It looks like SEPTA is messing with my business yet again -
they’re shutting down the last really good deal they offer on the Regional Rail system,
all the while charging me more for the privilege of getting less.

Let me explain….

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Just an observation…

80% of the Ten Commmandments
are stated as negative actions -
( not graven images, not kill, not steal, not adultery, etc. )

Only two of the Ten Commandments (20%)
are stated as positive actions -
( keep Sabbath holy, honor father and mother ).

I don’t know about you,
but I have an easier time keeping the two positively stated commandments
than I do the eight negatively stated commandments.

Paul ran into the thing I’m talking about as well:

“In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin.
I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said,
“You must not covet.”
But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of
covetous desires within me! If there were no law,
sin would not have that power.” Romans 7:7-8

One of the big problems with negatively stated actions is
that your mind needs to focus on a positive action and
will, in absence of a positive thing to do,
do the thing you want to not do.

Simply put:
The best way to increase ______ is to try not to _______.

so, my G1 got stolen, again
and by the same essential demographic as before..

you see, the G1 looks a lot like a Sidekick,
which looks a lot like a two way pager,
which is… well I’ll let Samuel L. Jackson enlighten you further…