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Pizzaonia to dedicate the new Pizzaonian Institute for Recovering Dilettantes. Experts no longer experts!

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FROM:  PIZZAONIAN NEWS SERVICE (PNS)

Contact:  Publicio Relationio at the PNS office of Public Relations at   PIZZAONIAN@YAHOO.COM 

 

SUBJECT:  Pizzaonia to dedicate the new Pizzaonian Institute for Recovering Dilettantes 

Sister Veronica announced today that Pizzaonia would be in the vanguard by recognizing the extent of dilettantism in modern society.  The opening of the new institute for recovering dilettantes marks the first official recognition of the death of expertise as we previously defined the term. 

Access to the digital world and internet communications has exposed most so-called experts in various fields as boiler plate specialist using information that is now available to anyone with access to the internet. 

It soon became obvious to Pizzaonians they would be inundated with recovering dilettantes when their experts discovered they could no longer be considered experts in their respective fields. If not experts, than what are they? 

“This literally makes all so called, present experts dilettantes” explained Sister Veronica.  She went on to explain, “Today’s expert can only be defined by someone who brings new information to the field of their expertise.  If they don’t they are simply repeating what is already available to anyone with the means to research the subject.” 

Pizzaonia expects a wave of recovering dilettantes to flood their medical services and believe the new institute will be an answer to this new phenomenon that is about to inundate our culture. 

More as it develops………..

  

Submitted by Brother Giovanni, Worldonian Bureau Chief, Pizzaonian News Service, PNS

Quotes for a warm spring afternoon

 

“When you embrace your faults you embrace your humanity.”  Pizzaonian spelunker 

 

“Doing your best is not enough. You must summon the courage to do your best at what needs to be done – or go to a movie instead.” Brother Giovanni

 

“Have the courage to act instead of react.” Earlene Larson Jenks

 

"Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.”   J. M. Barker

 

“Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”  Mark Twain

 

“We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.”  R. H. Stoddard

 

“There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.”  Benjamin Franklin

 

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”  Pierre Teilhard Chardin

 

"Time wounds all heels."  Jane Ace

 

“One sees great things from the valleys; only small things from the peak.”  G. K. Chesterton

 

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”  William Wordsworth

 

“In the darkness of the cave freely entered a light always shines – the light that only silence can bring.”  “Pizzaonian spelunker

 

THE COMPOSTATRONEE: A DIGITAL MACHINE THAT TRANSFORMS, REINVENTS, AND REVITALIZES HUMAN BEINGS.

 
Today, scientists at the Pizzaonian Institute for the Revitalization of Human Endeavor announced the successful completion of clinical trials for their revolutionary apparatus know as the Compostatronee.

We have known for centuries through empirical observation that virtually all adult human beings end up frustrated and cynical towards life. However, up to now, there was no scientific proof to substantiate this observation.

This condition seems to overcome all adults as they face life’s problems. For some, the condition develops quickly, for others longer, but inevitably all humans are affected by this condition. As a result of this unfortunate phenomenon, humans have been plagued for centuries by war, famine, hatred, prejudice and now, television "sit-coms."

But until now, the only cure for a person to reinvent themselves was through their own resources and energy, something very few people could do since cynicism had already overcome them.

 
It has been well known for years by Pizzaonian evolutionary scientists that the secret of the successful life is the need for human beings to completely reinvent themselves every five to seven years. 

Regardless of the situation, be it relationships, career, everyday attitudes toward life, or the perception of the good life, the need for human beings to continually reinvent themselves is the key to staying fresh and vital in all human endeavors.

Like all ideas that eventually revolutionized human behavior, the idea that gave birth to the Compostatronee was the simple observation by a Pizzaonian gardener while working at the Institute that “all plant life was born again through the process of composting.”

Lead scientist, Leonardo Pizzaonius, who overheard the remark thought to himself “why not compost people and make them new?”  Obviously, composting as we know it, cannot be used for this purpose, but Professor Pizzaonius became obsessed with the idea and could think of nothing else from that moment on.

And then the break through came.  One day after thousands of observations and experiments by Professor Pizzaonius and his colleagues, they detected the existence of a nano, nano, narrow light band*existing between the visible light and infrared spectrum.

From that observation, the Compostatronee was born.  Our next article will discuss how this revolutionary discovery allows humans to effortlessly reinvent themselves.

Brother Giovanni, Worldonian Bureau Chief, Pizzaonian News Service.

 
 

* Known professionally as the NNNLB phenomenon, or as it is more commonly called: “THE TRIPLE N, L, and B

OLD QUOTES RELIVED - BETTER THE SECOND TIME ENJOY

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”  William Wordsworth

 

“In the darkness of the cave freely entered a light always shines – the light that only silence can bring.”  “Pizzaonian spelunker

 

“Quoting the quotable is notable if the quotable quotes are really quotable.” The spelunker

 

“It just maybe that for some their true vocation is to change vocations often.” from Thomas Merton

 

“The person I will miss most when I die is me.”  Pizzaonian spelunker

 

 

“The question: How do you pursue your moral imperative with relentlessness and still seem reasonable to those around you?  A question that only a reasonable or deluded person would ask.”     Brother Giovanni 

 

“To fully embrace life you must embrace the fact that joy and sadness coexist in the same place at the same time.” Pizzaonian spelunker

 

“Nature has given to humans one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.” Epictetus

 

“In the darkest moment of despair when you reach for the ember that was the fire within you - only then will you know what you truly believe.” Sister Veronica, Supreme Pizzaonian

 

“There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.”  George Santayana

 

“The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.”  John Galsworthy

 

“The only way to complete your life is not only to hear the inner voice but heed it.” Pizzaonian spelunker

 

“Everyday, for a few minutes, you should put yourself in the position of your enemy and develop a defense for it.”  Pizzaonian spelunker

 

“To be objective you must deny the sum total of your experience, something which few are capable of doing.” Pizzaonian spelunker

THE THE FAILURE OF VESTED INTEREST POLITICAL LEADERSHIP -- OIL IN AMERICA

 

Brother Giovanni continues to observe life in Worldonia and file his daily observations about events here.  As Supreme Pizzaonian, Brother Giovanni, felt compelled to report fist hand so he could better understand how life here might someday affect Pizzaonians.

 

 

Watching the political scene here is confusing, addicting and often bizarre.  What is different from our Pizzaonian concept is that everything here is politicized.  As such, solutions for the common good have ceased to be the goal.  The game here is power and politicians will manipulate the system any way they can to further their political gain.

 

This indictment may seem harsh, but what is bizarre here is the political leaders don’t seem to fully understand how badly they have lost their way.  The process has been so corrupted by money and power it allows their manipulation of the political system for their private gain to mask itself as virtue.  Their political leaders have managed to convince themselves their vested interest is in the best interest of the nation they lead. Objectivity does not exist here. 

 

A case in point is what is currently happening in the United States, without argument the most powerful, industrial and military nation in Worldonia. The United States is experiencing what has been described as the worst environmental disaster in its history because of a tragic accident causing an unprecedented amount of oil to flow into their Gulf of Mexico.

 

As you study the epidemiology of this tragic event you come to the amazing realization that the most powerful nation of its time does not have a coherent, national energy policy.  What they have instead is a completely politicized process that pits a multiple of powerful energy factions against each other, each trying to dominate the other.  All of this makes a solution impossible.

 

What is so obvious to an outside observer is that they are all necessary to the energy solution and need to compromise their vested interest and join together for the greater good.  Their actions are not unlike a group of surgeons watching a patient bleeding to death on the operating table while they ague over which one of them has the best answer to the problem. 

 

If there is a solution here it will happen when a national leader emerges with the courage and will to do what’s needed without any thought of the next election. My intuitive, gut feeling is that the people here secretly yearn for such a leader to come forward.

 

The future of their nation may depend on it.

  

Brother Giovanni

PIFPOUT goes to work on first project. (Pizzaonian Institute for the Pursuit of Useless Thought"

 
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FROM:  PIZZAONIAN NEWS SERVICE (PNS)

Contact:  Publicio Relationio at the PSN office of Public Relations at   PIZZAONIAN@YAHOO.COM

 

SUBJECT:  PIFPOUT goes to work on first project.

 

After a brief opening ceremony, PIFPOUT (Pizzaonian Institute for the Pursuit of Useless Thought) went immediately to work on their first major project.

 

Wasting no time on easy issues, the Institute is determined to resolve the question whether ordinary people doing extraordinary things become extraordinary by their actions.  Or as one strong faction within the Institute is arguing, ordinary things become extraordinary by the actions of extraordinary people.

 

The question now under scrutiny by the Institute is considered useless by everyone with an IQ higher than a Pizzaonian simple bread pizza and as a result has gone unresolved for centuries. 

 

Pizzaonian thinking, however, believes that questions like the one being considered, can lead to solutions to other unresolved issues whose questions are yet to be asked.

 

PIFPOUT will release its full report within a week.

 

 

 

More Pizzaonian folklore

Birds in flight" by famed Pizzaonian abstract artist, Abi Stractoli

 

“You must let the dough tell you when it is time to enter the oven. The good life is always a collaboration.” Pizzaonian pizza maker

 

“Fear of failure is nothing when compared to fear of success.”   Pizzaonian Book of Proverbs

 

“Success is not a goal; it is a way of life.”  Supreme Pizzaonian

 

“When I listen to your radio talk shows all your political leaders are idiots and all of your talk show hosts are geniuses, very strange.”  Supreme Pizzaonian

 

 

 

 

Supreme Pizzaonian exonerated. Pizzaonian health plan model for the future.

"Merging of Faith and Pizza" by Pizzaonian painting legend, Annavelo Paveli

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FROM:  PIZZAONIAN NEWS SERVICE (PNS)

Contact:  Publicio Relationio at the PNS office of Public Relations at   PIZZAONIAN@YAHOO.COM

 

SUBJECT:  Supreme Pizzaonian exonerated. Pizzaonian health plan model for the future.

 

The Pizzaonian Council announced today in a brief statement Supreme Pizzaonian, Brother Giovanni, acted in the best interest of all Pizzaonians by rescinding "crap and trade" as an acceptable environmental policy. 

 

“He also showed the respect all Pizzaonians have for woman as equal participants in our culture by the appointment of Captain Eleanori Ramallboati as the first submarine commander in the Pizzaonian navy” said one council member.  The fact that Pizzaonia has no submarines or navy was not a factor in their decision.

 

The council praised Brother Giovanni for his inspired leadership on several issues.  The most important of these was the negotiations with Pizza digogo DiVinci that lead to the merger of all Pizzaonian Monasteries with the pizza giant.

 

The most contentious issue was the adoption of the Pizzaonian health plan for all Pizzaonians.  The health plan calls for all medical expenses up to 2000 Pizzaonian dollars to be treated by the regular medical staff.  Once the 2000 dollar amount is exceeded, the patient is transferred to the faith healing clinic/s for further treatment.

 

After some argument on the merger of “faith and pizza” as a concept, all parties finally agreed on the acceptance of the plan.  As a result of the merger and the new health plan, all Pizzaonian physicians now undergo three more years of training to earn the coveted “faith healer” (FH) designation.

 

Council members declared their faith-based health plan as a model for all nations in the Worldonian world as well.  As we all know their health plans require the financial backing of their governments and what requires more faith than that?