Re: Making money from Java

"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> stress can bring on an illness. He had recently a 15-year old boy whose
> mother had died - immediately it brought on severe diabetes for the
> youngster.


Jimmy, your comment reminded me of something one of my kids told me a few
days ago. They said Ray Charles' blindness was psychosomatic (real, but
emotionally caused, not physically caused), and that seeing his father
killed when he was young had brought it on. Perhaps I am the only person on
the planet who didn't know this. I was dumbfounded that I hadn't heard
before. Was this common knowledge?

How much more don't I know? There really is a Santa Clause, right? ;-)
Actually, learning there wasn't a Santa Clause was very traumatic for me.
Not because of Santa (I didn't care who brought the presents!), but because
I had been systematically deceived by society, my teachers, even my own
parents. I began to worry about what else I didn't know, and wondered "If I
can't depend on my own parents to be honest with me, how do I know when I'm
being lied to?" My parents were honest people, they just didn't see the
Santa deal as a "real lie", but I did. With my kids, I was very low key and
noncommittal about the Santa character, and as soon as they were old enough
to ask, I told them the truth. I *never* told my kids Santa was real, or
lied to them about anything else. They always woke up to presents under the
tree on Christmas morning until their mid teens, but they knew who put them
there. They liked that and are doing the same with their kids.
--
Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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