The Last Stand & The Help

RT - Going Bonkers?

Recreation - The Girl With the Dtagon Tattoo

RT - Levels of Commitment

Levels of Commitment. Where are you?

These levels of commitment are something to pay attention to in regards to any part of life…relationships, personal health & wellness, business, work, attitude, beliefs, and on and on.

5 Levels of Commitment:

1. I don’t want to commit. (I don’t want to be here and you can’t help me)
2. I want the result/outcome, but I don’t want to put in any effort.
3. I’ll try. I might. I could.
4. I’ll do my best.
5. I do whatever whatever it takes.

When you set goals for yourself, it’s always important to check with yourself the level of commitment you are willing to put in. Goals setting fails when we lost commitment. Therefore, every now and then, it’s good for you to check on yourself which stage of commitment you are in. This may be the reason why you are not producing the result you want in life. By being in level 5 of commitment, you are at your best mental state. In fact, you have won half of the battle!

Is what I am doing getting me what I want or likely to get me where I want to be? If “No,” remember, we all have choices on what thoughts and actions we take. If what I’m doing isn’t working, I need to get busy doing something else.

The Blind Men and the Elephant

It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind

The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!"

The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, "Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me 'tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!"

The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a snake!"

The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
"What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain," quoth he;
" 'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!"

The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!"

The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a rope!"

And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!

Moral:

So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!


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American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) based this poem, on a fable that was told in India many years ago. It is a good warning about how our sensory perceptions can lead to some serious misinterpretations; especially when the investigations of the component parts of a whole, and their relations in making up the whole, are inadequate and lack co-ordination.

Funny Quotes

• Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.


• Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. - G.B. Shaw


• When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. - Henry Miller


• America: The Land of Opportunism


• Save Your Breath ... You'll need it to blow up your date!


• Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. - David Moulton


• You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.


• If electricity is produced by electrons, is morality produced by morons?


• Gravity - It's not just a good idea, it's the Law! - NASA briefing slide


• Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.


• Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks.


• Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you're an asshole.


• Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.


• Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre


• Christmas is at our throats again. - Noel Coward, annual holiday card


• I don't know whether the world is run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.


• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.


• There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. - Steven Wright


• Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. - unknown


• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt


• Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley


• I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other one isn't. - Ulysses S. Grant


• Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.


• It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. - Moliere


• California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. - Fred Allen


• The gene pool could use a little chlorine.


• We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. - Jeff Marder


• They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it. - Gracie Allen


• Do I mind if you smoke? I don't give a shit if you burn to the ground!


• Smoking areas in restaurants are like peeing areas in swimming pools.


• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.


• Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.


• Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.


• The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde?


• Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. - George F. Will


• For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.


• Life is sexually transmitted.


• If people were meant to go around naked, they would have been born that way. - Playboy


• It's hard to work in groups when you're omnipotent. - Q., Star Trek, the Next Generation


• I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. - Douglas Adams


• I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. And tomorrow isn't looking good either.


• Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.


• Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.


• A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.


• Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.


• Given a fifty-fifty chance, you will be wrong 90% of the time.


• IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.


• Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.


• He who laughs last thinks slowest.


• Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.


• A closed mouth gathers no foot.


• A good scapegoat is hard to find.


• Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.


• I used to have a handle on life, then it broke.


• When there's a will, I want to be in it.


• We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?


• Give me ambiguity or give me something else.


• "Criminal lawyer" is a redundancy.


• If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?


• Red meat isn't bad for you. Fuzzy, blue-green meat is bad for you.


• Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

Stupidity Quotes

• Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. - unknown


• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams (1952-2001)


• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair


• Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato


• There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Goethe


• 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. - Samuel Johnson


• A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. - Toledo Blade


• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James


• Nobody ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence or taste of the American public. - HL Mencken and/or PT Barnum


• Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Nick Diamos


• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein


• Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference. - unknown


• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau


• Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.


• I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. - Edgar Allen Poe


• The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. - Frank Zappa


• Stupidity has a certain charm -- ignorance does not. - Frank Zappa


• The next time I send a damn fool on an errand, I'll go myself. - Dan Stole


• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot


• Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe? - Poul Anderson


• Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. - Philip Jose Farmer [substitute above: Google, Fox News, or any other single source for "encyclopedia"]


• A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. - Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox, (1953)


• Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. - unknown


• Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. - unknown


• Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.


• Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.


• It has been said that thousands of monkeys banging on keyboards would produce the complete works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this to be untrue.


• You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber