"I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore." - Chi Chi Rodriguez -

Lowering the glucose value in the blood is one of the healing effects of the banana.

Eating one or two pieces of banana will regain your stamina and contribute to your recovery from fatigue rapidly after finishing your daily hard work, or work out if your are an athlete.

I am a grandmother of sorts, my banana tree is having a bunch.

The Morgo Bunch

This has been slowly taking place over the last couple of weeks, I was so impressed!  I was even more impressed to find this interesting story about Doubting Banana's and the obvious lack of common sense in the world.  One of my favorite subjects,  the lack of common sense.  I used to say they would have to teach it in schools soon as a subject to pass.  We are almost there at that point now in life.   
And please read on, as  this is a great read.

DOUBTING BANANA"S

People always seem to need evidence. Like Doubting Thomas, they won’t BELIEVE anything unless they see it with their own two eyes. And worse, even if they see something, they still find so many excuses not to believe. They seek more and more evidence until they can finally support their stand of NOT BELIEVING.

For example, a person may see a yellow object, long and curved, a bit pointed at the end, fleshy and looks like fruit. In fact, it looks like a BANANA! Then a monkey appears and sees the object, smells it, peels it and eats half of it. The person cries, “Boy, it sure looks like a banana.” Then I tell that person that it was indeed a banana.

The person frowns and tells you, well you know, a monkey is still a monkey, suppose that the monkey was fooled? WHAT?! This person sees a banana, sees a monkey eat that banana and still doesn’t believe. So you both steal that banana from the poor monkey and have it inspected by a scientist, not just an ordinary scientist, but a BANANA EXPERT. The expert confirms that it was indeed a banana.

Bananas on a banana tree. Personnal photo, free licence (see below). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

But Doubting Thomas still wasn’t satisfied. What if the expert was just mistaken? Was he really an expert of BANANACOLOGY? So you both investigate his credentials and certificates from schools he graduated from. They were authentic. But wait a minute! What if that school was releasing these certificates without quality education? And then, what if the theories from previous scientists taught have all been errors? Could it still be banana?

The argument can go on and on, doubting this and doubting that. Woe to the person who allows himself to be victimized by DOUBTING BANANAS! When is his doubt going to be satisfied? In my own area of expertise, I’ve met auditors who act just like that, never being satisfied even if a concrete evidence is presented infront of their faces. There are also bosses like that. They in turn doubt their auditors.

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t ask for evidences and that we shouldn’t verify things. What I’m saying is that we should know when to stop our investigations before we all act like fools. But how? COMMONSENSE. Something that’s very uncommon nowadays.

In a time where we rely upon so many manuals and experts, we’ve started to lose our own minds and our own powers to understand. We’ve lost our commonsense and became doubting bananas, paranoid people who can’t ever be satisfied.

Don’t be a banana. Nurture your mind. In the end, maybe it won’t matter anyway what fruit the monkey ate. So what if it’s not a banana after all?

Read more http://itakeoffthemask.com/words-of-wisdom/doubting-bananas/

Chi Chi Rodriguez  - Juan Antonio "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez (born October 23, 1935) is a Puerto Rican professional golfer. He was the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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