MILEY CYRUS’S TONGUE!

Breakout (Miley Cyrus album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I don’t know anything about the young lady, other than the little I read about her in the press. I accept that Miley Cyrus is a talented performer with a bright future ahead of her in both the music industry and in the movies. I also accept that her seemingly odd behaviour is the young lady’s attempt at ‘acting out’ in an attempt to distance herself from her old Disney image, however I am bothered by her tongue, her twerking and other odd gestures. Could it be the onset of early Tourette’s Syndrome? If so, there would appear to be an international Tourette’s outbreak! I neither wish to be stung on the tongue by a wasp, or put my back out! I’m staying indoors and locking myself in until the outbreak has been contained. I suggest you do the same! On an even more personal note, doesn’t all that twerking lead to the unintentional release of gas?

POPE FRANCIS…’TOP OF THE POPS’ ON FACEBOOK!

St. Peter’s Basilica at Early Morning (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Thanks in part to the Vatican’s public relations guru Greg Burke, Pope Francis aka Jorge Mario Bergogliohas taken the world by storm since his ascendancy to the papacy. Social media sites are abuzz with his name, for Pope Francis tops the list of what Facebook’s 1.2 billion users are talking about worldwide. Why he even beat Nelson Mandela and Miley Cyrus! Furthermore, a survey by Twiplomacy named Pope Francis the most influential world leader on Twitter. The Pontiff’s, @Pontifex account gets an average of 8,200 retweets for every English tweet. Without doubt, Pope Francis is the most-talked about person of the year online. “To proclaim Christ in the digital era is a special field for the work of the young,” said the Pope. The Pontiff may well be redefining religion by reaching Christians who may have been hitherto unreachable? Not wishing to sound too much of a cynic, its easy to be an armchair Christian paying lip-service to Catholicism. I do wonder how many of the Pope’s online followers live…or will live the life he advocates? Popularity means nothing if it doesn’t lead to something significant! I further wonder what the Christ would have made of the social media phenomena? He might say, “Get out there and do as I did…make a personal sacrifice for the benefit of another!”