#NImas-Prophecy

[insomniac-dot-ink]

The City of the Dead

The city of the dead have no mouths to speak with. No minds to form reason. Memories and memories and memories that do not order themselves. In the ruins in the barrens on the edge of the world, skeletons began to walk. No one could answer why the dead rose in one small pocket of the world and forgot to sleep again. 

Holy men, alchemists, kings, and living martyrs all traveled to the great ruins of Makan and watched the walking. Bones that carried broken stones from one edge to the other. Kneeling figures that clapped their hands to an unknown rhythm. Spirits burst from wells and poltergeists flung rotted wood at strangers. Yet, the dead did not speak. They were asked of their names, their families, what led them back from the beyond. What necromancer would do this.

They did not wage war. Nor do they pick up swords. The dead were not peaceful perhaps but neither were they purposeful. Makan was an old city, ancient beyond memory, and deserted once the nearest river was dammed and diverted. They were ruins that hung off a cliffside and turned brilliant red against the rising sun. A place of scholarship and history–until it became something more. 

Bodies rattling, teeth clattering, voices of faded spirits like the wind through craigs and singing through tree branches. Some pilgrims swear the dead call their name when they aren’t looking. Others claim they are watching, judging, deciding who will be pure enough to deserve salvation. Still others say they are empty vessels simply caught on repeat–the same routine daily, weekly, yearly for eternity. A meaningless display turned sensational. 

They were famous after all. A skeleton which pushed a baby carrier down the center road from dawn to dusk named the Mother. The well witch who cackled and splashes anyone that passed. The tower Stranger with one arm and one leg who watched anyone who entered, skull swiveling in place. A ghost that rang the church bells–one that people rumor calls your name if you pass too close. Others say it is not your name, but the name of the person you should marry.

The theories were limitless. A place of unimaginable power and limitless looping. And no one to take credit, rally the armies, or put them to rest. Pilgrims came and went. Queens and princes and priests blessed and cursed the place, tried to burn or drown the inhabitants, claimed ordinance or forbade their citizens to make the trek to the ruins in the barrens on the edge of the world. 

In the second dawn of the God-Priest Amix III, a final pilgrimage was made. A Holy Child had been once more chosen from the masses of orphans found in the priestly empire. Dark-eyed and solemn, they were hand-picked for their docile nature. A toddler given a steady diet of jelly the color of stars and flavor of chilled mint. In other countries, they call it Prophecy Meats and treat it as a rare delicacy and dangerous altering substance. The Holy Child, chosen for endurance or perhaps very little at all, is given this steady diet of Stars until they can see the past and present all at once.

The Holy Child of this generation, a girl no more than eight, had survived her first years of seeing the wars and joys and horrors to come. She was dying, of course, and the attendant-nun had become attached. Sister Grehn was warned against such things. Told to keep her distance and remember their purpose, great and beautiful. Sister Grehn begged and pleaded and said, why not take her to the sea? The mountains? Any place that might help her lungs. Take her to healers of other lands.

She got the city of the dead. Sister Grehn carried the Holy Child, too small for her age and eyes as big as black holes, close. “Would you like to see the well, little one?” The nun whispered. “The funny skeleton pushing the baby carriage?”

The Holy Child, who privately kept her birth name, looked up. Nima, a peasant name, a rabbit name, felt the press against her eye sockets. She gave a long exhale. “Oh,” she said. “Oh. They are like me.”

Sister Grehn held her tightly to her chest, mouth turning into a battle line. No, not here, she thought. Please. 

The Holy Child closed her eyes and whispered, “They are tired.” 

Even eternity has an end and the Holy Child spoke the last words of the city of the dead to her first friend and one she privately called something else. “Mom, the river is not gone. The river is all.”

There are many types of spirits, life beyond life, and memories that do not forget how to rush down the land and twist across stone. The wizards that diverted the mighty river centuries before had used magic, darker stuff to do a simple job, cut corners to avoid the wrath of a king or priest or any other towering sovereign who are all the same. The water moved. The soul went elsewhere. The spirit of the river burst through the ruins of Manak. And tried with all its might to live again.

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Sitting at the back door of the wind sanctuary after school, Níma stares at Eonim's statue and ponders about all the scary dreams she has been having about the chimera and what might be their meaning.

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[pillar-of-pepper]

Clarity is a prophetic nimawa, meaning that she is a human being capable of predicting the future. Nimawa are incredibly rare, and Clara knows no others of her kind. Prophecy is a component of passive magic, referred to as nima, and cannot be performed by an ordinary human due to physiological restraints. Clara's nima resides in her eyes, so her actual eyesight is poor to the point of useless. Her eyes have a distinctive blue glow to them, marking her as a nimawa, so she elects to keep her eyes obscured as often as she can to hide her ability.

Clara enjoys her personal freedom and has a nomadic lifestyle. She's short-tempered and easily gets into fights, which, combined with her aversion to long-term commitment, means she never stays in one place for very long. However, she does have a very stark sense of right and wrong, and she consistantly goes out of her way to protect the weak (usually children, though not always). Her help is rarely appreciated, which she grumbles about, but she goes on with it anyway. Occasionally, these endeavors lead her to the king, which is how she became involved with Prince Alexander and Melanie Fairweather.

[bedlamfoundry]

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[newssplashy]

Prophecy: Afia Schwarzenegger slams pastor for her death prediction

Afia Schwarzenegger has described a pastor as being mentally unstable for stating that she would be bedridden and eventually die like late dancehall Ebony.

Television personality Afia Schwarzenegger has grown wild after a man of God whose name is Stephen in Kumasi predicted her death.

Responding to the prophecy the outspoken comedienne described the pastor as being mentally unstable and slammed him.

According to the pastor Stephen, Afia would be bedridden and eventually die like late dancehall queen Ebony.

In the video which the comedienne shared, she is heard saying, “If some mentally unstable persons are sent to be healed at religious cults and they learn one or two quotations, they start parading themselves as men of God".

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“I heard that some man called Stephen in Kumasi says I will die like Ebony; I will be bedridden and eventually die. What nonsense is that; I know the God that I serve. Does he think my God will look on for me to perish while he rains like “a light pole”? What nonsense is that!”

She further advised the said pastor with the caption

"Next time if God reveals anything about me to you..kindly tell him u are not interested. Because you are not anointed and intelligent to pastor a God fearing a prayerful woman like me...so he should refer it to my pastors. I won't warn any of you again...try me and encounter a warm visit from my aswasi/nima fans. Stop using me to be relevant. FOOLISH MAD MEN OF GOD!!!".

  source https://www.newssplashy.com/2018/07/prophecy-afia-schwarzenegger-slams.html

[jmmgroup-blog]

Is passive investment the next bubble?

Has passive performance peaked? A debate is brewing. Over a bubble forming. No surprise there. There’s always some asset that’s overpriced, or cautioned to be. What’s interesting with this one is that it’s passive investing that is said to be ballooning.

It was but a matter of time that passive investing got it in the neck.

Since 2007, a huge amount of money has been flooding into it. The Financial Times estimates that, over the past decade, investors pulled US$747 billion out of actively managed equity funds – with significantly more than that, $1.65 trillion – put into passively managed equity index funds.

Which means that so-called active fund managers are losing out on fat fees. They’re not the only ones.

Bloomberg is also hurting. Its – very expensive – terminals, providing comprehensive fundamental data to support active trading – are running out of customers.

This is how serious things are: the first time Bloomberg registered a worrying decline in demand for its terminals was 2009, with 20,000 users pulling the plug. The second time was last year, when its number of terminals dropped by 3,145.

And things are bound to get worse if Moody’s is right.

Credit rating agency Moody’s believes that the passive market will become bigger than the active market in the US by 2024.

All this points to passive being a problem. For some. For former monopolies, and aspiring fat cats. So when Ned Davis, of Ned Davis Research, states that passive investment looks done to him (he came out with this just last month) I question the timing, as well as the detail.

One thing’s for sure. The scene is set. All you have to do is grab great seats and a bucket of popcorn then wait for the action. The passive-investing-bashing show is sure to run at a place near you.

But before getting swept up in the frenzy, let’s have a think. I go back to my opening paragraph. A way of investing – a technique, process, or technology, is said to be the overinflated bubble in the making.

But bubbles happen in asset classes, not investment techniques.

Think the dot-com bust of ’90s. Or the US housing bubble of the past decade.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to say the passive process is done. But I do think there will be trouble at some point. Why? Because the choice of what to invest in passively is getting bigger. The niches are getting narrower. This is typical – when there’s appetite, supply comes online with all sorts of options, fads and trend-following offerings. Passive funds included.

The other thing to note is that anything that promises liquidity when the market doesn’t is a problem waiting to happen. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), cited repeatedly as a reason that passive is doomed, epitomise this. ETFs promise you can take your money out whenever you want. This is nigh on impossible when there’s a run on the market.

Cast your minds back to UK-based property funds – that had similar promises – except they barred investors from taking their money out post-Brexit.

Don’t expect money back when you want, at the price you’d like.

It’s certain funds that will go pop. Not the way of investing.

Last week I wrote about robo-advisers. One point made was that they cannot proffer critical thought or insight or figure out that a bubble is forming.

This is why something like ETFs will probably be part of an exploding bubble sooner or later. Not necessarily the reason for the bubble and it bursting, as being touted in the media, but involved nonetheless – as a channelling and multiplying mechanism of some sort, pumped up by the likes of robo-advisers pushing more money into them – precisely because they are doing well. A self-fulfilling prophecy mushrooming.

Yes, passive funds are expanding, yes there’ll be trouble at some point, but I think they’re here to stay.

But because we’re human, there will likely be a scenario where passive play is paused, giving way to a stock-picking renaissance, only to go full circle to passive once we’ve woken up to the insanity of paying overpriced fees for underperforming funds again.

Passive investment is dead – long live active management. As much as many former monopolies would like us to think so, don’t. Passive won’t go pop.

Nima Abu Wardeh describes herself using three words: Person. Parent. Pupil. Each day she works out which one gets priority, sharing her journey on finding-nima.com

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Is passive investment the next bubble? was originally published on JMM Group of Companies

[martinfzimmerman]

Is passive investment the next bubble?

Has passive performance peaked? A debate is brewing. Over a bubble forming. No surprise there. There's always some asset that's overpriced, or cautioned to be. What's interesting with this one is that it's passive investing that is said to be ballooning.

It was but a matter of time that passive investing got it in the neck.

Since 2007, a huge amount of money has been flooding into it. The Financial Times estimates that, over the past decade, investors pulled US$747 billion out of actively managed equity funds - with significantly more than that, $1.65 trillion - put into passively managed equity index funds.

Which means that so-called active fund managers are losing out on fat fees. They're not the only ones.

Bloomberg is also hurting. Its - very expensive - terminals, providing comprehensive fundamental data to support active trading - are running out of customers.

This is how serious things are: the first time Bloomberg registered a worrying decline in demand for its terminals was 2009, with 20,000 users pulling the plug. The second time was last year, when its number of terminals dropped by 3,145.

And things are bound to get worse if Moody's is right.

Credit rating agency Moody's believes that the passive market will become bigger than the active market in the US by 2024.

All this points to passive being a problem. For some. For former monopolies, and aspiring fat cats. So when Ned Davis, of Ned Davis Research, states that passive investment looks done to him (he came out with this just last month) I question the timing, as well as the detail.

One thing's for sure. The scene is set. All you have to do is grab great seats and a bucket of popcorn then wait for the action. The passive-investing-bashing show is sure to run at a place near you.

But before getting swept up in the frenzy, let's have a think. I go back to my opening paragraph. A way of investing - a technique, process, or technology, is said to be the overinflated bubble in the making.

But bubbles happen in asset classes, not investment techniques.

Think the dot-com bust of '90s. Or the US housing bubble of the past decade.

I don't think it's reasonable to say the passive process is done. But I do think there will be trouble at some point. Why? Because the choice of what to invest in passively is getting bigger. The niches are getting narrower. This is typical - when there's appetite, supply comes online with all sorts of options, fads and trend-following offerings. Passive funds included.

The other thing to note is that anything that promises liquidity when the market doesn't is a problem waiting to happen. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), cited repeatedly as a reason that passive is doomed, epitomise this. ETFs promise you can take your money out whenever you want. This is nigh on impossible when there's a run on the market.

Cast your minds back to UK-based property funds - that had similar promises - except they barred investors from taking their money out post-Brexit.

Don't expect money back when you want, at the price you'd like.

It's certain funds that will go pop. Not the way of investing.

Last week I wrote about robo-advisers. One point made was that they cannot proffer critical thought or insight or figure out that a bubble is forming.

This is why something like ETFs will probably be part of an exploding bubble sooner or later. Not necessarily the reason for the bubble and it bursting, as being touted in the media, but involved nonetheless - as a channelling and multiplying mechanism of some sort, pumped up by the likes of robo-advisers pushing more money into them - precisely because they are doing well. A self-fulfilling prophecy mushrooming.

Yes, passive funds are expanding, yes there'll be trouble at some point, but I think they're here to stay.

But because we're human, there will likely be a scenario where passive play is paused, giving way to a stock-picking renaissance, only to go full circle to passive once we've woken up to the insanity of paying overpriced fees for underperforming funds again.

Passive investment is dead - long live active management. As much as many former monopolies would like us to think so, don't. Passive won't go pop.

Nima Abu Wardeh describes herself using three words: Person. Parent. Pupil. Each day she works out which one gets priority, sharing her journey on finding-nima.com

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[nimasprophecy]

Given the recent spread of transphobia in this platform I will no longer post excerpts or art here. My main blog will remain active until further notice but if you still wanna read my stuff here is where to find it:

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[tissa-the-artista]

Níma amidst the hydrangeas.

Any of these days I gotta do a remake of this. This is one of my favorite drawings of Níma!

[tissa-the-artista]

Ázu and the red koi

Ázu ponders about life while submerged in water and fish. Níma is also there in the corner judging him.

Sligtly inspired by a scene in mononoke hime.

[tissa-the-artista]

Veeeeery old concept art of Curuno riding a giant paca.

This thing is so old her cape isn'y even green yet and I still signed my works with "by Tissa". Please do not ever flip this drawing or I will die.

[tissa-the-artista]

Old drawing of Ázu i still like.

Don't get fooled by the cool pose though, he is a absolute dumbass.

[tissa-the-artista]

Curuno through The NIght

Concept art of my OC Curuno exploring the surroundings of the apprentice ranger's dormitory at night.

[tissa-the-artista]

Old concept art of my OC Níma wearing the green cape ranger's uniform and exploring the great forest. This design of the uniform is already outdated though.

[tissa-the-artista]

A old drawing of my OC Níma I still like to get my art tag started.

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Bad Girl Afu

She is your local trouble maker teen in the Maumarúna fortress! She and Níma bump heads quite often in the beginning of the story but later they learn to get along.

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