Smart around the Edges

Stupid in the Center, where it really counts. 

This combination can be hard to deal with, but is very common, because it is so useful, in a negative way. It makes it difficult for those you are talking to, to think. 

Once they begin to understand what is going on, you vanish.

This is easy if your conversation is online. I used to have a friend I emailed frequently with. Then he stopped answering my emails, so I started calling him on weekends. Then he stopped answering my calls. When someone decides to disappear, believe me, they disappear. 

I have another title for this posting: Disappear! It's easy. 

Verbal communication can be easily Messed Up

This was proven by the last debate, that Trump easily dominated. 

I once knew a man involved in the Congression Reseach Service publications, which publish every word uttered on the floor of Congress.  

He said they had a good laugh, reading some of the things that were said. 

The debates in the Congressional Congress (1774-1778) were kept secret, until they were written down, and sent to the States for ratification. 

The Advantages to Being Stupid

The biggest advantage is obvious: you will be like everyone else. 

We are very social critters, and we do most of our learning by imitating others. 

This works: any three-year-old child can learn any language effortlessly. And some languages, are so complicated, adults cannot learn them. This even applies to Computer languages, where language systems are updated frequently. 

We are not only stupid, we have to prove we are stupid, and make other people stupid also. This happens in any office, including the offices of most Computer companies. 

I have been in these Computer companies, in Southern California and Silicon Valley. And have been watching how most people use their products. 

I see one thing, over and over: Mass Stupidity. 

Millennials and mortgage rates are heating up Seattle’s housing market

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The housing market in Seatle and Pheonix is hot. 

Many of us have seen this before, and the end is not pretty. 

The Women in Your Life are Your Life

The first woman in your life is always your mother. And how you handle that relationship determines how you handle the rest of your life. 

For a woman, the next most important relationship is a man: her husband. For a man, his wife. These are difficult relationships and often fail. Homosexual relationships are something I cannot help you with, but it seems to me, some consistency is important here. 

Your third relationship is with yourself, which is difficult because you are so damn difficult. One of your problems is straying focussed on yourself. Meditation helps, but can only help. 

Poor Mexico

So far from God, and ao close to America!

Drugs flow North across the border, and guns flow South, in about equal quantities. 

Meanwhile, people like my sister, who lives close to the border, are dodging the bullets.

It did not use to be this way. My family used to drive from Illinois to Acapulco every year-end vacation to enjoy the beaches and the cheap motels.

Reversal of Values

 As I read through the messages on my laptop this morning, I could not escape the feeling that something was terribly wrong with our world. 

This is the first thing we have to face: something is terribly wrong. Not just a little bit wrong, but terribly wrong. What is it? 

It is probably a complex of many forces, and it is our job to tackle the worst of them. Agreed?

Probably not. Most people think we should not tackle our big problems, but content ourselves with the small ones. The big ones are too dangerous. 

I think one of the big ones is a reversal of values. This can happen easily and has a huge impact. We end up liking bad things and hating good things. Thinking we are doing just the opposite. 

The first thing we have to do is admit this is possible. We have been taught that all of the people cannot be wrong all of the time. Maybe so, but if a certain percentage is wrong, a tipping point is reached, where most become wrong. We have to admit this a possibility. 

And has already happened.