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....apparently, millions of folks, with otherwise WAY too much to do in life, watch others binge consume junk food, VERY junk, on line. Adds that special "je ne sais pas qua", to the already expansive sorts of porn spin off behaviors in cyberspace. Having seen no shortage of the sickos here, VERY sico, a few apparently recently CS mod disinvited, hope I'm not opening a Pandora's box, by raising the question. Bravo, good boy. Pass me one of your dog bone treats.

What if this might be the Big One.


What would you do? For me, I really do not even want to think about it, but in reality if it is the Big One, should not there be some sort of plan in place? I just seen a show...well...the ending of the show anyway, where it interviewed two guys what they would do if a virus spread. Their solution was to move out to the woods.


The big automobile manufacturers just closed their doors. They are letting prisoners out of prison. This, just within a week of this becoming the main news of the day. I remember when they were talking about Bidon and Bernie. lol It seems as if each day a new drastic measure is being taken.

I am assuming, each day this lasts, the worse it may become.

I have heard it said that what damage the virus don't do, panic may. So, I would say being in a panic is not a solution, but planning might be....

Is it possible the police force might not exist out of either fear of illness or out of illness itself?
The same with government?
The same with fuel supplies?
The same with television?
The same with telephones?
The same with internet?
The same with electricity?

How fragile have our lives really been? A good time for some introspection I suppose.

Panic is not a smart or good thing, but planning is.

Stay safe all....enjoy what we have taken for granted most if not all of our lives...and I suppose we can hope for the best out of all this.

Just recently, I was watching the movie, The Dark Tower. In the movie, Matthew McConaughey's character makes a comment to his shape-shifting minion, (to the effects here) "Oh, I see you chose a beautiful face....with a beautiful face, the world is your oyster."

Also, I have heard it said that a beautiful woman is the most powerful person in the world.

....and, what about that song that says if you want a happy life don't marry a beautiful wife (or something like that lol)

I am just a dummy here and just trying to become more educated.

Is it possible there is something to beauty?

Is it possible that beautiful people should be paid a little closer attention to, to determine their personalities, their moral compasses...etc....

It is said that we are in essence products of our environments. We are shaped by our feedback we receive from others. Is it possible that beautiful people curry favor....they hear less negative feedback because many want something from them? Therefore, they become less empathetic due to genuine ignorance.

I don't know....but I found that line in that movie very interesting.

In addition, the references given mention the female gender. Of course, this is not a gender specific subject. Men can also be deemed as attractive and curry favor as well because of their looks.

I am sure it is just Hollywood and it means absolutely nothing....but...what if.
What about the beauty Hollywood hires, why?
What about news networks with the majority being attractive, why?
What about weather channels and their beauty, why?
Scammers using images of attractive people, why?

Common sense would say it is a play on human instincts...they are not labeled "attractive" for nothing. They garner attention, people wanting to watch/see them. In other words they generate viewer dollars. They by no fault of their own, have a following for nothing other than their looks. Some, I would suspect know they are beautiful and can play that in their favor. Hmmm....I am trying to think of something I just heard on a show in reference to a woman using her beauty for selfish ends. Again, men can too.

Beauty can have the power of persuasion. I once heard that humans have 5 essential motivators....one is sex and one is money.

I bet people have done some pretty stupid things at the request of a beautiful person.

I am not saying all beauty is dangerous...but...just like anything else...some can be.

I'm at the tail end of clearing my house before the (rescheduled) closing date and can be a bit choosy as to whom I sell things to. One guy offered nearly nothing on a bedroom set and tried to pressure me to allow him to remove a piece at a time. Small details... we were there on weekends and needed the bed. He bought the living room sofa and chair... that was enough.

One the last scheduled weekend, a woman showed up looking for a bedroom set. She's from the Bahamas and Hurricane Dorian had more than 3 feet of water in her house.
Going through the long process of rebuilding involved furniture. She and I accepted on a price and the next morning her relative living in Miami showed up with a truck to take the furniture to the port to be loaded on a container leaving the next morning that was headed to the Bahamas.

I felt I did a good thing by holding out!

I see this morning the cause of death for Australian actor/musician Harry Hains is listed as fentanyl intoxication.
His mother Jane Badler stated he battled addiction and struggled with mental illness.
“He was 27 and had the world at his feet.”

He joins the ranks of other famous 27 Club members like Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse, Brian Jones...

I knew we would meet again.
DST you bring more light into my day.
Not that moving the clock actually makes the days longer (some people dispute it) but I'm okay getting up before sunrise.
Really!

For there to be a new world order, there would have to have been an old world order.

What does that mean?

new and old.....

is pretty obvious what that means. Old, something that has been and might be coming to an end. New, is something that has yet to be and might be coming to a beginning.

world...

well, that could mean somebody's individual existence and everything that existence encompasses (that in my opinion would be the micro world) The macro world could encompass everything that exists that everyone experiences. For the time being, that could be the whole planet earth, but as we progress technologically, it could encompass more and more of the universe.

order...

when I think of order, I immediately think of its opposite, chaos. So order could mean that everything has its place.

With these three words broken down...if there is a "New World Order" coming, it would be nice to identify a possible "Old World Order."

I would argue that an "Old World Order" could have possibly been one that involved, religion. Religion allowed our planet to flourish to its population it has today. For Christians, we had the 10 Commandments to follow...to keep us in our place. Order was also maintained by family. Our devotion and love to one another kept everyone in their place. Order was in addition maintained by our work. Being at work 1/2 of our waking lives also kept us in place. In addition, the chasing of money also kept us on the straight and narrow.

These couple examples cover some of the major "old" world orders that have existed...and still do to some extent. But statistics would show they are on the decline....religious follwing...down, married couples..down, jobs are still around...but I will address this shortly along with money. (Jobs and money are connected obviously).

I am no expert here, but I am assuming that if there is going to be a "new order"...anytime you transition between something old and new, there is a short period (or long...depending on the complexity of the transition) of chaos between the two. Have you ever heard that saying, "It has to get worse before it gets better?" It is no different than somebody remodeling their house. Their house is in order before the remodel job, but is a mess in the middle of the job, and it is new order after the remodel job.

Now lets look at the state of the world as it stands right now today (2/24/2020). Take a step back from your day to day life and look at the state of our "world". I would say there is a lot of chaos in it right now. You have government feuding, genders feuding, rich vs. poor, religions losing their power over chaos...etc.

If this theory is correct, that would mean there is room being made for the "new order" to emerge. In other words, room for everything to have its place. When I refer to everything, I am primarily referring to...everyone having their place. If that is so, what is going to maintain this new order?

Last time I commented on something I found original, interesting, and a little controversial, I found myself adding a disclaimer to fend off the nasty comments I might (MIGHT) get in response. Uh no. Deleted my disclaimer. IF someone wants to take issue, and IF I happen to notice them taking issue, time enough to react.

When did we let those ghastly old muppets Statler and Waldorf take over and ruin the fun? Back to the balcony with all hecklers! Bring back friendly chat please please bring back banter!




My new year resolution (took a while, I know) - I will try, on all social media, to just comment. No disclaimers. No explaining. No preaching. No apologising. No heckling.

Ïn effect, "I found this interesting, I'm reacting because I'm glad you posted it" .

The average new year resolution lasts what, 3 days? Oh well. This one starts right after this disclaiming explaining preaching apologetic (but at least non-shouty) blog. My next blog will, I hope, be interesting enough to provoke chat and banter. Just preparing the ground here.

(Heckling has so become the norm anyone who wants to practice normal comments feel free to add a completely random comment at any point.)

...for US pols who have never held a real job, nor ran a real business, nor met a real payroll. No, corruption for family members over seas doesn't count. As with affirmative action Hussein O (Communist organizer, fake law prof, VERY fake, author---via Ghost real writers, and two term do nothing POTUS), and creepy Joe Alzheimer's (almost forty years in the US Senate, after graduating ranked bottom in law school class), few useful job skills. With the great employment scene under the current Brilliant keep promises President, all sorts of new jobs need vacancies filled. All have seen those yellow school busses,in their hundreds of thousands. Well, someone has to lubricate and rust treat underneath them,---commercial ones as well. The Voters and DNC have arranged for Comrade Bernard to be the first on the job. Even helpfully throwing him right into his new real work role.

Two nights in a row, we have a mini-winter with temperatures in the 50's
It was time to 'fire up' the heat and make the place toasty!


Mild winter is one good reason why I prefer to live in South Florida.