Wispid

Some of the best lessons I have learned in life come from people I never met.

I would like to share some of the ‘words of wisdom’ that I have picked up over the years.

General Mac Arthur said: 

There is no security in this life, only opportunity.

(feeling safe all the time does not get me anywhere.) 

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

(Jesus said to not go into a war unless you count the cost meaning be sure you can win.) 

In war, there is no substitute for victory.

(If you are going to fight, be sure you can win.) 

What’s your favorite quote? and why?

Kapparot is a custom performed by some Jews before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

A live chicken is swung around and above a person’s head and moved in a circle three times.

A prayer is said and the person’s sins are transferred to the chicken which is then slaughtered and has its meat donated to the poor. Not the poor chicken.

A group in Ramapo did the deed with 11,000 chickens.

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