Wealth Virtues

The Thirteen Virtues are Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness, Tranquility, Chastity, and Humility. The definitions assigned to them by Franklin are here at WealthVirtues.com.

The Cycle of Positive Wealth was created by James Ward to explain a positive cyclic flow of money habits to attain wealth. The seven elements that make up this cycle are Wisdom, Intelligence, Planning, Action, Investing, Inflow, and Credit, feeding again back into Wisdom.

Cycles in life and nature are a part of our collective human history. People have found purpose in cyclic events and actions, so the way we think about the flow of wealth and money can have a positive cyclic nature as well. Maintaining the flow of the cycle through the practice of the Thirteen Virtues will allow you to eliminate debt and increase your wealth.

The following actions are “no-brainer” actions you can take right away to increase your cash flow. Some are obvious and others may take some time to complete. I present them from easiest to hardest to accomplish. They are essentially actions that you would create in the Planning portion of the Cycle of Positive Wealth, and execute in the Action portion of the cycle, however, nothing is stopping you from taking a look to see what you can do right now.

I wanted to put debt elimination as a numbered item. However, the methods mentioned below can help with that goal. Debt elimination should be an underlying priority, and you should have a goal of never carrying a balance on your credit card past 30 days.

1. Do not buy anything on impulse (Temperance)

Do you really need the candy or gossip paper at the checkout counter? Can you pay for the high-definition television with cash? Buying on impulse also removes your ability to shop around for the best price. Many impulse purchases may also lead to “buyer’s remorse” as you later see that you did not really need the purchased item. Even if you see something on sale for 20 percent off, just remember that the retail markup can be anywhere from 50 to 1000 percent – so are you really saving a lot for something you don’t actually need?

2. Eliminate the Unnecessary and Unused (Frugality, Moderation)

Because there are so many channels on basic service from your cable, satellite, or fiber optic television provider, you need to question whether the money for the extra channels you pay for, but rarely watch, is really worth the cost. Are you really using the gym membership, or will running in the morning and using a borrowed set of free weights get you better results?

3. Pack Your Lunch & Eat Out Less (Frugality, Moderation)

Taking a few fruits and vegetables as well as a sandwich to work to graze on throughout the day is both healthier as less expensive. The bulk cost (including bringing your own tap water in a bottle) for a week is probably less than a $10 lunch purchase. If you are one to take the family out a few times a week for pizza or other meals, you are probably wasting a lot of money. Cook more meals at home and learn to brew your own coffee and you will see an instant savings.

4. Stop Paying ATM Fees (Resolution, Frugality)

Try using you own bank’s ATM, or become a member of a bank that reimburses ATM fees from other financial institutions (usually with a minimum balance). Even easier, most stores will provide you money with no fees when you make a purchase using your debt card and withdrawal additional funds as cash-back.

5. Get a Library Card and Other Free Things (Frugality)

Most libraries now offer free movie and music checkout along with the obvious books. Sometimes communities offer free movie nights in parks or community centers.

6. Stop Giving Free Loans to the Government (Order, Industry, Frugality)

If you have been getting large tax refunds, you may have considered yourself lucky, but all you did was give the government a loan with your money. Work with your employer to update your W-4 to decrease your amount withheld for taxes, and use that money for number 7.

7. Maximize Your Tax Deferred Account Contributions (Order, Resolution)

Maximize (or at least increase) the amount of money you contribute to your tax deferred retirement accounts (401K or IRA). Contributing more lowers the amount of income that the government will tax so after doing this, you may need to go back and repeat number 6 again.

8. Buy Used Instead of New (Frugality, Resolution, Moderation)

This is particularly true for automobiles, especially with many dealers offering low mileage vehicles with warrantees. Consider the same principle for tools like lawn mowers. Many people will sell a broken lawn mower that only needs about $50 in repair costs. This is much better than buying a new one for $250. My wife bought one of those large plastic children’s playhouses that normally sell for $200 for only $5 at a community yard sale. Our children used it for over eight years before we resold it for $10 (A 100 percent profit!).

9. Remove all unhealthy addictions in your life (Cleanliness, Chastity, Resolution, Justice)

Smoking is the first thing that comes to mind. The average smoker can save at least $2,000 per year by eliminating cigarette purchases. That person can use this savings toward a contribution to an IRA, and they can decrease future medical costs as the ex-smoker’s health improves. Portion controlling meals helps save in food costs not to mention the increased health benefits of maintaining a healthy weight. Get help if you have problems with alcohol. Work to eliminate addictions to gambling. You have significantly better odds with the stock market than you do at blackjack or slot machines. If you do play, play for fun with a limit on your total wagers.

10. If you carry extra weight, lose it! (Temperance, Resolution, Moderation)

As mentioned in number 9, use portion control with foods. Exercise to include a regimen of weight training and cardiovascular exercise. The costs of treating diabetes and other weight related problems can destroy your savings and affect your insurance costs. The benefit along with the cost savings is a phenomenal increase in your confidence level. If you are able to control something as difficult as your body weight and muscle tone, all other actions you undertake will be easy in comparison.

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each step of the way

God was pleased when

He created His blessed child

We are a beloved child of God!

We are the joy of His heart

We are an image of God!

Store window display for Official Michael Jackson Opus book.

The Michael Jackson story has arguably been the most compelling of 2009 and more than once has caused me to rearrange my own writing schedule to help clarify various aspects of the iconic entertainer and philanthropist’s legacy. Towards that effort, I have written the following blogs, articles, and poems regarding Jackson with the most recent listed first:June 25, 2009. At that point, I sat other projects aside and began to write my various memories and interpretations of his life. I also began to chronicle as a Red Room and AuthorsDen author, and as the National African-American Art Examiner, the public and media’s responses to Jackson‘s passing.

1) Work and Soul in Michael Jackson’s This Is It (Special 4-part article series)
2) Sold-Out Michael Jackson Tickets and Yearning for Something More (article)
3) The World Lets Go While Holding on to Michael Jackson (article)
4) A Moonwalking Giant Lies Down to Rest (article)
5) Michael Jackson Legacies of a Globetrotting Moonwalking Philanthropist (article)
6) Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael #1 and #2 (poems)
7) To Walk a Lifetime in Michael Jackson’s Moccasins (blog)

The word ‘legend’ is at the end of this blog’s title instead of the word “story” because the subject lived such a multi-faceted global life that no single set of story-lines can fully encompass or represent it. I grew up watching Michael Jackson grow up–– and so have spent a lot of days and a fair number of years both cheering him on and absorbing inspiration from his many phenomenal triumphs.

I had always appreciated his music but didn’t know how much a part of my world it had become until his death,

There is no question that it was infinitely more challenging for Michael Jackson to live his life than it has been for me to compose the fragments of it that I have. My challenge has been, and remains, to sort through an overload of information and misinformation in order to communicate as much truth and significance as possible. Jackson’s challenge was to survive for as long as possible the fickle prickly embrace of fame, the raging firestorms of controversy that all but devoured his entire being, and his own attempts to give as much of himself to the world as possible.

Hopefully, some measure of what I have written reflects the best of who and what Michael Jackson truly was as a creative artist and human being. Most of the articles listed above are on the Examiner News site at: http://www.examiner.com/x-16968-AfricanAmerican-Art-Examiner and others can be found on Red Room and AuthorsDen. I hope you enjoy them.

–by Aberjhani

It used to be that religious sects, then the Third Reich, tried to ban and burn books deemed “unacceptable.” Now many of them are classics of literature, and Google has seen fit to add them to the global library it wants to digitize. That it wants to digitize every book ever published may seem like a laudable goal, but another unexpected consequence the Googlers overlooked was a lawsuit from uncompensated authors and other copyright owners. The fact is that everyone wants to be compensated for their contributions to society.

When I was much younger, I remember what an impression the concept of the “library computer” from an episode of Star Trek had on me. It seemed like the best way for education to be spread to all users, from the poorest farmer in the meanest plains of Africa to the Esquimaux at the top of the world. At the time, the idea was a twinkle in Gene Roddenberry’s eye, but I know that many computing engineers of the day were already hard at work trying to make it possible. And so I waited for thirty years and then some for the idea to take root and bloom. But my mind was still rooted in the idea that most of the content on the library computer was either in the public domain or out of print, or at the very least the author and publisher was well paid for the privilege of hosting the book. Now it appears that a subscription, or prepaid content, has become the normal way for the creators to receive compensation. Ebooks are just an extension of that concept.

That many readers expect to get their content from the internet for free is much of the problem. And aggregation of content has become a distraction for internet users now conditioned to expect most content to be free no matter where it comes from. Now they are bombarded by spam and flash animation which pops up at the most inconvenient moments, email phishing, social networking sites demanding more and more of one’s time and energy. We read about bloggers who are addicted to blogging for its own sake instead of having something truly meaninful to say, and even about one author whose book was suspended by his publisher because he could not finish the project due to the amount of time he wasted blogging.

But then, what of the future? Can I expect that anyone wanting to read my books will bother to buy them, or must I give up and do something else? Many speak of the value of giving out free samples, but some have learned that once the spigot is open you can’t close it. Once you offer something for free, it becomes the sample everyone uses as a foil if you try to charge for it later. Many small amateur magazines hosted on the internet contain stories by authors willing to give that one story away for free, with the hope that future works will be bought. Instead, the readers avoid buying the books altogether, saying “you gave that one away, why not all of them?” That will spell the doom of writing, and books, and then ebooks, and then a whole industry will collapse and there will be nothing to read. Period. It boggles the mind how shortsighted we have become, thinking that there are enough readers in the world in the first place to suppost an industry of ideas, that they are willing to pay for it, and that they understand what it takes to make a book. Apparently, a lot of them don’t. I compare it to the music industry, and we saw what happened. Even mighty Tower Records, that monolith of the record, casette and CD retail stores, went under because so many of its customers preferred to download the music for free. And they still do. So there is little the media companies can do about it.

Books are a source of learning, of knowledge, of ideas, and of the storage of human history. They are a picture of things as they were, are, and will be. But unless we recapture the value of books and restore their worth, the next human age will be very dark indeed. Authors have to eat, too. But the readers want it all and have no gratitude to spare. They are merciless in their hunger for entertainment. The entire global economy is too interdependent, too bound up in the trading of goods and resources. If one thing stops, everything will stop. This is what many young people do not understand. When commerce stops, the computers will crash, the televisions will stop working, the batteries will go dead, all the machines of industry will fall silent. The cell phones, too. And all because no one wants to pay for it, or learn what makes things work or how much it costs. As that happens, all those who depend on industry for their livelihoods will stop spending altogether. So many gameplayers have never known what it is really like to live in a post apocalyptic world. It won’t be “game over”, and they can start over the next day. It will be a day to day struggle to survive like no game they have ever played before, and they won’t be able to win no matter what they do. That is reality.

It is happening even now. As the predatory lenders tighten their grip and jack up interest rates on credit, many consumers are not using their cards already, hoping to head off the inevitable rate hikes on the horizon. They have already switched to cash as a means to pay for everything, and are trying to pay off their balances to zero, or declare bankruptcy to get out from under their mountains of debt. As they do so, the credit lenders will find themselves unable to pick up new victims to shore up their capital. When that happens, many of them will go under, or go to the government for a subsidy, like AIG or Goldman Sachs. But the government is already taking steps to stop their forward march past the line. We are in a deep recession, so giving things away for free is very like letting go of the farm altogether. Most of those advocating for free items want to preserve their way of life without doing what it takes to get it. They will lose.

By synergies, I mean the odd coincidence of similarities among different writers of vampire fiction. I think that the only difference was expressed in the strange name Anne Rice picked for her quintessential vampire “Lestat”, and Chelsea Yarbro’s “St. Germain”. But apart from those I have been frequently amazed at the sameness of both names and situations. It is not unusual for the vampire to be thematically paired with a fair damsel and a jealous lover. The eternal triangle must be preserved. But after a while the sameness of it all has been compared with the thousands of romance novels of years past where boy meets girl or girl meets boy, there is some resistance to their joining in marital bliss, and then they overcome the difficulty together and live happily ever after. In a vampire romance we are presented with something of a dramatic dilemma. One of the basic elements is that our vampire is  handicapped by the fact of his/her undeadness, alterior motivations, or just plain moral corruption. The pairing is doomed to fail from the outset, and we are dragged along for the ride as eyewitnesses to the inevitable stake through the heart or the lover’s sudden abandonment or sacrifice to the overriding thirst of the monster. There was a sameness to the plots that was formulaic.    

Apart from that there were also the serious horror writers, Brian Lumley (Necroscope); and Fred Saberhagen, who penned the classic “Holmes/Dracula File” and the “Dracula” series that made the undead count into a cult hero and inspired me to write vampires as heros.  There was also a delightful series of children’s books like “Bunnicula”, and “The Celery Stalks At Midnight”, about a family cat and his adventures with a tiny lupus with red eyes, a sharp overbite and a black mark on his back resembling a cape. I was especially charmed by the idea that the rabbit would sneak up on unsuspecting carrots and drain them dry during the night. So cute. But I digress.     

Many writers of different stripes tend to brand their vampires with elegant names: Louis, Lucien, Marcus, Michael, Victor, Carmilla, Amelia, and from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, Angel, Drusilla and Spike. “Vlad” is a frequent favorite, and we have all at one time or another toyed with “Dracula” in one way or another. What really annoys me is the fact that when I was writing my own vampire short stories twenty years ago, I picked names for my characters which I thought no one else thought of using. I used Antonia, and Lucien, and Michael, and Victor, and Julian, then Arden and Gabriel, and established my vampires as aliens from another planet.  The Children of The Dragon series was based on my original series “Blood Songs”, which was comprised of short stories I wrote for a fanzine.  When I undertook the project, I wanted to tell my stories whole cloth as original pieces, with no ties to any other vampire series, stories or novels. I wanted to be original, and I wanted to break out of the mold of telling moldy vampire stories, with the usual endings and the usual formulaic devices ad nauseum. I wanted to introduce new concepts, like more realistic ideas about what vampires did and why they did it, what factors made them that way, all couched in rational science and without the religious overtones. 

Little did I realize at the time that other writers were thinking about the same thing.    

There was a long series of films, all beginning to show Dracula or other vampires as humorous or foils for humorous plots, as heros, and even as maligned victims of public sentiment. Films like “Old Dracula” (David Niven) “Once Bitten” (John Carey) and “My Best Friend is A Vampire”, “Transylvania 6-5000″, and even the badly directed “Dracula in Love” (George Hamilton) and another badly directed film “Dead and Loving It” (Leslie Nielsen), whose vampires were both villanous and heroic. Talk about grey. At the time I took them all as a phase that Hollywood would soon grow out of. And it did, with Eddie Murphy’s stellar performance in “Vampire In Brooklyn” and Wesley Snipes in “Blade” I, II, and III. I give some credit to Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula”, though I did not like the costume designs, and the music gave me a headache. There were several other films at that time which did redeem the vampire’s image and which would take me too long to list and discuss; and that is perhaps a topic for a separate blog.   

BOOM. Suddenly, I was up against television. I shelved an old writing project called “Blood Will Out” which was a vampire detective story, because “Forever Knight” appeared on the scene. Then there came “Moonlight” and “Blood Ties”, and those basically sealed the coffin closed and put it in the ground forever. I kid you not. I developed a vampire private detective who enlists the aid of a priest to help him put the bad guys away, partly for revenge against the one who turned him against his will, and partly out of a need to rehabilitate himself. Sounds familiar? I wrote the first few chapters in 1980, inspired by the resurgence of interest in vampire fiction after Frank Langella starred in another Dracula film. I was then sidelined by time and real life, which made writing a hobby for a while. And while I was on the bench “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” made her debut and I watched the show religiously. After all, at the time there was nothing else to do. But while I watched I also thought it was time to bring out my old stories as a new series, and my first project was begun in 2003. A dodecahedron of vampire fiction books based on the old series. Eventually I named the series Children of The Dragon, and made my vampires aliens from another planet called them the Xosan (Show-sa’n). Over the course of their history, many made it to Earth and made it their home, with sometimes disastrous consequences.

But as I wrote, a new problem appeared.    

“Stargate: Atlantis” introduced alien vampires called “the wraith”. The first one I saw was a tall, thin creature with long white hair, grey eyes and wore a black leather duster, just like my Xosan fullblood Lucien. He had long pearlescent fingernails (I wrote them that way for years) and the only difference between the wraith and my own Xosan were that they sucked the lifeforce directly from the heart, while mine still bit and sucked faithfully from the neck, arm, or other parts. The wraith were vicious by nature, whereas mine seem gentle but there is a ravenous predator always lurking beneath a veneer of charm and self-discipline. Over time I saw that the wraith were up against some monstrous obstacles to their existence, among which are their overarching indifference for the plight of their victims, and their constant feuding among themselves for dominance. The problem was that I wrote about that, too, so many years ago. I felt that I was robbed of the right to be original. Someone wrote these screenplays based on short stories or “treatments” by other writers, perhaps even mine, published in the fanzine (I have no doubt they were circulated among the industry people). If I had written a screenplay instead of short stories, would that have made a difference? No, I don’t think so.    

Then along came “Underworld”, and I was up against lykans and vampires as dueling predators, with names like Lucien and Victor, and Marcus wrapped up all tidy in his coffin in the cellar. That Lucien was a lycanthrope made no difference; I felt that I was robbed of the right to be original. Even if I liked the film and all that it represented, I did not like the fact that Kate Beckinsale was playing the essential Antonia, but from a different angle. Selene was Antonia, right down to her independent streak and sense of fair play, but I introduced Antonia as a lone hunter on a secret mission which would be revealed through the course of my first book, Destiny’s Forge, cobbled together from chapters in the original series. Yet, the fact that her sire was named Victor, and she meets a fullblood Xosan named Lucien, may now be perceived as merely part of the jumble of derivative vampire fiction coming out only in the last couple of years.    

Now I am up against “Twilight” and “The Vampire Diaries” (I owned the full set  of books until I sold them on eBay). Each new set of stories is touted by publicists as “new” and “breaking out of the mold”, and there are thousands of fans everywhere clamoring for the books. But for a serious writer such as myself, who labored long to be original, there is nothing original left to try anymore. Will vampire fans read MY books? Only time will tell. Maybe all they want IS formula, but I don’t know for certain. All I can do is continue to write in my own idiom and hope that nobody else steals all my ideas.

To see my books visit the web site: http://www.antellus.com/.

As a teen, I grew up with the original show. My older brother was a science-fiction addict. One of his favorite authors was Robert Heinlein. Since I loved to read, I picked up these books and was introduced to the science-fiction world. So when Star Trek hit the air waves, my brother was hooked and I watched along with him.

Dad, however, would almost always turn the channel. This meant I didn’t watch every show, but I saw enough to know the characters and to develop a keen interest.

Years later when the series entered syndication, I was able to watch all I wanted. When the first movies came out with the original stars of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, I saw those too.

When this 2009 “remake” was announced—and especially with the advanced special effects—I was eager to see what the writers would come up with.

I don’t call myself an expert regarding the storylines of Star Trek. But I’ve learned what I like and what I don’t like.

I do like the actor who played Spock. Zachary Quinto captured the character well, acing the Vulcan’s mannerisms, and sounding almost exactly like Nimoy.

Karl Urban as ‘Bones’ is perfect. He looked as I’d expected a younger Leonard McCoy to be. I loved getting to know how he and James Kirk first met.

In the old series, I never realized Kirk was so full of himself. In this new movie, it’s quite a revelation to see how Chris Pine plays a womanizing, ultra self-confident James T. Kirk.

Simon Pegg as Scotty and John Cho as Sulu are both great picks.

Actress Zoe Saldana plays Lt. Uhura. She’s certainly attractive enough to showcase the leading female role.

But it’s her characterization of the communications officer that I frown and go, “hmm.”
And here is where, to me, the movie does a major “hiccup.”

I’d like to ask the writers, “Why did you change Uhura’s personality?”

The television series’ Uhura understood that the U.S.S. Enterprise was a military ship and she was an officer respectful to rank. Today’s Star Trek writes Uhura as smart-mouthed, carrying a ‘chip-on-my-shoulder’ attitude.

That is so not realistic, nor in keeping with the original version.

Another disloyalty is that Uhura attempts a romantic relationship with Spock. Yes, he’s half-human, so his emotions are stronger than a pure Vulcan. However, he strove to always restrain that ‘handicapped’ side. To show him and Uhura in caressing embraces is, in my opinion, an insult to Gene Roddenberry.

Still, the movie is action-packed and full of adventure. I laughed out loud during the comedic scenes. And the special effects were thrilling. If I were a reviewer, I’d give a four-and-a-half star out of five rating.

I hope in any forthcoming sequels Uhura’s character will be critiqued and appropriately ‘ship-shaped’.

Copyright 2009 by L. M. Thomas

That order was given countless times by Mom when I grew up. We kids displayed our attitudes toward being disciplined with either a scowl, pouty lip, or—though, rarely–tears of repentance. But the one in particular that Mom meant was when we sassed back. That kind of attitude usually produced a ready switch in her hand that she swatted against our fannies.

As I’ve matured, I’ve often reflected on attitudes. People with a smile on their face or laughter in their voice is the kind of folks that can brighten my day. I enjoy their company and want to share time with them. Likewise, the persons who can engage me in a calm, intelligent conversation are the ones who help to keep me mentally alert.

Just like Mom, I find I don’t care for, nor do I even bother to tolerate a belligerent attitude. That’s not to say that each and every one of us is always on Cloud Nine and we don’t have a bad day that might turn us into a bit of a sour puss. Sure, that happens. But when the argumentative, confrontational behavior is so ingrained in someone’s character you can see it etched on their face like it’d been stamped with a cookie cutter, then in an instant my hackles will rise and my palm itches for that switch Mom carried.

So, what am I leading up to?

Now there are two things I don’t discuss: religion and politics. My reason is simple: they’re firecracker issues. Wars have been, and now are, fought over the conflicting opinions of the populaces. Because these subjects are so explosive, I make it a habit to steer clear of them. However…

Yep, there’s come an however.

Enter Sarah Palin. The running mate of presidential hopeful, John McCain, and the self-described hockey mom and lipsticked pit-bull.

I watched that clip where she mentioned the pit-bull. She applied it to herself like it was an asset, trying to “wow” her audience with the reference that she was a true aggressive fighter, one of the traits known to this breed by those who make merchandise off them in illegal dog fights.

And she also wanted it firmly understood that she was just as brave and courageous as any of those dogs. She has no fear about going to Washington and butting heads with the bureaucracy there because, hey, she’s a roaring, growling, snarling pit-bull.

Plus, she’s a woman. If the nation isn’t already aware of it, then she’s more than eager to announce that’s the prominent quality which makes her—oh, I don’t know, how about a hundred?–times tougher than any man that’s gone before. Yep, Sarah Palin’s ready to take on the world. You didn’t need to see the sparring gloves to get the message.

You know, I like pit-bulls. I’m an animal lover and dogs have shadowed me all my life. While I know pit-bulls are trained to be vicious, I also know they aren’t that way naturally. They yearn to be treated like a regular canine — fed regularly, romp in the yard, and cuddle beside you on the front porch swing. They don’t ask for the life so many are forced to endure.

But here is a woman who is chomping at the bit to step inside a dogfight ring. She says things like, “Bring it on!” Ms. Palin boasts of her fierceness and her strength and her position is clear: get out of the way, you wimpy men. This hulk of a pit-bull is gonna chew you up and spit out your bones. Growl. Snarl.

So now I have a question.

If she’s so courageous, if she doesn’t blink (as she stressed to Charlie Gibson), if she’s made of sterner stuff than a whacking hockey stick and she swears she’s ready to don the mantel of Fearless Leader…Why does she hide behind the coat tails of—dare I say it?–mere men?

If it weren’t so two-faced, it’d be downright laughable. Why is John McCain and his cronies circling around her in a protective gesture? Why won’t they allow her—and better yet, why doesn’t she insist—on talking head-on with the media? Why are they pressuring the Alaskan body (regarding Troopergate) to halt the investigation?

And now this is exactly the kind of smug and arrogant attitude that annoyed Mom in the past and annoys me to no end today. Because Sarah Palin has a chip on her shoulder. More than that, she wants the public to believe she’s the very thing she’s proving not to be. Where’s her courage? Where’s her willingness to face down opposition? Where’s strength???

She doesn’t need men—gasp!–protecting her, does she? Don’t they remember she’s a pit-bull? She can fight her own fights, right?

I don’t see her taking charge. Sure, she spouts off a lot of hot air, but when you get right down to it, she’s being babied and coddled like a prima-donna. If she claims she’s so ready to take on a vice-president/president’s job—which traditionally has always belonged to a man—then why can’t she stand up and act like a man?

You’d think it’d be so obvious. I’m sure the last time she looked in a mirror she didn’t see a man wearing her lipstick.

She didn’t see a pit-bull either.

Copyright 2008 by L.M. Thomas

The life-energy is made of your emotions and feelings. Each one of these crystallized ideas have a correspondent feeling or emotion. This is the reason why sometimes you may find yourself in a certain mood and not be able to know what triggers it. This is because everything happens at the subconscious level. The subconscious-mind is the constructor of your consciousness. If the crystallized ideas “within” your sub-consciousness are negative, they will inevitably infect your thinking, your decisions, your carrier, and even your relationship negatively. You will attract people, circumstances and events in your life that you may not be consciously doing. Jesus Christ said “It is what comes out of Man that defiles him, not what enters him”.

Right now, from where you are, you are sending unconscious vibrations into the world collective consciousness. Everything is connected in consciousness. The consciousness you send will associate itself to another consciousness that carries the same mindset (thoughts and ideas) and energy (feelings, and emotions) like it and attract certain people, events and circumstances into your life. To attract blessings and wonderful people, and amazing events into your life, you will simply need to a a cleansing of your “subconscious-ness”. In my newly self-published Book “Secrets To Divine Manifestations”, I have taught some principles that will allow anyone to restore his subconscious-mind into its original divine state by applying spiritual truths through meditations. All sicknesses and diseases are also caused by the negative ideas, conceptions, opinions, feelings and emotions that are crystallized within the subconscious-mind.

These negative ideas and emotions turn into negative vibrations that are carried by the blood cells into our body system, causing sicknesses and diseases. The good news is, there is a solution for any problem. Your health can be restored, and your affairs become successful again, if you dare to learn the way things work. Visit my blog at http://secretstodivinemanifestations.blogspot.com/ for more free articles. In all things, remember always that God loves you.