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medicinemane · 4 months ago

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Hey listen, this is something important to me so I'm just gonna ask you to consider doing this

I just spent however long writing something custom (which I'll put after a read more) cause I actually had things I want to say, but you don't need to do that, they've got a preset message you can use if you want

I've been following this invasion since day 1, and I've been actually asking for exactly this for a while now... just with no one to say it to

If you've got questions about what this is even about, ask me

If you've got concerns, tell em to me, I got answers

I'm not asking you to just blindly do this (though I won't tell you no if you want to), this is important to me, I know a fair bit about the subject, I am more than happy to talk to you about it

You want the summary of things though, it's that russian planes bomb Ukrainian civilians (like just today there was a story about a literal playground being bombed, along with the usual apartments) and our current policies won't allow them to use US missiles to strike russian airfields (and NATO allies won't either because we basically get to make this call)

People are dying, changing this policy will help with that, that's why I'm asking you to ask the White House to change this

Anyway, what I wrote below the break

I am grateful for the supplemental aid package President Biden provided Ukraine in April, but restrictions on US weapons use against valid military targets in Russia is hampering Ukraine's ability to defend both it's military and civilians (and let's be blunt, NATO allies like the UK or Germany are not going to authorize their long range munitions to be used unless the US does, we clearly set the rules here)

I've been following this invasion since day 1, every day I check what's been happening in Ukraine. I've followed through the Kharkiv offensive, followed as NATO crossed "red line" after "red line" (Stingers were a red line, then tanks were a red line, and of course F-16s were a major red line… yet Russia never acted once we sent them), followed as Speaker Johnson delayed military aid for months with partisan politics, up to today where I continue to follow Ukraine (for instance just today a 14 year old girl was killed by Russian bombs, fired from planes that took off from airfields we refuse to let Ukraine fire upon)

I understand escalation management, I'm not oblivious to why this administration has taken a cautious course, but between permitting Ukraine to fire US short range munitions shortly after Russia's attempts to move towards Kharkiv (a good choice which blunted that offensive and, again, resulted in no reprisals aside from more attacks on Ukrainian civilians… which happen no matter what); as well as Ukraine's counter offensive into the Kursk region of Russia (which invasion of Russian territory is one of the places Russian doctrine explicitly allows the use of nuclear weapons… and yet… again, nothing), there's been a strong demonstration that the White House's hesitancy to permit the use of long range weapons only serves to get Ukrainian civilians killed

This isn't just my opinion as an American citizen either, the retired Gen. Ben Hodges has repeatedly called for this. Every time I listen to him speak these days without fail he says not to "shoot the arrows, but to shoot the archer", which he explicitly states that he means that striking Russian airbases deep in Russian territory with long range missiles like ATACMS is preferable by far to forcing Ukraine to attempt to intercept incoming drones, missiles, and guided bombs

Ukraine has show itself to be a clever and steadfast ally. They have done so much not only to defend themselves, but to also achieve a major win for US and NATO security, the weakening of Putin's Russia

Thanks to Ukraine, Russia's ability to wage war on NATO neighbors has been decimated, and Russia's geopolitical influence around the world has been severely decreased, and thanks to US and EU cooperation the EU's dependence on Russian gas has dropped to almost nothing. Yet nothing is set in stone, we aren't over the finish line and Ukraine still needs our support, and currently the single best piece of support we can offer is a simple policy change, to let Ukraine strike valid military targets in Russia

This war goes beyond securing Europe against the single greatest threat to them, Russia; our actions here will also strongly impact China and Taiwan in the coming years. There's no way that this administration isn't just as aware as I am (or likely more so) that China is paying very close attention to how we treat our allies… do we support them or leave them to invaders for fear of escalation?

We as NATO truthfully have done a middling job, oscillating between staunch support and then starving Ukraine of the resources and policies they need to win (often because of partisan politics in the US and EU from politicians who seem a little too friendly towards Putin, and far too disdainful for Ukraine)

It's time to finish strong. The past is past, we can't change it, but we get to choose who we are now. I want to be part of an America who stands up for freedom, who supports our allies, and who refuses to let Russia continue their attacks on civilians

Let Ukraine use our weapons on all military targets in Russia! The only range restriction I want in place is the range of the system in question. Let our ally use our military aid to decimate Russian airbases and Russian aircraft, which are the single greatest threat to Ukrainian civilians!

Do the right thing, do what military men like retired Gen. Ben Hodges keep asking this administration to. Every red line has been crossed, both by NATO and Ukraine and we've seen that Russia's most powerful weapon is their saber rattling

Had I known where to write, I would have written much sooner, but now that I know I'm tempted to write every week till this changes (though don't delay like that, every day puts more Ukrainian lives at our feet, our fault that these civilians were killed due to our failure to give the permission so desperately needed to destroy the aircraft killing them). This is a deeply important issue to me, and based off this administration's actions up till now I know that everyone must understand it's importance even beyond Ukraine (Iranian drones, North Korean artillery… this isn't happening in isolation)

I understand this policy comes from a place of good intentions, to keep the world from facing nuclear annihilation. This is the first war of it's kind with a nuclear power fighting it, I understand the caution… but regions of Kursk are controlled by Ukraine and Putin barely acknowledges it, or weapons were used to strike military targets in Belgorod in order to protect Kharkiv and they were only met with more empty bluster

Give Ukraine permission to strike military targets in Russia with our weapons

Razom For Ukraine has made a website to help people in the US contact their government to let them know that Ukraine should be able to strike back.

#I'm going to schedule this for some time tomorrow when more people are awake #seriously though... you got questions; I will do my best to answer them; and I know this stuff; I don't have to dodge questions #if you read what I sent you probably know most of what those answers will be; but they're good answers #and if you're saying 'why should I care about Ukraine' well... one I gotta be honest with you; it's just cause they're people #but if you want reasons it matters outside of Ukraine (aside from places like Iran being allies or russia)#(and the fact Iran treats it's civilians so badly... seriously... I thought we were all made only like a year ago)#(at how they murdered a woman... all those Iranian protests? did we just... forget that happened?)#but as for ways Ukraine impacts other parts of the world; just googling 'ukraine food aid to palestine'#got me a number of articles that look like they were from around july 18th about 1000 tons of flour being shipped to Palestine #Ukraine is a major provider of food to a lot of places in Africa and the Middle East; it's good they've opened the way to shipping again #but in order to not just toss out an idle claim; typed in 'africa food shortage ukraine' and sure enough #got a lot of articles from 2022 talking about effects from this war on African nations #this stuff matters; Ukraine matters; even if you don't care about Ukraine; I bet I can find a connection to something you care about #one thing paying attention to this war has made me realize is how interconnected everything is in this modern world #I don't know... just ask; you got questions; you got concerns; just ask me with a little good faith and I'll gladly answer #(ie. you hit me with talking about how russia isn't imperialist and I'll have to like you a lot to want to keep talking)#(like it's a lot of effort to want to explain why something like that is so obviously wrong; I need to know you're not just trolling)#(but you want to ask me why it's safe to change this policy; I'll give you concrete reasons and examples)#and listen; if I don't know the answer to something we'll go look together #I'm not trying to smooth talk you; I'm 100% convinced I'm right and that facts and reality back me up #...ask me and then ask our government to stop getting people killed with this policy #side note; cause I feel like people might just ask #why do I talk about Ukraine but not Palestine? cause I know a lot (for an American) about Ukraine #but I know nada of substance about Palestine; my voice is just gonna add to the noise #I see people say 'you really should know about this person or that person before you're talking on Palestine'#well I don't know those people; and it think the people who say I should are honestly correct #Ukraine and Palestine have a lot more in common than people seem to realize; and it's called having your civilians bombed #don't be pitting anyone against anyone; seriously #but why I talk about Ukraine and not Palestine?#cause I can talk about what's going on; I can talk about what went on; I can talk about wagner's role

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dailyaudiobible · 4 years ago

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06/14/2021 DAB Transcript

1 Kings 12:20-13:34, Acts 9:26-43, Psalm 132:1-18, Proverbs 17:6

Today is the 14th day of June welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian, it’s great to be here with you today like it is every day as we dive into this brand-new work week and continue to take steps forward together in life and through the scriptures. So, let’s dive in we’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. 1 Kings chapter 12 verse 20 through 13 verse 34 today.

Commentary:

Okay, let’s talk about 1 Kings. What we read in 1 Kings today because imbedded in that narrative that of the story of the cursing of the alter today, ah something so, so deeply vital in our own lives. So, let’s just first of all catch ourselves up because we have two kings and they have very similar names. We have King Rehoboam and we have King Jeroboam so super easy when you got all these really interesting names to begin with to keep everything straight. So, Rehoboam is the son of King Solomon so the rightful heir to descend his father upon the throne. Jeroboam worked for King Solomon, he was over the labor forces. But there was a prophecy about him and then Solomon tried to kill and so he had to flee Egypt. He came back after Solomon died when all of the tribes got together to crown Rehoboam as the king of all the united tribes of Israel and a negotiation took place in witch Rehoboam was stern and essentially told the people that he was going to be a more difficult king than his father had been. And so, 10 of the tribes of Israel decided not to re-up basically. They abandoned Rehoboam and they abandoned the house of David instead turning to Jeroboam and crowning him king. So, Rehoboam eventually has to get back to Israel he is the king of Judah along with the tribe of Benjamin. And so, he is king in Jerusalem and that is a pretty important thing. He has that, what had been known among the people as their capital city. So, that’s an important thing that’s where the temple of God is. So, once the tension, I was gonna say dies down but it doesn’t die down but once the tension is manageable and it’s pretty clear that Rehoboam he plans to go to war and take back his kingdom and then there’s a prophecy not to fight with their relatives so they don’t. And so, there’s sort of an understanding there. Jeroboam who is king of Israel now the ten tribes known as the Kingdom of Israel he’s up in the north. And so, he got his own capital going and there establishing basically a whole new set of governance. And he realizes that if he sends people to worship in Jerusalem their going to eventually return to the house of David and that will be the end of Jeroboam’s kingship, he’ll be killed. So, he leads Israel into idolatry by putting temples in the southern boundary and in the northern boundary of his kingdom. And then he starts appointing priests, etc., etc. Now, it won’t be long before Jeroboam moves his capital from Shechem and a new city is built called Samaria and this becomes the area the region of Samaria and so there’s this new way of appointing priests, new ways of worship, new festivals being ordained and of course the golden calves. And so, the worship of the Lord as the people had understand it is now being modified in such a way that eventually these people are known as Samaritans. And they don’t worship the same as they do down in Jerusalem. And by the time we get to the first century to the time of Jesus’ ministry we see that coming out and so this is kind of where that begins and continues forward from there but a prophet and this is sort of the point of all this, a prophet from Judah is sent across a border to the southern temple, the one in Bethel. And he was given instructions go, curse the alter, don’t eat, don’t drink, don’t go back the same way that you came, get in, get out, do your job, be done with it. And that’s….that’s what’s happening. So we saw, I mean when you read it, we don’t need to re-read it, we saw Jeroboam his arm gets stuck out like there’s miraculous signs here, the alter is split in two. The king want’s this prophet to come back to the palace and he’s like I can’t gotta go home, can’t eat, can’t drink, gotta go home a different way. And so, that’s what’s happening but news of this spreads rapidly and another old prophet, like an actual prophet of God goes and finds this guy before he can get back across the border. And this is where it gets really important for us. Because the prophet that cursed the alter heard from God and was given specific leading, specific instructions, a specific thing, a mission that he was to accomplish and a way that he was to do it. Another prophet came to that prophet and essentially told him God told me to tell you that you don’t have to obey him any, like your missions accomplished you can come back to my house and eat and drink. And the prophet who was basically in the home stretch of his mission diverted from his mission because somebody told him “God told me to tell you, you don’t have to complete this in way that you were originally told.” That cost the prophet his life because in the end he had heard clearly and directly from God and he was clearly and directly being obedient to God’s commands until somebody came and falsely spoke on behalf of the Lord and this prophet believed it even though he had heard from God himself to the contrary. It is not uncommon, it is not uncommon for people to say I’m really sensing that the Lord is telling me to tell you X, Y and Z. That kind of stuff happens to me all the time but it is common enough and we often look for those kinds of signs or oracles or messages or words of knowledge. We look for them for direction and maybe clarity and maybe conformation and that’s not bad like that’s fine. But if God has already spoken and we are already in the middle of the mission maybe even on the home stretch and then somebody says God told me to tell you something contrary to what he’s already spoken to you. Let’s just, rather than me kind of me landing this, how about we just, if that happens and when that happens how about we remember this story in the Book of 1 Kings about this prophet who listened to that kind of counsel and let’s just remember how the story ended up because this story gives us that halfway and where it goes and I don’t think it goes where we want it to go. And so, at some point we have to start growing up enough to own our relationship with God and be responsible. Everything can’t be hearsay. Like you can’t be in your marriage through a third party only right like, maybe if you’re split up or whatever you’re communicating through a mediator of some sort but if you’re in marriage and there is this other person that just keeps coming and saying yeah this is what she wants and we’re never hearing it directly from her well, it’s gonna get sideways. It’s gonna get messed up and the stakes are so much different with the Lord, our creator. More than ever we need to hear his voice and obey it, more than ever we need to pay attention and not just listen to everybody who says God told me to tell you this.

Prayer:

And so once again Father we come into Your presence asking for Your Holy Spirit to lead and guide our steps and that we would submit to your authority, that we would slow down and listen and not begin to move without clarity and not begin to search out clarity that is not from you. Come Holy Spirit. You said My sheep hear my voice, we are Your sheep. May we listen to Your voice and follow where You are leading. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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And that is it for today, I’m Brian, I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

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Hi my name is Peggy. I am a first-time caller and a 3-year listener. First of all, Brian Hardin and family, God bless you. Thank you for this community that you’ve built. You are storing up and abundance of treasures in heaven you enrich my life every single morning when I listen to the Daily Audio Bible. Now for Carmen, I heard Carmen’s call a few days ago about her son had passed away. Carmen, I prayed and I cried and I prayed all day. And I’ll tell you that the Holy Spirit put something on my heart and directed me to call you. So Carmen your boy touched the hearts of people who would have never heard about Jesus in the place that he was in and perhaps, perhaps that is why he was there. Carmen your faith and the faith of your phone call it’s there it’s strong. I hope that this somehow helps you, I don’t know why it’s so strong on my heart but I know that I was to call and let you know that your boy made a difference. So, I pray for you I lift you and your family up and I pray that God comforts you and gets you through this very difficult time and know that your beautiful boy is with Jesus. I loved when you said “I am not gonna see him for a long time” because your faith showed right in that sentence. Thank you. God bless each and every one of you and Brian again thank you.

Hi, this is Sunshine again because I want to shine like the Son of God. I forgot to say where I was from, I’m based in Queens though I travel but locally for work and what have you. But I’m really grateful for this…for hearing Brian. Brian, thank you to you and your family, I mean truly may God just rain upon those blessings just because you’ve been faithful to this and what you sow you have to reap. I…I need connection, I’m someone who’s really in desperate need of connection. I’ve been very isolated because of COVID to some extent. But it’s also because I’ve really been ostracized by much of my family. And in a way it’s been a good thing that they can’t hurt me as much as they used to because they haven’t been family to me. I love them but I really need people I can be connected to and people I can trust. And I honestly don’t know where to turn to anymore. And I’m trying to find a church and I’m trying to find people I can trust and people I can build community with but I was having such the hardest of heart even to listen to Daily Audio Bible. It’s my own issues but I was listening just because I decided I didn’t want to get behind and listening to the word of God was softening my heart enough that I was gonna be…

Good morning this is To Be A Blessing in California. It’s been a while since I’ve connected but I’m still listening and praying for those requests that come through. This morning I heard Deja’s request and wanted to let her know that I’m praying for you as you walk on this journey that God would just strengthen you and give you comfort and peace for you as well as your siblings. I’m also praying for the mother who found out that her son had passed away who had been living on the streets. I’m so sorry for your loss and just praying that God would strengthen and comfort you and your family during this time. I’m asking for prayer personally for the revealing that happened over this time of isolation during the pandemic, living alone, missing family, having a lot of grief take place with the loss of people in my life. As well as just knowing that it was very challenging to be alone during this time. So, asking that you would pray for me and the healing as we come out of this time of isolation. Also asking that you would lift me up in prayer as I believe God is leading me to a new job. I’m not exactly sure what that is but I am applying to different places and asking that you would join me in prayer. Lastly, I’m asking for prayer for a companion. I’ve been single, divorced for a long time. And while I do have friends I just think it would be nice to have someone that I could connect with and just get to know. So, if you would pray with me on that, that would be awesome. God bless each and every one of you.

Hi family this is Dawn Rising from Michigan and I’m here with my son Ashton. Hi. And we just had a prayer for all school children. I just hope all school children have a fun and safe summer so that they can be safe and have fun. And blessings over all teachers that they can use this time to rejuvenate, grow in their faith and just have peace as this has been a really hard year. I myself am a teacher and I’m rejoicing in the time that I get to spend with my family, rest and relax and enjoy the beautiful weather. So blessings on all children and all teachers and school personnel. I love you family. Bye.

Hi friends this is Veronica calling in from Oklahoma. Today is Friday, June 11th and I just wanted to call in and ask for prayer for my sanity. We have 3 children ages 7, 9 and 13. I work from home, it is summer and they are home with me all day while I work. And suffice it to say that things are rough. I’m trying to be the fun mom as much as I can be and I’m the screaming, yelling get out of my hair mom. I mean, I’m that kind of mom all the time, I feel like. But definitely right now with all three of them home all day. I can be fine, perfectly fine, having a great day and then I get attitude from my oldest and its snapping my fingers and I’m freaking out, crazy mom, psycho mom. So, I could just really use some prayers please this for patience and grace. Thanks family.

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But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country. – Eike Batista • I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business – Jacob Zuma • If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing. – Warren Buffett • If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO’s: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even – Gwyn Morgan • If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring. – George Soros • If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled. – Benjamin Graham • If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan – or a company like Xerox – then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business. – Anne M. Mulcahy • If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late. – Clayton Christensen • If you have never missed when investing, you haven’t been in there trying. – Venita VanCaspel • If you invested in a very low cost index fund – where you don’t put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you’ll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time. – Warren Buffett • I’m able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it’s a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn’t enough room for you and that somebody else. – Guy Pearce • I’m standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing. – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future. – Bob Riley • In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. – Warren Buffett • In my home state of Delaware, we’ve done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we’ve made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air. – Thomas Carper • In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing. – Giuseppe Mazzini • Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality. – Rhonda Britten • Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market. – Wang Jianlin • Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium. – Victor Sperandeo • Investing in tomorrow’s technology today is more critical than ever. – Bill Gates • Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests. – Liya Kebede • Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market. – John Maynard Keynes • Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you’re sharp, you can do it for as long as you want. – Patrick Wolff • Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don’t do any work. – Peter Lynch • Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That’s what frees up your income so you can win. – Dave Ramsey • Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future. – Warren Buffett • Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike. – Benjamin Graham • Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are. – Warren Buffett • Investing is simple, but not easy. – Warren Buffett • Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There’s no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it. – Warren Buffett • Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. – Seth Klarman • Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. – Paul Samuelson • Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing – Jessica Livingston • It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations. – Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth • It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns. – Joel Greenblatt • I’ve felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out. – Mark Skousen • Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud • Let’s hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won’t buy. – Simon Mainwaring • Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, ‘I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.’ If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases. – Warren Buffett • Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment. – Dan Miller • Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. – Bob Parsons • No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we’re not intimidating our adversaries and they’re running around wild in the world, because they know we’re not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world. – Chris Christie • Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something. – Shelley Berkley • Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development – it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service. – Akio Morita • one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego. – Venita VanCaspel • One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions. – Joshua Waitzkin • One thing I’d like to do is angel investing in small companies. That’s what’s exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks. – Nick D’Aloisio • Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending. – Dwight D. Eisenhower • Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada. – Rona Ambrose • People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they’ll stop investing. – Steve Jobs • People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity. – Robert Kiyosaki • Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders. – Jim Cramer • Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed. – Satoru Iwata • President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics. – Imelda Marcos • Quinn’s First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can’t follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what’s true. The First Corollary to Quinn’s First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn’t buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old. – Jane Bryant Quinn • Re-investing in one’s own little moments of insight is very important – Anish Kapoor • So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it – so long as I’m not investing too much capital in these things. – Jackie Cooper • So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country. – Patrick J. Kennedy • Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you’re not in too big a hurry – Warren Buffett • Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. – Warren Buffett • Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it. – Benjamin Graham • Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. – John Maynard Keynes • Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it. – Benjamin Graham • Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. – Warren Buffett • The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses. – Francois Arago • The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal. – Joshua Rogers • The big success stories – Facebook, Zynga and Twitter – are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing. – Eric Lefkofsky • The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results. – Peter Cundill • The evidence shows that investing in women and girls delivers major benefits for society. An educated woman has healthier children. She is more likely to send them to school. She earns more and invests what she earns in her family. – Jimmy Carter • The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much. – Charlie Munger • The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen Covey • The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. – Warren Buffett • The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves. – William J. Clinton • The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to “save” our way to capital ownership. – Louis O. Kelso • The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ. – Jack Hyles • The real secret to investing is that there is no secret to investing. – Seth Klarman • The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less. – Joel Greenblatt • The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing. – John C. Bogle • The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil. – Ahmed Zaki Yamani • The three most important words in investing…Margin of Safety. – Warren Buffett • The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially. – Jamie Dimon • There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology. – Evangeline Lilly • There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling. – Peter Lynch • There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you’re looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run. – Jane Bryant Quinn • There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share. – Ken Kaess • There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn’t be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. – Paul Samuelson • There isn’t a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system. – Foster Friess • Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence? – Keith K. Hilbig • To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit–investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value. – William J. Clinton • Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. – Seth Klarman • Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong. – Seth Klarman • Value investing is risk aversion. – Seth Klarman • Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process. – Seth Klarman • Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed. – Seth Klarman • Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows – and thus the company’s value – don’t decrease faster than they anticipate. – Peter Thiel • We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy. – Stephen Heintz • We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County. – Maria Cantwell • Well, higher-income people don’t have to pay taxes if they don’t want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they can move their investments. They can stop investing. They can stop working. They don’t need to work. They’re higher-income people. – Rick Santorum • We’ve got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that’s why we’ve specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States. – Barack Obama • What’s both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out. – Whitney Tilson • What’s nice about investing is you don’t have to swing at every pitch. – Warren Buffett • When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: ‘we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year. – Warren Buffett • When we look at investing, we always think about ‘how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.’ E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it’s execution. – Niklas Zennstrom • When you – when you – and this is still going on today – are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. – Howard Dean • Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs. – Greg Walden • While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo’s reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros’ network of “non-profit foundations” in the Balkans. – Michel Chossudovsky • While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America. – Kitty Kelley • While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology. – Seth Klarman • Why didn’t I just throw my money out of the window – and light it on fire? – Peter Cohan • Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable. – Samantha Power • You are spending millions and millions of dollars of other peoples money when you make a movie. You have to at least approach it in a way where you can see how you can make that money back for the people who are investing. – Duncan Jones • You can learn investing by reading books. – Bill Ackman • You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve. – Bill Bonner • You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ. – Warren Buffett • You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. – Reid Hoffman • You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating. – Benjamin Graham • Your investor’s edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It’s something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand. – Peter Lynch

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What a time this is...2 be alive for this shit

Hello creatures! What a fucking time to be alive! You might've heard this phrase before as entertainers,public figures,athletes and so on have put it into their respective art over the last couple years and boy are they right. If you don’t take a second to plug out or for a large amount of the population get plugged in a little just to see what the world has to offer you might be feeling a little unbalanced and that’s ok. (been there)

The five second genius is a very common thing in today's world because anybody can look up anything at any given moment in time and all of a sudden they’re an expert on said topic. Not only that, people are so afraid to not know what you’re talking about that they feel they must spew out some random fact that isn't pertinent to the conversation. Now we all live different lifestyles and hopefully have a unique perspective on the world. With that being said it doesn't make you an authority on a subject just because you can get an answer in a blink of an eye. I could look up a video on how to cut hair and that doesn’t all of a sudden make me an expert on cutting hair. People read a couple articles about climate change or watch a video and all of a sudden they’re geniuses. Don’t get me wrong I've been guilty of the same thing but, I continued to work on myself so that my intellectual capabilities and overall growth continued to rise and for the first couple of years it was a somewhat unconscious endeavor I can admit. I just thought everything was normal the way i was computing information. I knew nothing of consciousness (still don’t lol) I just felt so strongly that something was completely missing at the age of 19 and this comes from someone who was in college...who was on a basketball scholarship. People look at you and think, “he really has it going on”. Meanwhile, I’m like what about all of this stuff and people just kinda went... ehhh that’s the way it is or they didn’t know the things I knew or thought I knew at the time lol which was nothing except that we are not paying attention to anything that really maters.

Now I understand a lot of things are necessary for a civilization to run and run effectively and it’s not easy nor pretty at times. Not everyone has the time especially if they aren’t willing to go out of there way to find these things on top of their 40hr week job.. I understand this. I also understand that this is newer for older generations..the technology, the finding out that a lot of things you believed in for the majority of your adult life is and was a complete ploy to expose the kindness in your heart. These things aren’t easy to come to grips with so I do understand and I’m sorry. But, a lot of people like me didn't have that luxury and I call it that because if you don’t think at all or don’t have any critical thinking skills especially when you’re young you tend to just go with the flow and going with the flow in some ways brings no “pain”(pain has many different forms) and definitely will not widen your eyes. These two things can and will still find you know matter what it just may come later which is what it is. I’m not pointing fingers here, this is not your generation this my generation that,stupid people /smart people this is all intended to help so I’m sorry if things rub you the wrong way...at the end of the day we all have difficulties and hardships. All I can do is try to imagine your pain in certain circumstances so that I can come in to the situation with some compassion and understanding. I’ve no idea what it was like growing up in the Vietnam War period. Knowing any day you could get drafted and be in a foreign land not by your choice. I can imagine the fear, the unknowing of what is going to happen next. I can try and understand as much as possible the fact that you lost people you just had lunch with the day before and how often that occurrence probably was. I can imagine the trauma you probably still carry with you to this day because you cant shake the things you've seen or done and then you came home to a country who tossed you aside and expected you to just get on with your life. I can imagine these things because I’ve been scarred too..I’ve also been to war but it was a different war. Knowing and understanding so much at a young age can be a terrifying thing and damaging at that...So damaging you forgot it was ok to laugh and smile... to enjoy your fucking life. See I might not have lost friends in a war but I knew at an early age the truths of war. The money in war, the manipulation, the propaganda, the mass indoctrination, the realizing that everyone around you has no fucking clue what you’re talking about or how you can compute things people are not understanding. This was before “fake news” was mainstream. This is being years ahead of people 40 years older than you and this is just one subject...we’re talking about people walking their whole life without a fucking clue about much of anything and even if they did understand some things they made absolutely zero attempt to change anything about themselves on even the smallest scale....Just be nicer lol..you don’t have to go save the world just be nicer because we’re all connected and whether or not you believe your actions to be inconsequential that’s bullshit because how you interact with people will determine for a lot of beings how they go on to interact with others. (Quantum physics/mechanics enters) Any who,I began to understand the quotes that say “hell can be with you every day..everywhere you go because I used to live there.”

This isn’t a pity party, this is a we all can relate our struggles and difficulties if we just take the time to pay attention and listen...to really share our emotions and to not be afraid of the truth even if it scares us, even if we don’t like it. Even if it makes us so uncomfortable we can’t breathe. Things have gotten better and will continue to get better for myself and you if you are willing to put in the fucking work. We still live in possibly the safest time in recorded history but some things can’t be known for sure. Once you are aware that only the Akashic records hold the full truth will you understand we really know nothing on the macro scale of things and this is ok...this shouldn't frighten us. Learn to thrive in it....Go all out.

Live today for tomorrow is never promised.

I hope this brings you some sort of insight into my mind but more importantly opens up a door way for you to explore new avenues inside your own.

Have a blessed day creators.

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I can’t fit every interconnected dot into everything i try and write about..i’ll miss things , the context might not always gel with you but i do the best i can without rambling to much. Thank you!

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