I can hear many news outlets interviewing this war expert and that retired four star general, and they all sound pretty much the same. They are all in the prediction game and masters of opinion. The same is true with all articles you may read in whatever newspaper you pick up, conservative, liberal, secular or Jewish. All of them are filled with opinions trying to predict the future. Besides for it all being a waste of time and that those pundits are not worth the paper they are printed on, they are also a distraction from the truth that should be learned from war.

Everything we see has deeper meaning, if only we learn how to read between the lines. Take a simple argument between man and wife. Do you really think that if he truly loved her that he would ever allow himself to say the silly things he just said? Or if he would not be burdened with financial stress would he still get mad at the continuous spending? This is simple reading between the lines, but the truth is it goes much deeper than that.

Why would person A be delighted when a plate of fish is served before him while person B will be disgusted? The answer on the surface is that A likes it and B does not. But as we dig deeper we see that there are memories working in the background that are driving this response. Person A does not just have a liking to the taste. They have memories attached to this food going back years. Each time they even smell a hint of this dish or see a spice of this recipe on the grocery shelf, those memories attached to this dish activate.

A person I know hated black jelly beans, and rightly so. It was not just that they did not enjoy the taste. They did not want the other candy touching them. One day he dated his soon to be wife and along their way made a stop at a candy........

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