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Wednesday, August 26
National Dog Day 2015
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Wednesday, August 26
National Dog Day 2015
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She Tells Her Grandma That She’s Just Been Cheated On ...
So Grandma Tells Her To Do This
"This is a good lesson for all of us, no matter what stage of life you’re in. You’ll see what I mean.
A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her – her husband had cheated on her and she was devastated. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as soon as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her grandmother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her granddaughter, she asked, ‘Tell me what you see.’
‘Carrots, eggs, and coffee,’ she replied.
Her grandmother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The grandmother then asked the granddaughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.
Finally, the grandmother asked the granddaughter to sip the coffee. The granddaughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The granddaughter then asked, ‘What does it mean, grandmother?’
Her grandmother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
“Which are you?” she asked her granddaughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity? Do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain.. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level?
How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
May we all be like the COFFEE" ...
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Obama Pushes for ISIS War Resolution - #NewWorldNextWeek
Published on Aug 27, 2015Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy
that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.
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Jeff Rense & Hesham Tillawi - Trump's Chances in The 2016 Election
Clip from August 24, 2015 / Published on Aug 27, 2015
First it was the invasion of the nouveau rich techies ...
Then another kind of invasion of stinky bugs ...
Now this ...
Is Burning Man Being Taken Over By Police ?
Published on Aug 27, 2015Burning Man may be taken over by police this year as Nevada Sheriff Jerry Allen promised a crackdown on nonviolent “crime” at the music and arts festival next week. Allen is partnering with festival organizers to patrol the event and said that officers are determined to write as many tickets and make as many arrests as they possibly can. Is the Nevada Sheriff’s Department turning Burning Man into a police state? We discuss it on the Lip News with Jose Marcelino Ortiz and Mark Sovel.
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Drone's eye view of Burning Man 2015
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Note i use to be 6'0 ... But since getting older ... I am presently 5'11 & 3/4's ...
I Am 5'11" (feat. Joe Bereta)
"With so many dating profiles demanding their male match be at least six feet tall, the stigma of men lying about their height has reached critical mass. I am 5'11 (and Doritos) seeks to unite the shorties and get rid of this height-hate once and for all, in a delicious, corn-chippy manner."
Published on Aug 24, 2015
Inside Cults: Scientology, Manson, Kabbalah + More with Rick Alan Ross
From LipTV
"Cults, cult leaders, and brainwashing--from David Miscavige and Scientology, to the Kabbalah Center, to the Charles Manson Family and the Children of God are explored with cult specialist Rick Alan Ross. We define what makes a cult, how to deprogram victims, and the most dangerous currently active cults in this exploration of the groups and religions that can tear people out of family and society, on Media Mayhem hosted by Allison Hope Weiner" ...
Published on Aug 27, 2015GUEST BIO:
Rick Alan Ross is a private consultant, lecturer, and cult intervention specialist. He began his work as an anti-cult activist and community organizer in 1982. Ross first became concerned about controversial groups and movements in response to a radical religious group that had covertly targeted his grandmother’s nursing home. Since that time he has raised awareness about cults and facilitated more than five hundred interventions to rescue people from cultic situations.
Ross is one of the leading experts on cults in the world today. He has consulted with the FBI, the BATF, and various other law enforcement agencies, as well as the governments of Israel and China, on the subject of cults. Ross has been qualified, accepted and testified as an expert court witness in eleven different states within the United States including US federal court. He has worked as an expert analyst for CBS News, CBC of Canada, and Nippon and Asahi in Japan.
Ross has lectured at more than 30 universities and colleges including the University of Chicago, Dickinson College, Carnegie Mellon, Baylor, Wuhan University of China, Assumption University of Thailand and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He has also been published within peer-reviewed academic journals on the topic of cults.
Regarding his cult intervention work Ross states that historically about 75 percent of the people that he conducts an intervention with decide to leave the group by the end of such an effort. He has done interventions across the United States and around the world. Ross did two successful interventions with the notorious Branch Davidians led by self-styled messiah David Koresh.
Ross has appeared in fourteen documentaries and has been interviewed and quoted in media all over the world.
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Ra Lax In ...
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Rand Paul’s sneak attack strategy