I have always said that the mucky mucks in the apartment association were the grandchildren of European immigrants who started buying property in the early to mid 20th century. They had the “advantage” of having a tough life and so being tough themselves. The industry had much less regulation back then and was a much simpler business than it is today. The power of compounding, time, and their guts and hard work allowed them to amass huge real estate portfolios that are literally being managed by their grandchildren now and as a result their families are wealthy and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
My friend’s step-mother is the daughter of just such a man. He spoke with a heavy European accent and passed away in his late 90’s. His daughter manages the hundreds of units that he amassed, all of them now in nice neighborhoods. As the story was told to me, he was a cutter in the garment district for many years, and he saved his money to invest in a chicken farm, which at the time was considered to be a very safe, secure and savvy investment. Being in vogue they were hard to come by. So with his money ready and him standing by waiting for the right opportunity, he was approached to go in on an apartment building. He was forty years old. They did so well, that after a few years he bought his partner out. He kept buying and never looked back.
Discussing my situation with him and his daughter (my friend’s step mother), I was saying how I had finally gotten a troublesome building under control after almost five years of management. I was complaining about a persistent roof leak, that I finally fixed after three tries on my own, and three tries by a roofer whom I paid almost $500 to do the repair. After the 3rd attempt by the roofer, he went out of business, and not being able to get anyone else interested in a $500 job I attempted it myself. I was saying I don’t really want to spend my time on the roof, but I was left without a choice. The elderly gentleman beamed as my friend’s step mother explained that there were plenty of days when he came home from work, and then climbed on a roof to fix a leak, coming home tired and dirty.
If this sounds like too much work for you, keep in mind that I prefer to hire out that kind of work when I can. You can not achieve success in any field without some hard work. And that this man, and many others like him have amassed a fortune and have lifted their families from poverty to wealth in a single generation.
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Decide to be a good person who will not be evil.
Inherent in the offer of clone hosting is a clue:::"Earn" by hurting others. This violates this vow, causing people to incurr evil, and the clue you need to avoid it. Sadly, as young people too many are still corrupted, still unenlightened and make the mistake when offered.
Only innocent pure children ascend into heaven, while evil is relegated to entering clone hosting, where they are reincarnated as lesser life forms. One day the Christian Rapture will be used as a "consolation prize", and usher in the era of compensation according to the Bible:::1000 years with Jesus on Earth.
Everlasting life with Jesus, but only for true believers:::Placement to suffer on the next Planet Earth punishment for worshipping a false god.
The antients used Christinaity to initiate the "Beginnning of The End". Along the way they used it to initiate other tools which they will use to further mankind into decay and towards the Apoocalypse:::USA, "democracy", capitalism/corporations.
Of the tools they have used, religious, political, economic, social is by far the most damaging and seems reserved for those who have experienced each tactic:::
The god's social tool promoted moral decay, whether sexual, behavioral, professional, etc. It created an enviornment where indecency is the norm.
Breaking my ankle at the Summitt was shamelessly gratuitous. The only purpose was to slow me down as I got older, ensuring I didn't continue hiking or being active.
And they knew they were going to parlay kidney failure into cardiac cmplications, effectively doing the same.
People don't believe me when I say the gods are monsters, saying it is specific to my life. We're all being set up for ugly, and Republican debt spending will lead to bankrupcy and the use of all these semi-automatic guns people are hoarding at these gun shows.
The gods are ordering all proceedings still. If one day this changes it hasn't yet. Their vested interest is still very high.
The gods chose the Eutruscans to destroy Planet Earth and imparted their value system because these were the values the Antients would inflict on us when the chips were on the table. Ironically they are the big gangsters in the sky.
The gods may share some values of the conservatives (mostly good, a little evil), with the exception of capitalism, warmongering and environmental degredation, but they also share in the economic degredation of the conservatives which will bring the United States to bankrupcy and anarchy. It initiated with Ronald Reagan taking the National Debt from $1T to $6T.
And me, the hundred billion dollar man, will have to meekly ask for a nice apartment (conservative timeshare dream).
As long as the gods have this vested interest of the Situation they are calling the shots. They order all proceedings to ensure they get what they want. This is not to say they will transistion when it is over, but I suspect this final absolution of culpability is necessary for them to completely wash their hands of Earth in preparation for the Apocalypse.
Something godly about dork, innocent and pure, unlike the status quo. Kinda like the Simspsons episode when Rod and Todd go back to Germany and become normal, because everyone in the USA are the freaks. This was a valuable clue.
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