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Tanks said:
Nothing to do with luck. How you live today determines who you get reincarnated as tomorrow. It is all about “karma”.:unsure:

Pelosi most likely will come back as a baboon.:ROFLMAO:
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No such thing as reincarnation.

Sheep on the right, goats on the left.

Goats get sent to........

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Tanks said:
Regarding the complaints about boomers etc. and how they screwed over other generations

apple.news

More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class — The Wall Street Journal

Research shows that ranks of higher earners have grown markedly over last 50 years, while lower rungs of middle class have shrunk
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From the article:
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Curious who the "everyone" is, that worried the Mellenials would be permanently set back. They had the advantage of time, and the smart ones poured every extra penny into their portfolio while the market took the big dip in 2008-2009. By late 2010, mine was way ahead with the extra shares bought at a discount (I'm a young boomer, 1962, not a Mellenial. I had less time looking forward). The only ones that lost were the people who panicked, sold off, and locked in the temporary loss. Maybe those are the "everyone" referenced in the article....
 
It’s hilarious to watch a young man whining into his $1000 phone and paying for internet and an APP. To spread his complaints world wide. How tough he has it. Talking about how hard it is to make the decision whether he should buy a $12 coffee or go out to lunch every day.

The baby boomers everybody hates usually lived five or seven people in a 1200 square-foot house. One TV at most, one phone. They made coffee at home, packed their lunch and carried it in a brown paper bag and a lot of times reused the brown bag. I think your input data is skewed. You’re watching the 50 tv shows and think that’s how we all lived.

Most young people would not be caught dead living in the house I started out in.

Nobody cares. Work harder.
 
Without getting into the reasons the Secretary of the Navy was recently canned.

It’s exciting to see the first member of a small community I belong to is now the acting Secretary of the Navy

“Navy Under Secretary Hung Cao, a combat veteran with over 25 years’ experience, is now the acting secretary.”
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Tanks said:
Whose God? Not everyone in the World believes in the same God or have the same faith/belief system. While Christians have the largest percentage (29%-31%) as far as religions go, it is a bit presumptuous to think it is THE faith.
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Why, pray tell, would you be a believer and a member of a particular faith / belief system if you were not CERTAIN that it is THE faith? Not presumptuous. Required.
 
Tanks said:
Whose God? Not everyone in the World believes in the same God or have the same faith/belief system. While Christians have the largest percentage (29%-31%) as far as religions go, it is a bit presumptuous to think it is THE faith.
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That is EXACTLY what I would have you investigate. No other faith has an empty tomb. Best suggestion I can give to a doubter is to google up "Cold Case Christianity" that guy was a hard hearted homicide detective and he didn't come on board with Jesus easily. His logic will win your respect. I hope I am saying this lovingly and not argumentatively. Religion may be something for every du jour taste, but GOD has offered a relationship with himself through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and frankly that is more than "religion." It is a living relationship. What I find presumptuous is you thinking that ontologically different belief systems can all come to the same conclusion or place. You cannot, for example believe (as a Hindu) that matter is illusory, and at the same time believe the Christian world view which gives place to science and matter. No one is asking you to believe "pie in the sky." I would merely invite you to authentically investigate the claims. If you do come on board, the best long distance discipleship I could recommend would be the writings of Watchman Nee, Chinese pastor/writer who died after a long time in communist imprisonment. But he goes deep, so....You could also investigate "Experiencing God" by Henry Blackaby, famous Canadian pastor. there are lots I could put you onto. God bless, friend.
 
It may be interesting to explain the european narrative to the Ukraine war..

Trump and his admin. have repetedly tried to make peace by presenting peace plans. These have been answered with alternatives from both Europe and Russia.

The european narrative is that the parts are so far from each other that securing peace is futile.

This war will be setteled on the battlefield and the probable outcome is a frozen conflict aka Korea.

This will sour western - russian relationship for many years to come.

We believe that Russia will rearm after the Ukraine war finish and threathen the weak link, maybe the Baltic states. The Baltic area has become a hot spot area after Sweden and Finland joined NATO..much because of the Kaliningrad military base.

There is a reason for the US investing heavily in an airbase in southern Norway..amongst other things.

US nuclear attack subs also regularily visit norwegian ports..

So for us europeans, Ukraine is a proxy who in many ways wage war against Russia on our behalf. It is a fact that Russia consider itself to be at war with the west over Ukraine. Let that sink in for a moment..

Therefore the EU has granted Ukraine €90 billion to keep them afloat. In addition to that much military aid are being provided by the european states and ukrainian troops regularily train in western countries.

We need to buy time to rearm (it is happening) to counter the russian aggression.

The presence of US troops will always have a calming effect on Russia. The only thing they fear right now is american military might..

I think Europe need to reimburse a significant part of the cost of having US military presence.. in addition to rearm. That will make american presence more palatable for your politicians.

To put it bluntly, both Europe and the US benefit from Russia bleeding dry in this war. They have probably lost 1.3 million troops, dead or wounded..an insane number.

That shows with all clarity what they are capable of and willing to sacrifice to reach their goals.

Another possible outcome is financial collapse in Russia and social unrest. Reagan broke the Soviet Union financially remember.. It worked.



What we do not understand is why Trump don´t pressure Putin harder.. This is one of the reasons matters sour between Europe and the US..

You are loosing many valuable defence contracts to Europe and for instance Korea over this..
 
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Pondoro said:
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What we do not understand is why Trump don´t pressure Putin harder.. This is one of the reasons matters sour between Europe and the US..

You are loosing many valuable defence contracts to Europe and for instance Korea over this..
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How would you have Trump pressure Putin harder? Maybe upset the applecart in Venzuela (oh he did that). Maybe push to remove the linkage between Cuba and Russia (oh doing that too).

I believe that putting too much immediate pressure too quickly could escalate the conflict, the time to use our muscle was when Russia was massing troops prior to the invasion. But now it seems that Putin is backed into a corner, let them bleed and put pressure on their economy.

AJ
 
Pondoro said:
What we do not understand is why Trump don´t pressure Putin harder.. This is one of the reasons matters sour between Europe and the US..
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Trump hates Zelensky. Add in the isolationist wing of MAGA, you end up with lukewarm support for Ukraine. Plus Trump is very transactional, it is always “What have you done for me lately?”

Not difficult to understand.
 
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