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Another fabulous teacher is poverty. When you are rich you can hire someone to do things that you can't do.....when you are poor you have to figure it out for yourself or go without. I know how to do lots of things as a result of the lessons of poverty.

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We call that “Jimmy Rigging” at our house!😜

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I used to think I would suffer from brain fog for the rest of my life..."𝐛𝐮𝐭" this changed everything.... https://t.co/rrZYLFLlGx

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Doomsday Ration cracker designed by military scientist? 🪖 I saw one post on Reddit where it said the ingredients were only a special type of flower water and salt. Well there's got to be more into that Cracker than that?

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Huh, no wonder I’ve gotten so damn smart these last few decades! Glad someone else is getting those sweet, sweet benefits from being broke! Thank you for mentioning this! Cheers!

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Struggle........or pampered? Struggle is how mettle is formed. If you ain't getting knocked around you ain't done nothing.

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What a good comment . Every failure is a a success . I've had it hard, really hard but hardship turns you into a winner. If you come across a person who has not had failure then that being must be a corrupt politician or a Davos globalist ! Failure equals strength ,just ask the Polish during WW2. They were let down, victimised and persecuted by the Nazis but look how they fought back by intervention . They have been indoctrinated by make do and mend . The Polish are brilliant mechanics and hands on self taught fixer uppers . I'm English and have noticed how good the Eastern European culture is when they experience failure .They always succeed from mistakes.

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I agree. Another component of the ""gift" of Poverty is the fact that you have to constantly figure things out. This innately exercises your creative processes. You learn how to think through complex issues....it forces your brain to exercise solutions from a myriad of potentials......the renassians mind set.....rationalize the problems out from multiple angles to get a solution to the problem at hand. Thinking differently and uniquely. It is truly the creative way to live.

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Truer than true, that.

❤️

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A day without Clif is like drinking a cup of coffee ☕️ and realizing you time travel every night you go to sleep and wake up in the morning. AHHHHHHH! Flew from 10 to 6.

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Sluuuuuurp!

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Yum yum ,yummy

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My coffee cup is adorned with a very profound question:

"What am I doing out of bed?"

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Me !🇨🇦

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Haha beat me! It’s a measure of how attached we are to our devices, Tip!

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Yup I'm reading the news this morning around the world so I guess I'm attached to my device! 🇨🇦

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😂. Enjoy your day!

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You too Linda! Fellow clan member !🇨🇦😉

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I’m open to being a “clan” member if only it’s in the Scottish sense!

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Boy you were gutsy throwing in an exclamation AND Canadian Flag but you slipped it in for ubdisputed 1st comment award 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 I got a good chuckle but it's refreshing to see a faithful regular take home the cake.

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Thank you for the tremendous response given for me mastering first place! My hand even trembles, Michael, accepting the trophies awarded from you !

Know that my mind and heart are at peace now and to be fair I will open the race again to the clan to compete and decline from accepting a potential award twice. I have truly mastered coming in first. As Cliff said all masteries are equal. 🇨🇦

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I just got home from hiking with the house wolves. Have a happy!💯🍭😍🐺

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🤣 the house wolves!!. Great way to ground outdoors and start the day.

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Lucky ducky

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Rhymes with? 😃 I'm bad

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Thunderhoof - You didn't say - "who is Michael "? From my comment? So my guess is indeed correct? By the way I don't have green eyes and red hair like your "Red" friend. I am Irish and I have blonde hair and blue eyes. You seem to notice these things. Oh I am Canadian too !🇨🇦

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Irish bloodline 👍 Michael is my name. Thunderhoof, was a buddies knick name for my last name Lightfoot

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A wise man is one who is very very good at failing. Thank you for that. I know now that I am a genius in hiding lol

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Hardly anyone wants to hear that you are a genius. But you can show them. Sometimes it's best not to.

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My Dad got an F in physics. Mommy's hopes for him to become a doctor, bitch slapped him right in the face.

He took the course again and he got an A. He flew us into Loretto Mexico with these other flying physicians for a fishing trip. We're having cocktails after dinner on the gravely beach while one doctor was pointing out the constellations. The motions of the universe came up and Dad threw out a law of physics. In awe, the other doctor said, Phil, how do you still remember that from physics?

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Excellent illustration. Thank you for sharing this!🙏

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Clif, if a remote viewer travels beyond time/space and observed a past event, then wouldn't the observer effect have an effect on that passed event? Wouldn't that be a subtle form of time travel? Could that be the mandala effect?

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Good question. Also, does accurately described future events by a remote viewer imply predestination?

There is testimony by remote viewers that entities viewed are aware of the intruding consciousness (the remote viewer). It seems this intrusion would indeed affect the event being viewed.

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Supposedly, it's not just the observation, but also the intention.

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It does work for going into the future, but not the past. The caveat is that you need to convince the right people in order to divert the incident.

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I have definitely grown the most out of my failure. Don't realize at it's happening. But, looking back now, it has helped me the most. Being faced with what I am now, get out of our nations government, one that I have given blood, sweat and tears to. Or jump out and begin a new journey. It will be interesting either way.

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I treat everything as an experiment. If it doesn't work out you invariably learn something.

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Hey, you just reminded me of another good story from my childhood! You are awesome!!😍

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Cool! I live to serve.

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That is how I ended up with my PHD in rigging it, the right way first , #1 step don't put the cover on till you test it! When I do it doesn't work, lol.

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Heh, you must be doing wrong, pop physics dictates that it only works when you don't look at it. Or maybe I have that backwards?

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Where's Michael Lightfoot?

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Tip from Cananda ay takes home the coveted 1st comment award at 5:43 am pst. 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆

I heard the ping and like my Mom ringing her dinner bell, I came running 🏃‍♀️. The endorfins subsided though as I realized I was 17 comments behind the woo croo.

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But those endorphins…👌

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Directly below you as Thunderhoof! He’s being a sneaky Pete.

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Wish my wife would toss me around once in a while. Boy is she sexy when she's mad.

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She can rip my gee off anytime 😊

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Don’t put your back out!!

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You had better be careful with what you ask for…just saying!😜

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I showed him how to "get what he wants....."

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Them Irish blooded women can have quite the fire in em!

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I can help you get "tossed around" all the time. Bring other females home. There. Now you can get a "full serving" of what you desire. You can thank me later.

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Keep failing forward

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Thankyou very much Clif..

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Good Morning and thank you Clif!

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Dyslexia is my super power and lazy is the enemy. I was taught plumbing from age 10 to 18 by Dad. I worked with the MEN to assure ability to make a living. Passed master plumber exam in 1975 at age 21 with score of 100% both records. Worked FT/PT as plumber to fund college. HS I was D student in math & physics. My corrective action take physics and calculus at technical institute 4 nights a week when working plumbing. I graduated from HS 1971 in 1976 graduate student teaching college chemistry. 1975 at age 21 AAS chemical engineering technology, 1976 at age 22 BA chemistry ACS certified, 24 MA chemistry. Dad says you came a long way in a short time, Master craftsman and Master scientist. Retired chief electric system chemist and large power transformer SME of 3 electric utilities. So how did I learn about power transformers and electric system? I talked with craftsmen, read everything and studied our lab results using new methods and those new spreadsheets. Interesting electrical engineers had zero interest in maintaining the electric system.

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Notice we always make a spelling error to bring in the real smart folks. LOL

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excellent follow up to Romance...without separation, there's no union...flux is fertile with "recombinant" elements...creativity/novelty comes out of it!

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Good morning Clif!

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So if you are failing at everything does that mean you are actually doing it right?

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It means you aren't learning anything.

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Good Morning Clif as we say goodbye to January.

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Yay! Just got my heating bill. $178 😠

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Hopefully that bill encompasses two months. I pay one third that, living in a 960 sq ft sky box here in the Okanagan.

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Our power bill over $500 , my wife almost fainted.

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