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Goran_K
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2012 May 6, 2:22am
Also if someone creates some food out of thin air and doesn't pay tax, IRS and FDA will come after him.
Half the country doesn't technically pay taxes right now. Plus with all of Jesus donations, he would probably get a rebate anyway.
Patrick
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2012 May 6, 2:30am
I also thought Ecclesiates was great, and that they just tacked on some blub about obeying God at the end of it, because otherwise it is rather anti-religious.
Goran_K
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2012 May 6, 4:17am
Jesus was anti-religion. That's one of the most interesting things I discovered by reading the bible.
ArtimusMaxtor
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2012 May 6, 7:33am
Very true Goran. I discovered that Jesus is also anti-matter.
Goran_K
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2012 May 6, 7:39am
Very true Goran. I discovered that Jesus is also anti-matter.
Only after his earthly death.
Patrick
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2012 May 6, 9:53am
Goran_K says
How do you win
You don't. You either take risks, ranging from calculated to outright foolish, or you are insanely lucky. If you took ANY one-percenter and stripped them of all their wealth and their contacts, they COULD NOT rebuild themselves. Take any one-percenter, take all their assets and force them to change their name and 90-95% of them wouldnt be able to earn it back.
Now that would be a really interesting experiment if we could do it.
FortWayne
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2012 May 6, 11:12am
Jesus was anti-religion. That's one of the most interesting things I discovered by reading the bible.
Jesus was against debt and loans as well.
Patrick
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2012 May 7, 1:17am
Ecclesiastes is great I agree. But I never heard that anyone "tacked on" anything to it. How could that even be proven?
The last paragraph just doesn't fit wtih the rest of the thing. After going on about the meaninglessness of everything, suddenly just at the end he says you should fear God and keep his commandments. Huh? Sounds like someone needed to come up with a moral to justify including it in the bible.
freak80
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2012 May 7, 1:47am
Sounds like someone needed to come up with a moral to justify including it in the bible.
Anything is possible. Is the Jewish version of Ecclesiastes different than the Christian version?
Maybe the writer just meant something similar to Jesus' teaching: "what good is it if a man gains the whole world but forfeits his soul?"
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If you don't want to live in an apartment for 20 years, you're forced to participate in a ponzi scheme and overpay for a home. You want to live in an area without gang fights in a dirty alley behind your house every night, and have your children go to schools without metal detectors at every entrance, better be a dual income earning couple who is willing to teeter on the edge of foreclosure every month while eating ramen noodles, and going out to Jack in the Box for fine dining.
Be a saver? The FED makes your money worth less and less. The market starts to correct? Home inventory "magically" disappears just in time to create a false bottom.
How do you win? Any tips appreciated.
#housing