Ad Orientem wrote: ↑Wed Dec 26, 2018 1:39 pm If she had pancreatic cancer ten years ago and is still among the quick, I think I will ask the dear lady to buy y lottery tickets for me.

No kidding. She should donate her body to science to both study why she got three different types of cancer and how she managed to survive them.

My first book as a publisher, "The Fractal Man", by J. Neil Schulman (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D994VRQ), has been nominated for the Prometheus Award for Best Novel of 2019! So this will be the second time you've won it? I've never won it yet. My author has won it twice, the la...

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 12:39 pm My first book as a publisher, "The Fractal Man", by J. Neil Schulman (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D994VRQ), has been nominated for the Prometheus Award for Best Novel of 2019!

So this will be the second time you've won it?

My understanding is that the procedure she just underwent was a lobectomy. That's a pretty big deal. I inferred from this that a biopsy had previously been done and that the diagnosis was made some time before we ever heard about it. Am I wrong here? The fact that she had a lobectomy tells me it wa...

I think we all adopted the PP because it seemed like the rational thing to do at the time. Yes, gold may not live up to expectations and may become completely worthless, but how were we to know that? If we are like Mountaineer we can say not to worry because God is in control but the rest of us can ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 2:48 pm Hard to read "match" and "tinder" in 2018 without thinking of other stuff.

Yeah, I actually thought about that myself after my post.

So what would be a better metaphor for what I was trying to say in 2018 now that those words have been co-opted?

LOL, Budd is back. Fact time... SPY down 8.89% this year and down 17.12 since October first... Meanwhile PP down 3.65 for the year and 1.65 since 10/1 And just to make the point crystal clear...since 10/1 GLD up 5.54 and TLT up 4.13% After today, the stats get even better for the PP. Oh my gosh...t...

Gotta wait for the final path diagnosis. I'm a bit puzzled about how you can say a nodule is "cancerous" without a full pathology report. I suspect a bit of confabulation has occurred, just to make the story more interesting. The lung nodules with the negative cancer screen could well tur...

"My friend Lindsay Graham is a bit mad right now. You see, he’s never seen a war end before. He’s going to have to console himself with the fact that we still are in about 8 more. I have to tell you; I haven’t seen a Senator who loves war this much since the Star Wars Prequels," - Rand Pa...

Need to post the comparison again. Also, now with cash paying 2+% again, I see the wisdom of HB esp. when cash paid 5%. 25% cash for the past couple months would have been nice, vs. the 10% I am at. https://i.imgur.com/0b5dfOe.png The LTT's I bought when I first started the PP have been throwing of...

Thanks. As for being gaga for Trump, he wasn't my first choice of the 19 candidates in 2016. That would be Rand Paul. I thought when the market tanked he'd be cranking up wars... not winding them down. Kudos to him for that. "My friend Lindsay Graham is a bit mad right now. You see, he’s never...

That said I'm happy to see the wars ending and the criminal justice reform bill that was passed. I thought when the market tanked he'd be cranking up wars... not winding them down. Kudos to him for that. If Trump succeeds in taking on the Military Industrial Complex and transforming what Pat Buchan...

Have I ever wondered why God did that? Sure, but Scripture (the revealed Word of God) does not really say and we are not to question the hidden side of God, or want to know what God has not revealed (the original sin which got us into our mess that we currently experience and is culminated by tempo...

I have a fidelity checking account so it's quite easy to transfer money from the investment account where I hold most of my cash into the checking account. Even though my wife is still working, I'm delaying SS until 70 (next year) so there is usually a cash shortfall every month (even though overall...

I'm getting the impression that Trump has come to the realization that he has to actually do the things he campaigned on if he is to win again in 2020. Basically - build the wall, bring the troops home, drain the swamp. Could get very interesting. Sometimes I also get the impression that the only pe...

Hard to believe she could hang on for another year in this condition - I mean just staying alive, not functioning as a supreme court justice. Trump and the Republicans have two more years to go but what I mean by "another year" is referring to the precedent of not nominating a supreme cour...

GREETING FROM TIM On the night of Jesus' birth, an angel began what we've come to call "discipleship." That angel made a divine pronouncement of Jesus' birth and gave explicit directions on how to find this newly born savior. The shepherds heard this pronouncement as just what the angel s...

I am an engineer also. My short answer to your question (Does that make me an atheist?) is if you ask that question, you are not. Perhaps your small part is bigger than you think. 8) Could be. I am open to anything. I've told my daughter at Notre Dame, if religion and theology classes click with yo...

But I'm curious where, from what I assume is an atheist worldview, you get objective right and wrong. I don't call myself an atheist because if I do a Christian like yourself will automatically think that means I am "a fool who has said in his heart, there is no god" - instead of letting ...

No, I would not say that. How about you? Definitely I would not. But I'm not denying that I'm intrinsically self-centered and in need of repentance. I didn't deny that I was intrinsically self-centered. This is common to every creature on planet earth. I said I didn't think this made me intrinsical...

stuper1 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:18 pm Jesus said that only the sick need a physician. If you're not sick, you don't need Him. Very simple.

It's not that I'm not sick in many ways as this seems to be the human condition but I have grown very distrustful of doctors.

How to create a human being. Just repeat this process over the course of several million years..... https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=planet+earth+2+snakes+chasing+lizard&docid=608027257136810490&mid=C592F43089BF44337DE9C592F43089BF44337DE9&view=detail&FORM=VIRE As the apostle Pau...

Would you say that you love God with all your heart, mind, and soul; and that you love your neighbor as yourself? Always? No, I would not say that. How about you? Definitely I would not. But I'm not denying that I'm intrinsically self-centered and in need of repentance. I didn't deny that I was int...

Xan wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:04 pm Would you say that you love God with all your heart, mind, and soul; and that you love your neighbor as yourself? Always?

No, I would not say that.

How about you?

Are you an intrinsically evil person? The Bible says you are, so you need to repent. I don't believe this any more. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=i+love+to+love+river+youtube&qpvt=i+love+to+love+river+youtube&view=detail&mid=0FF89E6A6A674DF674290FF89E6A6A674DF67429&&FORM=V...