ok, that's just a suggestion, I don't like to have all my eggs in one basket. You can call them on the phone and they will be happy to talk to you. dividends are the dividends from the stocks and the interest from the bonds (but since it is in a mutal fund it is paid as dividends (no 1099int)) capital gains are from the profits from rolling over the bonds and sales of stocks that's why most have the dividends paid and the cap gains reinvested wish you would have asked a year ago, hard to buy up here after such a good run up be careful, might want to dollar cost in and see if we have a decent pull back, and then go all in
Yes indeed! I am wary and weary of words to be sure. They are way over-rated. And it's a shame Reality has been reduced to a "word", or a book full of words. There are, allegedly, five "sacred languages". What a joke. The book, "Keys of Enoch, Book of Knowledge" talks about Hebrew "fire letters"...the power in the very shape of the letter! It gets really ridiculous. This is the best interpretation of the story of "The Tower of Babel", built to reach heaven. The way i figure it, words are so weak, it's important to be their master and not their slaves. I am aware of at least five sources of communications (words) that are coming as from "Jesus". All very authoritative. They are not all saying the same thing. So i've disqualified four and listened to one. It remains to be seen whether i've learned anything. Listening to the others didn't seem to hurt me too much, except there may have been the potential to wander around in the proverbial desert 40 more years than i needed to.
all the writings are conveniently deemed to have come from the source, they are just men,actually writers or men that write, if words are tools, then they as writers would be better at them than you ,as say a plumber to a pipe wrench vs a dentist with a pipe wrench,listen to your heart,your mind, it's all there,they are gifts or tools we are all born with,be the cave man and just pick it up intuitively, or thru osmossis
So, because cap gains reinvested equals indefinite postponement he could keep capital gains taxes to a minimum by asking to be paid mostly from the fund's stock dividends (which aren't taxed?) and bond interest, which is treated like dividends because it's in a mutual fund? Sweet! His CD won't become liquid till this October but he's already concerned enough to prepare. Dollar cost monthly for six months? This could really test his scope of investing skill, and mine, because of the seemingly extra % he could make by getting it all in early in a lump sum.
I want to buy this. I have questions though about "all the writings" and the "source". If words are wielded by an imagination (less than all-knowing), the cost is a waste of time (wandering around in the desert). It they are wielded by an all-knowing source (Reality) they may save time. But i am familiar with the concept that even the latter could utilize imaginary reference points starting from very rudimentary parables to very sophisticated psychology. The rudimentary steps might appear to be a waste after a while, but perhaps needed at the time. By "steps" i mean psychological stepping stones of understanding, where a mind can only learn by making references to what it already thinks it knows , and asking the mind to make a new link/reference toward Reality - stretching the imagination - till it can go beyond.
no, unfortunately, he still must pay cap gains taxes. The turnover in this fund is very minimal so it is not a big problem, but like I said, most reinvest cap gains unless taxes are a problem.
I think i've got it. There is still some turn over in the fund but minimal. So the best way to learn about how much that will be is from the Fund literature? But it sounds like it shouldn't be much concern, like 10% of his income?
reality ,...for instance ,.... in '91 baywatch was the #1 show watched in about 40 countries,Pam anderson was the most beautiful women in the world,in 67' that may have been raquel welch or sophia loren,.... is fleeting or a perception for the most part only a small percent is real, the weather,your bodily functions,birth,death,those things that happen outside of the mind that you rarely think about...the our father was actually not a prayer but jesus's answer to "how should we pray.?" .the phrase"forgive me my trespasses as i forgive those who have tresspassed against me "was i think meant to clear the mind before praying..i think buddists do this....so searching for a needle in a haystack or searching for the truth...gets muddled in philosophy and theology when they stack ...what if this were true,then this would be true ...on top of each other.... til you have to work backwards and disprove everything you read before you can make your own decision....in theology for instance when studying the bible and its many translations from one language to the next. it loses a lot of its original meaning..the hebrew or greek version of the 11th commandment..in king james english version its love your neighbor as yourself..the original version was "love worketh no ill will towards his neighbor",a lot easier to just forgive and not hate than it is to love someone over and over as your repeatedly getting used,makes you a patsy,might cost you your life and won't make you a martyr..we all know the difference between right and wrong..we are often dishonest and rationalize our behaviour to be right when we know it's not, but to another person guilty of the same practice,it's easy to outwit or justify your behaviour to that person or persons with a lot of words, not unlike all the great minds are doing presently with the debt problem,if they are all lying,who can say one is right and one is wrong..truth might be that they are all wrong
Hell~ I want to say something about the proverbial "hell" because it's been brought up here a couple times and because i've been warned about it in the traditional way that people have been warning other people about it; 'Watch out!'...whatever it takes to monger fear and worry for whatever reasons they think are valid (behavioral modification?) But while people are watching out for a future hell they are distracted from the task at hand, to...: ...escape from the hell we've already made! I mean, what do they think this is, "middle earth" like in the Lord of the Rings? There really is no middle ground between Reality and imagination. There's no neutrality. It's a for-me-or-against-me relationship. So im going to explain why IMAGINATION is actually "HELL". First of all, there is Reality. And in reality, Reality is all there is. It has no competition. It has a monopoly. There isn't anything else! So, it is Everything. And it just so happens that there isn't anything better than this Everything! So it's a very happy situation to Be in. But along comes what i'll call a "concept", which is basically an impossibility, but nevertheless, fun to consider, at least temporarily. A "joke" would qualify as a concept. A "joke" is actually a lie, but one that's obvious and silly. If the joke is not obvious, then we call it a "lie". So there's this joke: "Can there be MORE than Everything?". It should be obvious that this is an impossibility - a concept - to be laughed at. But there's this temptation to laugh, in order to ADD to the happiness of Everything! Imagination is itself a joke, a device conceived to explore the possibility of the impossible. So imagination is ADDED to Reality in order to have MORE. Thus, imagination is an attempt to have BOTH. And here is where there is a temptation to have both what is GOOD and also what is NOT GOOD. GOOD is a kind of perfection. It just doesn't get any better. And, if you try to ADD anything to it, the net effect is to RUIN it. But, how would you know that? Imagination is the realm of the UNKNOWN. And if you have not ever ADDED to Reality before, how would you KNOW you would ruin it if you did? So there is this temptation. So what happens, in the interest of having MORE-than-EVERYTHING, we end up with the EXPERIENCE of LESS, by combining BOTH everything AND nothing. Are you following me here? Nothing is MORE than Everything. So when you combine them together in an effort to have BOTH, you get LESS. And this is the genesis of the concept of LOSS. Imagination sets us on a downward spiral because it starts at a situation where it doesn't get any better, and tries to add to it. The only way it can add is to have situations that are NOT better, but are WORSE. The first thing imagination must add to Reality are differences. This is because in Reality, there is only Equality. More than Equality requires differences, which is the genesis of inequality/hierarchy. Separation is an aspect/effect of differences/inequality. If you don't want to be the Same, then you must be separate/different. And so, imagination gives us the experience of being SPECIAL, because we are all DIFFERENT! Being SPECIAL is a prime motivation for using imagination to ADD to the Equality of Reality. Being special offers us an EXPERIENCE that is IMPOSSIBLE within the experience of Reality. These extra experiences are all ADDED to the experience of Reality. So, being special is a temptation. It is such a temptation, it's a "devil" (difficult) to overcome. "The devil" is simply THAT WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO OVERCOME! Imagination is difficult to overcome, once you've succumbed to it's temptations. It is the proverbial rock that the gods made, that they found too difficult to lift, or to roll away. Imagination adds ANOTHER SELF to the Self that is Reality. So it adds an actor, a fake, a poser, a pretender, a mask, an imposter, or a counterfeit. It adds all these and MORE! Imagination adds a whole other "world" to the World that is Reality. And so, imagination is the genesis of "the new world order". This other, "new world", is actually another *self*. It is is *one other self* which comprises all other *selves* (plural). This other self is actually a kind of anti-Self, or *alter-ego*. If Reality is "One" (because it all the Same) then imagination must be MANY. And this is accomplished thought the concept of DIFFERENCES. Imagination is, in every way, UNLIKE Reality. However, that does not stop imagination from postulating it's own substitutes for Reality! This is the "good" side of the "good and evil" coin. Unfortunately, the entire coin is a counterfeit! The desire to be different from Reality leads to a "fall" from the Glory of Reality. This is because in order to ADD to the Glory of Reality, a mind must explore and include the concept of something less than glorious. Here the concept of HIGH versus LOW is included in order to have BOTH of EVERYTHING! From high to low, the mind get's itself into a "gutter". The only way to ADD TO THE HIGHEST is DOWNWARD. This give us "the good, the bad, AND the ugly" (just to make sure we've got everything). Are you following me? Hell is a psychological STATE OF MIND. Ultimately, hell is a state of mind that you snap out of. Snap out of it! In other words, it's a STATE OF HYPNOSIS. It's like a SPELL cast over your mind. Messages from Reality are intended to BREAK or otherwise BANISH the SPELL. So all messages from Reality are PSYCHOLOGICAL. And this is because the only thing that's Real about imagination is the MIND that conjures it up! Thus, SALVATION is about saving your Mind from the ravages of a downward spiraling imagination. So it's about mental health. It's about saving our Self (it's Mind) from INSANITY. Imagination comprises any and all NOTIONS. Notions are like opinions, preferences, whims, fantasies...concepts. All notions are laughable, because they are JOKES. It's only when such jokes are taken seriously that they become a *lie* that we mistake for "the truth". Notions, taken seriously, will eventually drive a mind INSANE. Then they become SERIOUSLY INSANE NOTIONS (acronym S.I.N.s) SINs are seriously insane notions that imagination forges into SYMBOLS. The symbols represent the SINs of the imagination. Symbols and IMAGES are the same thing. The imagination is like an IMAGE MAKING FACTORY. It FABRICATES everything that is not true!. So it's basically a lie fabricating factory that we WORK in. Imagination, if it works hard enough, can come up with "DNA", which can be used to come up with ANOTHER SELF! If one of these selves is our neighbor, we call them a "human being". If they are from a distance, we call them "space aliens". But they all come from imagination, and together, they constitute an ANTI-SELF to the Self that is Reality. So this has been a STORY about the GENESIS of HELL. This is how we got "here" ( a relatively unknowable concept). Here, i am FREE. Yes, i am free to BELIEVE ANYTHING I WANT! Unfortunately, this translates into CAPTIVITY. Why? Because Reality WAS FREE, being FREEDOM itSelf. And what do you suppose you get when you ADD MORE to Freedom? You get the freedom to experience LESS than Freedom. This, then is the genesis of LIMITATIONS, and therefore PRISON. If Reality is Free, imagination must go in the other direction in order to be DIFFERENT. Thus, the temptation to be SPECIAL ends up making us all CAPTIVES of our own imagination! This is how we have *wished* to be "here". Because we are Free, it has always been a matter of AN EXPRESSION OF FREEDOM. Thus, "hell" is a perverse sort of FREEDOM. It's a "place" (another joke) where we DON'T KNOW WE ARE FREE BECAUSE WE ADDED IGNORANCE TO KNOWLEDGE IN ORDER TO HAVE MORE. Are you following me so far? Should i use fewer caps? More caps?
imagination was when the wright bros thought man could fly,had they never seen a bird, they may have never tried,ben franklin tried to capture lightning,most inventions are aided by things that are already here,the circular saw used 90% of the time for cutting lumber was invented by a butcher for cutting meat and bone,if you are trading making 1000 a week you imagine someday that would be more as you learn more, imagination can be an impetus for improvement,this would be harnessing your imagination for a better world..your mind is yours and you can steer it in any direction you want..for better or for worse..just like a losing trade or a hot burner ,you can learn not to repeat negative results...or you can be dishonest with yourself and surround the results with all kinds of false rational and keep repeating them...so back to the search for the truth ; without it your following a broken compass,it points north all the time ..you cant trust it