The logic pretzel: hamstringing, knee capping and rough houghing.

Step One: Lay your cards on the table.

Step Two: Convincing conviction is a process.

Step Three: No hedge.

Step Four: No pledge.

Messages can jam. Up or down. Lay your cards on the table immediately helps credibility. There are far too many ways to stop a situation, a circumstance, a deal dead in its tracks.

Stamina notwithstanding.

Convincing another person to think as you may think takes a special kind of skill. More importantly, so does telling the truth. No hedge results in steadfast conviction. And convincing conviction in and of itself is the bullet. How to find the proper tool to engage with it is the question. Along the way, problems develope, problems such as hamstringing, knee capping and rough houghing.

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Again.

No hedge. In business. In Life. In the the business of life, never hedge. Barrel, right through with out a split second of doubt, the desire to exceedingly belong or the flexibility to change your story just to seal the deal.

No pledge. To the naysayers. To the stories. To the other truths. To the other non truths. If you know and feel in your heart of hearts you did all you could in the interest of pure good, honest and truthful. Stop. Right. There. And thank your lucky stars. There are two sides to every story. One is lie. One is truth. Why can’t we all just get along?

If not maimed as of yet,

Step Five: Walk on

Step Six: The Walk of Life

Step Seven: Walk on the bright side of life

Step Eight: Walk the Walk

Step Nine: Let’s Go For A Walk

Step Ten: Live and Let Live

Step Eleven: Walk on Water…………..

Walk on with confidence in and with your conviction. Staying abreast and aware the knee cappers are out there.

Wartime tactics and lessons used:

Knee capping. Is a form of malicious wounding, often as torture—used in battle—physical and psychological. A form of cruel and unusual punishment either way. Stand your ground while you stand your ground.Some victims have their elbows and ankles maimed as well.(wk)

In some countries tactics are used as a form of limb punishment to punish drug pushers and child predators. During “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, if a crime was considered to be grave, the victim was shot in the ankles and elbows, leaving them with six gun shot wounds (colloquially known as a six pack)😳. The Red Brigades, employed tactics to warn their opponents. In Bangladesh, the police use kneecapping to punish opposition. In Israeli-Palestinian conflict primarily teenagers are systemically kneecapped in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.(wk)

Be alert. Stay aware. Stay your course. Live your truth inside and out.

Hamstringing. A method of crippling a person or animal so that they cannot walk properly by severing the hamstring tendons in the thigh of the individual. It is used as a method of torture, or to incapacitate the victim. Used primarily to incapacitate a human or animal and render them incapable of effective movement. Also causes pain. Lameness. Sources from late antiquity indicate that hamstringing was commonly used to incapacitate combatants, prisoners and runaway slaves. Metaphorically speaking to limit, external imposition or not, in a way that prevents full freedom of movement or utilization of resources. Of the mind, body and spirit. (wk)

Ouch.

Houghing: In the Book of Joshua in the Bible, the King James Version, Houghing involves hurting, the maiming of the hock, or gambrel, the joint between the tarsal bones and tibia of a digitigrade, or unguligrade quadrupel mammal, such as a horse, cat or dog. In times of war, physical, psychological, spiritual, cultural, hamstringing an enemy’s animal prevented the animals, from being used in fighting.(wk)

Indeed. The Walk of Life. The Walk of Business. The Walk of Life business envelopes these tactics in insidious ways. Be alert, stay abreast. Especially if and when the purpose is to Walk on the Bright side of life. Some folks simply wish other folks to stay down. Stay dark.

Stiff upper lip. Head down. Keep the spirit of strength always up in the face of adversity. As in “In your face”. Not mine. The slings and arrows are still being shot—best reserve and conserve mental energies for the times when they rear their ugly heads.

How?

WALK THE WALK. Of any of the important wartime tactics and lessons to learn, this may be the most important. The walk hides no truths. Especially, the seemingly most important walk—the cat walk. The cats are everywhere, the bugs and gnats riding the backs of others in insidious ways.

Walk the walk with your head held high, no self doubt in your mind. In your heart of hearts you are true to oneself, truthful to others. Filled to the brim of your life with convincing conviction lends it unnecessary for you to convince any one, and body and person of anything.

What happens and if you ask, or are asked to take a walk, take a hike, Let’s Go For A Walk. This will invariably be the tell tale sign of life. Any life. Provided the above wartimes tactics and lessons have been endured, stood up to in the interest of time, the test of time.

We are not talking about time-elapsed time, killing time, wasting time. Time will tell. It usually does. No one can successfully cheat time. Honestly. Logically, Illogically. Bendable-y, Stretchabley. Either way. Best be to let our fellow men live and let live as they see fit. In and for their life. The risk versus reward to live and let live is zero.

Zero risk of hurt, usury, advantageous self righteousness.

Depending on the path you choose or do not choose to walk, there is only one sure path.

Walking on Water.

My suggestion is you do not try this at home.🙃

It has been asked and documented how Jesus walked on water, (possibly a sandbar?) just below the surface of the water. After the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, Jesus sent his disciples back to the “other side” of the Sea of Galilee, with the boat, while he remained behind, alone, to pray.

The Other Side.

Alone. To pray. It was left up to the disciples who watched the miracle of the feeding, of life to make a personal decision and ask of themselves and each other. “Let’s Go For A Walk” and walk behind, in the wake, in the awakeness of Jesus.

Better to always remain awake. Abreast. Alert. Unwokable. Best still to remain unwilling to judge. To not be groggy with doubt, sleepy and un woke. Upable.