Not so current event

Gosh I hate current events. It's like only the depressing issues catch the news waves.
VTech shooting!
Just over a week ago a 22 year old man went on a shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech campus, killing 32 people including himself.
A moment of silence and no typing for the VTech students who lost their lives to Cho.



When situations like this occur, I am quickly brought back to my knees, feverishly thanking my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ for the undeserved and yet abundant mercy and favor that he bestows upon me and my family. You look at the profiles of the people who perished and you can't help but wonder what makes one better than them. I leave home hurriedly everyday, I cut people off on the highway, park illegally, walk into class late more than I would like to, eat bad food, again more than I would like to, but yet I expect to be home later every single day. So far the cops have not found a link between Cho and his victims, and one can say that the only differentiating factor between the person that wasn't shot and the person that was is the will of God. Don't analyze that statement too much, what that means is you could have had reason to be at that location at that time, or Cho could have had reason to shoot up your location at that time. My condolences go to the families.

Gun laws
How could Cho legally prance around for weeks with two automatic rifles that he eventually used to expire other lives. The argument for freedom to bare firearms simply begs the question. We can't blame the police, or the school or anyone else for that matter.
The laws governing the state of Virginia made it impossible to force the troubled boy to rehab, the campus is not a confined area, that means it is virtually impossible to regulate, in the manner that would have avoided the tragedy.... In other words, there are so many things that could not have been avoided without hindsight, but the one thing that could was the ease at which Cho got his automatic rifles. If automatic guns were illegal, he might have shot one or two people, maybe even three, but even his peers would have been able to confine him. A table to the head or knees, even a slap, but who the hell was going to walk up to a racket of bullets. The best one could do would be to forfeit one's life to save another, and several of the deceased did that. A common saying "Even freedom comes with responsibility" is useless to an irresponsible or disturbed person. As is obvious Total freedom is never free. One can even say that It is possible to be enslaved by total freedom

Good girls go to Heaven, bad girls go everywhere!!!

What's wrong with that statement? Well, everywhere includes hell!...and a whole bunch of other fun places...that also end in hell. What a mess.

For the first time in my life I feel as though I have made a 180 degree turn away from the right direction. Well, it's not sudden, it's been a dirty and turbulent, excruciatingly tasking and churning turn. Don't misinterpret my statement to mean I have been naive and now have become enlightened by a bite of the forbidden fruit. That would have sounded pretty cool, and perhaps a lot more forgiving, but it's not the case. I have always been cognizant of everything around me, I have my shares of lures, but I guess, to relate it to the title, I have always had my eyes set on Heaven, and so made conscious decisions to lead me through to that path. Nah! I've never been a saint, well not since I turned 7, but I always quickly realized what I considered errors, a lot were repeated, but again, I felt at minimum a twinge of guilt. All of that now appears to have dissipated into thin air! I have given others the power to change me and now I can feel myself stirring off course and I can't turn around. Perhaps what's worse is not that I really can't turn around, but that I don't want to. What's beautiful though is that I realize that my being bothered about not been bothered means that I have a remnant I can reawaken and rebuild. I know it sounds like an easy feat turning full circle, but ummm, there's a reason why potential energy differs from the kinetic. Knowledge empowers, but without implementation it is as good as ignorance. In essence, so what if I figured it out?

Ahhhh...(exhaling)

Truth is I am simply getting a whole bunch of crap out of my system.... One just has to wonder how long that will last.

Effectual thinking...

So I'm taking a course that's supposed to help me think like an entrepreneur...but I can't help but wonder if the fact that we are taking this course does not disqualify us from the entrepreneurial path already. I mean, I don't know of any entrepreneur that will advice a a young mentee to go take a class. If one ever gives such an advice, then he/she does not trust your capability to start a business and wants to waste your time. When we talk about entrepreneurs in class, we talk about people who are "effectual" thinkers, that is to say to be an entrepreneur is synonymous to being an effectual thinker.

ef·fec·tu·al [ i fékchoo əl ]

adjective

Definition:

potentially effective: potentially successful in producing a desired or intended result


...but the very substance of effectual thinking "you have it in you to simply always produce the desired result without the facts and figures others require" suggests that you cannot achieve such a personality in class. So...the point of this class is?
Luckily though, I am a born entrepreneur. I inherited it from my papa, God bless you Asegun, and so I type in my blog, or check my balances, shop on ebay, etcetera etcetera, while class is going.

But yeah! So here's what I have noticed, there are two sets of people in this class who will never be entrepreneurs. The first are those who pay the most attention. They are looking for the secret to becoming an entrepreneur, they are always hoping the next class will reveal what they need to do to be that wonder entre, it won't happen. They will always feel empowered but they will always keep waiting for the best time, that thing, that partner, that product, that market, that capital...they will never be convinced enough. The other is the excessively eager. They are pumped up by every story of every entrepreneur, they can't wait to get out there and start a business. They will probably start several different businesses in the next decade, but most of them will not break-even.

Oh well, so class is almost over. I'll be bakk!!! (Arnold's voice)