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So you're saying I should pretend to believe in a divinity or two just as insurance against the possibility of eternal damnation? Is that really the way religion works? I have already placed my bet.

When clear evidence appears in respected scientific / legal journals I look forward to being able to change my view. It would be bonkers not to.

Yes, there is no heaven. Hell can only make sense within its own religious context as an "opposite" to heaven.

Sounds like you're also here to express your feelings of your own superiority. The evidence for which of course cannot be examined. How appropriate.

I am not impressed by the spiritual "knowledge" or "power" of older or more primitive cultures over younger or more technologically dependent cultures. The only reason they could claim this is that they themselves said it was so, or somebody else said it was so. Whoever's saying it and wherever...

you're extrapolating or else you're being irrelevant. I was arguing that there is no hell because there is no evidence of hell and you came in and presented the door anecdote. If not to refute my position on hell, why did you post? Of course I can't explain the door, there's insufficient...

Its nice to be able to trade both individual stocks but also other instruments, by futures for example as suggested here. The only markets with inherent upward buoyancy are stock indices and for that reason I don't often short the indices themselves. Bearish tendencies tend to be short and...

I don't believe in stuff because there is no evidence, that doesn't make any sense at all. Even religious adherents who believe in gods, angels and miracles etc. require some form of evidence - its just that the evidence which satisfies them - such as holy literature and the word of their...

I have absolutely no idea what you're saying.

What evidence is there of a realm beyond the physical/empirical (excepting somebody's faith that there is one)?

Its simple. when you're dead you're dead. I can only believe in what can be proven to exist by either its physical presence or its physical influences on our world. So no gods or souls. At death, there is a loss of supporting biological functions, as a result of which the brain degenerates...

I've never understood having a second home. Much more interesting to rent second homes just for half a year in a series of locations. Well, I'm allowed to dream aren't I?........

Sometimes the holes are too small.

The media's agenda isn't to relay information, its to steal readership from competitors. So its no use publishing a story in which everyone agrees, they need conflict. If 99 people say the weather is mild for the time of year and 1 lone guy says snow is coming, who's going to get the coverage...

As elements in the best performing candlestick patterns for reversals or continuations, according to Thomas Bulkowski, gaps are essential components.

There is no reliable model that can accurately predict such a market event. But we can all anticipate one. In fact, if its date can't be predicted, our strategies should all acknowledge with contingencies the possibility that it might start tomorrow..........

Not sure what cards he thought he had up his sleeve. I guess he was just too proud to come back. Which actually might be an issue on the Steelers' front office if they couldn't think of a way he could take to get back in, without making him appear a complete dildo.

Fair enough, 's not the end of times........

I want to live there. At least for a while. Until I get bored.

Something exactly paralleling this happened when I reviewed my trend-following trades a few years back. I looked at the losers and identified the criteria which they lacked or which were weak in comparison with the winners and I filtered out all the apparently weak trade entries. To my...