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Saturday, July 21, 2007

W10 D7- Our Personal Baggage

Basil and coffee taken right after each other taste foul. Reason is simple. They have no complimentary molecules and each work to the detriment of the other. On the other hand blue cheese and chocolate complement each other. They have identical molecules, which bring out the taste better.
Each molecule has an attitude. We are a bundle of attitudes, which must partly owe to our material make up. Call it Adamic nature or carnal nature. We may fight them but shall never erase it completely.
As I mentioned earlier chemicals have effect on human behaviour (W9D6). Human pheromones trigger responses from the opposite sex. It is seen in societies where women are close as a group their menstural cycle also synchronize. From such varied observations can we not say our choices are by and large made for us from the way we are wired: socially and materially? Smell or taste is transient; and sensory vitality of that moment shall never be captured. Yet how often we catch a whiff of something in air and we feel nostalgia, triggered by our memory of smell?
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Yes we may sublimate our bad attitudes and aggression in ways we never thought possible and we may even pat our backs for doing so. I conquered my old self! Isn’t that a miracle?
Two Neighbors ©
Mr. Bad Attitude was a go- getter. His problem was he could not see beyond his nose. He knew of course which side of his bread was buttered. But to give the devil his due he tried to live up to his reputation that he took no nonsense. Yes he didn’t. His neighbor Mr. Little Guy was affected by his hollering and the way he threw his weight around. He picked up garbage that his neighbor let fall into his yard or let his dog run into his geraniums and spoil the beds that he had carefully tended. Then there was a great revival and I think Billy Graham passed through that area and preached. Who joined the bandwagon first? Mr. Bad Attitude, naturally,- and he became a preacher. If Billy Graham only prayed at the Inaugurals of the Presidents, Rev. Bad Attitude went house to house and caught the ear of old frail women who had so much money and bad conscience of making their riches on alimonies. While Bad Attitude founded Faith (in me) University and bigger became his operations what did Mr. Little Guy do? He became little older.
One day the two neighbors met in Grand Central Station while waiting for their trains. Mr. Little Guy let the lounge all to himself. While he exited Mr. Attitude pointed the fellow to his admirers,” See that fellow there? I pray for his soul still. His salvation.” There were some who said,” Amen!” Only that next moment he died of a stroke and his admirers said he died with a burden for the soul of an insignificant person. It was often touted as an example of Christian ministry.
Is there a moral to this story?
‘He that is unjust let him be unjust still…’(Rev.22: 11)
benny

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