HURRY, HURRY…

Doesn’t it sound a little strange-people going to school to learn how to act (human)?

I guess the reason we pay to go to the movies and watch people on the silver screen is to see those who emulate how we would like to see ourselves rather than the way we really are (the way we infact see ourselves).

Most people would not pay a nickel (let alone good money) to watch us. Sad isn’t it -the otherwise lack of interest (or contempt) we show for one another 🤷‍♂️

A BIGGER BETTER MOUSETRAP

If the day start getting shorter on the 1st day of summer then why do the days continue getting hotter? It takes a while for this globe of hours to heat up and awhile for this globe of ours to cool down. And I’m guessing the angle also has something to do with it as well.

Have you seen the HBO documentary The end of the line”? How we use nets the size of 5 or 10 football fields now to catch fish? And all the animals caught up in them that die in the process which are simply thrown back? Man will hunt until there’s nothing less and then try to figure something out later. So what happens when it’s all gone idiot? 🤷‍♂️

AMENDS

I stopped making amends on a regular basis for 2 reasons:

– It got to the point where a lot of people were looking at me and wondering undering just what I was making amends for. Apparently they either lacked the intuition to recognize what I was apologizing for apologizing for… or, they were so busy wrapped up in their own lives…. The other reason;

-Where there was an obvious reason…. People simply refused to make amends to me 🤷‍♂️ It became so lopsided it was ridiculous! In the 13 years I’ve known Ana – She made more amends to me than all the people I’ve known in my 31 and a 1/2 years sober combined.

I think the more time we have sober in a 12 step recovery program the more (some) people become sane -And in a world which appears to be coming more insane everyday! I think that’s why a lot of people with a lot of time in Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous eventually commit suicide.*

*Truth be told-in a lot of ways sobriety has not turned out to be at all what I thought it would be. Principally with regard to human behavior.

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

Be careful what you wish for, you may just get it!

Be careful what you pray for, you may not get it!

I was told by my aunt a very long time ago “God only has 3 answers: yes, no; later.” If you’re tired of hearing “no” or “later”, then start asking “yes” questions. Or better yet, simply say “Thy will not mine be done”.

I remember telling a woman one time that women don’t have the best taste in men*. She obviously took offense. Was it she who should have taken offense or men**?

I think the body… I’m told it takes a body about a year for the cartilage to strengthen and harden in the gym. My experience is that my body doesn’t start increasing in strength games right off the bat. If it did I would end up injuring my cartilage/joints.

They say you come full circle. That you peak. Then declined. I’m 57 years old. Where do you think I’m at physically in my youthful years has an equal? I’m thinking 15 maybe? And when I’m 64/14ish? 71/11ish? 78/10ish? 85/8ish? 92/7ish? 99/6ish?

*Don’t look at me -take a pole of women who suffer from repeated disappointment and regret regarding their relationships. The real point of course isn’t trivial. Either some women have poor taste or some men have some growing up to do -I know I still do. And for much of my youth you could say, given some very poor examples, and advice, I would not have been considered a “safe-bet”. 🤷‍♂️

I had a cop tell me one time “Who are you!” My response, “Just the same as you!” And now that I’ve answered your question, you can tell me who, or what you think I am.

People who don’t have any humility about themselves don’t stand a chance against people that do when it comes to owning up or seeing one’s self right-sized, realistically.

**Some Alcoholics are not happy taking offense personally -they have to take offense to something said to someone other than themselves! I learned this at MVH doing the groups. So many things!

A GOOD CATCH

I said this many years ago that men often want women for sexual pleasures, sexual reasons, if nothing else. Women quite often, have a tendency to show no interest whatsoever in the men surrounding them*. I think it’s much better to have some some degree of interest interest in another human being, even if those interests stem from our lower selves -rather than to go through life treating people as if they have no value whatsoever.. Nothing too all for whatsoever. Wouldn’t you agree? And let’s face it, not all women are turned off by the interest men show them sexually. And not all men are turned off (detoured) by the utter lack of interest women show them sexually.

Corporate America, politicians do what they do for a reason. Men do what they do for a reason. Women do what they do for a reason. If you are annoyed, even offended by the actions of the aforementioned- look to the people around you. The actions of these people people or groups groups continue because of the hits they get in response to their efforts. Corporate America and politicians continue to resort to trickery and manipulation because some of the time of the time they get a hit.. Man resort to lewd, aggressive sexual behaviors because sometimes they get a hit. Women resort to using their own sexuality around men, because occasionally they get a hit -land a good sized fish.

It’s not OK for men to go around seeking women as conquests to spread their seed -which by the way, is apparently within our DNA*. But the very same women who find this behavior offensive find it perfectly OK to land a man with an excellent income so the thing not only can support their children adequately but… and many of them will not admit to this, to live a life of comfort. And in some instances, boost their ego. It’s my understanding that women are some of the most competitive creatures on this planet -and not merely for reasons of physical survival. Ego-survival???

A lot of parents use their children as justification for the choices they make in life -good luck convincing God of some of them.

*It’s amazing to me how so many people in this country, woman in particular… take offense to a man showing an attraction for them -a perfectly natural, normal thing 🤷‍♂️

Doing something for the 1st time is not harassment. You have to do it do it repeatedly after being told by the individual that you’re actions are not warranted or wanted -while respect in the conventional sense is always encouraged, There is such a variation among human beings as to what’s acceptable or even desirable… Some people don’t know it’s wrong to walk up to a woman and proposition her since the person they walked up to last week was flattered -utterly swept off their feet. So you see in many instances “WE” only have our own kind to blame for the behavior of others.

I notice a lot of people in the town I live in, a lot of women are very interesting of men. They have stereotyped us all as being a certain kind of… Well I could do the same thing with women by assuming that all of them all of them are loose or promiscuous just because of the few here and there that happened to be. You wouldn’t like that very much would you!! Well let me tell you something, I don’t like walking around the town I live in being treated like a potential threat when I haven’t the least interest in doing harm, or disrespect to anyone. What’s that? “Well they don’t know that.” Well the man who walks up to a woman and propositions her doesn’t know whether she is loose or decent either 🤷‍♂️ Oh and one more thing, I’ve had women make propositions to me that were inappropriate as well.

And as far as this whole campaign goes regarding violence towards women – I’ve had violence done to me by women! So start changing all that government paperwork to “people” rather than “women”. I seem to recall something somewhere where women took offense to the term “man” being used instead of “people”. Damned hypocrites!

*I understand that the opposite of love is indifference. “Revenge is a dish best served cold”. It’s amazing how some people “exact revenge” by using its’ core principles -when in fact, those principles ARE COMPLETELY UNFOUNDED (without merit).

TIS BETTER TO GIVE…

“What we give to the poor we take with us when we die.’

If God allows only things in the world to exist which serve a (useful) purpose -then satan… And why would Satan allow himself to be useful to God? Answer: Satan does what he does -that’s all he knows.

ON THE OTHER 👋

Am I to understand that the definition of evil is to do evil for the sake of evil only? Man on the other hand… I think just about everyone, God being the exception, are motivated by something external! And I mean “every one”!

Humans almost always do things based on some form of justification -to do otherwise would be evil wouldn’t it? It’s amazing how perpetrators turn into victims just prior to victimizing others. The twisting of the truth or the facts is is merely one step below acting in spite of the obvious facts prompting one to act against their compulsions. Most people apparently, do not fall into this category.

Mankind generally operates from 2 vantage points:

-justification or;

-inspiration

without either of these… 🤷‍♂️

•”On the Other Hand” is a country music song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz. It was first released as a single in July 1985, peaking at number 67 in the United States. It was Randy’s first single with Warner Bros. Nashville and was only a minor hit. After the chart successes of Travis’ next single, “1982“, the label reissued “On the Other Hand” in April 1986, and it became his first number one hit in both the United States and Canada