The Ramblings of a Moron

How to make money on the internet.  This appears to be the statement most people want to hear the answer for.  Can you blame them?

My father tells of a time when you could feel good working for someone, simply because there was a shared loyalty.  You were loyal to your employer, and they were loyal to you.  Your employer not only had his/or her best interests at heart, but yours as well.  This is no longer the case.

Now I'm sure there are still some"mom & pops" around that have, and can generate that kind of loyalty, but for the most part it's a dead issue.  Corporate America is now concerned mainly with the bottom line.  The jobs, livelyhoods, families, and concerns of their employees, especially on the lower rungs of the ladder, are of little, if any,  import.  Business owners and corporate heads distance themselves from their employees and designate lower level management to deal with the messy stuff, thereby taking the human factor out of the equation.  Then it's all just numbers... add one, subtract five... go home and get a good nights sleep.  They don't have to know or care about what they have done, whom they have done it to, and what the consequences were.

Is it any wonder then that, increasingly, people are turning to the internet?   I suppose there are a few who can be happy working two jobs just to pay the rent, flipping burgers for minimum wage, and listneing to their managers rant and rave about too many napkins or ketchup packets included with take out orders, but I don't know any.  It breaks my heart to see a 70 year old man dressed up in those clown suits they make you wear at these franchises.  Don't kid yourself!  This isn't some retired guy just trying to stay busy.  No... he's trying to make his mortgage payment, or pay for medication and doctor bills... Basically just trying to survive.  Golden years my a$$!

So now we have a high percentage of our workforce thinking that there has to be something better.  And for better or worse, the internet (world wide web) has become the new embodiment of the "American Dream", if such a thing can even be said to exist anymore.  Sadly, though, for most people, the promise of internet riches has become nothing more than a money pit.  A place to spend your hard earned cash on empty promises, business plans that don't work, too good to be true scams, and so forth.  Don't get me wrong!  Some people do succeed.  Some to a great degree... some to a lessor degree, but at least it's on their terms.  But most fail... Usually after investing what little cash resources they had.

So what's to be done?  What about the little guy?  How can joe public get his piece of the pie?

Well... I have been working the internet for a lot of years.  I have had a few successes...  And many failures.  I have been ripped off and scamed in almost every conceivable way.  I have associated (unknowingly) with the worst kind of internet preditors.  People who can happily feed off the misery of others.  I have helped make some of these people rich as they quietly sucked the morrow from my own bones.  I have failed, quit, and tried again more times than I can remember.  To my great fortune, however, along with the scum, I made contacts with many people doing the same thing I was... trying to find a better way.  And it just so happened that a few of these people were smarter (or luckier) than me, and they let me know whenever they had something that worked.

Many of their opportunities were not for me because of my personal skill level or inclinations, but a few were.  And as they were passed on to me, I will now pass them on to you. 

For the purpose of this article I will present only two opportunities.  These are two opportunities that anyone, no matter their skill level or experience can succeed with so long as they have access to a computer and the internet.

The first one is called Reality Millions.  Perhaps you've heard of it?  In a nutshell, this is a program started by a self-made millionaire  who will help you make your first three million in three years.  I know you are immediately thinking "scam", but this guy is for real.  He calls himself Midas.  He has promised, from now until July 2005 to make millionaires out of anyone who wants to become a millionaire.  This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, but you only have until July 2005, then Midas will accept no more members.  Here is the link if you are interested.

http://url123.com/6kdex

The second opportunity is StormPay's liberal affiliate program combined with a promotion site designed to get sign-ups.  This is a Matrix set up.  Sort of a "you tell two friends and they tell two frends and so on" kind of deal.  Basically, you get a percentage of all the money Stormpay gets from all the people you sign up.  This one is very lucrative in a relatively short amount of time.  Here is the link:

http://www.gold-rush.net

Both of these programs will generate a lot of money for you with very little effort and no experience needed.  Of course the more you work the better they work.  The Idea here is to have you financially independant in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of risk.  There are many other programs out ther that will make you a lot of money.  The two I have shown you are simply the two easiest I have found that I believe to be on the level.

So there you have it.  The two best programs on the internet (in my opinion).  If you want to make money without having to know or learn a great deal... This is the way to go.

Until next time,

Bryan

Is the Christian God omnipotent... or has he / she chosen not to be?

On the one hand, we have experts (clergy, priests) saying that all that is possible or impossible, all that is knowable or unknowable, God can do and know.  God knows our beginings and the manner of our endings.

OK... point taken... God is all powerful, all knowing, and all seeing.

On the other hand, God has given us free will? 

Does anyone besides me see the problem here?  It seems to me that if God is all knowing and soforth, all we have is the illusion of freewill, but not the reality of it, because our lives are already foreordaned.  But if we do actually have free will, that means that God is not all knowing, or has chosen not to know the outcome and course of our lives.

We have the priesthood telling us that both are true.  God is all powerful, and he has given us free will.  To my way of thinking, you can't have both.  It seems a riddle to me.  A riddle that I have not yet heard an answer for.

So who has the answer?

Listening to: Bob & Tom

I was born into a Protestant Christian household.  Went to Sunday school and sermons every Sunday (obviously).  Things went great for a while, up until somewhere near the age of ten.

I began to develop an awareness of a disparity between the way things were supposed to be and the way things really are.  Let me show you what I mean.

What I was tought:

-- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

-- Love thy neighbor.

-- Do not bear false witness.

What was actually going on:

-- Do unto others before they do unto you.

-- Love thy neighbor... unless thy neighbor happens to be non-Christian, non-white, really poor... etc.

-- Do not bear false witness... Unless your sure you won't get caught, or the person you're stabbing in the back isn't around to dispute your claim.

Now of course, I cannot condemn a religion based on the actions of it's followers, but even at that young age I had developed a conscience mature enough to recognize the hypocracy inherent in Christians, and indeed in all people.  I have since come to the conclusion that Religion,  or the evolution of religion, came about less as a way to worship a diety, but more as a way to keep in check our natural inclination toward vice and other primitive behaviours.

I belive that any society moving toward advanced civilization must keep those primitive desires in check or civilization will fail.  Therefore, we humans developed religion, and law to meet this critical need.  Of course history clearly shows that neither government nor religion is a perfect solution, hence the inquisitions, genocides, and racial persecutions of mankinds sketchy past.

It seems, however, that the new watchdog of humanity's ethics and morals will be the free press and media.  There is precious little that can happen in the public arena anymore that can be hidden from the media, and most of what has been hidden will be eventually revealed.  Our incessant curiosity about what others are up to drives us like no other force in history.  Many of us are apparantly willing to risk life and limb to tell a story, and those of us who are not are at least eager to listen.

The new media appears to recognize no boundaries.  They will go wherever they think sensationalism can be found.  They will inject themselves into politics, religion, business, and even the private lives of individual citizens.  It remains to be seen if this will be for good or ill.  For now, though, I am happy to see that, for the most part, the excesses of governments and religions do not escape the public eye any longer.

I am slightly worried, however, about the continuing harsh sanctions currently aimed at the media by the FCC since the Janet Jackson nipple exposure fiasco.  I wonder if it is a reaction less to that incident, but more an opportunistic seizure of grounds to begin limiting the media, stemming from a fear by high government officials about the viral insurgence of the media into almost every level of politics.

We'll just have to wait and see.

So what does all this mean?  Absolutely nothing!

You have just been subjected to the ramblings of a Moron.