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Jokes EtcRe: You Won’t Believe What A Groom Was Caught Doing In Church On His Wedding Day by menxer: 8:27pm On Dec 23, 2016
When it comes to all things weird, Kenyans leads others follow...
FoodRe: Omelette And Toast Bread Recipe by menxer: 6:56pm On Dec 23, 2016
See big grammar wey dem dey take deceive us.

common fried egg una dey use omelette confuse person. U no go talk wetin person sabi.
grin grin
PoliticsRe: Court Orders Suspension Of Patience Jonathan's Accounts In Several Banks by menxer: 6:49pm On Dec 23, 2016
I can only imagine...
Christianity EtcRe: Six To Five by menxer: 6:25pm On Dec 23, 2016
Justoc:
@ menxer.

Lets be careful of knowledge. The right knowledge is the one that brings one to Christ and his sins washed away in His blood and he continues to live in His righteousness.

Knowledge of the scripture is good but when it does not achieve the above, it is no more useful. Like what Paul said:

"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 2 Timothy 3:7
I don't know why you mention me. if I may ask, 'what did I say that is at variance with the "knowledge of the truth"'?

The bible for instance records "let us make man..." but doesn't differentiate between the God that created Adam and the God that sent Adam out of Eden, or the God that wanted man destroyed by flood and the God that assisted Noah to survive, but the Sumerian "scriptures" as given by the Anunnaki do.

If/when you open your mind to read the Sumerian Scriptures, the bible will take on a whole new meaning and you will find answers to so many missing links.

I know certain knowledge is not meant for certain people, I am not one of such.
BusinessRe: Major Panic, Some Banks Not able to Pay customers , Frozen like MMM by menxer: 8:42pm On Dec 22, 2016
many people were stranded at many ATMs in Uyo today. No cash or limited withdrawals.
InvestmentRe: Earn Bitcoin Hourly From by menxer: 8:12pm On Dec 22, 2016
OP, There are better ways to pass on your message, check my signature for details.
grin
EducationRe: Can Mathematics Graduate Ever Be Self Employed? by menxer: 8:10pm On Dec 22, 2016
OP, ask Pastor Enoch Adejare Adebayo, he is (was?) a mathematician and is doing fabulously well.
grin
InvestmentMMM: The Untold Story by menxer(op): 7:19pm On Dec 22, 2016

Sergey Mavrodi: The Founder of MMM

Sergey Mavrodi is a founder and leader of the MMM Social Financial Community. MMM is sure to be his life-work, but not the only one. Sergei Mavrodi, having a degree in mathematics, worked as a programmer and took part in the development of the first operating systems. The company he founded was one of leading computer equipment distributors in Russia. He was a Deputy of the Russian Parliament. His literary works were published and they are sold in book stores. Two of his screenplays were made into movies. His poems were turned into songs.

Youth


Sergey was born in 1955, in Moscow in a simple Soviet “middle class” family – of a worker and an economist. From his father, of Ukrainian and Greek origin, was left a memorable surname – Mavrodi. Since high school the young man showed great talent in the exact sciences was the winner of numerous physical and mathematical Olympiads, sometimes even led lessons on behalf of his teachers.

After school he entered the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering at the Department of Applied Mathematics, from which he graduated in 1978 with the specialization “artificial intelligence”.

Whilst in the Institute he got interested in Sambo (Russian martial art) and having a weight of 60kg became the champion in Moscow in the Open category. However, this was the end of the professional sports career as further growth demanded too much time.
Upon graduation Mavrodi worked for some time as a programmer, but then he resigned and started a simple business – trade of the audio and video recordings.

MMM-94


In 1989 Mavrodi founded the corporative society “MMM”, based on which then he created a few dozen of other commercial structures. The corporative society, in particular, was engaged in computer supplying, which were only at their starting point of accessing the market’s daily turnover. In 1992, the brand became universally recognizable after Mavrodi offered, several times, to all the residents of Moscow a day of free of charge travel in Metro (Moscow subway).

Since February 1994, the joint-stock company "MMM" began to issue tickets and sell them through an extensive chain of offices throughout the country. In MMM offices people were able to buy tickets and sell already bought tickets. The price which MMM bought and sold tickets for grew two times per month. It means that anyone, who had bought MMM tickets, could sell the MMM in a month for the double price and make a profit. MMM commercials were regularly on central TV channels. It caused a public excitement in the society. These tickets were not securities. There were no promises that the prices of the tickets MMM would be doubled during a month. Therefore, MMM actions were hardly a classic Ponzi scheme. Sergei Mavrodi didn’t deceive anybody and did not say that money was invested in high-yield business projects.

Sergei Mavrodi planned to spend the money, accumulated in MMM, on purchasing companies to be privatized. And then he wanted to distribute these companies ' shares among MMM tickets holders. Then in Russia, shareholders would not have been a handful of super-rich oligarchs, but dozens of ordinary citizens.
Mavrodi explained his motivation: “In Russia there was a ‘privatization’. And if we call a spade a spade – a total deception and robbery of defenseless population who doesn’t understand anything.” But MMM lasted only six months – a period during which the number of participants reached, according to various estimates, 10-15 million, the total amount of deposits – a third of the national budget, the price of shares, designated on a “discretionary decision” at the rate of 100% per month, increased 127 times.

In the summer of 1994, the government stopped the work of the joint stock company "MMM". Those, who had MMM tickets, couldn't sell them back to MMM. Sergei Mavrodi was charged with tax evasion. He was arrested afterwards.

Why didn’t the police prohibit selling and buying MMM tickets MMM at the beginning? Why had they been waiting for six months? Probably, the police realized that they had no reason to interfere. From a legal point of view, it was impossible to claim MMM: people simply bought and sold MMM tickets, they were not investments. But then six months later, when over 10 million Russians had become ticket holders, the state regarded MMM as a serious competitor and decided to destroy it at any cost. And the state had not even considered what dire consequences those who had bought MMM tickets would suffer from. “The system did not collapse at all. It was artificially destroyed at the peak of its development,” said Mavrodi. During police probe the witnesses told about 17 trucks in which, secret service forces had taken cash from MMM’s office.

Member of Parliament


In the prison Mavrodi started collecting signatures for registering as a candidate for the State Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation. After two months was signed in and released. Thanks to the high rating, on October 30, 1994 he was elected and became a Member of Parliament. During his election campaign Mavrodi did not keep as a secret that he goes to State Duma solely for the sake of the parliamentary immunity, and since elected as a deputy, was not present at any of its meetings. Mavrodi also refused to get a salary and use all benefits provided to the deputies.

The state needed a pretext for expelling Mavrodi from the State Duma. He was charged with taking part in business activities. And according to the Russian Constitution, Members of Parliament do not have the right to conduct business. A year later, October 6, 1995, the State Duma terminated his parliamentary powers ahead expiry.

The arrest and trial


After the revocation of Sergei Mavrodi’s parliamentary mandate, the investigations against him were restarted, additionally to the existing cases there has been added one more – fraud. He was added into the Russian and then in the international wanted list. More than 5 years he was hiding in a rented apartment on a street, near to his home.

In 2003 Mavrodi was arrested. According to the prosecutors, the damage done by MMM to millions of depositors was estimated at $110 million. But the accusation stated that the funds were spent solely on the MMM’s development: payments, advertising, staff salaries, opening new offices, etc. For himself Mavrodi didn’t spend almost anything – didn’t buy yachts, palaces, planes, etc.

The investigation lasted 3.5 years, another year was the court. On April 28, 2007 the Chertanovo district court sentenced Sergey Mavrodi to 4.5 years in general regime penal colony. Mavrodi was found guilty under article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud). As mitigating circumstances, the court took into account that the founder of MMM had not previously been convicted and had a child to support. The court didn’t take into account that MMM had not given any promise of rising cost of tickets and that MMM had not signed any contracts with buyers of tickets. And, moreover, the court didn’t not consider social problems that "MMM" had wanted to solve by issuing tickets.

Literary Activity


After his discharge from prison, Mavrodi got engaged into writing activities. In 2008, was released his book “The Temptation” (other name – “Son of Lucifer”), written by him in prison. The book consists of more than 100 short stories; each describes one of the human vices. Sergei Mavrodi is the author of many philosophical, love and civil poems. Some of them are turned into songs.
On the basis of the history of the MMM-94 was shot a movie “PiraMMMida.” Sergey Mavrodi wrote the screenplay for this movie and Universal Picture was engaged in its rental.

Revival of MMM


In February 2011 Sergey Mavrodi revived MMM. This is not a company, not an organization, but a community of people. Mavrodi took account of mistakes made in 1994. Money is not kept in one place. Now in MMM there is, in principle, no money - all the money is only on participants’ accounts. MMM just connects those who want to give and receive help.

In the spring of 2011 financial analysts and experts stated that people wouldn’t transfer money, if they were not guaranteed that they would make a profit. But MMM was successfully launched. And now, for more than 4 years, the Community has been successfully developing. Now MMM unites several million participants from different countries of the world.

Sergey Mavrodi’s Quotes

“The cowardice has lots of names. I do not fear nobody’s and no types of calls. You shouldn’t be afraid at all, of anyone or anything. A feeling of fear humiliates. You lose yourself.”

“You can betray only that who trusts you. The worst sin – betrayal!”

“Everything has its melting point. Friendship, loyalty, love, honor… Everything! And may God protect you from confirming this terrible truth in practice, on people close to you. And there are abysses where one better not look into. Since there’s nothing else but betrayal, lies, dirt and meanness.”

“If they treat you unfairly, humiliate you, abuse your honor and dignity – fight! By all the available means and methods, without regard to anything and without looking back. Defend it, your honor! At any price. Any!! They used to duel for the honor. If you are silent and let them treat you like a dumb animal, a slave, what are you complaining about? Slaves don’t have honor”.

“The truth is the most improbable thing in the world. It’s almost always charmless and unpleasant. It’s only the lie that is nice, beautiful and elegant”.

“When everything is available you don’t want anything. There’s nothing there, on the top, there’s vacuum. But in order to understand it – you need to visit it. So I visited it and got to know”.

“Any promise is from evil. Every time there’s something hided, embroidered, understated. The key points are always highlighted in a certain way… And this is so common and ordinary that is widely perceived by everyone as a norm. But it’s not a norm at all – it’s a deceit in any way. And deceiving is not good. So I don’t deceive anyone and in anything!”

“Yes, people are wicked. But you should be kind!”

“Our world is not as bad, hard-hearted and mercantile as many people perceive it. Is not redeemable. And people around are not so bad. Evil has not won yet once and for all. And fighting against it is possible and necessary!!”

“The world is bad? So, make it better!”
Source:
http://cs-mmmglobal-live..com.ng/p/sergey-mavrodi-founder-of-mmm-sergey.html?m=1
InvestmentRe: A Case For Mmm by menxer:
Pierocash:
Yes u nailed it!bt on the issue of,guilders,i disagree.they contribute nothing different frm what an ordinary participant contributes,what is their contribution?i dnt knw who my guilder is except my referrer and so it is to millions of other ordinary participants,yet he earns frm my donation reaping whr he didn't sow.mutual aid can survive without guilders,yes,i belong to so many other mutual aid communities that are equally doing wel more than mmm yet without guilders.the money each guilder is earning should be within the system to service everyone,bt that is what one person takes and yet contributes next to nothing because there is nothing they do diferent frm ordinary referrers to justify such bogus pay they take.
As for me,if u want mmm to keep running without pause modes,guilders should be scrapped.
You spoke my mine.

If it's my "Personal Office" why the need for guiders?

To me referrer bonus should be enough.

OP, nice write up, though we prefer holding on to the old ways than embrace the changes as it unfolds in the world.
Christianity EtcRe: The New STD That Pastor Adeboye Promised Us For 2016 by menxer: 1:15pm On Dec 22, 2016
CatfishBilly:
You didn't hear me say false prophet, did you? grin
I can read you loud and clear. Besides I am listening to Lucky Dube's "false prophets"
grin
Christianity EtcRe: The New STD That Pastor Adeboye Promised Us For 2016 by menxer: 1:14pm On Dec 22, 2016
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Christianity EtcRe: The New STD That Pastor Adeboye Promised Us For 2016 by menxer: 12:51pm On Dec 22, 2016
OP, so what are you insinuating?
grin
PhonesRe: New Super Battery Will Charge Your Phones In Seconds by menxer: 10:45am On Dec 22, 2016
OP your topic is charged.

How super battery dey take charge phone? undecided
RomanceRe: Reason Why People Always Make Sex In Their Office by menxer: 10:29am On Dec 22, 2016
The sweetest part is when you discover your fling partner is also under the oath of silence just like you, and no other person in the office has an incline of what went down.
PoliticsRe: Let's Change Our Attitude Towards Social Development by menxer: 9:49am On Dec 22, 2016
The sweetest part of life is having someone to blame for all your shortcomings.
Christianity EtcRe: Pastor Kumuyi : “christmas Is Idolatrous by menxer: 6:40am On Dec 22, 2016
The lie they built to control us is coming apart. Shepherds herding sheep in the peak of winter, where is the grass?

I subscribe to the Anunnaki version of how we got here, as it connects all the dots and fill all the gaps, making perfect sense. they didn't still tell us how or who created them (Anunnaki), though they told us where they came from, Heaven (Nibiru).

Welcome to the Matrix, maze runner.
FamilyRe: What Would You Do If Your Elder Brother Slaps You Publicly @ Age Of 40. by menxer: 12:01pm On Dec 21, 2016
It means either one of you or both of you are idiots for it to happen.
RomanceRe: What Next After An Akward First Kiss? by menxer: 9:12pm On Dec 20, 2016
It's logical to follow an awkward first kiss with an awkward first sex.
grin
CrimeRe: Jesus Paid it all.. All to him i owe by menxer: 2:06pm On Dec 20, 2016
You can try it (suicide) and tell us about it later, after all it is said "you lose nothing trying" grin

If you fail trying suicide that's when you can sign off as a failure.
Christianity EtcRe: See This Shocking Confession Made By A Christian About Yahweh Being A Son Of God by menxer: 10:59am On Dec 20, 2016
kirstyn:
You are a b.astard for speakin against God like this. And Seun and his mods who banned me for my first thread ever on the religious section, you are all possessed with demons. Wicked ppl.
Name calling is unnecessary, he is just stating his side of the argument.

Come to think of it, which "God" are you defending?
Christianity EtcRe: Atheists Protected By New Law That Obama Signed by menxer: 7:19am On Dec 20, 2016
Americans redefining freedom for us all.
IslamRe: Why Do They Kill Ram For Ramadan? by menxer: 9:16pm On Dec 19, 2016
ThuGnificenX:
so they are celebrating the ram abi Watin?
Is that what you intended to find out?

Eating ram during Ramadan is symbolic to Muslims, just like eating of Turkey during Easter is to Christians, only that the symbolism is lost to many.

Why do Christians decorate fir tree (Xmas tree) during Christmas?
It has it roots in Celtic religion, but who cares?
Christianity EtcRe: A Revelation Concerning The World In 2017 And Beyond Revealed. A Must Read by menxer: 8:47pm On Dec 19, 2016
So there was no prophecy concerning 14/01/2017?

Anyways, it's the same old story, check out the prophecies from the beginning of Shiloh, is there any one that prophecied about our current recession and what to do to avert it?

I doubt if Christians are always spared the consequences during or after any economic or political crisis, or war that engulfs their country.

Paying of tithes has never stopped a war from happening or an economy from recession.

I doubt if pastors in first world countries, and countries with buoyant economies, reduced poverty, good social amenities, good/high standard of living and social justice are prophesying the same things.
HealthRe: 10 Warning Signs That Something Is Wrong With Your Liver! by menxer: 8:17pm On Dec 19, 2016
McTobe:
thanks @OP for this enlightening post. My own case is that I have been sliming down like Kilode for some time now. Though I started a vegetable farm but farming is not enough reason for me to be loosing weight like this.
Your pishure b4 and after, or idonblivit
grin
IslamRe: Why Do They Kill Ram For Ramadan? by menxer: 8:09pm On Dec 19, 2016
Na wa to you ooo

You no see ram for inside Ramadan?
grin
PoliticsRe: Nnamdi Kanu's Brother Reacts To Orji Kalu's Visit To IPOB Leader In Kuje Prison by menxer: 12:59pm On Dec 19, 2016
AmadiAba:
Seems you need a refresher course on English language.
I bet you do.
PoliticsRe: Nnamdi Kanu's Brother Reacts To Orji Kalu's Visit To IPOB Leader In Kuje Prison by menxer:
Did the report say Nnamdi Kanu's brother is an APC chieftain?

If that is true IPOB is a scam.

PS: I gaffed
undecided

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