Rock-Paper-Scissors ...such a simple game, but people come up with complex strategies & try to convince you they have figured it out ...how to win.

There may be some truth to their logic ...but, we are not dealing with just psychological possibilities/or probabilities.  

Yes, I can see what they are saying ....yet, they are dealing with clever stereotypes.  Men perhaps feel more dominant by choosing rock ...and if they have a female participant, they may look at them as one who repairs & mends, sort of the sewing type, thinking they will choose scissors.  

Rock smashes scissors ...and we all know men have a tendency, or younger men, or boys, to smash things. And a guy doesn't mind loosing if a girl chooses paper ...as he doesn't mind her covering his hard or rough edges.

Am I making too much of this??  

Perhaps.

But, I'm perhaps humoring myself a bit.

I could go on ...to say Democrats like paper, but Republicans like to cut things out of the budget.

Okay, I'll stop ...

Well, at least I'll stop on that note ...but, we still have half the title to go.

A very popular children's book is entitled, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie ..."

I surfed a bit on these internet waves ...not really good at surfing, I'd probably drown.  And a net in the ocean makes me think of catching fish.  But, a few things did catch my eye.

I don't know who/or how many write for Wikipedia ...but, this one surprised me, summarizing the award winning children's story as such:

"The book is known for its sadistic and dastardly (yet true to life) portrayal of parasitic relationships so commonly found in humanity."

That seems like a rather harsh assessment itself ...to a lighthearted and entertaining children's story.  Perhaps I should put us all on equal ground here ...and list the text:

If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. 

When you give him the milk, he'll probably ask you for a straw. 

When he's finished, he'll ask you for a napkin. 

Then he'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache. 

When he looks in the mirror, he might notice his hair needs a trim. So he'll probably ask for a pair of nail scissors. 

When he's finished giving himself a trim, he'll want a broom to sweep it up. 

He'll start sweeping. He might get carried away and sweep every room in the house. He may even end up washing the floors as well! 

When he's done, he'll probably want to take a nap. 

You'll have to fix up a little box for him with a blanket and a pillow. 

He'll crawl in, make himself comfortable and fluff the pillow a few times. He'll probably ask you to read him a story. 

So you'll read to him from one of your books, and he'll ask to see the pictures. 

When he looks at the pictures, he'll get so excited he'll want to draw one of his own. 

He'll ask for paper and crayons. He'll draw a picture. When the picture is finished, he'll want to sign his name with a pen. 

Then he'll want to hang his picture on your refrigerator. Which means he'll need Scotch tape. 

He'll hang up his drawing and stand back to look at it. Looking at the refrigerator will remind him that he's thirsty. So... he'll ask for a glass of milk. 

And chances are if he asks you for a glass of milk, he's going to want a cookie to go with it.

Other variations that caught my eye on the internet, are as follows:

"If You Give a Liberal the Oval Office ..."

"If You Give a Democrat a Cookie ..."

"If You Cut Off the Mouse's Cookie Supply ..."

We can create our own ...according to our political bent.

"If You Give a Republican a Batch of Cookies ..."

Many people look at themselves and those around them as 'cookies'.  They take someone else's dough and add things to sweeten the package or make life colorful.  They believe there is an unlimited supply of cookies, because someone else is making them.  Their mind sort of works in reverse.  So, ...

If You Give a 'Cookie' a Democrat ...they feel like everything will be okay ...

Everything will be okay because God's Word is in the Bible ...and the Bible tells us to submit to government.

And if government tells us it's okay, then it's okay ...it excuses us from what we know God is not in favor of.

If we are excused by government, then we can do pretty much what we want ...because as a Democrat we can count on government to support us.

If government is going to support us ...they are going to make us feel better.

If they are going to make us feel better, then they can do that by changing the laws of God, minimizing our conflict of conscious, and only mentioning God in a general sense to add flavor to speeches.

Okay, that's enough for now ...

(Author's note: And by the way, I do not agree with the dialogue of those things being okay ...and by just excusing ourselves.  We would be merely doing it in our own eyes ...not God's. And the Book of Judges clearly shows what happens when we do things in our own eyes.)

"If You Give a Louse a Wookie ..."
(If you resource the Urban Dictionary, you may get some rather different impressions of what words mean ...let's not go there.)

But, let's get some application here ...

The game of Rock-Paper-Scissors ...creates different responses, albeit consistent, to the situations. Certain things seem to outweigh, or trump other things ...yet, though one thing may contain the winning hand, it may lose to something that may lose to what it wins over.

We sort of vote this way ...and that's why I introduced that little political section. 

In voting, we realize we cannot have everything the way we want it.  After all, we are a democracy of sorts, though by definition we are a republic.

But, in deciding how we vote, it becomes a mental exercise on how we shift our priorities ...back-and-forth, often not really knowing what we want, and even more so not knowing what others have to offer.  And sadly, we do not value honesty as one of the top priorities.  If we did, it may still be difficult to confidently determine what is honest ...but, we also prioritize those sources which we trust in determining that.

Like a Rock-Paper-Scissor mentality ...we may be rock solid on things like Climate Change issues.  We say we are concerned that future generations have a chance to live as we have ...yet, we put those values on paper and write laws to protect, while using scissors to cut a baby up.  If we want future generations of children to have a chance to live as we have, then we must allow them that chance to live.

It does seem to me to be a double standard to say that women's rights  and climate change issues trump the here and now destruction of alive fetuses.  Yet, there are religious groups who are very lacking in women's rights ...so, those women's rights are trumped by religious rights.  My mind does not follow, nor approve of this logic ...yet, I do see that it exists.

Also, one of the most important functions and responsibilities of society rests within the family.  What has come of that??

That seems to follow the logic of "If you give a _____ a cookie ..."

If you give ground on the family & are tolerant to all lifestyles, then even incest will seem okay. 

If any form of lifestyle is okay, then any form of religion that dictates a lifestyle is okay.

If any form of religion (including no religion) is okay, then our current laws must be changed.

If personal rights, whether women's, men's, or religious ...trumps group rights, then we have a problem.

The problem we have, is that we pretend to be a democracy ...yet, we are approaching an anarchy mentality.

With an anarchy mentality of everyone doing what they feel is in their right to do ...inevitably somewhere it will infringe upon another's rights.

If we allow Sharia and child bribes in those religions which claim to be within their own law, then we also have no legal ground against polygamy or other laws which for years we have upheld.

If you accept one religion's view on marriage, then other forms of criminal and reprobate thinking will also challenge their lack of acceptance and claim discrimination.

If they claim discrimination it will cost a lot of dough in the courts.

And if we run out of dough, we won't be able to have any more cookies ...