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The farmer knew a good thing when HE saw it. HE knew how to butter his own toast.
The new seed cornd came highly recommended so He bought it.
It produced a crop that was abundant beyond his wildest dreams. It gave him a tremendous profitable competitive advantage.
His farmer neighbors, seeking the results, asked him to sell them a portion of the new seed. They were more than willing to give him a good finder’s fee price but HE said “No.” He had found it. He had it. And that was that.
The second year the seed did not produce as a good a crop and by the third year the cropw was even worse. It dawned on the farmer that his prize corn was being pollinated by the inferior grade of corn from his neighbor’s fields.
Do you want to know what one of the big problems in America today is? We are too often a country of bozo leaders teaching our young people bozo ideas.
Got doubts? Check out each year’s commencement addresses. They used to be about courage and persistence and honor and selflessness. The spirit of the words that President Kennedy quoted in his Inaugural Address, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
Today? Well, according to The Washington Post, nowadays what institutions of higher learning are looking for in a commencement speaker isn’t lofty rhetoric about “big issues.” What they are looking for is star power and the ability to “amuse new grads.” Graduation, a time for entertainment? Come on now.
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The farmer knew a good thing when HE saw it. HE knew how to butter his own toast.
The new seed cornd came highly recommended so He bought it.
It produced a crop that was abundant beyond his wildest dreams. It gave him a tremendous profitable competitive advantage.
His farmer neighbors, seeking the results, asked him to sell them a portion of the new seed. They were more than willing to give him a good finder’s fee price but HE said “No.” He had found it. He had it. And that was that.
The second year the seed did not produce as a good a crop and by the third year the cropw was even worse. It dawned on the farmer that his prize corn was being pollinated by the inferior grade of corn from his neighbor’s fields.
Do you want to know what one of the big problems in America today is? We are too often a country of bozo leaders teaching our young people bozo ideas.
Got doubts? Check out each year’s commencement addresses. They used to be about courage and persistence and honor and selflessness. The spirit of the words that President Kennedy quoted in his Inaugural Address, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
Today? Well, according to The Washington Post, nowadays what institutions of higher learning are looking for in a commencement speaker isn’t lofty rhetoric about “big issues.” What they are looking for is star power and the ability to “amuse new grads.” Graduation, a time for entertainment? Come on now.
By way of example, the American University class of 2002 heard actress Goldie Hawn tell her audience that it was time for them to attend the “college of you.”
The college of you? Now there’s a great selfish, self-centered philosophy to tell graduates to inflict on the world.
Three years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen told graduates of Mt. Holyoke to “set aside” the expectations, demands and requirements imposed by others.
Instead, she urged her audience to do what they thought was best for them. In other words to set up a banquet table for me, myself and I. No wonder the world is going to the dogs - too many people today really are barking up the wrong tree.
The college of you? Now there’s a great selfish, self-centered philosophy to tell graduates to inflict on the world.
Three years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen told graduates of Mt. Holyoke to “set aside” the expectations, demands and requirements imposed by others.
Instead, she urged her audience to do what they thought was best for them. In other words to set up a banquet table for me, myself and I. No wonder the world is going to the dogs - too many people today really are barking up the wrong tree.
“Find yourself” is the overwhelming theme. And having found yourself, put yourself ahead of everyone else.
Don’t worry about accomplishments or leadership. Strive for emotional and psychological wellbeing. Don’t worry about self-sacrifice or a willingness to follow causes greater than yourselves.
Four years in college, and these are the type of comments we have been offering the graduating classes as a final preparation in their taking over of the world. And so, should we really wonder how and why we are in the selfish self serving mess we are in today.
Got any doubts this is being subliminally taught in other places as well? Just look at the television commercials. Too many of them teach the viewers that it’s okay to hog the snacks.
Or that we deserve to be first in line for the newest and best so we can be the envy of our friends and enemies. Don’t consider whether it hurts other people in the process, after all they’re second.
Don’t worry about accomplishments or leadership. Strive for emotional and psychological wellbeing. Don’t worry about self-sacrifice or a willingness to follow causes greater than yourselves.
Four years in college, and these are the type of comments we have been offering the graduating classes as a final preparation in their taking over of the world. And so, should we really wonder how and why we are in the selfish self serving mess we are in today.
Got any doubts this is being subliminally taught in other places as well? Just look at the television commercials. Too many of them teach the viewers that it’s okay to hog the snacks.
Or that we deserve to be first in line for the newest and best so we can be the envy of our friends and enemies. Don’t consider whether it hurts other people in the process, after all they’re second.
Psalm 119:36
”Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.”
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”Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.”
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A quote below from ONE A DAY blog entitled DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS
“One day on the road to Damascus Christ appeared to Saul and Saul changed - both his lifestyle and his name. And then, beyond the shadow of a doubt, it could finally be said about he now named Paul and his new way of being, “Man, that’s really living.”
“One day on the road to Damascus Christ appeared to Saul and Saul changed - both his lifestyle and his name. And then, beyond the shadow of a doubt, it could finally be said about he now named Paul and his new way of being, “Man, that’s really living.”
It’s called choice and we cannot always straddle the fence in life. We have to one way or the other learn what Luciano Pavarotti learned from his baker father. A very wise man…
“When I was a boy," tenor Luciano Pavarotti relates. "My father urged me to…”
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