"The Parable of the Poisoned Well:
“There
was once a wise king who ruled over a vast city. He was feared for his might and
loved for his wisdom. Now in the heart of the city, there was a well whose
waters were pure and crystalline from which the king and all the inhabitants
drank. When all were asleep, an enemy entered the city and poured seven drops of
a strange liquid into the well. And he said that henceforth all who drink this
water shall become mad.
All
the people drank of the water, but not the king. And the people began to say,
"The king is mad and has lost his reason. Look how strangely he behaves. We
cannot be ruled by a madman, so he must be dethroned."
The
king grew very fearful, for his subjects were preparing to rise against him. So
one evening, he ordered a golden goblet to be filled from the well, and he drank
deeply. The next day, there was great rejoicing among the people, for their
beloved king had finally regained his reason."
Eventually I might have to *Drink the Water* and buy something!
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Actual Example of forgetting about an order.
I don't know when I entered this order, or why it was GTC, But the take away is *do daily orders* and re-enter them every day regardless about the amount of work, Situations may change, and you might, or might not want it. GTC is being lazy- Ron Popeal set it and forget it orders are for the at home retail trader who isnt watching the market every day, and gets a fill from his golf course.
Thankfully it was a Credit and not a Debit, and if time willing can correct itself.
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“The
object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding
oneself in the ranks of the insane.” - Marcus Aurelius, Roman
Emperor
"It
is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"The
men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the
men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H.
L. Mencken
“Even
if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” -
Gandhi
"Insanity
in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule." - Friederich Nietzsche
"Insanity
- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." - R. D. Lang
"Ninety-nine
percent of the people in the world are fools, and the rest of us are in great
danger of contagion." - Thornton Wilder
"The
individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the
tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no
price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Friederich
Nietzsche
"Men
have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is
the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the
current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been
taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who
stands alone." - Ayn Rand
"The
sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals.
The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the
average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully
schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the
same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the
insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate
that it is he who may become psychotic." - Eric Fromm, Swiss Psychologist (The
Anatomy of Human Destructiveness)
"A
time will come when the whole world will go mad. And to anyone who is not mad
they will say: 'You are mad, for you are not like us.'" - St. Anthony the Great
(attributed to)
"Just
look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down. Doctors destroy
health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments
destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys
spirituality." - Michael
Ellner
Dogbert:
"Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane." - Scott Adams,
Dilbert
"We
are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not
an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and
which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the
weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our
cultural ideal." - Carl Bernstein, U.S. Journalist. Guardian (London, June 3,
1992)
"Whenever
people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde
“Whenever
you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
- Mark Twain
"Honesty
is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue..." - Billy Joel, in his hit song
Honesty
"Insanity
is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." - Ray Bradbury
"Beware
when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We
do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the
mental institution of the universe." - Johann von Goethe
"In
a mad world, only the mad are sane." - Akiro Kurosawa
"What
sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" - Ursula K. LeGuin (b.
1929), US author, The Princess
"Our
society is run by insane people for insane objectives... I think we’re being run
by maniacs for maniacal ends... and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane
for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it." - John Lennon, Interview
BBC-TV (June 22, 1968)
"The
most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things
out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under
is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to
change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread
discontent among those who are." - H.L. Mencken
"In
America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of
the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly
brainwashed into acquiescence." - Kurt Nimmo
"America
is an insane asylum run by the inmates." - Lester Roloff (1914-1982)
"When
the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the
last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to
agree." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), British playwright
"The
statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from
some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay,
then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
“I think
the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” - Rita
Mae Brown
"The
trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily
Tomlin (1939 - ), Actress
"It
is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire
"Sometimes
I think that the greatest sign that there is intelligent life somewhere in the
universe is that it hasn't tried to contact us yet." - Bill Watterson, Calvin
and Hobbes
"If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves." - Aldous Huxley, Author of A Brave New World
"They must find it
difficult...those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as
the authority." - Gerald Massey
“Devotion to the truth is the
hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion
than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.” - Ayn Rand,
Atlas Shrugged
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