Lack of sleep hits women harder:

 

Lack of sleep hits women harder:

Whatever the truth of the story, what is stated is false. Lack of sleep affects women more, never hits women harder. Lack of sleep is not an object or force that can hit women harder.

NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, BY SAYING LACK OF SLEEP HITS WOMEN HARDER YOU MUST PERCEIVE FALSELY LACK OF SLEEP HITTING WOMEN HARDER AND THAT IS FALSE BECAUSE THERE IS NO HITTING INVOLVED AT ALL.

Moral high ground:

Quote: While the Government maintains the moral high ground to continue the NS training program, it will be on shaky ground to peddle its continuation at the next general elections.

Comment: What people say is rehashed from recordings in their minds that they find impressive to be applied in future situations and sometimes they fail to check if what they rehash is odd.

What has maintaining the moral high ground got to do with continuing the NS program? It sounds impressive but it is bizarre.

The government may be recalcitrant in continuing the NS service program in the face of numerous problems but that has nothing to do with maintaining the moral high ground.

The use of the word ‘peddle’ is improper and it is used to deprecate or attack the government. The government may be wrong or evil but that is no reason to insult or deprecate it unless you want to suffer yourself.

IF YOU PERCEIVE MAINTAINING THE MORAL HIGH GROUND AND NOT RECALICTRANCE OR IMPERVIOUSNESS TO THE PROGRAMS FAILURES IS THE CAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUING THE NS PROGRAM, YOU MAY BE RIGHT OR HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION.

Jesus: Do not be anxious what you shall eat

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on.”

What Jesus said above is simple and clear, nothing profound or hard to understand but reflecting they do not understand, people even those who are Christians and think they are true and good fail to obey what Jesus said above and nevertheless perceive they on the path to heaven.

Many are fastidious about what they eat or wear, they eat certain foods for certain health properties and they think they can prolong and improve their lives here by eating carefully, eating with discipline.

What they are pursuing is deluded because all foods are based on chemicals that react with the body. Chemical reactions are force reactions and whatever is about force leads to harm for the body and so whatever foods, however pure or with special elixirs, they all react with your body, exert force on your body that sooner or later destroys it.

YOUR BODY BREAKS DOWN FOOD TO RELEASE CHEMICAL ENERGY THAT POWERS YOUR BODY JUST LIKE PETROL IS BROKEN DOWN IN ENGINE TO PRODUCE KINETIC ENERGY. IT IS AN INHERENTLY CORROSIVE OR WEARING DOWN PROCESS AND SO YOU ARE DELUDED IN PERCEIVING FOOD HAS ANY MORE GOOD THAN AS A STORE OF CHEMICAL ENERGY THAT CAN BE LIBERATED BY DIGESTION.

NOTWITHSTANDING THAT JESUS SAID YOU SHOULD NOT CARE FOR WHAT YOU SHALL EAT, WHEN YOU EAT FOOD YOU ARE DESTROYING OR BREAKING IT DOWN TO HARNESS ITS ENERGY AND JUST AS YOUR BODY BREAKS IT DOWN, THE FOOD ITSELF IS BREAKING DOWN YOUR BODY AND SO ANYONE WHO PERCEIVES FOOD AS MORE WONDROUS THAN PROVIDING NOURISHMENT IS DELUDED.

The reason why people do not understand what Jesus said, even those who have aspirations of eternal life continue to be preoccupied with what food they shall eat is because their preoccupation to food is programmed, they are robots who have programmed themselves to be obsessed with foods and just as it is hard to wean someone off smoking or alcohol, without doing much work and persistence, they will continue to obey their programs of being preoccupied with food.

THUS THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN MINERAL WATER, IONIZERS, GARLIC OR FISH IS GOOD FOR THIS AND THAT ARE NOT OBEYING WHAT JESUS COMMANDS AND THUS PREOCCUPIED WITH DELUSIONS THEY ARE HEADED FOR A RETURN HERE NOT TO ENJOY THEMSELVES BUT TO SUFFER BECAUSE EVERYONE HERE SUFFERS.

Food and medicines are all about chemical force:

Foods and medicines are like crutches that sinful suffering people who cannot be good and do not realize they are the sources of their own sufferings have to lean on and fall back on in their vain endeavours to preserve and improve their lives here. If they can truly stop using force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness to experience an effortless freedom from stress, restlessness and distraction, they would be free of suffering to bother to be preoccupied with matters of food, medicine and exercise. But because they cannot give up style and emotion, they suffer insolubly and must look elsewhere, bark up the wrong tree seeking food, medicine and exercise (yoga, tai chi, jogging) for salvation that are themselves suffering and will never work.

Food and medicines are necessary evils or harmful substances to keep your body going and no more and you will be deluded to exalt food and medicine.

Just as a car needs petrol to run but petrol itself is harmful to the car that needs regular maintenance to repair the corrosive effects of petrol (eg corroded pistons), in the same way, foods and medicines are necessary evils, not pure good without side effects or harm.

You need force not reason to digest food and by using force to digest foods or medicines, you are also subjecting your body to force just as you subject the foods and medicines to force.

Digested or utilized food releases energy and that is force that must be harnessed that also harms the body as it is utilized.

Medicines work by chemical reactions with your body parts and that too are force reactions that releases force that harms the body.

ANYONE WHO PERCEIVES THAT THERE IS MORE TO FOODS AND MEDICINES THAN STORES OF ENERGY OR FORCE OR CHEMICALS THAT REACT WITH THE BODY WITH INHERENTLY CORROSIVE PROPERTIES TO BE TAKEN IN MODERATION TO SUSTAIN THIS PERISHABLE LIFE HERE IS DELUDED, HEADING FOR A RETURN HERE TO SUFFER AGAIN AND AGAIN.

The five hindrances:

You may think you are fine and OK now and will be fine and OK when you pass away but you may be deluded. You are suffering from emotions (like, dislike, sadness, hurt, confusion & fear), stress, restlessness and distraction that is conditioning you to become more intense that will end in insanity. Whether you like it or not, life does not end at the grave but there is even an eternity of weeping and gnashing the teeth for those who do not make it to heaven.

There is a different blissful world free of emotions, stress, restlessness and distraction that ordinary people have not experienced and it is available but is deprived them by the five hindrances that obstruct their access.

These five hindrances are greed and worry about affairs of the world, doubt and uncertainty, ill will, restlessness and sloth and torpor.

People in this world are not unencumbered or free but they are obstructed by themselves and others to be maintained in this woeful world where everyone suffers and is headed for more suffering even as vast as an ocean.

a)   Covetousness: People are preoccupied with affairs of the world, what shall I eat, what shall I wear, where is money to be made, which bank gives the highest interest rate and return, how can I save money, what to invest, shall I buy this or not. All these force or greed driven activities occupy the foolish person’s attention and obstructs his path to escape from suffering that is present but he is unaware or refuses to take, thinking he will be OK when he is doomed to grave extended future suffering.

b)   Doubt and uncertainty: Doubting is using force to question and uncertainty is an emotional disturbed confused state of the mind. Sinful people are prone to unrighteously questioning themselves and others, refusing to accept without reason and they become hesitant. Doubt and uncertainty are emotional forceful states of the mind that obstruct the rise of wisdom.

c)   Ill will: Harassed by stress, restlessness and distraction they are beset by ill will, an urge to attack or harm others with words and actions either naked or masked (eg sarcastic). A mind beset by ill will is obstructed from gaining wisdom and freedom from suffering.

d)   Restlessness: If something said or done is meaningful, serves a purpose, it is not restless and it is only because there is no purpose or false purpose that something is said or done is it called restless. Because whatever they say or do is rehashed from memory, there is an intense urge to say or do certain things because the programs to activate those activities keep on wanting to activate themselves and that is agonizing restlessness that obstructs that restless person.

e)   Sloth and torpor: Sloth is laziness. Because you are sinning, if you are lazy you will permit things to continue, you will refuse to take correcting measures and that is a hindrance that maintains you in suffering. Contrary to popular deluded perception, if a person did not waste prodigious energy to create stress, restlessness and distraction, he will not be so exhausted and require much less sleep than ordinary people. When people dream they descend into drowsiness and dream or falsely fabricate and that too is a hindrance. According to the Buddha, sleep is not good but it is a hindrance to detain a person here, a person who loves to sleep is headed for suffering whilst the person who cultivates watchfulness and alertness is headed for the heavens.

All beings here are trapped by five hindrances:

WHOEVER YOU ARE, CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM, ATHEIST OR OTHERWISE, WITHOUT RECOGNIZING AND ABOLISHING THESE FIVE HINDRANCES THERE IS NO END TO SUFFERING FOR YOU HERE AND AFTER YOU DIE.

It is beings here not heaven who are beset by the five hindrances as delineated by the Buddha.

No matter how exalted you think you are, even Einstein, Gandhi, the world’s top scientists and philosophers are obstructed by the five hindrances, the five hindrances can be demonstrated to be present in them, those who are discerning can discern the presence of the five hindrances even in people like Gandhi and Mandela.

ALL EMOTIONAL STYLISH PEOPLE THAT INCLUDES EINSTEIN, GANDHI AND WHOEVER HERE YOU CARE TO NOMINATE ARE BESET BY THE FIVE HINDRANCES, CAN BE SHOWN TO SUFFER FROM COVETOUSNESS, RESTLESSNESS, DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY, ILL WILL, SLOTH (LAZINESS) AND TORPOR (LOVE OF SLEEPING) AND ARE DETAINED IN WOE HERE AND HEADED FOR FURTHER WOE AFTER DEATH EVEN IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN AFTERLIFE. THESE FIVE HINDRANCES CAN BE DISCOVERED AND ERADICATED BY THOSE WHO ARE DISCERNING AND CONSCIENTIOUS SO THAT THEY EGRESS SUFFERING TO ENTER NON-SUFFERING AND SAFETY AFTER THEY LEAVE THIS WORLD.

Whether you accept the Buddha as fully self awakened or not, it is these five hindrances that detain beings in continued suffering in his world and will consign to further woe afterwards that is as vast as an ocean and it is the recognition and abolition of these five hindrances that releases the person from suffering.

WITHOUT RECOGNIZING AND ABOLISHING THESE FIVE HINDRANCES THERE IS NO END TO SUFFERING FOR THE BEING HERE AND AFTER HE DIES.

And what is this you?

Distracted by egotistic self aggrandising, ordinary people lose sight and fail to perceive themselves as they truly are, a constantly changing impermanent gradually deteriorating mass of sensory perceptions (touch, smell, taste, sound and sight), the passive feelings contact engenders (pleasant, unpleasant, neither pleasant nor pleasant), the emotions constantly roiling their minds (that can only be like, dislike, sadness, hurt, confusion and fear), their constantly rehashed thinking (of which they struggle to control that can be maddening at times), their always rehashed substance and style speech and actions that they often render automatically without thinking or by selection from a variety of choices available in their mental jukeboxes.

AS THE BUDDHA SAID ALL IS IMPERMANENT, ALL IS NOT SELF. FEELINGS ARE NOT SELF, EMOTIONS ARE NOT SELF, BODY IS NOT SELF, VIEWS ARE NOT SELF AND IF YOU PERCEIVE ANY OF THEM AS SELF, YOU HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION AND IS HEADED FOR MORE SUFFERING NOT PLEASURE AS YOU THINK.

Anatta-lakkhana Sutta:The Discourse on the Not-self Characteristic

"Form, monks, is not self. If form were the self, this form would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible [to say] with regard to form, 'Let this form be & not be thus.' But precisely because form is not self, form lends itself to dis-ease. And it is not possible [to say] with regard to form, 'Let this form be & not be thus.'

"Feeling is not self...

"Perception is not self...

"[Mental] fabrications are not self...

"Consciousness is not self. If consciousness were the self, this consciousness would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible [to say] with regard to consciousness, 'Let my consciousness be & not be thus.' But precisely because consciousness is not self, consciousness lends itself to dis-ease. And it is not possible [to say] with regard to consciousness, 'Let my consciousness be & not be thus.'

"What do you think, monks -- Is form constant or inconstant?"

"Inconstant, lord."

"And is that which is inconstant easeful or stressful?"

"Stressful, lord."

"And is it fitting to regard what is inconstant, stressful, subject to change as: 'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am'?"

"No, lord."

"...Is feeling constant or inconstant?"

"Inconstant, lord."...

"...Is perception constant or inconstant?"

"Inconstant, lord."...

"...Are fabrications constant or inconstant?"

"Inconstant, lord."...

"What do you think, monks -- Is consciousness constant or inconstant?"

"Inconstant, lord."

"And is that which is inconstant easeful or stressful?"

"Stressful, lord."

"And is it fitting to regard what is inconstant, stressful, subject to change as: 'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am'?"

"No, lord."

"Thus, monks, any body whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near: every body is to be seen as it actually is with right discernment as: 'This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.'

"Any feeling whatsoever...

"Any perception whatsoever...

"Any fabrications whatsoever...

"Any consciousness whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near: every consciousness is to be seen as it actually is with right discernment as: 'This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.'

"Seeing thus, the instructed disciple grows disenchanted with the body, feeling, perception, fabrications, consciousness. Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the knowledge, 'Fully released.' He discerns that 'Birth is depleted, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.'"

True self is the deathless:

The Buddha had said in various places there is the Deathless, heaven is the place of partial deathless, no matter how long the lifespan, one eon or 60,000 eons it comes to an end and depending on what the being has done previously he can go down even to hell.

Nirvana is the final and permanent total deathless when the being awakens to his true self and what everything is all about.

Because the true Self is deathless, whatever is subject to change and decay is not self but a trap, a bait to keep the being in bondage to suffering often to tormenting proportions.

"Form, monks, is not self. If form were the self, this form would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible [to say] with regard to form, 'Let this form be & not be thus.' But precisely because form is not self, form lends itself to dis-ease. And it is not possible [to say] with regard to form, 'Let this form be & not be thus.'

What the Buddha said above makes sense if there is a self in a being that is immutable, not subject to disease and decay and whatever that is subject to decay, this body, masses of feelings and emotions are not self.

The Buddha:

"'I tell you, the ending of the mental fermentations depends on the first jhana (correct calming meditation).' There is the case where a monk, withdrawn from sensuality, unskillful qualities, enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. He regards whatever phenomena there that are connected with form, feeling, perceptions, fabrications, & consciousness, as inconstant, stressful, an affliction, not-self. He turns his mind away from those phenomena, and inclines his mind to the property of deathlessness: 'This is peace, this is exquisite -- the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of acquisitions; craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.'

In order to escape death to the deathless you must be mindful of death even for the time it takes to breathe in an out. The vast majority are lackadaisical, they have delivered themselves to death but they have not reached death yet, when they do they will grieve.

Maranassati Sutta:Mindfulness of Death (1)

The Blessed One said, "Mindfulness of death, when developed is of great benefit. It plunges into the Deathless, has the Deathless as its final end. "

"Whoever develops mindfulness of death, thinking, 'O, that I might live for a day & night...for a day...for the time it takes to eat a meal...for time it takes to swallow having chewed up four morsels of food, that I might attend to the Blessed One's instructions. I would have accomplished a great deal' -- they are said to dwell heedlessly

"But whoever develops mindfulness of death, thinking, 'O, that I might live for the interval that it takes to swallow having chewed up one morsel of food...for the interval that it takes to breathe out after breathing in, that I might attend to the Blessed One's instructions. I would have accomplished a great deal' -- they are said to dwell heedfully.

False logic of convenience:

Quote: "It's cheap - but to me a plane is a plane and if the price (of the ticket) is right then that's what I'll go on," he said. He said if prices remained low he'd fly more often from Melbourne to Sydney to visit family.

This is fickle rules logic that he himself may not obey and what is stated is not worth the paper it is written let alone for others’ consideration.

What he is saying is that he obeys a rule, he will buy an airline ticket based on price. If the price is right, it does not matter if it is Yemeni Airline or SIA, he will choose Yemeni.

A plane is not a plane and that is false rules logic that is dangerous. A Cessna or F16 too is a plane but it is not a Boeing & 747, a Yemeni airline may be old and reconditioned, not the same as a SIA plane. You have to consider the quality of pilots on the plane too. Cheap airlines tend to employ cheaper pilots.

THERE IS NO NEED TO SAY A PLANE IS A PLANE, THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PLANES THAT MAY MEAN BETWEEN DANGER AND SAFETY.

What is said is the facetious speech of people who speak hollowly to please and impress others. He is exhibiting logic but false rehashed rules logic (a plane is a plane, I take a cheaper ticket anytime) that will lead to disaster because it does not truly specifically understand each occasion as it arises but seek to apply rules to whatever is happening, in this case buying airline tickets.

SUCH A PERSON HAS UNDERSTANDING BUT IT IS FALSE AND ROTE RULES UNDERSTANDING THAT IS NO UNDERSTANDING.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself:

Fear always arises in relation to a target or situation that may be internal or external, fear does not arise by itself without triggers. In the usual if not only event, fear arises in relation to an event or object.

Thus you must fear something not fear fear itself and the person is flirting with false perception or already has false perception to think fear can occur by itself.

No one who is subject to fear is a master of fear and in whatever matters arising, as in an economic crisis that threatens the person’s wellbeing or security, there be some things if not many things that can be a source of fear and so to say nothing to fear is to speak falsely to deny reality.

A BUDDHA TRULY HAS NOTHING TO FEAR AND EVEN HERE IT IS NOT CASE OF EXCEPT FEAR ITSELF.

FOR EMOTIONAL PEOPLE SUBJECT TO FEAR, WHATEVER THAT HAPPENS THAT HAS POTENTIAL FOR LOSS AND SUFFERING THERE ARE THINGS TO FEAR, NOT NOTHING TO FEAR AND SO ANYONE WHO SPEAKS OF NOTHING TO FEAR EXCEPT FEAR ITSELF MAY THINK HE IS WISE BUT HE IS A FOOL WITH ADVANCED FALSE PERCEPTION THAT YOU CAN FEAR FEAR ITSELF.

False on two counts:

The statement, “Nothing to fear except fear itself” is false on two counts.

Firstly there are some things to fear in the situation he has in mind. It is precisely because there are things to fear that defiant people like (thumn their noses) to say there is nothing to fear.

Secondly, you cannot fear fear itself but fear must have a target. Fear is not a being and cannot target itself.

FEAR DOES NOT OCCUR BY ITSELF BUT OCCURS IN A BEING AND THE FEAR OCCURING IN A BEING CANNOT TARGET ITSELF BUT THE FEAR ARISING IN THE BEING MUST BE STIRRED BY SOMETHING AND THAT IS NEVER FEAR ITSELF. FEAR ITSELF CANNOT AROUSE FEAR IN THE PERSON WHO EXPERIENCES FEAR.

THE FACT THAT PEOPLE EVEN REPUTABLE NEWSPAPERS WILL TOLERATE SUCH NONSENSE AND ACCEPT IT AS TRUE RELECTS THIS IS A WORLD THAT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND.

Stealing public land is no petty crime:

If no one has proposed to the writer that stealing public land is a petty crime and whether stealing public land is a petty or serious crime is besides the point, the person who uttered it is exhibiting false logic that further conditions him to false logic and will end in insanity.

It is likely he has self identity views; public land is his as a member of the public thus its theft irks him such that it drives him to make the statement that is fraught with karma for recruiting others to be stirred by the theft even to take actions.

STEALING PUBLIC LAND IS A SERIOUS EVEN DEADLY CRIME IN TERMS OF DIVINE OR KARMIC PUNISHMENT THAT IS FAR WORSE THAN ANY GAIN FROM STEALING BUT THIS IS NOT WHAT THE WRITER HAS HIS MIND, WHAT HE HAS IN MIND IS THAT PUBLIC LAND BELONGS TO THE PUBLIC AND ITS THEFT THAT INCURS LOSS TO THE PUBLIC SHOULD AROUSE INDIGNATION AND ‘THE HEAVY HAND OF THE LAW’ SHOULD BE BROUGHT DOWN ON THESE ‘VERMINS’. IN OTHER WORDS HE IS TRYING TO STIR EMOTION AND MAKING MUCH OF THE THEFT OF LAND NOT THE SERIOUS KARMIC PUNISHMENT AWAITING WITH CERTAINTY FOR THE THIEF.

 

JP Morgan aims to be top commodities player

(It reflects how this world is without understanding that it treats its malefactor as its benefactor and the malefactor acts as if he is engaged in some meaningful and beneficial role.

If JP Morgan does not own any downstream businesses that requires its presence in the commodity markets then it is essentially acting as a parasite driving up the final price consumers have to pay by its presence and so rather than society looking kindly to its presence in the commodity markets, it should be banished and rather than talking proudly about its expansion into the commodity markets, its CEO should be shamed faced to be a parasite living off the people. They are like gangsters that people perceive as honourable and benefactors and they themselves think they are respectable, engaged in legitimate business.)

Challenging financial markets have aided its expansion

By SIOW LI SEN

(SINGAPORE) JP Morgan's strategy to become a top commodities player is proceeding apace, financial crisis notwithstanding.

While unsettling, the challenging financial markets of the past nine months have, on the other hand, aided the expansion of its market share and made hiring quality people easier, said Oral W Dawe, JP Morgan's chief executive of its commodities group in Asia Pacific,

Mr Dawe, who joined JP Morgan last August from Goldman Sachs, said the crisis did not slow the bank's investment in the commodities business.

'In the last 12 months, we've added somewhere in the neighbourhood of 25-30 people,' said Mr Dawe in a recent interview with BT.

JP Morgan is basing its Asian commodities operations here because 'Singapore is the commodities trading hub of Asia', he said.

The Asia-Pacific commodities team now counts about 110 people with about 75 per cent sitting in Singapore. Of the team, 60 are front-line staff - traders, sales people and product specialists. The bank has continued hiring this year. Globally, the bank has a front-line staff of about 500.

'It was a period when most of our competitors were downsizing given what has been going on in the financial markets,' he said.

While JP Morgan was not affected to the same extent as many others, it was still not immune to what was going on. 'There were ample opportunities to reduce commitment . . . but there was no reduction in commitment,' he said.

But the bank decided to moderate investments in other areas.

The commitment to the commodities business is already producing results.

In a 2009 Asia Risk survey of top commodity banks, JP Morgan ranked fourth, jumping from its tenth position in 2008.

JP Morgan has identified commodities as one of its top three priorities globally, Mr Dawe said. The bank has been gaining market share steadily as its strong balance sheet has attracted clients worried about counter-party risks.

Outside of Asia, JP Morgan last year acquired Bear Stearns which has a significant power and gas business in the US. This was followed by the acquisition of UBS Commodities Canada Ltd, the Canadian energy operations of UBS AG, as well as the firm's global agricultural business.

Asian commodities markets are fragmented, based on physical products and ship-oriented, unlike in North America and Europe, where there is a stronger trading bias towards futures and derivatives, he noted.

So, in addition to trading, JP Morgan in Asia also focuses on financing the movement of commodity products by ships for clients. It also co-invests with customers in commodity related projects.

The bank is looking at a number of deals in Asia, some of which are mining projects producing precious or base metals, oil fields looking for expansion capital and companies which need to invest to reduce their carbon emissions.

It is also his view that Asia, a major buyer of commodities, has a long way to go before it becomes the price setter for these products. Other than Singapore, many Asian exchanges are domestic in nature because of their currency and regulatory restrictions.

'India and China's impact on commodities and the physical buying of these commodities is tremendous. But Asia's impact on setting global commodities prices, which tend to be done through exchanges, is quite small,' said Mr Dawe.

'Someday in the future, Asia will have its version of London and New York that will be the Asian price setting mechanism . . . but that's not in the near term.'

At the personal level, he is excited by Asia's growth and potential, said Mr Dawe, who bought a house here and became a Singapore permanent resident in 2005.

Logic but it is false, rote rules and dangerous:

Quote: On Monday, the dollar strengthened, limiting oil's appeal as a safe haven investment.

Typically, investors shift towards commodities when the greenback weakens.

Comment: There is a reason behind the automated switch from other assets into oil when the USD weakens but it is driven by greed, desire to maximize gain and minimize losses. The idea or reasoning is that a weakening USD will make commodities that are priced in USD more expensive to buy with USD and so by switching to oil, as the USD weakens further, the oil that you bought will become more valuable in USD and you have thus gained in USD terms.

But there are other reasons that may cause the oil price to weaken more than the appreciation in price in USD as a result of the weakening dollar. For instance if demand for oil is weak then prices may fall more than its automatic appreciation due to a weakening USD.

THERE IS A REASON DRIVEN BY GREED FOR INVESTORS TO AUTOMATICALLY SWITCH FROM USD TO OIL BECAUSE A WEAKENING USD WILL MAKE OIL MORE EXPENSIVE AND IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A HEDGE AGAINST LOSS BECAUSE OF DOLLAR WEAKNESS BUT THIS IS DANGEROUS LOGIC BECAUSE IF THERE IS SEVERE ECONOMIC WEAKNESS WITH COLLAPSING DEMAND, THE PRICE OF OIL MAY FALL MUCH MORE THAN ITS EXPECTED AUTOMATIC RISE CAUSED BY A WEAKENING DOLLAR.

Supposed someone discovered an alternative to oil and overnight oil becomes worthless, wouldn’t you look foolish switching from USD to oil to protect your assets just because the USD weakened?

‘Switch to oil if dollar weakens’ is a rehashed blind rules logic that does not understand that there are some situations when it may be foolhardy to switch to oil just because the USD is weakening and oil is priced in USD.

If enough fools copy:

You don’t need understanding to copy, just see or hear, memorize what you have to do or say and regurgitate.

Thus if enough fools can be recruited to greedily dump USD for oil then in normal circumstances, their concerted buying of oil (not because they need oil but as a hedge or bet) will push up the price of oil to enhance further their gains as the USD continue to weaken.

THUS THE HERD INSTINCT SWITCH FROM USD TO OIL IN NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES CAUSES TWO AVENUES OF PROFIT.

FIRST IF MANY INVESTORS DO THE SAME, THEY ARTIFICIALLY BOOST DEMAND & THUS PRICE FOR OIL SO THAT THEY PROFIT FROM AN ARTIFICIAL BOOST TO PRICE OF OIL. CONSUMERS WILL SUFFER BY HAVING TO PAY A HIGHER PRICE FOR OIL AS A RESULT OF THEIR RECKLESS SELF CENTERED SHENANIGANS.

SECONDLY IF THE USD WEAKENS AS THEY BETTED, THEN THEIR OIL WILL BECOME MORE VALUABLE WHEN RESOLD LATER FOR USD.

AS A RESULT OF THIS GREEDY SELF BENEFITING SWITCH TO OIL BECAUSE OF FALLING USD, OIL CONSUMERS HAVE TO PAY THE PRICE IN EXPENSIVE OIL BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE ARE CHASING OIL. IT IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE OTHER THINGS CAN CAUSE OIL TO DROP IN PRICE DESPITE WEAKENING USD AND SO IT IS NOT A SUREFIRE WINNER TO AUTOMATICALLY SWITCH TO OIL BECAUSE OF WEAKENING USD.

It is still a bet:

Devisers of this hedging scheme or program to switch from USD to oil may think they are smart, full of understanding, have discovered an innovative way to protect one’s assets and maximize returns but they are deluded, it is just a new way of making bets and like all bets you can also lose just as you can gain.

If the USD should strengthen after you switched, you can also lose and therefore it is a bet not a one way ticket to gain.

However should many people follow or do the same, then the momentum of many people dumping the dollar will cause the dollar to weaken further whilst if many people switched to oil then their demand for oil will artificially boost its price so that they gain more than otherwise would be.

Gambling is a sin and apart from the sin of being greedy to minimise losses and maximize gains, your action disrupts the oil market causing prices to rise and you have debts for causing others losses when they have to pay more for oil just because you bought oil not because you needed it but to protect your assets.

Why is gambling a sin?

Gambling is a sin because you want to gain un-righteously another’s assets without doing any work.

In the name of making more money without doing work, you are betting or risking what hard earned assets you have in the hope of quick, spectacular gains. Further the gains you make do not come from thin air but it must come from others. You may think it is fair, you are pitting your wealth against the wealth of others and you won but your win deprives others of their wealth and that is sin. Should the other person commit suicide or his family breaks up because of his losses, you have karmic debts for winning his money in a gamble.

GAMBLING IS NOT JUST SIN BUT IT IS A DEADLY SIN. WHOEVER GAMBLES MUST ENTERTAIN ANXIETY, FEAR OF LOSS, DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY THAT IS ADDICTIVE AND CONDITIONING. EVEN IF YOU WIN, YOU HAVE ALREADY LOST BECAUSE GAMBLING OR BETTING WILL CONSIGN YOU TO PERDITION, NO GAMBLER CAN GO TO HEAVEN.

Eat meat but don’t kill:

It was said that a general invited the Buddha to a dinner and he cooked meat that the Buddha ate.

It may be a delusion to think it is meritorious to be vegetarian or being vegetarian is the way to heaven.

Supposed it is true all these businessmen like Tajuddin and various politicians are guilty of corruption running into hundreds of millions.

If that is the case, it may be their lot to be born as animals like chicken and cattle to be slaughtered to feed others.

IT IS THE KARMA OF THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED SINS TO BE BORN AS FARM ANIMALS TO BE BRED AND SLAUGHTERED AND SO YOU EAT THEIR MEAT BUT IN MODERATION, NOT WITH GUSTO OR SENSUALLY IN SURFEIT BUT IF YOU KILL, YOU WILL BE JUDGED.

The Buddha only eats in the morning:

It is said the Buddha eats only in the morning, afternoons are for seclusion and he never eats at night and only sleeps for a few hours at night.

When invited for a meal, the Buddha agrees by remaining silent and the successful inviter retires to prepare the meal for the next morning and he often personally serves the Buddha.

The Buddha is said to be foremost in his restraint and not to eat apart from morning is a form of restraint.

The Buddha listed 3 properties of his that is responsible for his blissful existence, namely his goodwill, restraint and generosity. Of this goodwill is foremost.

G8 circus

A year on there are different challenges at the G8 summit

Comment: To call the G8 summit a circus is to tamper with reality to mock it or stir emotion to be derisive.

The person may have nothing personal against the G8 but it may reflect the urge to attack and deprecate that has become so well worn that it is irresistible, there is an increasingly mad rabid tendency to attack and stir dislike in self and others that will finally descend into uncontrollable insanity.

ALWAYS, WHEN EMOTIONAL STYLISH PEOPLE SPEAK OR DO ANYTHING THEY WANT TO STIR EMOTIONS IN THEMSELVES AND OTHERS, IN THIS CASE, HE WANTS TO STIR EMOTION TO DEPRECATE THE G8 AS A CIRCUS. EMOTIONAL PEOPLE MUST FIND A WAY OF SAYING OR DOING SOMETHING THAT TRANSMITS EMOTION OR FORCE.

US may limit energy speculation

A US regulator is to hold hearings to decide whether it should clamp down on speculation in the energy market.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) imposes limits on trading positions in agricultural commodities but not on oil or gas.

Why no restrictions on oil or gas, what is so special about oil and gas that no restrictions to speculation should be allowed?

BECAUSE OIL AND GAS ARE CRUCIAL TO THE ECONOMY’S HEALTH, PRIORITY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ITS PROTECTION AGAINST SPECULATIVE MANIPULATION AND THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED LIKELY REFLECTS VESTED INTERESTS WITH CONNECTIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT THAT LOBBIES FOR THEIR EXCLUSION.

Apparently the restrictions involve the amount or position an institution can hold in the commodity. By buying up big chunks of contracts and withholding supply an institution can dictate market prices artificially. If an institution has no business with the oil it buys it is in for profit that can only at the expense of consumers and so it reflects the dereliction of duty and connivance of authorities that they permit speculators into oil markets.

Traders and oil producers welcome speculators because it means more volumes and profits but that is at the expense of consumers.

Michael Jackson hailed as greatest entertainer:

If something said or done is the truth and meaningful then it is just that, true and meaningful and not entertaining, it is only if something said or done, how it is said or done is false, is for show to stir emotions or attraction that it is entertaining.

Would you call Jesus or the Buddha entertainers in anyway? Do what they say or do entertain in anyway?

Hailing means applauding or adulating and it reflects this world is without understanding that it sees nothing wrong but sees it as meaningful hailing or applauding someone as the greatest entertainer or stirrer of their mental forces to be delighted by what and how that person (MJ) does or say things.

ENTERTAINMENT IS NEVER ABOUT SAYING OR DOING SOMETHING THAT IS TRUE OR MEANINGFUL BUT IT IS SAYING OR DOING THINGS THAT ARE FALSE, FOR SHOW TO STIR THE AUDIENCE’S MENTAL FORCE TO BE EXCITED OR LIKING. EVEN IF YOU SEE NOTHING WRONG, STIRRING OF MENTAL FORCE TO BE EXCITED IS TO HARM ONE’S MIND AND SO ENTERTAINMENT IS ABOUT HARMING ONESELF.

THUS IF YOU ENJOY BEING ENTERTAINED, YOU ENJOY HAVING YOUR MENTAL FORCE STIRRED THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UNDERSTANDING BUT ALL ABOUT FORCE THAT IS BLIND, MEANINGLESS AND DESTROYS THE MIND CORROSIVELY.

Boom was caused by plunder and grabbing:

The prolonged boom the world ‘enjoyed’ in recent years was the result of the few privileged goats plundering the system, grabbing as much as they can by paying themselves fat salaries and bonuses, selling shares and houses way beyond reasonable valuation, manipulating and even cornering the commodity markets to make speculative profits such that the essential process was the transfer of wealth from the foolish many to the few supervised and condoned by elected representatives who shirked their duties and even joined the plunder.

And now that the economic and financial systems have been literally plundered dry, there will be a drought, there are the few who are so filthily rich with ill gotten gains they cannot spend enough to stimulate the economy and there are the plenty who are in debts & no jobs so that they can no longer spend to keep the economy ticking.

YOU NEED TO ORGANIZE AND MAINTAIN A BOOM IN ORDER TO TRANSFER WEALTH BY HOOK OR CROOK FROM THE MANY TO THE FEW, TO SQUANDER AWAY MONEY PEOPLE SAVED IN FINANCIAL INSITUTIONS (BANKS, MUTUAL FUNDS, PENSION FUNDS). NO MATTER HOW WEALTHY THE SYSTEM IS, A TIME WILL COME WHEN TOO MUCH MONEY IS IN THE HANDS OF THE CROOKS SUCH THAT WHAT REMAINS IS TOO LITTLE AND THERE IS A COLLAPSE.

THUS IF THE END OF THE LINE HAS BEEN REACHED YOU ARE DELUDED IF YOU THINK THE SYSTEM WILL RECOVER WITHOUT MUCH PAIN.

Three hundred thousand pounds per week to play football:

Some of the top footballers are being paid even up to 300,000 pounds per week to play football. Golfers and tennis players earn millions winning a tournament.

You may see nothing wrong, you think it does not affect the system but you may have wrong view that may lead to hell or the animal womb because such escalation of wages for a privileged few is part of the general trend of transferring wealth from the many to the few that ends in imbalance, the few with too much money to spend and the many with too little money.

Even if you say the wealthy owners of the clubs are the one’s footing the bill, in the end it is money paid in very expensive tickets by the public that ends up in these stars pockets.

IT IS BECAUSE OF THE EXORBITANT WAGES PAID TO ATHLETES THAT THE PRICE OF A TICKET TO SEE THE MATCH PHYSICALLY OR WATCH IT ON TV HAS ESCALATED AND IT TRANSFERS WEALTH FROM THOSE ADDICTED TO THESE SPORTS TO ITS FEW STARS THAT IS PART OF THE GENERAL TREND OF MAKING THE FEW VERY RICH AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MANY THAT IN TIME WILL COME TO AN UNSTABLE IMBALANCE.