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Tuesday 18th Jan:  

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR: At least 13 brave souls did go to the BYO picnic plate under shelter at Clontarf and caught up both socially and Rotary-wise. John O’Brien took some great pictures of the evening and people all enjoyed getting together.

Rick outlined a few important things regarding future meetings, and it was agreed that Feb 1 meeting will be via ZOOM only, however Feb 15 will be both live Audience + Zoom since Lifeline will be reporting on the counselling project.

The planning for the Golf Day is now at the stage of team formation and is being coordinated by Lindy. SunRun volunteers for Feb 5 (at 5:30AM, yes AM) and the club is reimbursed for our assistance by the organisers. Please contact Lindy if you can help with either.

Committee leaders will be contacting members soon to get planning for this half year underway. I will be outlining the Awards night and the requirements and activities at the Feb 1 meeting to encourage people to not only nominate suitable people in our community but help the staging of the event since a great deal of preparation is required. Not only is it personally rewarding working on any club activity especially those that are community based, it forms strong bonds between members who work together.

Bev updated  members about Recycle for Rotary and the excellent progress that the project has made over the last few weeks. Possible cooperative efforts with Upper Northern Beaches Rotary club is being explored to lighten the load on our members who have working at the NRMA holiday camp at Narrabeen so regularly. All present congratulated Bev on the phenomenal progress that has been made and the hard continual effort and organisation that she has done to make the project so successful. .

Don't forget  the next meeting via ZOOM on Feb 1 at 7pm.

A good tale.

I couldn’t help feeling this was very apt with the nonsense on has been reading about people in the news and their beliefs in particular versions of science. Whilst everyone has the right to their opinion, sometimes it simply beggars belief!

 

The donkey told the tiger, "The grass is blue."

The tiger replied, "No, the grass is green ."

The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, so they approached the lion.

As they approached the lion on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn't it true that the grass is blue?"

The lion replied: "If you believe it is true, the grass is blue."

The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me, contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him."

The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 3 days of silence."

The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating ′′The grass is blue, the grass is blue..."

The tiger asked the lion, "Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?"

The lion replied, ′′You've known and seen the grass is green."

The tiger asked, ′′So why do you punish me?"

The lion replied, "That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is degrading for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with an ass, and on top of that, you came and bothered me with that question just to validate something you already knew was true!"

The biggest waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn't care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense. There are people who, for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand. Others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.

When IGNORANCE SCREAMS, intelligence moves on.