July 12, 2016 at 3:21 pm

@kaka135, that is my big question too whether I can make two redemptions in a month since I would be paid on the 10th of the following month, that is August according to some of us here. I am interested then to know what is the cut off date for the following month redemption. I think @support will give or clarify this query. I have no idea. And because of my excitement, since I already reached the minimum amount of cash-out, I right away made the redemption.

Well, I have to reread the FAQs here to make myself more familiar with the common and basic questions anyone here may be asking. By the way, I have come across with one member here as to the deduction made to her payment. In her first payment, she paid 100% of her credits earned, but on the second or third time, her payment was deducted around $0.04. What’s up? Why is it so? Is it the fee charged by the money processor or PayPal?

July 12, 2016 at 3:03 pm

@thinker, I do appreciate your formula. With such analysis you have made on how we work here in LB, we are assured as to how much we would  be receiving. It is a brilliant idea. I would say that you are indeed a thinker. Nobody has come up with such formula. We don’t know what to do. Some of us don’t care as long as we have accumulated or have a hike in our available balance.

I said we are confident that we could have $10.50 a day if we follow your formula. But the question is how consistent we are to write 150 comments, long and short and 40 blog posts. We have a complaint about short and long comments. Our concern is the approval of 40 blog posts which we submitted for a day. The least would be approved by the admin is one or two, that is to give other chance to get their post published.

July 11, 2016 at 4:02 pm

@peachpurple, when did you make your redemption for 10th of July payment? I am just  curious for I have made my first cash-out last 8th of July. I don’t know if I am entitled to this month’s payment. I am, of course, excited just like anyone of us here. This is my first payment ever I received since I joined LB last May 11, this year. It took me almost two months to effect my first redemption.

By the way, I have already explained in the other forum why we receive a deducted payment from the credits we earned from our writing activities. I have pointed out there that they are two modes or types of payment which a person may use using his PayPal account. He could pay it via his personal account and there is no deduction from the proceeds of the payment. The other one is a merchant account which gets a reasonable discount or deduction from the payment proceeds.

July 11, 2016 at 3:51 pm

@peachpurple, I have experienced it too in one of my payment received from another site before. I was surprised to receive a payment with a deduction. I reacted for I was used to receiving 100% for my work, for my job done. Later, I realized why sometimes we received a payment with deduction. There two types of receiving a payment from the PayPal.

The first is through a personal account of the owner of the site. If it is taken from it, no deduction is made to the whole payment. But when it is paid through a merchant account, there is an equivalent rebate for the proceeds of the payment. So what else we can do? We can’t appeal to the admin of LB or it staff to course the payment through a personal account.

Now, the point is when the personal fund is already running out. The solution is the availability of merchant account may be used as an option.

July 11, 2016 at 3:21 pm

@pattijo this is how I interpret your image quote.

What makes life amazing that something that you feel happy about, satisfied and contented? The good life you have had with your spouse, the good camaraderie you have with your best friends and associates. The happiness that you feel for the good health that everyone in your family is having. The success which anyone of the member in the family has achieved, especially of having a regular job, of passing the exams, of having a cute, energetic baby in the family. All those things may be considered as amazing.

The opposite, of course, is something which awful. You find them difficult to get along with. You find a hard time in doing them. They make your in a big trouble. Those are the trials, challenges in any form which your life couldn’t avoid for they are a part of living in this troubled, chaotic world. No one, no not one is a happy about it. Everyone is cursing it, its awfulness. And they are the reverse of amazement. They give sorrow, sadness and frustrations.

But along the way, there is an ordinary way of living. They may be in between the amazing and awful kind of living. They are a part and parcel of life. They make life wonderful, beautiful.

July 10, 2016 at 6:46 pm

What an achievement to both of you, @bestwriter and @sunil. There is no doubt that those who cursed and treated LB as a scam would be insulted and be proven wrong for the bad impression they have for this site. That is what they are looking. They just only shrug it off that this site would give them nothing except the posts submitted and published here by the users/members are only for the benefit or of use in favor of LB.

There are pieces of evidence. There are proofs of payment made to both of you, my friend. I am indeed very proud of you. In my case, I would be doing it too. I keep on repeating that this kind of act on our part as active members on this site. It would be another accomplishment on your part if you will be paid today or in the following month of August.

July 10, 2016 at 2:52 pm

I have told a lie to my parents to save myself from being punished every time I went home late in the evening. I also told a lie when I needed money for my vices. Our eldest brother had a good business and he was always the person whom I asked for financial assistance. Punishing us for such bad habit is permissible or the parents should have the right to do it. Now I am also a father of six. I gave due punishment to my erring children and explained to them their mistakes. I let them make an amend for their misgivings.

It is not an obligation for the parents to discipline their children when they do err. The Bible itself is so declared that if the parents spare the rod, their children would be spoiled. Aside from giving the appropriate punishment the children, an open communication would also do good things for the good behavior development of the child.

July 10, 2016 at 2:20 pm

@sunil, if you could post it here the proof so much the better. It would be another credit for you to earn once you will post it. Of course, with a little background favorable to the site. I know others will just follow suit. You may include the efforts that you have made in earning such money. The practical hindrances or obstacles that you were able to overcome.

You may also add the challenge that you have undergone and the inspiration that you have experienced to satisfactorily achieve such payment. I know everyone who has read it would be influenced and will follow your best example. As for me, I keep on reading the best experiences of anyone of us here for me to emulate. I know that experience is the best teacher. It is too effective. Isn’t it?

I do appreciate your effort for my friend. I know you are so many of you right now who have made and received their payment.

July 10, 2016 at 2:12 pm

Finding such thing is too dangerous and it is also awarding. Actually, it is next to an  impossibility. Nobody is too careless enough to have been left or misplaced a big diamond. And it is impossible to be carried it while traveling for it is usually kept in a safety vault.

Well, for the sake of discussion, let’s assume that there is one that has been found on the street. I have said earlier it is too dangerous for those who happen to find it they would  fight to the finish until one has gotten the diamond. It is too dangerous for it has been stolen from its safe vault and the police authorities are already conducting the search-and-find activity with an order to shoot or kill the one who has it in his possession for he is assumed to be a thief.

Nevertheless, it would be rewarding for the rightful owner is so kind to give the honest finder a sum of money in case he will find it and return to the owner through the police or any government official who could be trusted to facilitate the return of the lost diamond.

July 10, 2016 at 10:57 am

@lovern, I could relate to you on how we’ve gone to Dakak Beach Resort sometime in 2009. So that was 7 years ago. Imagine we were all coming from the central of Negros Occidental. We had to travel going to Dumaguete City, and then we took the fast craft. We arrived at Dapitan City at around past at noon. We took lunch there and passed by at the Rizal park and took some pictures of the mementos about Jose Rizal.

Then we proceed to Dakak Beach resort. We arrived there past three in the afternoon. We took cottages and rested. Early in the morning, we were surprised to see several sets of the camera in the white sand seashore of the beach. We learned later it was the out-of-town shooting of the “Home Along” TV series. We were able to have a souvenir picture taking with the late Dolphy. It was a memorable Lakbay-Aral we had as school administrators of our local division.

July 10, 2016 at 9:41 am

Well, I have three things in mind if I am going to explore the uninhabited place. First, I know it is too dangerous or too risky; therefore, I have to prepare every needful thing before going there. I have to check it from the natives about the background, the history of the place. In that case, I have the foreknowledge and I know what to do safely.

Second, I go there as I have mentioned before to explore, to discover or rediscover of the place. This is to satisfy my nature of being inquisitive, of loving nature, and giving myself a break as an adventurer. I know unknown places need to be visited for it might be converted into a new frontier for the people to live there.

Third and foremost is to promote the place especially when it is feasible for tourism development. Tourists do love places where are full of challenges, not only for its natural beauty. I go to place for promotion purposes. These three objectives I have had like exploration, inquisitiveness and promotion could make the place ready for the tourists to explore.

July 10, 2016 at 9:28 am

@peachpurple, I have no idea as when to make a redemption. I thought that it could be done on the 10th of the month which I presumed that it is this month of July. However, as you have said it would on the 10th of August. So I would have to wait for another month for my payment. Well, I have no choice for I have already done my cash out request. I repeat I have no idea about it. Anyway, thanks for informing me about that.

Right now, I am again treading the path of struggle and hard work for the nex redemption. As of this writing, I have more a dollar for available balance. I will keep writing, discussing, commenting any post here for accumulating credits for my next cash out. I would start all over again to fill my page with new post, to contain it with more discussions and comments.

July 10, 2016 at 9:17 am

I am happy to know that you have a strong faith in God, @peachpurple. Because of that spiritual disposition within yourself, you are blessed more, and even it is beyond your expectation. You are correct then that faith without works won’t work or will never be effective. It is being strengthened and even solidified by a humble act of praying. Prayer makes everything possible. It is because of an unwavering faith.

God is always there to those who have believed in Him, to those faiths that are unconditional. Those people said to have  unconditional faith are those believers who never expect something big. The happiness that they feel within themselves are enough, and when they are free from any sickness is another one. Let’s take the example shown by Abraham, who is considered as the man of faith. He has never ever complained when his only son, Isaac is asked by God for an offering. Did Abraham resist? No.

July 10, 2016 at 9:06 am

@pywilliams1967, very well said. It is a bit comprehensive presentation of your idea supported with some examples. For your information, everyone has the privilege to do what is right and what is wrong. He is entitled and respected to whatever he wants to do, but he is not exempted or excused for the consequence of his doing. If he does it in a wrong, he suffers the effect of it. If he does it right, he enjoys the blessing or the happiness of doing good.

I haven’t known you yet, except here in LB. Anyway, the way you share your idea is an obvious and indirect declaration of what kind of a person you are. I admire your personal disposition to do what is good, to do what is right. You are a strong advocate of the Golden Rule. That is good. Keep it up and you reap what you have sown.

July 9, 2016 at 1:19 pm

@bestwriter, me too I don’t believe or faith in any religion ceremonies, rites or rituals. My faith is in God. It is in Jesus Christ. I am not comparing you with our ordinances that we do in the Church and inside the Temple. We do respect other beliefs, other faiths just like yours. It is godd that you have your faith. You are entitled to what you believe in, to what you cling into which is true as you see, feel and do.

We may be different in what we define of faith. I don’t know if my faith is different from you. My faith is what the scripture says about it. I may quote the Bible for that. And it says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1, KJV) What we see, therefore, around us is a strong evidence that God does exist, but we haven’t seen Him.