
In English please:“He who laughs last, enjoys his laugh the most” – this saying, if you are familiar with it carries a tale of childhood for me. It was used as a comment to scorn the person who laughed at you for whatever reason and as you left the scene you would say something of the sort back to them.
It created a situation where really, the last person to laugh could really not be determined. Something happens to me - you laugh at me, then I wait… Something happens to you, I really laugh at you, saying “See I told who get to laugh now” – then you wait and something happens to me and you really laugh and so it goes.
This is a childhood concept that drove me around the bend- we sometimes neglect to think of the things we tell or say around kids. But if you think back of what you were told as a kid and how frustrating it was to discover the ‘truth’ later and wonder as to why you were told those things.
I recalled a teacher in year 3 or 4, explain to us in Geography about Thunder. The teacher said, “Thunder is caused by heavy clouds that bang against each other, that are the sounds they make”. Of course this as far from the ‘truth’ as one could get but to a young mind it seem very real and true.
False information and wrong information is a major headache to anyone. But really how can one sort out the false information from the true information.
In the book the
Way To Happiness, among a number of other references,
L. Ron Hubbard will give you a tool to use and its use never runs out, unless you of course enjoy having false data.
Precept* number 17 “Be Competent” (view video below), has a sub heading 17-2 “learn”
And in this it will give you the basic tools to learn especially in spotting false data.
Have a read of it.
*Precept;
principle: a rule, instruction, or principle that guides somebody's actions, especially one that guides moral behavior – MS Encarta®
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