Don't limit yourself in any way. Write down your wildest dreams in as much detail as possible and start living the possibilities (Barbara Hoffmeister)

I like that, it might not make sense to you, but to me is... ME!



I have some 40 years I am practicing this without having thought to put it into words.



Barbara is just great this time, so get connected with her on twitter or plaxo or else, it's my tribute!



Imagine I got so good at this some people start thinking I have multiple personality.



Truth is I don't, I just do my very best to try each possibility and get the best out of it for me or my friends.



So one of the things I do is learn anything I can about anything that bugs me at that moment, including words in new (to me ) languages.



I also learn new computer skills, Linux, Sun Solaris, Apple, IBM, etc.



Than I learn how to get the best out of the networking platforms (having a big number of followers that in reality are not following you, but keeping you for the number as you do with them to me is not getting the max!)



Another thing I do is getting REAL friends, people with needs that I can help, who knows, one day I might a favor and when asking around it will be one of them to say:

Remeber you did that for me?

NO! I'd say (who can remember all what they've done in a life?)

Never mind, they will say, I do, and here is your solution, have fun!



Exploring your possibilities and living all of your dreams opened doors is the best thing one can do in life. Besides is funny and captivating.



So why not? Live your dreams, as impossible as they might look!

Money makes the world go round!

What is money to you?



Folowing a debate on facebook I got myself into this issue.



To me money is just another merchandise, that is a value that in itself has no value, but is convertible in other values by the value they rappresent.



Coming to the point, the question I raised is:



When there will be no more fish in the watres, when all beasts will be extinct, when no more trees will exist, and no more vegetables will grow, when polution and human activities would have completed their macabre opera of destruction to make a buck, what would you eat?



Money?





this was in Plaxo so I got replies here:



Hi take it a step further.... What was there before time and things were set in motion?

The human race is and will destroy our planet and unless there is a new order and global focus with direction will self destruct... again... with maybe a few survivors. No i do not have the answers but am making sure that my family and generations to come will be self sufficient and off the grid.Maybe if all Countriess took 1 Years Military budget and actually diverted that money to the well being and education of Greedy CEO's our planet and the people we would all start to be better off with a future.

John



Or maybe would just do lowering the taxes to maximum 10% and VAT at no more than 3% to make things work fine, and with an eye to the environment again.



As long as people pay more than 50% taxes on their work, they are desperate to make money no matter what, thus destroy everything for the buck.



Stupid politics!

Oct 7



Or the question to ask - what is knowledge to you, we have many statements where "Knowledge is power", and what does money provide? Money provides you with power to purchase the necessary (and fun) items of life, how do you generate money - with knowledge. PS: I do not believe mankind can destroy the Earth, even with a total Nuke release, the Earth will continue, we may not, but the Earth will. She took an Asteroid hit, which altered life on Earth million of years ago, Earth shook it off and moved on. PSS: For every Greedy CEO story I hear, I can show you a CEO being very very well paid, but also giving back to charity, to the workers of their organzation, etc....You dont bust your tail starting a company, or climbing the Corp ladder not to be very well paid.......... Tony



we eat each other

hana



u can note some thing in the life change our sensation, tradetional , beheaviour, and every hand help u can not return with out take , so the life and human equal nothig with out many now even smile can buy with money this the new logicin our life



hana ali I hope the world will be change and become better to our kids with or with out money

hana



Yeah, if you not self sufficient...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green



one of my Favorite charities



http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.201470/...



Pop I agree with you, the taxation issue has gotten out of hand, here in the USA we are having Tea Parties, Angry Tea Parties from all walks of life and ages....(Tea Parties as symbolic protest mirrored from those at the start of our country) people are feed up with giving after Federal, State, County, and some cases Local tax a Tax burden that takes us in many cases the first 7-8 months of the year of work to pay.....I just love how our elected officials are calling new taxes "fees"

Tony



let me explain you the taxes a bit;



"O Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz!" as said by Jennis Joplin



Where the Lord is me, you, and any other idiot that pays taxes instead of shooting the administration.



And the singer is the state administration, who pretends to "work" something, and in exchange of their (non) product, want us to work harder than necesarely to maintain ourselves, and themselves.



Absurd, they should find a job, a real one, that produces plus value, not minus value.

Oct 7



Information is power and value, knowledge is power and value, food is power and value, human resources is power and value, technology is power and value...



Money is fake power and rapresent a non intrinsec value.



Try eating a US Dollars banknotes salad...

Try asking a bunch of cash a technologicall, or philosophal question...

Or at leat an address...

Try patching you flat tire with a dollar banknote...

Money is nothing if there is not another human being willing to accept them in exchange of his real value...work!



The fact that the states have created an economy based on NOTHING valuable, as the concept of money, brought results; you live with this results.



People are educated to think money have a REAL value, wrong, the state wants you to produce for them more Money becouse they need it to give it back to you so you can work harder to produce more money that they will give back to you, and so on, and so forth.



They are cheating on you, they make you produce REAL value, and move your money from their right pocket to their left pochet through your hand telling you; you won a fortune.



False, you lost a fortune, they stole it from you, cheating you with MONEY!

Eduard



Pop / Eduard, agreed, money - makes a bad salad, and I am not interested in paying more taxes to allow more people not to get up and work....same problem across the world.

Tony

I was wandering wether ignorance could bring forth some progress??? Nope!

I don't see ignorance as a barier, it would be too simple.



A barier can be removed or avoided, if one cannot remove it, than can juump over, or sneack beneath it to go ahead.

I see it as a desert with no roads or oasis, a place of death, and there is no way one can grow flowers or trees in there.



Ignorance is the death of progress, of common sense, of reasonable socal coehesion, of anything.



Ignorance is politics, and politics stinks.

I love fiscal paradises!

In Eurpe there is a movement of ficalists to force fiscal paradises to change and become just any other country, a fiscalised prison, why would one want that?



I love fiscal paradises, I want European Comunity to become a fiscal paradise and I am fighting for this.



Fiscal paradises are indipendent countries, so how can you mess in their internal policy?



Help me turn Europe in a fiscal paradise for your good and mine.

Why not taking a good example for what it is: A good example!



Let's do that, I mean let's cancel the fiscal paradises by becomeing one of them, so there will be no more difference between us!



Cheers,



Emil.

wanna ruin your life online? send cards!

Guys, hanging in all those facebook, Plaxo or other platforms afiliated programs to send hearts, valentines, cards or any other crap to make you look like you'd care about the persons you aim for, it only has 2 effects, both negative:

1 you don't put in your message nothing out of YOUR PERSONAL HEART



2 It is very easy you end up by having and sending a facebook virus script around embeded in those gadgets



final effects:

1 people see you are merely forwarding them a mechanical reproduced convenience, and stop responding, so you lost them.



2 people get virused, start to hate you, and you have to bow down and beg forgiveness, while asking yourself what the heck really happened.



Remedies:



1 write them something out of your heart!



I love what I wrote, I'll post it on my blog



www.wouldntcareless.blogger.com



LOL

Valentine's day is a useles holyday to make you spend money?

Hollydays, no matter what, should be celebrated for one reason, to have fun!

I celebrate Easter:

With the catholics

2 weeks later with the greek orthodox church

2 weeks later with the russian orthodox church,

one week later with the orthodox hebrews

And I am conviced God is happy for me each time.

I also celebrate New year with Christians

And New year with Russians (2 or 3 weeks later)

and new year with Buddists and chinese in February

I love it



Valentines day makes no exception, get the family, go out, chase the dog, trip to Germany, or Romania, or Austria, or else.

Or simply sitting in front of a fire and chat with my wife or my son or both.



Any payd holyday is welcome to us, be it 365 days a year, as long as it's payd and we can go having fun, may God bless it! LOL

John Linehan "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

Pop Emil

and even to take away things that you only think you have!



John Linehan

Pop, Under US Constitution as it stands still today rights cannot be taken "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." So rights cannot be taken by politicians without a constitution amendment.



However, big Government will take your money because of one constitutional amendment on 97 years ago in our 234 year history... originally from 1776 to 1913 in USA income taxes were not allowed under the US Constitution. In 1913 they were introduced by Constitutional Amendment with top rate of 7% on the wealthiest and "never to exceed 10%".



To give a contemporary perspective taxes recently reached a peak in 1961 of 91% before John F Kennedy. Kennedy put in legislation to cut them to 70% which increased growth -- and tax revenues also. It was not until Regan's cuts to 28% MAXIMUM RATE in 1982 of that we approached the return to sensibility -- which fueled 25% of unprecedented growth that doubled the US economy from 1982 to 2007....



The point is that asking for a big government is a formula to clean out your wallet and whether it is a JFK Democrat or a Reagan Republical anyone in government can fix this so we don't head back to 90% tax which would be taking everything we have and killing our economy.



Pop Emil

What about what your government took to non US citisens like iraqi civillians lives, afgani and pakistanmi innnocnets lives, just to test their military technology on somebody?



They lied to international comunity, invented terrorists where they were not (Bin Laden is a CIA emploee, amongst othes) killed americans using foreign hand so they can have a war reason, etc, and all this on your money.



But that is just fine tou you, ain't that?



Steve Kunzweiler

Pop if thats what you really believe then you too must support us here who want smaller govt. and less taxation.



Pop Emil

I am doing it Steve, here in Europe, working on the new Constitution to limit tax to 10% on profit and salaries, and other limitations for the big dudes in power.

All you have to do in the US is to eliminate the amendament that alowed government to raise taxes over the 10% originally and constitutionally agreed.



You think you can do that?



Than you can, go kick some ass!



Steve Kunzweiler

Yes I do. We have started voting the socialists out of office. Most of the country is scared to death of big government. Tide is turning.



Nils Morgan

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow to be milked. Few realize it for what it is - the horse that pulls the whole cart." Winston Churchill



John Linehan

I think it is interesting and ironic that the countries that were part of and nearest to the former Soviet Union have be the leading adopters of an non-redistributive taxation system, namely Flat tax. Pop is from Romania where the Flat tax rate is 16%... (note Albania, Bulgaria and several other countries have 10%)... under this type of systems ... recession pass a lot faster because there is more incentive to invest. The rich still pay more taxes... but not at an increasing rate that discourages them to invest out of recession.



Pop Emil

We lived tha bad experience for 50 years and learned a lesson; Comunism is dangerous, so it is capitalism where the state overtaxes the people (comunists were taxing up to 90% too) and so it is the fascism.



What we really need and don't have is Liberalism, taxes less than 10% on profit, no hidden taxes such as VAT or sales tax or gas tax, or tax on owning a car/airplane/TV/computer, or other idiot taxes.

There is a new international party aiming towards that, I didn't joined them yet, but I am giving a thought:



The Pirates party!



Yap, the pirates were the first form of real democracy after the middle eve (and even during )

Therefore they copied the good part of the pirates philosophy.

Google for them, it might be your chance to get back to be a nation, not a mere country!





All taken from a Facebook debate we had! I hope you liked it.