5 reasons why Finland will survive the zombie apocalypse. (By Franklyundead)  

Okay I’ll let you use Google to find this country on the map first… Good welcome back! A while ago we did an article on 5 reasons why Russia will survive the zombie apocalypse. So now it’s time for a new country. The fact that they’re neighbors is a complete coincidence btw.

They have good shooters –   Simo Häyhä has the highest confirmed kill count for any shooter in modern day conflict. With over 500 confirmed kills, this country produces good shooters. So to say, if they can plink human targets like this, a bunch of slow shambling zombies won’t be a problem.

Many island to hide on – With over 180.000  islands and about as much lakes, there’s plenty of places to start a life without zombies. Because as we know, zombies aren’t good at swimming. And with this many islands, chances of having to live with survivors you don’t care for are minimal. Don’t like the group you’re with? Just pick another island to settle on.

Everyone has a cabin in the woods – Almost everyone, or at least their families, has a cabin somewhere in the middle of nowhere. And as we all know, the middle of nowhere is usually a place where no people and/or zombies travel. Hopping islands, crossing vast forests and rivers, just isn’t a zombies cup of tea. They’d rather hang out at the mall with the cool zombies and attack idiots who travel to zombie infested cities.

They wont open their door anyway – The people in Finland are very private. If they’re not expecting visitors and you ring their doorbell, there’s a big chance they’ll pretend nobody is home until you go away. So zombies trying a house to house tactic of banging on windows and doors are in for nothing. If they continue to bang on the doors and windows, a very angry person will open the door and bash their skull in. Ending the zombie’s short existence.

Zombies will just freeze – With long winters and cold temperatures, zombies will stand no chance. Their blood and flesh will turn into ice, leaving them standing as frozen statues. They’ll be turned into zombie snow cones and can be used as a disgusting pinata by the locals of whatever settlement the zombie tried to shamble into.

In conclusion, Finland has vast open spaces, islands and remote cabins to hide during the zombie apocalypse. Combine this with a relatively large military and low head count for their population, this country makes for an excellent zombie apocalypse hideout!

I’m Frank, I founded ZGM because of my interests in survival, weapons, zombies and my army experience. I wanted to write about everything that interests me and used my skills as website developer to make the platform for this. I hope you enjoy our articles here! Stay safe and aim for the head ;-)

http://www.zombie-guide.com/5-reasons-why-finland-will-surive-the-zombie-apocalypse/ 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has sparked a heated debate with the Greek Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and Italian mayors over the role of the crucifix in Italian society (Christian Telegraph, November 18, 2009).  But, a more fundamental issue should be addressed.  Is the cross even a Christian symbol in the first place? (By Wyatt Ciesielka).

Alarming the churches and local authorities is the ECHR's ban on displaying crucifixes in Italian schools. Greek Bishop Nicholas "lamented that at this rate youngsters will not have any worthy symbols at all to inspire and protect them" (BBC-News, November 12, 2009). The leader of the Greek Orthodox church, Archbishop Ieronymos, "echoed comments by the Catholic Church that the ECHR is ignoring the role of Christianity in shaping Europe's culture, laws, and identity" (Interfaith.org, November 16, 2009).

                                     (Tribal Crucifix by redshift)

But what is the real history and meaning behind this religious symbol? Did Jesus Christ, the Apostles, or the original New Testament Church adore the cross as "a worthy symbol to inspire and protect them?" Should you?

The story of the cross as a religious symbol begins in ancient Babylon. Upon Nimrod's death, his wife Semiramis exalted her infant son, Tammuz, as Nimrod re-born. God-king worship became quickly entrenched among the ancient Babylonians…and the Tau symbol – the first character of Tammuz' name became a key symbol in Babylonian worship.

It is historically indisputable that the Tau was an integral part of pagan religious worship in pre-Christian culture. The cross was sewn into pagan priests' costumes, worn by vestal virgins, and adorned pagan temples.

The Tau took various forms such as Τ and ϯ and would sometimes incorporate a circle representing the sun – an integral part of the Babylonian Mystery Religion.

After death, Nimrod was worshipped under various names including Marduk, Bel, Baal and Beelzebub. Baal-worship, a continuation of Babylonian religion, was what God rebuked ancient Israel for when they "did evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baals and Asherahs" (Judges 3:7). It was in service to this pagan deity that ancient Israel sacrificed their infant children as burning sacrifices (Jeremiah 32:35). Baal worship was a terrible abomination in God's sight.

But Nimrod worship spread throughout the ancient world. Nimrod-reborn as Tammuz was associated with the Tau symbol in the pre-Christian, pagan worship of the ancient Babylonians, Orientals, Philistines, Egyptians. It crept into what became the Roman Catholic Church and then was adopted by the various Protestant denominations. The pagan Tau now adorns most church buildings and priestly costumes – just as it did in the ancient, pagan world! But it never adorned Christ, the Apostles or the membership of the original New Testament Church.

To argue that this heathen symbol "is now OK to use and honor because the meaning now points to Christ," is not only to ignore that Jesus Christ and the Apostles and the original New Testament Church never worshipped or revered the cross (they saw it for what it was – a pagan symbol and a cruel instrument of death), but is also to ignore the words of Jeremiah the prophet – "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen" (Jeremiah 10:2, KJV).

While human memory is short, and most simply do not understand the pagan history of the cross, the Almighty God does remember where the symbol came from! He remembers the cry of burning infants sacrificed to Baal (Ezekiel 16:20&21)! He remembers the cruel instrument of crucifixion upon which many died, even including His Son.

See more at: http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/commentary/the-crucifix-a-christian-or-pagan-symbol#sthash.gnDrQ2GA.dpuf 

Ask to a surgeon and he will confirm that inside of the body, there is absolutely no difference between black and white...

The government is launching a campaign to warn about the effects of sleep deprivation on people aged between 40-60.

(Lack of sleep can trigger many health problems. Photograph: Jessica Peterson/Getty Images/Tetra images RF).

On average, it’ll take four minutes for you to get to the end of this piece, and quite frankly you should be spending those four minutes asleep. In fact, promise me this: next time you read the Guardian and see my weird smug foetus of a byline photo staring back at you, just go to sleep. Shut your eyes and have a four-minute nap instead. Do that 15 times and you’ll have magicked a full hour of sleep back out of thin air. There, I just saved your life.

Because you’re almost definitely not getting enough sleep. Barely any of us are. According to the British Sleep Council, if you don’t sleep for at least six hours a night, you’re 12% more likely to die young. Lack of sleep can trigger a range of health problems. It can give you heart disease. It can give you diabetes. It can make you obese. It can ruin your concentration, your memory and your youthful good looks in one fell swoop.

It can also ruin your memory. I know this because I am currently the walking poster boy for the dangers of sleep deprivation. Since we had a baby earlier this year, I’ve physically aged by about three decades. I’ve somehow managed to become both sunken and paunchy, the vast majority of my sentences now begin with the word “Nyuhh” and it takes a superhuman level of effort to pay attention to anything, which is why I just had to take a 15-minute break from this sentence to look at photos of watermelons on the internet. I’m resigned to the fact that I’ll spend the next few years looking like the after photo on a government poster about why you shouldn’t smoke meth. This is all down to lack of sleep, which I also just heard can ruin your memory.

At least my excuse for being such a stumbling sleepless wreck is tangible, but everyone has their own reason. There are those whose sleep is disrupted by antisocial work shifts, by alcohol consumption, or by a compulsion to stay up all night tweeting angry nonsense to three dozen people in a fruitless attempt to remind the world that they still exist, or by a berserk and inexplicable desire to wake up early and seize the day rather than rolling over, curling up and telling the day to go away, which is vastly more sensible.

The problem is now so bad that the government has actually had to intervene on our behalf. The middle-aged will soon be targeted with a campaign designed specifically to make them go back to bed. The most chilling line in Public Health England’s description of its own campaign is this: “Only around 20% to 30% of what we think of as ‘ageing’ is biological; the rest is ‘decay’ or ‘deterioration’, which can be actively managed or prevented.” Essentially, if you’re aged between 40 and 60 and you don’t get enough sleep, you’re rotting your own body.

Admittedly, sleep isn’t the sole focus of the campaign, but it’s hands-down the best. The full list of suggested lifestyle changes include stopping smoking (which is difficult), reducing alcohol consumption (which is boring), taking more exercise (which is awful), improving diet (which is difficult and boring and awful), checking for common signs and symptoms of disease (which you’ll get to as soon as possible, just as soon as you’ve given up smoking and drinking and eating rubbish), reducing stress (GOD I’m TRYING would you JUST give me a MINUTE?) and improving sleep.

And that last one should be a piece of cake. This should be the one health push that everyone can get behind. Because everyone likes sleep, don’t they? Certainly all trustworthy people like sleep. Sleep is the greatest gift we’ve ever been given. It gives us energy, it makes us happier, it boosts our creativity, it stops our skin from looking like a wet burlap sack that’s been riddled with shotgun pellets. In fact, there’s only one thing better than being asleep, and that’s waking up at eight o’clock in the morning and then immediately deciding to go back to sleep. Show me a person who doesn’t enjoy that and I’ll show you a friendless lunatic.

Plus, if I’m a representative sample of the entire population – which I suspect I am – sleep is all anyone ever thinks about. It might be because I’m not getting enough of it at the moment, but even when I’m not sleeping these days, I’m thinking about sleeping. I’m thinking about sleeping right now, in fact. I’m thinking of how soft my mattress is, and how gently my pillow cradles my head, and how nice it would be to feel my eyelids getting heavier as I softly drift off into a beautiful world of molten slumber. Isn’t everyone doing this? Isn’t this the dream for everyone?

Sure, we live in a 24-hour global marketplace that prizes relentless productivity at all costs, but what is the worst that would happen if we all just sacked everything off and went to bed? All of us, just for half an hour, because our lives depend on it? My guess is that everything would be fine, and we would all be better for it. Not that you would do it, anyway. I told you to go to sleep four minutes ago and you’re still here. Weirdo.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/11/official-middle-aged-not-sleeping-rotting-government-campaign-sleep-deprivation-40-60?CMP=fb_gu