You continue to intrigue me, PS. Finish the quote... I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Sounded like a Buddhist quote until I go...

All of us here are INTJ-ish control freaks. It is so easy for us to become convinced that we can control things. Letting go of that is one of the hardest things for people like us! I now believe that loss is inevitable. Denying this is a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder. If your kids (or grand...

The year that gold had it's major meltdown helped convince me to stick with the PP. Unlike Bud, I just don't look when I suspect I won't like what I see so when I finally did I was pleasantly surprised to see that the whole portfolio was down only about 2%. Contrast this with 2008 when stocks had a ...

http://www.unz.com/freed/intelligent-design-two-weeks-in-chengdu-and-environs/ Fred Reed on his trip to China.... For anyone who knows what China was before Deng Xiaoping took over in 1978, after Mao made his greatest contribution to his country–he died–the growth of prosperity astounds. Many criti...

buddtholomew wrote: ↑Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:53 am Everyone having fun?
PP sucks!
I don’t care what anyone says, WORST portfolio imaginable.
Garbage.

I'm sure you've heard of Einstein's definition of insanity.

If you really are convinced of what you are saying then why do you continue with it at all?

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:53 pm Veteran mocked on 'Saturday Night Live' wins House seat

Based response to PTSD question.

I loved Dan Crenshaw's (the veteran) response: "Good rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended."

Too many people practice that in reverse nowadays.

Oh boy..... https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-85-has-broken-her-ribs-in-a-fall.html Kavanaugh was bad enough, but if Trump replaces RBG it will get UGLY Certainly people will be angry... But he could nominate Amy Coney Barrett and how could they stop it? If R...

If one comes at the scriptures with a secular rational approach looking for historical inaccuracies and contradictions, it's going to be like shooting fish in a barrel...too easy. And for the human "editors" ? of the NT, running down historical inaccuracies/contradictions was likely not a...

Thanks for the hand of fellowship extended to the pagan anti-Christ. ;) Good to be a part of the discussion. When religious threads go negative I simply leave as I don't see the point. While I've held on to my faith since I was a teenager I've always felt I needed to engage with science, secular ph...

Well, that was an interesting election result. No way to know for sure but my guess is that if it had not been for the Kavanaugh hearings, the Democrats would have probably won the senate as well as the house. Instead they actually lost 3 seats. Normally, I don't really care all that much of late wh...

Thanks for the hand of fellowship extended to the pagan anti-Christ. ;) Good to be a part of the discussion. When religious threads go negative I simply leave as I don't see the point. While I've held on to my faith since I was a teenager I've always felt I needed to engage with science, secular ph...

Yeah, pretty major hammer. Balance would suggest you also quote verses 1-14. And oh yeah, the next chapter puts it all in context which I always find to be useful information. Arguably, the hammer came down as described. Pick one, Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans. Any would likely do for fulfilling t...

Yeah, pretty major hammer. Balance would suggest you also quote verses 1-14. And oh yeah, the next chapter puts it all in context which I always find to be useful information. Arguably, the hammer came down as described. Pick one, Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans. Any would likely do for fulfilling t...

Yeah, pretty major hammer. Balance would suggest you also quote verses 1-14. And oh yeah, the next chapter puts it all in context which I always find to be useful information. Arguably, the hammer came down as described. Pick one, Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans. Any would likely do for fulfilling t...

Following is an interesting discussion of God and why bad things happen. There is a longstanding tradition in Lutheran theology (going back to Luther) of distinguishing between God's proper work (that of loving, caring for and saving humanity) and His alien work (His wrath over and punishment of si...

Ladies and gentlemen, we have another recanter. https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1863210002 Of course she recanted. Now that the white male patriarchy is fully entrenched on the supreme court and the Nazis have complete control over all the branches of government she probably feared for her life. (I'm ...

On a slightly related note, Harvey Weinstein has an accuser who was 16 at the time, 16 years ago. https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawsuit-alleges-harvey-weinstein-sexually-assaulted-girl-16-235845622.html Also somewhat related to Kavanaugh, I haven't heard from any liberal (either personally, online or ...

On a slightly related note, Harvey Weinstein has an accuser who was 16 at the time, 16 years ago. https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawsuit-alleges-harvey-weinstein-sexually-assaulted-girl-16-235845622.html Also somewhat related to Kavanaugh, I haven't heard from any liberal (either personally, online or ...

Scary thought of the day.... Given Newton's third law, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, what will be the effect of the pipe bomb incident on the psyches of those on the far left? None. Their TDS is already stage 4. Did you see Pat Buchanan's article today, comparing th...

Scary thought of the day....

Given Newton's third law, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, what will be the effect of the pipe bomb incident on the psyches of those on the far left?

Just finished binge watching the third season last night. Now I'm depressed because I have to wait a whole year for season 4. Having heard it was going to get more into the parallel universe stuff I thought it might get silly but it was quite fascinating. My only complaint is that now I think I'm go...

Sorry to have brought up the subject of abortion. What I was trying to say in my post about Democrats is that for years I voted the way Sophie did, just from the opposite end of the spectrum. It wasn't so much that I favored Republicans but that Democrats disgusted me. Learned my lesson in 2000 when...

I used to think of the left as being kinder to individuals, while Republicans were cold-hearted corporate shills. The Left recognized that people can have misfortunes e.g. they can get sick or get into accidents, and that the measure of a person is not the extent to which they can avoid these thing...

I see that Spartacus wants to give all poor kids a $50k nest egg for a decent start in life https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/22/17999558/cory-booker-baby-bonds . Details about who would qualify as poor are sketchy. Sounded like race might be a factor from the article. Probably cheaper...

No idea what the prices in Philadelphia are like compared to NYC, but I'm paying $58 for internet service alone. For a landline, I bought an Obitalk ($50 for the box) and use Google Voice. Monthly cost is zero. Google Voice has its issues like dropping calls, but if that gets too annoying there are...