In Search of God!

Discussion in 'Religion and Spirituality' started by dealmaker, Mar 25, 2017.

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    #1411     Jan 24, 2018
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  2. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    It's from "Stock Traders Almanac", I don't know what their criteria was in calling him the first venture capitalist.
    As you know 20% performance fee for hedge funds were derived from old Phoenician sea captains who got 20% of the proceeds upon successful completion of a trip.
     
    #1412     Jan 24, 2018
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  3. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
    - Eleanor Roosevelt
     
    #1413     Jan 24, 2018
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  4. themickey

    themickey

    Hmmm, anyone like to comment on this? Is Fred saying that pride & ego finally catch up to undo all the good?
     
    #1414     Jan 24, 2018
  5. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    I think he is saying nothing is permanent and you should always adjust to the circumstances.
     
    #1415     Jan 24, 2018
  6. Everything is constantly dynamic and ever-changing; a chain reaction set in place.
    Every future moment, is presently affected by the present moment. -- While the past is good for nostalgia and semi-good lessons in them...they are not necessarily there to be dwelled upon.

    The best people in any field, in my opinion, express themselves...in a somewhat philosophical, open-minded or ended, manner,

    Not everything has to be explicitly written in literal black and white; their minds are correlating things two or three steps ahead -- or deeper than surface level, on multiple contingencies.
     
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    #1416     Jan 25, 2018
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  7. themickey

    themickey

    hmmmmm, but why, under what circumstances does a person create bigger negative issues (penetrate deeper into error) when on a path which was a winner?
    Flumoxed, could be some wisdom here, can't recognise it atm.
     
    #1417     Jan 25, 2018
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  9. speedo

    speedo

    Buddha believed that through meditative practice, we clear our minds of petty "noise" and come to recognize that all people and things are not only connected but are the same. By doing wrong to others or other things, we are doing wrong to ourselves.
     
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