Are we living in a SubCity

This morning as I was driving to the workplace,I decided to dust off one of my old time favourites i.e. the Tracy Chapman Collection CD, I played track number 2 full blast (very loud), as the lyrics of this particular track made me to ask: ARE WE LIVING IN A SUBCITY?- The reason for this question is: since the appointment of the new Police Commisioner it appears as if the criminals are trying to challenge/provoke the commisioner, as he promised that he will shoot from the hip (criminals will not be treated lightly),however these crooks realized that this might just be another empty promise,on the side of our government. This criminals causes havoc all over the city streets, with one mall robbery after the other. Media/news reports suggest that an elite crime fighting unit that specialized in combating this kind of crimes was recently closed down by one of those having superpowers.Why fixing something that was never broken. Are we ever going to win the battle on this violent criminals...

Lyrics to Subcity :
People say it doesn't exist
'Cause no one would like to admit
That there is a city underground
Where people live everyday
Off the waste and decay
Off the discards of their fellow man


Here in subcity life is hard
We can't receive any government relief
I'd like to please give Mr. President my honest regards
For disregarding me


They say there's too much crime in these city streets
My sentiments exactly
Government and big business hold the purse strings
When I worked I worked in the factories
I'm at the mercy of the world
I guess I'm lucky to be alive


They say we've fallen through the cracks
They say the system works
But we won't let it
Help
I guess they never stop to think
We might not just want handouts
But a way to make an honest living
Living this ain't living


What did I do deserve this
Had my trust in god
Worked everyday of my life
Thought I had some guarantees
That's what I thought
At least that's what I thought


Last night I had another restless sleep
Wondering what tomorrow might bring
Last night I dreamed
A cold blue light was shining down on me
I screamed myself awake
Thought I must be dying
Thought I must be dying

So many questions....So little answers...

IF

If everything was easy


and nothing made us sad

If everything was easy

and nothing turned out bad

If heartaches never happened

and tears would never flow

We'd stay such little people

and never really grow.


If everything was easy

and fell into our hands

If everything was easy

and went just like we planned

We'd take it all for granted

and feel no greater gain

For strength comes when we suffer

and wisdom comes from pain.


If everything was easy

I'd be no good to you

For how could I look at your hurt

and say I'd been there, too?

I'd be a petty person

just an infant all my days

And I'd never thank my Saviour

for the sunshine's golden rays

Acts of Love

Acts Of Love

A friend is someone who believes in you even when you’ve ceased to believe in yourself.

Footprints

It’s funny how someone can come in and out of your life so quickly, yet leave footprints and memories in your heart forever.

Divine

There is a power greater than myself who loves me exactly as I am. The power within knows exactly who I am.

Faith

Faith must inspire action


Faith is not believing, trying or hoping


Faith develops endurance


Faith produces doers


Faith is obedience


Faith produces patience

Commitment

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Respect

Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Intuition

Intuition is the faculty that simply points the way.

Control

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control -- your mind and your mouth.

Patience

The key to patience is trusting the inner presence that knows exactly what you need. That inner presence allows everything to unfold at just the right time.

Experience

Help your friends with the things that you know, for you know these things by experience.

Life Is:

A mystery, unfold it


A journey, walk it


Painful, endure it


Beautiful, see it


A joke, laugh at it


A flower, smell it


Wonderful, enjoy it


A candle, light it


Precious, don’t waste it


A gift, open it


Love, give it


Unlimited, go for it


Light, shine in it

Conscience

Conscience works on a full-time basis. Be aware and develop your conscience to guide you everyday in every way.

Friends

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Healing

Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.


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Laws that Newton forgot to tell us about...

• LAW OF BREAD: when the buttered slice of bread falls it always fall on the buttered side.
• LAW OF QUEUE: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
• LAW OF TELEPHONE: When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.
• LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
• LAW OF THE WORKSHOP: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
• LAW OF THE ALIBI: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tyre, the next morning you will have a flat tyre.
• BATH THEOREM: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.
• LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
• LAW OF THE RESULT: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will!
• LAW OF BIOMECHANICS: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
• THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.
• LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold

Easy vs difficult

-Easy to occupy a place in the telephone directory.
-Difficult to occupy the heart of somebody.-
-Easy to judge the errors of others.
-Difficult to recognize our own errors.
-Easy to hurt those whom we love.
-Difficult to heal those wounds.
-Easy to forgive others.
-Difficult to ask for forgiveness.
-Easy to exhibit victory.
-Difficult to assume defeat with dignity.
-Easy to dream every night.
-Difficult to fight for a dream.
-Easy to pray every night.
-Difficult to find God in the smallest of things.
-Easy to say we love.
-Difficult to demonstrate it every day.

Some Weird questions

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up
every two hours?


If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?


Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?


Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know
there is not enough?


Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion
stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?


Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?


Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you
throw a revolver at him?



Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?


What is the speed of darkness?


Are there specially reserved parking spaces for "normal" people at
the Special Olympics?




If the temperature is zero outside today and it's going to be twice
as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?


If it's true that we are here to help others, what are the others doing here?


Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?


Do you cry under water?


How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would
be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?


Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in
binoculars to look at things on the ground?


Did you ever stop and wonder......
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll
squeeze these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"
Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there... I'm gonna
eat the next thing that comes outta it's bum."


Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the
toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?


Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?


Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but
don't point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?
Can blind people see their dreams? Do they dream ??


If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?


If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from
vegetables, then what is baby oil made from ?


If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons ?


Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?


Stop singing and read on . . . . . .. . . . .


Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?


Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad
at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out
the window?


Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?