Giant Ant Eater – An Inspiring Rescue Story
Remember Who You Are
Stop The Covid Lies
Some Social Rules That May Help You
1. Don’t call someone more than twice continuously. If they don’t pick up your call, presume they have something important to attend to.
2. Return money that you have borrowed even before the person that borrowed you remember or ask for it. It shows your integrity and character. Same goes with umbrellas, pens and lunch boxes.
3. Never order the expensive dish on the menu when someone is giving you a lunch/dinner.
4. Don’t ask awkward questions like ‘Oh so you aren’t married yet?’ Or ‘Don’t you have kids’ or ‘Why didn’t you buy a house?’ Or why don’t you buy a car? For God’s sake it isn’t your problem.
5. Always open the door for the person coming behind you. It doesn’t matter if it is a guy or a girl, senior or junior. You don’t grow small by treating someone well in public.
6. If you take a taxi with a friend and he/she pays now, try paying next time.
7. Respect different shades of opinions. Remember what’s 6 to you will appear 9 to someone facing you. Besides, second opinion is good for an alternative.
8. Never interrupt people talking. Allow them to pour it out. As they say, hear them all and filter them all.
9. If you tease someone, and they don’t seem to enjoy it, stop it and never do it again. It encourages one to do more and it shows how appreciative you are.
10. Say “thank you” when someone is helping you.
11. Praise publicly. Criticize privately.
12. There’s almost never a reason to comment on someone’s weight. Just say, “You look fantastic.” If they want to talk about losing weight, they will.
13. When someone shows you a photo on their phone, don’t swipe left or right. You never know what’s next.
14. If a colleague tells you they have a doctors’ appointment, don’t ask what it’s for, just say “I hope you’re okay“. Don’t put them in the uncomfortable position of having to tell you their personal illness. If they want you to know, they’ll do so without your inquisitiveness.
15. Treat the cleaner with the same respect as the CEO. Nobody is impressed at how rude you can treat someone below you but people will notice if you treat them with respect.
16. If a person is speaking directly to you, staring at your phone is rude.
17. Never give advice unless you’re asked or it will save a life.
18. When meeting someone after a long time, unless they want to talk about it, don’t ask them their age and salary.
19. Mind your business unless anything involves you directly – just stay out of it. (Tom: I don’t agree with this.)
20. Remove your sunglasses if you are talking to anyone in the street. It is a sign of respect. More so, eye contact is as important as your speech.
21. Never talk about your riches in the midst of the poor. Similarly, don’t talk about your children in the midst of the barren.
22. After reading a good message try to say “Thanks for the message“.
APPRECIATION remains the easiest way of getting what you don’t have…
Shut Up And Dance
A compilation of great film dancing to the rhythm of one of the best hits of the rock band Walk The Moon.
https://www.flixxy.com/shut-up-and-dance-the-age-of-cinema-movie-dance-compilation.htm
Case Comparisons
From the Highwire.
On Governments and Slavery
Governments are mightily jealous of anyone else having force or power. They want their citizens disarmed and powerless, their neighbours similarly disenfranchised and all unable to resist their every whim and wish.
The end result of this jealously is tyranny and slavery.
Which would be OK if slaves were treated well and the society prospered but that is not what history teaches us happens to slave societies.
When you take their assets, initiative, responsibility and freedom away from the individual and concentrate power in the hands of the few, as can be observed by even the most casual student of history, that society fails and is present only after in the history books or in archeological digs and museums.
How do you make a slave? Give him things. Look at the actions of most present day governments and they are very busy taking from the producers and giving to the indigent. A time tested formula for producing slave societies.
If you want to remain a free man/woman, turn your back on handouts and look anywhere and everywhere for opportunities to do something you love by which to earn your daily bread.
You will be strengthening your survival potential and that of those around you by your example.
On Censorship – JFK
“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” – JFK
“And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.” – JFK
George Orwell on Spring
How many a time have I stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the young corn, and thought of all the important persons who would stop me enjoying this if they could. But luckily they can’t. So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it. — George Orwell