Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Post-5092...
One day a farmer's donkey fell into a well. The animal cried for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway. It just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.
The farmer looked into the well and was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing: he would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.
Pretty soon everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!
Remember: Life is going to shovel all kinds of dirt on you. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest well just by not stopping, never giving up. Shake it off and take a step up!
Enough of that crap!The donkey later came back and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him. The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock.
The moral: When you do something wrong and try to cover your ass, it always comes back to bite you.
Monday, April 09, 2012
Post-5087...
Here's that proposition again. When I posted this before, someone commented at the pointlessness of it, since people will still be buying gas on the day before and the day after and this sort of thing was attempted before without any effect. Still, it makes a statement, and what is life if we don't at least try?
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. - Henry David Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. - Henry David Thoreau
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Post-5078...
Something very disturbing about this picture.
Going to church makes you a christian no more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
Going to church makes you a christian no more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
Saturday, April 07, 2012
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