Stepping back.....

Too frequently conflict with others or within ourselves comes from being too close, too involved, in a situation or event. 'Stepping back' from the situation can often reveal aspects not otherwise considered or seen.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Have You Ever Wondered Why...

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY.......we accept it as fact that no two snow flakes are alike?Is there any person, living or ortherwise, who has seen every snowflake that has ever fallen or will fall? Isn't it a little presumptious to assume that because 6000 snowflakes aren't identical that number 6001 is not going to look just like number 2379?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY.......todays "facts" are constantly replacing yesterday's 'facts'? I was taught that a fact was everlasting. Who taught me wrong? Why did they do that to me?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY.......even though man can't make a perpetual motion machine (or anything else perpetual, for that matter), like the revolving planets that rotate around molten interiors since the beginning of time, man still considers himself the measure of all things?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY....... yardologists recommend that we water our house plants and yards with water purified by a local utility company, which probably has some chemical(s) mixed in, but palm trees and other greenery thrive on water at the oceans edge, utilizing salt water? A calendar hanging on the wall in front of me shows an island with palm trees at the very edge of the ocean and whose roots will be covered by the ocean water (salt water) at high tide, yet they are very healthy!
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY.......those who have everything think that they are the only ones who are capable of setting the rules for those who seemingly don't have much of anything (except possibly peace of mind)? Of course, they do so from the perspective of their own experience and how they managed to get what they have. Often, they gloss over the criminal or immoral things that they did, but then, right and wrong has nothing to do with anything, does it?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY.......radio programs that sponsor "A Moment With Dr. I. Knowitall" will give you Dr. Knowitalls view of a medical situation, vitamin, diet or other nonsense situation today, and tomorrow, that same radio station will give the opposing view by a different doctor! Is medicine practiced on "opinions" or knowledge?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY......after they 'hang their shingle,' we say they are 'practising' medicine? Isn't that kind of like saying they are rehearsing? When do they put on the actual play? When do they stop practising and become doctors?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY.......a church condems pagan rituals while praising and singing hosannahs to accompany their own, currently correct, rituals, like passing the offering plate, being baptised or standing to sing some songs while sitting to sing others?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY....... video producers will find the absolute smallest type available in the entire universe to write technical information about the movie contained within the box. Information like-what language it is in, what language are the subtitles in, how long the movie runs, the lead star, who else is in the movie, is it wide-screen or fullscreen? This is all "technical" and unimportant information to the consumer, isn't it?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY....... video stores will put a video on the shelf as a "New Release" movie, but, when you rent it, you realize that this is the same movie you watched on a regular channel on local television about 5 months ago? The explanation is that it "is" a new release... to videos stores. Maybe video store owners should watch a little more tv and fewer videos.
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY......no one has ever caught on film, an insect being knocked out of the air by a rain drop?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY......videos makers will inflate the description of the movie on the box as being wonderfully everything; action, drama, special effects, love, sex, yet the description of the actual story is condensed to one short sentence?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY......producers of porn movies setup the fake stage sets, sometimes even with proper costumes, so that the"actors" can get right to the task at hand and the cameraman can do close ups of the mouth action? Is there a happy medium between porn and legit movies?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY......a store manager will assign the answering of all incoming telephone calls to one of the two girls on the register, working feverishly to checkout the 10 people in line, while the manager and his/her four or five of assistants stand around, within 15 feet of the telephone, arms folded, surveying the landscape? Is there a law that says a store manager isn't allowed to answer a telephone, taking pressure off the cashier and showing the customer standing in line with money ready, that he was helping them to get through the line quicker?

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