Week 34

Holy Moly!

Good golly Miss Molly!

From the beginning some have made great gains on the Bonus features like a Monsanto GM crop yield.  while others,fearing things may get out of control have yielded nothing but thorns and weeds-happy in their hippy attire and mud and stone centrally heated homes. A few are opting for wisdom and caution. The former picking and choosing like a connoisseur. The latter a rabbit in the headlights. 

Solomon famously asked the two women to choose- an impossible task it seemed; and Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son-surely a contradiction! Often, things seem to not go our way and a sense of injustice surrounds us. We feel unheard and misunderstood. In our psychic pain we sometimes demand an apology or an agreement. We must be heard and we must be justified... at the very least understood...Someone once said, " you may be right, but I am happy".  What cost our insistence on being justified and heard? our happiness perhaps at times?

I know that recently I haven't been sleeping well. I dont sleep well anyway and thats been going on for many years indeed. However, I became unhappy with it, and thats disturbing. Why would I be unhappy with a state of affairs that has been so for such a long time? I tossed and turned. I took drugs. I went to bed early and late. I tried music, meditation, heat and cold. I slept in different rooms . I cut out all caffeine and sugar. I went to bed hungry and full...nothing made any difference. I was still unhappy and I didnt sleep any better...

I eventually realised it had nothing to do with how much sleep I got. I instead realised it was because I couldnt escape my mind and I wanted to. It wasnt that anything was keeping me awake, it was just that I had become unhappy about being awake.  Yet, again I think to myself, its the same lesson over and over. It isnt the thing you are doing/not doing that is causing you the problem its the reason or meaning you give to it. Such a hard lesson to learn.

Change the motivation and even the bitterest pill will be a relief to swallow. 

So, sometimes even knowing this we are reluctant. Sometimes we demand we feel like this or that and things work out this way and not that.

Thats ok! It is reasonable.

However, some things wont change and then what?

Without a step, or more likely a push from an 'unbearable position in life' to a solution we often continue to exhaustedly tread water demanding a different outcome. Stuck and complaining. Sometimes blaming others and demanding we be heard...

So Banterer's, I present to you the wisdom of Solomon.

You have a bonus card of 10 in your hands. You may bank it right now and I will add it to you Bonus score at the end of this weeks fixtures. However. You may also double it by  nominating another Banterer to receive it. If you nominate someone and they finish above you in this weeks standings then you lose the 10 points plus the nominated gets an extra 20 points. However, finish above them and you earn yourself 30 points.

Key:

1. Do nothing and simply Bank your bonus now for 10 points- ie.BANK PLEASE! 

2. Nominate someone to receive your card-if you beat them you get 30 points; if they beat you, you lose 20 points to them. i.e.  I NOMINATE S8. If he wins, the 20 is given to him from my Bonus bank.

3. a maximum of 2 nominations can be placed on one player.  

4. just indicate at the end of your predictions which player you are challenging. as above, i.e. I NOMINATE S8

5. Anyone not challenged will receive a Bonus of 10. i.e. no one nominates you; you receive any extra 10 points

-nominate and win and you earn 30 points

-nominate and lose and the 10 points you never had are lost, plus another 20=30 in total; taken from you and given to the other player.

-Nominated and win and gain the 30 from your opponent.

-dont nominate and receive 10 points.

-not nominated-receive 10 points extra.

be careful whom you nominate-dont play into their hands...but on the other hand, you could deal them a significant blow...

Saturday 27th February 2016

1. Wolverhampton 0 v Derby County 3

2. Blackburn Rovers 1 v Milton Keynes Dons 1

3. Bolton Wanderers 1 v Burnley 2

4. Cardiff City 3 v Preston North End 2

5. Charlton Athletic 0 v Reading 1

6. Fulham 1 v Middlesbrough 3

7. Huddersfield Town 2 v Ipswich Town 1

8. Nottingham Forest 1 v Bristol City 0

9. Queens Park Rangers 0  v Birmingham City 0

10. Rotherham United 1 v Brentford 2

Monday 29th February 2016

11. Brighton 2 v Leeds United 0

12. Tuesday 1st March 2016

13. Blackburn 1 V Middlesbrough 4

Thursday 3rd March 2016

14. Birmingham 1 V Hull 1

 Friday 4th March 2016

15. Middlesbrough 3 V Wolves 0  

I nominate MMM to receive the wisdom of Solomon