Tag: wealth
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“This is the Life”
Ben is sitting next to me listening to Weird Al. “This is the Life” is a fun song. “Women lined up outside my door/They’ve been waiting there since a week before.” “You’re dead for a real long time/ You just can’t prevent it/ So if money can’t buy happiness/ I guess I’ll have to rent…
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Charity
Times are rough but I am blessed. The struggle is real and necessary but so is the gratitude. I want a more abundant life so that I can bless more people with mine. I’ve been studying the scriptures today but I have also been drinking. Those probably cancel each other out. I am not content.…
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The Authentic Me
There is a horrible lie in our culture that all we need to do is be ourselves. Bill Cosby joked that cocaine made the real person come out. He asked: But what if I am an asshole? We all know how that turned out. People should generally not be content with themselves. We are a…
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“Make War Not Love”
I’m wearing a novelty tshirt today that I earned from a website called Learn Liberty by promoting the site. It reads “Make Wealth Not War.” It is in part an homage to the first novelty tshirt I ever got. When I was a teenager I was reading a Mad Magazine and in one of the…
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Pet Peeves
Name your top three pet peeves. My three pet peeves are repetition, repetition, and repetition. Just kidding. My biggest pet peeve is bureaucracy. People don’t need a ten page Terms of Service. We do not need a packet of paperwork every time we get a medication refill. We don’t need an owners manual for TVs…
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Wealth and Children
What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to? I’ve talked a little about having more wives and children. That is probably a risk I will never take though, so I will focus on one that wouldn’t likely get me put in jail: Real Estate. I don’t own any land…
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Strange Fantasies
What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail. So I’ve talked about Brigham Young elsewhere on my blog. I remain impressed by the fact that he had 50+ wives and 50+ children. The desire for a lot more kids and the wealth to afford them is a very selfish one. Still…
Latter Day Sinner 