Physical Judgement
A story is
told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in
Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco.
"Mom and
Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to
bring home with me." "Sure," they replied, "we'd love to
meet him."
"There's
something you should know," the son continued, "he was hurt pretty
badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg.
He has nowhere
else to go, and I want him to come live with us."
"I'm
sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."
"No, Mom
and Dad, I want him to live with us."
"Son,"
said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a
handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and
we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should
just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his
own."
At that
point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him.
A few days
later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son
had died after falling from a building, they were told.
The police
believed it was suicide.
The grief-stricken
parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the
body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also
discovered something they didn't know,
their son had
only one arm and one leg.
The parents
in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are
good-looking or fun to have around, but we don't like people who inconvenience
us or make us feel uncomfortable.
We would
rather stay away from people who aren't as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we
are.
1)You are
given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice
repeating the words “Good-Bye”. People would die a natural death and no one
would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power?
2)If
you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the body or the mind of
a thirty year-old for the last 60 years of life, which would you want?
3)What
would constitute a “perfect” evening for you?
4)Would
you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a less yet unexciting
private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a less and
uninspiring professional life?
only--Place
only before the word or phrase it limits to avoid ambiguity. The
following sentences have quite different meanings.
I only said I loved her. I said only I loved her.
I said I loved only her.
ordinance, ordnance--An ordinance is a regulation, rule, law, or a
public injunction or decree. Ordnance has come to refer to 1) artillery,
2) military weapons of any kind, or 3) that branch of a military force engaged
in securing and storing supplies
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