Triple Filter Test - True/Good/Useful

Today the Parish Priest shared a small story during the homily. Found it very meaningful. The theme for today's liturgy was 'What comes out of a man is what defiles him'. Here is the story i got online

In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC) Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said
"Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?"
"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."
"Triple filter?"
"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"
"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."
"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"
"No, on the contrary..."
"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, even though you're not certain it's true?"
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.
Socrates continued. "You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?"
"No, not really"
"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor Good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"
The man was defeated and ashamed.

Independence Day Speech at Chruch

Was assigned today to give a short speech in hindi and english on the occasion of Independence Day. Jotted down some words, not sure if I really meant them. But still, the speech was delivered.

Today we are celebrating our 66th Independence Day – 65 years of striving for progress, development, equality – trying to make a respectable position for India in the world order. There have been high points, there have been low points as well,  but overall the journey has been fulfilling

Be it exemplary production of agricultural production in the last fiscal or our improved performance in sports, it sure did bring a smile on each Indian face and made our hearts swell with pride. On the other hand, we also witnessed some unfortunate events like natural calamities, civil unrest, economic crisis. But we as a country have overcome all these obstacles to emerge as a stronger nation.

Our growth might have been slow at times, but it has been steady, bringing us to a vantage point from where we can accelerate for higher growth. India's 1.2 billion population striving hard for a better tomorrow, trying to make India a better place to live.

The government has been playing its role in the process of growth and development. Some of its measure and policies were successful while some failed to achieve their purpose. India also witnessed strong agitations and demonstrations against corruption and malpractices in the system. But all these have made the Indian Citizen more aware and demanding.

As responsible citizens, we should try and play a more constructive role in building and strengthening the nation. We need to rise above the limitations of cast, creed, religion and work as one nation – its time we put 'India First'

As the ancient proverb goes – we have not inherited this earth from our ancestors but have borrowed it form our children – we need to channelize our efforts and capabilities to build a better nation for our future generations

Long Live Independent India.

‎​INSTALLING HUSBAND.....

got this forward from the boss. really funny.

A woman writes to the IT Technical support Guy..

Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and I noticed a distinct slowdown in the overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NEWS 5.0,MONEY 3.0 and CRICKET 4.1 .

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5..3 to fix these problems but it just doesn't seem to work.

What can I do?

Signed,.......................

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Reply...

DEAR Madam,

First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme. html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.If that application works as designed, Husband1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5..However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Beer 6.1..

Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.To summarize - Husband 1.0 is a great program You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend: Cooking 3.0 and Hot Looks 7.7.

Good Luck Madam!

IT SUPPORT DESK.....