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Seduced by 'The Pursuit of Happyness'

Thursday December 7, 2006

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monique
December 9, 2006 10:07 AM
HASH(0xfbe8774)

there always has to be some type of negative comments made in regards to the awesome contributions made in numerous ways by the african americans! QUIT HATING AND BEING SO JEALOUS AND SO CRITICAL OF THE BEAUTY OF WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE GIVE SO PASSIONATELY TO SOCIETY! THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING TO BE SAID IN REGARDS TO WHO WE ARE AND WHAT DO!

dayze
December 9, 2006 10:59 PM
aol

WELL THERE ALWAYS IS SOMEONE WHO HAS TO PUT A DOWNER ON ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE DOES...IT IS NEVER GOOD ENOUGH...AND ALWAYS JUST PLAIN WRONG. IF THEY HAD GIVEN THAT JOB TO THE COMPLAINER...THEY MAY HAVE NEVER LOOKED BACK...AT THE POOR.....BUT SINCE THE COMPLAINER DIDN'T GET THE JOB....THEY HAVE TO COMPLAIN...AND COMPLAIN...AND COMPLAIN.......GIVE ME ....MORE...AND MORE...AND MORE... MY FATHER DIED WHEN I WAS 9, OF A BRAIN TUMOR...SICK FOR 8 YRS OF MY NINE...HE COULD NOT WORK, AND WE WERE EXTREMELY POOR....AND POORER AND POORER. I DID NOT LOOK AT OTHERS AND BECOME JEALOUS...THAT THEY HAD AND I DID NOT... I WAS ALWAYS TAUGHT TO WORK, EVEN AT AGE 2 1/2 I PICKED UP MY FIRST BUCKET OF PECANS AND WE SOLD THEM FOR $1.75. I HAVE ALWAYS REALIZED I JUST NEEDED TO WORK AND MAKE MY OWN WAY. THERE IS NO REASON TO SAY OTHERS SHOULD GIVE TO ME, THAT I SHOULD BE CONTRIBUTED TO FOR WHATEVER REASON. I FEEL HUMILITED IF SOMEONE TRIES TO GIVE ME SOMETHING, THAT I HAVE NOT WORKED FOR. WITH MY OWN HARD ENERGIES I WORKED MY WAY THROUGH COLLEGE,I HAD TO DROP OUT AFTER 2 1/2 YEARS TO SUPPORT MY SISTER AND MOTHER BECAUSE SHE CAME DOWN WITH ALZHEIMERS. BUT STILL I DID NOT STOP STUDYING AND RESEARCHING AND TRYING TO BETTER MYSELF AND THOSE AROUND ME. WORKING TO TAKE WITH MY OWN MIND, AS MUCH INFORMATION AS I COULD, STUDYING, RESEARCHING, DIGGING FOR DATA AND KNOWLEDGE, I HAVE BUILT MYSELF, WITH ONLY 2 1/2 YEARS COLLEGE, PLUS STUDYING ANYTHING I COULD GET MY HANDS ON. I HAVE STARTED A BUSINES AT AGE 27, 6 WEEKS BEFORE MY 2ND SON WAS BORN. HE WAS BORN ILL AND THE 3RD SON A YEAR LATER BORN ILL. I DID NOT STOP, I CARRIED THOSE BABIES NIGHT AND DAY HOLDING THEM WHILE I WORKED, PROPPING UP ON PILLOWS AT NIGHT TO HOLD THEM BECAUSE OF THIER ILLNESS. I WOULD GET 2 HOURS SLEEP A NIGHT AND NONE IN THE DAY FOR 2 1/2 MONTHS OF THEIR FIRST DAYS. I STILL SUPPORTED MYSELF OUT OF MY HOUSE, BUILT A COMPANY INTO A MULTI MILLION DOLLAR BUSSINESS, AND 5 BRANCHES ACROSS THE U.S. AND TRAVEL ALL OVER THE WORLD, WHERE I HELP AND ALSO TEACH OTHERS HOW TO GET THEIR BUSINESSES GOING BETTER. I ALSO DO GENETIC RESEARCH AROUND THE WORLD FOR 29 YEARS TO COUNTER THE ALZHEIMERS SEVERAL OF THE FAMILY HAVE DIED WITH...PLUS OTHER ILLNESSES
OH AND BY THE WAY......I AM PART AMERICAN INDIAN....SO IT SHOWS THAT INDIANS HAVE THE GET UP AND GO...AND HIGH EDUCATION THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS. AND SINCE I AM NOT ALLOWING MYSELF TIED TO ANY RESERVATION...I AM MY OWN PERSON. NO ONE STOPS ME, ESPECIALLY ANY OF THOSE PARASITES THAT TRY TO SAY THEY ARE HELPING US MANAGE OUR INDIAN MONEY OR ACCOUNTS, WHILE THEY STRIP THE ACCOUNTS OF ALL THEIR INCOME. OH FOR YOUR INFORMATIN, EVERY SINGLE AGREEMENT AND TREATY MADE WITH THE INDIANS UP TO 1970 HAS BEEN BROKEN AND NOT UPHELD BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND ITS PEOPLE. I COULD GET AN INCOME BECAUSE I AM INDIAN, BUT I CHOOSE NOT TO. I SAY, I WILL SUPPORT MYSELF. THESE BLACKS THAT SAY THEY NEED RESTITUTION FOR SLAVERY ARE JUST PARASITES AND SUPPRESSING AND DESTROYING THEIR OWN RACE. THEY CARE NOTHING FOR THEIR OWN PEOPLE, BECAUSE THEY STEAL FROM THEM TOO. THE BLACKS HELPED FIGHT OUR LAND AWAY FROM US ALSO. RECALL THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS THAT CLEARED OKLAHOMA, SO THEY COULD HAVE THE LAND RUSH. SO IF ANYONE NEEDS RESTITUTION, THE INDIANS NEED IT...WE HAD A WHOLE CONTINENT STOLEN FROM US. BLACKS NEED TO PAY RESTITUTION TO THE INDIANS AS WELL. THESE MEXICANS THAT COME HERE AND SAY...TEXAS BELONGS TO MEXICO AND WE ARE HERE TO GET IT BACK, ARE JUST PARASITES ALSO. TALK TO THOSE THAT CAME HERE YEARS AGO THE LEGAL WAY, AND PAID THE PRICE, THEY ARE VERY ANGRY ABOUT THE INFILTRATORS, AND ILLEGALS. THE SPANISH STOLE THE LAND AS WELL, FROM THE INDIANS, BY KILLING OFF THE EDUCATED INDIANS. WE HAD UNIVERSITIES AND GREAT LIBRARIES, WRITTEN LANGUAGES, BUT THE CHURCH DECLARED THEM SATANIC AND HAD THEM BURNED BECAUSE THEY PROVED THAT THE WORLD WAS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLDER THAN THE 6,000 YEARS THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE WRITE IN THE RELIGIONS THAT THEY GIVE TO THE WORLD TO CONTROL THEM. IF YOU WANT TO CONTROL A POPULATION, LIMIT THEIR EDUCATION, AND KILL ANYONE THAT KNOWS ANYTHING, HAS BEEN PRACTICED SINCE TIME BEGINNING. SPANISH SOLDIERS BURNED THE WRITINGS AND LIBRARIES, AND CANNONED THE UNIVERSITIES AND CITIES TO THE GROUND SO WE WOULD LOOK LIKE WE WERE ILLITERATE, SO THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO OUR SOCIETIES. SPANISH, BRITISH, FRENCH, PORTUGESE,DUTCH, ETC, PRETENDING TO BRING US RELIGION, AND HELPING ..EDUCATE.. THE INDIANS..WHILE THEY USED THE PRIESTS TO SPY ON WHO WAS EDUCATED AND TIPPING OFF THE SOLDIERS AND SENDING THEM TO SLAUGHTER THEM ALL OFF. LISTING MEXICO PEOPLE AS HEATHERN SAYING THEY HAD BLOOD SACRIFICES, WHILE THEY TOO DID BLOOD SACRIFICES WITH THE MASONS FROM 33RD MASON UP THAT PRACTICES BLOOD SACRIFICES OF YOUNG CHILDREN AGED 5 TO 13. EVEN TODAY IN THE BASEMENT OF YALE THERE ARE BLOOD SACRIFICES, AND ALL OVER THE WORLD EVEN IN ENGLAND THE DRUIDS PRACTICE BLOOD SACRIFICES. RECALL THE ORDER OF THE BATH WHERE THE QUEEN GIVES A CERAMONY TO THE SOLDIERS BEFORE THEY GO TO WAR. THIS CEREMONY IS LITERALLY, A BLOOD BATH WHERE THE QUEEN CUTS SOMEONE'S THROAT! GOT IT!!! IN BABYLON (IRAQ TODAY) THEY STILL PRACTICE BLOOD SACRIFICES, RECALL SADAM HUSSAIN, WHO WITH HIS SONS, PRACTICED THE TORTURES PERSONALLY HIMSELF, AS HE GOT HIS BLOOD SACRIFICES FOR BAAL, BALAL,THE SUN GOD, SHITAN, SATAN. THAT THEY HAD WORSHIPED SINCE BEFORE BIBLE TIMES. INTERESTING THAT THEIR POLIITCAL PARTY NAME WAS THE BAATH PARTY, SPELLED WITH THE TWO AA'S LIKE BAAL......NOW IS IT STARTING TO SINK IN!!! THAT PART OF THE WORLD SAYS THEY WILL ALWAYS PUT ON THE HAT AND CLOAK AND RELIGION OF THE CONQUERER, BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS BE WHO THEY ARE. NOW THEY ARE PRETENDING TO BE MUSLIMS, BUT YOU ALWAYS KNOW A PERSON BY THEIR ACTIONS, AND YOU SEE, THERE IS GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICING STILL GOING ON. STILL, THEY BLAME BUSH, FOR THE CHAOS? THEY WILL NEVER SOLVE THAT REGIONS PROBLEMS, BECAUSE THE HIDDEN RELIGION REQUIRES BLOOD SACRIFICES, AND THERE IS ALWAYS CHAOS IN THAT REGION AND ALWAYS WILL BE WHEREVER BAAL IS WORSHIPED. WE KNOW, BECAUSE SOME OF THEM WORSHIPED BAAL IN SOUTH MEXICO, AND THEY WERE ALWAYS WARRING WITH THE FOLLOWERS OF LIGHT. THE FLOOD WIPED OUT SO MUCH OF THE ADVANCED SOCIETY BUT THEY WERE STRUGGLING BACK UP AS EUROPE WAS STRUGGLING.WHEN CHAOS ARRISES, YOU ALWAYS GET THE FOLLOWERS OF BAAL RISING TO THE TOP, AS YOU SAW IN MEXICO. WORSHIPERS OF BAAL TRAVELED ALL OVER THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD, AND SPREAD THEIR SINISTER RELIGION EVERYWHERE. IN INDIA, THEY STILL SACRIFICE PEOPLE, AND CATCH THE BLOOD AND PUT IT ON OBJECTS AND BURRY THEM IN THE GROUND TO MAKE THE CROPS GROW. THE SAME PRACATICE OF BAAL STILL GOES ON TODAY IN SOUTH AMERICA WHERE THEY MAKE SMALL CLAY FACES DIPPED IN HUMAN BLOOD AND BURRY IN THE CROPLANDS. IN THE 1980'S AN ARCHOLOGIST WOULD PAY CHILDREN TO DIG THEM UP BRING HUNDRED OF THESE OLD ARTIFACTS TO AMERICA AND SELL TO JEWELRY COMPANIES TO PUT INTO JEWELRY ALONG WITH THE MARLARGOS. THOSE WORSHIPERS OF BAAL(SHITAN) FROM BABYLON THAT TRAVELED DOWN TO EGYPT BROUGHT THE WORSHIP OF BAAL ALONG WITH THEM. THEY ENSLAVED THE EGYPTIANS AND CUSH PEOPLES,FOR A TOTAL OF 800 YEARS,UNDER THE TITLE OF ASSERIANS AND HYKSOS(SHEPPHARD RULERS FROM THE DESERT - HIGH DESERT BABYLON) AND TOOK THEIR LANDS AWAY AND GAVE EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR NEED,(OF COURSE THEY DECIDED THE NEED) WITH THE JUSTIFICATION OF A FAMIN. OF COURSE THEY GAVE THE BEST GRAZING LANDS TO THEIR OWN FAMILIES BUT WHEN THE CUSH AND EGYPTIANS ROSE UP AND OVERTHREW THEM, AND MADE THEM BUILD THEIR PYRAMIDS LIKE THEY HAD MADE THE EGYPTIANS DO THEIRS, THEY SHOUTED SUCH BAD TREATMENT. OF COURSE WE NEVER SEE THIS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE THAT THEY OPPRESSED OTHERS, JUST THAT THEY WERE OPPRESSED. WHEN THEY LEFT EGYPT AND WENT INTO THE DESERT FOR 40 YEARS, THEY CARRIED THE WORSHIP OF BAAL WITH THEM...RECALL THE GOLDEN CALF.. THEN WHEN THE AMERICAN INDIANS WERE DISCOVERED ...AGAIN... AND THEY FOUND THAT THEIR OWN LOST 12TH TRIBE HAD COME HERE AND BLED THEIR BLOODLINE INTO THE AMERICAN INDIANS ALL FROM NORTH TO SOUTH, THEY PUT OUT THE EDICT THROUGH THE CHURCH, (SINCE THEY RUN ALL RELIGIONS..FROM THE TOP) TO KILL OFF THE INDIANS, BURN THEIR LIBRARIES, AND UNIVERSITIES, AND ENSLAVE THEM. WORLD WIDE THERE ARE BLOOD SACRIFICES STILL GOING ON. THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS (MASONS TODAY) AND KNIGHTS HOSPITALARS (LATER CALLED THE KNIGHTS MALTA)ALL DID BLOOD SACRIFICES IN WAR. THEY MORPHED INTO THE MASONS AND NAZIS AND IT HAS BEEN FOUND THAT EACH SIDE GAVE AWAY POSITIONS SO EACH COULD GET THEIR BLOOD SACRIFICES, AS WELL AS THE ORIENTAL TEMPLARS IN VIETNAM GAVE AWAY THEIR POSITIONS AND TOP OFFICIALS GAVE AWAY OURS SO THEY COULD GET THEIR BLOOD SACRIFICES IN VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA. OF COURSE YOU HAD THE KILLING FIELDS DURING THAT WAR. WE ALSO STUDY RUSSIAN HISTORY WHERE SHITAN (BAAL, SATAN) WAS WORSHIPED AND PEOPLE SLAUGHTRED BY DISEMBOWELING AND ARMS AND LEGS CUT OFF AND HEADS CUT OFF..WHOLE VILLAGES AND CITIES..DONE THAT WAY......FOR SHITAN...BAAL. NOW YOU SEE BABYLON (IRAQ) CUTTING OFF HEADS AGAIN....AND IN THE NEWS YOU NEVER SEE...THE SOLDIERS CAPTURED ARE FOUND DISEMBOWLED AND BEHEADED...

Mia Anderson
December 22, 2006 6:52 PM
HASH(0xfbe9574)

I completely agree with your review. I thought the film was beautiful and Will Smith, just amazing. Those last minutes where it was just the release of joy- what a payoff!for him and the audience! Then they talked about money??? I was so disappointed, I felt the real success was his peservation not selling minority stock??? I would still see the movie again and I completely recommend it but it's unfortunate that all that magic was sort of eclipsed by that. Also I am AA and didn't feel your review in anyway dismissed Mr. Gardner's accomplishments.

Stacy
December 27, 2006 3:42 PM
HASH(0xfbe9f60)

So that final 2 second write-up (at the end of the movie, mind you) ruined the whole thing for you...give me a break! That sounds very shallow on your part...but if that's the worse, then hooray for Chris Gardner, Will Smith, his adorable little boy, the writers, directors, producers, and everyone involved in the making of this spectacular movie. For the most part, your article was interesting enough but then you said, "too bad that the faith that saved the day was faith in the almight dollar". Is that your personal opinion or did you actually interview this man whose shoes you do not wear? Why don't you try that before you pass judgement. That one little comment tells me that although you are capable of giving credit where credit is due (probably for the sake of the "almight dollar", however you still feel the need to unnecessarily dig for the most irrelevant part of the film. It's a movie, just like any other that Hollywood puts out (for that "almight dollar"), and it was an excellent story about a man who had the get-up-and-go in him to weather the storm while teaching his son valuable, lifelong lessons that he can pass down to his children....can you do that?

Gregory
December 27, 2006 6:11 PM
HASH(0xfbea2a8)

What a wonderful movie. I cried, I felt, and I understood the pain of losing. I too lost a wife, a son, a family! This movie hit so close to home that I could literally write the next scene. Losing what little you are able to salvage from your broken life, only to lose it to someone in worse shape than you! For those of you who read this understand that a man measures himself by what he does in life. When your spouse tells you that she/he does not believe in you or share your dreams and wants more "now", YOU ARE DEVISTATED. I cried as a saw every barricade being demolished by this man. Education: High School educated not from a well to do school. Although he did take pride in knowing that the school that he attended (US NAVY) most of the people who where competeing for that internship did not have. Social Education: To be able to perform in an alien environment such as the one of the well-to-do's who were enjoying their lives and being "happy" at what they had accomplished. This character was a hungry shark in a tank of minnows. Only he did not realized how to feed fully upon the minnows in that pond called success. He adapted and he improvised his way until he found his way. My life was so much like his. I was homeless a year ago. I lost everything except for my car. I lived in that car during one of the coldest winters of my life experience. I hustled. I collected cans. I washed pots and pans for food. Every weekend, I would manage enough money to get myself a hotel room so that I could bathe and get regenerated so that I could go apply for jobs on Monday.
I was successful in finding a job, but besides losing what defined me as a man, I also lost a part of me that could not be bought in a department store. I lost my mind and I lost my faith in God.
I am still recovering from what was diagnosed as "PTSD" but my faith returned to me. I cried at the movies because that person I saw on the screen was me!

Sonya Schutt
January 1, 2007 4:58 PM
acn

Sorry, have to completely disagree with your review. The end was not about the MONEY, it was about the success of having the means to support his child, realize his dreams (of being outstanding at something), helping others (where a lot of his money goes) and the love and "God Things" that occurred along the way to get him where he is. You see, the Bible doesn't say money is the root of all evil, it says THE LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Mr. Gardner did not love money, he loved his child.

Sonya Schutt
January 1, 2007 5:09 PM
acn

To dayze (the "American" Indian) who wrote about all of the horrible people, except the Indians. Let me give you a truth; there were only 2 native people and that was Adam and Eve and that was in Africa. Everyone, including the "Native Americans" came from somewhere else. did you get a raw deal, yeah, but so did the Irish and Scottish (of which I am descended) when they came here. You need to realize that we have all had troubles and that we have all (at one tiime or another) been lied to by the government. However, the government of the USA is still the best in the world (try living in Iraq or Iran). I am not trying to put you down, however, I am tired of hearing about the evil white man who took "your" land. Your ancestor's came from somewhere else to America and just because you MAY have been here first, does not give you ownership. We are all stewards of this earth and there is room for all of us.

Felicisimo Silabay
January 14, 2007 1:30 AM
http://www.mastermindtrader.com/Christopher_Gardner.html

Gardner shows his goodwill and determination by helping the needed people of South Africa. According to his Biography. I quote: "Which is why, on this October day, Gardner keeps working those phones. It's why he's already begun writing his next book. It's why he's in talks with several networks about doing a primetime show, and why, earlier this year, he sold a minority stake in Gardner Rich to a major hedge fund. But most of all, it's why he's about to close a second round of financing -- reportedly to launch a private-equity fund focused solely on investments in South Africa." Source: Biography http://www.mastermindtrader.com/Christopher_Gardner.html

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