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April 26, 2014 at 12:25 PM in reply to: Never Ever Take a Car With Rims You Care About to Costco Tires #773390
scaredyclassic
Participant[quote=CA renter][quote=FlyerInHi][quote=scaredyclassic] I was talking $ w my wife recently … we pretty much decided more money wouldn’t add at all to how much fun we could have at this point. We are pretty much maxed out on the money pleasure curve. It could go up a tiny bit…but not significantly. Not that we are off the chart happy. Just more money probably won’t impact it.
Yeah I could pay someone to unclog the toilets or spend hours knocking down weeds, but then I’d have no purpose![/quote]
Not that you should put a lot of effort into becoming richer, but richer is always better. Don’t pass up when opportunity knocks on your door.
It’s always satisfying to be richer than those who are spreading the gospel. Somehow it means that god is on your side. I know god would disagree with that, but it helps you win arguments in the real world.[/quote]
Richer is not always better. I’ve seen plenty of “rich kids” who amounted to nothing, and a disproportionate number of them have committed suicide.
I think it’s important to have enough money that you don’t have to worry about shelter, transportation, clothing, food, medical care, and a decent retirement. Some extra “fun” money to take the odd vacation and go out to eat on occasion, plus some extra savings, is nice to have, too. But anything beyond that tends to cause more problems than solutions, IMO.[/quote6]
financial pressure does suck, but success after financial pressure is kind of satisfying. As tevye sang to his cows in the barn in fiddler on the roof. Lord who made the lion and the lamb you decreed I should be who I am but would it spoil some vast eternal plan if I were a wealthy man.
apparently it might, so I plug along…
Participanthell, who knows, if the Priest had seen my barefeet and done an impromptu sermon rif on it, he mighta just won my heart and soul over to the Church. but it wasn’t to be.
Participant[quote=flyer][quote=scaredyclassic]I used to go to church with my wife every week when we first got married. Hated to be apart. She laughs when she thinks about the pained expression I’d make when she’d occasionally put a 20 in the basket. I still remember the discomfort. I wanted that 20 back. Why not a fiver baby? Please? Here’s 2 bucks. I learned the more I resisted and complained the more she gave. She was teaching me to obey…. Sometimes she’d let the basket just go by! Ahhh! A freebee! Thank you Jesus!. I was so crazy crazy crazy about that girl.
It was so fun taking my little wife to church!
Today I’d be OK w a 20. But 100 is pushing it. It might be worth it to assuage guilt during fund drives for public radio though..[/quote]
Great story, scaredy. Young love IS great.[/quote]
it is still prudent not to speak of the Father’s Day i went to church in bare feet, like Jesus might have done, in my mind, and got in an argument with the usher who demanded i be shod and who claimed i was presenting potential liability from being barefoot and basically threw a fit over my bare ffeet.
she did not like that. she told me so.
i myself felt they were out of line in giving me the boot for no shoes. seemed Jesusy to me to be barefoot. i thought i might even get a shout out from the Priest. Ha! what a nut..
laibility?! how am I more likely to have an injury than the women teetering on heels? my feet are tough. i look out for obstacles.
they also said it was ‘disrespectful”.
harrumph!
WKOFWJW, i said?
what?
what kind of footwear would Jesus Wear?
would you go to synagogue like that? she retorted….
well, no, but they don’t glorify being downtrodden and the simple minimalist lifestyle, i replied.
dress shoes for men, they replied. dress up nicely.
i guess i was looking for an exit plan to not be invited back.
WWJD?
He’d definitely say, screw the dress code, baby!
ParticipantI used to go to church with my wife every week when we first got married. Hated to be apart. She laughs when she thinks about the pained expression I’d make when she’d occasionally put a 20 in the basket. I still remember the discomfort. I wanted that 20 back. Why not a fiver baby? Please? Here’s 2 bucks. I learned the more I resisted and complained the more she gave. She was teaching me to obey…. Sometimes she’d let the basket just go by! Ahhh! A freebee! Thank you Jesus!. I was so crazy crazy crazy about that girl.
It was so fun taking my little wife to church!
Today I’d be OK w a 20. But 100 is pushing it. It might be worth it to assuage guilt during fund drives for public radio though..
ParticipantWell I do kind of humble brag myself. We are all guilty of it. I don’t actually give money away but I didn’t throw a fit when my wife gave $100.00 (painful) to NPR. And I am extremely virile and live in a mansion. I think flyers about the same as me Braggart wise. I hope it’s all true.
I barely believe my own bullshit. I tend to believe everyone’s kids view them and their family different than we think they do. Perhaps that parental delusion is greater even than the deity delusion.
Man I wish my kid would call once in a while.
Participant[quote=flyer]Since (as scaredy also mentioned) we’ve pretty much been financially set for years with the home and lifestyle we want, retirement, etc.–the only interest we have in creating more wealth is for our kids, and, eventually, grandchildren, as well as helping others.
Although all of our kids are doing well on their own, we want them to be able to do whatever they wish in life with a great sense of freedom, and no financial concerns. I know many people won’t agree with this, but it’s our choice. It makes us happy to know they’ll never have to worry about money.[/quote]
I went to school with a lot of trust fund very wealthy kids. I used to be jealous. Still am.
ParticipantNo. I was put on earth to unclog toilets. I don’t like to brag but I’m kind of a toilet artist. A plunger virtuoso.
My kids clog toilets like crazy.
ParticipantOk. I submit.
Still a sound mind in a sound body.
ParticipantProbably.
Though I believe the creator/ chief video game designer at least initially intended each of us to be kick ass strong. …weak animals tend to not make it.
The cosmic plan is for you to be a powerful critter.
Participant[quote=Blogstar]The kingdom of heaven is best employed as a metaphor for enjoying life or at least being on the correct vibe. That is the only reasonable conclusion. Weight lifting can help with that but it’s probably not really a very high on the level of goodness in Gods judgement …unless it’s for physical therapy or something like that.[/quote]
the pursuit of strength is a spiritual journey. Weightlifting is just one gateway drug.
Participant[quote=Blogstar]Meek shall inherit the earth just means that ego trips won’t get you to the kingdom of heaven(metaphor for enjoying life) , nor will making money be your guiding principal…rich men and eye of needle. Not that some Rich men don’t get through that eye….It’s just really hard if you love money more than anything and everything else. These things are self-evident taken on their own…not getting too caught up in dogma.
It’s hard for a coward to get to the kingdom of heaven, or a anxiety ridden person or a bully. Rich men are just one case shouldn’t get blown out of proportion.
I see lots of people with money , could have gotten it fast or slowly doesn’t matter, who appear to be as inept as me at having enjoyment of life. Only abject poverty and lack of health options are real burdens.[/quote]
I was talking $ w my wife recently … we pretty much decided more money wouldn’t add at all to how much fun we could have at this point. We are pretty much maxed out on the money pleasure curve. It could go up a tiny bit…but not significantly. Not that we are off the chart happy. Just more money probably won’t impact it.
Yeah I could pay someone to unclog the toilets or spend hours knocking down weeds, but then I’d have no purpose!
ParticipantNo individual owes any explanation of beliefs.
But when Christians as a group claim special status for providing the principles that founded this nation, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to question just what those principles and beliefs are, when they are often asking that the religion guide public policy and be prominent in the public square.
Participant[quote=flyer]We all have different opinions about life and death. Nothing will change my mind concerning my beliefs, and I know the same can be said for those who hold different beliefs. Perhaps we’ll each find out who was “right” someday, maybe not.
In the meantime, one thing we all know for sure, is that each passing moment brings us closer to the end of our mortality, and there is nothing we can do to stop it–so enjoy![/quote]
no rhetoric will change the formed opinion. One decent unnatural miracle would instantly get the whole earth team in line. But that’s asking for too much. G-d prefers riddles, unseasoned faith, cryptic ambiguous texts, wars between adherents to spread the word. If he were a parent CPS would take us away. If a lawyer, disbarred.
The miracles only happen after the movie is over, unverifiably…If he were anyone but G-d we’d know it was a scam right off.
But the G-d gets a pass…
Participant[quote=flyer]We all have different opinions about life and death. Nothing will change my mind concerning my beliefs, and I know the same can be said for those who hold different beliefs. Perhaps we’ll each find out who was “right” someday, maybe not.
In the meantime, one thing we all know for sure, is that each passing moment brings us closer to the end of our mortality, and there is nothing we can do to stop it–so enjoy![/quote]
It is not incontrovertibly true that any of us is going to die. An omnipotent G-d could certainly suspend that rule on earth if he could in heaven.
Still, we know we will die.
Just as we know G-d if he existed is a random cruel sociopathic sob who’d just as soon kill you and your loved ones in comically horrific painful ways as let you make a few bucks on a deal and think it’s his will.
Heck he loves torture so much the story goes he tortured his own kid for us. Life generates massive suffering. I infer he enjoys that since the game designer makes the game.
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