How To Be The Master Of Your Own Destiny

American writer Henry David Thoreau is famous for once writing:

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Many people live their entire lives as if they were at the mercy of their life circumstances. Now it's true that there are some things in life that we have no direct control over, like natural disasters and other people's behavior. But it's equally true that we often have more say in how our life goes than we think we do. For instance, we can choose to live on a fault line in an earthquake-prone city or we can choose to live away from hotspots of seismic activity; and some forms of communication are much better at getting a response that we would like from other people than others.

We have two choices in life: We can either submit to our life circumstances, give up our power and lead a life of resignation and often-not-so-quiet desperation; or we can choose to be the master of our own destiny.

If the idea of being the captain of your own ship sounds appealing, here's how we can do it:

Decide What We Want In Life, And Go After It

When we were a child, a bunch of well-meaning adults put a whole heap of restrictions on our behavior for our own good. Well, at least they probably said it was for our own good. Sometimes it really was, and other times it was just a way of controlling us in order to fit in with their needs and to lessen their own anxiety about us getting into mischief. Families, schools, religions and other societal structures all bombard us with rules and limitations about what is possible, permissible and available to us in life. Over time these limiting beliefs filter down into our nervous system and appear very real, even though they're actually just viral copies of other people's rules and limiting beliefs.

Families in particular tend to inculcate us unconsciously with their own set of beliefs about what is permissible for us. Parents with low self-esteem tend to raise children with low self-esteem. The lower our self-esteem, the less we will believe is possible in life for us.

As an adult, we are responsible for how our life goes: So decide what you want in life, and go after it.

Focus On What We Can Control, Not What We Can't

I often notice that my coaching clients, my friends, my self and many other people I meet seem to get these two things around backwards: We often expend enormous energy on trying to control the things in life that we have no power over, and yet neglect or act powerless in the face of things that we can actually control.

The serenity prayer from Alcoholics Anonymous seems to put this most succinctly:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

Getting this around the right way will make a massive difference to whether we feel like we're in charge of our life circumstances or whether we're victim to them.

Much of our lasting joy in life comes from our relationships with other people. Attempting to control and manipulate other people at their own expense isn't likely to lead to sustained happiness. There's a big karmic difference between behaving and communicating in ways that encourage other people to want to contribute to our life, and attempting to control or exploiting other people in destructive and manipulative ways. Learn to recognize the difference.

Quit Playing Victim

Playing victim to our life circumstances is the quickest way to undermine our own personal power. Nothing is bad as the smell of a burning martyr. Being a victim is an uninspiring way of living that will attract other victims to us; and that will make it even harder to get what we want out of life.

Adversity is a part of life, and I'm sure you've had more than your fair share of upsets, disappointments and setbacks. I'm not going to minimize the impact that adversity has, because traumatic life circumstances can leave emotional scars that get lodged deep in our nervous system, and it's taken me a long time to extricate many of mine.

If bad stuff has happened to you, get yourself to a psychologist, therapist or life coach and do some emotional healing work to release the stranglehold that the past has over you so you can build a better future. But if you've just developed a bad habit of complaining about your life circumstances, stop focusing on the past and take action to create the future that you want.

You won't be bothered complaining about your past once your present life is amazing.

Put Yourself First, And Don't Neglect Others

Sometimes as a child we are encouraged to focus on other people's happiness at our own expense and put everyone else's needs before our own. That's a formula for resentment and depression. There's a reason that we start out life believing that we are the center of the universe: Because we are at the center of our life experience. Trying to please everyone around us at our own expense will simply make us resentful, and that's ultimately not going to please anybody.

The old airplane analogy is very apt: In the event of a disaster, we fit our own oxygen mask first, so we can then help other people fit theirs. When I did my first aid training, I was taught to look out for my own safety first, so I didn't become just another casualty needing help in a potentially dangerous situation.

Lasting happiness comes largely from connection with other people and contributing to their lives; but the paradox is that in order to do that effectively, we need to make sure that our needs are getting met as well. It's a balancing act: If we focus entirely on ourselves and our problems, we end up lonely and miserable. If we always put other people before ourselves and neglect our own needs, we'll end up resentful. Somewhere in the middle of this spectrum is the sweet spot and getting this balance right is key to living a great life.

Face Our Fears

Standing in between us and anything that we want but don't yet have, is usually an unpleasant emotion that we haven't yet faced. Often it's fear: maybe the fear of failure, or of rejection, or of being seen for who we really are.

The key to facing fears is to do it incrementally by taking gradual steps every day to expand our comfort zone in the direction of the life that we want.

I don't recommend that you go too crazy, since you don't want to give yourself a nervous breakdown. But the life of our dreams will not arrive at the doorstep while we just sit at home in front of the TV. At some point, we need to face the fears that are currently preventing us from having the life that we want, and I suggest that building a consistent habit of facing a little fear each day is the most sustainable way to get there.

Embrace Failure

One of my biggest fears in the past has been the fear of failure. It was huge for me, and it still kicks in sometimes in the form of self-doubt. It even came up when I sat down to write this article and I found myself thinking: “What if nobody reads it?”

“Well, thank you habitual negative self-talk, for trying to protect me from the pain that I might feel if nobody does read it.”, I replied to my inner critic, “But I think I'm mature enough to handle that pain now, thank you. Certainly nobody will read it if I give up before I start and don't even write it. Then I'd be shortchanging everyone who might benefit from my experience. So I think I'll just have a go and write it anyway”.

Failure is a part of the road to success. Every successful person I've met says this: They often failed many times before achieving success, but we just didn't see it. The media revels in bad news failure stories. Don't listen to it. Stop shaming other people who fail, and start feeling pride in their willingness to give something a go. Focus on enjoying the journey of working towards what you want in life, and let go of your attachment to results so you see everything as a learning experience rather than a “success” or “failure”.

Learn To Trust Yourself

Many of us have been brought up with religions or life philosophies that dictate that other people know how to run our lives better than we do. As a child that may have been true, although I've got to say that the jury is still out on that one for me. Many adults never self-actualize and those school and Sunday school teachers I looked up to as a kid turned out to be barely adults. I look back at them and their supposed wisdom very differently now I'm a little older and wiser myself.

Now it's true that there's a lot of valuable life lessons to learn from every teacher, religion and life philosophy. It's a lot easier to learn from other people's experience than to rediscovery everything about life from first principles. But there's a lot of bullshit out there too, and the lessons that we learn from our own experience will always be more impactful than wisdom gained from a book, no matter how divinely inspired someone claims it to be.

Learn to trust our own inner guidance: We won't always get it right, but we will learn over time from experience. That involves deciding what we want, having a go at taking action towards getting it, and refocusing our efforts each time we make mistakes we make along the way.

Take Action

Nothing happens without taking action. We can do all the conscious manifesting in the world, but it will come to nothing if we take no action towards getting what we want. We can read all the self-help books in the world too, and that will make no difference if we don't actually implement what they say. If you purchase the Confident Man Program, read the guide and listen to all the audio bonuses; and then go back to watching porn on the Internet, your life will not change one iota.

If we want to be the master of our own destiny, we need to take sustained, positive action towards our goals every day; and we need to enjoy the process since there will inevitably be ups and downs along the way.

If you're not sure where to start, the secret answer to that question is: It doesn't matter. Start anywhere, and you'll soon enough discover whether you're heading in the right direction. But you won't find that out if you're not moving at all, so get started today. If you're still stuck for ideas, check out The Confident Man Program Guide; and quit making the excuse that you don't know what to do!

Mini-nukes and mosquito-like robot weapons being primed for future warfare

Several countries are developing nanoweapons that could unleash attacks using mini-nuclear bombs and insect-like lethal robots.

While it may be the stuff of science fiction today, the advancement of nanotechnology in the coming years will make it a bigger threat to humanity than conventional nuclear weapons, according to an expert. The U.S., Russia and China are believed to be investing billions on nanoweapons research.

“Nanobots are the real concern about wiping out humanity because they can be weapons of mass destruction,” said Louis Del Monte, a Minnesota-based physicist and futurist. He’s the author of a just released book entitled“Nanoweapons: A Growing Threat To Humanity.”

One unsettling prediction Del Monte’s made is that terrorists could get their hands on nanoweapons as early as the late 2020s through black market sources.

According to Del Monte, nanoweapons are much smaller than a strand of human hair and the insect-like nanobots could be programmed to perform various tasks, including injecting toxins into people or contaminating the water supply of a major city.  

Another scenario he suggested the nanodrone could do in the future is fly into a room and drop a poison onto something, such as food, to presumably target a particular individual.

The federal government defines nanotechnology as the science, technology and engineering of things so small they are measured on a nanoscale, or about 1 to 100 nanometers. A single nanometer is about 10 times smaller than the width of a human’s DNA molecule.

While nanotechnology has produced major benefits for medicine, electronics and industrial applications, federal research is currently underway that could ultimately produce nanobots.

For one, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has a program called the Fast Lightweight Autonomy program for the purpose to allow autonomous drones to enter a building and avoid hitting walls or objects. DARPA announced a breakthrough last year after tests in a hangar in Massachusetts.

Previously, the Army Research Laboratory announced it created an advanced drone the size of a fly complete with a set of “tiny robotic legs” — a major achievement since it presumably might be capable of entering a building undetected to perform surveillance, or used for more nefarious actions.

Frightening details about military nanotechnologies were outlined in a 2010 report from the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency, including how  “transgenic insects could be developed to produce and deliver protein-based biological warfare agents, and be used offensively against targets in a foreign country. ”

It also forecast “microexplosives” along with “nanobots serving as [bioweapons] delivery systems or as micro-weapons themselves, and inhalable micro-particles to cripple personnel.”

In the case of nanoscale robots, Del Monte said they can be the size of a mosquito or smaller and programmed to use toxins to kill or immobilize people; what’s more, these autonomous bots ultimately could become self-replicating.

Last month’s targeted assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s ruler, was a stark reminder that toxins are available from a variety of sources and can be unleashed in public locations. It’s also been alleged by Russia’s Pravda paper that nanoweapons were used by the U.S. against foreign leaders. 

A Cambridge University conference on global catastrophic risk found a 5 percent risk of nanotech weapons causing human extinction before the year 2100.

As for the mini-nukes, Del Monte expects they represent “the most horrific near-term nanoweapons.” 

Nanotechnology opens up the possibility to manufacture mini-nuke components so small that they are difficult to screen and detect. Furthermore, the weapon (capable of an explosion equivalent to about 100 tons of TNT) could be compact enough to fit into a pocket or purse and weigh about 5 pounds and destroy large buildings or be combined to do greater damage to an area.

“When we talk about making conventional nuclear weapons, they are difficult to make,” he said. “Making a mini-nuke would be difficult but in some respects not as difficult as a full-blown nuclear weapon.”

Del Monte explained that the mini-nuke weapon is activated when the nanoscale laser triggers a small thermonuclear fusion bomb using a tritium-deuterium fuel. Their size makes them difficult to screen, detect and also there’s “essentially no fallout” associated with them. 

Still, while the mini-nukes are powerful in and of themselves, he expects they are unlikely to wipe out humanity. He said a larger concern is the threat of the nanoscale robots, or nanobots because they are “the technological equivalent of biological weapons.”

The author said controlling these “smart nanobots” could become an issue since if lost, there could be potentially millions of these deadly nanobots on the loose killing people indiscriminately.

Earlier in his career, Del Monte said he held a secret clearance when he worked on Defense Department programs at Honeywell, ranging from missiles to satellites. He also previously worked on advanced computers at IBM and has several patents on microelectronics. In those roles, he led development of microelectronics and sensors.

You believe you know something? That's just foolish

 Why I'm addressing this foolishness, I have no idea, here we go.

  The human body has neuroreceptors in order to taste, touch, see, hear and smell. These receptors traverse a "flawed" system to reach the brain.
The path is an information "loss and distortion" holy grail. Information travels from receptors to dendrites, synapses, neurotransmitters, voltage gated channels and even more crap to reach the brain.

 When this "less than perfect" pathway delivers this distorted messages to the brain, another flawed and distorted pathway of processes begins.
 The human mind associates, draws into play past experiences, interprets, assumes, connects non-existent dots and tons of other things "before" it presents you with a picture. With that picture the id and the ego do their dance before a decision is made by the superego, wholly crap!

 Think of the best fiber optic system in the world and it still has loss and distortion but people seem to think their human system is perfect when they say, "I know".

 I write this post "gathering, believing, interpreting, assuming and even assessing" I'm correct but damn sure don't "know".

 If you don't believe me, go here > "Hello"

Finding Jobs Overseas

 I have taught you how to cross reference businesses overseas for validity, I have also shared what to look for as far as scams.
 As of this date, I am finding more opportunities abroad via Craigslist than I am by means of employment sites.
 Do your homework and good luck.

Set Up Your Own VPN

Set Up Your Own VPN, Without the Expensive Software

By Eric Geier

If you want secure access to your network when away from the office, you can setup a Virtual Private Network (VPN ). You can connect via the Internet and securely access your shared files and resources. You don't have to buy an expensive VPN server if don't have a lot of users. Windows actually provides VPN server and client functionality.

In this tutorial, we'll set up the Windows 7 or Vista VPN server and connect with Windows XP, Vista, or 7. Now let's get started!

Avoiding IP conflicts

Since VPN connections link networks together, you must be careful with the subnet and IP addressing so there aren't any conflicts. On the network hosting the VPN server, you should use an uncommon default IP for the router, such as 192.168.50.1. If you have multiple offices, assign each to a different uncommon IP/subnet, such as 192.168.51.1, 192.168.52.1, and so on.

Create an incoming VPN connection in Windows

To configure the Windows VPN server, you do what is described by Microsoft as "creating an incoming connection." This will be the server or host of the VPN. Among other things, you'll specify the users you want to be able to connect. Follow these steps to create an incoming connection:

1. Right-click the network icon in the system tray and select Open Network and Sharing Center.
2. Click on Manage network connections (Windows Vista) or Change adapter settings (Windows 7).
3. Press the Alt key to show the File Menu and click File > New Incoming connection… .
4. Select who you'd like to give VPN access to and/or create custom accounts by clicking on Add someone. See Figure 2 for an example. When you're done, click on Next.
5. Select Through the Internet, as Figure 3 shows, and click Next.
6. Such as shown in Figure 4, select the protocols you want to enable for this connection. You'll likely want to select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), so remote users receive an IP address and can access the Internet and/or network. Plus if you want the remote user(s) to access file and/or printer shares, select File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks. When you're done, click Allow access.
7. On the next window, click Close.

Now you need to access the properties of the newly created incoming network connection and define the IP address range for VPN clients:

1. On the Network Connections window, double-click Incoming Connections.
2. Select the Networking tab and double-click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4).
3. Select Specify IP addresses and then enter a starting and ending address that's within range of your local subnet but not conflicting with the DHCP range. For example, if your router's IP is 192.168.50.1, you might enter 192.168.50.50 to 192.168.50.59 as shown in Figure 5, which would support 10 clients. If you want clients to be able to assign themselves an IP, select that option.
4. Click OK on both dialog boxes to save the changes.

Configure any third-party firewalls

Windows will automatically allow the VPN connections through Windows Firewall when you configure the incoming connection on the host PC. However, if you have a third-party firewall installed on the host PC, you need to make sure the VPN traffic is allowed. You may have to manually enter the port numbers 47 and 1723.

Configure your IP address, dynamic DNS, and router

To enable VPN connections to the host PC from the Internet, you must configure your router to forward them to the Windows PC that's accepting the incoming connections. You specify the host PC by entering its local IP address. Therefore, before you setup the port forward, you should ensure the IP address won't change.

Start by logging into to the Web-based control panel of the router. Then go to the Network or DHCP settings and see if you can reserve the IP address for the PC so it always gets the same one. This may be called DHCP reservation or Static DHCP. Some routers don't have this feature. In this case, you'll need to manually assign the PC a static IP in the TCP/IP settings of the network connection in Windows.

Once you have figured out the IP address, find the virtual server or port forwarding settings in the router's web-based control panel. Then create an entry forwarding port 1723 to the local IP address of the PC, such as Figure 6 shows. Don't forget to save the changes!

If your Internet connection uses a dynamic IP address, rather than a static one, you should signup and configure a dynamic DNS service. This is because when you configure the remote clients, you have to input the Internet IP address of where the host PC is located. This will be a problem if the IP changes. However, you can sign up for a free service, such as from No-IP, and input your account details into the router so it will update the hostname with your IP. Then you'll have a hostname (such as yourname.no-ip.org) to input into remote clients, which will always point to the current Internet IP address of your host PC.

Now everything on the server side should be configured and ready to go. Next you need to setup the clients.

Create outgoing VPN connections in Windows

Now that you have the server setup, you need to configure the computers which you want to connect from, called the VPN clients. Here's how to in Windows Vista and 7:

1. Right-click the network icon in the system tray and select Open Network and Sharing Center.
2. Click Set up a connection or network (Windows Vista) or Set up a new connection or network (Windows 7, as shown in Figure 7).
3. On the wizard, select Connect to a workplace, and click Next.
4. Select Use my internet connection (VPN).
5. Type the Internet IP address or hostname into the Internet address and enter something for the Destination name. See Figure 8 for an example. You'll probably want to keep the other options disabled. Click Next to continue.
6. Enter a User name and password that was selected when you created the incoming VPN connection, and click Next to try to connect. It will attempt to connect using the following protocols: SSTP, PPTP, and then L2TP.
7. Once connected, click Close.

Windows may by default assign the connection as a Public Network, limiting sharing functionality. Therefore you probably want to change this. If you aren't prompted to do so, open the Network and Sharing Center and click Customize (Windows Vista) or the Public network link under the connection name (Windows 7). Then on the popup window, select Work Network.

Here's how to create and outgoing VPN connection in Windows XP:

1. Open the Network Connections window and click Create a new connection.
2. Select Connect to the network at my workplace, and click Next.
3. Select Virtual Private Network connection, and click Next.
4. Enter a name for the connection, and click Next.
5. Select Do not dial the initial connection, and click Next.
6. Type the Internet IP address or hostname, and click Next.
7. Click Finish.

Limiting VPN traffic

By default, all the Internet traffic on the VPN client will pass through the VPN rather than the local Internet they are connected to. This is great if they are using a public connection, like a port in a hotel or Wi-Fi hotspot, since it keeps their browsing private. However, if they are on a trusted network, like at their home or remote office, this just might be wasting bandwidth. To limit the traffic that passes through the VPN connection:

1. On the Network Connections window, right-click the VPN connection and select Properties.
2. Select the Network tab and double-click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
3. Click the Advanced button and uncheck Use default gateway on remote network (see Figure 9).
4. Click OK on the dialog boxes to save changes.

Now the VPN client will use the local Internet connection when browsing websites. It will only use the VPN connection when a server or IP address isn't reachable via the Internet, such as when accessing shares on the VPN host network.

Connecting to the VPN

In Windows XP, you can connect and disconnect by opening the Network Connections window and right-clicking the VPN connection. In Windows Vista, you can click the network icon in the system tray, click Connect to, and then select the connection. In Windows 7, click the network icon in the system tray and select the VPN connection.

After you connect, you should be able to access the shared resources on the VPN host network. Keep in mind; you may have to manually access shares (e.g. ip_address_of_computer or file://computer_name/) rather than browsing in My Network Places or Network.

Knowledge Is Power Quotes

Knowledge is Power

Learning for the Sake of Learning

Very few people know what they want to major in, let alone what they want their career to be, when they start college. In your first few semesters you’ll likely have the opportunity to take a bunch of introductory classes and you’ll enjoy some of them more than others. During this time you might also feel pressure to declare a major or find your academic passion while simultaneously maintaining good grades.  While you might feel uncertain about what path to take it may also seem like everyone else around you has it all figured out. It’s normal to feel this way, and in reality many students are unsure about what they want to spend their time learning or majoring in.

All of this uncertainty is actually okay. Young people go to college to set themselves up for future success but the college experience is also an opportunity to learn things about yourself and the world around you along the way. Learning what you’re good at, what you enjoy, where your skills are lacking and what you dislike, underlies much of your educational journey. Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is a skill that will help you throughout life.

And remember that a lot of college education is about learning to think, analyze and integrate new information and ideas. In fact, if you ask many adults who attended liberal arts colleges what about their college experience had most influence on them (aside from maybe the friends they made) they will likely tell you it was learning to think and write well. So learning to learn is a really important component of the experience no matter what career you ultimately pursue.

What about your grades? How are you supposed to try out different courses that you aren’t well-versed in and feel confident that you can maintain good grades? Well, unless you know you want to go into a cut throat career that requires impeccable grades, your grades ultimately don’t matter as much as it might seem like they do when you are in the middle of it. The more you learn for the sake of learning, rather than doing it for the credits or the grades, the more you will probably get out of the experience Studying  only to get a grade might actually undermine the process of real learning and get in the way of getting the most knowledge and enjoyment out of your courses.

After college, you’ll probably forget many of the details of the course content you took or the grades you received. But learning to think and learning to learn while on the path to getting the degree will be much more impactful and important in your life.

The Analytical Thinker

Analytical Thinkers are reserved, quiet persons. They like to get to the bottom of things - curiosity is one of their strongest motives. They want to know what holds the world together deep down inside. They do not really need much more to be happy because they are modest persons. Many mathematicians, philosophers and scientists belong to this type.

Analytical Thinkers loathe contradictions and illogicalness; with their sharp intellect, they quickly and comprehensively grasp patterns, principles and structures. They are particularly interested in the fundamental nature of things and theoretical findings; for them, it is not necessarily a question of translating these into practical acts or in sharing their considerations with others. Analytical Thinkers like to work alone; their ability to concentrate is more marked than that of all other personality types. They are open for and interested in new information.

Analytical Thinkers have little interest in everyday concerns - they are always a little like an “absent-minded professor” whose home and workplace are chaotic and who only concerns himself with banalities such as bodily needs when it becomes absolutely unavoidable. The acknowledgement of their work by others does not play a great role for them; in general, they are quite independent of social relationships and very self-reliant.

Analytical Thinkers therefore often give others the impression that they are arrogant or snobby - especially because they do not hesitate to speak their mind with their often harsh (even if justified) criticism and their imperturbable self-confidence. Incompetent contemporaries do not have it easy with them. But whoever succeeds in winning their respect and interest has a witty and very intelligent person to talk to. A partner who amazes one with his excellent powers of observation and his very dry humor.
It takes some time before Analytical Thinkers make friends, but then they are mostly friends for life. They only need very few people around them. Their most important ability is to be a match for them and thus give them inspiration. Constant social obligations quickly get on their nerves; they need a lot of time alone and often withdraw from others. Their partner must respect this and understand that this is not due to the lack of affection. Once they have decided in favor of a person, Analytical Thinkers are loyal and reliable partners. However, one cannot expect romance and effusive expressions of feelings from them and they will definitely forget their wedding anniversary. But they are always up to a night spent with stimulating discussions and a good glass of wine!

More at https://www.ipersonic.com/type/AT.html

Take a moment "just" for yourself

 Take a moment and close your eye, now think of all the rules that you follow. Think of all the customary traditions you follow and the beliefs you follow. Think of all the thiongs you don't like doing but feel pressured to do. Even think of the "good morning's" you may say that you really feel nothing about and just release...

 With your eyes closed, count each of your breaths to 10 and then begin again.

 Imagine yourself with no reason to do what you feel compelled to do. There are no reasons to follow rules here, this is your space.
*Counting your breaths will create a breathing and thinking rhythm.
 If you'd like, hum your favorite tune, imagine your favorite scene, there are no critics here.
 Picture what you'd really like to do in life and mentally do it, immerse yourself in the warmth it creates.

 When you learn to do this effectively you'll return often.

Peace, "Niko J"

I was asked my opinion about Christianity

 I'll have to condense this as I have things to do and the topic has no variables to the "devout".

 I believe you are among the most confused groups of people that walk the planet and here's why > 

 First off, my Lutheran grade school and my Catholic high school plus its preachers, teachers, priests and pastors taught me that "God is Everything". Ok

 Is He an orange, yes - is He dog poop, no - Is He you, yes - Is He Islam, no - Is He your "x", no - Is He Trump, no - Is He porn, no - Is He love, yes - is He hate, no, on and on and on until I get a headache!

 Basically, He's whatever the speaker of Christianity favors and He's not what the speaker dislikes or can't fathom

 Ok

 What is the correct book to see the true God?

 Answer: Depending on how one distinguishes a different Bible version from a revision of an existing Bible version, there are as many as 50 different English versions of the Bible. The question then arises: Is there really a need for so many different English versions of the Bible? The answer is, of course, no, there is no need for 50 different English versions of the Bible. This is especially true considering that there are hundreds of languages into which the entire Bible has not yet been translated. At the same time, there is nothing wrong with there being multiple versions of the Bible in a language. In fact, multiple versions of the Bible can actually be an aid in understanding the message of the Bible.

https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-versions.html

 Wholly shit, I'm sorry I asked.

 Why is it that I had never seen Christians and the Jewish community unit and hold hands before ISIS? Don't answer, screw it.

 If the Bible is the correct book then why has it gone through so many revisions?

 Are we the only living beings in the universe?

 I use to be asked was I ready for the 2nd coming of the Lord to which I answered, "Where in the hell did he go"?

 Why is there always a white Jesus painting in the churches when he was Jewish?

 I believe in God and I curse him out from time to time, care to tell me I'm going to hell? Whatever happened to being honest?

 There are 10 commandments and if I text you a picture of my private area, there's no sin, not in the commandments.

 Do priests that molest little boys go to hell? What if they beg forgiveness after each event?

 *Remember, God is everything! *Until you disagree with it or dislike it.

 Are Blacks going to heaven?, What about Geechies?

 Are American soldiers doing God's work as they kill in battle?

If there was "nothing" here before God and now there is "sin", God must have brought it with him,. Do you agree?

 My puppy is "supposedly" not going to heaven because he has no soul (Nor my Blackfoot Indian ancestors because they didn't read your book) but you actually think I'd wish to be held hostage in a heaven with you pasty faced hypocrites? My puppy is most likely 10 times more loyal than you, more trusted and honest than you and has never told a lie or cheated in a relationship. (Also, physics dictates there is no tomorrow and therefore there is no time or place for a heaven "after death")

Can you say that?

 *I may have ruffled some feathers but a true Christian's spirit teaches him or her to forgive and forget *It's not that they actually do it but this allows them to take an imaginary "greater stance" than the common man because they are better than the rest.

 *Don't feel left out, "All organized religions are full of shit"!

You're poor in the mind before you're poor in the pockets

9 Things A Wealthy Mind Does That The Poor Mind Does Not

The richest 1% of the world currently control 48% of the world’s wealth. The top 80 wealthiest people in the world control approximately $1.9 trillion, which just so happens to be the amount controlled by 3.5 billion people on the other end of the spectrum. Can you believe that? There are 80 people in this world that collectively share the same amount of money as 3.5 billion people!

many of us would like to believe that each one of these 80 wealthiest people inherited their wealth, in actuality only 11 did. The other 69 have built their immense wealth from very little. Look at Warren Buffett, for example. He grew up as a middle class child, but got addicted to the world of business and investing at a very young age. Today, he is worth $72.3 billion.

Nobody gave him this money. He earned it because he has always took actions like the rich would and avoided the actions of the poor. Since he has so much wealth, should he be required to give his money to the rest of us just because we haven’t become as successful? I don’t think so. Instead, we should all be studying the things the rich do and should be actively doing them ourselves!

1. Believe in the Law of Income

The wealthy mindset believe that they will be paid in direct proportion to the value that they deliver to the marketplace. In other words, if they are integral in forming a product that nearly everyone in the world wants/needs, then they should be compensated accordingly. The inventor of the self-dimming rear-view mirror which is now in almost every car in America. Do you think it would be fair to only pay him $15 an hour for the time he put into this invention? Or, since his product has been an amazing success, perhaps he should receive a portion of the proceeds from each sale?

2. Focus on Opportunities, Not Obstacles

There once was a shoe salesman that found himself in a far-away country, trying to sell shoes to the natives. The only problem was, nobody there wore shoes and the sale was often quite difficult. The salesman soon gave up in frustration and decided to leave the area. On his way out, he met another shoe salesman. “Don’t bother entering this town.” said the first salesman, “These people don’t even wear shoes.” The eyes of the second salesman grew wide, “No one has shoes?? Then I could sell a pair to everyone in town! How fortunate we are to stumble upon an untapped market!”

It’s all a matter of perspective. The people who are not winning often see obstacles and quickly give up, while a wealthy mindset see the the opportunities and enter arenas that many wouldn’t dream of.

3. Associate with Positive, Successful People

Wealthy mindset people know that attitude is everything. If they continually hang out with people that complain about the weather, bad-mouth the government, and speak negatively about the state of the economy, then they will likely start doing the same thing! If, however, these same people start hanging around individuals that continuously talk about success, opportunity, and the positive things in life, chances are that they will see the world from an entirely different perspective!

Instead of the world being a terrible place to live, it suddenly becomes a glowing land of success and opportunity. A great example of this is United States citizens vs. immigrants into the States. Immigrants are 4x more likely to become millionaires than those of us that grew up here. The main reason? We talk about the negatives of living in this nation, while immigrants see it as the land of opportunity. Quite frankly, it is what you make of it.

4. Willing to Promote Themselves and Their Value

Wealthy mindset people aren’t afraid to tell you what they’re great at. Most of the time, they aren’t embellishing. It’s the truth. People not financially getting ahead might be great at many things, but they always seem to downplay them into nothing (either because they think negatively of salespeople or because they’re not confident in themselves). Therefore, you assume their skills are just that – nothing. If you want to be wealthy, you must learn how to become a salesperson and at the very least, sell yourself.

5. Grow Bigger Than Their Problems

The people who are not financially getting ahead see a problem and they chalk it up to bad luck and quit trying. A wealthy mindset run into problems and might scratch their heads for a while, but they don’t give up. They’ll work and work until they discover a solution to the problem so they can win in the end.

6. Wealthy Mind Think Both, the Think Either Or

Economists came up with the term, “opportunity cost” long ago. Put simply, this means that if you choose one thing, then you are ultimately forgoing something else. In other words, if I have $5 and I buy an $5 ice cream cone, then I am ultimately giving up that pack of gum that I wanted as well.

This is how people who are not financially winning think too. They have a set amount of money and they think that they can either spend it one thing or another, but not both. It sounds logical doesn’t it? But the wealthy mindset focus on how they can get both.

Following along the same lines as the example above, let’s give a wealthy person $5. They too want both ice cream and a $5 pack of gum, but instead of thinking either or, they decide to go for both. To do this, the wealthy mindset would not buy the ice cream or the gum initially, but might instead buy a 24 pack of water for $5. They walk down the road a ways, sell each water bottle to passers-by for 50 cents and earn a total of $12. Now they can enjoy their ice cream, gum, and still have $2 left to spare! The wealthy mindset has a “both” mentality, not “either or”.

7. The Wealthy Mindset Focus on Net Worth, Not Working Income

Financially struggling people often talk in terms of hourly pay, whereas wealthy people know that an hourly income is not nearly as important as someone’s net worth. One can earn quite a lot of money per hour, but if they don’t learn to keep any of it, they will still be broke in the end. The wealthy mindset person knows that a large net worth will net many opportunities and will create more wealth in the future.

8. The Wealthy Mindset Constantly Learns and Grows

Many kids today think that they’ll be able to work just hard enough to earn their degrees, and then they won’t have to pick up another book for the rest of their lives. They might turn this dream into a reality, but they’ll likely “just get by” forever.

The wealthy mindset starve for knowledge because they know that the more they learn, the more likely they are to succeed. The average millionaire reads one non-fiction book a month because they want to grow themselves into the person that they want to be. The average broke person will read nothing and will never change. As I like to say, “the rich constantly learn and grow, and the poor think they already know.”

9. The Wealthly Mindset Doesn’t Mind Taking the Hard Road

The poor often stay poor because they take easy road after easy road, until they find themselves in bum-town. As an example, one person might have the option to work at the local grocery store for $8 an hour and could learn from the very wise businessman that owns the place. But instead, this person decides that making $8 an hour is for chumps and they start dealing marijuana for $200 an hour instead. The hard road could have made them into a successful business person, but they instead chose the easy road and eventually got addicted to drugs and ended up in prison.

The wealthy don’t mind taking the hard road because they have a long-term mindset. The current life might be difficult, but they know their actions today could benefit them tremendously in the future, so they trudge along and keep their eye on the future prize. By staying focused and doing the things the rich do, many of them will become successful and wealthy as well.

African Americans Are Killing Themselves, Don't Blame the White Man

 Many other ethnicities have joined the "Thick" craze and are killing themselves as well. So you've decided to be "Thick", you may wish to consult with your physician as this type of mental thinking leads to the physical "eating".
 You're essentially putting yourself at a higher risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, stroke and a ton of other health conditions.

 Do you think these pictures are cute? You may be retarded.

 I got quite a few responses to this post, I wonder why? LOL All I can say is, "To each his or her own", personally I would puke.

Drone attacks are essentially terrorism by joystick

Bernard Hudson is the former director of counterterrorism at the CIA and is a nonresident fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center.

A failed assassination attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday was mounted with explosive-armed drones, according to news reports. Nine days earlier, and on the other side of the world, terrorists claimed to have sent an armed drone to attack the international airport in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. No one was killed in either case, and the circumstances of both remain murky. But a new and dangerous era in non-state-sponsored terrorism clearly has begun, and no one is adequately prepared to counter it.

In Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, government officials said one or more drones detonated explosives above the audience at a nationally televised military event. Several people were injured, though not the president or his wife, Cilia Flores, who was standing next to him onstage. Maduro blamed his political opponents.

In Abu Dhabi, Houthi rebels from Yemen said they had launched a drone attack at the airport. UAE authorities deny the incident occurred, but the greater truth is that it is technically possible — indeed, not difficult at all — for the rebels to have done so. Reinforcing this is the wide belief that the Houthis are being advised by Iran’s special security services, which have shown an impressive capability for such things.

Both of these episodes will encourage other technologically savvy groups and disgruntled individuals to use drones to commit political violence. While news of the events in Venezuela and the UAE was disturbing, the failed attempt in Abu Dhabi is especially worrisome because of the mass casualties that destroying an airliner would cause.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) represent a fresh threat to the traveling public. A concerted effort must be made to confront this threat before lives are lost.

Weaponized drones start with a tactical advantage: Most can fly lower than current technology is capable of readily detecting. Even if they were carrying only a small quantity of explosives, they could bring down a civilian aircraft in flight. Commercial airliners are vulnerable during takeoffs and landings when there is limited time for aircrews to react to unforeseen, and potentially hostile, events.

A simple hobbyist’s drone can down an airplane when joysticked into the airliner’s path. Militarized drones, the kind probably available to groups such as the Houthis, are heavier (but can weigh less than an adult human), and can carry several pounds of explosives at speeds up to 100 miles per hour with a range of 400 miles (about the distance between Washington and Boston). These flying robots can be programmed to maneuver into active airspace and wreak havoc without human guidance.

Airport security, as currently designed, is focused on ways to mitigate threats from people who have access to the facility, such as passengers and staff, and from cargo transiting the grounds. Airports are not designed to guard against purposeful attacks from the sky. More attention to finding ways to monitor low-flying objects such as drones is urgently needed.

One option: Position security drones above airports, looking down with constant vigilance for airborne threats. Another: Eventually require all drones to be connected to local cellular networks so that, at least, hobbyists’ drones can be detected before they collide with commercial jets.

Protecting heads of state from drone attacks will be even more complex, so varied are the leaders’ schedules and public appearances. Not only can preprogrammed drones swoop in from almost any direction, but they can also be used by anyone with the means to buy them. Worse, threats from the sky used to be exclusively the domain of nation-states. That has changed in the past two weeks. Now, a far broader and more elusive menace has emerged and must be addressed.

Weaponized drones are firmly in the hands of non-state actors. No one is safe. Not heads of state. Not the flying public. We cannot afford delay in devising ways to combat this new peril.