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"Now, no one responded to my question about negative believing (consistent negative attitude) and fear." Re: The difference between positive and negative believing. With positive believing, you have to follow rules, lots of rules. You have to focus, concentrate, give it enough time and so on and so forth. VPW said that you have to satisfy all the five rules or your efforts would be in vain. And, even then, if someone is believing in opposition they can cancel you out. It's hard stuff. Takes a lot of diligence. Negative believing, on the other hand, is a piece of cake. All you have to do is confess it to possess it. Want to come down with the flu? Just tell someone your throat feels scratchy and it's all yours. Simple. Afraid you're going to crack up (in your car)? No problem. Just think about it. You'll be dead by this time next year. God would have to change the laws of the entire universe to stop it from happening. Conclusion: Negative believing is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. Positive believing is lots and lots of work. It requires precision and diligence. My recommendation is to fear that something cool will happen to you. Like winning the lottery. That way, you can skip all that tedium of trying to make positive believing work for you. Yep, old Eli Stanley Jones ("The Billy Graham of India") must have known what he was talking about when he famously stated that "Fear is the sand in the machinery of life".

Jeez MRAP! You expect me to actually have a point? Man, you have high standards. I don't think it's a horrible affront to the United State or anyone else to have the Pledge of Allegiance recited in a language besides English. If people of another ethnicity living in the U.S. are showing allegiance to the U.S. in whatever language I think it's a good thing. I've had emails come to my personal inbox saying things like we have to act NOW because folks are reciting the Pledge in Spanish, as if that's a sign of the country being overrun. In my opinion such thinking belies a bigotry that exists in a lot of people and I think that's very very sad. So I'm still at a bit of a loss as to why some people get so "jacked up" about what language someone recites the Pledge in. Having said that, I think you and others make a good point when you say the principal mishandled the situation. It was fairly easy to foresee that doing this would cause a stir and, right or wrong, some people would be offended. I had not thought of that. I also think Twinky makes a good point when she mentions that actions are more important than words. Could it be that we make too big of a deal about the Pledge in the first place? I don't think so but then again I was born and raised in the U.S. Nevertheless, to have love and respect for one's nation is a good thing as long as those things stay within bounds.