My critique on the Committee on Hmong Relations Conference in Fresno 8/14/11

[hmongperson]

To live in a democracy requires the populace to be able to think rationally and logically. And this current time in our history, not even the educated can think rationally or logically.

[Moospej]

To live in a democracy requires the populace to be able to think rationally and logically. And this current time in our history, not even the educated can think rationally or logically.

Well, let see how COHR will answer to this.

[hmongperson]

Well, let see how COHR will answer to this.

They will have an answer, every question has an answer. Applying it, now that is a different story.

[NceegVaj]

**** THE MORE NEGATIVE THE THOUGHTS THE MORE THE STORY TENDS TO SWING THAT WAY *****


1. You can’t change the whole world, and you certainly can’t change other people, but you do have the ability to change yourself. You can have a positive impact in your job, the people with whom you work, and the entire organization…the choice is up to you. –Cherie Carter-Scott

2. Once we hold a belief, it tends to stick with us for the rest of our lives, unless we challenge it. –Dr. Richard Gillett, Change Your Mind, Change Your World
3. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. –Abraham Lincoln
4. Positive anything is better than negative nothing. –From The Road to Success is Always Under Construction
5. What you see is what you get! --Geraldine (a.k.a. Flip Wilson)
6. Don’t cry because it is over. Smile because it happened. –Dr. Suess
7. The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but seeing with new eyes. –Marcel Proust
8. The sense of wonder—that is our sixth sense. –D.H. Lawrence
9. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. –Charles Caleb Colton
10. We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we only have a dim or even inaccurate view of what’s really important to us. –Peter Senge
11. Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. –Ted Koppel
12. Researchers find that optimists live 19 percent longer than pessimists. –The Oregonian Edge column
13. Just keep swimming. –Dory in Finding Nemo
14. I keep my mind focused on peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, I can’t be distracted by doubt, anxiety, or fear. –Edith Armstrong
15. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. –Albert Einstein
16. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. –Martha Washington
17. Everything can be taken from us but one thing—the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance. –Victor Frankl

[F-16]

Nceegvaj - Amen.

[tetrapod]

To live in a democracy requires the populace to be able to think rationally and logically. And this current time in our history, not even the educated can think rationally or logically.

You must be the only one that still rational.  We need you to be our leader. 

[Crusader]

I think the best thing for the Hmong people right now is to live under someone else's roof....We have not been and will not likey be able to live independently by ourselves or follow our own rules.

Here is a few quotes for you pep to digest along with the disccusion thread....


"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.   American Indian Proverb

"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our civilization."     Mahamad Gandhi
 
 “Great power comes with great responsibiliti es”  Spiderman movie.

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”    Albert Einstein