Learn and love a marketable skill. It’s purpose, usefulness, effectiveness and tools that make it so. Work will then become a joy, blessing, and meaningful vocation that will continue throughout your life!
This sounds like a millenial thing to say, but I don't believe money exists. To me, it is a controlling mechanism. I've never met anyone that can simplify what it is & how it works past using it. I've been a top-tier furniture salesman and I'm saying this. I've seen men file for bankruptcy & buy a new $80,000 truck the next hour after filing. Medical debt seems to be here just to make you feel bad, because when qualifying for most financial matters say buying a home, it isn't even factored into getting a mortgage, loan, etc. I sense that money is the biggest lie of my existence. Having said that, I hold down a job, pay my taxes, and provide for my family. I don't fight the system that I believe is just a joke. Jesus told me to render to caesar what is caesar's, so I do, but that doesn't mean that I don't think it's a farce. I've had serious talks with successful businessmen about this silly theory of mine. The scary part is that they don't disagree past what they don't know about currency. I guess that this is my "flat earth" type of weird quirk lol. Maybe one day it will make sense, I know its foolish to call whatever you don't understand a conspiracy, but I haven't had any expert ever lay down the truth for me on this personal conundrum yet. God Bless
I’m certainly no expert, but my understanding is that ‘money’ is in theory a pseudo-arbitrary (because sometimes the material of the medium is also practically useful, but that is not their general use as money) medium of value exchange. It is basically a value ‘point system’ meant to ease transactions so that you don’t have to barter separately with each person with whom you interact. So money is a sort of fiction or abstraction, but it signifies something at least conceptually real - value. Several compelling lectures I have seen on the subject suggest, however, that this system has been heavily distorted if not entirely transformed. Robert Kiyosaki (a famous investor and author of the book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” attributes such a transformation to the founding of the federal reserve. He says that now, money has gone from a representation of stored value to, in practice, a representation of stored debt. This debt gets leveraged upon other debt, packaged, sold, and manipulated until it is nearly unrecognizable. He recommends the book “The Creature from Jekyll Island” on the subject.
Lol it might be very millennial but it's true in a way. I used to think the same about money and that the stock market was basically black magic (still not convinced that one is entirely untrue lol)
Working 60 hours a week and have "plenty" of time. You obviously haven't worked 11 hour days and mandatory weekends....In some cases I work 75 hour weeks.
Agreed. If a husband works 60 hours a week, sleeps 8 hours a night (and falls asleep the moment he hits the pillow) and has a day of Sabbath, that leaves him 26 hours to 1) love his wife and provide for her emotional, spiritual and sexual needs, 2) raise his children in the ways they should go responding to the ways they need him, 3) eat, 4) spend some time in the word, 5) commute to and from work, and 6) he has to poop some time. It’s possible for some people and for a period of time. I’ve known people who’ve had similar schedules and been good fathers (my dad regularly worked about 50 hour weeks and also did a lot of extras like home improvement, car maintenance and he is a hobby carpenter). He was a good father, but there were a lot of times that he wasn’t there for me when I needed him and that caused me a lot of pain. 60 hours out of the home would make it hard for a father and husband to fulfill his other roles. Not impossible. But it’s not a small thing Doug is asking.
60hrs of work a week that’s called slave labour even 40, takes away a lot of freedom . How about 20 hrs with a 40hr week wage that would be fair. Oh hang on a min life is to damn cruel to allow that . The system stinks . This work to eat theory doesn’t work , homelessness is rife . If only shelter and food was free. Stress load would be halved over night . And you wouldn’t be one pay check away from the street and starvation .
Challenging but good advice.
Learn and love a marketable skill. It’s purpose, usefulness, effectiveness and tools that make it so. Work will then become a joy, blessing, and meaningful vocation that will continue throughout your life!
This sounds like a millenial thing to say, but I don't believe money exists. To me, it is a controlling mechanism. I've never met anyone that can simplify what it is & how it works past using it. I've been a
top-tier furniture salesman and I'm saying this. I've seen men file for bankruptcy & buy a new $80,000 truck the next hour after filing. Medical debt seems to be here just to make you feel bad, because when qualifying for most financial matters say buying a home, it isn't even factored into getting a mortgage, loan, etc. I sense that money is the biggest lie of my existence. Having said that, I hold down a job, pay my taxes, and provide for my family. I don't fight the system that I believe is just a joke. Jesus told me to render to caesar what is caesar's, so I do, but that doesn't mean that I don't think it's a farce. I've had serious talks with successful businessmen about this silly theory of mine. The scary part is that they don't disagree past what they don't know about currency. I guess that this is my "flat earth" type of weird quirk lol. Maybe one day it will make sense, I know its foolish to call whatever you don't understand a conspiracy, but I haven't had any expert ever lay down the truth for me on this personal conundrum yet.
God Bless
I’m certainly no expert, but my understanding is that ‘money’ is in theory a pseudo-arbitrary (because sometimes the material of the medium is also practically useful, but that is not their general use as money) medium of value exchange. It is basically a value ‘point system’ meant to ease transactions so that you don’t have to barter separately with each person with whom you interact. So money is a sort of fiction or abstraction, but it signifies something at least conceptually real - value.
Several compelling lectures I have seen on the subject suggest, however, that this system has been heavily distorted if not entirely transformed. Robert Kiyosaki (a famous investor and author of the book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” attributes such a transformation to the founding of the federal reserve. He says that now, money has gone from a representation of stored value to, in practice, a representation of stored debt. This debt gets leveraged upon other debt, packaged, sold, and manipulated until it is nearly unrecognizable. He recommends the book “The Creature from Jekyll Island” on the subject.
Lol it might be very millennial but it's true in a way. I used to think the same about money and that the stock market was basically black magic (still not convinced that one is entirely untrue lol)
5:15 is the key to understanding this point. The church needs to be the church.
12 jobs in the last 5 years and I can relate
omg im here 🥹😂🩷
Thank you, sir.
Working 60 hours a week and have "plenty" of time. You obviously haven't worked 11 hour days and mandatory weekends....In some cases I work 75 hour weeks.
That’s more than 60...
Agreed. If a husband works 60 hours a week, sleeps 8 hours a night (and falls asleep the moment he hits the pillow) and has a day of Sabbath, that leaves him 26 hours to 1) love his wife and provide for her emotional, spiritual and sexual needs, 2) raise his children in the ways they should go responding to the ways they need him, 3) eat, 4) spend some time in the word, 5) commute to and from work, and 6) he has to poop some time.
It’s possible for some people and for a period of time. I’ve known people who’ve had similar schedules and been good fathers (my dad regularly worked about 50 hour weeks and also did a lot of extras like home improvement, car maintenance and he is a hobby carpenter). He was a good father, but there were a lot of times that he wasn’t there for me when I needed him and that caused me a lot of pain.
60 hours out of the home would make it hard for a father and husband to fulfill his other roles. Not impossible. But it’s not a small thing Doug is asking.
60hrs of work a week that’s called slave labour even 40, takes away a lot of freedom . How about 20 hrs with a 40hr week wage that would be fair. Oh hang on a min life is to damn cruel to allow that . The system stinks . This work to eat theory doesn’t work , homelessness is rife . If only shelter and food was free. Stress load would be halved over night . And you wouldn’t be one pay check away from the street and starvation .
How is that slave labor? Slave labor is actually labor that is done by the enslaved, right?
Hahahahahaha
are you kidding me!
Christians basically do the marketing for agnosticism and atheism lol.
Lol!