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GREAT NEW TV AD FROM @THANKYOUAUS

Great new commercial for THANK YOU. If you haven’t tried their products – do it! They’re top quality and each purchase helps someone in need. Here’s the blurb from the vid:

Introducing our new TV commercial that aims to showcase our range of life-changing products and educate Australia on the meaning of social enterprise.

Thanks to Channel 7 and Channel 9 for agreeing to air this ad at absolutely no cost to Thankyou. This ad was created in partnership with Kintaro Studios and Aspect Media, both of which provided services at reduced costs.

Thankyou is a social enterprise that exists for the sole purpose of funding life-changing projects in developing nations with 100 per cent of profits going towards water, food and health and hygiene solutions.

We’re here to empower you to ‘live every day, give every day’ through simply switching the brand of products you buy during your weekly grocery shop.

For more info on Thankyou and our range of life-changing products, head to www.thankyou.co

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YOU WON’T BELIEVE THE QUESTION THIS GUY ASKS; AND HE ASKS IT TWICE!

Don’t you hate all the sensational headlines used by buzzfeed, upworthy and co that people share virally on Facebook? Me too. I’m sorry if you clicked through to this one expecting more! But I do think that Napoleon Dynamite’s question is funny. My whole way through college when lecturer’s asked for questions, I always wanted to ask this one. I didn’t.

If you’re looking for more uplifting content. See the latest two posts:

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JESUS IS MY MATE // #JESUSIS

"ME AND GOD, WE'D BE MATES"

Jesus has street cred. He’s respected by all the major world religions. And even the average person who isn’t particularly religious respects Jesus.

In pop culture, Jesus is often presented as a likeable figure.

Hollywood celebrities including Ashton Kutcher, Brad Pitt, Madonna, Pamela Anderson and Ben Affleck helped to make famous a t-shirt declaring that JESUS IS MY HOMEBOY. You know, we hang together, roll together, he’s got my back, I’ve got his back. Word.

Then there is BUDDY CHRIST. Originally from a movie no-one can actually remember, Buddy Christ is a parody trying to show a friendly, Jesus-is-my-buddy type of Jesus. This particular image was then made into a bobble head, what’s not to love about a Bobble Head Christ! Jesus is my buddy, my pal and good for a laugh.

But the ultimate example of Jesus as a likeable figure is from the classic 1986 Aussie movie, Crocodile Dundee. Mick Dundee responds to the question of whether he was afraid of dying after being attacked by a crocodile…

I read The Bible once. You know God and Jesus and all them apostles? They were all fishermen, just like me. Yeah, straight to heaven for Mick Dundee. Yep, me and God, we’d be mates.

Most Aussies would believe that, if there is a God, then just like Mick Dundee “me and God, we’d be mates”.

Is it right to refer to God and Jesus this way? Is Jesus your mate?
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