I stay at $15k and count it as part of my PP cash. That's my Fidelity bank account and if they still paid 5% interest like they did when I first opened it, it would probably be even higher. If they aren't going to pay any return to speak of then that's more than enough. Covers 2 1/2 - 3 times monthl...

Self-evident :  Yes.  But I doubt I can lay it out any more effectively that I've tried to do in "beaucoup" previous posts - at least not in a way that would be convincing to unbelivers since belief only comes from going to where Jesus said He delivers his promises. How can something be s...

Yeah, once they go legal and have a SSN, they have to work with the SSA to untangle their earnings record from the bogus SSN. Okay, sounds good, but wouldn't it be more fair if Obama's executive order gave those of us who are already citizens at least one free felony in filing false statements with...

The natural belief in scarcity has a long evolutionary history on its side, don't you think?

My primary question is will this transition require re-education camps on the scale of Russia and China in the last century or can it be done without mass-extermination of humans?

http://www.gotquestions.org/eternal-hell-fair.html http://www.gotquestions.org/fire-and-brimstone.html http://www.gotquestions.org/eternity-hell-just.html A few posts back I asserted that the only power Christianity has nowadays is hell and I was accused of being an angry atheist. So I find it inte...

If they are paying into the SS system now but with no promise of receiving benefits in the future (using false SS#'s I guess), then I can see how that would be a net positive for the SS system. If you make them eligible to receive benefits then my guess is they are likely to receive far more in bene...

My continued question is what to do for the very young investor such as teenager. Do they go with a permanent portfolio or the traditional more heavy in stock portfolio? Personally, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of a teenage investor. When I was a teenager I was putting all...

Hey, which kind of church did you find least objectionable?  Just curious. Probably the Southern Baptist church we attended for a few years and where I sent my kids to elementary school. It wasn't your typical Southern Baptist church however. I would describe it as kind of like what the Pentecostal...

As most predicted, it failed .....

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/swiss-voters- ... iness.html

As is always my Thanksgiving tradition, I typically write donations checks to my 10 favorite charities this weekend each year. I mentioned this to a friend at dinner and his comment was that we are all already donating a huge amount of money to a variety of social programs that we may or may not be...

Of course you can let the gold assets lag if you want.

And if you do I can safely guarantee one of two results without hesitation.....

1.) It will turn out to be a wise decision
2.) It won't turn out to be a wise decision

Okay, PP'ers, what do you think about this insane idea of the Swiss government being required to hold 20% of its assets in gold?

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/59282b3b ... uying-plan

I offer a comment for clarity:  you have said several times I'm a "fundamentalist" - that is actually rather far from what I believe according to the definition of what a fundamentalist believes (as an aside, based on my understanding, a fundamentalist tends to cherry pick verses rather t...

So, in summary… God makes laws He knows I cannot follow because of what a human 6,000 years ago who is not me did, and then He says I'll go to Hell to be forever tortured as a result, but then says that because He actually loves me (:o), he sent His only son Jesus (who is actually also Him) to die ...

The "what kind of loving God" would punish, etc., is similar to the loving parent who tells his children to do something that he knows is for the child’s own good, but the child disobeys because he thinks he knows more than the parent, and then the parent responds with a just punishment. ...

Welcome to the angry atheists forum, invst65.  What does your belief system look like these days? I don't consider myself an atheist. Actually I don't have any identifiable belief system and feel no compulsion to have one. The only thing I know for sure is that I began questioning the Christian bel...

MachineGhost wrote: If these were skilled immigrants, I'd say its no big deal.

Do you have experience of competing with "skilled immigrants" for your livelihood?

Just askin'

Pointedstick wrote: Sounds like you might be going to Hell, invst65.
I mean, welcome to the forum!

Hell is the only power that Christianity has today.

So, yes, then. It may be incomprehensible to us, but the scriptures seem to make it pretty clear that most humans are going to Hell when they die, no? I have to stand up for "the scriptures" here, even though I don't believe, as Mountaineer apparently does, that the Bible is the "Wor...