Phi for All

This is the problem I'm having. Why is the bank angry with you for this investment? I know you didn't make it but why is this investment a bad thing? I don't understand why they are freezing accounts unless they feel you owe them money you aren't paying. The only other reason is that Inland Revenue has placed the freeze because of unpaid taxes on the investment returns. But the bank would mention the IRS because they would want you to know it's not being instigated by the bank. Perhaps if you could post some pertinent parts of the letter dealing with why this investment is of concern it would help clarify what steps you need to take.

Is this business in foreclosure or have any liens against it that are making the bank take this action? The 24th? Of last month? Which letters? The bank's or the business'? Paid what money, the initial investment? Have they stated why they've frozen your assets? Are you in arrears for payments on a loan for this investment? I don't get the connection between your bank and this business you supposedly invested in. What is the bank asking you for? Does the phone number you called match the one in the phone book for your bank? I think you need to take them some tax information to show that you have never engaged in this type of investment. Wouldn't it be a hoot if Inland Revenue could get you out of this mess?

What is really fascinating is that these commercialized prescription drugs sell like crazy, despite the fact that they warn you you may start bleeding from the ears or experience homicidal impulses. Granted, maybe only 1 person out of 100 actually experienced homicidal impulses and you could argue that it may not have been the medicine that caused them (I guess they don't ask if they have homicidal impulses without taking the drug), but you would think it would make people more leery. I really thought when the law was passed allowing the drug companies to advertise with the caveat that they list the side affects audibly it would kill the underlying purpose of the advertisements. In reality people have almost stopped listening to that part since they want to believe so badly that it won't happen to them. It's like people pretending the flight attendant doesn't exist when she's explaining how to exit the plane in the event of a water landing. It just goes to show, you think about how dumb the average person is and then remember that half the population is dumber than that.

Don't they require disclosure in India? In the US, all advertisements for prescription drugs must include a list of side affects observed in clinical testing. It's really pretty funny, seeing a television commercial talking about a drug that clears your sinuses for 24 hours that also may cause rectal bleeding, nausea, flatulence, Irritability and short tempers, kidney failure, diarrhea, muscle aching and weakness, tingling or cramping in the legs, impaired muscle formation, erectile dysfunction, nerve damage and mental confusion. They have announcers who can talk really fast list them all before showing you again how clear your sinuses will be.

If you don't attribute omnipotence or omniscience to God, and merely grant It supreme control of the physics of the universe, then in that sense God would be the ultimate Good, the Supremely Competent, the One who can manipulate matter best within the laws as It knows them. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or something very similar. I can give you no palpable answer.

Plus on weasel, day turns over lemony. To avoid anthropocentrism, I've always envisioned Earth as just one lab in a universe full of labs, and humans as an experiment. Maybe Earth is really a kitchen among a universe of kitchens and God is wearing a pointy black hat and waiting to shove us in the oven. Would it be "good" to shove Him in first? Is that really what He wants us to do, wake up and realize we're being fattened for the kill if we don't shape up and take action?

You mean besides the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule? I boil everything to do with spirituality down to this:If there is a higher power and our consciousness lives on after our body dies, we may exist as pure consciousness. If that's the case, some of the senses we lose when we're released from the body may be replaced with other senses (we may have them now but don't use them in favor of our more 3D oriented senses). One of those senses may well be the ability to sense thoughts. If you can read the thoughts of another consciousness, would you be more apt to want to read those of a good entity or an evil entity?

Cap'n's nailed it. I remember reading something about gravity being dispersed across possible upper dimensions or even multiple universes, and if we could figure a way to "thump it", we might be able to use gravity as a way to communicate. The rest is just applying these hypotheses to what they want to be true. The paper I read didn't speculate as to Who might be listening.

Don't worry. As long as people can keep coming up with differenct ways to look at the world, both seen and unseen, we will keep the Philosophy / Religion forum. We sometimes get people who join just to post their personal Religious or Anti-Religious tirades and that's OK as long as they make SOME attempt to read what's preceded them and attack it from a fresh perspective.

Welcom to all the new members (six so far this week!) and thanks for joining. Be smart, be courteous, be welcome!

My avatar is the Hubble telescope iamge of the Helix Nebula, also known as the Eye of God (no, I don't have delusions of grandeur, well maybe a little). My username is a play on words, but only if you use the Greek pronunciation of the word Phi (FEE). I love the Golden Mean for it's elegance and mystery. More than Teletubbies?

And the headlines read, "PHYSICS DEFIED TO SATISFY STUPID PLOTLINE". Sad story.

Since women will always want to have babies AND careers, what needs to change is the job environment stereotypes that perpetuate the lack-of-productivity myth. Strides are being made to show that workers can be just as productive overall from a home office environment. Not all careers facillitate this option but most can be adapted to fit.

"I ALWAYS appreciate it when people exploit things I've posted in other threads for their own cruel, nefarious purposes. It makes me feel special." "I LOVE salmon! Not to eat, just to play with." "I can't picture that movie star naked." "Stepping in gum is OK, but I wish I could figure out how to get it in my hair more often." "You're too drunk to walk home. Why don't you drive?" "Spit on me again." "I'm almost done showering. Toss me that blow dryer."

I think you meant to post that in the Annoying Myths thread.

Oooh, don't get me started. I saw a special on a woman who lost a couple hundred pounds after having her stomach "pouched" (most of it cut away, not stapled, creating a small pouch). She was so tickled that a small order of McDonald's fries were all it took to make her feel full.

I had that dream too! Was the sweatshirt blue and said, "Just Me and You"? I was watching you dance and then took a chance The rain made the shirt damp you kept doing the rain vamp You continued to groove it I tried to help remove it As you kicked me I was dreaming and then I woke up screaming, "Don't hurt me no more!"

If you extended/braced the front of the trap (in the direction of the throw) would the energy saved (which might have made it flip) be transferred into a more forceful throw or would it be transferred into the brace? Either way it's a good idea.

"Whoa, did you see that, officer?! I must have been going three times the posted speed limit!" "I respect your honor and integrity, Senator." "You're the one who signs my paycheck so I guess that gives you the right to treat me any way you want." "I don't think ecoli's long dark wavy hair and soulful brown eyes make him look effeminate." "Don't throw ALL the potato salad away, just the little bit where the cockroach was climbing out!" "You're the second most important person in this room to me."

Practical reasons. The junior and senior high school classrooms are used by multiple teachers and are not as secure as your office. Would you want your diplomas hanging in a room where a thousand people have access every day without you being there? I agree with you in principal, though. Teachers are professionals too.

So the myth is not a myth? Veins are bluish because the blood in them is more blue than red? I'd heard this when I was young and then heard it debunked when I was older. What's the final verdict, Doc?

Really good thinking! Probably save some fingers too, especially if he takes Ecoli up on the rat trap idea. Do you recommend leaving the trap bar "as is" so you can use the trigger mechanism? With a big rat trap you don't have to worry so much about trimming weight.

After reading what's been written, I feel the need to clarify my position. While I personally have gotten over my obsession with sports, I don't feel everyone else should as well. I objected to the way many sports figures conducted their professional (and due to the celebrity they enjoy, their personal) lives because I felt it shows a bad example to those who idolize them and their lifestyles. I also felt that when sports starts to cost tax dollars to those who don't support them it's gotten out of hand. But I dealt with it by simply walking away from it, and I don't think sports should be abolished or imposed upon. It's a business and if you don't agree with a business you simply don't support it. You protest when tax dollars are used instead of bond funds. If enough people feel the same way the market and the political system will take care of it. I take special pains to point out to my daughter that celebrity millionaires are vastly outnumbered by hard-working people who become millionaires so they never have to worry about money, not to buy a room full of shoes or cars that cost more than our house. I feel it's important for her to see that becoming a star is not a golden path to the easy life and that having money is not the end of all troubles. The second focus of this thread is really a different issue, that of education spending. My state is ranked 49th out of 50 in spending for education but the slack is picked up by the parents. I hate that my child has to be involved in fundraising efforts that often make the fundraising company more money than the schools. It saddens me that more people vote to keep their taxes low than to fund educational needs. I can't help but feel it's the ones without school age kids who vote the funding down and then complain about how many juvenile delinquents there are running around.

A dung-eater like the Egyptian vulture and a bottom-feeder like the catfish, to make an animal so vile no other animal wants to be associated with it. I would call it Kenneth Lay.