An ESP thing that puzzles me....

Something I wonder about, and this is mainly directed to those who believe ESP and such are gifts.  Why do you feel it would be wrong to use your gift to help yourself when you are in need?  I'm not talking about winning lottery numbers, but you can pass those on to me if you like.  I'm talking more along the lines of you need temporary help because of situations beyond your control has caused a slight reversal of fortunes as it were.  Yet you can't or won't help yourself.  I don't understand that.  Some one please explain it to me.

I know there are those who may read this that will say ESP and such is from Satan, but there are others who believe those are gifts from God.  It's to those people to whom this is directed.

Will it matter...

Many years ago, well I guess it's been about 40 years ago, I was attending high school at Yellville-Summit High School.  Posted on the wall of the lobby near the drinking fountain was a poster that posed the question "Will it matter that I was?"  What I remember, whether accurately or not it's how I remember it, is one of my teachers, Mr. Calvin Cotton, posed that question to us in class.  He asked us to answer the question and a brief reason why.   I had answered that, no, it will not matter that I was.  I felt at the time that I had not been an influence, good or bad, on anybody or anything, had not accomplished anything worthwhile and I wasn't sure I ever would.  I believe Mr. Cotton's response was that in essence I was wrong.

I look back and I answer that question over and over thinking that while I have not accomplished anything of worth for people or for the planet, that I have influenced a life or two.  My wife certainly feels that I influence her and I feel that we have influenced each other, thereby making a difference in both our lives.  My daughter Holly.  Well she's my daughter which implies that I fathered her which must mean that if I had no other influence in her life, I'm partially responsible for her being here.  She's a good girl, forgive me Holly for saying "good girl".  I think she's grown up to be responsible and she's certainly intelligent, I feel and hope that I helped her become who she is.

I have other friends that for good or bad I've touched their lives and they have touched mine.  I can't see how any of them has touched me in a bad way and I can only hope that I've touched them in a good way and not bad.  We all need encouragement, love, support and friendship and I hope I have been that way to them.

So, yes, it will matter that I was.  I may never cure cancer, or save the world, but in some small way, I have and will matter.

Don't you hate it when...

Don't you hate it when somebody says "I'm not one to complain..." then they start complaining and you know that they complain all the time.  Not one to complain HA.

Don't you hate it when somebody says "Now, don't take this the wrong way..." then they tell you how bad you are at something and has nothing good to say about it.  How are you supposed to take it?  "Don't take this the wrong way, but your bowling style is reminiscient of a fish flopping around on the ground."

Don't you hate it when somebody says "...and I mean it in the best way possible".  Like "you're uglier than a javelina's butt, but I mean that in the best way possible".  Best way possible huh, you mean I didn't mean it as an insult to you, but a compliment to the javelina.

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