ot. money

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic]Sounds completely batshit crazy, doesn’t it?!![/quote]
The part denouncing hoarding wheat too excessively doesn’t sound too crazy, it sounds wise to me, but the rest is just nuts.[/quote]

Isn’t the piles of wheat a metaphor for a big fat 401k?[/quote]
So?[/quote]

Denouncing big fat 401ks sounds crazy to me.

[NotCranky]

[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic]Sounds completely batshit crazy, doesn’t it?!![/quote]
The part denouncing hoarding wheat too excessively doesn’t sound too crazy, it sounds wise to me, but the rest is just nuts.[/quote]

Isn’t the piles of wheat a metaphor for a big fat 401k?[/quote]
So?[/quote]

Denouncing big fat 401ks sounds crazy to me.[/quote]
What if you sacrificed your health , mental and physical, quality of life, or maybe spiritual , happiness ,whatever, for that fat pile and then you died( precisely because you were unhealthy or were anxious and lonely and depressed all the while) , or it rotted, or you died from gluten intolerance, or someone took it? Those questions are wise to at least consider.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic]Sounds completely batshit crazy, doesn’t it?!![/quote]
The part denouncing hoarding wheat too excessively doesn’t sound too crazy, it sounds wise to me, but the rest is just nuts.[/quote]

Isn’t the piles of wheat a metaphor for a big fat 401k?[/quote]
So?[/quote]

Denouncing big fat 401ks sounds crazy to me.[/quote]
What if you sacrificed your health , mental and physical, quality of life, or maybe spiritual , happiness ,whatever, for that fat pile and then you died( precisely because you were unhealthy or were anxious and lonely and depressed all the while) , or it rotted, or you died from gluten intolerance, or someone took it? Those questions are wise to at least consider.[/quote]

That is crazy talk!!!

[FlyerInHi]

you’re assuming the pile is hard earned through sacrifices.
for some people it piles up without much effort. not for me, but for some people it just does.

[scaredyclassic]

Yes and in the parable he already had the wheat. He’s just scheming on how to save it. Basically setting up storage accounts for his wealth.

It is the preservation of what he has that is being denounced, and that is undisputed batshit crazy. Right?

[NotCranky]

[quote=scaredyclassic]Yes and in the parable he already had the wheat. He’s just scheming on how to save it. Basically setting up storage accounts for his wealth.

It is the preservation of what he has that is being denounced, and that is undisputed batshit crazy. Right?[/quote]

He already had the wheat, he had a SURPLUS of wheat, he had barns for plenty of wheat but was going to tear them down and make bigger barns for more wheat. He was going to tie his human capital and future years, potentially up to his death, in this mass of wheat instead of riding his carbon fiber bike up the coast 101 to San Clemente and back . That’s bat shit crazy.

[NotCranky]

Really though, we know what he should have done, filled the barns he had , sold the rest of the wheat and bought some seed potatoes with the money and planted them. Diversify , fuck the bike ride.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=Blogstar]Really though, we know what he should have done, filled the barns he had , sold the rest of the wheat and bought some seed potatoes with the money and planted them. Diversify , fuck the bike ride.[/quote]

Dumping all that wheat on the local market probably would have brought in a fraction of the talents of gold it was worth. It’s safe to say he knew the local market pretty well as a successful farmer. He probably knew the best move was bigger barns. Why is G-d opposed to big barns, 401k funds, and general wealth preservation?

[NotCranky]

I don’t think the person who wishes their super provider, or even not so super provider dad, had lived a little more fully is all that rare. Leave a lot of money and some sadness about how you lived, kid might go to the other extreme and be a hippie, it isn’t a good lesson.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic]Yes and in the parable he already had the wheat. He’s just scheming on how to save it. Basically setting up storage accounts for his wealth.

It is the preservation of what he has that is being denounced, and that is undisputed batshit crazy. Right?[/quote]

He already had the wheat, he had a SURPLUS of wheat, he had barns for plenty of wheat but was going to tear them down and make bigger barns for more wheat. He was going to tie his human capital and future years, potentially up to his death, in this mass of wheat instead of riding his carbon fiber bike up the coast 101 to San Clemente and back . That’s bat shit crazy.[/quote]

But realistically, how much wheat can one realistically comfortably retire on?

Wheat trust funds for the kids.

Etc.

It’s a lot of bread to relax, man.

[NotCranky]

Sunk costs in barns, my plan is best, save the bulk of the wheat until the peasants have used up what I sold for seed potato money and then bleed them dry.

Leaving for a nice ride now, Have a good fat 401k day.

[scaredyclassic]

Then again, the Lord appears to hate super low interest rates:

The Parable of the Ten Minas
11 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. 12 He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return. 13 So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.[a] ‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back.’

14 “But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’

15 “He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.

16 “The first one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned ten more.’

17 “‘Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.’

18 “The second came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned five more.’

19 “His master answered, ‘You take charge of five cities.’

20 “Then another servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. 21 I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.’

22 “His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow? 23 Why then didn’t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?’

24 “Then he said to those standing by, ‘Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’

25 “‘Sir,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’

26 “He replied, ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away. 27 But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”

[scaredyclassic]

Warning: the minas may be metaphorical. Jesus was not running a hedge fund.

Or was he?

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=scaredyclassic]Warning: the minas may be metaphorical. Jesus was not running a hedge fund.

Or was he?[/quote]

I guess it’s Ok to demand 10 times return on investment.

I will ask Father Karl when I next visit my cousin and we have lunch.

[moneymaker]

Actually interest is not suppose to be charged according to God

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