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Be Original

Original thinkers do not care what other people think. They have a plan, with goals affixed, and try to accomplish them. They aren’t swayed by public opinion and they don’t do something just to be original.

Sometimes being original means to do what the herd is doing, other times the opposite. That’s the point of being an independent thinker.

Are you buying/selling XYZ only because a famous hedge fund manager is buying or shorting it?

Are you shorting XYZ because it’s the fashionable thing to do?

Do you find yourself selling too quickly, because you lack conviction?

Conviction is a hard thing to manage. It’s not as easy as some people think. Most people believe being stubborn or ignorant is conviction; but that’s simply not the case. To have conviction in a name, one must be fully educated about the facts supporting the reason to be long or short. When a person is stubborn/ignorant, he’s simply being lazy, leaving fate to be decided by time and luck.

It’s burdensome to be original because it means being responsible for actions, words and thoughts. Going throughout life emulating people is a short cut, preferred by many, practiced by most. There’s nothing worse than an unoriginal moron. It’s boring and tedious to watch.

That being said, I’m not here to lecture you. I swear on a stack of King James bibles that wasn’t my intention when I started to write this blog. I don’t plan these posts; they just flow as I am typing. Like now, I can literally talk about anything, since this is non-scripted. Would you like to discuss NASA’s statement about “never putting a man on the moon in our lifetime again” and how the Russians are planning to put a robot on the moon, 44 years after America put men on it?

Doesn’t seem odd to you that we’ve never been there since? Moreover, doesn’t seem odd that we’ve never sent men outside the Van Allen belt since the early 1970’s?

Perhaps it’s because Stanley Kubrick directed the lunar landing in Hollywood. Or, perhaps we got bored of the moon because it was unoriginal, boring, moribund to its last stupid moon-rock.

 

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    NASA’s statement should have been “we never put a man on the moon in our lifetime, and won’t in your lifetime”.

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    Reminiscent of the best advice I ever received when I got into the business a score+ ago from the only manager I ever had professional respect for; “dicipline is more important than conviction” and “be diciplined w/ your convictions”…..

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  7. Rob T

    It’s because the moon isn’t all that interesting; sending men there doesn’t accomplish much. It would still be a hell of a feat for most other nations, but we’ve got our eyes (and the entirety of the space program) set on asteroids and Mars.

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  9. Zero Dark Kitty

    A visionary president would fund landing craft on Mars that can dig down to the water or utilize ice at the poles to make sustainable resources for a biosphere with lichen, moss, various bacteria to start growing with water and CO2.

    If we start now, Mars could be inhabitable by 2100.

    Then at some point we should also propose one way missions to Mars, you land and don’t come home.

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    • Yabollox

      Perhaaps we should spend those dollars on making our inner cities more inhabitable. The greater good and all that.

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      you made a typo, I think:

      “If we start now, Mars could be _unhabitable_ by 2100.”

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    nice post..

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    Got bored? No, just fat and lazy.

    The culture of achievement has been replaced by the “EBT, Obamaphone and Crazy Money” Free Shit Empire.

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  13. lol

    Alternative theory… perhaps what they discovered on the moon was too shocking and dangerous to society, so they decided to go with the backup plan and air the moon rehersal video made when training instead.

    OR, if there in fact WAS a strategical and tactical advantage over the rest of the world (such as telepathic technology to communicate with advanced life forms and produce and engineer advanced vehicles in area 51+52), they wouldn’t want the Russians or any other country to get the technology so this way they can keep the advantage, pretend “nothing to see here” and meanwhile continue to produce technologically advanced items of all sorts to gain economically, culturally and so on.

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    • The Fly

      Russia was ahead of us in space race. By miracle, we fly to the moon and Russia never bothered to see for themselves?

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      • Juice

        we put the fix in real quick … Apollo 13 was supposedly a failure but actually it was a major success… the story was they had to abort but their mission was to place artifacts like a US flag, etc where the first moon landing allegedly took place .. BINGO, mission accomplished .. coverup complete

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    I got a good one!

    An advanced species exactly like us but a million years more developed actually went through everything they went through and like it’s doing now, the value of bitcoins went “to the moon” and eventually became the intergalactic trading currency.

    Before being destroyed by aliens, they stashed bitcoins on our moon. The moon is filled with Bit coins. Word has leaked. This is why bitcoins are going parabolic and the US doesn’t want to go back to the moon, for fear that the alien race will discover us hiding it and assume we aided the enemy (and blow up our planet). The russians are reckless enough to go try to get it.

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    I discount a coverup in part because the moon mission occurred while Nixon was President. It defies logic to think an elaborate hoax could’ve been perpetrated on the world’s public when secrets flowed out of that administration like a sieve.

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