Please see this lecture - The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Absolutely great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

I'm sorry but you have to be careful in all your financial moves.
Enabling the Dreams of others may not be such a good move.
You become entangled in and there goes your peaceful nights sleep.

Sorry, I'm still bitter.

Yeah certain things happen in life. [not directed to anyone in particular] Dreams sometimes can become nightmares. Becareful when one open certain doors.
Certain things can be set in motion with some unexpected results (sometimes it manifest much later).
I'm waiting to bite that bullet still. I have a feeling its comming my way.





(p.s. If anyone is doing or planning some major financial moves best to get some very good advice from a experienced professional consultant. Make sure he's not some scammer either. )

With so much excitement surrounding preparation for the Parade of Hats at the upcoming races,cheap 59fifty fitted hats, I wanted to take a moment to recognize a group that is often overlooked for their hat fashions on Derby day.

Hypothetically, if you had to give your last lecture to a bunch of kids, what would you give as your lecture?

Don't trust your financial instincts???




Here's a shorter version of his lecture on Oprah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncoSRKoU6GQ

Anything is possible, and we shouldn't lose that. It's important to know that even if you dont get your dream, you get something :

Experiences is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.

More stuff ... great advice

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch

I'd really like to watch that tang, but my country's banned youtube. I could bypass but couldn't stream. Any other sites?

There's a joke you know. It goes "Experience is the name given to their mistakes by men."

Hehehe... it means the same thing.. don't it???

Try this google link for his video. I think what he says just about sums up America.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184

Well...I'll be waiting.

Your parents haven't enabled your dreams to come true, GW?

Nice come back...NOT.

What am I waiting for others to enable my dreams? I am not a kid anymore girl.

wat were ur dreams then as a kid?

oops!!

Dreams? Hehehehe. Sorry, I have awakened. What I need now is money girl. That's what I will be working on.

Oh I guess the last lecture is wasted on you.

I would give my life to enable someone to grasp the reigns of liberty or to better themselves or people. It is not because I want to be viewed as "good" or "honorable" individual I would just do it because it is a just thing to do.

That being said I rather not die I rather make the oppressor die but life does not always workout the way we plan it. Money, wealth, prestige, and power hold little sway over my process of thought. I am not moved by those who seek such frivolous things and concepts.
Probably why I wont live past 27 haha.

Hmmm, can money buy happiness? This is interesting (and important) topic! I found an interesting article about the correlation between income and happiness in different countries:



The Economist

Actually, the results about Bulgaria are incorrect! We are not the saddest people in the world (we are not sad at all), but we just love to complain - its part of our culture (I think, this misled the american scholars). But what about you guys?

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True happiness comes from cultivating the mind...money however can buy temporary happiness such as a vacation at the resort. To me, money is a tool that I use. So money does not control me.

I agree that money is a tool.

Money can also alleveate alot of suffering in the world as well.
When small pox serum was invented and the WHO stepped in to innoculate the world it saved millions from needless suffering. In part money that made it possible.
One should also look at disaster relief and other humanitarian NGOs that has brought so much relief to others around the world.



"True happiness comes from cultivating the mind"
That I am still debating myself.* People get "high" off religion (like in modern 'cults'). I am still wondering if its just one getting high off ones own brain chemicals or not. I sincerely hope its not. But thats another topic.

[*Dont get me wrong I understood the concept for years (comming from an introvert and ex "hermit")]

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We have been socialized into materialistic philosophy for so long and it is always reinforced. So our thinking cannot really escape this model of thinking.

What I said about the mind is from my personal experience which I am certain of. So I trust my experience. Uncertainty brings doubt. That's why we need to be certain of what we know. Descartes.

You know knowledge should set you free. If it does not, we need to abandon this knowledge or thinking.

I thought like you, but i lived past 27... hell....

I agree with that. Its sad really.


It should. Only if this knowledge could be verify with 100% certainty. Seems alot of contradictory information out there.

The TRUTH will set you free, (a little) knowledge can be a dangerous thing. There is a difference.


mmm....

How very noble! But then again there is zero consequence of what we say in the world of internet chatsite.

That's why you have to trust your own experience. In other words, trust yourself but not your emotional biases and false thinking. You have to look at things objectively free from emotional attachments. Then you can see clearly. Like Bruce Lee said, express yourself honestly.

If you cannot trust your experience, then you will have a problem. What people say can easily shake your mind because you are not certain of what you know since what you know has been taught and socialized to you perhaps from their experience, but not from your own experience.



Truth in my opinion is free from emotional biases and false thinking. In other words, seeing things objectively as it is. So truth is beyond personal..

I agree and it is much more than that, it is greater than you and I and it comes in many shades and forms.

Are you talking about God?

hymmm
Amy Winehouse found dead yesterday. Only 27 yrs old
Shocked that she died so suddenly but not so suprise that she died so young.