I'm what you might call an Atheist Christian

I'm what you might call an Atheist Christian; I don't believe in any gods, but I do find great value in what Jesus actually said and taught, which was to love, forgive, and let live. That's quite different from what many modern churches teach, which is to fear and to try to control the behavior of others. Such people often have no qualms about employing the coercive machinery of the state to impose their values on others, which Jesus never did nor advocated – his slate was clean, and yet he cast no stones.

3 Kinds of Pros and You Are Doomed

There are 3 kinds of people in any profession.

First kind is those honest ones who can't do a good job.

Second kind is those dishonest ones who are out to get you for their own benefits no matter what.

The third kind is those who are honest, capable and deliver fantastic results.

In the financial field, the first kind is those advisors who wish their clients can make money with all their hearts. Most likely they will go to heaven but their clients' money goes to hell, because they are simply not good at what they are doing.

The second kind of financial advisors are out there for themselves only. The only incentive is their priority--to make money as fast as they can and as much as they can. Their clients are their bridges to prosperity. Nothing else matters. Their clients' money goes to hell.

The third kind of financial advisors are ethnical, capable and truly professional. But most ordinary people won't become their clients or even have a chance to meet them. They are too busy working mostly for wealthy clients.

You see. 2 out of 3 is not good! Most of you are doomed to fail in the investment field. That's one of the reasons that the rich is getting richer, and you getting poorer no matter what. Depending on others to give you advice is dangerous. Even when you are lazy not wanting to work for the money, at least you should be educated about the financial/investment field in some way and know how to select an advisor whose incentive is the same as yours.

Most investors don't understand "common sense always overrides professionalism". Too many crooks hide behind their profession to swindle money from their clients legally and illegally. Their licenses and credentials don't mean a thing. Anyone can pay and get them. If they are so good at giving advice, why aren't they sitting on the other side of the desk?

You Own the Red Roof Inn

They fuck up our economy big time!

Still think of sending your children and grandchildren to Ivy league schools such as Havard, Oxford, Cambridge, etc. for economic degree? Perhaps winning a Nobel Prize too?

These MBAs, Ph.D.s, working for and collaborating with the governments have fucked up the world's economy big time. Universities receive subsidies from their governments. Their curriculums have to be in tune to the government's propagandas and policies or they will run out of funds to operate. More than 50% of economists graduated from universities work for the governments and their agencies. Their goal is to help the governing politics, not the real economy.

How can anyone still trust their government? This is not about Greece. Every single government on earth is fooling with debts and creating money out of thin air. Where is the common sense? You don't need any university degree to see how ridiculous government officials who know absolutely nothing about economics, are. And they still get to keep their jobs!

Yeah, Greece is in trouble now. So will your country, one day, eventually. And I don't care if you are China.


From 3 months ago, Watch Nobel Prize winner Professor Joseph Stiglitz--advisor to Greece and Spanish Ambassador to the UK Carles Casajuana argue with a Hugh Hendry (for Electica Asset Management) who is betting on the Euro currency falling and failing. The Hugh Hendry talks a lot of sense, where the expert talks none.

Watch video:

Euro currency crumbling?

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-de7q3fbn0

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4MAifsp-8E

What Was Wrong With the Old World?

What Was Wrong With the Old World

http://www.mises.org/story/2300

Love is great.

Love is great.

Love is a feeling born within ourselves. It is pure and natural. Love cannot be forced consciously. It comes from our hearts, not from our minds.

It is sad that one need to be told what love is. It is sad one seeks love as if in novels and movies. Most people seek love as they were told.

Most families don't teach love. They teach mostly duties and exchanges. Parents never show affection and love in front of their children. Children learn little about love from their greatest teachers. Love becomes part of the traditional culture, an act in conformity as approved by the society and family.

Love stories are never the same. Each person creates own love story, or stories. It is impossible to seek love just like someone else's. One must create own love story for love comes from each person's heart. It cannot be imitated, or repeated. Each love story is unique since each individual is unique.

Open your heart and let it go. There is only ONE kind of love, unconditional love. True love never ask for anything. The rest is just imposters of love--duty and exchange.

True love is not painful because one asks for no ownership and nothing in return. Love is at the moment. If your heart is not at the moment, you are not in love although you are with your lover. Love does not promise forever. But the feeling of love indeed is forever in the memory.

Untrue love is painful because one is not getting what one wants in return. Making demands kill love. Try to change the other person kills love.

Love is free. Free to love. Love is freedom without restrictions from traditions. Love has no boundary. Reading too much love stories can restrict one's love. Love is a creation without boundary. When in love, one is fearless to let go. If you hold back, love is not complete.

Love is not blind unless you have conditions and demands. Your mind can be blind but never your heart.

Climate Change

As smart as the scientists to come to conclusion of "Global Warming" or " Climate Change". Humans are damaging the earth? But it seems they are all making one common mistake which will further the problem(s). The worst possible solution, which most people in the world agree, is to invite governments to participate and lead. Governments are the culprits of this mess in the first place. Besides, since when government programs produce the intended results? Since when politicians have the hearts and ability to solve problems?

Knowledge

Knowledge is what is known. Like the related concepts truth, belief, and wisdom, there is no single definition of knowledge on which scholars agree, but rather numerous theories and continued debate about the nature of knowledge.

Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association, and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.

..............................Knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In Chinese, knowledge is in two words--'know' and 'understand'. The first word on the left implies awareness. The second word implies understanding.

Today, many words have lost their true meaning. 'I love my country' no longer means loving the collective ideal of living. You don't have to love your country if it is no longer your ideal. That's why they moved to America and called themselves Americans. 'Democracy' no longer means citizens above the authorities. People are exploiting each other through the power and force of governments which they gave up. Governments are invited to meddle in everyone's life. A Servant becomes a Master, in fact a Monster ruler.

Kids don't go to schools to learn. They are there to be taught. Therefore they grow up to be sheeps of the herd.

Most adults don't study much after high school or university. Their further knowledge comes from magazines, televisions, radios, newspapers which disseminate mostly propagandas of political issues and conclusive opinions of others.

Imagine one has to intrepret his or hers lifelong experiences with just 16 years of organized(forced) education. It is like a computer with outdated softwares.

What is failure?

What is Failure?

It is common to have losses in life. But losses do not equal failures. Failure is to let your losses to stop you from pursuing the same goal. Losses are about matters. Failures are about you.

There is an old Chinese saying, "Failure is the mother of success."

A Gift for My Daughter

A Gift for My Daughter

by Harry Browne (June 17, 1933 - March 1, 2006)

(This article was originally published as a syndicated newspaper column, dedicated to my 9-year-old daughter.)

December 25, 1966

http://harrybrowne.org/articles/GiftDaughter.htm

People who gave their souls away

A few men, fighting each other, do not make a war. A hundred, five hundred, ten thousand men, fighting each other, make at most a riot. Only a government can make war. So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believes the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for their welfare, they will set up some image of that Authority and try to obey it. And the result will be poverty and war.

Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane, 1886-1968

http://mises.org/books/discovery.pdf

Majority of the People

July 9, 2006 Email from Darren - a friend

The majority of men and women are ignorant, full of prejudice, and greed. A few are power hungry. Mix them up and you have government.

No law empowering the government would have passed without the majority being foolish. It is through greed and stupidity that men have given government the power to take away their liberty, albeit only gradually in the so called developed countries.

Change the term government by "the majority of the people" and you get the picture.

Don't Invite the Devil

If you really want to cure a pressing social problem, take steps outside the realm of government. If you don't see how you can convince people to help you succeed in a non-governmental endeavor, how can you expect to control politicians who care nothing for your desires?

And if you really want to make a noticeable difference, if you really want to improve life, do something for yourself or your family today. That's where you have real control, that's where you don't need to rely on politicians — or anyone else — and you can make sure the results are as you intend.

Government doesn't work.

http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/PrinciplesOfGovernment.htm

Religions are nothing but messages of Freedom. It is humans who set traps for themselves and suffer.

Sin versus Error

It is essential that error be not confused with sin, and it is this distinction that makes salvation possible. For error can be corrected, and the wrong made right. But sin, were it possible, would be irreversible. The belief in sin is necessarily based on the firm conviction that minds, not bodies, can attack. And thus the mind is guilty, and will forever so remain unless a mind not part of it can give it absolution. Sin calls for punishment as error for correction, and the belief that punishment is correction is clearly insane.

Sin is not an error, for sin entails an arrogance which the idea of error lacks. To sin would be to violate reality, and to succeed. Sin is the proclamation that attack is real and guilt is justified. Sin is the grand illusion underlying all the ego's grandiosity.

A Course in Miracles http://acim.home.att.net/text-19-02.html

Stop everything! Viva Brasil!

STOP ALL WARS!

LET'S WATCH SOCCER.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/scp_v3/viewer/index.php?pid=16891&rn=458044&ch=458046&lang=enf

PERFECTLY IMPERFECT

Listening to my 87 years old father and his young 65 years old ex-colleague talking about the evolvement of different textile machineries in their days. I come to realize that imperfection is our perfect world. All humans did and will do is to keep on improving but never reach perfection.

What has always made the state a hell

on earth has been precisely that man

has tried to make it his heaven.

------- F. Holderlin

Imperfect as it is, as we see in others is actually in us. As imperfect as who we are, it is so perfect.

Prayer to God

Q. "When did you realize that you were God?"

A. "While praying. I realized I was talking to myself."

Change only takes place through action, not through

meditation and prayer. ---The Dali Lama.

Let your child smile

In today's world, people love children. At a school concert, it is the grade one's side acts during the performance which brought smiles to all parents' hearts.

Innocence triumphs over achievements. People overlook the child in themselves. It is their own innocence that is awakening to. It is their own child in their hearts that is smiling. If you still remember what innocence is, that child is still in you.

Love that child? Love the children? Love that child in you instead! Let your innocence emerge again and bring smiles to yourself and others.

See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.

The evil you see, hear and speak is in you. Those evil deeds and evil words are in you. In order to define what evil is, you must first store in you the evil you define.

The evil you see, hear and speak of is not in others. The evil is only reflected through others as you see, hear and speak of.

Free Your Own Children

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Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you.

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls.

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but see not to make them like you.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be gladness.

-------Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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