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Posted on 05/11/2011 1:20:59 PM PDT by wagglebee
I noted an odd factoid about Buffett in an article recently referenced on FR. Buffett reportedly spent a lot of his time in church figuring out the average life spans of hymn authors from the biographical data in the church hymnal, and apparently thought they tended to be disappointingly brief. So, Buffett apparently concluded, if you’re devout enough to want to write a hymn you probably aren’t going to live long. Too bad he didn’t understand that some of the most beautiful art in the world is born of suffering.
Well said.
Life is suffering. There is value and good in suffering. If people like Buffett understood this they wouldn’t be choosing to kill people over permitting them to overcome suffering.
It’s also the same rationale that is used to toss out the lives of disabled people like me. Not like we could actually amount to anything, eh?
Suffering often occurs when good and evil approach in opposition. I don’t agree with people who believe that suffering should be sought out on principle, because it seems to need no help to occur — but if humanity shied away from all suffering, it would be shying away from many occasions where good can otherwise press through evil.
I think there is some biblical justification for seeking out suffering. Look at Christ and his 40 days in the desert. There are times when it can be profitable to the Faith.
What Jesus sought was the Father’s will, that is always clear from the gospels. So when the Father told him to go into a place where he would suffer, Jesus obeyed. A Christian life that (by definition) pushes against Satan always will see some suffering in the course of its mission. I part company with pious masochists, however.
Probably not. I presume you think illegal immigrants having 9 kids that all grow up to be on welfare is a good thing?
I’m a jerk or the freeloaders?
I think “free loaders” were in a different container (duck’n & runn’n)
I didn’t mean to sound like a jerk, or imply that I am somehow agreeing with Buffet, because I am not. Good conservative families aside, look who is having kids in the US...I am just not sure those kids are going to grow up with American values.
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Read post 30.
I saw you mention on another thread a while back that Japanese people don’t have many kids because they can’t afford to feed them or house them in tiny apartments. And many are aborted, which is awful.
What I am pointing out is that some people don’t care and pump a bunch of kids out because Daddy Government will take care of them...not a promising future at all.
If he’s so interested in the "estate" tax, why doesn’t he set an example and give half of his fortune to the IRS?
I’m sure Warren Buffet and his fellow liberal billionaires have tons of their money invested in tax free municipal bonds.
Income taxes and estate taxes are for us “little people.”
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