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January 30, 2020 at 12:17pm
January 30, 2020 at 12:17pm
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Istijlál (Majesty), 12 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Thursday, January 30, 2020

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PROMPT January 30

Congratulations on making it to the last day of the competition! What was your favorite prompt from the last month? Did you learn anything new about your fellow competitors? What was the most rewarding aspect of participating in the competition?

As January
and winter draw to an end
I contemplate
what I've written
and where I've been.

All the prompts were creative,
and inspired my muse:
my favorite was about virtue.

Everyone's responses were creative,
and some
contained a hidden laugh.
January 29, 2020 at 12:34pm
January 29, 2020 at 12:34pm
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ʻIdál (Justice), 11 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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PROMPT January 29

Everyone did a great job with filling the war chest yesterday! There's so many great prompts and I'm sure Em will love every one of them.

Since today *is* War Chest Wednesday, I'm going to grab one.

What is your favorite virtue? Give a few examples like kindness, cleanliness, tact, truth, generosity. Is your favorite one you possess, or one you simply admire in other people? Do you have a strategy to develop it yourself?

Prompt is courtesy of Kåre Enga in Montana


52 Virtues

52 virtues
52 weeks in the year
52 reasons to bring myself to account.

assertiveness, caring, cleanliness, commitment, compassion, confidence, consideration, cooperation, courage, courtesy, creativity, detachment, determination, diligence, enthusiasm, excellence, flexibility, forgiveness, friendliness, generosity, gentleness, helpfulness, honesty, honor, humility, idealism, integrity, joyfulness, justice, kindness, love, loyalty, moderation, modesty, orderliness, patience, peacefulness, perseverance, purposefulness, reliability, respect, responsibility, self-discipline, service, tact, thankfulness, tolerance, trust, trustworthiness, truthfulness, understanding, unity.

Today is the first day
         of the rest of my life.

Today is the day
         to bring myself to account.

Today is the day
         I must make better then yesterday.

Today is the day
         to deliberately practice one virtue.

Self-Discipline

For the past three or four days I've been practicing self-discipline. This wasn't a conscious choice, in this case it has more to do with earning 500 extra points on Survey Junkie. The conscious choice was to attempt to complete three survey a day from Monday, January 27, through Sunday, February 2. In order to complete three surveys a day I have to be both tenacious and self-disciplined.

January 28, 2020 at 1:31pm
January 28, 2020 at 1:31pm
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Fiḍál (Grace), 10 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Monday, January 28, 2020

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PROMPT January 28

What's a topic you've always thought would be a great 30dbc discussion, but has never come up in the prompts? Why do you think it would stimulate discussion?

If someone in the same room ask me a question similar to this my response would range any where for serious to smart ass. I could give an answer like global warming or I could say: "It doesn't matter to me. I easy but I'm not cheap." The "easy but not cheap" response usually gets a laugh or a weird stare. The response depends on how long a person has lived in Las Vegas or how many times they've visited the city, and knows "cultural implications" (if that's the right phrase) of the response.

I'm willing to discuss any topic, without giving a "smart ass" remark. I'm also willing to discuss any topic, and make a "smart ass" remark. It depends on my mood, and how much strong--walk under its own power--coffee I've consumed. This week it could also depend on whether or not the maintenance worker, I've been waiting for since Sunday arrives to fix the hot water that's running in the bathroom. The worker hasn't shown up yet today and it's already an hour past the time he was supposed to come today.

I don't mind discussing politics or religion. What I do mind is the person I'm talking to telling me I'm going to hell because my political opinion or my religion differs from theirs. I don't know location of another individual's soul in the next world. My responsibility is the development of my own spiritual attributes and telling people about Baha'u'llah. If the person I'm talking to wants to know more and willing to discuss the subject without getting angry or being impolite, I will continue the discussion. If not, I'll wish the individual a "Bless day" and get on with my life.

I have to come up with three prompts a week for "Blogging Circle of Friends , sometimes it's difficult and sometimes it's easy. When I respond to a prompt I don't worry about the direction I'm taking it in. I write from my own life experience, which means I will take the prompt in an unexpected direction. The only suggestion I can come up with at the moment is a "Did you know..." and pick out an event in history a recent scientific discovery, such as the vampire star, and see what people have to write.

January 27, 2020 at 11:06am
January 27, 2020 at 11:06am
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Kamál (Perfection), 9 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Monday, January 27, 2020

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PROMPT January 27



Discuss a time in your life when someone has tried to "fix" or "solve" a problem for you - but you didn't see it as a problem in the first place.

How do you generally handle unsolicited opinions/advice?

I do my best to live my life
on the rim of the cliff of survival.

Advice is nice
when I ask for it;
however,
unsolicited advice
is a pain
because most of those giving it
don't know
or understand the circumstances.

As I have grown older, and wiser, I realize that people give advice--unsolicited or solicited--from their own experience. My past experience doesn't come anywhere close to theirs, even if it's a sibling I grew up with in the same house. I learned long ago, that we remember the same event differently because we experienced different emotions at the time. In addition, I've found (from experience) that there is a type of "amnesia"--I don't know any other term for it--that causes one sibling to forget a highly emotional experience that the other remembers clearly.

People give unsolicited advice
from the shoes they walk in
not from your shoes.


January 26, 2020 at 12:22pm
January 26, 2020 at 12:22pm
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Jamál (Beauty), 8 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Sunday, January 26, 2020

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PROMPT January 26

Yesterday was Opposite Day!

Today I want you to take an opposite point of view.

Imagine a place you go to regularly - they gym, your regular coffee shop, wherever you choose. Take up the POV of the person at the counter, the bike across from you, any one person you choose.

What's your first impression of yourself?

Is it the real you or one you plan and project?

Who Is The Opposite Of Me?

"Who is the opposite of me?"
I contemplate the philosophical connotations!

I am a segment of humanity,
and my nature is that of duality:
I am a soul living in a physical body.

I dwell upon the material plane,
I live in a world of opposites,
of light and darkness,
of yen and yang.

Opposites are my reality,
they live within my being:
I am both a spiritual creature having a physical experience,
and a physical creature having a spiritual experience.

At death my body will return to dust,
and my soul ascend into the spiritual realm,
but for now
I must deal with the opposites
that are my reality.

"Who is the opposite of me?"
I meditate on the spiritual connotations!

It is difficult to get outside of me
to see me
through the eyes of another human being.

So, who is the opposite of me?
the only answer I can find
is me,
because the opposites dwell within me.

January 25, 2020 at 11:05am
January 25, 2020 at 11:05am
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Jalál (Glory), 7 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Saturday, January 25, 2020

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PROMPT January 25

CREATION SATURDAY! Put on your creative thinking caps *Smile*

You're headed down to Imagination Station to pick up your imaginary friend.

Tell us about the friend - is it human? Humanoid? Animal? Talking banana? Three-headed monster who's afraid of heating blankets? What's their story? Likes/Dislikes? What name do they answer to? Why are they in your life?

Don't forget to tell us how your friend ended up at the station in the first place!

Imagination Station

The Imagination Station is a space station, located somewhere along the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. It has everything that a productive space station has. There is a bar ran by a Ferengi by the name of Quirk. Quirk is a third cousin twice removed of Quark. (Quark, twice, had to drag Quirk, kicking and screaming, from the family because he was a failure as a Ferengi.) In close proximity to the bar is a huge holographic game room, which is where the name Imagination Station came from.

I met Quirk the first day I arrived at Imagination Station. I came to the Station looking for one of my muse, who had decided to take a long vacation by hitchhiking the galaxy. Quirk hadn't seen my muse, but he offered to make me his special nonalcoholic Lost Muse Drink. (Please note: For those writers who drink alcohol or beer, Quirk has several other versions of this drink. You just have to give him the name of your favorite alcohol, beer, or wine.) After consuming the Lost Muse Drink, Quirk directed me to the game room, where he assured me I would be able to find my muse.

After my first session in the game room, I applied to the commander of the Imagination Station for a job as writer in residence. It's an interesting job, I create characters and story plots for the holographic adventures. The pay is good, and I get free room and board. In addition, I get to listen to Quirk complain about his family not understanding him.

January 24, 2020 at 11:17am
January 24, 2020 at 11:17am
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Istiqlál (Independence), 6 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Friday, January 24, 2020

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PROMPT January 24

Yesterday celebrated National Handwriting Day in the USA. How often do you still hand write anything substantial? Do you think the decline in children learning cursive writing will be a hindrance to their generation?

Penmanship

Memories are weird. I remember some classes and events from grade school clearly, while other events are foggy or forgotten. One of the classes or lessons I remember is penmanship, which is "the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing", or "a person's style or manner of handwriting."3 Each child in my class had a work book with picture of the proper formation of the cursive characters. In class, the teach would demonstrate how to form the characters on s green chalkboard (there were no whiteboards at that time). After her demonstration, she (I don't remember having any male teachers in grade school) would walk around the class and watch how each child formed their letters. I suspect the goal of this class was to make sure our cursive writing was legible. I don't remember any of the students in my class receiving less than an A or B in penmanship.

I still use cursive for notes that I write while I'm working online. I keep a loose leaf notebook near by to writ any ideas or lines the pop into my head while I'm working on something else. My handwriting is fairly clear. Sometimes when I sign my name (which I still do in cursive) my hand tremble a bit, but my signature is legible. My biggest issue with signing my name is the machines that take debit and credit cards. I don't like signing my name on those because my signature looks weird; however, the bank has never rejected anything I purchased that way.

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3  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/penmanship

January 23, 2020 at 12:17pm
January 23, 2020 at 12:17pm
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Istijlál (Majesty), 5 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Thursday, January 23, 2020

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PROMPT: January 23rd

Finish this story: A girl, sitting alone on a rock at the edge of the woods, jumps when she hears…

A girl, sitting alone on a rock at the edge of the woods, jumps when she hears the flutter of a thousand butterfly wings. Turning, in the direction of the rising sun, she see a flock of Monarch Butterflies approaching her. The black and orange wings of the King of the Butterflies reflect scarlet in the light of dawn.

As they draw near, they begin to descend. They light upon her, the rock, and the surround forest. Feeling the butterfly crawling on her, she laughs, and begins to sing The Butterfly Song. As she sings, the Monarch's gather around her, until high noon. At noon she turns into a Monarch butterfly and flies off with them on their journey to Mexico.



January 22, 2020 at 2:23pm
January 22, 2020 at 2:23pm
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ʻIdál (Justice), 4 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Wednesday, January 22, 2020

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PROMPT January 22nd

Your bags are packed. You have unlimited funds and resources to travel anywhere you want. Where do you go, who do you bring with you, and why?


Bahji,
where the nightingale sings,
where Baha'u'llah's physical remains rest.

Bahji,
the Point of Adoration,
draws pilgrims from across the Earth
to pray,
meditation,
and walk through the garden
adorning the resting place of Baha'u'llah.
January 21, 2020 at 11:01am
January 21, 2020 at 11:01am
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Fiḍál (Grace), 3 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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PROMPT January 21st

How much of your own life or the lives of people you know do you put into your writing? Do you mine your past for inspiration, or do you create wholly new places and characters?

Writing Inspiration

My inspiration
is The Bab, Baha'u'llah,
and 'Abdu'=Baha.

My inspiration
is a cool spring breeze
wafting across the fields of memory,
and bringing back
images from my childhood.

My inspiration
can be anything
that generates a poem,
story, essay, article, or character.


January 20, 2020 at 11:14am
January 20, 2020 at 11:14am
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Kamál (Perfection), 2 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Monday, January 20, 2020

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PROMPT January 20th

Today is a national holiday is the US: Dr Martin Luther King Jr Day. Dr King believed that fear was the ultimate cause of hatred, prejudice, and violence. Do you agree or disagree with his assessment? Give examples.

America's Most Challenging Issue

Racism, America's Most Challenging Issue, eats at the roots of our society. You can attribute it xenophobia, hate, fear, prejudice, or learned prejudice--it doesn't matter which--because all of those fall under the cancer of racism. Racism is injustice. It infests all levels of American society from the grass roots to the oval office.

Rooting it out and healing America, requires each individual to look at their own prejudices--most of which are learned--and take action to learn about and become friends with people of "other races". Humanity is a single race, and it is the differences in complexion and thought that make it beautiful. The only way racism can be destroyed is complete acceptance of the oneness of humanity.

We must put behind us, the old and unscientific definitions of race. We are all descended from humans that began their evolution in Africa. The color of people's skin is an accident of evolution and acclimatizing to different areas of the planet. It's the migration out of Africa that cause the human complexions to change.


We are one family
Our ancestral unity
Mapped
Traced
Through mitochondrial DNA
To a woman
In Africa

One womb quickened us
Formed us
Fed us
Birthed us
Gave us

Soul stirring passions
That carried us
Through time and across continents
Splintered us
Into separate segments
Of one race


January 19, 2020 at 11:55am
January 19, 2020 at 11:55am
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Jamál (Beauty), 1 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Sunday, January 19, 2020

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PROMPT January 19th

Write about something ordinary that brought you unexpected joy.

Ordinary Pleasures

Ordinary pleasures--
like hot coffee on a cold winter's morning--
bring a smile to my face
and comfort to my mind.

Ordinary pleasures
create happy memories
that come back on lonely days
to uncover the banked fires
of joy.

Ordinary pleasures
is grape jelly covering
the peanut butter spread
on a slice of white bread.



January 18, 2020 at 11:16am
January 18, 2020 at 11:16am
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Jalál (Glory), 19 Sharaf (Honor) 176 B.E. - Saturday, January 18, 2020

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PROMPT January 18th

It’s Show and Tell Day here at the 30DBC! Think of an item that is special to you (it may help if you are able to see your chosen item while you write your entry). Describe it in as much detail as possible. Then, tell us its story. How did it come to be in your life and what makes it important to you?

Ever since Thursday, November 29, 2012, (the day my Mother died) I've been learning to let go and downsizing my stuff. It's difficult because I came from a long line of people who keep things for one reason or another. I have a few more things to let go, which will happen in 2020 and 2021 (with most of the stuff anyway). There are a few things I can't let go of, such as the picture of 'Abdu'l-Baha that Mom kept on her night stand and her prayer beads.


Prayer Beads

Ninety-Five translucent rose pink prayer beads,
wait for morning,
wait for me to intone
"Alláh-u-Abhá!"
==“God the All-Glorious!”

Ninety-Five prayer beads--
that originally belonged to my Mother--
anchor my day to Baha'u'llah.

I know Mama waits
in the Abha Paradise
to greet me when
I walk through the door
to eternal life.
January 17, 2020 at 11:46am
January 17, 2020 at 11:46am
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Istiqlál (Independence), 18 Sharaf (Honor) 176 B.E. - Friday, January 17, 2020

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PROMPT January 17th

Use the following words in your entry today: tumultuous, navigate, journey, and gargantuan.

The city's tumultuous echoes
penetrate the walls of sleep
sending shock wave
across mind and soul.

Fearing the gargantuan terror
of another sleepless night,
the poet's muse
takes flight.

Following her muse,
the poet begins her journey,
and navigates
bright streets
or dark alleyways
until she comes to a hidden garden
where her muse
with metaphors and similes play..


January 16, 2020 at 11:35am
January 16, 2020 at 11:35am
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Istijlál (Majesty), 17 Sharaf (Honor) 176 B.E. - Thursday, January 16, 2020

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PROMPT January 16th

What are you waiting for?

What Am I Waiting For?

This afternoon, I'll be waiting for the RCT paratransit bus to take me to the appointment to see my Kidney Doctor, wait to see the doctor, and again wait for the bus to bring me back home. I'm waiting to make an appointment with my regular doctor for an issue that isn't going away and may or may not be a big problem. I can't make this appoint until after February 1 because I changed plans to a special needs plan with my health insurance company, and that kicks in on February 1. I'm also waiting until February 1 to make a dental appointment because the new (to me) plan will cover part of the cost for my dentures.


Waiting

Seconds
Walk into view
Dawdling over minutes
Waddling past light curtained portals
Seconds

Waltz with
Minutes beneath
Artificial white lights
Across bright floors hiding hours that
waltz with

Seconds
Dance down the ages
Forgotten by minutes
Unremembered by echoing
Seconds

Beyond
Forgotten hours
Waiting outside of sight
Outside of hope outside of time
Beyond
January 15, 2020 at 10:54am
January 15, 2020 at 10:54am
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ʻIdál (Justice), 16 Sharaf (Honor) 176 B.E. - Wednesday, January 15, 2020

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PROMPT January 15th

Write your entry today about commitment. Committing to an activity, craft, person, way of being, etc. Consider the concepts of diligence, honesty, and responsibility. What does commitment look like to you?

Commitment is steadfastness!
Moving forward in the path of faith
no matter what obstacles lay in your way,
no matter what tests or difficulties confront you.

Commitment is a spiritual attribute that is composed of four other attributes: steadfastness, diligence, honesty, and responsibility. At different times in my life, I have been confronted by obstacles and difficulties that test each of these attributes. Once I pass one test, I am confronted with another. If I do not pass a test, I am confront with the test again until I pass it.

Life on the material plane
is one test after another
each focusing on developing
spiritual attribute
through commitment and stadfastness.


January 14, 2020 at 1:56pm
January 14, 2020 at 1:56pm
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Fiḍál (Grace), 15 Sharaf (Honor) 176 B.E. - Tuesday, January 14, 2020

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PROMPT January 14th

Write about a time when you made a wrong assumption. Did you realize your mistake right away, or did someone tell you later? What did you learn from your mistake?

I'm not sure, but I think I made one last night. I'll know one way or the other later today. I attempt not to make assumptions because 99 times out of 100 I'm wrong. The other 1% of the time is usually the results of misscommunication or a missunderstanding. I don't remember anyone ever verbally pointing out that I made an assumption. If someone pointed an assumption out to me, it was probably one of my siblings. I usually find out about the assumption after I make it.
January 13, 2020 at 1:03pm
January 13, 2020 at 1:03pm
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Kamál (Perfection), 14 Sharaf (Honor) 176 B.E. - Monday, January 13, 2020

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PROMPT January 13th

In your entry today, write about games! Board games, video games, card games, sports games, mind games, etc... Share a memorable story. *Die2* *Puzzle1*

The games I've played are numerous and varied. The most memorable and enjoyable were Candy Land, Monopoly, and Dungeons and Dragons. I also think I had a game of Dark Tower once, which I gave to my brother and his wife some time in the last century. The other games got lost in the numerous moves I've made since High School.

When I played Dungeons and Dragons, I a reporter did a story on the game for the RJ Sunday insert. I don't know what happened to my copy; it probably got lost in the moves I've made since coming to Las Vegas. I've lost a lot of things in all the moves I've made. Somethings I regret losing and other things are just stuff that was in my life for a while, and passed on to whoever found them.

Life is a game
of acquisition and forfeiture,
of attachment and detachment,
of fulfilling desires and learning to let go.

The only games I play anymore are online single player games. I play solitaire games, which I use as a reward from completing writing projects or some other goal. The games I prefer are 247 Solitaire  , 247 Mahjong  , and 247 Sudoku  . I haven't played those in a while, but maybe I'll get back to them after January. I'm attempting to catch up on some writing project, and those games are extremely addictive.

January 12, 2020 at 12:31pm
January 12, 2020 at 12:31pm
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Jamál (Beauty), 13 Sharaf (Honor) 176 B.E. - Sunday, January 12, 2020

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PROMPT January 12th

Describe a time when you exhibited bravery. *Shield1*

Bravery is getting out of bed
on a cold winter morning
when the arthritis
in my knees and hips
urges me to remain
beneath the warm covers.

Bravery is Googling my symptoms
before making
a doctor's appointment.

When I was young,
bravery was going to school everyday
and facing the bullies
or overcoming trypanophobia,
but as I grew older
I found myself redefining bravery
on a personal level.

In my middle years,
bravery was overcoming Arachnophobia,
driving to work,
or cooking a twenty pound turkey
in a microwave oven
because the regular oven didn't work.

Now--
at 73 going on 74--
bravery is dealing with
the pain
of everyday life.

January 11, 2020 at 1:09pm
January 11, 2020 at 1:09pm
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Jalál (Glory), 12 Sharaf (Honor) 176 B.E. - Saturday, January 11, 2020

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PROMPT January 11th

Do you tend to be skeptical or trusting when meeting new people? Is your first impression of someone generally accurate, or does their true character surprise you?

Am I skeptical about people when I first meet them? Yes. No. Maybe. I know that is an ambiguous answer, which requires explanation. The answer depends on three things: (1) my gut (intuition) about the person, (2) who introduces me, and (3) where I meet them. There are certain things that raise red flags on my first encounter with a person. First, expressing prejudice about anyone. Second, presuming that if I look like them (same color of skin) I think the same way they do. Third, using the f-word or some other curse word in the first few sentences. Fourth, telling me I'm going to hell because I don't believe the way they do. Fifth, attempting to convince me I'm wrong without listening to why I believe the way I do.

Are my first impression of people generally accurate? Sometimes yes. Sometimes no. Most of the time, I'm willing to give the person a second chance. The second change depends on my intuition, where we meet again, and who is with me or the other person. If a red flag is raised on the first encounter, the second encounter has to be in a place that I feel safe meeting them again. While there are some people who believe the three strikes you're out theory, I'm not one of them. As far as I'm concerned, three strikes only counts in a baseball game. Interacting with reals human beings is more like a Dungeons and Dragons game, especially under the present social and political condition.


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