"The Art of Peace is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions."
from Art of Peace
Read on and fall sound asleep
Ever since I was a young boy listening to the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen with his dummy Charlie McCarthy on radio I have been fascinated by the art. It never crossed my mind to question a radio show featuring an act that depended on the actor not moving his lips. I suppose the dialogue was funny enough that visual evidence was not needed. A recent email contained a link to a video of a truly incredible ventriloquist. Not only did his lips not move, he was able to imitate at least two iconic singers. Best ventriloquist ever is HERE. I do not remember how many box tops and quarter I sent in for booklets supposed to magically convert me into a stage capable ventriloquist. Never happened!
Yesterday I received two copies of Scientific American. One was addressed to Wagne Robertson at 937 Lynnview. Strangely I have mailed letters with everything but the zip code absolutely correct (off by the last digit) and had them returned by USPS for incorrect address. BTW you are better off leaving off the zip code if you do not know the exact number. I found a phone number for problems with subscriptions and called early this morning. The woman I finally reached after 7 pseudopersons with pretended key stokes in response to my replies was snippy and sounded like she thought I was running a scam. After7 minutes she wanted to call me back to assure I was the "legal entity" I claimed to be. Eventually she did call back and sounded less hostile. She told me to mail the wrong magazine back to them so they could correct the account. "NO WAY!" I told her. I pointed out the postage was too much and she laughed and said "No FedEx it back to us and we will pay the shipping." I told her I would not do that either and would prefer talking to her boss. Then because she sounded like I had hit her I told her I was willing to scan the information and email it to her. SHE CANNOT RECEIVE EMAIL! But she can receive faxes. So I scanned the cover and faxed it using my computer. She said it will be a couple of days before she can get the account corrected. Turns out she is a Hindi and works Christmas and does not get equivalent time off. She sounded American. I wonder if I was talking to an Indian call center.
Then I accidentally clicked on a link that took me to something of Dad's I had transposed to the internet.
WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND
Surely there is a vein for the silver,
And a place for gold where they fine it.
Iron is taken out of the earth,
And brass is molten out of the stone.
But where shall wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?
Man knoweth not the price thereof;
Neither is it found in the land of the living.
The depth saith, It is not in me:
And the sea saith, It is not with me.
It cannot be gotten for gold,
Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,
With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it:
And the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls:
For the price of wisdom is above rubies.
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,
Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Whence then cometh wisdom?
And where is the place of understanding?
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,
And kept close from the fowls of the air.
Destruction and Death say,
We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
God understanding the away thereof,
And he knoweth the place thereof.
For he looketh to the ends of the earth,
And seeth under the whole heaven;
To make the weight for the winds;
And he weigheth the waters by measure.
When he made a decree for the rain,
And a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Then did he see it, and declare it;
He prepared it, yea, and searched it out
And unto man he said,
Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
And to depart from evil is understanding.
Job 28:1, 2, 12-28
Eight Grade Poem copied from a BOOK given to my Father for exemplary grades in the Cement, Oklahoma School system. Can you imagine a student being given a book of poetry, some from the Bible, in this secular age?
Below is an exposition on the "Dead Horse Theory" extracted from ancient Dakota Indian lore.
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The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that:
When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, your best strategy is to dismount. However, in our government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger (and more expensive) whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging trips to other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase efficiency.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some live horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And of course....
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
Mark Twain
SGGP
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