SENSITIZE 30
Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his audience.
Today: Breaking up bar fights can be tricky–especially if you favor one or the other.
Cring talks about the rich and the poor.
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3 Things … May 21st, 2020
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That Are Nearly the Same
1. Doubt
“I am not sure I believe.”
2. Fear
“I am afraid to believe.”
3. Rage
“Why should I have to believe?”
1 Thing You Can Do This Week to Change Your World
You Can’t Be a Shepherd and Act Like a Sheep
If you want to shepherd your ideas, guide your plans and steer your dreams, you have to stop being a victim to your own circumstances or a prisoner to your own limited “mental barn.”
Sheep clump.
Sheep are often afraid.
Sheep don’t know how to move to greener pastures.
Sheep are vulnerable to wolves.
Sheep are not comfortable unless they’re doing what the other sheep are doing.
A sheep is an animal
As an animal, it responds to its environment instead of changing it.
A shepherd, on the other hand, is a human who understands sheep weaknesses, and is able to lead them to more prosperous and safer adventures.
A shepherd does this in two ways–sometimes a shepherd uses tenderness; sometimes, stern.
If you want to change your world, you have to stop being a sheep. Because if you are, you cannot shepherd your own passions.
So find your own humanity, develop some spunk, don’t respond to the greenness of the grass–and bring leadership and compassion to the sheep around you.
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Dear Man/Dear Woman: A Noteworthy Conversation … December 19th, 2015
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Dear Man,
I’m tired of being afraid.
I hate fear. It is so uncontrollably fearful.
I’m afraid of being weak and I’m also afraid of not being weak enough to fit in.
Or maybe it’s that I’m tired. Yes, I’m tired of being the weaker sex. How can you call someone the weaker anything and contend it’s not an insult? In what sense is weakness ever a positive? It is one thing and one thing only: weak.
It enables you to relegate me to positions for easy manipulation. I despise it. And then if manipulation doesn’t work, you can become abusive. And since I’m weak, I’m supposed to fall under the spell of your aggression.
I’m supposed to believe that if I have an opinion, it’s a complaint. If I have a complaint, it’s a bitch.
If I have a bitch, it’s an insult to your manhood. And if I insult your manhood, I’m a lousy woman.
How can you define being a woman by how well men think you act your role?
Dear Woman:
Don’t you think I’m afraid, too? I’m afraid of failing to be strong.
Who in the hell would I be if I’m not strong? I would risk being a pussy, right? Which simultaneously, by the way, insults you because it attributes weakness to being female.
So I’m supposed to figure out on my own what it means to be strong. Forgive me for assuming that would entail getting rid of anything that resembles weakness–feelings, tears, sensitivity, attention span…should I go on?
So to be a man, in a way I’m told to be a jerk to a woman. And from what you’re telling me, I further complicate your life by treating you as weak so I will appear stronger.
Dear Man,
You don’t understand. I don’t want you to work this out for me. I don’t want you to adapt to my fear and my fatigue.
I want to find a way to discover why we share so much in common, yet are taught that we’re so different.
Dear Woman:
Aren’t we different? Isn’t that supposed to be the allure of our attraction?
Dear Man:
I hope not, because quite honestly, it’s driving me nuts.
The things you think make you strong actually repel me, and then I resent the fact that I’m supposed to be attracted to what I find repulsive.
Dear Woman:
Repulsive, huh? Am I supposed to hear that without thinking you’re a bitch?
Dear Man:
Am I supposed to feel it without saying it?
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Jesonian: EARTH 101 … April 13, 2014
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The search for a world without problems is a decision to stumble down a back alley of disaster.
Yes. Trying to avoid difficulty is the best way to obtain more.
Life has problems.
These trying situations keep life lively. Living must be lively or we end up bored and cease to grow.
So let us understand: God does not have a will–not in the sense of a pre-determined plan of action which He adheres to without revision.
Free will eradicates heavenly “big plans.”
God has a way: a way of working, breathing, loving, sharing and expanding. It is expressed clearly in the actions of Nature.
Learn the style of God’s earth, and your problems begin to submit to the ways of the Creator.
EARTH 101
1. What needs to be done?
Don’t be afraid. Don’t over think. Look at it honestly: what is needed?
2. What can I do?
Don’t exaggerate. Don’t promote. Don’t explain. Don’t complain. Just produce a practical list of your abilities.
3. Is it enough?
Sometimes your ability is enough. Sometimes it’s doggone close. Sometimes other folks see you trying and offer help. Sometimes time changes the circumstances.
4. Can I work with less?
Is there a way to be creative? Can I share the responsibility with others? Does it all have to happen now? Can I make a start of it by handling a portion of the problem?
After you have finished this EARTH 101, the struggle that remains following this analysis is your true need. Your lack. The starting line of your faith.
And very simply, my dear friend, the Good Book says that this need is what God promises to supply.
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Populie: Be Yourself… March 12, 2014
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It happens all the time on shows like The Voice or American Idol: a contestant is voted off by the audience and awaits the final words of encouragement from the judges.
Inevitably, one of the mentors will pipe up with, “Be yourself.”
You can see the look of confusion on the contestant’s face as he or she thinks, “Isn’t that what I just did? I was myself–and I lost.”
It is popular. “Be yourself” has become the mantra of a generation which thinks the cure for mediocrity is pumping people up.
It is popular, but it is a lie.
POPULIE.
The problem with the concept of “be yourself” is that individuality loses its power when compatibility isn’t achieved. In other words, if we can’t find a way to peacefully co-exist with each other, merely standing firm, establishing our presence, won’t achieve much except further separation in thinking and segregation between people based upon their quirks.
I will be honest with you–if you’re able to find one other person in your life that you can actually be yourself around, without them running away in horror, you have just discovered a miracle.
Truth–fine tune who you are according to what you need to do and where you want to go.
The Good Book offers us three other “be’s” to consider “beneath our bonnet:”
1. Be not afraid.
You guarantee failure if you are frightened and choke when opportunity comes your way. If you have a reasonable amount of ability and learn how to use it well, you will find a reasonable amount of success.
2. Be of good cheer.
The greatest buzz-kill in life is to take things too seriously. A light heart lends itself to a willing spirit, which invites an open mind, giving you a chance to survive when things begin to evolve in front of you.
3. Be perfect.
Maybe that should be “perfect your be.” In other words, find something you do well and continue to practice it until it’s at market quality, and then make sure you keep it up to spec-ready to go.
If you decide to pursue a lifestyle to “be yourself,” you will have a narrow vision for what is acceptable, and you will have a smaller and smaller handful of folks who are willing to put up with your alleged uniqueness.
- It is a populie.
- It is marijuana to the masses.
- It is the notion that we can remain the same and still get our portion.
What we need to be is whatever is necessary to allow ourselves to be part of the human family…successful without hurting anyone else in the process.
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Jesonian: Before We Walk … March 9, 2014
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Don’t be afraid.
Life will make sense if we can be sensible.
God, nature and science work together.
They were never intended to be separate.
So we were created by God, given nature as a place to live and work, with science providing ideas, guidelines, principles and knowledge that make our earth function.
It is a team organized to bring you individual challenge, opportunity and joy.
So please remember, your destiny is not determined in the heavens, stars or your DNA.
You are in charge.
You have the past as a teacher.
You have the present as a stage.
You will decide your own future.
Now, stand up and walk.
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