programming
Posted: December 18, 2012 Filed under: cancer, figures of speech | Tags: cable tv, cancer, impressionable kids, programming, thyrogen, violence 36 CommentsSunday started a low iodine diet, Monday the first of two injections of Thyrogen to stimulate my pituitary into tricking any cancer cells to absorb Wednesday’s planned radiation dose. It makes me smile with irony. Whoever wrote the form I will need to sign “I understand this treatment may cause other cancers” could only have been a lawyer.
The injection left me light headed and tired. So instead of work, I returned home to lounge on the couch watching cable TV. I watched scene after scene of automatic rifle fire, massacre and cold blooded slaughter. I wondered how many times similar scenes played, watched by brilliant and socially awkward kids, until the programming is implanted.
Enough of the morose, I wrapped a few presents ( silly ones, my favorite of course ) for the girls and pondered the true meaning of Christmas, and what we miss when we ignore it.
bwthoughts 
Hang in there, my friend. The world needs more like you. My world is brighter with you in it. Please keep shining in this world. I know that may be a selfish request on my part, but I make it anyway.
Russ
Thanks — I always look to your blog for encouragement and an uplifting message.
Have a great Christmas, Bill!
and you!
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Oh my goodness! I hope really hope you are OK.
Thinking of you.
thanks! Saw the review, way to go. Let me know when my copy is in, and how to arrange payment.
Hi Bill,
I’ll emaill you – look out for it in your spam folder!
K
will do!
does this mean there’s still cancer?? i hope you recover quickly!
I have some lumps, just hope it is scar tissue.
i’m hoping with you.
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Praying for you…
thanks. While I am out of circulation for a couple days I will be reading the present book!
Can’t wait to be out there with you!! And having a week of family will be a great spirit-raiser, too, probably in two ways. 🙂 You know I’m praying for you and the entire process.
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Oh, Bill. Reading your words, I hurt for you. I’m sorry you are hurting. Sorry for what you are going through, what you have to go through, what those families are going through, and the perception you gave us of how we are programming our future killers with ingrained images in their subconsciousness…
love and family, work and giving… hope and joy are the only true measures of our day and our lives.
Not being a Pollyanna, but the cosmos is a yin-yang and sometimes it’s our job to keep the yang in balance.
With love and respect and kindness
Randy
thanks – I guess I yinged when I should have yanged
I think you yin-yang is just fine but I’ll let Janet be the ultimate judge of that 😉
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Bill, I’m hoping your treatment will not wipe you out too much. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Hugs,
Diana
thanks Diana — let’s hope for the best.
You hang in there, Bill! Thanks for sharing a fragment of your life with us. Loved your iron-irony!!!!!! 😀
thanks! I am enjoying your posts.
Wishing you well Bill x
thanks Michelle!
I am so sorry you must go through this again, but we know with Gods mercy and grace all is/will be well. Prayers my friend are said daily.
thanks, it certainly works out the way it is supposed to.
I can only imagine what the coverage was like in the US. I wasn’t actually watching the news that day…and I’m glad of it. These things are over reported by the media and then we are bombarded with their diarrhoea of old facts and sensationalism. You make some good points here Bill…and that is not to forget what you are going through yourself. I wish you all the best and hope that your recovery is swift and kind. jen xxx
Thanks Jen, we have to be careful how we program our children.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a big Matrix fan, and some of the others, but compassion and empathy are the tools that keep us complete.
I have often wondered about watching those scenes. As you know, I have been looking up quotes on “joy.” One that would agree with your post comes from Buddha: “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves..” Seems like great minds are in agreement…
thanks, that is a good quote. Joy is where we find it. Does the old zen koan qualify “When you seek it you cannot find it?”
Very wise comment – I have a feeling that the old zen koan captured the truth…
I still haven’t figured out “What is the sound of one hand clapping”
These questions I leave to much greater minds….but it keeps my mind active thinking that there may be an answer somewhere in the question.