Decisions

When things go wrong human beings tend to react in a certain way. Some have any written these reactions down into laws. Here are a few of my favorites. Please feel free to add any that you have found to be true.

Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong it will. This is truly a classic.

Benford’s Law of Controversy: Passion in any argument is inversely proportional to the amount real information advanced. This can be said of our political arguments now going on. The next one also applies to our political arguments.

Godwin’s Law: The longer the argument the more likely someone will stoop to the Nazi, Hitler, Hun, etc. analogy. Also in favor right now are troglodyte, Rightwing Christian Conservative, Liberal Socialist (the last two always capitalized).

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: Actually the observation effect. Observation inevitably alters the thing being observed.

Hegel’s Paradox: Man learns from history that man learns nothing from History. I loved that one.

Clark’s First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states something is impossible he is almost certainly wrong.

19th Century cleric: It is almost impossible to exaggerate the complete unimportance of almost everything.

Theodore Sturgeon’s Revelation: 90% of everything is crud. Another of my favorites.

And last, but certainly not the least of these brilliant observations:

Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they do the least harm: management.

You may be wondering why I have done this instead of another family history. It isn’t that things have gone wrong, but I am in a flux with the direction of my writing. Two people who have purchased the latest release of my Science-Fiction family history called Return of the Maca want the next installment. Most writers would be delighted with that request, but I don’t have the next one written. I've just started it, and I have a good start on the one after that.

The one I have finished is seventh or eighth one. When my husband went home to the Lord, I was one of those that became extremely angry. I knew that this one would be the most violent of the tales that wanted to be told. Writing down the violent fighting and killings worked and I could return to Gather the Children, the one my husband wanted to finish reading. Of course, writing all this down has ended the puzzle in my mind. You’ll just have to wait for the next one to see which is published first.

If you are curious about those two books, here are the Links: Return of the Maca http://www.amazon.com/Return-Maca-Vol...

Gather the Children http://www.amazon.com/Gather-Children...