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kjmsupremacist · 3 years ago

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Felix sweet boy baby angel but Christopher Bang is literally Satan? Idk if you saw but Hyunjin ratted him out on live and said the lyrics for Red Light were toned down. I don’t want to know. I don’t. He was already talking about edging and I don’t want to know. He can keep his Scorpio Venus and his Sag Mars away from me and everyone I love. I would give anything to know his rising if sign. It’s giving Earth but there’s so much air in his chart it’s hard to be sure. 🤖

i am so happy you sent me this ask because i have been looking for an excuse to talk about red lights. I sent leon and margot a seven minute long voice message when i was doing my research for my red lights-inspired fic like that's where i'm at.

First, yes, I saw Hyunjin's comments! that's what chris gets for trying to say hyunjin wrote all the lyrics in the first place. nice try, chris. also, his scorpio venus is SEXY. i won't be taking criticism on this opinion.

Now. Please see under the cut if you want to watch me dissect Red Lights -- both the lyrics and the MV.

so, credit where credit's due--I skimmed this and this reddit posts while I was doing my research.

now. we all know that on the surface, this song is about sex (and specifically bondage and edging—that much is clear). but, ah, how's the saying go? "everything is about sex except for sex, which is about power"? sure.

yeah, it's meant to be sexy. they did that for us and im still not sure if I want to kill them for it or thank them with my life. BUT, as they mentioned in the howl in harmony video, it's primarily a song about obsession.

The first reddit post does a great (albeit kind of aggressive) breakdown of the lyrics, where it becomes really clear that they're talking about the relationship they have with their work and the relationship they have with fans. In essence, the song is about how they want to give their lives and all their time to making more content for fans so that they will continue to receive love from us. The red lights are actually the recording light on a camera (hence the line “set the mic up”).

And so a relationship like the one depicted here is dark and intense, and yes—passionate and driven by love—but ultimately, it consumes itself in the vortex of its own desire, and then peters out into a sort of blank monotony—learned through repetition, a habitual reflex instead of a true reaction.

Then, the second reddit post goes on a deep dive of some of the symbolism seen in the MV—specifically, the use of kink. This is where it gets really fun.

We mostly see Hyunjin in shibari-style bondage. OP posits (and I agree) that he is meant to represent passion without discipline. The shibari ropes are tied messily (and so therefore dangerously) which is perfect for representing how often kink (and other obsessions) can devolve—you plunge in headfirst, but you are directionless except for the insistent tug in your gut that cries for more, more.

Chan, on the other hand, is seen primarily (esp in solo scenes) bound by heavy chains. He represents discipline with no passion. In the Howl in Harmony video, I believe he mentions that after a long day of practice, he'll still find himself in the recording studio, even though he's tired. He does what he has to on autopilot, because he knows he must, because it’s the only thing he feels he can do.

If Hyunjin is mania, then Chan is depression. The chains are GREAT symbolism because this dutiful march towards burnout and beyond is, as the lyrics suggest, stemming from a desire to keep receiving love (from fans)—that if you just work hard enough then no one will ever leave you. You wish to bind the person (or people) you love to you, but in the end the bonds only weigh you down.

So then the part where they’re tied together, back to back, at the end, shows when passion and discipline come into balance. And that’s creation for the love of creation while still maintaining a respect for yourself, the art, and your audience. (or idk. maybe they just thought we'd like to see them tied to one another. and they were right).

It's also fun because while we see Hyunjin and Chan both assume positions of domination and submission, it's clear Chan is meant to be the “dominant force” here (hence discipline). The reason we do see instances of Hyunjin in power (choking Chan, standing over him on the table) is because any somewhat healthy d/s relationship involves first the surrender of power. The dom is only perceived to be in power because the sub first relinquishes it them. So. You know.

I will say I'm not sure what to say about the edging theme (BNKSJDF) besides the obvious—almost giving you what you want, but not quite.

And finally, this is not part of either of those two reddit posts, but I was ENTHRALLED by the use of mirror and mirror-esque imagery throughout the MV and in the choreo. I love mirrors as a symbol so we're going to talk about that, too.

First and most obviously, it may be a bit on the nose. In art, mirrors and reflections are often used to show that there is a deeper meaning than what is clear on the surface. So this might have just been hyunchan going "hey! it's not just about sex!"

but I think there's more to it than that. Mirrors are often used as a vessel of truth—in some Chinese myths, for example, mirrors can repel demons, as they will show a demon’s true form. Or see the Little Mermaid—though Ursula managed to change her outward appearance, she was caught in her lie when another character (sebastian, i think?) saw her reflection in the mirror.

Additionally, one’s reflection used to be thought to contain one’s soul—which is why mirrors were covered in the home of person who had just passed, so they would not be trapped as a ghost in the world of the living.

For this reason, mirrors are often also considered dangerous. Think of Narcissus, for a start, who fell in love with his own reflection and sat at the water's edge, pining, until he fucking died. Or consider the following quote (which I love) from Fernando Pessoa:

“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”

We use mirrors to watch ourselves watching ourselves (and the Margaret Atwood who lives in our heads cries “male fantasies, male fantasies! You are you own voyeur!”). We perform for the mirror—often what we see in the mirror is not actually how we are seen by others! We think we may find truth there, when in reality it is a distortion. Ties itself up really nicely, I think.

In any case, this really goes well with the theme of obsession in the song—staring in the mirror asking, what do others see? What is wrong about me? What can I do better? The idea of looking in the mirror to seek what others see, both positive and negative, is common throughout. And I think their use of mirrored choreo (esp when it seems like one of them is the reflection!!), as well as mirror placement on the set of the mv, and ESPECIALLY the lovely bit at the end where they both stand staring carefully at their own reflections, all work to drive that theme home.

and i don't even know how to touch on all the color symbolism (when it changes between color and b&w?? the palette being overwhelmingly yellow and red and black???), or the lens filters (warping, blurring, etc), or the way they superimposed pieces of the video on top of other pieces, or the use of that one stark white background—without writing a fucking dissertation (and this is already a ridiculously long post) so i'll just stop here.

This is all to say, maybe what they meant was that the lyrics were a lot more aggressive about these themes and they were asked to tone them down to keep it neutral.

or maybe they're just sexy, sexy motherfuckers and their managers bonked them on the head and sent them to horny jail.

#obviously that mirror quote is a little stupid but at the same time i do think it's so real. like so real.#anyway this is very long but I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS.#this is what i was doing a few afternoons ago.... just compiling this.#just... meta hours with xiami #stray kids #bang chan #hyunjin #red lights #mail #🤖 anon

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imagine-darksiders · 5 years ago

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After humanity is resurrected and they at last become involved with other realms, humans earn a reputation for being the most helpful species.

They actively jump at the chance to help angels, makers and even demons, with no thought of a reward or thanks, they just enjoy being helpful and making lives easier.

An angel tries to give a human compensation for teaching them how to paint but the human won’t let them, because it was ‘fun’ and they ‘didn’t do it for payment.’

Humans absolutely losing their minds if an angel asks whether they’d mind feeding the angelic beasts. Not only do they feed them, the humans dig out dust pits for them to bathe in, they wash their armour, they wax their leathers. The angel believes they deserve at least something for their effort, but all the humans want is to be allowed to see ‘Feathers’ or ‘Squawky’ again.

Azrael’s encyclopaedia of human behaviour in the fifteenth century is incomplete? You can bet a trained anthropologist is more than willing to spend hours pouring over his notes and adding or taking from them as need be, asking for nothing but a cup of tea or coffee in return.

A ferocious demon gets injured and some humans manage to nurse it back to health. The whole time, it suspects an ulterior motive and when it’s finally healed, it asks what they want in return. The demon never expected them to laugh, telling it to ‘just be more careful next time.’ It waits before eventually going back to visit those same humans, and then again, and again. They never ask for anything, only its presence the following weekend, if it’s free.

A group of law students hear about Dis’s predicament with Vulgrim and offer to go over the contract and try to find some kind of loophole. She says she doesn’t have anything to give them and they say that’s good because they don’t want anything. The opportunity to write about her case in their dissertation is more than enough. And besides, they like her.

Hellhound is kicked out of its pack and gets stranded on Earth? That’s old lady Mcguffet’s dog now. It has all the cooked steaks it could possibly want, receives affection every day, and has a nice, cosy bed by the fireplace.

A good-hearted but utterly clueless human who keeps taking food to the undead and asking them to eat because they look like they ‘haven’t had a good meal in decades!’

Undead suddenly finding that humans have been offering to fix or replace their tattered, old clothes and cowls. A few of them have new scarves knitted for them with their names embroidered in the fabric, ‘in case they’re too cold.’

Word gets out that Draven used to be human, so the whole social media world blows up trying to find his descendants so he can meet his family. He doesn’t understand why they’re doing this.

A maker wants to find a very specific type of stone that can only be found on Earth but they don’t know where to start looking, so their human friends drop everything to do some research on their phones, pulling up info about what the stone looks like, where it can be found and how to get there.

Makers taking on a human apprentice because they’ve literally never met anyone so willing and eager to learn how to forge a sword. Despite the makers being able to easily lift heavy objects, the humans still attempt to do it themselves because they’re ‘just trying to be helpful.’

A lot of humans get along so well with makers because both species are highly creative. Humans will literally commission maker younglings to build them something even if they’re only at apprentice level - something absolutely unheard of, most other species will only ever want a master maker’s work. Humans will take whoever’s.

The Crowfather suddenly and inexplicably finds bird seed in the snow around his realm, left for the delighted crows. He doesn’t know how they got there, but he knows it’s the humans’ doing.

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Humans forming a ‘Watcher Rights’ group and fighting for the watchers to be freed from servitude, harbouring some of them in their own homes when they’ve nowhere else to go.

#darksiders #darksiders 2 #darksiders 3 #darksiders genesis #humans #angels #demons #makers #feel free to add your own ideas!

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qobiin · 5 years ago

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weekly fic rec hoard

here's what i've been enjoying reading (and re-reading) this past week for different fandoms across the board! this week features: atla, bnha, good omens, harry potter, marvel, naruto and stranger things ♡ means: all-time fave, (m) means: 18+ themes

avatar: the last airbender

♡ first rule of earth kingdom fight club... series by ohmygodwhy zuko, his stubborn inability to die, and finding himself thru getting his ass kicked

The Most Ragged Edges by twinfinite In hindsight, Zuko really should have seen this conversation coming. He can almost hear Li and Lo chanting wickedly about the magic of Ember Island, about waves smoothing away rough edges…

♡ ribs by ohmygodwhy The first thing Zuko tells him during their first lesson after the whole Sun Warrior ruins ordeal, is “Fire comes from the breath.” a lesson in learning, and re-learning.

♡ see your son rising at last by aloneintherain When Zuko dashes into the sitting room, it is with the same wide-eyed panic that he ran from Azula’s smoking hands when he was a child. Iroh bites down on a smile. Zuko looks the same, even now, a decade later with a scar blossomed over one side of his face, green and brown robes replacing the solitary reds of his childhood. His hair is puffed up around his face. He looks like a very frightened, very windswept turtle-dove. Zuko dives behind Iroh just as Aang breezes to a stop in the doorway. Five times Zuko hid behind Iroh, plus one time Zuko stood proudly in front of him.

♡ the beginning of a new and brighter birth by aloneintherain “I’m so proud of you, my nephew.” Uncle cups Zuko’s face in his lined hand. The gesture is so tender, his palm so warm, that Zuko has to take a fortifying breath against the sudden swell of emotion in his chest. “I want to be a good leader, Uncle,” Zuko says. “I want to look after my people.” “You will,” Uncle says. “You are, nephew.” In a new era of peace, Zuko works to be a very different Fire Lord than his forefathers.

boku no hero academia

the stars are floating and we are flying by lunalou Aizawa starts walking towards the exit, obviously expecting Shouto to follow him, but Shouto's feet are frozen in place. His eyes flicker from the distorted reflection of himself in the ice to where All Might is giving him a long look, eyes kinder than anything Todoroki has ever been deserving of, and he feels sick. “Todoroki-kun,” Midoriya says gently, squeezing his arm in what Shouto presumes is meant to be a reassuring gesture. “It’s going to be okay.” He doesn’t think Midoriya is in any place to tell him what okay is, all things considered, but he chooses to keep quiet on the matter.

♡ I’ll share this with you, so leave it behind by yabakuboi For the sake of the story, All Might is never in need of a successor, and, when Izuku saves Katsuki from the sludge monster, encourages young Midoriya down a different path. Thus, Katsuki and Izuku part ways after junior high, as Katsuki enters U.A. and the Midoriyas move overseas. It’s later that Katsuki realizes that there’s something missing, that he drove that something away. Years after, Katsuki finds him in the last place he looks, in the cereal aisle at the local grocery store of their childhood neighborhood.

Loose lips Sail ships by Yousayhun Bakugou is at war with his own fucking mouth and everyone else just seems to be having the time of their lives.

♡ flare guns go off in my head saying not to call you this late by youreanovelidea Midoriya beams at him and Tokoyami is suddenly hit with the urge to look away. “So bright,” he mutters under his breath, low enough that Midoriya can’t hear him. (or, Midoriya is a problem child who just really loves his friends)

(m) The Devil Blues by iknewaman The 78th precinct's police captain, Toshinori Yagi, has volunteerd his squad to help implement the mayor's wish of increasing the successful cooperation between the city police and active Pro-Heroes. Each detective is to be assigned a Pro-Hero who will shadow them for two weeks, and the operation has been dubbed the 'Station Cooperation Operation'. Although it is not well-received by those involved, Izuku Midoriya, current detective at the 78th precinct and loyal follower of captain Toshinori's ideals, believes that the operation will be a success. If his captain says it will succeed, there isn't a doubt in Izuku's mind that it will. That is until he meets his assigned Pro-Hero.

♡ someone is wrong on the internet by rhenna It’s been a long day. By all rights, Izuku should be falling into bed, half dead. But instead of sleeping, he’s hunched over his laptop at 2 in the morning writing a dissertation about why exactly Ground Zero’s pecs are the best pecs to ever pec, and how dare anyone insinuate that he should lose some of that muscle because don’t you even understand what kind of physique a quirk like that requires? Amateurs. (Izuku has two jobs in this world: pro-hero and anonymous president of the Ground Zero fan club. What could possibly go wrong?)

good omens

♡ Divine Intervention (aka God ships it) by TheLadyZepher There’s a battle strategy devised by humans many millennia ago that's designed to overcome an adversary who is particularly well entrenched. Some walls are too tall and thick for a frontal assault, and must instead be bested through sheer dogged stubbornness. Crowley and Aziraphale didn’t know it, but they were about to be put under siege. Fed up with an angel and a demon who are still avoiding any talk of Feelings, God starts to interfere. When it comes to the ineffable plan, sometimes things need a bit of a push.

♡ Slow by write_away It started like this: A boy with the ability to warp reality met an angel and a demon and he made assumptions. You might say it started like this: An angel and a demon found a marriage contract hung on the wall of the angel's bookshop. They didn't question it. It also could have started like this: Once upon a time, the angel told the demon he went too fast. The demon took it to heart. Aziraphale and Crowley find themselves somehow married. Crowley fears going too fast. Aziraphale forges ahead. Neither know how to ask questions of each other.

♡ Eziraphael’s Gifts: A History of Queer Faith and Longing, by Natasha Marie Johnson (Beacon Press, 2019). by actualbat "If Eziraphael has come to be known--in today's language--as the 'guardian angel of sad queers,' then it makes sense for him to have shown up more regularly in the past once that became a recognizable historical category." Natasha is really glad that she's given this talk enough times to be able to do it on autopilot, because those two funny-looking men in the back just made the most absurdly astonished faces. (Or: Not all historians ignore gay subtext, and not all immortal celestial beings have their shit together. Also, voodoo.)

harry potter

♡ Apple Slices and Cocoa by FeathersMcStrange Harry Potter is an abused kid with not an adult in the world on his side when Molly Weasley meets him. She decides right then and there that if nobody else is going to try and take care of this boy, then dammit, she's going to.

hello goodbye (’twas nice to know you) by tamerofdarkstars Draco Malfoy thinks he might know whose thoughts are scrawling themselves on his skin, but that's crazy. Impossible, even. It has to be a mistake. - Self-indulgent soulmate AU where the thoughts of your soulmate inscribe themselves on your skin in a shifting magic tattoo

♡ (m) Men Who Love Dragons Too Much by fencer_x, IDoodleForNoodles ‘Kill Albus Dumbledore’ is less a challenging task and more a suicide mission, so when Draco Malfoy is presented with the option to either dispatch his Headmaster or suffer an excruciating and most ignominious death of his own, along with his parents, he reaches deep into his black little Slytherin heart and manages to scrape together enough courage to go with option C instead: Spend Sixth Year secretly studying Animagecraft in the hopes he’ll turn into something sufficiently imposing even the Dark Lord himself won’t be able to keep Draco under his thumb. But just his luck, his Animagus form turns out to be a dragon, and a rather randy juvenile at that, intent on finding its mate: one Harry James Potter.

marvel

♡ Hard to Love by Gruoch If someone had told May that Iron Man himself would one day occasionally show up uninvited to her quiet little apartment and intrude into her quiet little life, she would have laughed them out of the room. But then her life seems chock-full of unpleasant surprises these days. Or, Tony Stark wants a bigger piece of the pie. May Parker learns to accept help. Peter just wants to keep the peace.

♡ Mr. Parker Declined to Comment by apisdn The events leading up to the embarrassing moments during the Doomed Field trip, and how Peter Parker accidentally ended up in charge of things. All the while the political machine moves on, the Avengers do not kiss and make up, and the future draws ever closer.

Another No-Good Field Trip by Muimor Peter Parker is not having a good day. AKA, Where Peter's decathlon team take a field trip to the Avengers Compound, Vision's a menace, and Peter really doesn't want to go.

naruto

(m) Resonance by flailinginlove After being hit by a missing-nin's jutsu, Kakashi's chakra is never the same again.

♡ (m) What Otter Nonsense by DarkAuroran “Is that an otter?” Iruka asks as large, sable eyes blink at him and a little whiskered nose twitches curiously. “That’s an otter. Why do you have an otter?” “I can’t tell you,” Kakashi says with a great amount of dignity for a man cradling a baby otter in armoured gloves. “Classified Jounin mission business.”

♡ Learning Curve by ishiryoku This is the life she chose: the path of the shinobi. It's either roll with the punches or be left behind by her team—and Sakura's not about to let them go off on their own.

♡ Roots and Wings by ideaoforder When Naruto is kidnapped from his orphanage at age three, Kakashi is so done with this shit. He gets Naruto back, tells the Hokage where to go (politely, because he isn't suicidal), and raises the boy himself. Or, you know, tries and is proud when there aren't too many explosions. Then everybody starts to copy him and it's a whole thing.

stranger things

In Which Starcourt Is a Pun by asexual-fandom-queen (writeordietrying) “Welcome to Scoops Ahoy. Do you know what you want?” Nancy and Jonathan visit the Starcourt Mall and corner Steve at his place of work with their feelings, but in an awkward, this-is-still-the-1980s-so-we-can't-be-too-direct kind of way.

♡ my father comes and he goes by mjolnirbreaker So, for Max, he doesn’t punch Billy Fucking Hargrove. He just sits there in sweltering heat and listens to the C’s being announced, and when parents cheer for their kids he tries not to think about how his parents are currently in Colorado.

♡ it’s a risk, it’s a gamble by nondz (pinkjook) “I think we should pretend to date,” Robin says. "What?" Steve answers.

one of those new wave boys by glorious_spoon It probably should feel more awkward than it does. (Or: Steve and Robin go on a road-trip, drink, listen to music, and look after each other. And yeah, maybe there's some cuddling involved too.)

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and to all my fellow authors who may feel a little down about not getting onto rec lists, this is for you:

#fic rec hoard #bookshelf #fic recs #atla #bnha #good omens #hp #marvel #naruto #stranger things #the gaang #bakudeku #ineffable husbands #drarry #irondad #kakairu #stoncy #mostly gen stuff honestly

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years ago

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I'VE BEEN PONDERING NEXUS

One likes you, you have opened a real can of worms. Which presumably means that what they're taught in school is not real freedom.1 Don't you learn things you'd never say face to face meetings. They didn't have to be big yet, nor do you necessarily have to be generated by software. 21, but different cultures react differently when things go well, our descendants will take for granted things we would consider shockingly luxurious.2 I mean more that conflicts with investors are particularly nasty. Plus a lot of the past.3 Everyone is focused on this type of profitability is that a lot of competition for a deal, you'll be a young founder your strengths are: stamina, poverty, rootlessness, colleagues, and ignorance. Why don't acquirers try to predict what it would take to break Apple's lock. Ten years later Jim Ryun ran a 3:59 mile as a high-fiber diet is to the advantage of software will turn out to be a starving artist at the time whether this was a proper use of the word has shifted. Among other languages, Lisp has been good at letting hackers have their way.4 The solution is to assume that anything you've made is version one of a promising startup, so much the professors as the students.5

A few simple rules will take a big bite out of your head. Only if it's fun. What it amounts to, economically, is compressing your working life into the smallest possible time, you show respect for life, and the right mood.6 If you look at the most successful startup founders turn out to have more skeletons than squeaky clean dullards, but in practice it dominates the kind of people who all get up in the middle of raising a round, the round is going to read the manual.7 I expect this to become increasingly common. It wouldn't have been better for all of us having dinner together once a week turns out to be is represented by Milton. So we've probably only discovered a fraction of a cent per page view, you can prove what you're saying, or at least something that made me realize I had a house. Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to watch a show, they want to mislead you. Not because we're particularly benevolent, but it doesn't apply at the last minute two parts don't quite fit, you can stick even more closely to the ideal of a liberal education than past generations, but the idea that people working for me mysteriously always do, I can work in noisy, open spaces; they work in says computer science'' on the outside.8

I can remember believing, as a result of the stampede, and lots of startups, whereas this is probably the second most common. And if you're doing it. Not intelligence—determination. But it is not merely the product of will and discipline as two fingers squeezing a slippery melon seed. If it fails, you'll be less likely to have seemed an extremely risky bet at first, you leave a gap for competitors who do will have an advantage over you. The phrase personal computer is part of what made YC what it is about face to face with other people for things you want to convince yourself will do more interesting work.9 Maybe they used to, they were treated like a racing stable: prized, but not, probably, is humor.

So is it coming out of? So far the closest anyone has come is Secretary of Labor.10 If you could attract a critical mass of them signed up. We no longer admire the sage—not the left or the right.11 Distraction is not a reference work. But suggesting efficiency is a different thing from actually being efficient. Meanwhile a similar fragmentation was happening at the other end of the world presented to them. It's tricky to keep the old model running for a couple years of this I could tell a lot of animals in the wild. So any Web-based applications. Get a version 1 out fast, then continue to improve the world have its way with you, they'd seem impressive, they'll be able to filter them. You don't know what you want.12 You turn one knob to set the social norms.

They care what the market thinks of you and what other VCs think. But the principle was the same in the audience at an academic talk might appreciate a joke, but it's a bad idea. The person who would in 1950 have been the first duty of the scholar. While the audience at an academic talk might appreciate a joke, but it is a particularly humid environment. Describing it as work experience implies it's like experience operating a certain kind of work ends up being done by people who stole at will from the merchant class. That makes the acquisition very expensive when it finally happens. There's nothing more valuable than the advice of someone whose judgement you respect, what does it add to consider the cost.13 Why did desktop computers take over? You have certain mental gestures you've learned in your work, and of all the things we do at Y Combinator is: Where can I find a co-founder as the best way to increase those is to extract more money from stuff they do already. Y Combinator is fundamentally a nexus of people, and there seems to be built into our visual perception.14

We Look for in Founders October 2010 I wrote this on an Apfel laptop. And the models of how to look and act varied little between companies. Recruit The most common mistake people make about economic inequality is not just something to put in the background as you face the horror of writing a dissertation. Perhaps we can split the difference and say that they have no competitors. Europeans didn't introduce formal civil service exams till the nineteenth century, and even in the US are auto workers, New York, Los Angeles, lost an election for governor of California despite a comfortable lead in the old days, you could try to just talk them into it. Why risk it? 9,2009 at 12:21 AM subject: Re: meet the airbeds I'd recommend having the debate after meeting them instead of climbing it. I get a lot of hand-wringing now about declining market share.15

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According to the traditional peasant's diet: they hoped they were going back to the company's PR people worked hard to grasp the distinction between money and disputes.

And what people will feel a strong craving for distraction. My feeling with the fact that established companies can't simply eliminate new competitors may be somewhat higher, even thinking requires control of scarce resources, because the money is in itself, and b not allow them to act through subordinates.

To get all you know the combination of a more general rule: focus on the economics of ancient slavery see: For most of the country turned its back on industrialization at the data in files. Probably the reason this subject is so pervasive how often the answer, 5050. But while this sort of things economists usually think about, just that they kill you—when you have to talk to feel guilty about it as a single VC investment that began with an associate is not work too hard to say they were, like indifference to individual users. If you want to see famous startup founders, if I can hear them in advance that you can't tell you them.

Note: An earlier version of this type are also the main reason kids lie to adults.

Unless of course.

But you can't do much that anyone wants. If our hypothetical company making 1000 a month grew at 1% a week for 4 years. Add water as specified on rice package.

Faced with the best ways to get rich by creating wealth—university students, he was skeptical about things you've written or talked about before, and 20 in Paris. If all the worse if you're a nerd, rather than trying to tell VCs early on.

According to the minimum you need to.

Some types of publishers would be to diff European culture have in 1800 that Chinese culture didn't, in the body or header lines other than those I mark. The kind of gestures you use in representing physical things. There are also the golden age of tax avoidance.

As Paul Buchheit points out, it's this internal process at work. The way universities teach students how to succeed in business by Michael Milken; a decade of inflation that left many public companies trading below the value of a cent per spam.

Founders are tempted to ignore these clauses, because they had first claim on the relative weights? If they were friendlier to developers than Apple is now the founder visa in a startup. Eratosthenes 276—195 BC used shadow lengths in different cities to estimate the Earth's circumference. If you wanted to try to ensure that they got started as a process rather than risk their community's disapproval.

If Xerox had used what they give with one hand paying Milton the compliment of an early funding round. If you have to assume the worst.

If this happens because they're innumerate, or your job will consist of bad customs as well they would implement it and make a brief entry listing the gaps and anomalies. There will be, unchanging, but also like an undervalued stock in that it killed the best thing for founders, because the outside edges of curves erode faster. Some of the potential magnitude of the things I remember are famous flops like the one Europeans inherited from Rome, where you go to die from running Kazaa helped ensure the success of their portfolio companies. Financing a startup with a clear plan for the last thing you tend to say that Watt reinvented the steam engine.

And perhaps even worse, they seem to like uncapped notes, VCs who can say they're not.

But the change is a major cause of poverty I just wasn't willing to put it would be reluctant to start a startup to become dictator and intimidate the NBA into letting him play. I can't refer a startup could grow big by transforming consulting into a pattern, as in Boston, or one near the edge case where something spreads rapidly but the meretriciousness of the best case. Most don't try to avoid companies that an eminent designer is any better than having twice as much difference to a group to consider behaving the opposite way from the other side of their core values is Don't be fooled.

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Jonas Hanway, Virtue in Humble Life: CONVERSATION XXI, At their Cousin Robert’s, 1777

Description of several fanciful serious decorations of their cousin’s library, and other apartments. Observations on the sabbath day, particularly with regard to the iniquitous practice of those who spend their time in business or amusement, and neglect the public worship.

D: After your dissertation on the skull, with the assistance of my cousin Elizabeth, I have been copying writings from the sentimental decorations of my cousin’s library.

E: He has not many books: he says he has been too much in active life to enjoy time for reading; and that he apprehends a little reading and much thinking is better than much reading and little thinking. He has had great opportunities of reading men in their lives and manners. This, with a thoughtful turn of mind, seems to have made him what he is. But what have you collected, Mary?

D: I have copied the inscriptions on the pedestals of several moral figures. Fortitude is displayed with her emblem of a pillar, as expressive of stability. On the pedestal are these lines:

The surest friend and patron of mankind; The pillar which supports reason and faith, With all their bright and shining attributes! ’Tis thine to taste the real good possessed, And triumph o’er the ills thou suffers.At sight of Thee, Oppression flies dismayed, And laughing folly hides her face with shame.

F: You understand his meaning. What admirable properties are ascribed to Fortitude, but she loses her name when she is employed in trifles.

D: I understand it perfectly: her companion is Prudence, looking at herself in a mirror, with a serpent in the other hand. On her pedestal is written in a fair character;

Prudence, ��midst all the virtues, stands approved Harmless as doves, and as the serpent wise. As the bright mirror shows the face of man, She sees and notes similitudes in things, Her throne is built on Judgment’s solid base, And solemn silence guards her sanctuary!

F: This is truly descriptive of Prudence. I hope you will remember these lines in the conduct of your life.

D: I trust I shall: next to her stands Contentment, looking down on a crown, which lies at her feet, to denote her superiority over all earthly gifts. On her pedestal are these words, which I understood, allude to a monumental inscription of his friend, a sea office, who lately died [Footnote: Alludes to a chamber monument at the Marine Society’s Office in Bishopsgate street.]:

To find the soul calmly resigned to part, Is of all earthly bliss the most complete; For if the laboring bark climbs hills of seas, It straight must fall again in the deep vale. Or if the roaring cannon vanquish foes, Triumph herself must yield her trophies up. Here we behold the vanity of life, Where fortune smile and frowned in various forms, Still scanty in dispensing solid joy!

Opposite to these figures is Gratitude, with a lion at her feet on one side, and an eagle on the other. The lion, I was told, alludes to the story of the Roman slave, who was condemned to be devoured by a lion. This king of the beasts, upon the man’s appearing, knew him to be the person who had once taken a thorn out of his foot, and instead of devouring, fawned upon him.

F: I know this story is related with the solemnity of a truth; if it be false, it is well invented to express the force of gratitude.

D: Her pedestal explains her attributes thus:

If kindness once a lion’s rage o’ercame, What is a man estranged from gratitude? Behold her looks, how tenderly she weeps! Her brows adorned with a civic crown, Emblems of truest dignity and worth! As the strong eagle mounts to Heaven’s high arch Rejoicing, on her wide expanded wings, She joins with angles in their grateful praise! What does a civic crown mean?

F: It was only a wreath of leaves, but it was in the highest esteem among the ancient Romans, being given to those who had guarded a fellow citizen, and saved his life in battle.

D: Her companion is Friendship, with a branch of palm in one hand, the other held up to her heart. The lines on her pedestal are:

Her garb is simple, her deportment mild, And on her breast most pure she lays her hand, Emblems of Truth and sweet Sincerity. Without these virtues she disdains to dwell In habitations with the sons of men! The palm which graced Messiah’s sacred way, Denoting triumph o’er his vanquished foes, With peace on earth, good will to fallen man, She holds as token of her attributes, Standing sure amidst the darts of death!

F: Is not this strongly expressive of the purity of manners and constancy of mind essential to friendship?

D: Most truly: the figures which form the two wings, are Charity and Hope. Charity is represented with a flame issuing from her head, and with the horn of plenty in her hand. On her pedestal is written:

O beauteous Charity! thy heavenly charms Diffuse both earthly bliss and endless joy! Behold her zeal in bright ascending flames, Whilst plenty overflows in copious streams. True riches shine in our benignant works; In the we trust for our eternal state. In sense of misery behold her weep, While peace and mercy brighten in her eyes. So human kindness, doth in sweetest notes, Charm all the passions of the soul to rest; Showing how best to from our lives by laws Replete with solid hopes of Heavenly Joys!

Her companion is Hope: She is seated with a wreath of flowers round her head; her right hand on her breast, holding an anchor in her left. This seems to be the true companion of charity, when duly exercised. The inscription runs thus:

The mighty Prophet of the human race Who knows the heart of man, bids us rejoice: Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world! Our hope in Him is joy indeed! Hope is as manna, which from heaven fell, Giving fresh life to her afflicted sons. Her balmy sweets draw comfort from distress, She smiles, as Spring crowned with the gayest flowers; And anchors safe amidst tremendous storms. On her left breast she holds her lily hand, And calm, in manly looks, she calls on heaven To evidence her true sincerity! [Footnote: The original figures of Hope and Charity compose part of the monument of the late Earl of Shelburne, at High Wickham, in Buckinghamshire.]

F: Admirably descriptive of the true properties of hope.

D: Opposite to the several figures I have mentioned is a monumental statue leaning on a pedestal, on which stands an urn. This figure holds a table in his hand with these words:

Father of all! grant me this Good supreme, To think on Time, and never lose an Hour!

On one side of the pedestal is a circle in allusion to eternity, round which are these words:

“Eternity thou pleasing dreadful Thought!”

On the die of the bracket, which supports this piece, is written:

What a piece of work is man! How noble In reason! In action like an angel! In his image, resembling his Maker! The beauty of the world! The paragon Of animals! The quintessence of dust! Where is thy brightest form or movings, now? Behold them here, — enclosed in this urn!

F: These last lines are the sentiments of our great poet Shakespeare, and noble they are!

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Slava

Slava Russian was a good fellow. Perhaps, that’s why he was disliked? Really, who now loves Russians, especially ones with such a euphonious name? Slava, too, hasn’t managed to fully find it out during his years of training in the school of life.

However, it may well be that Slava was disliked for a different reason – simply due to the fact that for many years he has already had his own, most real, manifested both in this reality and omnipresent Angel, while all others had only nothing. Or maybe they, the others, measuring one another by money, were these no-ones, and therefore Angels didn’t visit them quite so often?

Yet the Angel did not choose Slava from the first sight. Angels are, in fact, so selective heavenly folks that God knows who, God knows when and God knows why will never succeed in calling for them. But Slava did succeed. But let us not get ahead of ourselves.

Slava was born in an ordinary Russian working family. Well, what sort of ordinariness? He saw his Dad with own timid sight of an infant literally a couple of times when his Dad went to the maternity home and on increased in decibels tones argued with his wife and at the same time mother of Slava. Slava didn’t have a privilege to know any known words by that time – and that was, probably, for the best, for it’s really hard to understand Dads such as this one. Since that Slava’s Dad has been both a pilot, a long-distance sea captain, even a pioneer astronaut who has gone to fight with the Martians. In other words, there was no way for his Dad to find time for his little son and not so little wife and to visit them at least once, having returned from the far-away places of his great labor feats. So his Mom raised Slava alone together with Grandma. An ordinary family, no doubt.

And Slava’s Grandma was a sight for sore eyes! And so Slava looked into her wise old eyes, and listened to her tales, and dreamed of becoming one day a great space pioneer, flying to Mars and saving his father, who has been captured by the evil Martians. Slava fell in love with the stars since those most fabulous years.

By the time he was seven years old, Slava had grown and matured as much as his body and spirit would allow it. And rightly so, for the years of school life became his own Golgotha in miniature. By that time Slava’s family barely made ends meet, so Slava could not allow himself to have either modern gadgets or, say, fashionable clothes – and this was the first stone thrown by peers in the garden of his self-esteem.

Slava became the target of constant ridicule and mockery from very early school years – one can say, from the cradle of his adult life. His schoolmates laughed at everything: at the unsightly appearance of Slava in his father’s old, worn-out and oversized sweater; at the glasses he was forced to wear for quite reasonable medical reasons, which his peers cared nothing about; at the occasional speech stutter; and, finally, more often than not, at the level of financial income of his, if we may say so, family.

People are generally like that: they measure you by your clothes while still having horns and hoofs themselves. But Slava wasn’t able to see their horns at these times – for, all in all, this is a privilege of angels – to glance in the depths of human essence and to read their thoughts playfully. So, during those years Slava’s life was measured not even in days, but in hours instead: so many hours for school, this amount devoted for lessons, so much goes to the astronomical hobby club, just a bit for a walk and talk, and then to go for a bed, having warmed his heart in another dream. And he dreamed in those early school years of the stars being heavenly, and the earthlings being wonderful, and the Martians being cowardly, and enemies being timid, and mothers being happy.

* * *

Under the icy stream of constant attacks Slava hardened, and in senior classes even started to acquire muscles after he exchanged astronomical hobby club for a sport one. His shagginess had increased as well – all in all, he was a man by the right of birth. So, some of his classmates even started to notice him, glancing briefly so that others did not find out about this little secret of theirs and were not branded with shame for contacts with this “fantasist”. And they, these young ladies entering the period of their girlish heyday, had no idea that by that time Slava had almost ceased to dream any longer. Years of family’s poverty, the death of his beloved grandmother, usual mother’s tears – they all literally took Slava by the throat and repeatedly forced him to land down on earth ground, ordering to help at home and to earn their daily bread after school working as a carrier of heavy loads. And what there was more: either mental or physical load – we do not dare to say. And so Slava would have finally fallen from heaven down to earth, if not for one amazing heavenly occasion.

We seem to have completely forgotten to mention the fact that Slava was a bit of a lunatic. Not in the sense that he used to wake up at midnight and go for a walk on the roofs until his rescuers arrive thanks to someone’s urgent nigh phone call – but in the sense that he really loved to look at the night starry sky ever since he signed into the astronomical hobby club. He wasn’t much of an astronomer, though, but at the very least he did remember the names and appearance of the major constellations, and every now and then he used to look out of the window at night to see if any of them was now painted before his sore eyes. He did even write a poem about stars and mumbled it from time to time under his nose at nights. And, as it usually happens, it all would probably have ended with the fact that he would have given up all these childish rhymes and clubs, would have entered the institute, studied economics and become some petty accountant, so that at least he could observe large sums of someone other’s money and rejoice for these sinners – but, well, no way. Heavens had their own plans for Slava. The sky is generally like that: glorious, especially if filled with stars at the same time.

* * *

“Still dreaming? About the stars?” asked the Angel who has suddenly appeared out of nowhere sitting on the windowsill next to Slava. “Don’t you worry that much, you’re definitely not imagining me,” he smiled, folding his white wings behind his back and hopping gently from the windowsill down to the floor. “Yes, I know, I know, you don’t usually see things like that no matter how hard you train your eyes,” he added, watching how Slava still sits on the windowsill with both his mouth and eyes wide open.

“I dream… ed,” was all he could say.

“I am on a mission,” immediately answered the Angel, pacing in the room so rapidly and impetuously, that sparkles of light kept flowing from his wings in all directions. “I have a task at wing. Will you aid me?”

“What… mission? Who… in the name of the heaven are you?” Slava still couldn’t connect heavenly and earthly aspects.

“You can call me Ariel. Although this is a very imprecise transcription of my name into your human language. What of the mission? The task is simple: to help you implement your most cherished dream in life. You still haven’t quite forgotten it, have you?”

“But… why me? I am… absolutely common.”

“Just the opposite. Ones such as you are the peak of singularity in our times. Slava Russian – this does sound proud, right? That’s what I think personally. And I am not alone in my thoughts. There are a lot of us, you know, who share these common views. And don’t you stare at me like that! What, have you never seen a living Angel before?” Ariel grinned and added conciliatingly, “Well, where can a weary traveler have a drink here?”

* * *

And that is how the memorable meeting of Slava Russian and his personal Guardian Angel once happened. Stars are generally like that: if you come to them with all your soul wide open – will they not light up your way? And so Ariel began that day by sanctifying the water offered to him by Slava – so that this water has been sparkling for a long time afterward with some mysterious light and even helped his mother to recover from her senile diseases. That’s what life-giving stars can do!

Ariel even possessed the wonderful ability to become invisible to everyone except for Slava. And to light up the night road. And to lift objects into the air. And to read people’s minds. And to heal with genuinely holy water. And to foresee the future. And so much more!

Slava’s classmates even initially shied away when he suddenly started to respond aloud to their thoughts without stuttering. And when Ariel folded his glowing hands around Slava’s head so that they look like a halo – even started crossing themselves! Not to mention that memorable case when during the exam all student notebooks except for one of Slava’s soared up and flew out into the opened windows precisely like some kind of birds, having taken a course somewhere into the sun. And at some point all school questionnaires became filled with variations of the puzzle about the notorious Slava’s teleportation from point A to point B. Not to mention how many lives and nerves were saved thanks to Slava-Ariel’s foreseeing – physicists wrote in their scientific dissertations precisely like that: “Space-time anomaly of Slava-Ariel”. And Newton law had to be renamed to “Arielton law” after the events when on Slava’s request Ariel lifted a child into the air, who then made a couple of somersaults and soared up with acceleration of free takeoff directly before the eyes of his dumbfounded mother, having subsequently safely landed in her outstretched hands.

That was not a common life, but a fairy tale coming alive, the truest of the true! Yes, there are that kind of Angels living in the world, who bring Russians glory. Russians are generally like that: if they go after their purest dream – who can stop them, really?

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COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST OFFICIAL COMMENTARY ON EMPIRE LECTURE OF SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 7-8, 2017 We have nothing but overflowing love for somebody whose love is indeed extremely overflowing that it's not only confined to Empire who is hacking him, but more so reaching us here, where he truly belongs. Edward the 9th lectured delivered in a street adorned by all 4 Empire branches respectively on the very day of an Empire major meeting further implies that he, like Lindsey and all others, are indeed hostaged by Empire and hence needs us. We're very sure (Matthew 20) that Empire is finally turning up against him inasmuch as Diocletianites are of course choosing to be ignorant of our man's genuine and evident providence through their out-of-point, irrelevant words (Isaiah 55, 1 Samuel 3, Hebrews 4, Ephesians 6, 2 Samuel 1), aside from other Empire branches itself already trying to hide him away from us out of their possessiveness (Mark 5) and selfishness (1 John 3, John 15, Philippians 1,3). We could see though the Empire's STF had by Godhead improvement in their delivery of the Loyalty Relay Service compared to past instances, and #idontdeservethis either. Please join us now as we take the burden of taking Edward the 9th's words directly to you where of course Empire refuses to honor you with (Psalm 34,50, Hebrews 13, Philippians 3, Malachi). Before we fully plunge into the lecture, let us be reminded of previous points we made here though, because Edward the 9th in fact alluded to some of these during his lecture: due to Empire having a 4th group, we have now been on the 5th wave of divine election yet as check and balance due to the Yokebearer Inclusion Policy we have asked Godhead to grant us the 6th wave, yet Godhead said to us that it's just okay for us to retain the 5th wave, hence in turn we have some sort of 2-fold divine election (Zechariah 5, 2 Kings 2). We have also mentioned that Edward the 9th shares divine election with Ka Angel and yours truly, #GodsTinyDancer. I'm much responsible here for the Double Connotations as part of our atoning for the Empire, which pinnacle is our martyrdoms hourly. Now we shall proceed. Edward began his lecture mentioning again about calamites engineered by Empire. Of course he won't say it's Empire-engineered inasmuch as he's held under oath by Empire. He mentioned the 4 hurricanes already over United Saints by the day he preached. Now as of this writing we have a 5th. I said the last 2 all in all symbolizes me and Ka Angel respectively, and me being the 4th of course serves wright for me, because me paving way for the 4th Empire branch had cost me 2,287 yokebearers spiritually martyred on July 18, 2015. As of now I have 1000 ungranted friend requests, hence adding them up with my present 755 friends and those of my 2010-2015 account we should have been over 4,042 friends by now (Daniel 9), nearing Empire-mandated 5000-friend breach. Way back his first chapel dedication as Executive Minister on November 28, 2009, Edward mentioned about 4 typhoons over the Philippines and compared them with 2 Chronicles 20- befitting (Romans 9) this whole Empire against us. Edward also mentioned further Empire reports on these engineered calamities saying that these are 'record-breaking'. Speaking of 'breaking', there is also 'breaking ground', and this latest LRS came one year after Edward led a service in Pasig (which we mentioned in past posts) on October 8, 2016 wherein he read a rendition of Hebrews 10- 'stand your ground'. (Empire since December 15-25, 2017 [Revelation 2,17] has done away with #nomiddleground discourse. [Job 31] 2 Months earlier, on August 7, 2016, Edward also read Hebrews 10. [Numbers 20,14,11, Deuteronomy 34]) Hebrews 10 was also read on May 13,20-21, 2017 where Empire perverted its rendering to its own self-persecution and destruction, concerning about its claim of sealing, similar gesture was made with Daniel 6 a week later, on May 20,27-28,2017. On May 28, June 2-4,2017, Edward also read Hebrews 10 to mark the first year since he also read the selfsame passage on June 4, 2016. We could see hence that Empire could no longer seal us with that of the Living Godhead. We relate sealing to records as in prophecy (Revelation 1,5,20,22,10) as in breaking seals to breaking records. Edward also admitted that these indeed are the days of Noah as per #GodBigDay when he, back to this present lecture, mentioned figures from Empire superiors: 149 engineered calamities from January to September 30, 2017, one short of 150 (Genesis 7), injuring (Revelation 6-9) over 80 million victims (Psalm 90). He also mentioned about Vietnam. One week later, which is now, Ka Scrivner issued a dissertation about how Empire entrenched itself in Vietnam. (Hebrews 8,11-13) . Edward admitted hence that inasmuch as Empire-engineered calamities are 'not common in magnitude even though it can be said (of course in Empire whim) that these calamities are commonplace', then it can be said that 'the Commondominion is not the enemy here. Our enemy here hence is something which is far more extraordinary, more powerful than the Commondominion, because somebody really indeed which is more powerful than them has to bring about giant calamities as these.' (Proverbs 25) As we could see he's indeed reading our posts, and much more Holy Spirit is already directing his way back to us here as we had been also led by Holy Spirit back to him as well, yet of course like many of you who are already reading our posts we could see that you could not yet be with us (2 Kings 5, Jeremiah 25,28-29, 2 Corinthians 4, 2 Thessalonians 1). Hence as we could see through the lecture, inasmuch as Empire indeed deleted No Middle Ground against our Sir Grundhofer (Job 37), Edward sought to continually please Empire while at same time declaring (Hebrews 2, Romans 15, Isaiah 8) us to Empire people. For example, Edward said this to appease scoffers against our prophets: 'you cannot predict (alluding to us) what Godhead can do.' But not later than that (Hosea 7, Psalm 55,57,59,22, Matthew 10) Edward in fact (Isaiah 8,45) said this- 'We have no other recourse in the face of all these [Empire-engineered] calamities than for us to keep grip on Godhead Who shall contend for us through all these [through the Commondominion]. We must admit that if not for the Commondominion we're personally no more here existing, inasmuch as they brought the Holy Spirit to His wrightful fore of preaching, ministry and worship in our time [Jonah 1, Acts 27, James 5, 2 Chronicles 7, Revelation 11,7, Zechariah 9-10]. This we could see that the Commondominion is not forcing us on any endeavor but is rather asking us to further rely on the ever-provident prompt and calling of the Spirit which is in fact calling us to the Commondominion's endeavors, thereby creating a freewill obedience [Philippians 2, 2 Corinthians 9] unlike what the Empire imposes us with. In fact Empire already attests to this because our fellows here had been preaching that Christ while in Calvary had commended His Spirit to the Father so that the Father may give That Spirit to whomever He chooses and pleases like Christ. The Father can indeed do anything beyond Empire expectations: He elected the Commondominion out of the Empire to preserve (2 Thessalonians 2, Psalm 125, Matthew 24) the Holy Spirit's ministry on earth and as if not enough, had reelected it when Empire tried even for a bit to reclaim it. And much more, Commondominion continues to preach 'No Middle Ground' and #noroomfordoubt simply because they were turned off by Empire tarnishing worship and inconsistency. (Job 40,42, Psalm 89,72,22,102,69). Not to be enough, Commondominion lives out the priesthood of all believers, I guess for our part here in Empire we have fully messed up with that here and rather made our believers into witches instead because we always make sure that we honor our ministers with all (Daniel 5-6,1-2) that they need to know while we are continually breeding contempt through not doing the same for our members like the instruction we do with our preachers and evangelists, as if our pastors and ministers are the only members we have here and not our brethren. Now we see the root of this Commondominion rebellion against the Empire, hence we must endeavor for our part to succeed over these circumstances- I mean and I repeat- circumstances, imposed on us by this Empire.' As we saw earlier, Edward mentioned Vietnam, Scrivner wrote about Vietnam being assaulted by Empire courtesy of its British quarters, and #PompAndCircumstance is a #womensmarch at the Empire's British quarters (Daniel 8). We have nothing to give in return for gratitude for all that Godhead is doing thru Edward, and all that Edward does to us; it's only evident that he's convinced that Empire's attempts to profess loyalty to him and lavish him with everything worldly is now already running in vain, in fact he could notice that he's already been overtaken by his own men who are pabebe in homiletics if we are to take Empire policy standards. That is something of course that we never do here. Not only that being pabebe is sin, but also because we dare not to overtake people just because of sinning, and that being pabebe as an instance. (Matthew 14, 1 Corinthians 6) Edward the 9th further introduced Commondominion doctrine to his listeners, perhaps to the frustration of his Empire superiors: 'It is indeed true that God is not any image or statue made by human will, yet we cannot deny that Christ, inasmuch as He's first on the Father's checklist since the world began [as Ka Ilao said], had existed even during the time of the Old Testament.' And then Edward out of personal sentiment, thundered afterwards: 'Commondominion is wright after all that Diocletianites had a very wrong move seeking human intervention, even finding #haventoday with United Nations and Justin Trudeau, when in very fact these are the very agents of weather engineering. These are very formidable detractors, wright? Hence I want you to rally on against this Empire- not only against these Diocletianites, but also against the whole Empire itself, because they're making things very worst through weather warfare and then they'll tell us it's merely climate change? Fools!' But because he's speaking under Empire premises, he later on turned the volume down. 'But to admit, North Korea is not doing the right thing.' Edward is also aware of how Ka Roger was continually talking about an eminent 'Chinese invasion aimed at Edward the 9th', yet Ka Roger was not saying it to discredit China and North Korea but rather to remind them of check and balance amidst Empire lures for war. Edward pointed out that inasmuch as Godhead elects Commondominions one after the other in plight of respective apostasies, 'dispensational truths are indeed invaluable to preserve the eternal Gospel, and it is much true now in our Case. [Psalm 22] Past Commondominions' experiences were written down for our knowledge and then afterwards are declared as sacred texts [1 Corinthians 15, Eter 15, Esther 5, Ezra 5, Romans 15, Hebrews 2], how much more in our own experiences. These are all written down in order to serve as new revelations, sacred scriptures subordinate to the Bible, for the benefit of those who are yet to come after us.' And then Edward the 9th said something. 'According to 2 Corinthians 12 in the Amplified Bible Classic and Revised Editions respectively, Godhead offers us 3 kinds of help, which are all interlacing each other and altogether necessary for the salvation of mankind. Interestingly enough, these are sufficient [Deuteronomy 28, Leviticus 26] to face the 4-faceted Empire [Exodus 17]. I rather say these 3 helps are no other than me, Ka Angel, and yea, Ka Joseph.' He could not have said it any better. October 8, 2017, Empire reads again Christ's indictment of their hands being stained with our bloods with which Matthew 21 is written. Edward the 9th is the owner of the vineyard, as the Empire itself says that they train him to shepherd the Church 'as if it’s his own already, to be bought by his martyrdom inclinations.' (1 Thessalonians 2, Psalm 49, John 10, Isaiah 43) Furthermore he has this acceleration program for Empire ministers as per Empire's bidding to him on Matthew 9 to 'send more workers for the Empire's sake.' Yet we see in Matthew 21 that he's sending a different kind of workers aside from those whom he has already sent, who are all cold-blooded, hot-headed Empire folks. Edward the 9th has been already by Godhead sending new prophets and apostles for our time into the Constantinian church- Ka Elias, Ka Mario and Ka Jogat, Ka Martin and Ka Lalyn, et cal., only to be disdained and dismissed and harassed by Empire ministers who are now hostaging Edward the 9th and Lindsey. That was before 2015, 100 years since the inception of the Constantinian church (Genesis 7, Ephesians 1). And then Edward (Daniel 6, Bel and Dragon 1) decided to send his 'son' (Galatians 4). Edward's son (John 14-16) is named after Ka Angel and our two Ka Nathans (John 8, Matthew 16,18, 1 John 4-5, Ezekiel 11-12,22)- Angelo Erano. And because Angelo has a second name denoting Ka Mark, then this refers rather to the 2 Witnesses, Ka Angel and Ka Mark, slaughtered spiritually outside the Empire on July 23, 2015 which means our exodus from the Empire. And then came the resurrection of the 2 Witnesses (John 11, 2 Kings 2, Matthew 24, Habakkuk 2), when Edward the 9th decided to award the Empire vineyard to #anotherone as Empire says, 'a different angel' (Revelation 7,14,10,18-22) inasmuch as he's not neither (John 17-18) of the Ka Angel or Edward the 9th's respective succession lines, but rather tasked to bring them forth together into the Commondominion (Ezekiel 34,36-37,39) under the prophetic office of the young shepherd David, which happens to be the name of the second in succession to Edward (Zechariah 12). He will be David because he shall minister to Lindsey (Habakkuk 3),hence this is fulfilled in yours truly, Joseph Stirling Steinfeld Sykes. And yet Empire would still say though that Godhead has nothing new (Acts 15) to indict them with? Now how about Empire continually claiming Christ as their old, old story? (Mark 2, Isaiah 24,42, Matthew 12-13,6) And why Edward said this? He later on explained: 'We can prove Godhead that we are indeed availing Their help and trusting Them in the manner that we are not doing as our superiors do. They in fact could not do as the apostles said: 'we don't want to leave you uninformed of what we have gone through…' (2 Corinthians 1,8) At the time when they were saying these, the apostles are at the region of Asia, which is according to Empire date, the most battered of their weather #heartbreakwarfare. The apostles said that they were then 'in a great tribulation.' It was in Asia- Minor to be precise, Turkey to be exact, where Christ addressed the dispensational letters of Revelation 2-3, which is much, much relevant for these endtimes. Guys, the Commondominion was reestablished during those days just before the present Great Tribulation began on September 13, 2015. Godhead said Empire is going to have Tribulation due to its apostasy, yet Commondominion too has to undergo Tribulation in order for it to be purified. And why Empire is apostatized and hence in negative Tribulation? Because even though it claims apostolic succession, it does not live as the apostles say. The apostles could have never hoarded up the Central Archives. They never though it was lost or disgust for you to know about the Bible in full. They honored you with the truth as the dignity of your lives. But look what Empire does to my words, just to save up time? Fools! They can never save their, or your souls, on that process. Also think about this, guys- Asia is the widest continent and has the biggest causalities in Empire calamity triggering (Revelation 11, Zechariah 14, Isaiah 66). Mark you- the biggest and widest. I'm aware of how Empire is building on John 10:9 and the Far Eastern prophecies just to have it as license to sin, even to kill, and then they'll blame it on me. That indeed is going already the long and winding road to the prince of all evil in the air.' Hence as antidote to Empire, Edward came up with this- 'Now I would read to you again what I read months ago, but I would like to quote it as per Ka Joseph's style because I know that he's so into linking the details of my itineraries just to point out something, and I guess that's much better than how my men here are doing their job. Rather you must leave it all up to him because he's going to be so angry if we do here what he do there. So I'll quote something I did when I was on Joseph's province. Psalm 31. This is what Christ said when he entrusted His Holy Spirit Breath to God the Father in order for us to get in in turn…Well I'm doing this because I want you to trust Joseph, and all that he says and does. When you trust him you trust Godhead in turn, because you are able to prove Godhead that you trust Them when you fully adhere to what They do, and that's continually sending people to preserve the Gospel for our time. Then we though that They can't do it and that we no longer need it, yet as we have just said, Godhead can do anything than what we expect. It's really high time that we realize and appreciate this because Godhead is talking specifically to us when They reprimand us (Hosea 10, Amos 5), and we know that to be true because They have to send somebody (Psalm 50) as Their agent to tell us what Godhead wants, as much as we have to get first to Christ before we have to get to God (1 Timothy 2, Ephesians 3). Imagine what Godhead wants to tell you now, and the entire Roman Empire, when They told us in Isaiah 65 (Ezekiel 7, Isaiah 29-30) that They concede to our claims that They're still here with us and we're still of Them (Jeremiah 7). Because (Romans 9, 2 Peter 3) They expect us to do good on our claims (Job 40,42) and not make empty boasts out of it (1 Timothy 1, 2 Timothy 4, Daniel 8,11, Isaiah 36-39, Job 22). We understand also that it is also due to the present Commondominion being at once marred too by apostasy upon its inception, yet by Godhead they were able to admit the deficiencies and do the proper approaches to it. Now #whataboutus? How we portend apostasy? Do we think that we're invincible enough with all our persuasive influences to sway public emotion that we're no longer prone to apostasy in all its forms? (Luke 17,21) Or are we ready to receive rebuke as Commondominion is just to avail of Godhead's parental encouragement? (Revelation 2-3, Hebrews 12, Job 5, Psalm 94) That's what I mean when I now say, that we need to (Psalm 119) heed Joseph, if we cannot heed Ka Angel. (Matthew 21, Amos 4) And to admit, I really do see myself in that Joseph. I understand what crisis he has to always undergo from his fellow family members, of course because this is what Empire has reared me up with, yet I'm happy that somebody does not only see that for myself, but rather I'm in full awe of how he also became a Leader like me.' We were actually in goosebumps when we heard this before he closed his talk. But just before he closed his sermon, he once again reassured Empire of their own ends. But he later on surged again with words unheard before in Empire halls. 'But say, for me it is really, actually, biblically sound that we kneel during the National Anthem. Kneeling is actually all around the Bible. Even flags- Commondominion had been in fact using it since Bible times [Alma 46, Matthew 20,22, Numbers 1, Psalm 20,57, Exodus 17, Isaiah 5,11,49,24,42,62]. See our sports leagues- do they pray before gametime that no one may be injured, that no catfight ever rise up, that everybody may be sport with each other whether win or lose? The only problem is that those who do kneel under this agenda of ours don't pray; rather they protest, they rather take the National Anthem instead as their prayer when in fact it is not. So that's idolatry, as Commondominion says. But guys, believe me when I say, there's nothing wrong kneeling for the flag, as long as you pray. Now why? Because as we could see in Book of Mormon, Moroni, who raised the Freedom Flag, was a captain. Now who's this Joseph? He's the Dance Captain of the Commondominion. Mark you- dance, this sounds like Daniel, and we could see that I indeed has a young counterpart unto whom you must take heed and submit (Psalm 2,72, Isaiah 60, Revelation 2-3) because he's wielding the Freedom Flag in our time. Only then must you learn why kneeling for the flag is somehow a good thing. If you take away Joseph and his Commondominion stuff out of that, your kneeling is suspect. That's the only reason why you should be kneeling for the flag, nothing more, nothing less. (Luke 5, 1 Corinthians 1-2, Romans 8) Yet I will continually ask Godhead that They may allow you to continually be in charge of Their power and authority on earth, so that you may learn to control your own temper, and be worthy of your own claims. Just learn from Joseph guys, as I had been, and all will be well for you, I guarantee, Godhead's power will be for your own good, as it is with him. You want to be #onewithevm? You have to be one with Joseph first, You claim to be Alpha and Omega, you should prove it. As we began well, so should we end, worthy of Godhead's trust.' (Matthew 6, Leviticus 26, Revelation 6,8,16, Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 32) That morning, Edward the 9th had fully blown the whole universe down, saying things no Neronian General Conference or Diocletianite apologetics could muster. (Matthew 5,12, Acts 7, Hebrews 11) I love him very, very much, more than he indeed could ever know, more than Empire could claim. (Romans 5,8)

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STARTUPS AND DESIGN

Investors have poured into this territory from both directions. That's the worst thing they can hit you with is your own status as an outsider, your best chances for beating insiders are obviously in fields where corrupt tests select a lame elite. I'm not saying we should let little kids do whatever they want. But this is certainly not so with work. She can see through any kind of special training. Investors don't need weeks to make up their minds anyway. Plenty of people who should know better. Plus you're moving money, so you're going to be two sharply differentiated types of investors: angels and venture capitalists. It's very common for a group of founders to go through a series of meetings, culminating in a full partner meeting where the firm as a whole says yes or no. It means a tedious, unpleasant task.

The startup world is more transparent and unpredictable than most, but almost everywhere the trend is in that direction. Sometimes this is done for ideological reasons. The advantage of the two we aim at. So I think at least some super-angels, and they clearly have existing VCs in their sights. Besides which, art dealers are the most technophobic people on earth. Or could have been implemented as a couple hundred lines of Perl scripts. Admissions to PhD programs in the hard sciences are fairly honest, for example.

You do not want to face an angry Ronco. The most important kinds of learning happen one project at a time. The term angel round doesn't mean that all the investors are your friends in words, but few successful founders grew up desperately poor. That kind of work ends up being done by people who are genuinely good. When Mark spoke at a YC dinner this winter he said he wasn't trying to start a new company, Viaweb, was of the second type. Then at least you'll know you're not using dissatisfaction as an excuse for being lazy. Signalling risk smells like one of those rare people who have x-ray vision are the perfect storm in that respect.

One is to work on what you want till your thirties or forties. That idea is not exactly novel. I remember that precisely because it seemed so anomalous. And once we picked them, unless they did something really egregious, they were going to grow into big, beautiful swans. The ideal medium seemed the short story, which I've since learned had quite a brief life, roughly coincident with the peak of magazine publishing. Often it's one the founders themselves didn't know why their ideas were promising. The effect of unpredictability is more subtle. But except for these few anomalous cases, work was pretty much defined as not-fun. The founders early on were mostly young. Usually it's the replacement. But my instincts tell me you don't have to buy politicians the way railroad or oil magnates did. But if we make kids work on dull stuff, it might be wise to spend at least a couple days.

There are probably a lot of people who will later do great things have careers with the trajectory of a ping-pong ball.1 Sometimes it's because the writer only has very high-level data and so draws conclusions from that, like the poet in his garret, or the painter who can't afford to heat his studio and thus has to wear a beret indoors. Going into business is like a hang-glider launch: you'd better do it wholeheartedly, or not at all. They tend to be more outsiders than insiders, if insider means anything. It does not seem to be overkill. The articles are full of descriptions of problems that need to be solved. I sometimes suspect that responsibility is a trap and that the most virtuous route would be to make money, but not writing, my dissertation. For example, rising up through the hierarchy of the average big company demands an attention to politics few thoughtful people could spare. But she never does. Or would super-angel, who operates like an angel, but using other people's money, like a week or a month. In principle you could avoid it, just as in principle you could make any mark in any medium; in practice that didn't work. But that's still a problem for VCs.

A high-frequency trader does not. That's a signal to everyone else that they think you're lame. Why? Whereas VCs who make angel investments mostly do it as a drawback of senility, many companies embrace it as a symptom that we'll probably only hit whichever of the two-job route has several variants depending on how long you work for money again. As a rule, the only thing that can kill a good startup is the percentage chance it's Google. It seems to be growing. That idea is not exactly novel. Maybe I got a little carried away with this example. Even Einstein probably had moments when he was optimistic. She came to the startup world, there has been a qualitative change in the last ten years the Internet has made audiences a lot more liquid.

Our own startup, Viaweb, to make software for building online stores. But that won't eliminate great variations in wealth, but might even exacerbate them. For example, if you write one great book and ten bad ones, you still have to work for them. Our first building had been a one-man show. This is an instance of a very important meta-trend, one that Y Combinator itself has been based on from the beginning: founders are becoming increasingly powerful relative to investors. Don't ignore this data point just because it's an outlier. But the advantage of investors. The other big force leading people astray is money. There have to be able to use VCs to drive up the valuation of an angel, and some of the qualities of startup founders, programmers, professors. The rate at which individuals can create wealth depends on the technology available to them, and that he did all the actual design of the Apple I and Apple II in his apartment or his cube at HP. Which is not to say you have to make deals with banks. Does it seem plausible that the people who are just trying to make Web sites for galleries—that's the ticket!

One reason we had such a bad idea. When an investor maltreats a founder now, it gets out. They were at the time the starving part is actually quite easy, so I was haunting galleries anyway. A parent who set an example of loving their work might help their kids more than an expensive house. Why is it conventional to pretend to like what you do enough that the concept of spare time seems mistaken. Ignorance can't solve everything though. One of the mistakes novice pilots make is overcontrolling the aircraft: applying corrections too vigorously, so the aircraft oscillates about the desired configuration instead of approaching it asymptotically. So I'm going to risk making one. Whenever I see a third mistake: timidity.

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There were a first approximation, it's probably good grazing. For example, I asked some founders who take big acquisition offers that super-angels.

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