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No, actually there's a substantial body of work or morality absent religion, try reading Kant or Descartes, or Plato, or even better backing into a moral framework based on taking the time and effort to think about it yourself. Millions of us manage not to rape, murder, and steal because of our...

It's a terrifying thought that there is anyone, let alone a decent chunk of the world, that only behave morally because they're afraid of an invisible dude who's going to punish them.

With you on the doc thing, it's one thing I'm glad other folks want to do!

How exactly does a doctor save anything? You can't use the tax break on any money earned before you move to PR and it has to be income sourced from outside the island while you live there, i.e. you can't spent 5 months working in CONUS and think that income is tax free. I think you might not...

That's a pretty bold claim, congratulations on outsmarting pretty much every economist who's ever studied the subject? Why not exactly?

The whole 2008 recession was pretty damn harmful to a bunch of humans outside the finance world. The great depression was crushing for a good chunk of the humans on earth at the time. The premise that recessions are reflective only of meaningless numbers that don't impact humans isn't a sound one.

I tried to figure out a nicer way to say this but just couldn't come up with anything better than to ask why you're still talking then?

Since I'm not discussing what he wrote, rather what you wrote, perhaps you can be bothered to stop and think about what you wrote? Did you or did you not state ""But Dalio's company Bridgewater is run very much like a socialist government would be run"? Why did you write that, what point...

As is working for Bridgewater. My point is that you argued that because Bridgewater is run in a socialist manner, that fact supports or indicates that Dalio want's the U.S. government to be run in a similar matter ("But Dalio's company Bridgewater is run very much like a socialist government...

Dalio and Bridgewater are definitely very cult-like in how they run their company. However it's an invalid logical leap to state that this means they want the U.S. government to be run in the same manner. From my personal experience the U.S. military is the most socialist organization...

As you may recall from this thread https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/intellectual-yet-idiot.330483/page-2, @nooby_mcnoob has a small problem with embellishment, exaggeration, and fabrication when it comes to his personal background. A direct quote from him/her/it when caught in an internal...

To add to the body of useless demonic knowledge, contestants on Jeopardy are banned from betting $666!

Ah, I see! In that case, I agree with you absolutely @expiated. See I think any god who ever said that one should stone their son to death for any reason, let alone for simply being rebellions (Deuteronomy 21:18-21) is pure evil. How about you? I think any god who ever was OK with slavery at...

Okey dokey, not sure who or what this was in response to....but I guess if you believe an invisible being tells you things it's not much of a leap to just start one sided conversations with no-one on a public forum.

It sounds rather like we're in agreement, what is written in the bible as the words of Jesus aren't literally the words of a guy named Jesus and the book is an amalgamation of a bunch of authors at different times that a bunch of other people for various reasons decided needed to be part of the...

NaN is software error code for "not a number". They're trying to feed a non-numeric value into a function that's expecting a number. Sloppy for sure, but I've observed several similar type issues over the past couple years. Definitely don't try to trade with them in a fast market, their system...

You don't need to provide chapter and verse, I already know them. Providing your version of a verse that doesn't appear in any bible is, as I pointed out, interesting given that we're talking about a fundamentalist interpretation of the bible in which every word is perfect and placed there by...

First off it's interesting that you made up your own version of that verse rather than quoting the actual verse, or is that some version of the bible I'm unfamiliar with? Generally John 19:30 goes something like "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he...

It's actually an interesting subject that in part led me to affirmatively reject my fundamentalist upbringing. Let me ask you this. How many letters did Paul write to the Corinthians? Who decided which one's made it into your bible, and when did they decide it? What about the deutero-canonical...

I'm lazy too, unfortunately winning the genetic intelligence lottery allows one to get away with that. But think of it this way, you've currently got the mindset of trading a couple hundred dollars. You've probably got the intellect to be thinking about trading at the least in the tens of...