{"id":19681,"date":"2022-01-11T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19681"},"modified":"2022-01-11T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:47:22","slug":"fwd-episode-500-the-peril-of-self-idolatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19681","title":{"rendered":"Fwd: EPISODE 500 THE PERIL OF SELF-IDOLATRY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NOTE:  I just had to respond to Marjorie\u2019s news clippings sent to the Castlefield Institute in Toronto<\/div>\n

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EPISODE  500:  THE PERIL OF SELF-IDOLATRY
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SMASH A WINE BOTTLE \u2014 GOOD SPEAKERS PROP<\/div>\n

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(A comment re: newspaper articles sent by Marjorie)<\/div>\n

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Well,  I will now be disliked\u2026too many articles and pics about me.  Quite a<\/p>\n

shock to see them today..  Marjorie is hard to control. <\/div>\n

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Two years ago\u2026.Feb. 29,2020, I was about to make  speech on the<\/div>\n
terrible condition of the Great Lakes at the Stonehooker Brewery<\/div>\n
in Port Credit.  A fancy affair.  $100 a plate fund raiser.  Marjorie wanted<\/div>\n
to introduce me.   She became the speaker\u2026took 21 minutes<\/div>\n
in the introduction, the feature of which was when she dropped an empty <\/div>\n
wine bottle from lectern to cement floor.  It exploded with shards of<\/div>\n
glass going all over.  She did not even pause.  Kept on speaking while<\/div>\n
Shaymus was gathering up glass fragments at her feet.<\/div>\n

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Of course she became the feature of the evening.  I shortened my<\/div>\n
speech from 40 minutes to 10 minutes much to the relief of<\/div>\n
all since I did not have an empty wine bottle to smash for attention.<\/div>\n

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The wine bottle had a label quoting Albert Einstein saying \u201can open<\/div>\n
mind means a person is capable of listening to new ideas.\u201d (My words, Einstein’s idea)<\/div>\n

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Actual Einstein words \u201cThe mind that is open to new ideas will never return<\/div>\n
to the same size\u201d<\/div>\n

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I had the good sense to shut up.  <\/div>\n

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alan<\/div>\n

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ps.  Please do not think I sent those newspaper articles as an<\/div>\n
act of self-idolatry.<\/div>\n

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pps. Start reading wine bottle labels.  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n


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NOTE:  I just had to respond to Marjorie\u2019s news clippings sent to the Castlefield Institute in Toronto EPISODE  500:  THE PERIL OF SELF-IDOLATRY SMASH A WINE BOTTLE \u2014 GOOD SPEAKERS PROP (A comment re: newspaper articles sent by Marjorie) Well,  I will now be disliked\u2026too many articles and pics about me.  Quite a shock to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}