The blogging on this site is made up of people of many different personalities, some liked more than others. What one person likes, the next one hates. In my opinion, it's a good thing, as who wants to hang out in a bland, vanilla environment? We have angry men, angry women, happy men, happy women, bullies, attention whores, know-it-alls, dumba*, drinkers, teatotallers, and more. If we didn't have this variety, it would be rather dull, and then people would complain about that! Although I don't really consider myself a blogger, I like the occasional conflict, as it makes for better entertainment. Enjoy a round on me!
Lol wonderin bout how beards are looked at by society haha thought I would dart first with this blog
It is our holiday here and so we celebrate the Independence Day, a special non-working day.
Happy Friendship Day!!
Mabuhay Pilipinas ans Americans.!
Another recent email received...passing it on for those who will enjoy the attitude and determination shown here.
> They walked in tandem, each of the ninety-two students filing into the already crowded auditorium. With their rich maroon gowns flowing and the traditional caps, they looked almost as grown up as they felt.
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> Dads swallowed hard behind broad smiles, and Moms freely brushed away tears.
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> This class would NOT pray during the commencements, not by choice, but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it.
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> The principal and several students were careful to stay within the guidelines allowed by the ruling. They gave inspirational and challenging speeches, but no one mentioned divine guidance and no one asked for blessings on the graduates or their families.
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> The speeches were nice, but they were routine until the final speech received a standing ovation.
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> A solitary student walked proudly to the microphone. He stood still and silent for just a moment, and then, it happened.
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> All 92 students, every single one of them, suddenly SNEEZED !!!!
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> The student on stage simply looked at the audience and said,
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> 'GOD BLESS YOU' And he walked off the stageā¦
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> The audience exploded into applause. This graduating class had found a unique way to invoke God's blessing on their future with or without the court's approval.
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> This is a true story; it happened at Eastern Shore District High School in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia.
And for those who don't understand the story...many people use this custom of saying "God Bless You" when a person sneezes.
WHERE THERE IS A WILL.....THERE IS A WAY!
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Is it true that you have to be a double standard person in order for you to live a successful life? I'm against it but just wondering.
I'm really happy to have a new venue to share my mind and thoughts with people. I started blogging about 3 years or so back at googles blogger.com. . Like so many people I wanted a nitch on the net, and heck maybe make some loose change even. lol. Well I never did the paypal thing, because its not the mney end of the deal, like I'm made of a million bucks lol, I'm not.
Its my heart and soul to reach people with what I believe to be sound information on current events, politics, dangers in the world and history which people aren't taught today. Wisdom. It can be found in history from some amazing people and the trials they had gone through in their life times. I heard it said nothing new under the sun, and I'm sure that is true. So learning from others has always been the way. And now with the internet we can all journey together of like hearts minds and souls even.
InRealTyme is my 1st Google blog. I guess they use it to boost their ad rates and all that, but I filter them as best as I can and I don't use their ad sense for income generation. I feel if I'm not bought, I can write about anything and be sincere and shoot straight from the hip. To me that's keeping it real. Followers is not what I am seeking either, thou I probably should. Views to me tells me their there and its anyone's guess if their actually reading it or watching the embedded videos or not lol.
The goal in blogging for me is to warn people and help people, that's it. There's a gazillion fashion, romance, photo, news outlets etc etc etc on the net, so I'm not really seeking fame or fortune. I'm there for others. To get a message I see as imperative and important others get it as well. I don't produce videos or ad copy or post for money like people do at Beforeitsnews.com and cnn and rense.com. There's a gazillion of them also and maybe someday I'll go down that road. I just think it dirties up the agenda and motivation a tad bit.
Am I trying to save the world lol. Probably. Okay thats a bit far out there, and maybe I can't save the world, but if I can help one person, one stranger in even the smallest of way, hey good for them, and may the gods look down upon me kindly. lol
So, have you checked out the videos I have been attaching? Some are so amazing. The emotions, the messages, the stories told are so incredible. Everyone communicating something to someone, to everyone, about something. Some of them are made by people with no education, phds, doctorates, ex cops, vets, house wives, moms, dads. Its clear they took the time to say what was on their hearts and minds to others. And that says alot about real people with real struggles and having real experiences, woorth talking about. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Now please be kind, as I'm not a professional writer, as anyone can tell. My sentence structure and train of thought isn't by design from a college writing course or class. lol And it'll take me abit to get used to their controls here, but I'll try to keep it clean, sometimes erotic sorta, and interesting maybe (to me anyways ) so as to not bore you to bad.
Other than that come along and comment anytime.
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Not the most invigorating speaker I have ever listened to.
But his words are brave and come from a life experience very few of us
will ever have to endure.
It maybe worth listening to, I certainly thought it was.
Lets bring in sterilization and a one child policy throughout the
world and stop the mass reproduction and save the planet.
online now!
I watched a few news clips about the anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war. I noticed that many of you are apologizing to the world for the war.
Its important to remember what happened and to learn from it so it can never happen again. Having said that, you do not need to apologize for the actions of a generation past. Since the world wars, you have turned your society into a peaceful, productive, and respected nation.
You have earned the respect of the rest of the world and the actions of a generation past do not reflect who you are now. Be proud of what you accomplished.
Chimamanda Adichie is a Nigerian author/novelist and here is a lecture/talk she made at TED Talks sometime ago.
This talk is personal for 2 reasons:
1. I am Nigerian and proud, just like the speaker
2. Having lived in Europe for about 8 years now, I have very similar, if not exact stories as told by the speaker
Despite being closely linked to this story, I will endeavour not to personalise it. I believe that the story actually applies to all of us, irrespective of our race/ colour of our skin and our current place of abode. Even with the advent of the internet, 24-hour television and the relative affordability of land, sea and air travel, we all still have preconceived notions of other people that are not exactly true and may not be in a hurry to change such perceptions. For some people, only a personal, face-to-face interaction with a person from a particular region of the world will change this pre-conceived notion.
For want of time (considering that the video is almost 20 minutes long), I will let you all enjoy the video and leave your comments (personal 'single story' situations
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