Why read the Bible in 2024 as a non dogmatic, practical, thinking person?

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Reading the Bible is a goal I’ve set for myself and have been reading 4 chapters a day for some time now.

Here are my motivations.

  1. The Bible, with all of its beauty, contradictions, shock points and question marks, serves and has served as a foundation for much of western civilization. In one sense, to be “civilized” might include some understanding of the ideas that have guided and shaped civilization.
  2. For many people, The Bible is an authoritative book, and is often used as a way to influence self and others to think, believe or behave in certain ways. Knowing what’s actually in it might serve as a protection against those who would use it as a tool for unjust power or influence over the ignorant. I don’t want to be ignorant.
  3. It’s a classic. A classic is a piece of content that persists over time because it continues to speak to the hearts, minds and ears of people, over and across generations. To me, this says there’s something in it worth finding.
  4. I believe humanity needs God, and the Bible seems to be at least 1, very strong pointer to this grand higher ideal. My friend Brett likes to say “you can take the spiritual path or the psychopath.” People have used The Bible (and probably all religious texts) as a justification for both, but the fact remains that morally, we humans seem to need something solid to stand on, and something “higher” to point ourselves toward. From my studies so far, there seems to be quite a bit, in this old book, that maybe we can keep standing on as we move higher into the future together.
  5. It’s a spiritual language we can learn to communicate more effectively with others. When I went to Taiwan, I learned Mandarin Chinese so I could communicate with the beautiful souls who lived there. Even if you don’t consider yourself to be a “Christian” wouldn’t it be wise to understand and be able to understand and “speak the language?”

The same, I think, is true for all spiritual paths and I intend to read other works of faith so I can be a better communicator with as many people as possible.

If we humans are going to continue to thrive and unify over time, understanding each other seems like might a great place to start. read more

The Magician’s Dirty Trick

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So check this out.

In America the Average cost of a home is $417,701.91. The current rate of interest on a mortgage is 7.62%. The average hourly wage is $29.81 per hour.

When a person sits down to get a home loan, this is roughly what they’ll see.

These are lies.

When I first started in entrepreneurship, I joined a direct sales debt elimination company. For over a year, I worked tirelessly—going door to door, making phone calls, conducting meetings, and even renting hotel space for presentations—without earning a single dollar. read more

Money, Conspiracy, A.I. & The Quest For Freedom & Truth…

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This last week I published an interesting blog post about a book that was very instumental in how I understand, view and use money.

I also mentioned it on one of our morning Grow Rich Mastermind calls.

A few days later, a friend and fellow host of our call, brought up the book I’d shared and as she was talking about it said that “It was written by a ‘conspiracy theorist’ and that we may want to take the content it contains with a grain of salt.” read more