Comments on life

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A bit of mirth have never hurt anyone – I have created my latest masterpiece

as my one of my personal blogs.  Please leave comments to your hearts content and write some of your own mirth.  Lets laugh a bit ?

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Where is your locus of control?  Internal or external.  Comments you read on external locus of control sometimes give the definition of this as blaming everyone except yourself for what happens to you.

This of course is not what it means :  It means that you are not in control of you locus (locality,personal space , call it what you will ) You allow the control to be taken from you. You do not decide,you have to get some-ones opinion on the matter before you decide.You accept that some-one , something will make the decision for you.

And you allow it. You give away control – Most probably a belief that you grew up with. You parents made the important decisions for you. You never propertly learnt to think for yourself .

Locus of control is a term in psychology that refers to a person’s belief about what causes the good or bad results in his life, either in general or in a specific area such as health or academics. This is another definition of this. E.g. External locus  is(could be) the acceptance that you are being punished for something you did beacuse  you got  ill or some other misfortune happened.  This is especially true amongst some Christians and of course is totally untrue and disastrous thinking lines.

Take control of your life – Keep control of it and amazing things will happen.

You will not be walked over. People will listen to you when you speak. Take a view and stick to it ( like I am doing here – whether I am right or wrong – this is what I believe and I stick to it).  Never be afraid to differ from people, it makes interesting conversations.  Never be a Yes person.

You will suddenly find that people will not be making contentious statements in groups where you are present. And they will be unwittingly seek your approval for what they say. If just in the way they look at you when they do make a statement.

White squater camps

Ever been to one ? a White squater camp. I spend some time there this morning and what I saw is a bit disturbing.  The people living there are all white with no visible signs of  income.  The one “chalet”(see pictures)
had a dirt floor, one bed and nothing else visible – some old clothes were lying in the dirt.  The whole place is very clean on the outside although it is all dirt area.  No electricity to the shacks.  A distinct smell of dagga was in the air in one corner of the settlement.

These people are down and out. Do no look you in the eye when  you pass. Has hope foresaken them ? I don’t know.  The children seem quite happy running around all over the place.  So does about 50 dogs (about one dog for ever 2 people there) , pigs , chicken, turkeys all happily running around. What is interesting that although some of the people I saw looks like they are underfed the dogs all look healthy.

I think normal day to day South Africans should make a day trip to one of these settlements and most probably they will stop complaining about life, crime , the government and a lot of unimportant things. Here it is evident that life is a day to day challenge.

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I am trying to establish when activity on blogs are the highest. Is it in the morning noon or night ?  Weekdays , Weekends / Holiday periods what ?

I write quite a lot on Mygenius and it sometimes frustrates me when there seems to be no movement on the posts. The last post there is now already more than 7 hours old and my oldest post (2days ago) is still on the front page and have been read by 95 persons.  Don’t anyone of these ever write ?  Wayne (famous one) commented on the post and he is the only one on the front page of the blogs

According to stats by Mygenius they have over 14 000 members.  Most probably gone to permanent roosting places ?

Dit is darem ironies hoe mense eenvoudig nie die gevare in al hierdie snaakse produkte wil sien nie. Gister was daar n stormloop om Simply Slim produkte te koop terwyl dit potensieel dodelik vir mense kan wees. Daar is eenvoudig nie n “Simply easy” manier om gewig te verloor nie. n Oordentlike dieet en n oefen program is al wat op die ou einde help.  Al hierdie foefies (jammer mense Simply slim was net n foefie ) werk eenvoudig net nie

“If it is too good to be true it most probably is”

A very strange sight was observed on the Ben Schoeman this morning – a Joburg metro policeman actually doing his job !.  An overcrowded taxi was stopped when we passed by.  Reasonably normal .  But then this metro cop came past us on the left hand side with quite a speed and pulled off an empty taxi about a 100 metres from us.  Then we saw the overcrowded taxi following him and it was stopped right behind the empty one.  Of course the freeway was a parking garage as usual so we had all the time in the world to observe this strange happening.  He duly had passengers disembark from the one and embark onto the empty one!  Wow this is amazing – Apart from the real sense in what he was doing he was actually doing something ! Really amazing !

Trials and tribulations is all part of the fun of life. Pagans , Christians and every conceivable religion on earth acknowledge this fact.  The way you deal with these differ from person to person, group to group, country to country – you name it.  This is now putting this bit of wisdom bluntly and in plain language. No big words, no big wisdom , no fuss , no fanfare.

Shit happens – it is the way you react to it that shows your real character.  Me ? How do I deal with it
Here is my story about that :   If you are the reason for the shit I might forgive you – but only once I have donnered you.  If it was unintentional – well you are welcome to prove it to me afterwards and I will doctor your blue eye. ( at least I will get my wife to do that)

Now if it is something out of my control I will try at first to ignore it.  Then I will investigate it, especially if the smell is a bit irritating.  I will always look for the source – not always a good thing because this is where temper comes in and gets tested. I have a nerve that starts jumping under my eye and for this reason I have decided never to own a gun. ( I have never owned one – not interested)

I am now nearly getting to the point where I will tell you in a further episode what I think of South African banks. – I do not care if the world think they are great – I will tell you and prove it to you that most of their credit staff has not passed grade 7 ( standard 5 – vir die ou Suid Afrika) If they have the certificates it was most probably forged. The proof of the pudding is in the eating – The challenge is on

In my previous post I asked a few questions that seems to made some people think
In future commentaries I will discuss a few of these questions and possible answers from my perspective

Facing your giants(With recognition to David vs Goliath) 


(1) Confront the things that are threatening you.  The Israelites were confronted by Goliath and for 40 years nobody stood up to him and they had to endure his challenges.  Remember : The things you run away from will eventually catch up with you.  

(2) Remember  the lessons you learnt it the past : When confronted by Goliath David remembered that he once had to slay a lion and that he won that battle!  This amongst others gave him the strength to stand up to the Giant !

(3) Use the enemy’s weapons against him !  Learn from you enemies and use their strategies against them.  Do not accept that he has been defeated just because he is down – make sure he is out for the count !