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  1. @Cynique determination or free will? I believe it’s both. Which is why we carve out time to reflect during our journey. The weird thing is we’ve spent about two years dormant. The Global pandemic gave us all a moment to reset and reflect. I spent those years reviewing my journey. But here’s the thing, I don’t believe in linear time. When I “died” or “transitioned” I came back because I told THE ALL I had something to do. It was almost like I remembered when I rejoined “The All. Then I skedaddled. The highest level of creation is “ Kuumba. It is the Swahili word (bantu etymology) for “divine creation” meaning create something out of nothing. So maybe determinism is nothing more than choosing to create our journey before we arrive in this dimension. Some of us remember exactly what we came here to do - and begin when we are infants (old souls). Some of us forget - and we follow bread crumbs that we’ve left ourselves. Maybe one of your projects is to create a new project - while you’re in your corporeal state.💕 Please don’t! You share a rare perspective that shows what’s behind the curtain!
  2. OK. I'll shut up and write less if you all come back and participate.😁 Seriously, @Delano, @Cynique and @Mel Hopkins, I really enjoy reading you all. 😎
  3. I use words number and time as trigger to read the unconscious. @Mel Hopkins your complement is treasured. I used to read a lot. I read because of tangents whereas you write because of tangents. Twins indeed. I seem to be really good at pattern recognition. I have a feel for numbers I have been told that that the way I describe things creates a visual.y main areas of interest are numbers, mythology, reasoning. My approach is to read as much as possible in different subjects. This creates different ways of seeing an issue. In addition to reasoning and logic I use my feeling. Which is part of why I don't post as much. I found some responses would really agitate me. A lot less so know since I am More selective in my engagements. Tarot has been a really good way to get another perspective provide I keep an open mind. Astrology is amazing classification system and I way view things that aren't Astrology. The dialogue here has been am incredible source of learning. You Cynique and I retired from the board for similar reasons. The futility of being heard much less understood. I can't speak for the two of you but I no longer feel they need to encourage thinking to the unreceptive. I communing with the collective unconscious through both numbers words and time itself since it is three numbers. And my system started with me reading three numbers.
  4. @Mel Hopkins that's a savvy move, I believe Warren Buffett has a similar approach. He goes to the mall and observes what products people purchase. The other cool thing is because it's a private company your wealth isn't public knowledge. I reckon you're in your element.
  5. I have noticed a new phenomenon noticed over the last fortnight. People post something that is wrong in response to someone else's query. For some reason these individuals seem unaware of the facts. I will be extra vigilant with what I say.
  6. Scientists usually create deadly diseases and the antidote (cure) for it at the same time. 😎
  7. Right. Another example of how a democracy works. Of course, from an economic perspective, capitalism is the driver. A capitalistic society has to take the bitter with the sweet. 😎
  8. No president including President Biden makes or raises rates. THE FEDERAL RESERVE controls the rate hikes Here is the background. https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/structure-federal-reserve-board.htm#:~:text=The Board of Governors--,positions by the U.S. Senate. "The Board of Governors--located in Washington, D.C.--is the governing body of the Federal Reserve System. It is run by seven members, or "governors," who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed in their positions by the U.S. Senate. The Board of Governors guides the operation of the Federal Reserve System to promote the goals and fulfill the responsibilities given to the Federal Reserve by the Federal Reserve Act. All of the members of the Board serve on the FOMC, which is the body within the Federal Reserve that sets monetary policy. Board Appointment Each member of the Board of Governors is appointed for a 14-year term; the terms are staggered so that one term expires on January 31 of each even-numbered year. After serving a full 14-year term, a Board member may not be reappointed. If a Board member leaves the Board before his or her term expires, however, the person nominated and confirmed to serve the remainder of the term may later be appointed to a full 14-year term. The Chair and Vice Chair of the Board are also appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, but serve only four-year terms. They may be reappointed to additional four-year terms. The nominees to these posts must already be members of the Board or must be simultaneously appointed to the Board."
  9. Disagree. It would be asinine to re-elect a narcissistic clown who instigated a whole riot. Personally, I have no desire to live in an autocracy or worse being run by a bat sh8t crazy old man. Economically, the ship that is America can get back on track if/when it stops catering to special interests which only enriches a handful of people.😎
  10. @ProfDI appreciate what you bring to the board: a concise voice of reason. Don't shut up. Stay open! @Mel&Del: Thanks for providing me with food for thought, - for offering something to distract me from the words* that lately have been creeping into my mind whenever I contemplate LIFE. * "This is all a joke, right?"
  11. This is definitely niche. If you been investing in this segment and you didn't go broke you have an A game. Since there is less public information available. This is where having a good nose is invaluable.
  12. @Cynique I think we are destined to work out themes of our life. The choice may be subject to variation but not the themes. I don't feel that you are lost but rather seeking answers or rather understanding. You have a fineknd and you are a passionate writer which is girl by you razor sharp mind. I feel that know you are looking at the "randomness and seeking both the mean and poetry therein. I try to combine the rational with the irrational to come to an understanding. Back in 2015 I said we are going to be experiencing huge geopolitical shifts up until 2024. @Cynique years ago when I read your chart I said you are a blend of the archetypical masculine and feminine. You know have the luxury of time and the burden of not knowing. You aren't in a rut it just that fewer things have enough gravity to pull you in to their orbit. The mountain view is spectacular but sparsely populated. This is the blessing and the curse of a fine mind and an artist's heart. Getting messages from the TV , memories and dreams is perhaps new for you. However the unconscious is an invaluable sore of information it just need some organising or definitions.
  13. Truthdotcom! I live in my head most of the time! So peaceful here 🤓 I’ve been so naive! Like I wrote I live in my head. So, let’s look at the proliferation of guns and technology as an untapped market. You mentioned people come here and send money home. What if their fam is in Ukraine, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Eritrea? It may not be easy to get weapons there.., but anyone can get weapons here. We don’t even need a license. Voila.. all of sudden that $63 B industry is worth a lot more off the books. The U.S. doesn’t even have dirty their rep by getting involved with arming other countries anymore. We’ve become unwitting independent contractors. 🤦🏽‍♀️
  14. I have been doing a bit of a dive into Vedas. Which is interesting because they have various branches and Astrology cuts thorough all of them. Which makes sense because an Astrological chart symbolically displays space and time. Which is our reality.
  15. @Del & Mel: Does this mean that our lives are predestined, and - are just laid out in front of us to either catch up with or double back to when we get stalled, or collide with somebody's else's trajectory - all as part of a grand plan where trial and error pay a role. I feel like I'm in limbo, not so much going forward or backward but shifting from side to side. Revisiting my past may provide me with a brief moment of clarity but it doesn't necessarily inspire me in the present. Am i an old soul? or in a rut? or what? 🤨 Is this what time travel is all about?
  16. A friend has been meditating to times that I give June using the time marker system. I asked him to describe the system. 5his is what he wrote "They sort of direct you to a very specific point in space and time where you know all you have to do is meditate and focus on the theme, which then seems to come through strongly but sometimes in unexpected ways" It is actually a progression of a technique I developed around 1999. I ask the querent for the first three numbers that pop into their head. I use the numbers as a divination tool. I have over the years realised I have created a system that reads the unconscious mind. I have three of these correspondent systems. They are kind of like a language or rather they translate they spur of the moment word to read the unconscious. My language is a bit different because the letters all have meaning or rather concepts attached to them. However the concepts are fluid. So even if I get the same number or numbers from a person what I said will be different. The details are different but the theme is the same. The system keep evolving the more I use it. I had a wager with Troy that Donald Trump would be out of office in a year. I lost that one. In the second wager I gave Troy a two week time frame of when he would be out of office. Troy one again. However the date of chose was only two days away from the start of his impeachment trial. The odds of getting the dates correct is roughly 300 to 1.
  17. @Troy and @Pioneer1, I usually stay outta grown men business but I feel comfortable here to add my cents. 🤭 I know you're both intelligent so disregard anything remedial here. Human is a species of Homo sapiens. Every person on the planet shares that classification. The concept of race as a social classification was started back in the 1700s...Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, American Indian and Malayan. Racism has been a by-product of this ideology for several hundreds years now. The US Census has racial categories. Human is not one of the boxes we get to check.😁 Ideally, it would be great if the Census form only had 2 boxes on the form, male or female. But wait...they're trying to expand that sh8t to include pronouns too.🤣😎
  18. Yes, I think I'm getting more clarity into your system. I seek to understand your creation. Communicating the benefits of someone's product/creation is what I've done in my career. So, last night (my last night), when I realized I turned to you for validation of my knowledge of finance - It hit me. You embody facts, figures, dates, movement, longitude, latitude, and more beyond my scope of intuition. I relate your inherent skills to the earliest known mathematicians in Africa (Swaziland) ... http://www.taneter.org/math.html. Is this realistic? Not a clue, but I don't need proof to trust my intuition. I just trust it. I channeled the post I wrote. It began as a trigger right here in this forum. Troy said something was unknowable...and I went into a trance, and that's what I wrote. So, yes, I feel you're correct. Thank you again for bringing clarity. .
  19. Brittney Griner is not a thug by any stretch of the imagination. She was raised by her mother and father. Her dad is a former sheriff and a Marine veteran who served in Vietnam. No lack of family structure. 😎
  20. The United States of America (USA) has always been hypocritical from a geopolitical perspective when it comes to gun laws, human rights, extremism, terrorism and everything else. But, the USA is the #1 super power in the world which equates to "do as I say and don't worry about what I do". For all of its warts, there's a reason why people from all over the world still want to come to the USA. The state doesn't matter. Folks just want to get here. The gun industry is worth $63 billion. That's a whole lot of money. There are about 20 thousand people killed in gun-related homicides annually. That is about 0.005970% deaths out of a population of 335 million people. From a human perspective, those deaths are preventable. Very few people want to deal with a family member or friend getting shot and killed. From a money perspective, it's apparently an acceptable amount of loss in the course of doing business. Otherwise, the gun lobby wouldn't be so adamant in protecting it. Japan averages less than 10 homicides per year in a country of 126 million people. There are less than 350 thousand guns in that country. America has to decide why it's necessary to have 393 million guns floating around. 😎

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