Chinese whispers and American foreign policy 2
29th Oct 2008
Hello lovely people
I read recently that Humpty Dumpty was not an egg. It was in fact a famous cannon that was used in the Siege of Colchester during the English Civil War. At some stage an egg-shaped character in a children’s story was given the same name and the nursery rhyme (and the myth) started.
I am sure you have also received some of these emails that have been doing the rounds or years about parents collecting money for children that are dying from some terminal illness, or Microsoft and AOL dishing out money simply because you use your computer. I have found this website a good place to check before passing the email on. I have even replied to some of these emails by providing the link, and still received other emails from the same sources – proving how gullible people can be.
We can have a good laugh about these absurdities, but I would like to point out the danger of it as well.
We sometimes say things about people and we mean them as a joke. Others hear the statements and do not understand the joke. They repeat the statements and over time people start to believe what they hear. Or people hear a malicious rumour and repeat it because it is so juicy, even though they know it is not true.
We know that what we think becomes. By the time we say something about people, we had already formed a strong enough thought to put it into words. So when I say watch your tongue, it is actually too late. We should watch our thoughts as well.
Yes, I know our thoughts are not always whiter than white, and that is OK, because there is balance in the Universe. But an awareness of how our thoughts are the origin of what we say and do will help us to move from thinking more negative thoughts to thinking more positive thoughts.
Now I am off to send some loving thoughts to Sarah Palin – and to John McCain as well.
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Love and Light
Elsabe
