7Seven Deadly Sins blog starts out describing the 7 deadly sins. 1. LUST 2. ENVY 3. GLUTTONY 4. SLOTH 5. GREED 6. ANGER 7. PRIDE (VANITY) Considered deadly by Western Churchman in the 13th Century. As they are sins, not crimes. These seven deadly sins has woven its way into the very fabric of our lives, businesses, and society, and can be revealed in the content (articles)and videos written and published by various authors, and posted on this blog by Gwendolyn.
Rev. Floyd Flake defends Aqueduct racino pick as fair, praises project as job-creating godsend
BY Jill Colvin and Erin Durkin
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Monday, February 8th 2010, 4:00 AM
Egan-Chin/News
The Rev. Floyd Flake defended the state’s pick of Aqueduct Entertainment Group to run Aqueduct’s racino, saying it was a fair decision.
The Rev. Floyd Flake took to his Queens pulpit Sunday to defend the state’s controversial pick to run the Aqueduct racino slots – a company in which he has a stake.
“I know you must have read a lot about this in the tabloids,” Flake told the congregation, worshipers said.
Flake, an influential former congressman, owns a .06% stake in Aqueduct Entertainment Group, a politically connected company that won the lucrative deal to run the slots.
The Aqueduct slots could bring in as much as $6 billion a year, experts predict, with AEG taking home about $180 million annually.
Flake insisted the company beat out other bidders to win the racino deal fair and square – and he touted the project as a godsend that will bring much-needed jobs to the community.
Twitter is a bright, shiny universe of new friends, new ideas, hilarious little snippets and occasionally even a spot of news. It’s a great way to promote your blog or your business. But if your primary purpose on twitter is promotion and not to connect with other people – abandon ship. Twitter is not for you. Ulterior motives don’t do well. They result in one action: UNFOLLOW. Mistakes are easy when you start out. After all, no-one is updating their status – they’re engaging with one another! And that’s confusing – is it private or can you join in? How do you make the most of it and have fun? Well for starters you could avoid the most irritating twitter behaviours. And before you start trawling through my twitter stream – yes I have committed most of them.
1. Gluttony (Over-Sharing)
Do not, I repeat do not over-share. Do you really want to know about someone else’s digestive problems? I didn’t think so. When you went into graphic detail about your gastric flu did you consider all the people reading your tweets while they were eating? Your followers should be wanting to know more about you, not less.
2. Pride (Over-Promotion)
People get pretty sick of you if all they here are continual, duplicated plugs for whatever it is that you’re promoting. The argument that some of your followers may have missed it because of the timing doesn’t hold water. It’s extremely irritating to see exactly the same tweet repeated. Get creative and find a way to send the same link in a different way. For example “my loyal follower has just commented at my blog, what do you think?” And yes over-promotion includes blathering about blog stats, follower numbers or fans.
3. Sloth (Automatic Anything)
Anything that is automated means that you don’t care enough to make it personal. This includes automated DM messages for new followers, an automatic tweet in response to keywords or an auto-follow in response to keywords. This puts you squarely into the spambot category. If you don’t want to spend the time on twitter to be personal, don’t bother at all.
4. Greed (Not Engaging)
Things get pretty boring pretty fast if all you do is update your status, post links, post pictures and promote your blog. In order for people to care about any of that, you need to engage with them. This involves replying when something sparks your interest, or you think you can be of help; re-tweeting where you can add value; and getting involved in the discussion.
5. Envy (Crashing the Party)
Work out the difference between joining the discussion and crashing someone’s private conversation. If a tweet starts with @user it generally means it’s not for public debate because if the author wanted everyone they follow to see it there would be another character in front of the @user to make it visible to everyone. But if you really want to participate in the discussion at the very least acknowledge that you’re crashing. It’s less douchey that way.
6. Wrath (Blasting)
I don’t care how passionate you are about your topic, there is no excuse for blasting. There is nothing wrong with how passionate you are and that passion will probably lead you to find many like-minded people on twitter. But (and it’s a big but), ramming your opinion down someone else’s throat when they don’t agree with you is no way to promote your cause or yourself – particularly if you haven’t taken the time to get to know the person at the end of your rant. I’m sorry activists but twitter isn’t really designed for you because you end up unleashing the bulk of your argument about a theory on one person. Not really fair is it?
7. Lust (Celebrity Stalking)
Everyone loves to follow a celebrity or two. Nothing wrong with that. Although fair warning if you follow @mrskutcher and @aplusk you will have to witness some pretty treacly interchanges. It’s not the celebrity part that is the problem it’s all of their followers. If you say anything at all that could be vaguely interpreted as negative, be prepared for all of their followers to be all over you like a rash. In part because celebrities are so idolised but mostly because deep down their followers are thinking that by attacking you, ‘the hater’, the celebrity will acknowledge them, and might actually follow them back. So avoid the lemmings, they’re not worth it.
(CNN) — In 1967, the Mamas & the Papas had a hit with a song that detailed, with bittersweet harmonies, the checkered history of the band. The song, written by the group’s John Phillips and his wife, Michelle, was called “Creeque Alley.”
If the song were to be updated today, it might have to be retitled “Creep Alley.”
With the claims by John’s daughter, Mackenzie, that she had an incestuous relationship with her father, the story of Phillips and his group — in music, models of California dreams and California Dreamin’– takes on a darker hue.
The story was already tangled, a motley love- and drug-soaked tale of excess set to the group’s distinctive four-part harmonies.
Phillips left his first wife, Mackenzie’s mother, Susan Adams, for 18-year-old Michelle, whom he’d met in a San Francisco club while touring in the early ’60s, according to the band’s biography on Allmusic.com.
The band’s lead male singer, Denny Doherty, later had an affair with Michelle; she was forced out of the group for a time. The fourth member, Cass Elliot, had an unrequited crush on Doherty, the biography noted.
After the Mamas & the Papas’ success with such singles as “California Dreamin’ ” and the No. 1 hit “Monday, Monday,” the Phillipses bought a Bel Air mansion from which they ruled over the Los Angeles music scene. Read full article
GREED – and MORE of it won’t stop the pain we are all in.
And trying to be billionaires is the CAUSE of woe…not the solution to it.
Sure, billionaires “appear” wealthy and “better off” than everyone else, but greed destroys the planet, and puts us ALL in degraded and dangerous conditions.
Instead of trying to be LIKE billionaire monsters, we need to be financially and sexually ethical…and thus gain a far greater level of well being than ANY billionaire will ever attain.
Billionaires are gluttonous fools who face unavoidable consequences for their actions anyway.
They’re screwed up like the rest of the planet. Our collective greed is where all the evil is coming from.
Bogeymen like Osama or Saddamn are distractions from our own bad behavior.
Not everyone is an evil-doer…but collectively we are ALL negligent of maintaining the common good. We TOLERATE, and even admire the VERY THING that causes us all the grief.
GREED is the Cause of that 911 incident…and a LOT more is coming if we don’t end the greed.
And the fact is…if we don’t end the greed…someone is going to bomb US, sooner or later. Shoot people…bomb people, and eventually somebody shoots back. Maybe not all at once…but in time, and ALL of it is bad.
I don’t need this crap. None of us needs the Mass insanity of a D-Day massacre. It’s bad. All war is bad.
I’m sick of it ALL..
So why war??? It’s because rather than being REASONABLE…everybody expects to own a yacht the size of the Titanic.
Everybody expects a trillion dollars for doing as little as possible.
If we end the greed…we won’t LOSE anything except misery. Nobody is supposed to own a 99% share of the world. What we ARE supposed to possess is a state of well being far SUPERIOR to what we have now, and greater than ANY billionaire maniac will EVER have…and without horrific consequences and side effects.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
End the greed, and end the mass insanity that is on it’s way beginning in the form of MORE contrived TERROR attacks. Terrorism is the deliberate creation of a society of greedy maniacs who don’t know what good governance even is.
Government is FAILING us. That’s because the greed infected do not even know what’s wrong…much less how to fix the mess.
All they see is MORE GREED. It’s a lunatic insanity of “Gold Fever” where everybody kills each other off trying to jump each other’s claim. We need the COMMON GOOD restored. NOT more greed.
When people are asked to take a sledge hammer to their home they refuse because they know the consequences of their actions. But they are blinded to the damage their behavior has done to themselves and to the planet or even recognize its origin. That is what makes this world an insane asylum.
Humans, grow up…BEFORE the universe has to get rid of you.
We’ll all end up happy, and feeling better.
1 Timothy 6:9-10;”But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
Double Whammy: 50-Year Record on Sept. 22. $10 Trillion on Sept. 30, 2008
The gross national debt compared to GDP (how rich we are) reached its lowest level since 1931 as Reagan took office in 1981. It skyrocketed for 12 years through Bush senior. Clinton reversed it at a peak of 67%. Bush junior crossed that line on Sept. 22 and hit 69% on Sept 30. That’s the highest it’s been since 1955. (sources) Bush did three things to skyrocket the debt from $5.7 trillion to $10 trillion:
1. He lowered taxes on the rich (by far the biggest item). 2. He invaded Iraq instead of winning in Afghan-Pakistan (another $600 B). 3. He deregulated Wall Street speculators. That bailout has now “invested” $1T
– takes on a darker hue.
