1st July 2011 Funny Things To Say ...

Son, employees are like mules. Some you stand in front of and coax them along with a carrot. Some you stand behind and kick them in the ass. The key to management is knowing which mules are which.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

What do you mean, my birth certificate expired?

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them. - George W. Bush

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." -George W. Bush

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. (Bill Gate would not have said that,; he can't even visualize what a tiny sum like $50 million is)

He's so lazy that if there were work in bed, he would rather sleep on the floor.

Who are you and how did you get in here? Frank: 'I'm a locksmith. And ... I'm a locksmith ...'

'How did the German conquer Poland so fast?' 'They walked in backwards and the polish thought they were leaving.'

 

 

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1st July 2011 Poison Of The Soul

The so called Sect or Secta have not disappeared as some of us think, they are not as obvious because they have changed or moved. Now they are camouflaged in the amiable succoured world of alternative therapies of all sorts: contortions of Yoga, quantum number of lucubration of physics, essence of Bach flowers ... some have found the way to percolate discourses, simple and encouraging, to influence the free will or volition of the mind (which really means the money) of the unwary, those fragile and easily deceived disciples. The media reported the flourishing of this line of businesses and the fact that the medicine most prescribed and therefore consumed in Spain is tranquillizers, kind of explain well the connection between the two.

 

The lonely people, especially old folks on theire own, lethargic of the church, the new refugees of the soul trying to flee from boredom, would grab any words and gestures of help or hope, even the promised aromas of peace. There are all variety of self-help books, Yoga, Feng-Shui, numerology, Esoterism ... of positive energy, of interior light, chromotherapy, aromatherapy, risotherapy (laughter and emotions) ... an infinity of ways and means available in the market for the spiritual peace. All seem attractive, easy to digest; no compromises, no commandments, nor repentance. A sort of fast-religion, of cult, with the only obligation of passing through the cash till.

 

The names, the ways and the rituals change, but at the end it's always the same search: the balance, the serenity and the illusion of not setting out on the journal alone and lonely. But it's also, as always, the intention of the few to gain, to impose, to utilize the weak, the feeble and the needy, to benefit themselves of their ego and their pockets. Then, the food for the heart becomes poison of the soul.

 

Such news naturally creates a lot of controversy. The 'for,' the 'against', and the 'who cares?'. I don't fit into any of these groups. Yes there are many lonely people especially, as pointed out, the old and the retired, and the ones with no families any more, few or no friends at all. They need someone or, failing that, something to occupy their time and the void in their minds and hearts. Should any of these therapies, ways or means help even in a small way, and should people be willing and able to pay for it, what's so wrong about them? People pay to see a movie in the cinema, and leave it 2 hours later with nothing to take home but the memory, however short, of a story and having been entertained by it. Same with aromatherapy or whatever other therapeutic practice, isn't it? They were not robbed. They might not gained much if anything, but they BELIEVE they had been helped and their anxiety eased; and that's in a way positive.

 

What the government need to do is to see that official and legal measures has to be put in force, to establish that all those who claim able to cure, heal, or give lectures on theories and self-help are indeed qualified, proven and legally registered as such.  

 

 

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