Some other ideas for protecting yourself

1) Google your potential investors (of course)
2) Contact by phone companies who have received funding from your potential investor (information you got from your potential investor or from the Internet). Record your conversation. Ask them how long it took to get funded, were there any upfront fees, what the working relationship was like.
3) The more people you can talk to the better.
4) If you’re really serious, pay for a public record search on the principals.
5) Some up-front fees may be warranted, but we have a company policy not to pay these. Having said that, we have had to look hard at this position, especially after this up-front work actually suggested the investor group might be able to do something for us.

You can never really know in the end if someone is “legit”. Actually, you’re more likely to find someone who may be “legit”, but very inexperienced (and thereby ineffective). These few things you can do up front help improve your changes.

Good luck!

Personal (Business) Advisors, LLC and would like to know if this company is for real or if I’m being scammed into some type of investment scheme? Any information you could give me would be most appreciated before I fall into a monetary trap costing me a lot of money and time. Thank you very much.

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Why ?, you might ask. My faith has the benefit of Prophets, Seers, and Revelators in this time to guide us.

What swayed many of the Latter Day faithful may be found at:

http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,161-1-11-1,00.html

titled profoundly enough: “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”

Yours in Christ,
Bobby Nichols

I chose to use the word “Pagan” at the end of my post for continuity with my Bible quote earlier, as this is how the King James Version of the Bible uses the term and I felt I needed to explain this. I guess I didn’t do such a good job in making things clearer, though you sure did set me straight. Thanks for your beautiful rebuttal!!

This was truly a great read…up until the very end.

“You say you’re a Christian, a Buddhist, a Jew, a Muslim? All of these religions have these tenents at their heart. You’re living as a “Pagan” (read: “Non-Believer”) if you are not living in the Kingdom, and the only place you’ll find the Kingdom is by being Present Now.”

First, I would like to ask you, are you even aware of the source of the term “Pagan”? It derives from the root Latin – Paganus and loosely translated to have meant “rustic”, “hick”, or “country bumpkin” – basically a pejorative term.

Some believe that in the early Roman Empire, “paganus” came to mean “civilian” as opposed to “military.” Christians often called themselves “miles Christi” (Soldiers of Christ). The non-Christians became “pagani” (non-soldiers or civilians). No denigration would be implied. Another suggestion of interpretation is that the general meaning was any “outsider,” – a neutral term – and that the other meanings, “civilian” and “hick,” were merely specialized uses of the term.

I would also like to point out the fact that it is only Christians who define the term “Pagan” as “One who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew, especially a worshiper of a polytheistic religion or Satanist.” So this would mean that Buddhism, not being one of those 3 Abrahamic religions, is also considered a “Pagan” religion.

Now, with that said, I would truly like to understand what makes one imply that just because they do not follow your designated belief system (or one of the others listed for that matter), that they be labeled as a “Non-Believer”?

So much of what you said speaks volumes of truth for far more belief systems than just that of the ones you have seen fit to list. Now if I understand you correctly in what you have stated here, you have implied that a Pagan is “Godless”. And using the word in the context displayed in this sharing here, in essence, you have gone against your own advice to folks…#3 – Do not Judge.

If this is not how you meant your message to be taken, then I highly recommend that you do your homework a bit more thoroughly and get to the true root meanings of any terms you may decide to utilize in your messages. This contradiction in your message may not be as obvious to most, as I am sure that the majority of your readers are Christians like yourself. But to those who have gone much further down the rabbit hole, studied many more religions, belief systems and philosophies beyond just that of the mainstream, your statement raises a very large red flag. I say this because I have studied an abundance of so called “Pagan” religions and have come to find a great many parallels to that of the teachings of Jesus, albeit worded differently, the core teachings are still the same.

Please understand that I am not here to cause any conflict, ruffle feathers, nor pass judgment upon you. My input here is, instead, to merely give you a different perspective that you may not have previously considered. Always remember that no one person or religion “knows it all” and the best teachers out there are ones who remain in the role of perpetual student.

Blessings be upon you as you share your Light.

I have the opportunity to watch folks live in a continual state of struggle financially and otherwise. Thinking positive can be their downfall if it morphs into “denial”. Thinking negative can cripple clear thinking as well. We need a balance.

Things can go “wrong” for anyone, death happens to us all. Even with right thinking, living here and now, living in faith, living in the Kingdom, we all lose it all (stuff) at the end of our life. So while your advice is a very effective way to detoxify ourselves from crippling worry… we need not blame ourselves if things go wrong despite “living in the Kingdom”. I like to mention to people about a successful shopping spree where I bought a whole set of positive thinking cassettes and books…it was like a store. “Think your way to health” and “Envision a vibrant body” and I bought it at an ESTATE SALE. -V