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If you love someone for their beauty,,,
If you love someone for their beauty, not love is desire. If you love someone for their intelligence, love is not admiration. If you love someone because he is rich, it is not love interest. If you love someone and not know why, that's just love....
BIRTHDAY WISHES to our dear friend
HANS!!!!!
From all your friends on THE BLOGS!
Here is hoping you have a FANTABALISTIC DAY!!!!
Heaps of good wishes, food, happiness and love!
cup cakes for all.....
AND BIRTHDAY group hugs... 
From all your friends on THE BLOGS!
Here is hoping you have a FANTABALISTIC DAY!!!!
Heaps of good wishes, food, happiness and love!
cup cakes for all.....
AND BIRTHDAY group hugs... 
Artificial Friendship?
I was newly struck by the artificial nature of being online after reading the responses on a recent blog named ‘Dinner For Six’. 
What particularly struck me was the way some of us – I include myself here – apologized to our other friends for not having them on our invitation lists. Others refrained from giving names at all in fear of offending friends. Is the bond of friendship online so frail that we are too scared to invite some friends and not the others?
If you were to win such a prize in real life and you had 12 friends, would you rather stay home and forfeit the prize so not to offend our friends? I think not. Would you, in real life, ask the sponsor or organizer to expand the guest list to 12? No, you won’t.
You will invite 5 friends without even having to apologize to anybody, knowing they will understand. And you will come back bragging to them about how you enjoyed the evening. After all, the prize allowed for only 5 guests and if they are true friends there will be no ill feelings.
If one of your friends got 5 rugby, soccer, opera, cinema or whatever tickets and does not ask you along, will you be offended? If you are offended then you are not such a good friend at all. You cannot monopolize your friend. Like you, he/she is entitled to other friends as well.
So why do we want to treat online friends better than in real life? Friends who use names we’re not sure about, pictures that may be fake, doing a jobs that may not be true and claiming to be where they may not be. What is so special about online friends that we want to wrap them in cotton wool?
I wonder if you could guess how much time I spend finding the right words in a comment and how many euphemisms I use; only not to alienate myself from friends… but in real life, I call a spade a spade.
True friends take much more to be offended. 
Stick around. Friday is still a long way off.
What particularly struck me was the way some of us – I include myself here – apologized to our other friends for not having them on our invitation lists. Others refrained from giving names at all in fear of offending friends. Is the bond of friendship online so frail that we are too scared to invite some friends and not the others?
If you were to win such a prize in real life and you had 12 friends, would you rather stay home and forfeit the prize so not to offend our friends? I think not. Would you, in real life, ask the sponsor or organizer to expand the guest list to 12? No, you won’t.
You will invite 5 friends without even having to apologize to anybody, knowing they will understand. And you will come back bragging to them about how you enjoyed the evening. After all, the prize allowed for only 5 guests and if they are true friends there will be no ill feelings.
If one of your friends got 5 rugby, soccer, opera, cinema or whatever tickets and does not ask you along, will you be offended? If you are offended then you are not such a good friend at all. You cannot monopolize your friend. Like you, he/she is entitled to other friends as well.
So why do we want to treat online friends better than in real life? Friends who use names we’re not sure about, pictures that may be fake, doing a jobs that may not be true and claiming to be where they may not be. What is so special about online friends that we want to wrap them in cotton wool?
I wonder if you could guess how much time I spend finding the right words in a comment and how many euphemisms I use; only not to alienate myself from friends… but in real life, I call a spade a spade.
True friends take much more to be offended.
Stick around. Friday is still a long way off.
My Favorite British Sitcoms
Ranking with Best First;
#1) Fawlty Towers (I own the complete set)
#2) Yes, Minister a.k.a. Yes Prime Minister (I own one year)
#3) My Family
#4) Bless Me Father (I own the complete set)
#5) Good Neighbors
#6) Butterflies
#7) To the Manor Born
#8) The Good Life
#9) Keeping Up Appearances
#10) The Vicar of Dibley
Of course, I loved Monty Python (I own the complete set)
but that isn't a sitcom
Brit sitcoms I didn't like included (ranking with worst first);
1) Blackadder
2) Allo Allo
3) Thin Blue Line
3) Last of the Summer Wine
I also did not like Benny Hill, but that was not a sitcom.
Naturally, your lists may be completely different.
If you are a fan of British Sitcoms, feel free to post your list below
,
or you can just rag on mine
whatever makes you happy.
#1) Fawlty Towers (I own the complete set)
#2) Yes, Minister a.k.a. Yes Prime Minister (I own one year)
#3) My Family
#4) Bless Me Father (I own the complete set)
#5) Good Neighbors
#6) Butterflies
#7) To the Manor Born
#8) The Good Life
#9) Keeping Up Appearances
#10) The Vicar of Dibley
Of course, I loved Monty Python (I own the complete set)
but that isn't a sitcom
Brit sitcoms I didn't like included (ranking with worst first);
1) Blackadder
2) Allo Allo
3) Thin Blue Line
3) Last of the Summer Wine
I also did not like Benny Hill, but that was not a sitcom.
Naturally, your lists may be completely different.
If you are a fan of British Sitcoms, feel free to post your list below
, or you can just rag on mine
whatever makes you happy.
Quotes to share - The Five Elements
Water quote:
"Water can carve itsway, even through stone.
And when trapped,water makes a new path."
( Memoirs of a Geisha )
Fire quote:
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
( Bruce Lee )
Earth quote:
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
( Rachel Carson )
Air quote:
"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time."
( Henry David Thoreau )
Spirit quote:
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
( Stephen R. Covey )
"Water can carve itsway, even through stone.
And when trapped,water makes a new path."
( Memoirs of a Geisha )
Fire quote:
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
( Bruce Lee )
Earth quote:
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
( Rachel Carson )
Air quote:
"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time."
( Henry David Thoreau )
Spirit quote:
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
( Stephen R. Covey )
online today!
you worry me
This was a letter written by a Christian pilot to a Muslim doctor, who thought was being profiled while boarding a plane.
Sent to me by a friend.
YOU WORRY ME!
I've been trying to say this since 911, but you worry me. I wishyou didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me.
I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.
On September 11, ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings, killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers.
The Palestinians celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage, hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.
To be continued
Sent to me by a friend.
YOU WORRY ME!
I've been trying to say this since 911, but you worry me. I wishyou didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me.
I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.
On September 11, ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings, killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers.
The Palestinians celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage, hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.
To be continued
When Love Comes Knocking At Your Door.
When somebody knocks on my front door, I open it. I think the majority of people do. Especially here in South Africa because most of us have safety gates to prevent surprises when we open the door. Something that was not necessary when I was a child.
The average person doesn’t hide behind a closed door and doesn’t scamper to write down registration numbers. Unless - of course - if we expect trouble.
We open the door and if it is a friend, we let him in. We cannot just let a stranger in but we should listen to what brought the stranger to our doorstep. Then, after checking his credentials, we can decide if there is need for any action or not.
Why is it then that we act differently when love comes knocking at our heart’s door? We follow the extreme options. We either hide behind a closed door of we let the stranger in and give him a free run of the place without knowing his bona fides.
Why don’t we first listen to a stranger’s story before we decide what to do? Should we not get to know the strangers bona fides before we give him the full run of our hearts?
Your heart is a sacred as your home; treat it as such.
The average person doesn’t hide behind a closed door and doesn’t scamper to write down registration numbers. Unless - of course - if we expect trouble.
We open the door and if it is a friend, we let him in. We cannot just let a stranger in but we should listen to what brought the stranger to our doorstep. Then, after checking his credentials, we can decide if there is need for any action or not.
Why is it then that we act differently when love comes knocking at our heart’s door? We follow the extreme options. We either hide behind a closed door of we let the stranger in and give him a free run of the place without knowing his bona fides.
Why don’t we first listen to a stranger’s story before we decide what to do? Should we not get to know the strangers bona fides before we give him the full run of our hearts?
Your heart is a sacred as your home; treat it as such.
Does Obama hate China?
I have been following the unfolding of things lately between the US(Obama) and the P.R.China and its quite awkward.Everyday u tune the TV here, its all about Obama and China and apparently i dont believe any chinese(both & abroad) can testify that he/she likes Obama.During the copenghagen summit, China promised to reduce there carbon emmision by 45%. They claim soverignty over Taiwan, they urged the US not to sell arms to Taiwan, and they also asked the US not to meet the Dalai Lama.Recently, Obama said that developing countries like China should increase their products to suit a carbon free environment, the arms sales to Taiwan has greatly escalated since he took office, he reclently met the Dalai Lama, and indirectly Taiwan isnt recognised as a part of China by the US. The question is WHY? All these have highly increased since Obama took office.Some analysts say Obama is afraid of the increased recognition of China in world issues and the decreased recognition of the US in world issues. Does it mean that Obama hates China or is he concerned that China's recognition internationally is widely increasing and that they may someday take over the US in international matters?
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