The World According to Kim Possible

The World According to Kim Possible©
an Exploration Into the Nature of Kimness©

honor: integrity in one's beliefs and actions.
integrity: adherence to ethical principles, soundness of moral character.

Honor denotes a fine sense of, and a conformity to
what is considered morally and ethically right or due.
When we pick up a candy bar at the store, we take it to the counter and pay for it.
We don't put it in our pocket and walk away.
When we get gas from the gas station we fill the tank then go in and pay.
We don't fill our car with gas and drive off.
We do these things because we have integrity and wish to protect our Honor.
Our moral conviction is that is wrong to steal, consequently we take action and pay.
A person unknowingly drops a hundred-dollar bill. We pick it up and give it back to them.
We respect and Honor the person who dropped the money. We respect and Honor ourselves because, in returning the money, we confirm what we know to be morally and ethically right.
We have again protected our Honor.
Some kids are picking on someone smaller in the playground at school.
We step in and confront the bullies because our character drives us to stop the injustice.
We have integrity because our actions follow our beliefs. That is Honor.
Without Honor, Happiness and Joy are fleeting at best. If they can truly exist at all.
The social contract: Living peaceably in our community, with family, friends and others for the benefit of all; Requires us to have integrity and exercise Honorable behavior.
"Respect for others is the essence of humanism. Honor and integrity entail the highest standards of behavior and the refusal to violate one's personal and professional codes."(1)
Hammurabi's Code of Laws(2), written thousands of years ago, provides a testament to civilization's regard to the importance of fair, ethical and Honorable behavior.
Honor and integrity are also essential components of an individual's psychological balance.
When one is first dishonest, one then must continue to expand the dishonesty, with her Self and others, to more and more complex degrees of deceit.
Dishonorable behavior and actions harm not only the persons
against which the action was taken but also harms the perpetrator.
"Honor is not something to be spent or used, but to be kept."(3)
Kim Possible would never bring disHonor on Her Self by using Her superior fighting skills to gain advantage over innocents. Our actions either give us Honor or take it from us.
Truth is the seedling of Honor and must be defended; Always.
When you find the Truth - Protect it as you do your Self.
Be ready at all times to defend your Honor.
Honor and integrity provide a fertile ground for Joy.
Only an Honorable person can truly experience happiness and Joy.

Kimness is Honor.
Kim demonstrates Her Commitment to Honor through Her Actions.

Kim Possible © Disney SADI (systematized automotive driving intelligence) the self driving car helps Kim with her driving test.

Kim Possible © Disney Ron: "What's wrong KP, there's a driver side drink holder too."
Kim: "I'm good on the beverage front Ron. It's driver's ed that's got me torqued."
Ron: "Oh ya. Forgot about that."

Kim Possible © Disney SADI: "EXCUSE me. Driver's education?"
Ron: "Ya, Mr. Barkin's test course is deadly."
Kim: "Heinous and deadly."
SADI: "Hello… What am I missing here? Self driving car… I was made for this."
Ron: "Right! We take Barkin's test in SADI and we can ace it! Perfect KP."

Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "No Ron. I'm not gonna cheat."
Ron: "Is using a calculator in algebra cheating?"
Kim: "I don't use a calculator."
Ron: "OK. Well… Is is cutting and pasting stuff from the internet and calling it a term paper cheating?"
Kim: "You are kidding. Right?"
Ron: "What?"
Kim: "I can pass this test on my own. I know I can."

Kim Possible © Disney Later when Kim is ready to get in the car and start her driving test, SADI decides she is going to help Kim even if Kim doesn't want the help. So SADI destroys the school's driver Ed car with a disintegrator ray and pulls in the parking place without Mr. Barkin noticing. Kim takes the test and gets the highest test score ever A++.

Kim Possible © Disney Mr. Barkin: "Even dotted the 'I'! A++!"
Kim: "ehha."
SADI: "BEEP! BEEP!"

Kim Possible © Disney Ron: "You know, you seem a little agitated for a girl that just aced her driver's test."
Kim: "I cheated. Well, SADI cheated for me. But the guilt is still major."
Ron: "You cheated!?"
Kim: "She just did it."
Ron: "I'm sorry, let me rephrase. You cheated and you didn't let me cheat too? "
Kim: "I didn't cheat Ron. I mean is it cheating if I cheated, but didn't mean to cheat?"
Ron: "Whaaaat?"

Later Kim retakes Her test without SADI's help.
©Disney Kim: "So did I pass."
Mr. Barkin: "Why would the best student driver I've ever seen, insist on retaking her test only to lower her grade?"
Kim: "Just something I had to do. So..."
Mr. Barkin: "You passed. B-."

Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "Wooh Hooh!!!"
Mr. Barkin: "I'll never understand teenagers."

While SADI thought she was doing her best to help Kim with the Driver's Ed Test,
it was not the help that Kim wanted.
Kim wanted to pass the test on Her own.
To earn and enjoy the satisfaction of doing it Herself.
Also while Kim would have had the highest score ever recorded on a driver's test,
She knew that the score was not Her own.

For Kim to have claimed that score, as Her own, would have jeopardized Her Honor.
Kim decided that the only thing for Her to do would be to retake the test, without the help of SADI, and take the chance that Her score would be lower or might even fail.

Kim knows that Her Honor has more value than any given test.
Precious and dear is the value of our Honor.
Without Honor, achievements will have little or no value.
While achievements with Honor move us forward and make us grow,
achievements without Honor gain us nothing and can even move us backward in life's quest.
Without Honor any achievements fall by the wayside to be trampled in the dusts of time.
Achievements without Honor are hollow victories and provide no Joy.

Our actions either give us Honor or take it away.
Kim shows that integrity in your actions brings happiness and protects your Honor.
Know the Joy of maintaining your Honor.

Be Like Kim, and When Needed,
Go Back To Claim Your Victories and Your Honor!

Kim Possible © Disney Ron: "KP! What are you doin'?"
Kim: "Rescuing you... (turns to Yori) Nice try..."
Ron: "Woa... Are you freekin over my friend Yori?"

Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "I am not freekin'. I am not gelling."
Yori and Ron: "Gelling?"
Kim: "Never mind gelling... Your friend Yori is working with Monkey Fist!"

Kim Possible © Disney Ron: "hu, no, she's just... What was the last thing I told you?"
Yori: "You may tell her."
Ron: "Really? Are your Sure?"
Kim: "She's sure... SPILL!."

Kim Possible © Disney Ron: "Well, Sensi, the Master of the Yamanuchi School, which is a secret ninja school by the way, is missing and we think Monkey Fist is behind it."
Kim: "Ninja School... Well that explains the magic sword."
Ron: "The Lotus Blade... Oh, that's so last season KP. You gotta get current."

They find Monkey Fist meditating in a hidden room. But before they can figure out what is going on, the four are captured by giant apes and taken to a remote dungeon in a deep dark forest. Where they run into Sensi.
©Disney Yori: "We are not alone."
Sensi: "You are correct Yori."
Yori: "Sensi! I am gla... relieved to see that you are well."
Sensi: "To truly be well, one must also be free."

Later,when they are planning an escape, a large ape bursts into their cell.
Kim Possible © Disney Large Ape : "Enough! It was an easy plan. Monty hid from me. I used Sensi as the bait. Making it appear that Monkey Fist was responsible. I knew that only his arch foe could lead me to him. "
Kim: "What is exactly going on here?"
Large Ape : "What is going on here is that I have what I want."

Kim Possible © Disney The large ape (DNAmy), grabs Monkey Fist and opens a trap door that Kim, Ron, Yori and Sensi fall into. They fall into a river that leads to a water fall. Yori saves Ron from the fall and Kim gets Rufus. Sensi does that magical floaty thing to avoid being crushed on the rocks below. And they all make their escape.

Later...
Kim Possible © Disney Ron: "So you wanna tell me exactly why we're going back?"
Kim: "Cause it's the right thing to do."
Sensi: "A weed that never grows does not need to be cut down."
Ron: "umhu, ya, that's a good gardening tip. So why are we doing this again."
Yori: "What Sensi is saying is; 'Even though Monkey Fist is bad, he has not done us wrong this day. It is our Honor to save him.'"

Kim Possible © Disney Ron: "Oh, we're rescuing the bad guy."
Kim: "Ya, but it sounds better the way he says it."

It is never Honorable to assist hooligans doing bad things,
as doing so brings disHonor upon your Self.
Yet, while Monkey Fist maybe six-hundred miles of bad road,
Kim knows that helping those in trouble is always Honorable.

You do not sacrifice your Honor by helping one in need.
Demonstrating this aspect of Honor may help the evil villains to see the better way.
This does not mean taking hooligans as Friends.
True Friends can only be those who maintain the same level of Honor as you do yourself.
Always choose your Friends wisely and with discretion.
Always feel free to reject those who are not Honorable as Friends.

Good deeds always contribute to strengthening your Honor.
And, as Kim points out, there may be "better" words and different ways of expressing ideas.
But complex is not necessarily better than the simple and uncomplicated.
The ornate is not necessarily better than the common or plain.
The same can be said of acts of Honor.

One maintains Honor by not only the great deed,
but also by the simplest of actions.
Every action, every day is a measure of our Honor.
And while Honor is the keystone to integrity and personal strength,
it can also one of the most delicate of personal traits.
Maintaining your Honor sometimes takes a touch that is as light as the caress of a feather,
as well as the strength to stand your ground.

Kimness is a Sensitivity to All Things that Affect Your Honor!

Kim Possible high school history class is on a field trip to the Middleton Museum's exhibit on the World's Fair that came to Middleton one-hundred years ago.
Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "Detective Jonathan Stoppable and Ace Reporter Miriam Possible."
Ron: "Miriam?"
Mr. Barkin: "Went by 'Mim' in her byline. From all accounts she was a lot like you Possible. Spunky, headstrong, disrespectful."
Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "I am not. Hey I wonder why my dad's never mentioned her."

Mr. Barkin: "Maybe because Mim Possible pulled off the crime of the century."
Kim: "Mr. Barkin; What did she do."
Mr. Barkin: "Vamoose with some big new invention." IT...WAS...SCANDELOUS!"
Kim Possible © Disney Bonnie: "What's the prob K? Not the history lesson you were expecting?"

Kim: "I need to know more."

Mr. Barkin goes on to tell the story of how Kim's Great Aunt "Mim", apparently pulled off stealing Professor Demens' Electro-Static Illuminator during the fair.
Later at the Possible Home.
Kim Possible © Disney Dr. Possible : "Awe I hate to admit it Kimy. But all family trees have their week limbs. Great Aunt Miriam was a real spitfire, muck raker, fearless. Hah, could have been the greatest."

Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "So what happened to her?"
Dr. Possible : "When she was accused... our little black sheep went on the lamb."

Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "How could anybody who did so much good, go so bad."

Kim Possible © Disney Dr. Possible: "Oh Don't worry Kimy. I'm sure it won't happen to you."
Kim: "Dad!"
Dr. Possible: "Ohhh, that's not where you were going with this."
Kim: "NNNoooo."

With the help of Ron and Wade, Kim search for the truth about Mim and the theft. Wade gets the old photos from the fair, and one photo shows it was not Mim who stole the Electrostatic Illuminator.
Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "Hey Wade. What up?"
Wade: "I've been digitally enhancing the old photos."

Kim Possible © Disney Wade: "There's your proof."

Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "Way to go Wade!"

Kim and Ron run back to the Middleton Museum to find the Electrostatic Illuminator.
Kim Possible © Disney Security Guard: "Whoa, slow down. So you think a power surge from the exhibit is going to destroy the city!.
Kim: "The Electrostatic Illuminator that was stolen."
Security Guard: "By your aunt!"

Kim Possible © Disney Kim: "She did not steal it. I've got the proof right here!"

While Kim's Honor is not directly affected by the story of Miriam Possible,
She knows Her Family's Honor is important just the same.
Kim accepts the Responsibility to find out what really happened
and who actually stole the Electro-Static Illuminator.

Through Her investigation and with the help of Her Friends, Ron and Wade,
She is able to prove that Miriam had nothing to do with the theft.
(In fact, Miriam had actually tried to stop the the vilian.)
Kim defends the Honor of another because Honor is worth defending,
whether it is your Honor or someone else's.

Notice taht Kim also defends something that is not only as important as Honor,
but is also the context of Honor.
Truth.

Without Truth and standing by the Truth, there can be no Honor.
Truth is absolute.

Yes, there are always two sides to a story, but one side is a lie.
There are no 'areas of grey' where Truth is involved.
When an object is dropped it falls
towards the object of greater mass.
This is a universe(al) Truth. This example is absolute and cannot be changed.
The universe is filled with Truths that cannot be altered.
In order to be Centered and Grounded one must embrace Truth.
To not embrace Truth, is to live askew of the universe and universal Truth.

Sometimes the Truth must be sought out.
Seek out the Truth as it is the most valuable of treasures.
And Hang Tough. Defend the Truth as you defend your Honor.

Essential Kimness Requires Exposing and Defending the Truth Wherever You Find It!

"Have you heard,
That I’m all about savin’ your world"
Kim

references/resources:
"Assessing Professional Behavior: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ". Louise Arnold, PhD(1)
"Hammurabi's Code of Laws". Richard Hooker(2)
"Honor According to Vinus Solamnus" Knights of Solamnia(3)
"Honor". Dr. Paul E. Toms
"Voices From Home, An Inner Journey". Anne Francis
"Honor and Loyalty" Mystc Web
"Our Approach". Project Wisdom
"Moral Armor". Ronald E. Springer
"Honorable Aikido Behavior". Aikido World, Inc.
"Prevention Think Tank Code of Ethical Conduct". Prevention Think Tank

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