A person looked up into the heavens and cried:
“God, there is so much anger and grief and loss in your world.”
“Why don’t you send help?”
God replied:
“I did send help”
“I sent you.”
Credit: Rabbi Wolpe CNN 31 May 2020
God’s reply to a call for help
Inconvenient Truth vs Comfortable truth diagram
When choosing between Inconvenient Truth and Comfortable truth the choice is up to each of us.
Consider this diagram and read the explanation below the diagram.
- Most people have decided in advance what they will decide (Person already running right).
- Following “Comfortable truth” is dangerous (Red).
- People following “Comfortable truth” may not have the courage (yellow) to face up to “Inconvenient Truth”.
- “Comfortable truth” is “truth” not fully investigated (lower case “t”)
- Following “Inconvenient Truth” in the long run leads to positive growth (Green).
- Well researched truth is “Truth” (Upper case “T”)
- Relatively few people have the courage to follow “Inconvenient Truth”.
Potato Peeling Secret
How to use a potato peeler in a different way.
I tried this during the lock down.
It works!
Almost no more holding the potato in one hand and peeling towards it with a sharp knife or sharp potato peeler.
Here is what you need:
- A chopping board
- A potato peeler
- A knife (to cut the potato in half)
- A potato (of course!)
First cut the potato in half.
Next – see picture below
Place the half potato on the board. and rest the potato peeler on the table (as shown below) with the blade of the peeler resting on the board and on the side of the potato. Rotate the potato clockwise with the left hand against the potato peeler blade. The potato will peel easily and quickly
Last – see picture below
Repeat with the peeler resting on the board. The peeling will continue one layer up.
You are done except for a little trimming at top and bottom.
Good luck
Keep safe
Watch the Video if you need to.
The Friendly Lemon
Look at who was in the fruit bowl this 2020 Pentecost morning!
Pentecost Fire
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Acts 2:3
Are you alone?
Be still, and know that I am God
Psalm 46:10
“I was never less alone than when alone.”
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
Churchill Diplomacy Masterclass
Lady Churchill and Sir Winston Churchill were at a function. The hostess noticed that a visiting diplomat, at the function, had secretly pocketed some silverware. It may have been a salt cellar. She was at a loss what to do and quietly asked Lady Churchill for advice. Lady Churchill said she would ask Winston.
This is what Churchill did.
He found a piece of similar silverware and put it in his own pocket. Then, when he got the chance, he went up to the diplomat and quietly showed him the piece of silverware in his pocket and whispered “somebody has seen us taking the silverware so we’ll both have to put them back”.
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The diplomat then quietly put back the salt cellar.
This really showed that Sir Winston Churchill was a master diplomat.
Source: I think in a book about Lady Churchill.
Verbal abuse incoming? A tip from a USAF female combat fighter pilot
I don’t know which jet fighter Sn. McSally flew.
You are in an important discussion. You are about to demolish your opponent’s argument, Your opponent knows it and starts to abuse you verbally instead of dealing with the issue. Lots of verbal flack is coming your way.
You can be sure of one thing: You have found the weak and vulnerable spot in your opponent’s argument. You are at the jugular.
This was very well summed up by Senator Martha McSally, a former USAF combat fighter pilot and squadron commander, who said:
“We fighter pilots have a saying: You know when you are over the target when you are getting flack”.
There we have it!
Take care next time you are in verbal combat.
Source: CNN 27 May 2020 and here.
Speckled mousebird nest destroyed in storm 😥
A few days ago, a gale, accompanied by hail, destroyed this beautiful speckled mousebird nest in Port Elizabeth.
In the days leading up to the disaster, my good friends had been watching the mousebirds build the nest, which was not finished.
There was no evidence of eggs or chicks.
You can see the size of the nest by comparing it with the tennis ball.
For the mousebirds it’s “Back to the drawing board”.
Very sad. but nature will bounce back. 🙂
Click here for more about mousebirds – probably the birds that lost this nest.
Intellectual Honesty
“Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one’s belief. …”
Imre Lakatos
Take Away One.
In an argument when your opponent is adamant that they are right ask them: What evidence would convince you to change your mind?
Take Away Two.
Ask yourself the same question before you yourself pontificate about some topic!
What has a gadfly to do with this?
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