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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
It All Comes Back…, Like a Bad Penny!
December 10th, 2014
A few months ago, I found a plastic bag full of really nasty
and tarnished coins – mostly dimes, nickels, and quarters. Nothing old or rare, mind you. Just the nastiest-looking coins one likely has
ever seen. Like…, way too nasty to touch
with bare hands. Apparently, the coins
had been left in a plastic bag tucked away inside a piece of storage furniture with
some painting supplies on someone’s outdoor porch for at least several
years.
So, as the property owner didn’t want the coins, I decided
to clean the coins up and spend them as there was at least thirty-five dollars
worth of coins in the bag, if not more.
After soaking the coins in cleaning products and some further cleaning –
twice, most of the tarnish had come off the coins. While still somewhat nasty, the only real
problem with the coins then was that the finish of the coins had also come off –
more or less. That is, the dimes, nickels,
and quarters now all looked like pennies at first glance because those coins no
longer had any silvery-looking finish.
Being as nasty as the coins were even after cleaning, I decided
to start using the coins to pay highway tolls.
I remember one toll-booth operator on the Massachusetts Turnpike
thinking the coins were pennies and the looks on the faces of the New Jersey
Turnpike toll-booth operators as well.
The best reaction, however, was when the New York Port Authority cop who
was collecting tolls at the Throgs Neck Bridge thought the coins were fake and
exclaimed that now she had “seen everything.”
:)
But anyway, since spending many of those really
nasty-looking coins throughout the northeastern United States and other states
as I travelled west, it seems many of the coins have taken to following
me. That is to say, it seems when I am
given loose change at a store, I am now forever being given coins (dimes,
nickels, and quarters) that have no finish on them – and the coins I’m getting
now often look like pennies at first glance too. Can they be the same coins that I spent as I travelled
throughout and across the nation? Kind’a
funny and weird, huh? Let me know if you
per chance get any of those coins too, will ‘ya?
AVT
See:
Do Unto Others and the Same Will Be Done Unto You By Others
!!
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Secretive Truths
Once an entity appears to care more for the secrets it keeps
than the entity cares for the revealing of truth in any given situation, at
that point in time nothing the entity states is generally perceived as truthful
by anyone. This is especially so when
the truth that was withheld could affect the safety and well-being of others
from whom the truth is kept. When this
scenario comes to pass, it seems that nearly any amount of innuendo, hearsay,
or pretextual fabrications about that untruthful entity can no longer be
dismissed out-of-hand, regardless of how outlandish are any such claims about
that potentially untruthful entity. Again, this
would be so because that seemingly untruthful entity then no longer would be perceived
as truthful upon its denial of any outlandish claims to the contrary.
AVT (December, 2014)
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Judging In-Situ
When looking to pass judgment on the prior actions of
others, particularly in a historical context, always be sure to account for the
situational environment of the historical figure who took the actions upon which
one looks to judge. All too often it
seems many authors look to persuade readers to a certain viewpoint as to why
any historic figure acted in a given manner while the author is all too quick
to pass judgment on those actions without explaining the entire situational
environment present at the time of the actions in question. Not to make excuses for the actions of anyone
or anything like that. But, what is now
considered wrong or right, may not have been exactly so when the historic
figure acted.
AVT (December, 2014)
Thursday, November 6, 2014
An All-Powerful Government
The day may well be less than a generation away wherein the
young people of that future time will have no one with whom to speak of the era
in which folks could move freely and live unencumbered in the United States
without an all-powerful and all-knowing government tracking nearly every action
of nearly everyone in the nation – or certainly maintaining the ability to do
so if it desired. Or so it all seems,
anyhow. Maybe those of the future won’t
care of such a fact, or merely not know to care - which would surely seem to be
the preference of any such all-powerful government.
Adam Trotter (October, 2014)
See:
The Baby Boomer Generation: The End-All Hypocrites for the
Ages?
Friday, September 19, 2014
Push-Me / Pull-You
Often it seems that the more one tries to push or force
another to go forward in a certain direction, the more the other who is being
pushed ultimately desires to proceed in the entirely opposite direction.
AVT (September, 2014)
See:
Of the quest to control [any given situation] …..
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