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psucc: Forums were meant for matured minds not kids who lacked parental upbringing.

You must learn to attack issues NOT persons.

So you dont know a joke when you see one. Check all my past comments and stop talking to me like a teacher talking to a recalcitrant pupil.

And pls I do not take kindly to your insult without any reasonable cause.

Thanks for your understanding.

WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?

A man was washing his new car when his neighbor asked him, "When did you get the car?"

He replied "My brother gave it to me".

The neighbor said, "I wish I had a car like that".

The man replied, "You should wish to have a brother like that".

The neighbor's wife was listening to the conversation and she interrupted, "I wish I was a brother like that".

What a positive way to think!

SiriusBlack: Nigerian Army Zsu-23-4 AAA...Frontlines of the North East.

Thats Shilka, right?

SHARPEN YOUR AXE

John, a woodcutter, worked for a company for five years but never got a raise.

The company hired Bill and within a year he got a raise. Then John resented Bill's getting a raise after only a year and went to his boss to talk about it.

The boss said, "You are still cutting the same number of trees you were cutting five years ago. We are a result-oriented company and would be happy to give you a raise if your productivity goes up"

John went back, started hitting harder and putting in longer hours but he still wasn't able to cut more trees. He went back to his boss and told him his dilemma.

The boss told him to go talk to Bill. "Maybe there's something Bill knows that you and I don't". John asked Bill how he managed to cut more trees.

Bill answered, "After every tree I cut, I take a break for two minutes and sharpen my axe. When was the last time you sharpen your axe?"

When was the last time you sharpened your axe? Past glory and education don't count for much. We have to continuously sharpen the axe.

I no longer have grandparents. They have all gone to the great beyond long before the advent of gsm technology

Many more on the way.

BROAD BASED EDUCATION

Some animals in a forest decided to start a school. The students included a bird, a squirrel, a fish, a dog, a rabbit and a mentally retarded eel. A board was formed to determine the curriculum and it was decided that flying, tree climbing, swimming, and burrowing would give a broad-based education. All animals were required to take all subjects.


The bird was excellent at flying and was getting A's but when it came to burrowing, it kept breaking it's wings and beak and started failing.

Pretty soon, it started making C's in flying and, of course, in tree climbing and swimming it was getting F's.

The squirrel was great at tree climbing, but was failing in swimming.

The fish was the best swimmer but couldn't get out of the water and thus got F's in everything else.

The dog didn't join the school, stopped paying taxes, and kept fighting with the administration to include barking as part of the curriculum.

The rabbit got A's in burrowing but three climbing was a real problem. It kept falling and landing on it's head, suffered brain damage, and soon couldn't even burrow properly and got C's in that too.


The mentally retarded eel, who did everything half as well, became the valedictorian of the class. The board was happy because everybody was getting a "broad-based" education.

LESSON: A true broad-based education prepares students for life without losing their areas of specialization and competence.

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SELECTIVE LISTENING

There was a medical doctor who was invited as a guest speaker to address a group of alcoholics. He wanted to make a demonstration that would be powerful enough to make people realize that alcohol was injurious to their health.

He had two containers, one with pure distilled water, and one with pure alcohol.

He put an earthworm into the distilled water and it swam beautifully and came up to the top. He put another earthworm into the alcohol and it disintegrated in front of everyone's eyes.


He wanted prove that this was what alcohol did to the insides of our body.

He asked the group what the moral of the story was and one person from behind said, "If you drink alcohol you won't have worms in your stomach."

Was this the message? Of course not. This is a perfect example of selective listening.


People always like to see what they want to see, and to hear what they want to hear.

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chymystique: Nice one Krak.. Keep on with ur research. Its been a long while I saw a bat oo..

Thanks o. There are still bats all around us, wherever you are just come out at night and just gaze into the night sky, I am sure you will see some bats flying past.

23. Bats that feed on frogs can accurately tell the difference between the poisonous and the edible frogs by listening to the call of the male frogs.

24. All the female bats in most bat colonies give birth to their babies at the same time.

25. Most female bats will give bat to only a single baby once in a year making them the slowest reproducing mammals in the world for their size. This also makes them vulnerable to extinction.

26. The Pallid Bat of North America feeds on scorpions and centipedes and is totally immune to their stings.

http://globalthots..com/2014/07/interesting-facts-about-bats.html?m=1

21. Some female bats can control when they give birth by storing the male's sperms inside their body, some can even slow the development of the embryo inside them.

22. The smallest bat in the world is the Bumblebee Bat (Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat) it is about the size of the bumblebee and can be found in Thailand. It is currently a critically endangered specie.

17. Most bats open their mouths when they call out their echo location signals, but some can emit this signal through their nose.

18. In Asia, especially China and Japan, bats are symbols of happiness and good fortune while in North America and Europe they are often associated with witchcraft and black magic.

19. Contrary to popular belief bats are not actually blind and they can see quite well, some species can even detect ultra-violet light.

20. The Tube-Lipped Nectar Bat (Anoura fistulata) boasts of the longest tongue, relative to body lenght, of any mammal in the world. The tongue is so long (about one and a half times it's body lenght) that the bat retracts it into it's rib cage when it's not in use.

9. A Vampire bat will rarely bite a human being and when it does it usually comes back the following night to feed from the same person. Vampire bats can tell people apart from the way they breath.

10. Bats are broadly classified into two groups: Megabats (Megachiroptera) which are mainly fruit-eating bats and Microbats (Microchiroptera) which are smaller and generally eats insects.

11. Bats are the only mammals in the world that can fly.

12. Bats can be found in every country on every continent in the world except Antarctica. Bats even live in the Arctic North Pole.

13. Some bats can live up to 40 years before they die. The Little Brown Bat is a very good example.

14. About 20% of all mammals in the world are bats.

15. About 70% of all bats eat insects, the remaining 30% eat fruits.

16. Vampire bats can move very well on the ground, infact they are the only bat species that can move well on the ground.

6. There are more than 1,200 species of bats in the world and only 3 species are Vampire bats.

7. Bats play a very major role in spreading millions of seeds every year from the ripe fruit that they eat, infact some seeds will not sprout unless they have passed through the digestive tracts of a bat.

It is estimated that up to 95% of reforestation in the tropical rainforest is a result of seed dispersal from bats.

8. Contrary to popular belief, Vampire bats do not actually "suck" blood. What they do is that they "lap" the blood with their tongues very similar to the way dogs drink water.

5. The giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox is the largest bat in the world with a wingspan of about six feet.

2. In order to prolong copulation female Short-Nosed Fruit Bats actually perform MouthAction (MouthAction) on the males.

3. Some bats can fly up to 400 km in one single night, reach speeds of up to 100 km/h and fly as high as 3,000 meters.

4. A single bat can eat up to 600 insects in one hour.

1. The largest known bat colony in the world is the Bracken Bat Cave in Texas, it has more than 30 million bats which eats more than 250 tons of insects every single night.

When the bats leave the cave they form a large group which looks like a huge storm on radar.

THE UNUSUAL DOG

There was a hunter who bought an amazing bird dog. This one-of-a-kind dog could walk on water. The hunter was looking forward to showing off his new acquisition to his friends.

He invited a friend to go duck hunting. After sometime, they shot a few ducks and the man ordered his dog to fetch the birds.

All day long, whenever there were birds to be fetched, the dog ran on water to retrieve the birds. The owner was expecting his friend to comment or compliment him about this amazing dog, but never got one.

As they were returning home, he asked his friend if he had noticed anything unusual about his dog.

The friend replied, "Yes, in fact, I did notice something unusual. Your dog can't swim".


Some people cannot help but look at the negative sides to every thing and every situation.

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chymystique: [size=14pt]Educative and Inspiring Posts.... Come and complete it Krak[/size]

There are many more coming up. However the beauty is not just reading and passing by but to meditate on the lessons from these stories and consciously persistently apply them to our lives.

To know and not to do, is not to know-LEO BUSCAGLIA

Am in o.

thankyouJesus: more please.

I will post more tomorrow.

ANDREW CARNEGIE

Andrew Carnegie came to America from Scotland as a young boy. He started out by doing odd jobs and ended up as one of the largest steel manufacturers in the United States.

At one time, he had 43 millionaires working for him. A million dollars is a lot of money today, but in the 1920's it was worth much more.

Someone once asked Mr Carnegie how he dealt with people.

Andrew Carnegie replied, "Dealing with people is a lot like digging for gold: When you go digging for an ounce of gold you have to move tons of dirt. But when you digging, you don't go looking for the dirt, you go looking for gold".

Andrew Carnegie's reply has a very important message.

Though sometimes it may not be apparent there is something positive in every person and every situation. We have to dig deep to look for the positive

Word!

DAVID AND GOLIATH

We all know the Biblical story of David and Goliath.


Goliath was a giant of a man. He struck fear in everyone's heart.

One day, a 17-year- old shepherd boy came to visit his brothers and asked."Why don't you stand up and fight the giant?"

The brothers were terrified of Goliath and they replied. "Don't you see he is too big to hit?"

But David said, "No, he is too big to miss"

The rest is history. We all know what happened. David killed the giant with a slingshot.

Same giant, different perceptions.

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Many of the following stories are actually true and some might be called fables but there is one thing common to them, they can change your life.

These stories are got from various sources, both new and old and each one has a very powerful message to convey to you.

I have several dozens of these powerful stories and I will be dropping them constantly here for your enlightenment.

You can also get more of these stories here
http://wisdomlessons..com

[quote author=tai wo][/quote]It will also be very good to attach this and other screen shots to your original post on page 1.