Whence Poop Hangs I'm going to say some good things, positive things about Christianity. But not yet. A while back I sat and listened to a sermon in a Christian church. I am not a Christian so it was a unique opportunity, one spanning from my long-ago Methodist upbringing in rural Indiana. A friend of mine had died and so I attended his funeral out of respect — and wanting to see him officially sent on from his recent life here on this beautiful but often miserable Earth. This was not some out-there evangelical cult; this was a mainstream American small-town Lutheran church. I sat there quietly in the pew on an inside aisle near the middle of the sanctuary, unable to not listen to the Protestant minister as he used the event of my friend's passing to preach his passionate message which was essentially, "Get lost." Seriously; no joke. He said, "Lose yourself to Jesus." He went on to explain that we should not put our trust in
I've been doing some research on "the" stock market, i.e., publicly traded shares of corporate ownership. A few thoughts: It's an "everybody knows" that fear drives the market. But that's not quite right and pretty much backwards. Rather, It's confidence that drives the market , along with its obvious corollary, and the lack thereof . Confidence is an interesting subject all on its own. Peculiarly it's not rooted in actuality or even truth. Ask any con man. It's just believing in something or someone. When it comes to having confidence that a corporation will continue to be viable and return a profit there are several areas to consider. Chief among these is confidence in a company's CEO. Perhaps the best exemplar of this could currently be Elon Musk, fearless leader of Tesla Corp. His "Think Big" insouciance and managing to remain prominent in the public eye has much to do with the billions spent to finance his operation