working in the ER, doing portable exams on the inpatient floors, and running x-ray machines in the OR.  So it's been pretty stressful, but I am adjusting to it now.  Makes me appreciate the work our real lead techs do year 'round.

In my predictions for the presidential election this year, I correctly picked 47 of the 50 states.  Additionally, every state I picked for Obama went to Obama.  The only ones I missed were states where I picked Romney, but Obama ended up winning.  Neither the electoral vote, nor the nationwide popular vote, was as close as I expected.  However, I said at the time that given two possibilities - A large Obama victory, or any Romney victory at all - I thought it was more likely that Obama would win big than Romney would win at all.  Still, I predicted a closer battle.  All political biases aside, I think the Republicans have some real soul-searching to do to figure out how to appeal to Americans across generations, economic backgrounds, and ethnicities.

Time to head to Cincinnati.  M just told me we were supposed to be there at 2 pm.  It's 215.

 

The Virgin Birth

The Virgin Birth: Miracle or Legend is my latest book at Amazon.  It originated as a series here on my blog, but I have updated and revised it for publication as an e-book.  With Christmas upon us, it's a good time to examine this most important of Biblical stories.  

From Amazon.com: 

In this brief volume, writer and historian B. Scott Christmas presents a lucid and compelling account of the Biblical story of Christ's birth. Examining all the key texts, Christmas takes his reader through the story of the nativity, searching for the history behind one of Christianity's most influential beliefs. 

Is the story of the virgin birth literal history, or creative liturgy? 

How can Christians in the 21st century embrace this timeless story in a genuine and authentic way? 

Christmas tackles these questions head-on, presenting a thorough analysis on the creation of the stories, and offering a thought-provoking new way to understand exactly what the writers of the Gospels were trying to portray.

Follow this link to buy it at Amazon.  If you don't have a Kindle, no problemo!  Just download a free Kindle app for your computer, smart phone, whatever!

The ObamaPhone and U.S. Welfare

Living, as I do, in an area that can only be described as "conservative," I have heard a lot of comments the last few days from friends and co-workers who are disappointed with the results of the election.  

It seems, around here at least, that one of the most common issues among conservatives relates to welfare.  So I thought I'd make a few points to clear up some confusion.

THE OBAMAPHONE

Have you heard about this?  According to the stories, the Obama administration has created a program intended to provide high-end cell phones to welfare recipients.  The numbers recited are typically something like 16 million people receiving free cell phones.  At work just this evening, I heard someone comment on this phenomenon and lament the fact that a bunch of people who "refuse to work" have "better phones than I do."  

This story has been passed around so much and so frequently that it appears that the vast majority of people familiar with it don't realize that it's all a hoax.  

It's not real.  

It apparently started as a spam email forward (shocking, I know), and then got to YouTube and went viral.  I can tell you with absolute certainty that a significant number of college-educated people who I work with believe that this story, and this program, is real. 

It's not real.  It's made up.  There is no such thing as an ObamaPhone.

Welfare in the United States is a very, very complicated business with numerous different facets.  The very term "Welfare Program" can be misleading, because there is no one, single, overarching government program that establishes welfare.  Instead, it's a combination of numerous federal, state, and local laws that, when taken together, constitute "welfare," or "government assistance" in America.  And it's not even administrated by the federal government; state governments run welfare programs. 

In 1985, a program was added to existing welfare laws to provide assistance to low-income individuals to help pay for their phone bills - phones being a necessary device in modern life and irreplaceable in an emergency.  It is called the Lifeline program.  

Until 2008, it included only land line phones.  That year, during the Bush administration, assistance was expanded to cell phones, due to the decrease in land line usage.  Other than more companies getting permission from the FCC to provide subsidized phones to low-income individuals, no further changes have occurred during the Obama administration.  

Finally, the money that funds this program comes from fees assessed to telecommunications companies.  In other words, your tax dollars do not pay for these government-subsidized phones.  

The simple fact is, this entire story has gone viral simply because it plays on the misguided suppositions and false assumptions that people already have - that welfare recipients are somehow living like kings while the rest of us work our asses off to stay afloat.  In the hospital where I work, we have a lot of low-income patients.  Many of them, in the Emergency Department in particular, come in with cell phones.  So then you hear a story about the ObamaPhone, and all of a sudden it seems to click.  That must be why all these ratty patients come in with fancy cell phones!  The liberals are giving it to them!   

In fact, the whole thing floats on an undercurrent of racism and especially classism.  How else could a poor black person have a nice cell phone?  It couldn't possibly be that maybe they saved their own money to buy it, or maybe their grandmother bought it for them, or maybe they're just not as poor as they look.  It must be a liberal agenda in Washington.

And this leads into a much broader discussion about welfare in general.  Another co-worker of mine, yesterday, told me that she agrees with Romney's infamous "47%" comment.  She feels, basically, that half the country believe they are victims and won't work and rely on the government to take care of them.  I'm sure if pressed, she might agree that it's not really 47% of Americans, but I bet she thinks it's pretty close to that.

In fact, roughly 4.5 million Americans receive welfare in any given month.  By "welfare," I mean actual cash from the government that is given to poor people to help them pay their bills.  In case you aren't good with numbers, that represents roughly 1.5% of the U.S. population.  One-point-five percent.  Nowhere in the same universe as 47%.  Even if you count people who receive food stamps or other government assistance in any given month, it's only about 15%.  

The notion that half the country, or even anywhere remotely close to half the country, is living on government assistance is ridiculous.  

Welfare laws were overhauled in 1996, during the Clinton administration.  It was a bi-partisan overhaul between Clinton (a Democrat) and a Republican-controlled Congress.  Limits were added for how long you can be on welfare (no more than 2 consecutive years, and a 5-year lifetime limit), and a work requirement was added for those on welfare who are capable of working.  As a result, the number of people getting a welfare check every month has decreased by 67% in the last 15 years - from over 12 million in 1997 to the 4.5 million today.  

THE POVERTY LINE

The most recent numbers I have seen in regards to poverty in the U.S. is that roughly 15% of Americans live at, around, or below the the poverty line.  The "poverty line" varies depending on age and family size (for a family with two adults and three children, the poverty line is about $26,000 per year before taxes; for a single adult under the age of 65, it's about $11,000 per year).  

What happens if you put the welfare numbers together with the poverty numbers?  15% of Americans live in poverty.  Only 1.5% of Americans receive a welfare check.  That means that even among poor people, the vast majority are not "on welfare" at any given time.  

It seems that a lot of folks go through life just assuming that all the poor and homeless and disabled they see around them are "living on welfare" (i.e., "living on my hard-earned money!").  That's simply not true.  Most poor people, if they receive anything at all, are getting non-cash assistance (like telephone subsidies, food stamps, and the like).

Of course there are people who take advantage of government assistance programs.  Is it possible that some welfare con-artist is out there receiving a welfare check for a family of eight that doesn't actually exist, and is living fairly comfortably by doing it?  Sure.  But there is absolutely not one shred of evidence to suggest this sort of major fraud is widespread.  The laws themselves have safeguards built in to both detect and prevent fraud.  This is one of the reasons why the number of people receiving welfare checks has decreased by 67% in the last 15 years.  Fewer people are eligible, and there are fewer ways to take advantage of the system.  This is also why the number of people on assistance programs like food stamps is roughly equivalent to the number of people below the poverty line.  If numerous people above the poverty line were simply defrauding the system, it would show in the statistics.  

Suggesting that welfare should be de-funded or in some other way "gutted" by Congress, simply because there are a few people taking advantage of the system, would be akin to suggesting alcohol should be banned because so many people drive drunk.  

The simple fact is that there are not nearly as many people are on welfare as a lot of folks suppose, not nearly as many people "depend on the government" to take care of them as a lot of folks suppose, and the entire welfare system is not nearly as much of a black hole in the federal budget as many folks suppose.  

One final note: In 2010, the amount of federal money spent on welfare checks to poor people amounted to less than 1% of the total federal expenditures - something like 0.7%.  Even if you add in the cost of food stamps and other assistance programs, it's only about 3% of the total federal budget.  

If we can't live in a country where three government dollars out of every one hundred go to help the poor and needy, then we have a serious ethical dilemma on our hands.