I Want To Hear More Good News Instead Of Bad

Chris P Bacon said:
Thank you, for you to compare us to each other, that’s quite the honor for me. I think it was Wayne Dyer who said, “When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.” Now who said it isn’t as important as what was said but I just wanted to be clear that it wasn’t me who first had the thought. But it really does make a lot of sense, to me and I’ve even had proof that it works in my personal life. 😊
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Does P stand for Pollyanna? LOL, just kidding!
 

Lara said:
There is proof from many reliable sources that fact checkers
like Snopes are often not factually correct and misleading.
It surprises me that readers blindly put their faith in "fact-checkers".
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I subscribe to the theory that not everything that I “know” is true. Trouble is is that I’m not sure just which of or how many of my morsels of knowledge are true ones and which are false. So it seems only fair to think that the people who run those fact checking sites might know a few things that aren’t true as well. But some of what they say, even if it’s contrary to what I believe, probably is true. They have more time and resources than I do to look into such things so for a lot of what they say, I take it at face value. But the good news is that I can do more research on my own and if I can get past my own cognitive bias, I normally can learn what feels to be true.
 
oldpop said:
When I think about the things I have control of the results are slim to none. On a good day good news or bad news all boils down to:

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caroln said:
Bretrick, your story reminds me of an episode of Little House on the Prairie when the Ingall's farm gets auctioned off because of being in debt and is bought by his friend Jonathan for 10 cents. And all his personal possessions were bought by other neighbors for around a penny a piece. So he was able to buy it back, of course. Nice story.
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Interesting! Michael Landon's "Little House on the Prairie" was such a positive. I am glad that I have watched about 5 years of it. Another, very positive show that I bought all the DVDs and watched all the shows was "The Waltons." As far as I know there are no shows like this too. Way too much negatives things on the TV today. The 2 shows I mentioned were not only good clean family viewing but usually they had a moral principle at the end of the story. My how times have changes; perhaps not for the better?
 

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Packerjohn said:
Interesting! Michael Landon's "Little House on the Prairie" was such a positive. I am glad that I have watched about 5 years of it. Another, very positive show that I bought all the DVDs and watched all the shows was "The Waltons." As far as I know there are no shows like this too. Way too much negatives things on the TV today. The 2 shows I mentioned were not only good clean family viewing but usually they had a moral principle at the end of the story. My how times have changes; perhaps not for the better?
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The Walton's were also a favorite of mine. Anytime I see Richard Thomas in a different show, I always think "there's Johnboy!" I imagine he hates that...
 
Think that concept has been around for at least a few thousand years. The Buddha for one, and he probably wasn't the first. Maybe some cave dweller having a particularly good day.

Chris P Bacon said:
“When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.” Now who said it isn’t as important as what was said but I just wanted to be clear that it wasn’t me who first had the thought. But it really does make a lot of sense, to me and I’ve even had proof that it works in my personal life.
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We have wars, and pandemics. They're not exactly fun things. I feel most of the posts, here, lately have been on the dark side of life. Maybe, it's just the times, or me. But I'd like to spend more time smiling than I do, now.
 
Irwin said:
The bad news is, that story is a hoax:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/200-nebraska-farmers/
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It's good that someone is minding the store...;)

Chris P Bacon said:
Thank you, for you to compare us to each other, that’s quite the honor for me. I think it was Wayne Dyer who said, “When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.” Now who said it isn’t as important as what was said but I just wanted to be clear that it wasn’t me who first had the thought. But it really does make a lot of sense, to me and I’ve even had proof that it works in my personal life. 😊
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As @Geezer Garage mentioned, that saying has been attributed to the Buddha, but is also often the theme for self help mental health management.
 
I quit watching the news in Apr. 2020 so I'm less sad than others.

Crocuses are blooming, the trees are budding and it's going to be 65f tomorrow.

I took my summer clothes out of storage to wash and iron because it's getting too warm to wear black anymore.

The grocery stores where I shop still have good and lots of food and employees to help with checkout and packing.

I was able to afford vitamins this month.

I found a gas station selling gas for only $4.05 per gallon. That's 10 cents cheaper than last week so I am optimistic.

People are smiling more because spring is here and we had a hard winter so everyone is happier.

Smiles are contagious so try it sometimes.
 
I like good news, when there is peace, when I can sit outside my house in the sun and feel the goodness of the universe, when I can feel healing energies for myself and send healing energies to other people. But when bad news arrives, I know I need to stand up and fight to fix the problem. Then there comes the discussion of what is good and what is bad, something that is good for one person is bad for another person.
 
Then watch the tail end of World News Tonight with David Muir. It's about a 21 minute broadcast when streaming with no commercials. At the end of the show they either do segments entitled "person(s) of the week" or "America strong." Everyone of them is about everyday people, sometimes children, doing extraordinary things for the betterment of the neighborhoods, the less fortunate and the world in general. I love seeing David's half smile and I always smile with him. I'll be posting some of them here. This is one that made me smile big. Orian Jean won the National Kindness Speech contest at the age of 9 and at 11 was named Time's Kid of the Year for his kindness initiative. What an incredible boy! Video report featuring Orion:
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/meet-time-magazines-kid-year-83018039
I'll be posting more of these stories.
@Pecos @Pinky @Medusa @SeaBreeze @feywon @Nathan @dseag2
 

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