Dear FarSight3:
We definately are chance, choice, and change.
And to balance all of these, would it be wrong
to process all simultaneously in exercising our
mind to process all of them at the same time
instantly? And, does our brain need exercise?
Is our brain already designed to do this? Is
it our system of learning, that stifles us from
developing what we naturally can do.
If the Letter A is the 1st letter of the alphabet,
I might say that A = 1 or 1 = a. Is it possible
in our mind to process both numbers and letters in
unison when processing information? This might work
for both evil and good.
Here is a little story:
My granddaughter got in trouble at school for being
disrespectful to someone older and in authority. Do
I condone this behavior? No, I don't. I don't find
that a good quality at all. It was what happened after
that I take exception to. She was given an exercise
listing 5 words that she was to write the meanings beside
them. Nothing wrong with that. The words were, Rights,
Responsibility, Rules, Respect and Reputation.
So I read what she has written, she is 9 yrs. old.
Rights - People must be taught the difference of right & wrong.
Responsibility - Something a person is responsible for.
Rules - A statement that tells you something that may not be
done.
Respect - A good citizen has respect for the law.
Reputation - Something as judged by others.
You can agree with everything above, but there will be a day
that my granddaughter will come head to head with the definition
of Rules. Which turns into Laws that only apply to people who
can not afford a lawyer to help them avoid the rules. And this
is happening daily. I keep in mind that, I do not wish to see
my granddaughter grow up to be rude or disrespectful, and at the
same time think, she is being fed a crock of doo doo. When my
granddaughter comes to me on day, as all of my children have done, asking me
why some people get off of a crime but the other
friend does not, what do I say? The crime being the same for
both. I have to tell them that, some people can afford an
expensive lawyer and some can not. So, very disrespectful
attitudes start to develope on both sides of the fence. One
saying, well we can afford to pay to get me off. And the other
being, if you can't beat them join them. Respect is interesting
at this point. A good citizen has respect for the laws. What if
the law is ludicrous?
Example: This guy after Xmas, tied his xmas tree down in the back of his
pick-up truck and proceeded to take it to the land-
fill for disposal. He broke the law, because he did not have the
back of his pick-up tarped. And the police were sitting right
at the gates of the landfill giving out $500.00 tickets for no
tarp, although he had it rope tied down. Now, I have to ask
myself several questions? Will people dispose of their xmas trees properly in
the future? Probably not. I see instances
of garbage thrown in ditches etc. all the time. Do I wish to
take anything to the landfill? Probably not. Why, because
once I read all the stated requirements that I must follow
knowing that the police will be sitting there to ticket me,
it just might not be in my best interest to bother taking my
tree there. Have you ever tried to read laws and by-laws?
Don't, you will be more confused after reading them, than you
were before.
Another example: Do police beat up people in jail? Yes, they
do. If, I had only heard this a few times, I might shrug it
off. But, I hear this constantly. Is it ok to beat up a drunk
who is abusively beaking off? No! They are drunk! Are drunks
obnoxious? Absolutely? I hear far to often that young obnoxious
drunks and druggies are smacked around. Do they lie? I doubt it. Do police
have the right to do this? Absolutely not! Are
police frustrated in there job? Yes! Why? Because the ones
who can afford to get there little darlings off, have set a
precedence of disrespect for the laws as well as the police.
And sorry for being blunt here, but it is why we hear young people say, (around
the ages of 13 & 14 & up) "cops are pigs."
I try to abide by the law every day. It only takes one instance
to change your mind. I have had a run in with a traffic offence
I fought. Did I win, yes and no? I lost my case because I was
not versed extensively on the actual wording of the Highway Traffic Act.
Lesson learned. The Judge did how ever ask me if
I had any final words before passing his judgement. I said, "Yes
I do". "I basically called the police officer, a dirty cop." He
out and out lied to make his ticket quota. I used nicer language but
insinuated as much. The judge did however tell the
police office to find a different location to ticket in the future, as he did
not have a clear view of the stop sign in
question from that angle. This officer was annoyed with me, for
calling him a bad cop, he followed me out of the court room try-
ing to convince me that he was not a bad cop, and that he had
been on the police force for over 20 years. I kept walking and
he kept following trying to state his case, until I turned around
and said "You will never change my mind, to me you are a dirty
cop." "So, if you wish to charge me with something, leave me
alone." I kept walking. I did win, because I definately remember him, and I
wonder ocassionally, if he remembers me.
So, back to my granddaughter in regards to Rules and Respect, will she one day
come back and question why I told her to
obey the Rules or Laws? Most certainly, she will. All the
other children have. It's a little hard explaining to teenagers
that it is ok for some but not for others, and hope you get the
point across.
In the game of "Eucher" you always have certain rules to follow
for the game to be played properly. You have a left bower and
a right bower. The right bower always being the Jack of the
same color but of the other suit. The left bower being the
Jack of the trump suit, which is determined by flipping over
the top card, once all the hands have been dealt. The rules
remain the same.
Is a lie, a lie?
I was always warned as a child, to never lie to my mother or
father, especially if I was in trouble and particularly serious
trouble. First and foremost, that was stressed in our home.
Even back then, there seemed to be a mistrust of the Rules or
Laws. We were actually coached, as to how to behave and what
to say if something should occur. Do not say anything, to the
police officer, nothing at all. Did my parents not trust the
law way back when? Thank goodness we were not in trouble with
the law.
Is it ok to tell a small child they must obey the rules, only
up to a certain age, when they find out that rules don't really
mean what they really mean based on peferential treatment.
And peferential treatment in many instances is really about
saving face.
Is my granddaughter out of line in dis-respecting? Yes.
Do I wish her to do this at home. No
It's the exercise that I disagree with. It is very shallow
in scope.
As for reputation which is judged by others; I hope she will
be able to distinguish which reputation she will live up to.
She was not the lone bandit, there were a few of them involved
in the disrespectful incident. You know, they probably got the
gaul, because as my mother used to say "there is strength in
numbers, but always remember, that mad dogs run in packs".
Too many times I hear how someone claims to have not understood
the rules, regulations, laws, bylaws etc....
I don't understand them all myself.
A stop sign is a warning device that is telling you, you will be
stopping at the intersection you are coming to. You are not to
stop at the stop sign itself and then proceed accordingly. You
are to stop at the intersecting roads then proceed. And, I say
I have already come to a complete stop at the stop sign and
then inching my way forward while watching for on-coming traffic
is obviously an inappropriate way of viewing what the stop sign
is initially set out to do. Which is to stop at some point before the
intersection.
I really need to exercise my brain into over load when it
comes to figuring out the law. This only applies to the
traffic by-laws of my area. They might be different in the
city you are visiting or planning to visit. Enjoyable reading
it is not. There is page after page of different do's and don'ts. After a
while, while reading the pages you sometimes
get the feeling that you should not even be driving at all and
the only ones that should be driving are lawyers and police
officers.
A = 1; B = 2
2 be or not too B
Thanks for listening, loved your article, makes me think
even more that we were meant to process numbers and letters
congruently. I think we have over done it on the letter's
side. The numbers don't add up anymore.
There is one creator, I think somewhere he probably left
us with a few directions on how to play the game.
Cathy
