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I decided my boys are going to major in women’s studies. It’s way too misogynistic to let them possibly hog up places in college and the workforce,that in all fairness, should be left open for girls/ women. Too many boys in stem and not enough getting properly indoctrinated to what should be the appropriate political and social views on gender . Fixing everything that’s wrong with the world, one (white) boy at a time.

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If money is God, exaggeration of economic insecurity is Satan. A full stomach will cure 90% of insecurity in most brave people. 9% more can be wiped out with a few months provisions and basic shelter. Cowardice and Greed turn the 1% remaining into most of the human suffering we see, or will ever see.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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?

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[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.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]I’m trying to find where in the bible it says how much cash we need before we dont have to worry anymore?[/quote]
I think it says you live by the love you give , the earth will support you for love and there is no need to be afraid as long as you are giving love to G_D. Fishes and loaves will fall out of the sky and stuff. Not sure where it says that but maybe it works.

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You will always do better with gilded lilies. We must be special.

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I wouldn’t buy next to an Islamic center because I don’t like living in busy places.
I am however fine with immigrating lots of Muslims even though it is guaranteed that some violent of them will kill here, in mass perhaps, occasionally , or more often. Not that I hope it happens or would abet it. I would report someone in a heart beat. I just think violence, whether it be retribution or plain old holy war or any other thing is coming anyway ,and maybe less if we become more interdependent across religions and ethnicities, it’s for the good of humanity in the long run, well, it might be compared to what we have seen so far.

Interdependence might aid evolution. It’s worth a try.

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Call an insurance company and get a quote with the additional insured LL just to know what you are dealing with as you mull the problem over. I have an easement that requires I have the owner of that property as additional insureds , it didn’t cost me anything to have the owners added.

I know that doesn’t deal with the problem of being required to get insurance you don’t want but it might help if you think insuring the landlord is a big deal. Could be a common part of standard policies?

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So I stumbled across a book that deals with a lot of comments made in the gender politics part of this thread. “The War Against Boys”, seems like maybe you have read it , Scaredy? The book supports a lot of things you have been saying.
I had no idea that a certain branch of feminists were taking sex politics to grade schools with department of education funding. I thought this was only happening in colleges. I don’t think my kids have been exposed to any particularly wacky teachers in grade schools. Not against some organic gender bending myself , but to try to force boys to be more feminine is an atrocity against them.

Just in case , I am going to ask my boys if they have , or have had any teachers that seemed to be disgusted with maleness, or femaleness.

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The holidays , death , divorce, natural disasters these things tend to make people who are normally religious get even more so People who haven’t been religious in a real long time, but only because they were too busy doing other stuff, like getting drunk , start to rethink things. Doesn’t phase real skeptics.

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