To me it suggests that God took the Israelis into account when giving them laws, just like a parent would do with their child.

Is it wrong to kill babies?  Was it wrong back when we were hunter/gatherers and the clan knew exactly how many mouths it could feed and practiced infanticide on those they could not support?  Moral relativism. The Pharisees tested Jesus Himself by asking a similar question.  Instead of about killi...

But sadly I doubt your post will gain much interest among the participants in this thread. That's okay.  I'm just trying to knock down some hurdles one may come across in their journey and let God do the heavy lifting (the calling.) Afterall, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent m...

Don't jump to conclusions when coming across difficult passages in the Bible. Fr. Robert Barron on Violence in the Bible https://youtu.be/1A65Wfr2is0 If you read the Bible in such a way that it leads you to say violence is a good thing, I should be more violent, or that God is hateful and violent, t...

I'm perfectly comfortable with the idea that our consciousness suggests that there may be something external to us directing everything, but that still leaves us with the challenge of figuring out which religious belief system (if any) provides an accurate articulation of the intuition you are desc...

The thing that nagged me most when I was an agnostic wasn't the question of death, but the question of my own existence and consciousness which would just about require the existence of a power beyond the universe as I perceived it. Have these questions (your existence and consciousness) been tackle...

I think estate planning would play into a big part of the equation here.  That is outside of my area of expertise however 

Just be certain that it's a sufficiently brown skinned attorney. What does that mean?  Why would the attorney's skin color matter? I suppose since " prejudice is alive and well " as stuper1 asserts, a brown-skinned attorney would be less likely to be prejudiced toward a browned-skinned cl...

Well the senility is a problem.  It's now up to her to manage the money as she sees fit.  Not many people are comfortable with having large sums of cash in their house. Nor would everyone be comfortable walking into the bank with a large sum of cash that they found that a senile spouse had hidden. ...

You mentioned "standard questions".  Do you know what those questions are?  That's what I'm trying to figure out, to make sure she knows what to expect. Whatever questions the bank wants to ask to aid in filling out the CTR and determining whether a SAR needs to be filed for suspicious ac...

He didn't trust the bank, and apparently she doesn't either if she is worried about how they will respond to a perfectly legal transaction.  The bank isn't going to refuse the money.  They'll ask standard questions and fill out the CTR form and send it to the feds just like they do with all transact...

I love the arguments that even though government action A, intended for some purpose, has caused a problem, we can't stop A, so we need another government action B to counteract it. Harry Browne pointed out why A could not achieve its original purpose, namely that it relied on force, which always h...

I like a lot of libertarian ideas, but implementability matters. The most beautiful, theoretically correct idea in the world isn't worth a hill of beans if it can't be implemented, which in politics means that it's supported by a majority or an extremely passionate, well-organized, well-funded, pol...

The program is rife with abuse. Of course it is.  Its a government program. Law abiding or not it doesn't matter. It matters to you.  Or at least it seemed earlier in this thread when you were pointing out illegals as a group have no respect for the law.  Would you say legal immigrants as a group h...

But the fatal flaw in highlighting them is the implicit assumption that these problems are somehow politically rectifiable with an infusion of libertarianism, as though a plurality or majority of the U.S. population is somehow going to become sufficiently libertarian as to cause the government to a...

Actually the government has made it relatively easy for people to immigrate legally and illegally. They just put the focus on bad immigration that helps large companies get cheap labor instead of citizens that want a stable and safe society. The H-1B non-immigrant visa requires employment in a spec...

If not, let me state for the record that open borders liberals/libertarians are idiots. Calling on govt to fix a govt-created problem... Who's the idiot now? Is this a trick question? No!  Government has made it very difficult for law-abiders to immigrate and very easy for law-breakers.  Like with ...

craigr wrote: If not, let me state for the record that open borders liberals/libertarians are idiots.

Calling on govt to fix a govt-created problem...

Who's the idiot now?

Ad Orientem wrote:

Mountaineer wrote: I think these two might get along too.  Might need a resurrection.  Looks like it will be a rather large party.



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Poor taste.

Don't be sexist.  Its perfectly fine for women to wear pantsuits.

Hillary should sit next to Donald.

jsnikeris wrote:
Well, when it Looks Like Rain, I want a rainy-weather portfolio.

Understood.  So that chart makes it look like rain to you?

Mountaineer wrote: If it comes to pass, in the land of the woebegone SALs, I will most definitely have to do a poll of this illustrious forum members to determine the exact amount of booze required.  I would not want to have any left over that could be absconded by the derlicts in DC. 

lol

After reviewing some of the literature on market valuation, it seems to me that the stock market is currently overpriced. I'm aware that an orthodox PP implementation eschews speculation of any kind, but how bad of an idea would it be to tactically underweight an asset class while still remaining w...

Desert wrote: If Trump and Hillary are both eliminated, I'll throw a major party at my place.

I think that is likely.  We'll be invited, right?

Also Nevada has no income tax and below-average property tax.