New Grammy In Town (Page 26): “Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even highly intelligent...

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

federally indicted mattoid wrote:

Maybe dtuck is John Barron, lol

“Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even highly intelligent individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.”

– Thomas Sowell

In other words, engage brain before putting mouth in gear.

This is why we bought you books and sent you to school. What do you do with your education? You treat it as if it is frivolous.

federally indicted mattoid

dtucker300 wrote:

“Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even highly intelligent individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.”

– Thomas Sowell

In other words, engage brain before putting mouth in gear.

This is why we bought you books and sent you to school. What do you do with your education? You treat it as if it is frivolous.

Wonder if donny would take your pearls of wisdom about reading books...

Just kidding. He doesn't read books.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

federally indicted mattoid wrote:

Wonder if donny would take your pearls of wisdom about reading books...

Just kidding. He doesn't read books.

Probably not. Neither does Joe.

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

Parky60 wrote:

The Christian thing to do would be to feed him AND tell him about what he REALLY needs... a savior whose name is Jesus Christ.

Food is temporal... Jesus is FOREVER!

But they need to have the time to absorb the message. And a reason to believe us.
James 2:14-26

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

son of witless wrote:

The point of the moral of teaching someone to grow... (show quote)

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NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

archie bunker wrote:

You're just being difficult here. Nicest way to pu... (show quote)

Are you in a state that doesn't assess real estate taxes Arch?

Where we are in upstate NY, a homeowner with a house assessed at 200,000 will pay between 4k and 6k annually for school, village, town and county taxes on the assessed value of that house. There aren't many homes in this area worth 7 figures, but taxes on one would be unbelievably high.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

NotMAGA wrote:

Are you in a state that doesn't assess real estate taxes Arch?

Where we are in upstate NY, a homeowner with a house assessed at 200,000 will pay between 4k and 6k annually for school, village, town and county taxes on the assessed value of that house. There aren't many homes in this area worth 7 figures, but taxes on one would be unbelievably high.

None of you seem to get it. Sigh.......
Property taxes are assessed by the county, state, whatever. Thats fine. So, if a person owns a piece of land, whatever the acerage, that land is worth money, right?
Personally, I'm tired, and done with this circular argument with this self righteous individual.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

NotMAGA wrote:

But they need to have the time to absorb the message. And a reason to believe us.
James 2:14-26

So you're saying food is more important than salvation eh?

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

archie bunker wrote:

None of you seem to get it. Sigh.......
Property taxes are assessed by the county, state, whatever. Thats fine. So, if a person owns a piece of land, whatever the acerage, that land is worth money, right?
Personally, I'm tired, and done with this circular argument with this self righteous individual.

G'night then. I asked the question because the idea of someone being wealthy but with no income would (imagine italics on would) be improbable in NY.

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

Parky60 wrote:

So you're saying food is more important than salvation eh?

James said it first.
Not that it's more important, but if you want to save someone's soul, you need to take care of their physical needs too, and maybe even first.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

NotMAGA wrote:

James said it first.

It's apparent you don't understand what he said.

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

Parky60 wrote:

It's apparent you don't understand what he said.

Explain your understanding of what he said please.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

NotMAGA wrote:

Explain your understanding of what he said please.

You first. You were the one who claimed that James said food was more important than salvation first.

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

Parky60 wrote:

You first. You were the one who claimed that James said food was more important than salvation first.

I already explained it. You told me I didn't understand it. What's your take? Why would someone listen to you if you didn't take the time to get to know them first, and help them if they needed help?

archie bunker Loc: Texas

NotMAGA wrote:

G'night then. I asked the question because the idea of someone being wealthy but with no income would (imagine italics on would) be improbable in NY.

I'm not wealthy, but, I can live a long time with no income.
Depends on your lifestyle, I guess.
One of my grandads died a multi millionaire, lived in a hovel. Paid for stuff in cash till he died.
Just to simplify this even more.
Let's say that I own thousands of acres of land, multiple properties in town, all paid for, taxes paid on all of them. Worth multi millions altogether.
But, I live a simple, humble life, and saved money for later. I live off of money saved, but, have assets worth millions.
Am I a rich man?
Oh yeah, then there's the thing about how I sold Eddy down the street a lawnmower, so that's income.

Nevermind.....