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ParticipantI’m a computer guy who has never really hacked a system or done anything outside the law – so I am pretending to be a big bad hakuir like Hiro Protagonist from the book Snowcrash. In reality I’m a mild mannered business minded entrepreneur in software/computer systems.
I really shouldn’t be ranting about religion in this forum, it’s probably not appropriate. My wife won’t let me talk religion or politics at parties – and she’s right! I’m just frustrated in a society which spends more time watching American Idol than trying to make it a better place (including myself).
By the way – I am also 6’5″… Thats pretty rare. We could be power forwards for the Piggington basketball club. (If we had lots of breaks for coffee / doughnuts / checking the real estate forums)
ParticipantRustico – can I come with?
I love figs, and look sort of like David Koresh (at least before I cut my hair). I’m sure that I could start a cult and get lots of followers (girls). I guess we just have to decide what kind of cult we want to start – make everyone drink the kool-aid someday, or just sell flowers at the airport. I’m more in favor of the ‘have everyone sit in a room while I preach cult’ – give me their money so I can have a nice house / robes/ investments and blindly obey me.
Despite seeing the ‘Bad Seed’ when I was a kid – I would think that anyone within 2 standard deviations of the norm would probably be 100% finally influenced by the people around them. It’s kind of funny that I had great parents who gave me great lessons in life (without religion) and I turned out ok, but folks who also get a good foundation (with religion) seem to think that that is what did the trick. I’ve got two great kids who care for others, are sensitive, and are all around great kids – we do this without religion (actually by explaining to them our distrust and dislike of religion) – to help them evolve to the kind of people I would love to see in our society.
If religion gives people who have had bad times something to cling to – I understand. If people like the traditions and the social network – also seems to be a nice thing (if they can avoid being insular and tolerant of others). But, the belief in something which has no foundation or anchor in reality seems to always cause problems, grief and a huge amount of time wasting to the rest of society.
p.s. I’ve never really understood how 5 billion people can each belong to a different cult or splinter of the same cult – each absolutely convinced that they are in the right one (the other cults are such idiots aren’t they?) and most of them feeling that they hold the moral high ground while every day we see it’s not so. This isn’t the lessons we should be teaching to young impressionable minds.
ParticipantRustico – can I come with?
I love figs, and look sort of like David Koresh (at least before I cut my hair). I’m sure that I could start a cult and get lots of followers (girls). I guess we just have to decide what kind of cult we want to start – make everyone drink the kool-aid someday, or just sell flowers at the airport. I’m more in favor of the ‘have everyone sit in a room while I preach cult’ – give me their money so I can have a nice house / robes/ investments and blindly obey me.
Despite seeing the ‘Bad Seed’ when I was a kid – I would think that anyone within 2 standard deviations of the norm would probably be 100% finally influenced by the people around them. It’s kind of funny that I had great parents who gave me great lessons in life (without religion) and I turned out ok, but folks who also get a good foundation (with religion) seem to think that that is what did the trick. I’ve got two great kids who care for others, are sensitive, and are all around great kids – we do this without religion (actually by explaining to them our distrust and dislike of religion) – to help them evolve to the kind of people I would love to see in our society.
If religion gives people who have had bad times something to cling to – I understand. If people like the traditions and the social network – also seems to be a nice thing (if they can avoid being insular and tolerant of others). But, the belief in something which has no foundation or anchor in reality seems to always cause problems, grief and a huge amount of time wasting to the rest of society.
p.s. I’ve never really understood how 5 billion people can each belong to a different cult or splinter of the same cult – each absolutely convinced that they are in the right one (the other cults are such idiots aren’t they?) and most of them feeling that they hold the moral high ground while every day we see it’s not so. This isn’t the lessons we should be teaching to young impressionable minds.
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ParticipantThanks LateSummer for the bubbletracking blog info… For some reason I never noticed that one. Also very interesting reading some of the Carmel Valley posts and problems there.
I’m still amazed at the house that just came on directly on Carmel Country road. Zillow has it at 995-1.017, the house is for sale… Oh excuse me… Entertaining offers at 1.65-1.85M!!! It’s 3400 feet on a main road and has a pool… Are people insane? Jammed in with 5 other houses in a row.
I think that you can’t really predict how quickly the market will fall because not only is the data so poor, the selling data is so laggy, the givebacks and other incentives are not disclosed and more importantly – the pent-up and future pent-up desire to unload for those worried about their futures.
I used to live in CV and with all the speculation, the trading up, trading down, investment properties and everyone I knew buying a timeshare or second home to ski, etc. There is INCREDIBLE fear in the market there.
The denial stage is still firmly upon us. We lose site because we are in this blog. I never saw a real estate blog till Jan of this year! I sold my house in Dec 06 and still really didn’t know what was going on other than the Realtor told me things were pretty dead and we better price aggressively.
She was awesome – I applied my own analysis to what I saw going on with sales and didn’t want to be in the position my neighbors are in right now – It’s 5 months later and they still haven’t sold – have finally priced their homes where mine sold at or lower – and most importantly – are still waiting for buyers to show up.
If there was anyone I cared about I wouldn’t feel too badly about trying to get them to unload at any price – even 10% below what other sales are… That is of course, if they have any intention of moving in the next 5 years.
ParticipantThanks LateSummer for the bubbletracking blog info… For some reason I never noticed that one. Also very interesting reading some of the Carmel Valley posts and problems there.
I’m still amazed at the house that just came on directly on Carmel Country road. Zillow has it at 995-1.017, the house is for sale… Oh excuse me… Entertaining offers at 1.65-1.85M!!! It’s 3400 feet on a main road and has a pool… Are people insane? Jammed in with 5 other houses in a row.
I think that you can’t really predict how quickly the market will fall because not only is the data so poor, the selling data is so laggy, the givebacks and other incentives are not disclosed and more importantly – the pent-up and future pent-up desire to unload for those worried about their futures.
I used to live in CV and with all the speculation, the trading up, trading down, investment properties and everyone I knew buying a timeshare or second home to ski, etc. There is INCREDIBLE fear in the market there.
The denial stage is still firmly upon us. We lose site because we are in this blog. I never saw a real estate blog till Jan of this year! I sold my house in Dec 06 and still really didn’t know what was going on other than the Realtor told me things were pretty dead and we better price aggressively.
She was awesome – I applied my own analysis to what I saw going on with sales and didn’t want to be in the position my neighbors are in right now – It’s 5 months later and they still haven’t sold – have finally priced their homes where mine sold at or lower – and most importantly – are still waiting for buyers to show up.
If there was anyone I cared about I wouldn’t feel too badly about trying to get them to unload at any price – even 10% below what other sales are… That is of course, if they have any intention of moving in the next 5 years.
ParticipantI sort of agree with you Rustico – I think that secondary education (College, University, et ct) should be a privilege. Only thing is that grammar and high school should be the opposite.
I think it’s society’s burden to education it’s citizens. The less involved the parents, the less education they themselves have perpetuates the crime and poverty in every country in the world.
The better the environment a kid comes from, the less need for getting the family / home lessons in a school. I’d be willing to bet that an inner city kid with a single working mom and no supervision could achieve the same great results as a middle class kid in a nice home with 2 supportive parents if their education was comparable.
If kids have the ability and desire above that – they should earn college. You know it’s funny…. The world is such a crappy place for so many billions of people – it seems that education is the difference. We only pay lip service to it in this country. The US education system will be the real problem on our downward slide to a third rate country.
Do you know how hard kids work in India and China when they get the opportunity to go to school? They cram, they study, they read, they practice on each other, they commit suicide sometimes from the enormous pressure they are under by their parents. Many of them are the only hope for the family to raise themselves out of poverty.
We have lost that desire in this country. Not everyone – but the numbers show just how deluded we are in thinking we actually get a quality education with the system we are in.
ParticipantI sort of agree with you Rustico – I think that secondary education (College, University, et ct) should be a privilege. Only thing is that grammar and high school should be the opposite.
I think it’s society’s burden to education it’s citizens. The less involved the parents, the less education they themselves have perpetuates the crime and poverty in every country in the world.
The better the environment a kid comes from, the less need for getting the family / home lessons in a school. I’d be willing to bet that an inner city kid with a single working mom and no supervision could achieve the same great results as a middle class kid in a nice home with 2 supportive parents if their education was comparable.
If kids have the ability and desire above that – they should earn college. You know it’s funny…. The world is such a crappy place for so many billions of people – it seems that education is the difference. We only pay lip service to it in this country. The US education system will be the real problem on our downward slide to a third rate country.
Do you know how hard kids work in India and China when they get the opportunity to go to school? They cram, they study, they read, they practice on each other, they commit suicide sometimes from the enormous pressure they are under by their parents. Many of them are the only hope for the family to raise themselves out of poverty.
We have lost that desire in this country. Not everyone – but the numbers show just how deluded we are in thinking we actually get a quality education with the system we are in.
ParticipantYou wouldnt find that in Bishop’s – it’s not a private Catholic school or a very repressed school like Evan’s. It’s an open, warm, amazing school with teachers who are at the top of their form.
I do know, however, that some seniors, with LOTS of money do quite a bit of molestation – but I’m assuming that most of it is mutual.
I’m hoping that religion in schools gets supplanted by civics and tolerance classes. Again – the lessons kids get at home and the supervision is critical. And of course kids in wealthy private schools need the same or better supervision because of the easy access to credit (sounds like the mortgage/equity market problem!)
Great posts all – and I’ve seen some things at Bishop’s and other schools which, unfortuntely I can’t post…. But it wasn’t because of religion in the school!
ParticipantYou wouldnt find that in Bishop’s – it’s not a private Catholic school or a very repressed school like Evan’s. It’s an open, warm, amazing school with teachers who are at the top of their form.
I do know, however, that some seniors, with LOTS of money do quite a bit of molestation – but I’m assuming that most of it is mutual.
I’m hoping that religion in schools gets supplanted by civics and tolerance classes. Again – the lessons kids get at home and the supervision is critical. And of course kids in wealthy private schools need the same or better supervision because of the easy access to credit (sounds like the mortgage/equity market problem!)
Great posts all – and I’ve seen some things at Bishop’s and other schools which, unfortuntely I can’t post…. But it wasn’t because of religion in the school!
ParticipantCow_tipping… Your post made me angry!
I hate how you robber barrons have made my country less fair. I think that anyone with more than 9 Rolls’s is just being ostentatious.
I am going over and egging your properties today.
Please send me a list of addresses so I can properly show my displeasure!
lol
ParticipantCow_tipping… Your post made me angry!
I hate how you robber barrons have made my country less fair. I think that anyone with more than 9 Rolls’s is just being ostentatious.
I am going over and egging your properties today.
Please send me a list of addresses so I can properly show my displeasure!
lol
ParticipantCow_tipping… Your post made me angry!
I hate how you robber barrons have made my country less fair. I think that anyone with more than 9 Rolls’s is just being ostentatious.
I am going over and egging your properties today.
Please send me a list of addresses so I can properly show my displeasure!
lol
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