- Midsummer seems a good time to poll my readers on how
they deal with the temptation to devote most of their energy to making
money.
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- Beyond a certain modicum necessary for survival and security,
money becomes an abstraction. In the words of Samuel Butler, "enough
is always a little more than one has."
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- The material world literally is organized to steal our
souls from God. Like spiders, the central bankers, who serve Lucifer, spin
this money out of nothing in order to ensnare us in a web of debt. And
like spiders, the ultimate plan seems to be to devour us, body and soul.
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- How much of your thought and energy is devoted to money?
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- Stock market trading on the Internet literally has placed
a slot machine in every home or hand. Millions of people trade during
their workday. As a result, millions obsess constantly about money. See
the stock forums.
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- There is a tendency to think stock trading is cool if
you're making money but morally corrupt if you're losing it. It can't be
both. Is "good" defined by success?
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- The trader is ensnared as long as he is successful, and
can only find peace when he is bankrupted. Eventually there will be a crash
and we all will be liberated.
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- Making money by stock trading is very enticing. It's
often easy. Latch on to an Apple, for example. Money is very empowering.
It lets you do things. It gives you freedom. It's a rush.
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- Of course, losing money is very debilitating. It's a
bummer. It's easy to get hooked on the highs and lows. But some experienced
traders manage to take them in stride.
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- I made a lot of money from "Scruples" and lost
much of it gambling on options. I really didn't know what I was doing and
was arrogant and slow to learn. People who are successful in one realm
mistakenly think they can do anything.
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- When I came into money, I lost my identity. My money
owned me. I became a money manager. Instead of using it to advance personal
goals, my sense of self waxed and waned with my balance. When my broker
asked, "How are you?" I'd say to myself, "You tell me."
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- I didn't have clear goals, so it was easy to be sidetracked.
I was a product of the male arrested development endemic in this culture.
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- In retrospect, I'd be laughing if I had just bought blue
chips and forgot about them. I wish I could say I had that wisdom and character.
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- The stock market is the only real democracy left. By
cutting the vast middle class in on their wealth, the bankers ensure their
loyalty. People don't care about truth and freedom, war and peace, as long
as they have comfortable houses, BMW's and jacuzzis.
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- Many people put their faith in Gold. They say money is
paper but isn't gold just a stone after all? The market is manipulated.
The bankers could demolish the price of gold simply by raising interest
rates. Friday July 13, gold hovered around $666 all day. Coincidence?
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- We will do anything to avoid serving God, anything to
avoid taking the ego out of gold (symbolized by the l.) God really means
serving "ourselves" since I believe obeying God is the principle
of our personal development. Worship is serving our ideal selves, the
person God created us to be.
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- IT'S NOT WHAT YOU HAVE
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- When I was rich I found I didn't appreciate having things
as much as I did as a grad student. I used to live on about $10K and wanted
for nothing. I actually saved. It's not what you have; it's how much you
appreciate what you have. And if it comes too easily, you tend to appreciate
it less.
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- My first car, a nearly new Mazda GLC, took all my savings
($7K.) It meant the world to me. I became nauseous when some kids sat on
the hood and made a dent. My last car, purchased when I was rich, was
an Infiniti J30. I wrote a cheque for $37K and thought, "what the
hell, it's OK."
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- Money is an abstraction that ensnares. Beyond our necessities,
it just steals our lives. How did Ted Turner manage when his $10 billion
fortune was reduced to $3 billion (after AOL bought Time Warner?) Did
it sting to go from the 12th richest man to the 48th? I bet it did. Did
it affect his lifestyle? I doubt it!
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- We can't buy happiness but we keep on trying. Money makes
us feel good and feeling good is what motivates us. Only, the feeling doesn't
last. I have a hunch that Love (God) is what provides the permanent feel-good
experience. We have substituted money for love. As a result, we can't
love.
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- Henry David Thoreau said, "A man is rich in proportion
to the time he can devote to other things than money." In those terms,
many peopleespecially the rich-- are poor. Those "other things"
are what make us human.
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- I'd like to hear your concise comments on how much thought
and energy you devote to money, and how you feel about it.. --- Henry Makow
Ph.D. is the inventor of the game Scruples and author of "A Long
Way to go for a Date." His articles exposing fe-manism and the New
World Order can be found at his web site www.savethemales.ca He enjoys
receiving comments, some of which he posts on his site using first names
only. hmakow@gmail.com
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