Seeing they do not see:
Jesus said that ordinary people do not see and hear the truth because he said seeing they do not see, hearing they do not hear.
People do hear and they hear how charming their speech and those of others around them but they do not hear that what they are hearing is merely the variations in the use of force to prolong units of syllables, change speed and loudness that is meant just to be heard to impress or please but it is not only meaningless, it creates insoluble stress, restlessness, distraction, sadness, hurt and fear is conditioning themselves ever strongly to them such that they are completely trapped and cannot see a way out when it exists.
People do see and they see how charming their bodily actions and those of others around them but they do not see that what they are seeing is merely the variations in the use of force to prolong units of motion, curve it or change direction, change speed and strength of force that is meant just to be seen to impress or please but it is not only meaningless, it creates insoluble stress, restlessness, distraction, sadness, hurt and fear is conditioning themselves ever strongly to them such that they are completely trapped and cannot see a way out when it exists.
FOR A PERSON WHO SEES BUT DO NOT SEE, THERE IS NO USE SEEKING THE TRUTH, NO USE GOING TO INDIA OR ANYWHERE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH FOR THE FAULT IS NOT IN REALITY BUT IN THE PERSON. UNLESS YOU LEARN TO SEE AND SEE THE TRUTH BY WHITTLING DOWN YOUR STYLE, BY PAYING ATTENTION TO AND CULTIVATING NO STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS, YOU ARE A FOOL TO SEEK TRUTH.
CREATING IRONY IN SELF AND OTHERS:
IF YOU WANT TO CALL THE LATEST PLUNGING CAR SALES FIGURES ‘COMFORT’ THEN YOU SHOULD NOT DESCRIBE IT AS COLD, IF YOU WANT TO DESCRIBE IT AS COLD THEN YOU SHOULD NOT CALL IT COMFORT BUT IT IS DISTRESS.
CALLING DEPRESSING FIGURES COLD COMFORT IS FALSELY INTENDED TO STIR EMOTION, TO STIR IRONY OR CYNICISM AND ANYONE WHO TRIES TO STIR OTHERS’ MENTAL FORCE HAS A RECKONING WITH FUTURE WOE.
As if it was enough:
As if it was not enough to be raped by her employer, an 18-year-old maid from Sabah was also beaten up by the wife when she found out about it.
“As if it was not enough” is a false style in the substance of speech aimed at stirring emotion or outrage and has nothing to do with meaning and unknown to that person, he or she is creating serious karma for herself.
It is not letting your yes be yes only that is, no matter bad something is, it is just this: she was raped by her employer and beaten by his wife, “as if it was not enough” is the more that comes from evil never good.
To make matters worse:
Many are fond of using the phrase ‘to make matters worse’ which is nonspecific and can be applied in many situations. It is copied from others, memorized to be regurgitated not because the person has any reason to use it but because he likes it, it sounds nice or impressive to him.
The person who is not a robot, who does not regurgitate states specifically for an occasion that ‘A makes B worse’, on another occasion he states “C worsens or aggravates D’ not always ‘to make matters worse’.
‘TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE’ IS A GENERIC OR NONSPECIFIC APPROXIMATE PHRASE WHICH IS A FORM OF STYLE IN THE SUBSTANCE OF SPEECH THAT IS MEMORIZED AND CAN BE RECYCLED TO BE USED AGAIN AND AGAIN IN MANY SITUATIONS ARISING AND THE ONLY REASON WHY AN INDIVIDUAL USES IT AGAIN AND AGAIN IS BECAUSE HE IS A ROBOT REHASHING NOT JUST HERE BUT EVERYWHERE ELSE.
‘As a matter of fact’ too is a rehashed style in the substance of speech that many have the predilection to repeatedly use, sometimes automatically helplessly without realization. It is totally useless, you do not have to say ‘as a matter of fact’ but you say the fact or falsity as the case may be.
Investors fear backlash:
Quote: Investors fear repercussions of Satyam fraud
Comment: Few if any investors are in the market guided by reason but they are in it driven by greed which is blind force for unrighteous gains because they think there is easy quick work free money to be made on the stock markets. Thus whilst a minority will be driven by fear from the exposed fraud to withdraw, the allure of easy gains will ensnare many, there is strong force of habit or conditioning to keep doing what they are doing ‘until the sky falls down’ (investing is addictive like alcohol, investing is a nice word for gambling and once hooked, few can give up gambling even when they see others being swindled).
DID THE WRITER INTERVIEW MANY INVESTORS BEFORE HE SAID THEY FEARED BACKLASH? IF HE DID NOT INTERVIEW MANY INVESTORS THEN HE IS SPEAKING FALSELY, HE HAS NO RIGHT TO SAY WHAT HE SAID AND HE MAY BE MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL, BECAUSE IT WILL TAKE MUCH MORE THAN THIS TO DRIVE ADDICTED INVESTORS WHO ARE IN IT FOR EASY QUICK MONEY TO ABANDON THEIR GAMBLING JUST AS CHICKENS MAY SEE OTHERS BEING TAKEN TO THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE BUT THEY ARE NOT ALARMED BUT CONTINUE PECKING THEIR GRAINS.
The (horrendous) karma of oil speculators:
If it is true as I say that greedy speculators are solely responsible for the unwarranted oil price rises, then as a result of their shenanigans, many have sustained serious losses as with Cathay Pacific who need oil for its business and betted wrong that oil prices will continue to be high when it has plunged.
You may not realize it is your fault that airlines are bankrupted and the economy harmed but still if you are at fault you will repay with suffering that is far worse than the money you got.
Cathay faces $1bn fuel deal loss
Slowing passenger demand has added to Cathay's woes |
Shares in Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific have dropped sharply after it warned it could lose almost $1bn after misjudging the direction of fuel costs.
The projected losses on fuel contracts that run until 2011 are almost three times as big as it had previously said.
Like many other carriers, Cathay entered hedging deals to try to protect it from rising fuel prices.
However, the price of oil has fallen sharply in recent months, meaning carriers have lost out.
The potential losses of 7.6bn Hong Kong dollars ($980m; £653m) would be lower if fuel prices rose again, Cathay said.
Its shares fell by more than 5% on the announcement, which also reiterated a 2008 profits warning issued in November.
Cathay said that revenue had begun to "weaken materially" because of the recent strength of the US dollar, and because of fewer first and business class passengers.
Dangerous associations:
Quote: The snowstorm that is battering Detroit seems a fitting parallel to the economic blizzard that has swept through the US car industry in the past year.
Comment: What has the snowstorm battering Detroit that also battered a vast swath of North America got to do with the economic crisis battering the car makers?
In good times the weather can be bad and in bad times the weather can also be good and so the association of bad weather with bad times may be spurious and to try to form an association is delving in false perception that will end in mad perception and because you encourage others to similarly delve in false associations you have karma.
YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER, FINE. YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE GLOOM IN THE CAR INDUSTRY FINE BUT DON’T TRY TO LINK THE TWO TOGETHER WITHOUT ANY FACTUAL EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE LINKED.
THE PURPOSE OF LINKING THE TWO IS NOT BASED ON REASON OR FACT BUT INTENDED UNCONSCIOUSLY OR CONSCIOUSLY TO STIR OTHERS' EMOTIONS, TO STIR THEIR POIGNANCY OR IRONY AND THAT IS SIN NOT MERIT.
Malays on race:
Quote BBC headline: Malays on race. Malaysians for and against racial equality.
Comment: Exactly what is a person’s motive in delving on the matter can be known and if you do not know your motive or deny it so well you cannot see it, then you are a fool who does not know what he is doing.
There is nothing news worthy about the Malay view on race and the likely reason it is news worthy is because of emotion, the writer wants to mock or make fun of the confused or contradictory self serving stance on racial equality.
If it benefits them then Malays are all for equality, if it disadvantages them or denies them of special privileges then they are ‘up in arms’.
WHEN YOU SPEAK WITH REASON ABOUT MALAYS ON RACE, YOU MUST OBJECTIVELY SUPPLY INFORMATION ABOUT THE MALAY STANCES ON RACE. IF YOUR INTENTION IS NOT TO OBJECTIVELY SUPPLY INFORMATION BUT YOU WANT TO USE THE OCCASION TO DERIDE OR MAKE FUN OF MALAYS THEN IT BELIES THE SUBSTANCE OF WHAT YOU STATE.
WHY SHOULD HE BE SO KEEN TO SUPPLY INFORMATION ABOUT MALAYS ON RACE THAT HAS NOTHING REMARKABLE BUT INSTEAD IT IS LIKELY HE WANTS YOU TO STIRRED EMOTIONALLY AT PERHAPS THE ABSURDITY OF THE MALAY STANCE ON RACE.
Chinese officials lost millions:
Why did the writer say ‘lost millions’ instead of ‘lost money’?
The conscious or unconscious intention is to stir emotions, ‘wow!’ millions lost, so great!
It is no big deal millions are lost, suffice to say they lost money or lost a lot of money but the ‘millions’ is unconsciously intended to stir incredulity.
Can’t be bothered, just doing my job:
It is not necessarily that a person must want to stir the like or dislike of others with what he says or does. Sometimes he may not care less, he is merely dishing it out mindlessly because it is his job or what he was told to do or say.
UNLESS YOU WANT TO SUFFER NOW AND LATER, YOU WANT TO COURT INSANITY, YOU MUST MEAN EVERYTHING YOU SAY OR DO, IF YOU ‘DRYLY’ DISH OUT SOMETHING THAT YOU CANNOT CARE LESS ABOUT, YOU ARE MERELY MECHANICALLY GOING THROUGH THE MOTION IN SPEECH OR ACTION YOU MAY BE FOOLISHLY PRACTISING CONTROLLED INSANITY TO APPEASE OTHERS THAT IS THE PATH TO FUTURE INSANITY.
MANY DO NOT ENJOY WHAT THEY SAY OR DO, THEY ARE MERELY DOING SO BECAUSE IT IS EXPECTED OF THEM AND THEN IT IS BEHAVING ROBOTICALLY ACCORDING TO PLANS IN WHICH THEY ARE SLAVES SUPPLYING FORCE TO ACTIVATE THOSE ROBOTIC SPEECH AND ACTION PLANS THAT WILL LEAD TO FINAL ROBOT FAILURE AND INSANITY.
In their covetousness (covetousness has nothing to do with reason but it is just a stirring of mental force to desire or want) for Kaka, a top Brazilian player, Manchester City, backed by rich oil sheikhs are willing to offer ridiculous sums for a player. In the 1970’s the record was a million pound for a good player.
All this has impact on the rest of the system even society because others clubs are forced to raise their biddings to match or even break the record just for show or prove they are more powerful or rich.
If a footballer can be worth so much and he can earn a hundred thousand dollars per week then the wage of a garbage collector should not be one or two thousand as it is but tens of thousands as it is not. All this has repercussions that may not be immediate but disastrous for the economy later.
THE UNDERLYING ECONOMIC PRINCIPLE HERE AND EVERYWHERE ELSE IS THAT THE INCOME BASE OR PRODUCTIVITY OF THE ECONOMY MUST MATCH OR BE CAPABLE OF SUSTAINING THE RISING ASSET VALUES OR PRICES. IF THERE IS AN ESCALATING RISE IN ASSET PRICES WITH A SLOWER RISE IN INCOME YOU WILL MEET WITH DISASTER SOONER OR LATER. THE LONGER YOU TRY TO DELAY THE RECKONING AS POLITICIANS IN PURSUIT OF POPULARITY HAS DONE, THE WORSE THE FINAL COLLAPSE.
It may sound great that the price of your assets eg house has risen ‘handsomely’ but if many people have committed themselves to pay for houses at say $700,000 when in truth they are only worth $300,000 then if their income cannot support such an inflation in house prices, they will in the end be unable to pay and default.
IT IS LIKE ASKING AN ATHLETE TO RUN A MARATHON AT A 100 M SPRINT PACE. NO MATTER HOW STRONG AND DETERMINED THE ATHLETE, SOONER OR LATER HE WILL COLLAPSE AND FAIL TO FULFILL HIS OBJECTIVE. IN THE SAME WAY, IT MAY BE EXUBERANT TO SEE HOUSE & SHARE PRICES SOAR BUT IF THEY ARE UNJUSTIFIED AND THE INCOME OR PRODUCTIVITY OF THE ECONOMY LAGS BEHIND YOU ARE ASKING FOR FUTURE TROUBLE AND THE LONGER YOU DELAY CORRECTION THE WORSE THE FINAL CRISIS AND THUS WE HAVE A ‘WHOPPING’ CRISIS THAT MAY BE BEYOND MANKIND’S MEANS OF RESOLVING AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME.
IF MANKIND, ESPECIALLY ITS TOP ECONOMIC BRAINS TRULY UNDERSTAND, IT WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD WHAT I SAID AND THIS CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS WILL NOT HAVE ARISEN. IT IS BECAUSE HUMANITY DOES NOT UNDERSTAND, EVEN SIMPLE ECONOMIC MATTERS, IT HAS FALSE NOT TRUE UNDERSTANDING THAT IT HAS FAILED TO FORESEE THIS CRISIS THAT IS AS INEVITABLE AS NIGHT FOLLOWING DAY.
Subang Jaya Girl Scores 10A1s
This headline is always aimed at stirring emotion, not a statement of reason, it is only because a person adulate material success that he finds the item news worthy.
Did Jesus or the Buddha tell you to do well in your exams, study hard and score as many A1s as possible, to excel in your business or professions or did they tell you to deny yourself and come with him or leave this world of torment?
Thus anyone who deems such news worthy of mention is a person immersed in this world worshipping material success and status. There is nothing glorious about exam success, the person who is a superior robot, superior in the library of information deemed valuable by this world and the ability to regurgitate from this library in a way that pleases examiners will do well. You may be very intelligent but if your examiners or the system is stupid you will not do well. For instance chess champions like Fisher and even Einstein (Bill Gates too was a dropout) did poorly in schools because they were intelligent (not the same as wise) but the system was stupid and so they were outcasts.
THERE IS NOTHING GREAT OR EXCITING ABOUT SCORING 10A1s, IT ONLY MEANS YOU ARE A SUPERIOR ROBOT WHOSE ANSWERS ARE ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM THAT GAVE THE GRADE AND IF THE SYSTEM IS DUMB, YOU ARE A GENIUS BY DUMB STANDARDS. ANYONE EXALTING INTELLECTUAL SUCCESS IS BONDED TO THIS WORLD & IS DELUDED.
All beings are valid:
The Buddha: "Among whatever beings there may be – footless (snakes, snails), two-footed, four-footed (animals), many footed (centipedes, insects, octopuses); with form or formless (brahmas, evil spirits); percipient, non-percipient, neither percipient nor non-percipient -- the Tathagata, worthy & rightly self-awakened, is considered supreme. Those who have confidence in the Awakened One have confidence in what is supreme; and for those with confidence in the supreme, supreme is the result.
What the Buddha is telling you that may escape the realization of many who think they understand, they possess understanding is that footless (snakes, snails), many footed animals (eg centipedes, millipedes, insects, octopuses), even beings without percipients or senses or perceptions are valid beings, not meaningless adornments for you to destroy and eat and amongst those who exist, including the formless brahmas in heaven, the Buddha says he is the highest.
Those who have (true) confidence in the Buddha have true confidence of what he taught namely the eightfold noble path (right view, right resolve, right speech (no lying, harsh divisive speech, idle chatter), right action (no killing, stealing, taking what is not given), right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness (attention to the right things eg stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness), right concentration (mastery or attainment of the four noble states of the mind).
Many are Buddhists only in name because they practice a corrupted version that is far removed from what the true Buddha taught.
THUS YOU MISTREAT OR KILL A WORM AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE PERSON WHO DENIES HIMSELF AS JESUS COMMANDS HIMSELF WILL NOT BOTHER WITH KILLING OR HARMING THE WORM BUT AVOID OR HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. ONE DAY YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF BECOME A WORM FOR OTHERS TO KILL OR HARM.
What kind of analyst is this?
He says the current turmoil on the oil market does not reflect a sea change or tremendous shift in sentiment but he then says you have to accept it as it ("It's just illustrative of sort of this incredible kind of irregular heartbeat that commodities have displayed probably since November.").
If you say it is not sea change or tremendous shift in sentiment, it implies you know what the cause of the market turmoil is and to then tell readers to just accept it as it is implies you do not know the answer and so you should not say it is not a sea change.
IF YOU SAY IT IS NOT SOMETHING, THEN YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT IT IS AND THUS KNOWING YOU SHOULD NOT TELL OTHERS TO ACCEPT THINGS AS IT IS. WHO NEEDS AN EXPERT TO TELL HIM TO ACCEPT THE TURMOIL AS JUST THAT?
According to the report below, investors (aka speculators) are resorting to storing surplus oil they possess in supertankers, probably in the hope that prices will recover soon so that they will not lose so much money. If oil prices remain depressed, they may have to realize their losses which means oil prices will even drop lower and if they borrowed their money, if they cannot pay bankers for their losses, there will be more devastation in the financial system as they default.
Supertanker storage
Demand for gasoline, or petrol, also appeared to be falling. US gasoline inventories rose by 3.3m barrels, more than twice what analysts had expected.
US gasoline consumption is falling, according to the weekly report by MasterCard .
Consumption last week was down 3.5% compared with the same week a year ago.
Tom Kloza at Oil Price Information Service, said the sharp drop in prices was not necessarily surprising:
"It doesn't necessarily mean that we've seen this sea change or this tremendous shift in sentiment on trend.
"It's just illustrative of sort of this incredible kind of irregular heartbeat that commodities have displayed probably since November."
Crude oil has now become so cheap, it is being stored at sea to avoid selling it at current market prices.
"Demand for oil appears to remain weak as traders are seeking as many as 10 supertankers to store crude," said Addison Armstrong at Tradition Energy.
"The carriers hold about 2 million barrels of crude and traders are seeking to lease the ships for three to nine months," he said.
My ‘take’:
Rather than telling others it is not something and then end up not telling them what it is if it is not that something, my ‘take’ on the oil market turmoil is this:
The previous soaring oil prices is not due to shortages but market manipulation and the entry of many speculators including banks, hedge funds and wealthy speculators who collectively held a lot of surplus oil and force prices to rise to stratospheric levels. It is less that demand has dropped as a result of recession that caused prices to drop but the financial crisis and turning off of the tap of credit (margin finance may have been curtailed), fearful investor exiting hedge funds forcing liquidation that cause the catastrophic plunge in oil prices that would have been even worse, if all the speculators liquidated. As it is, because some speculators could not bear realizing their losses in the current market, they are storing their oil in tankers hoping prices will recover and if they don’t, they will have to finally realize their losses and if they borrowed money, they may default that may further undermine the financial markets.
THE FACT THAT SPECULATORS ARE STORING THEIR OIL IN SUPER TANKERS OFFSHORE IS AN INDICATION THAT OIL PRICES MAY COLLAPSE FURTHER AND WHEN THEY REALIZE THEIR LOSSES IT MAY UNDERMINE THE FINANCIAL MARKETS FURTHER IF THEY DEFAULT, CANNOT PAY THEIR CREDITORS.
Ezam the fool:
If the letter is true, it was entrusted by Anwar to him and without Anwar’s approval, for him to divulge it publicly for political gain is asking for grave karmic punishment that is far worse than whatever political gains he may reap.
I see little wrong with Anwar expressing his gratitude to Dr M or trying to reconcile with Dr M, although I have not read what Anwar actually said.
EZAM IS A FOOL PUTTING HIS HEAD ON THE CHOPPING BOARD BY DIVULGING A PERSONAL LETTER FROM ANWAR WITHOUT ASKING FOR PERMISSION FROM ANWAR.
YOU AND HIM SEE NOTHING WRONG BUT WHEN YOU ARE BUILDING A PILE OF SKELETONS AS HIGH AS A MOUNTAIN IN THE NEXT AGE, YOU MAY WEEP AND GNASH YOUR TEETH.
Ezam reveals Anwar’s alleged letter to Dr M
By SA’ODAH ELIAS
KUALA TERENGGANU: Former Parti Keadilan Rakyat Youth head Ezam Mohd Noor finally made public the contents of a letter supposedly written by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1998.
Ezam said the letter was the one that his former boss had directed him to deliver personally to Dr Mahathir two days after Anwar was sacked as deputy prime minister.
The letter, claimed Ezam, was Anwar’s attempt to make peace with the then prime minister so that he would be reappointed.
The handwritten letter, which Ezam read aloud at a ceramah (public address) at Kampung Kubang Parit here Wednesday night, was basically a letter of thanks to Dr Mahathir.
Among other things, it allegedly said that whatever happened to Anwar and his family, he and his wife Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail would never forget the love and care that Dr Mahathir had showed them.
Almost the entire content of the letter was in that vein.
According to Ezam, Anwar had directed him to ensure that the letter was personally handed over to Dr Mahathir before he attended a meeting with all Umno division leaders at Putra World Trade Centre on Sept 8, 1998.
“Anwar had directed me to make sure that the letter was delivered by hand to Dr Mahathir before he left for the meeting as he feared that the prime minister would produce witnesses for his alleged misconduct at the gathering.
“However, I was a few minutes late and by the time I reached the Prime Minister’s Department, Dr Mahathir had already left,” he said.
Meanwhile, Anwar had yet to make public a letter which his party PKR claimed Ezam had written to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi demanding that he be given a minister’s post as an inducement for him to join Umno.
Ezam had challenged Anwar to produce the alleged letter at least two days before polling for the Kuala Terengganu by-election on Jan 17, or resign from Malaysian politics within seven days.
If Anwar failed to do that, Ezam said he would consider other options, including suing his former boss for slander.
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