--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A Financial Crisis/A Window of Opportunity > By Lou Valentino > . . . > I will give investors some free information regarding > dates when the markets will be unstable.
And people said there were no positive aspects to the "financial crisis." Here's one -- Lou is actually charging what his services are worth. :-) Of course, it's just a "loss leader" to get you to pay him for other useless services. On the whole, Shemp was more ethical when he reacted to the slumping markets by trying to sell us all insurance as the only stable investment, two days before AIG went belly up. But both are displaying IMO the same mindset: "What's in this 'crisis' that I can personally make money from, using time- proven scare tactics?" The larger issue in my opinion, however, has to do with the phrase I keep bringing up here on FFL lately -- "What you focus on you become." What IS it about TMers and other long-term supposedly-spiritual seekers that leaves them so focused on "apocalypse stories," on predic- tions of doom and gloom? Remember all the pre- dictions of war and worse that were used to raise capital and "inspire" people to come to Fairfield and bounce on their butts for peace? One of the teachers I worked with was of the opinion that this mindset was just another instance of self importance -- "I am SO important that all these history-making and earth-shaking events are going to happen in my lifetime." I hold very little of what that teacher said to be accurate and useful, but his insight is IMO right on in this case. The TMO aims its fund-raising efforts at the very same self-important-I-am-the-center-of- the-universe mentality that the politicians and the financial rapists on Wall Street do. Rather than discourage this focus on doom and gloom, they use it shamelessly to raise capital. And that's the way it is in the world of spir- itual practice, September 30, 2008. Good night and good luck.
