‘In nature there’s no blemish but the mind’

Bi-polar disorder – and this is???

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There’s about 18 articles written about this if people are interested in checking out the issues. What I think is that Rene told everyone how sick he was so he didn’t have to go to jail. His illnesses have been well-documented by psychiatrists etc. So he was saying he was too sick to go to jail, but not too sick to go to work… That was his mistake- sophie’s choice. Had he said he was well, he would have had to go to jail, but he could have kept his licence to trade. But one can’t have everything.

I can’t say I’m too sick to go to work, but I am well enough to go to the pub.

kay henry

I am surprised that you all follow the linching mob on this one. I thougt you where a more thinking sort of croud.

May God prosper you always.[biggrin]
Marc

Checklist:

Clubs, baseball bats and Koshes…………….check

Sack of doorknobs……check

Dead end Alley to chase lynchee down…..check

Get the truck and the blunderbuss Arlene, we gotta an ol’ fashioned lynching to gee ta.

[devilish]

lifexperience

its the precedent thats the main problem…

but i also agree with Marc..

whats the proverb about ‘judging others’

rene rivkin in my opinion is a deplorable human being but is patently unwell. just because he has money i dont see him as getting away with anything. i feel sorry for him…for his actions etc etc. he needs help.

its a fairly serious subject.

Hi guys… some interesting and mixed reactions.

The reason I bring this up, in case you have not yet guessed, is not that I am a friend of R.R. even when common sense and observation tells me that justice was not served in this case. It has all the marks of a hounding campaign that concluded in a mockery trial. On the receiving end of an ill deserved sentence, R.R. defended himself the best he could given the circumstances, his health complains exaggerated or truly flared up … we don’t have the information to make a judgement.
As for the final nail in the coffin of his reputation by a heavy handed authority behaving in the likes of the KKK, can I say more?

But what brings me to plant a contrarian opinion about what appears to be a happy consensus about his conviction by most, is to bring to your attention not the details of his trail, not the defence or otherwise excuse about his past present or future, but to point at the reaction that such happenings bring out of most people who have been programmed to hate successful people and to align with the underdog.

Such programming does not serve us, must be identified and clean out of our subconscious, this so called limiting beliefs will be a hindrance, a handicap, a chain at the legs of your prosperty and advancement, and it happens at a subconscious level without you even noticing.

If you feel happy when a high flier gets a grilling (by some reporter on $40,000 a year) when KP get’s his name on the front page for loosing a couple of millions at black jack, Bill Gates spends “obscene” amounts of money on his “lavishing mansion”, or a famous Melbourne developer has his DA rejected by someone at the local council (on $30,000)…. stop to think. Examine your beliefs, rethink your values, perhaps, just perhaps, you need to re-think who do you align yourself with. May be what you have listed in your subconscious as your principles, (not necessarily by yourself), the primary ideas you are loyal to, are not serving you in achieving the purposes you consciously seek.

May God prosper you always.[biggrin]
Marc

Ha ha Westan, Precisely the mass produced programmed subconcious I was talking about !!!

– isn’t it wonderful that we have a media that is able to challenge the way the mega rich behave [ooh pleeese! you realy beleive the media morals… and sell you Mac Donalds in the process] ……..isn’t it obscene that these men hold the amounts of wealth they do?
[Obscene for who? The comunist? What is the threshold for decency? $1,000? $10,000? $100,000?
One million? What gets us into paradise? Mediocrity? Poverty?]

Packer looses 30 million on the table at Vegas- how many people could have been helped with this amount of money. how many crops planted, wells dug, children immunized, schools built doctors trained?
[Very old fashioned concept that sees the economy as a static pizza. If I get a bigger slize, the poor people are deprived.
Interestingly enough in your outrage at KP loss at the casino you seem to forgo the fact that if 30mil go from KP pocket in the Casino pockets, nothing realy changes, no one is deprived, only hundred of casino workers, contractors, builders, and the miriad of other industries that make the casino go benefit… becuase the money far from being “lost” simply returns to be reciciled into the economy. As for your interest in welfare, when very commendable, it seems to suggest that one must choose to EITHER pay a first class ticket $5,000, OR pay $1,500 and give the rest to welfare. I say that you can buy a first class ticket AND give money to welfare. The limit is imposed by your own limitations that percieve prosperity as wrong and therefore must be hidden or given away.
Make mor money, make heaps of money, make obscene amounts of money rivaling KP and BG and see how much you can give away. Are you afraid of becoming like those filthy rich crooked people? Well there is you problem!]

Such is an example of the standard mass produced concience of a person who has been fed and programmed by the motto that rich are evildoers, [not your fault by the way, not having a go at you] that “too much” wealth is filthy, greedy and detestable and that it should all be taken away to be re-distributed to the needy and hugnry of this world. Do you know how many people would consider Holding 2 properties OBSCENE ? What about 10? 30? What about 130? That must be Obscene for sure! (Sorry Steve no offence intended) How many properties do you hold? 10? 20? Do you know how many consider you disgustingly rich and therefore inherently dishonest? Lets say 80% of the population of Australia and New Zeland and I am being very conservative. Are they all wrong? I think they are, and so does KP…yet you seem to think they are not wrong…. Some double standards there?

Allow me to offer you something to read on the matter

Dear Colleague,

I was chasing the sun down U.S. 1, when it struck me…

I was driving a 480 horsepower super car, yet I hadn’t passed a
single vehicle from Miami to Islamorada. And why would I?

The skies were perfect, and the ocean was breathtaking. Sea gulls were diving for their lunch, sail boats were sailing, and fishermen along the shore were lost in that special place that only they can know.

Now I’m down in Key West, doing my Hemingway thing. There is a supernatural energy here, as if this is the home address of Muse Central.

Yesterday I wrote for 12 hours straight. Today I might hit 14, because I feel like I am just channeling from God. I’m taking a break to write you this letter.

Late last night I was lying naked on a pool deck, simply marveling at the stars above. When you get away from the city, it’s amazing how many you can see.

The clouds came quickly, yet the moon still glowed from behind them. Then it started to mist. I went inside, and not long after, the shower started. Not just any shower…

But the fierce, summertime, beat-on-the-roof downpour like you can only experience in Florida. In August. In a Key West guesthouse with a noisy roof.

It rains like this a lot at this time of year. But that doesn’t make the storms any less miraculous.

You and I do what we do all the time too. But that doesn’t make us any less miraculous either. But how often do we really do what we do? I mean what we are really meant to do. Our assignment.

Now if I sound philosophical, blame Ian Percy, it’s his fault.

He sent me an email and told me to drop everything and order the book “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield. Steve is the guy who wrote, “The Legend of Bagger Vance” and lots of other fiction bestsellers I never read. But I trust Ian implicitly, so I ordered it just before I left for Phoenix.

In Phoenix, Joe Calloway mentioned the book from the stage.
Then Larry Winget also mentioned it to me. I decided that the universe was trying to tell me something, so I jumped my 20-book waiting list and cracked the spine.

The book is about overcoming resistance and unleashing your creative energy. It especially speaks to writers, poets, painters and other artists. Of course entrepreneurs are artists
as well, so the book is relevant to us.

The first few pages were intriguing. After that the book descended into a monumental bore for me. The first half is mostly about overcoming resistance to create. I was reading it at Sweet Tomatoes, silently cursing out Ian, Calloway and Winget.

I’ve authored over 60 books, tapes, booklets, video, etc., and dozens of articles. I’ve painted a mural on my living room wall, written poetry, and once made all my own furniture. Every
single month I write more than 20 lessons, a Tele-Seminar, and an Online Seminar for my coaching program. Plus three or four newsletters.

I know how to create. I know how to overcome resistance. But then the book got deeper…

Steven talks about the difference between the amateur and the pro. And then he explores the higher realms of creativity. And it all leads up to fear. And the fear that holds us back from
becoming as great as we are truly able.

We all have creative energy. Worthwhile goals. Impossible dreams that are possible. But we turn away from them.

Now of course we don’t admit to turning away. We blame it on raising the kids, finishing our big projects, waiting to graduate, needing the seed money, and the necessary confluence of market factors.

And what a crock of shit all that is.

Truth is, I have at least ten more books in me right now. I have the current one about posperity that I’m working on for John Wiley and Sons. I have the follow up, a philosophical look
at the absurdity of living like the tribe titled, “A Contrarian’s View of the Cosmos.” And one on self-esteem and discovering your assignment, that I’ll have to self-publish,
since it’s titled “F##k the Homies!!!”

There are seven more; not counting the ones that will surface while I pen those. Not to mention the Opera I want to write, the languages I want to learn, and the website communities I want to build.

I became a millionaire when I finally got over the fact that my loser friends wouldn’t like me any more. And realized that they weren’t really my friends, and I didn’t want or need them to
like me. I came to grasp that there was nothing spiritual about being poor, and in fact, for me to remain poor was a sin.

I became a multi-millionaire when I realized that the only thing between me and “multi” was the ridiculous guilt I was feeling for already being a millionaire.

And just when I think I’ve got it sussed—and have no fears of becoming the absolutely greatest I can be—this f###ing book comes into my life! Because when it comes down to it, the only
thing that’s stopping me from turning the multi- ‘M’ into a multi- ‘B’ is fear.

Fear that ultra wealth and success will create a bigger gulf between me and the people I care about, who haven’t done as well yet. Fear that a New York Times bestseller and TV appearances
will destroy the laid back, low profile lifestyle I’ve been able to create for myself. Fear that I will actually harness the amazing powers I possess, and become the thermonuclear
genius I have lurking inside!

But enough about my neurosis. Let’s talk about yours!

How long are you going to lurk around success before you admit you’re just coasting in your comfort zone?

What about the book you say you’re going to write? The symphony you’re going to compose, the website you’re going to create, the play you need to author, the sculpture waiting to be carved, the
IPO you need to launch, the painting only you can paint, the dance only you can dance, the massive MLM network you’re going to build, or the cure that only you can discover???

I’ve decided to go for it. And I’m pounding away at my keyboard down here doing exactly that. Want to join me?

BTW, I didn’t tell you my favorite part of the book. Steven started two different books and got 90% done with each. But he didn’t have the guts to finish them, so he threw them away.
Finally fed up with his life, he rented a house in Northern California, and went there to write a novel or kill himself trying.

He spent months with no TV, newspaper, or any distraction, just writing his book and having an occasional coffee with his friend Paul Rink, a nearby writer. The closer he got to the end, he
more ways he found to screw it up. But he was determined that he couldn’t quit this time. He felt that if he crapped out one more time, he would have to hang himself.

He worked for 26 months. And finally, he got to the last page and typed the words:

THE END.

No one knew he had finished the book. No one cared. But he knew. And he cared.

The next morning, he went over to Paul’s house and told him that he had finally finished the book.
“Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.”

THE END.

May God prosper you always.[biggrin]
Marc

How well do you know Mr Paker Westan?
The short answer is you do not.

Far from “praising” Paker or Gates or any other millionaire, I am exposing the popular wisdom that points fingers at such people, using colonial economic models, thinking they have the right to decide how someone else’s money is spent, make large unwarranted assumptions about their honesty or rather the lack of it, yet making sure in the process that nothing is said bout how they spend their own money, when in fact that is all it really counts.

Yet … how can anyone blame the little people? After all populist thinking stems from populist policies, like our Robin Hood Tax system.

I go further in explaining that such popular reactions are the result of subconscious programming, reinforced daily buy a constant barrage of anti values from friends, relatives media, teachers, priests, politicians and almost any conceivable person of influence who thinks he/she has the gist of what we should do and dictates to you what is right and what is wrong.

There is no point in attempting to win a debate and losing an opportunity. If you value your own success, and since you are on this forum I assume you do, don’t argue with me. Rather dig around to see if there is even a shred of truth in what I say. If there is not, you have nothing to lose.

Yet if there is, and let me assure you this is so, then you may be throwing away the opportunity to make your career a lot easier, more rewarding and efficient.

You don’t have to trade in your values by the way, only the one that are not serving you.

Why don’t you try to get this little book
“The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity” By Catherine Ponder. May just be the best thing after Vegemite.

As for your mention of our stewardship of blessing received, I couldn’t agree more. Be a good steward of ALL the blessings, including your God given talents. Don’t hold back because of an ill conceived notion that it is immoral to be prosperous, and leave to God the judging of how others look after their own blessings. For KP 30 mil may just be like $3000 for you and me, so why do you fret about it? After all it is not our money.

May God prosper you always.[biggrin]
Marc