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The letter is titled “A Letter to an IRS Director”... sounds like it is trying to be the sequel to “A letter to a CES Director”

I have yet to find a specific explanation of where everything too place that has made perfect sense to me. So far, the best explanation I can find are some of the South American models. There is an interesting interview between Joe Rogan and and a journalist Graham Hancock that paints a positive picture for the South America model. Worth a watch.

When I saw the results of the election, my first thought was a joking and sarcastic “Im sure Russia had something to do with this”. Are we back to blaming witches, Loki, and the devil for everything negative that happens in our lives?

Why is it problematic, perverse, and infantile that I find armpit hair unappealing?

Threat Level Midnight just got put on Youtube, probably one of the best movies of the decade!

So I’ve been told but I have been doing genealogy for a long time and the worst thing I have found was an ancestor hunting monkeys for sport. 😛 I want to find some real juicy dirt... but nothing yet 😕

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Exactly 🙃 we are on the same page then

What I’m talking about is the fact that we really don’t know what the celestial kingdom will be like. Say I expect it to be an eternity of relaxation and spending time with family and friends. I spend my life living righteously so I can qualify for that. but when I get there, I find that there is actually a lot of work to be done and I’ll be spending eternity creating worlds and bringing about the salvation of other spirits. I may think to myself “even though I qualified for this, this isn’t what’s i wanted. The terrestrial kingdom is closer to the heaven I am looking for”. Though you “wanted” exaltation while on earth and qualified for it, it turned out to be something other than what you thought and one of the other kingdoms meets your expectations better.

Why?

One thing that has perplexed me about the plan of salvation is that we don’t really have any idea what exaltation would be like. We all talk about how we want to go to the celestial kingdom... but what if when we see it, even after qualifying for it, we would be more comfortable in the tellestial? Perhaps in this life we show what we qualify for, but we stop where we want? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Did you seriously just spoil the last season of Vikings???

When I think back on some of the more popular and attractive girls and compare them to the “ugly” ones. I find that some of the ones I thought were really cute were actually quite ugly when you stripped away their personality and how they acted around others. One girl in particular who I knew had what I would describe as having a “sloth” face. She was born with some facial deformity that made her look like Sloth from the Goonies. But despite this deformity, she was fairly popular and I found her to be pretty attractive due to her contagious smile and positive attitude. There were also a lot of “ugly” girls that actually looked pretty, but due to their awkwardness and lack of maturity, no one dated them. Anyone can become attractive if they: 1. Took care of their body 2. Participated in social activities 3. Learned what was appropriate to do at such activities 4. Lived authentically 5. Developed a productive and social hobby/talent (sports/music/art/politics/work/etc.) The difficult is the mental and emotional part. It’s so hard to convince someone they are worth loving if they don’t feel that way. Until that happens, it is hard to be attractive.

Perhaps the Lord was just doing something for a purpose other than you, and you just happened to witness it? Or maybe it was just a reminder that he is there? Or maybe perhaps this is one of those coincidences?

I have always loved Luke 22:32. I feel it sums up the whole purpose of our existence when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. We are to become converted and then spend the rest of our lives converting others.

I does not, however if you try putting peppermint in your nose... it will likely turn more red.

If you read my comment, you would see that I said I don’t. I’m just trying to explain what he is wanting to do. My understanding may not be complete, but again, I do not agree with what he is proposing.

I’m against Yang too... but I’m not about to let I’ll informed people bag on a bad idea for the wrong reasons. He knows this and comments in it. His plan is not to provide a living off of the “Freedom Dividend”, he makes that obviously clear and he talks about it a ton. It’s purely just to take a little weight off the backs of some of the hard working Americans. He isn’t artificially increasing the money. He is taking from the rich and giving to the poor. His idea is that $233,000,000,000 a month in the hands of every (qualified) America would do more good than in the hands of 1,000 power house corporations. Watch any of his lengthy interviews and he explains how he will fund it. Tax innovation of technology and AI, particularly anything that takes jobs away from Americans. Again, I’m not for his plan, but let’s be intellectually honest when trash talking it.

Mary’s age wasn’t nearly as big of a deal as how they portrayed the windows. Everyone knows windows traditionally say 6-12” higher in that time period. And don’t get me started on one of the early Gallic weaved baskets I’m the background that somehow found it’s way into BC Jerusalem. And of course the breed of donkey they used would lot be found in that part of the Middle East... man... talk about mis portraying what really happened.

This is fair. Some of The most ungrateful and entitled people I have met have been people who do nothing but have their livelihoods provided for by the government or others

If I was given an additional $1,000, it would go toward paying off debt and investing in my future. And before you say “good for you, most people aren’t like that”. I want you to know that there are a ton of people out there that would use it to better their lives. There is. Like I said. If someone is already getting government aid, they would not get the $1,000. That rules out most druggies, mentally ill, lazy and “disabled” who live in subsidized homes, get food stamps and are on Medicaid. The only people getting the $1,000 would be those who are self reliant. It is not meant to provide a living, but to make a better living for those already working. Funding it is the only roadblock for me. There is no reasonable option unless companies are wanting to incentives certain workers to move to undesirable places. No one should be forced to pay another man, and printing money would be awful. Yang wants to “tax” innovation in AI and other machinery that takes jobs from citizens. Not so much that is discourages innovation, but enough that companies will still innovate to make money, but they share the profit with the American people by funding the UBI (“Freedom Dividend”). But in simple terms... steal from the rich and give to the poor. I think Yang has the regulating side down, but Until someone can come up with a reasonable way to fund it, I’m out. Tax everyone equally and uphold the laws equally. I’m Technically a small business owner. I have expenses I need to run it. For the sake of simplicity. Let’s say everyone is tax 10% If I made $50,000, but spent $5,000 on running my business, I “write off” that amount and instead of paying $5,000 in taxes, I pay $4,500. I also drove 5,000 miles for work so i can write off another $2,500. I have kids too so I get credits for that and now I find myself getting a small tax return. So due to my expenses and my dependents, I pay “$0 I’m taxes”. BUT because I’m a small business owner, I also have to pay payroll tax every month, so over the course of the year, I paid around $3,000 in payroll tax (not sure how that is all calculated, my accounts takes care of everything) So after all is said and done, I Made around $42,000 that year (-3000 from payroll tax and 5000 from business expenses). If I couldn’t write off my expenses, I would have had to pay additional taxes to the government and would only have made $37,000. But because the government recognizes I need money to run my business, I don’t pay taxes on that. Now here is the kicker. Huge corporations are doing this exact same thing, just on a larger scale. When we see that say amazon made 50billion and paid “0 in taxes”. They still paid an obscene amount in payroll tax as well as taxes in many other places that I don’t have to worry about. the reason they paid “0 in taxes” is because they perfect the 2 and same day shipping. Which has forced competitors to do the same, making the USA a better place. So due to innovation and expenses in getting that running, they get write offs. They also wrote off all their expenses in running their vehicles, warehouses, payroll, charitable donations, etc. You start changing tax laws to force big corporations to pay more taxes, it will effect everyone down to the small business owner. And if someone guy out there is saying “$3,000,000 a year is too much, you have to give 80% of the government so we can give it to the poor”, then we have a big problem. The American dream is alive and well until you make too much money. One ideology that is destroying America is that the rich are evil and we need their money.

Not everyone is a drug addict. Andrew Yang has an easy solution to it. If someone is already pulling from government aid, they would not get the $1,000. And I would imagine most of the people we wouldn’t want to give money to are already getting government aid. Now I am not for a UBI unless it is willingly offered by someone who already has the money to make it happen. Printing money would obviously be disastrous, and taking from the rich seems to be wrong and counter productive. “We love small business owners (as long as you stay small business owners and continue to struggle)”. As it stands, I love everything about how Andrew Yang plans to regulate a UBI (which he calls a dividend) I just dispose his mentality on how it should be funded. I don’t think their will be any good way to fund a UBI. It just can’t work.

I believe that giving $1,000 to every American 18 years or older would make the US as a whole a better place. Particularly under Yang’s plan where if you are already getting financial assistance through other government subsidies, you won’t qualify for the $1,000. Only the self reliant who do not pull from government programs would get the $1,000. The part I hate about it is that the people paying for it would be the wealthy. I get uncomfortable when politicians say “you make too much money so you need to give it away” (Like Andrew Yang, Bernie, AOC and most everyone else on the left) I am completely fine knowing that there are people out there making more money in a year than I will make in my life.

Some do have natural effects that can benefit your life. For example, my nose, for whatever reason, gets clogged every night and I wake up with cotton mouth every morning. I started putting peppermint on the bottom of my toes and it fixed the problem due to there being some duct or sinus or something that connects the toes to the nose. Recently however I found that a cheap nasal spray at Walmart does a little better job. Nevertheless, peppermint on my toes cleared my nose. So there are various applications like that you can use to better your life. But they are not the secret fountain of youth many proclaim them to be.

Absolutely they aren’t made void. Not on any official records though. But If I start drinking alcohol and beating my wife, all blessing promised to me in Covenants become void due to me not keeping my side of the promise.