I'm supposed to be attending a property auction tonight for a an investment property that will be really stretching us financially,  but a big risk big reward kind of thing.

So today, one thing after another has gone wrong, all minor stuff but just annoying and time consuming and making it really hard for me to get everything done and to the auction on time.

Is it:
A: The universe warning me not to go to the auction and buy the place.
B: The universe conspiring against me because it doesn't want ME to buy the place.
C: Just a random string of events that would go unnoticed on any other day?

Bobby. wrote on Nov 16^th, 2023 at 1:46pm:


There's nothing inherently risky about the property, apart from the fact we could be biting off more than we can chew.

What is the universe trying to tell me?

Gordon wrote on Nov 16^th, 2023 at 2:00pm:


the universe will usually arrange to deliver to your door the lessons you need for your personal growth

if today has been full of frustrations and distractions, it could be testing you to see if you have patience.

because the profit in real estate is not in the buying or the selling but in the patience to hang on even when there are distractions and frustrations

the universe is saying

'if you cant get thru this poo test, you shouldnt commit to a much bigger one"

aquascoot wrote on Nov 16^th, 2023 at 2:58pm:


That's the take I had.  Isn't it funny tho on a day like today you get bombarded with annoyances.

Gordon wrote on Nov 16^th, 2023 at 3:55pm:

Well, you had you ear turned to the universe and so you heard what it said about your deal.
As the poet Aqua said, it told you what you needed to hear.


But that's the bugger about oracles and omens - only you can interpret them, in your own way, for your own life.
Condemned to freedom, as the gnome of Paris put it.

No purchase today, and I was the only round eye bidding in a room full of dirty Chinese money. The winning bidder was so Chinese every one of his bids was ending with an 88. I pushed him all the way and threw in a few unlucky 4s to piss him off

Gordon wrote on Nov 16^th, 2023 at 1:42pm:

Ah! The universe! The modern Western world's incarnation of an immanent interventionist god.

What was your 'inner god' 'telling' you from the start?

Doesn’t look like they sold.

Black Orchid wrote on Nov 17^th, 2023 at 8:18am:

The Chinese are tripping over themselves to get their money out of China before the CCP confiscates it or its worth is reduced to junk.

The Xi doctrine is that wealth and affluence have corrupted the Chinese psyche and must be stamped out.

Black Orchid wrote on Nov 17^th, 2023 at 8:18am:


Those figures are merely the official figures. The real picture is far worse.

Gordon wrote on Nov 16^th, 2023 at 2:00pm:


It’s inherently risky just the same.

(I’m ever so glad you did NOT buy it).

Black Orchid wrote on Nov 17^th, 2023 at 8:18am:


Which is good. When Australia goes to War with China - all those Properties and Estates will become forfeited and owned by anyone who wants to Squat in them for legal takeover. 

Don't be surprised if I 'steal' a major slice of estate and infrastructure that is currently Chinese owned, right under their noses. Great ocean views.
...just waiting for China to start a war they won't be able to finish and you watch them all default and forced to forfeit on a lot that they own in this country. 

Jasin wrote on Nov 17^th, 2023 at 12:36pm:

Sophia wrote on Nov 17^th, 2023 at 7:13pm:


The last annoying thing that happened last night, on the way to pick up my wife to go to the auction I stopped for petrol. The pump I used must have been a bit defective because it was a bit wet with petrol like it was seeping out near the trigger. Usually no biggy but I was pressed for time, and took 5 mins in the washroom getting the petrol smell off my hands.

It was just a day like that all day!

Hah!  Yesterday I filled up with diesel - first click ... then a little click more (only take a tetch more anyway) - stopped at exactly $100.00.  No - I didn't preset it.

What Seinfeld would have called 'the perfect pump' ... but he's egocentric....

I use a cloth on the oily diesel pump - I believe it is Bobby's end of times ... there will be portents in the sky and on the earth... the diesel pumps will read 100, and the petrol pumps - the staff of life - will bleed over the landscape and the hands of the users will be fouled ... time's up.....

Maybe that $100.00 is telling me I'm past my use by date.. 100% time used ... bit late - I'm about twenty years past my use by date - so the Universe still needs me for something... someone has to lead the war to end all whores in politics........must be me ..... could've been a goner in me twenties, but the Universe had other ideas...