Salvation

So sitting through my long boring 3 weeks of 13 hr day orientation with enough power point to make you want to kill Microsoft I got to thinking about salvation.   And my mind wandered to the many groups following people who thought were Jesus back to earth, i.e David Koresh, Charles Manson and the likes.  And I got to thinking if there ever comes to be Jesus reborn as the Christian faith teaches or the Messiah coming as the Jewish faith teaches do they really think he will get by society?  I mean any man or woman spouting these sayings is either looking for a Waco show down or a one way ticket to the state psych facility and they throw away the key.

It made me think even further that maybe if there is the jewish/christian God that maybe he has been sending saviors all the time, and Jesus was just lucky to gain a strong following, and the others were killed by society and made either saints or wrote off as crazies.  In other words in this day and age and the ages past are we able to believe and be able to be saved.

Cheers,

Zachary

Emperor's new groove

Sorry everyone for my hiatus from blogging, no real excuse but I just finished moving and starting my intership.

Katie, I love the continued blogging. I agree and disagree with the article about oil and gas. I love the media and their freedom to write what they will. But for the last 10 year or so it seems that they are following the Bush administration with the theme "Fear sells". That, in my opinion, is why they are putting all the oil crisis things up. Do I think they are affecting the market significantly no, in that I don't think they quite yet have the power to alter the market significantly on such a global product. But they can alter buyers choices, which can lead to more alternative fuel cars being sold.

Missing you all,
Zachary

The Emperor's New Clothes

http://seekingalpha.com/article/78440-the-oil-shortage-and-other-fairy-tales

Here's an article that was published on May 22nd, but is still very much a timely topic given oil prices over the past several weeks. The article discusses the effect of media hype (specifically CNBC) on oil prices and the lack of fundamental evidence to substantiate the huge increases. I love the analogy the author uses, comparing the oil hype to the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes". I have included an excerpt below, but think that the full article is definitely worth a read. I sit in front of a tv at work that has CNBC on 24 hours a day and can personally attest to the media hype the article discusses. The fact that their Index ticker at the top of the screen has been flashing "America's Oil Crisis" for the past month and highlights the Oil price in bright orange is definitely not doing anything to appease investors' worries.

"The really sick thing is that we are cast in the role of the people in this version of "The Emperor’s New Clothes." King Oil parades out into the crowd wearing nothing but a very expensive smile while all the court jesters on CNBC ooh and ah at the magnificence of the demand cycle, even though there are no fundamentals there at all! I will continue to play the role of the small boy in the crowd who points and laughs and says "But there’s nothing really there," as I did with housing two years ago, but until you start pointing with me, until the voices of reality drown out the sycophants in the mainstream media. the people of our kingdom will continue to be taxed to pay for the kings’ imaginary outfit, until we expose him for the naked fool that he is."

Enjoy,
Katie