Good article. You're absolutely right - money is supposed to be spent. Yes, it's good to save enough to have for when God gives us a surprised and have a 'rainy day fund' as it were, or save for a specific purpose.
But, to have mountains of case? That's obscene. Or the Ramsey and Kiyasaki's ideas of becoming real estate moguls? No; land and houses are meant to be lived in. They're meant to be owned. Yes, there's a place for renting and all, but our nation is predatory upon renters right now, and extracts their wealth, sucking them dry.
Much better for one's soul to build up beauty and community, living a simple life.
Thanks! Money is truly worthless when it only buys more grift. Ramsey is apparently skilled with money (the jury is still out on Kiyosaki) but I would argue he is not worshipping Jesus Christ. That kind of ostentation smacks of what Mark Passio calls de facto Satanism. He is an ex-Satanist who was pretty high up in the ranks, so I suspect he knows a thing or two about what constitutes a Satanist. I know rich Buddhists who brag about taking luxury plane trips and attempt to force children to mask even now in 2024 -- I would argue they don't worship Buddha. I'm going to guess the entities these men and women worship can be found in the Goetia: Baal and Paimon come to mind. From my experience, lesser entities love to masquerade as celebrities, dead relatives, and gods.
Eh. I wouldn't call him a Satanist. I would call him a Christian heretic of the "health and wealth" variety. That is; if you're following God correctly, you will be healthy and wealthy. These things are immature and childish in faith; they haven't read the book of Job, they haven't read the struggles of the Old Testament and how they merge with the New, and Christ's commands to take up one's Cross to follow him, and then apply that to one's material wealth, health, and trials - that we may be poor or wealthy, but no matter what we are give we are called pour out that wealth upon ourselves and others because it belongs to God. It is given to us as a Stewardship, and we're accountable for it to Him. He just is a poor one, as he clings to it too closely and seeks too much gain.
Whether that means that he actually worships one of the pagan gods, I couldn't tell you. I hope not, for his sake. But I don't get the impression from the one video I series of his I watched.
Kiyosaki I never was impressed by. He seemed like a dumb grifter that was good at marketing and taking the ticket. With usurious loans and ticket taking, anyone can look impressive in a bubble economy - that's my impression from about 5 or 6 hour long podcast interviews I've heard him on over the years.
That's where the "de facto" label comes in from Mark Passio, I think, meaning they live as Satanists and as if they worship Satan without actually naming what they do. As William Blake said, "you become what you behold". Ramsey's hell is precisely the level of the astral plane he dwells upon now: always chasing big status symbols in the form of fancy living. What is he afraid of? So when he goes to hell -- and we all do in my belief, though it is temporary and not eternal, it is part of the process between human lives in my belief -- I think he will find himself still chasing status and money as he did in life, though hell usually frames it in worse circumstances so we can learn from the mistake. I believe he will wonder why his relationship with the God of the poor he ostensibly worships is tainted and/or remote, though the answer has been somewhat obvious. Of course I could be wrong, you know I always acknowledge that. This is just speculation. As to anything Kiyosaki... Heaven bless you if you had the patience to sit through that long of a podcast featuring that blowhard! I could not do it.
Thank you, Rob! I've got money on my mind because of g*%&mn taxes. The hardest thing is to play the Glad Game https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/107562.html and suss out the silver lining to the cloud. It's an art that takes diligent practice.
I can see how the toilet gods and various land spirits would like that! Let me know how it works out. I swear cleaning my toilet every day has brought finance luck.
It boggles the mind how Ramsey has been able to turn such a simple formula for success into an empire. It’s really quite simple “Stay out of debt particularly credit card and small personal loan variety.”
Me: How can one get ahead if every time you spend a dollar you pay an extra .30 cents. This is what happens when you carry a balance on your credit card. It’s not complicated.
I’m a survivalist by nature and I most definitely that in a financial sense. I did lose everything in circa 2008. Ugh it fucking sucked and it continued to suck for the next 5 or 6 years. I did not blame the financial collapse on my woes. When I tell the story I sometimes do because its faster and easier. However I know the man typing this is the responsible party.
Now in 2021 I got canned and was out of work for 8 months. I was fortunate to save enough to be able to do that. You really need to try and put some back because it does allow you to become less stressed in your life. However I was starting to get pretty nervous. The problem I kept running into was that I had not nor would I participate in the little total population vaccine experiment. Pretty much all tech companies were requiring it at that time. This was NOT my fault and it really was upsetting.
However, I was able to pull through. The best advice I can give you is similar to the Avatar point you made Kimberly. One must have the courage to face themselves and the situation head on. No bullshitting around with yourself. You must see you for what you really are no matter how badly it hurts. “To thine own self be true.” This will help you I promise.
Ramsey seems to have helped more people than Kiyosaki, I think. Maybe because his message focuses upon getting people out of debt. Kiyosaki has always been about building a grift empire. Ramsey has a grift empire, but at least it's more oriented towards debt reduction.
Ugh, so many of my unvaxxed friends either lost their livelihoods or got fired! I remember thinking about how totally unfair it was to lose my commercial location because I refused to quaxx or force anyone to wear a mask while inside my business. I am glad the spirit of the land here in North America was on my side -- she (and "she" refers to a collection of land spirits) does not like the communist thing. I took a great deal of refuge in the American land spirits during the Plandemic. I truly meant it that I will go apes**t if they try real communism here and bring it to my door, and a deep-rooted, ancient part of me will find it to be a homecoming. They do not want to know how I would defend my freedom and they really should not try it. I think there are plenty like me, especially in North America, who seem very mild mannered in daily life. Appearances can be extremely deceiving.
The Avatar is a means of control -- those who plant the ideal, perfect image get a lot of money and resources from the people they dupe. Hollywood would not exist without the Avatar and advertising would be largely unsuccessful. Yes, "to thine own self be true", and listen to your higher self! Or do a divination, at any rate.
Women weren't driven into the workplace. Poor women have always worked. And in the 1970s, women were finally starting to realize they didn't have to be financially dependent on men - having their own money could help them leave an abusive husband, or terminate a pregnancy that might have kept them tied to an abusive man (or that could have killed them if it went to term). My mom couldn't even have a credit card in her own name until the mid seventies. I can't think of many women who'd want to go back to depending on a man's whims for a roof over their heads.
The nature of poor women's work changed. They used to do etheric labor (also known as housework) as slaves, indentured servants, nursemaids, and laundresses. The 70s gave them actual pay and actual worker's rights, but it also cheapened labor so that everyone was getting paid less. Nowadays, a great deal of work, including "women's work" is outsourced to the Third World: textiles are sewn by slave women and children, metals for computers and phones are mined by slaves, and overseas call centers do what used to be done by American working women for a good wage, plus American women were far better at it. If you think I am talking about the desirability of regressing to a system where women depend upon men for their meat and shelter here, you should go back and re-read the article because you've likely missed several key points.
Good article. You're absolutely right - money is supposed to be spent. Yes, it's good to save enough to have for when God gives us a surprised and have a 'rainy day fund' as it were, or save for a specific purpose.
But, to have mountains of case? That's obscene. Or the Ramsey and Kiyasaki's ideas of becoming real estate moguls? No; land and houses are meant to be lived in. They're meant to be owned. Yes, there's a place for renting and all, but our nation is predatory upon renters right now, and extracts their wealth, sucking them dry.
Much better for one's soul to build up beauty and community, living a simple life.
Thanks! Money is truly worthless when it only buys more grift. Ramsey is apparently skilled with money (the jury is still out on Kiyosaki) but I would argue he is not worshipping Jesus Christ. That kind of ostentation smacks of what Mark Passio calls de facto Satanism. He is an ex-Satanist who was pretty high up in the ranks, so I suspect he knows a thing or two about what constitutes a Satanist. I know rich Buddhists who brag about taking luxury plane trips and attempt to force children to mask even now in 2024 -- I would argue they don't worship Buddha. I'm going to guess the entities these men and women worship can be found in the Goetia: Baal and Paimon come to mind. From my experience, lesser entities love to masquerade as celebrities, dead relatives, and gods.
Eh. I wouldn't call him a Satanist. I would call him a Christian heretic of the "health and wealth" variety. That is; if you're following God correctly, you will be healthy and wealthy. These things are immature and childish in faith; they haven't read the book of Job, they haven't read the struggles of the Old Testament and how they merge with the New, and Christ's commands to take up one's Cross to follow him, and then apply that to one's material wealth, health, and trials - that we may be poor or wealthy, but no matter what we are give we are called pour out that wealth upon ourselves and others because it belongs to God. It is given to us as a Stewardship, and we're accountable for it to Him. He just is a poor one, as he clings to it too closely and seeks too much gain.
Whether that means that he actually worships one of the pagan gods, I couldn't tell you. I hope not, for his sake. But I don't get the impression from the one video I series of his I watched.
Kiyosaki I never was impressed by. He seemed like a dumb grifter that was good at marketing and taking the ticket. With usurious loans and ticket taking, anyone can look impressive in a bubble economy - that's my impression from about 5 or 6 hour long podcast interviews I've heard him on over the years.
That's where the "de facto" label comes in from Mark Passio, I think, meaning they live as Satanists and as if they worship Satan without actually naming what they do. As William Blake said, "you become what you behold". Ramsey's hell is precisely the level of the astral plane he dwells upon now: always chasing big status symbols in the form of fancy living. What is he afraid of? So when he goes to hell -- and we all do in my belief, though it is temporary and not eternal, it is part of the process between human lives in my belief -- I think he will find himself still chasing status and money as he did in life, though hell usually frames it in worse circumstances so we can learn from the mistake. I believe he will wonder why his relationship with the God of the poor he ostensibly worships is tainted and/or remote, though the answer has been somewhat obvious. Of course I could be wrong, you know I always acknowledge that. This is just speculation. As to anything Kiyosaki... Heaven bless you if you had the patience to sit through that long of a podcast featuring that blowhard! I could not do it.
Bit of a tight month with money myself, but that article was excellent. Loved it 😁
Thank you, Rob! I've got money on my mind because of g*%&mn taxes. The hardest thing is to play the Glad Game https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/107562.html and suss out the silver lining to the cloud. It's an art that takes diligent practice.
I loved that. Im gunna burn that green candle in the bathroom while cleaning.
It will be like crossing the streams in ghostbusters :)
Your articles are awesome :)
I can see how the toilet gods and various land spirits would like that! Let me know how it works out. I swear cleaning my toilet every day has brought finance luck.
I just read that again out load to my wife. Great stuff!
Aww, thanks.
Kimberly do you have a “Buy me coffee” link?
Yes, it's http://buymeacoffee.com/kimberlysteele
It boggles the mind how Ramsey has been able to turn such a simple formula for success into an empire. It’s really quite simple “Stay out of debt particularly credit card and small personal loan variety.”
Me: How can one get ahead if every time you spend a dollar you pay an extra .30 cents. This is what happens when you carry a balance on your credit card. It’s not complicated.
I’m a survivalist by nature and I most definitely that in a financial sense. I did lose everything in circa 2008. Ugh it fucking sucked and it continued to suck for the next 5 or 6 years. I did not blame the financial collapse on my woes. When I tell the story I sometimes do because its faster and easier. However I know the man typing this is the responsible party.
Now in 2021 I got canned and was out of work for 8 months. I was fortunate to save enough to be able to do that. You really need to try and put some back because it does allow you to become less stressed in your life. However I was starting to get pretty nervous. The problem I kept running into was that I had not nor would I participate in the little total population vaccine experiment. Pretty much all tech companies were requiring it at that time. This was NOT my fault and it really was upsetting.
However, I was able to pull through. The best advice I can give you is similar to the Avatar point you made Kimberly. One must have the courage to face themselves and the situation head on. No bullshitting around with yourself. You must see you for what you really are no matter how badly it hurts. “To thine own self be true.” This will help you I promise.
Always a fantastic read 😊
Ramsey seems to have helped more people than Kiyosaki, I think. Maybe because his message focuses upon getting people out of debt. Kiyosaki has always been about building a grift empire. Ramsey has a grift empire, but at least it's more oriented towards debt reduction.
Ugh, so many of my unvaxxed friends either lost their livelihoods or got fired! I remember thinking about how totally unfair it was to lose my commercial location because I refused to quaxx or force anyone to wear a mask while inside my business. I am glad the spirit of the land here in North America was on my side -- she (and "she" refers to a collection of land spirits) does not like the communist thing. I took a great deal of refuge in the American land spirits during the Plandemic. I truly meant it that I will go apes**t if they try real communism here and bring it to my door, and a deep-rooted, ancient part of me will find it to be a homecoming. They do not want to know how I would defend my freedom and they really should not try it. I think there are plenty like me, especially in North America, who seem very mild mannered in daily life. Appearances can be extremely deceiving.
The Avatar is a means of control -- those who plant the ideal, perfect image get a lot of money and resources from the people they dupe. Hollywood would not exist without the Avatar and advertising would be largely unsuccessful. Yes, "to thine own self be true", and listen to your higher self! Or do a divination, at any rate.
Women weren't driven into the workplace. Poor women have always worked. And in the 1970s, women were finally starting to realize they didn't have to be financially dependent on men - having their own money could help them leave an abusive husband, or terminate a pregnancy that might have kept them tied to an abusive man (or that could have killed them if it went to term). My mom couldn't even have a credit card in her own name until the mid seventies. I can't think of many women who'd want to go back to depending on a man's whims for a roof over their heads.
The nature of poor women's work changed. They used to do etheric labor (also known as housework) as slaves, indentured servants, nursemaids, and laundresses. The 70s gave them actual pay and actual worker's rights, but it also cheapened labor so that everyone was getting paid less. Nowadays, a great deal of work, including "women's work" is outsourced to the Third World: textiles are sewn by slave women and children, metals for computers and phones are mined by slaves, and overseas call centers do what used to be done by American working women for a good wage, plus American women were far better at it. If you think I am talking about the desirability of regressing to a system where women depend upon men for their meat and shelter here, you should go back and re-read the article because you've likely missed several key points.