In the middle of the pond, there was a green leaf that had fallen from a nearby tree, On this leaf were two bugs. Both of them are eating away a small part of the leaf. Circling around this leaf was a number of small fish looking for a free meal. But then, we all know, there is no such thing as a free meal, don’t we ?
It is going to cost you, coming or going, one way or the other, you will pay! As the way things were set up in the beginning, the strong rule over the weak And the fast win over the slow. The poor always lose to the rich and the day-light is better than the dark of night. But still, strange things do happen!
Most life forms eat, sleep and make little noise. Each in their own right are predators until they become the source of a meal for the stronger, faster or richer! You enter life with no guaranties . You also know, what you have is all you are going to get. Anything you find to use along the way, will have to be taken away from someone else. Now you have become a crook , a common thief and find yourself on a wanted list. From now on, you will have to hide and stay out of sight. That means most anything you do will have to be done after dark!
There is no place you can hide, once you get on that wanted list, every-one will be looking for you. There will be no reward offered for you, you become the next meal for the one that captures you. Now remember the green leaf you are setting on is not much protection as something will happen and in the drink you will go. If one of them small fish gets you, than a bigger fish will get that small fish and that fish will lose to a larger fish and on it goes to the bigger, faster and the richer until one day you find yourself writing short stories like I do….Jonah and the whale was a true story and if it had been my story, I would have been rich myself today. I must say, though I have been eating well, I have never had any dessert with a meal! Pie would nice, but any dessert will do!
Bugs never seem to have a plan, they just crawl, jump or fly and when the energy has been spent , they land. They never think about what lays ahead, They could be landing in the mouth of one of them hungry guys ! We, the weak or strongest, would never do some -thing like that, but we do often make a bad decision. Not long ago, I myself made a bad one. Can you imagine me thinking I could write stories for people to read and the people would say: these were the best stories they had ever read. My first mistake was that I Sent them to the people I knew. Not all were the wrong people, some of them responded and told me how much they enjoyed my writings. I want to say thanks to both of you ! And that includes my wife Peggy.
Yes, I did learn, but what about these two bugs, what will happen next, they are about to go down some creek with rough water and they will surely get washed off of that leaf !
Not all dangers will come from the water, there are things that fly and they also are looking for a meal. One of these airborne creatures dives and catches one bug in his beak and the second bug is caught by the claws on the birds foot. But he doesn’t have good hold on the bug and it falls and lands on solid ground. As for the first bug, he or she is in the dark and slowly losing the game being played.
As the second bug knows, there are many things to fear on land and one of them is waiting just a short distance away. What is it that is green and black and has eight legs and a body six times the size of its head? I have one crawling on my desk right now. Do I want to become a killer or maybe show how forgiving I really am ? I have decided to become a killer and that thing crawling on my desk knew what would happen if he was seen. He took a chance and lost. Now who wants to clean up the mess he made on my desk ? Boy, this sure tells one who their friends are. Hey! Slave, “Come here”. I need you! No, you don’t have to bury it, just put it in the trash, than wash your hands. I wonder if this is the same guy that has been using my bed these past few nights?
The surviving small bug really is not aware of the danger that lays ahead, and for no reason at all, he turns and goes the other way. The spider thinks to himself, damn, now I will have to stalk this bug. When the frog moves, he is seen by another creature that is looking for a meal Frogs will eat just about anything hot or cold and life ends for the spider! This bug may live to be a ripe old age if his luck holds out!
This is the way it has been from the beginning. The game will be played and some will win and others will lose. Each of us faces a danger that will take us by surprise. After all is said and done, not many of us will live long enough to be a hundred years of age!
Remember when one’s life was based on love, trust and honor? People only had nice things to say about their fellow man, they lived in harmony with the land and other animal kingdoms. Then people started to point their fingers at each other and saying things that were not true. Lying was soon taken up by man and he blamed it all on the woman. Woman said it was someone else, not her. It all became out of control, so it became a crime to lie and if one was to be found guilty, judgments would be passed on that guilty persons. The word Honesty had not yet been added to our language or the dictionary and honest people were going to be hard to find. A lone judge could be bought, So they selected twelve people to judge the accused and they all had to agree on a verdict to find one guilty. This appeared to work for most, but it still wasn’t full proof.
Once a law is approved and passed, thousands and thousands of people called Lawyers look for legal ways to get around the New laws. Today, we still cannot be sure if one is guilty or not. When one can no longer have faith or trust in their fellow man, what is left? Did I hear you say prayer?
Tell me this, if one cannot trust man, "which we can’t," how do you know what the bible says is true? Was man not the one that transcribed the words from one language to another and can the printer be trusted to print what was printed before, back to the first bible? Have you ever told a story to one person and have that person tell the story too one other, until twelve people have been told the story? Now have that store repeated by that last person, is it anything like the story that was first told? It would be a miracle if it was! Each man will change the story, just a little as it would sound best to him and you soon have a different story.
When news is reported, is interpreted by the reporter and that is what you hear. If you hear it first hand, then someone will tell you that it meant something else and so it goes around the world and words are used that do not mean the same thing in every language.
People have arrived at a place where they just don’t care, one way or another. They have given up on man and country. Whatever our President does, few believe in him. They say he cannot be trusted because of things that have been said and not proven. Our Representatives in Washington DC, do not know why they are there and know not how to communicate with their constituents.
Elections do not work, the two party system is dead. The electorial vote needs to stop being used and one man one vote to be used! People go into politics solely for the retirement plan. Change that plan and put them on Soc. Sec. and limit them to a set amount of retirement. Ten percent more than the average man receives should do it. Also provide them with training for a trade.
It is going to cost you, coming or going, one way or the other, you will pay! As the way things were set up in the beginning, the strong rule over the weak And the fast win over the slow. The poor always lose to the rich and the day-light is better than the dark of night. But still, strange things do happen!
Most life forms eat, sleep and make little noise. Each in their own right are predators until they become the source of a meal for the stronger, faster or richer! You enter life with no guaranties . You also know, what you have is all you are going to get. Anything you find to use along the way, will have to be taken away from someone else. Now you have become a crook , a common thief and find yourself on a wanted list. From now on, you will have to hide and stay out of sight. That means most anything you do will have to be done after dark!
There is no place you can hide, once you get on that wanted list, every-one will be looking for you. There will be no reward offered for you, you become the next meal for the one that captures you. Now remember the green leaf you are setting on is not much protection as something will happen and in the drink you will go. If one of them small fish gets you, than a bigger fish will get that small fish and that fish will lose to a larger fish and on it goes to the bigger, faster and the richer until one day you find yourself writing short stories like I do….Jonah and the whale was a true story and if it had been my story, I would have been rich myself today. I must say, though I have been eating well, I have never had any dessert with a meal! Pie would nice, but any dessert will do!
Bugs never seem to have a plan, they just crawl, jump or fly and when the energy has been spent , they land. They never think about what lays ahead, They could be landing in the mouth of one of them hungry guys ! We, the weak or strongest, would never do some -thing like that, but we do often make a bad decision. Not long ago, I myself made a bad one. Can you imagine me thinking I could write stories for people to read and the people would say: these were the best stories they had ever read. My first mistake was that I Sent them to the people I knew. Not all were the wrong people, some of them responded and told me how much they enjoyed my writings. I want to say thanks to both of you ! And that includes my wife Peggy.
Yes, I did learn, but what about these two bugs, what will happen next, they are about to go down some creek with rough water and they will surely get washed off of that leaf !
Not all dangers will come from the water, there are things that fly and they also are looking for a meal. One of these airborne creatures dives and catches one bug in his beak and the second bug is caught by the claws on the birds foot. But he doesn’t have good hold on the bug and it falls and lands on solid ground. As for the first bug, he or she is in the dark and slowly losing the game being played.
As the second bug knows, there are many things to fear on land and one of them is waiting just a short distance away. What is it that is green and black and has eight legs and a body six times the size of its head? I have one crawling on my desk right now. Do I want to become a killer or maybe show how forgiving I really am ? I have decided to become a killer and that thing crawling on my desk knew what would happen if he was seen. He took a chance and lost. Now who wants to clean up the mess he made on my desk ? Boy, this sure tells one who their friends are. Hey! Slave, “Come here”. I need you! No, you don’t have to bury it, just put it in the trash, than wash your hands. I wonder if this is the same guy that has been using my bed these past few nights?
The surviving small bug really is not aware of the danger that lays ahead, and for no reason at all, he turns and goes the other way. The spider thinks to himself, damn, now I will have to stalk this bug. When the frog moves, he is seen by another creature that is looking for a meal Frogs will eat just about anything hot or cold and life ends for the spider! This bug may live to be a ripe old age if his luck holds out!
This is the way it has been from the beginning. The game will be played and some will win and others will lose. Each of us faces a danger that will take us by surprise. After all is said and done, not many of us will live long enough to be a hundred years of age!
Remember when one’s life was based on love, trust and honor? People only had nice things to say about their fellow man, they lived in harmony with the land and other animal kingdoms. Then people started to point their fingers at each other and saying things that were not true. Lying was soon taken up by man and he blamed it all on the woman. Woman said it was someone else, not her. It all became out of control, so it became a crime to lie and if one was to be found guilty, judgments would be passed on that guilty persons. The word Honesty had not yet been added to our language or the dictionary and honest people were going to be hard to find. A lone judge could be bought, So they selected twelve people to judge the accused and they all had to agree on a verdict to find one guilty. This appeared to work for most, but it still wasn’t full proof.
Once a law is approved and passed, thousands and thousands of people called Lawyers look for legal ways to get around the New laws. Today, we still cannot be sure if one is guilty or not. When one can no longer have faith or trust in their fellow man, what is left? Did I hear you say prayer?
Tell me this, if one cannot trust man, "which we can’t," how do you know what the bible says is true? Was man not the one that transcribed the words from one language to another and can the printer be trusted to print what was printed before, back to the first bible? Have you ever told a story to one person and have that person tell the story too one other, until twelve people have been told the story? Now have that store repeated by that last person, is it anything like the story that was first told? It would be a miracle if it was! Each man will change the story, just a little as it would sound best to him and you soon have a different story.
When news is reported, is interpreted by the reporter and that is what you hear. If you hear it first hand, then someone will tell you that it meant something else and so it goes around the world and words are used that do not mean the same thing in every language.
People have arrived at a place where they just don’t care, one way or another. They have given up on man and country. Whatever our President does, few believe in him. They say he cannot be trusted because of things that have been said and not proven. Our Representatives in Washington DC, do not know why they are there and know not how to communicate with their constituents.
Elections do not work, the two party system is dead. The electorial vote needs to stop being used and one man one vote to be used! People go into politics solely for the retirement plan. Change that plan and put them on Soc. Sec. and limit them to a set amount of retirement. Ten percent more than the average man receives should do it. Also provide them with training for a trade.
If you still don’t believe me, Tell your spouse something and have them repeat it!
Man cannot be trusted, not in the beginning and not now!
Ben R.
Sept. 10, 2009
Man cannot be trusted, not in the beginning and not now!
Ben R.
Sept. 10, 2009
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