Turn your attention away from the negative to the positive. By Stanley Dean Thomas.

 

There's a lot of bad things going on in the news nowadays. There are plenty of bad things going on around the world and your city. News about local weather and traffic is always important to know about. But news about murder, rape, violent crime, and such, isn't necessary to hear about if it doesn't involve you or a close loved one. The point is that if you focus your mind on negative situations you will attract more of those things into your life. Not only those things that you see or focus on but other like things. Being a Black man Myself of the middle class, I had teenage kids at one time. I want them to do well in life. I'd rather focus on them doing their schoolwork, graduating from high school, going off to college, going to a trade school, going into the military, or starting their own business. I like to focus on my kids being successful. That's what I like to think about and I encourage my kids to think about those things also.We should always focus on the things we want rather than on the things we don't want. Quit talking about riots and crime and start talking about peace. 

We need to focus on having a healthy community with kids doing well in school and adults having good jobs in our communities. We should want our kids to be successful. We should want to be successful. We should put more of our attention on how to achieve and do more. 

If you take a magnet which is designed to attract any kind of iron and steel and you go outside in your backyard with it and you run it through the dirt, that magnet is going to attract dirty pieces of iron and steel. That's what it will attract because it is in the dirt. But if you take that same magnet into the house and you put it in your toolbox where you have different types of tools, wrenches, screwdrivers, and you also have some nuts, bolts and screws in there, you're going to attract cleaner pieces of steel because your magnet is inside of a toolbox where you have better pieces of metal. You have tools that can be put to good use. We are like magnets going through life. If we are placed in a bad environment or if we think of negativity or failure,you're going to attract that sort of stuff into your life. You're going to start seeing failure everywhere you go. But If you think about the good things in life that you want to receive, then you will start to attract more of those things because that's what your focus is on. What we all should do is keep our minds on the positive things that we want and off of the things that we don't want. Our minds should be constantly focused on anything positive and constructive for you and others. An example is that a parent should always focus on the positive things their child can become, rather than on the child being the knucklehead they currently may 

be. 

Who is the Antichrist and has he arrived in 2023?

 

By Stanley Dean Thomas.

 

 

Who is the Antichrist exactly. Well I don’t know exactly who that is but there are some clues as to who this person is. Now one major clue about who the Antichrist is has to do with the number 666, or 6 00, 60, and six, or 600 threescore and six. So why don’t we start there. So whoever this person is, his identity is going to be tied in with this number, the number 666. To find out who this person is, you have to look at the number of his name. The number of man is six, so the number six is the number of man. So one theory that I have is that whoever this person is he could be someone who was born in 1966. He has to be someone who Is relatively young. Perhaps they were born on June the 6^th 1966. And if you look at it now the year 2022, there is a lot of talk about the year 2030, how the world would be a totally different world by the year 2030. You hear a lot of talk about how you have this elite class of people who want to change everything by 2013, making the world a very different place than the world we know today. Now I have no clue as to when the Antichrist will arrive but there could be clues as to who the Antichrist is. Perhaps we could identify the Antichrist with these clues. One of them is the number 666. Perhaps the person was born on June 6^th 1966. The leader will have to be someone who is relatively young and in good health, someone who is middle age. According to the year 2022 this person will be 56 years old. Now by the year 2030 it’s supposed to be a different world. The Antichrist would be 63 years old so could it be that the year 2030 is a prep year for something that is coming later? After all, the Antichrist would be 66 in the year 2033. Nowadays with people living longer a person who is 66 years of age would be in relatively good health this would have to be someone who took good care of their health over the years to be a healthy 66. So if the Antichrist happens to be a person born on June the 6^th 1966 then he would be 66 years of age in the year 2033. There is something significant about the number 33. As a matter of fact, the number 33 holds a lot of meaning in the Masons. A 33^rd degree Mason is at a greater higher position than a 32nd degree mason. So there is some significance to that number 33. So I’m thinking that by the year 2033 there would be some serious changes. 2030 sounds like the year that’s going to lead up to those changes. By the year 2033 we may have a new world leader. That’s my thinking about it. You will have someone leading who will be 66 years old, someone who was born June 6^th 1966. About the year 2030, the reason there’s so much talk about the year 2030 is because you have the numbers 23 in that year. The number 23 is another significant and strange number. 23 is a cold like number. There is some hidden meaning with it. When I say Colt, I am referring to a cold which means hidden. And like with Santa Claus how is it that he always say ho ho, Merry Christmas. Now ho ho, the letters h and o add up to 23. The letter h is the 8^th letter in the alphabet. The letter o is the 15^th letter in the alphabet. If you add 8 plus 15 you will have 23. I wonder if there’s any relation between 23 and Santa and the Antichrist since with the word Santa if you take the end from Santa and push it to the end, you will have Satan. Now Santa’s place is the north pole, which happens to be a Frozen lake. So you wonder what’s the diabolical satanic connection with all of this and with the world leaders wanting to bring in a new world order. Is there a link with all of this, with ho ho ho, 23 23 23. Then if you take 23 and multiply 2 * 3 you get six. So with the whole whole you get 666 out of that. So I don’t know what to make of all of this. It all sounds creepy to me. Does all of this mean anything or does this stuff means nothing? All of this stuff definitely sounds crazy. Well we will find out certainly in about 10 years or so when we start to see more changes and more strange things happening in the world.

 

NIL was not created to benefit college athletes.

 

Many people are very upset at how name image and likeness has changed college football. Many people are upset over the fact that many athletes are transferring in record numbers. Some are transferring from one school to the next hoping to get a better name image and likeness deal. People tend to think that name image and likeness will benefit the athletes only Just because students can now get paid from their name. But this whole name image and likeness thing is here because of the NCAA. They are the ones who voted it in. It’s the NCAA who decided to have the Name image and likeness supposedly for the students. If you really look at it the name image and likeness isn't a thing that only benefits the athletes. Sure a top athlete can now make money off of his or her name, but who tends to benefit the most from name image and likeness? I would say that it would be businesses who will benefit the most. It’s the companies who runs the ads using the athletes to do the commercials who tend to benefit the most from this. I will go as far to say as the whole reason why we have name image and likeness in the first place is so that it can benefit businesses. It can also benefit national companies. No company or business wants to just run and ad with any old person trying to sell their product. They want to use someone who is well known like a top notch athlete. An athlete who everyone is talking about. This would draw more attention to the business. Of course they will have to pay the athletes to do the commercial. So why not have a top superstar athlete do a commercial and pay them so the athlete can make some money. But the real benefit would go to the company who was doing the advertising as this will bring in more revenue to the company or business. It cost a lot to hire an athlete and pay them to do commercials. That's why the large companies who can afford to hire these athletes tend to make the most money since these companies are already profitable. As the old saying goes, the rich get richer. They are already bringing in lots of revenue. What the name image and likeness provides is an even better opportunity to bring in more money. It brings in more revenue for the business and for the local economy. So instead of us criticizing the athletes for chasing name image and likeness deals we should take a closer look at why we have name image and likeness in the first place. It’s not to benefit the athletes but to benefit businesses from a legal standpoint.