#RandomThoughts For the Week

It has been another challenging week in our World as we have been witness to Turkey attacking Syria, the on-going political challenges in the United States and the drama over Brexit--As we look forward to releasing updated Notation in our perspective platform and our Beta Platform, we wanted to begin by sharing this courtesy of Jonathan Lockwood Huie and his team:

Trust in God's goodness.
Be wary of what humans do in God's name.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14

A person who is fanatic in matters of religion,
and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe,
becomes a person who has no faith at all.
- Alan Watts

To know a person's religion
we need not listen to his profession of faith
but must find his brand of intolerance.
- Eric Hoffer

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Do your little bit of good where you are;
it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- Desmond Tutu

Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
Be a pillar of goodness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man or woman can be strong, gentle,
pure, and good, without the world being better for it,
and without someone being helped and comforted by
the very existence of that goodness.
- Phillips Brooks
 

Turkey, the Kurds & All that Jazz

Turkey and the Kurds are at it again. The Turks lost 12 soldiers in a PKK attack. The Iraqis are trying to prevent an incursion by the Turks. What is bothersome was a comment by the U.S. Commander for that Region that he was going to do "absolutely nothing." He should have kept his mouth shut and deferred either to Ambassador Crocker or Washington. This kind of attitude will sure bring a massive Turkish response that would again undermine peace and stability in the region. Right now, oil is at almost $ 100. It all started when the "decider" decided to invade Iraq. And look where it got us....almost 4000 dead, half-a-trillion in our treasure, millions of refugees, the whole region in turmoil...and a dubious claim as to the fact that we're "safer"....I wonder!!!!