Robert K Stock

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  Raise the Social Security retirement age from 67 to 68 ?!?!?!?

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.cnn.com/2005/allpolitics/03/07/social.security.ap/index.html

  holly crap!

  i just read an article where a senator wants to raise the retirement age to 68!!!

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  Robert K Stock

  In the 1930's most people died at 60. That is why the retirement age was fixed at 65 so that most people would die before taking anything out. The retirement age is gradually increasing as part of the so called fixes from 1986. Most folks did not pay attention. In the past few years citizens get a yearly statement from Uncle Sam with your total contributions and how much per month you can expect and at what age you are entitled to benefits.

  The biggest problem is that folks do not want to accept that since 1935 Social Security has been a Ponzi or Pyramid scheme. It is only successful when more people are paying in and a small number are paid off. Eventualy you reach the point where the money dries up because no one new is coming in.

  There is no easy way out, no little fixes to shore it up. Social Security should be ended once and for all. Many people will be hurt. The US government is just like a confidence man bilking citizens out of their life savings. The worse part is confidence men can be sent to jail while the con men in Congress just get re-elected.
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  catholic question

  by candidlynuts in

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  in cindys post she mentioned that her grandad had been pulled aside by his catholic priests and asked to contribute more or his mother wouldnt get out of purgatory.

  do catholics really do that?

  pay to get outta purgatory?

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  Robert K Stock

  My choice for modern Catholic saint is one of the translators of the Jerusalem Bible

  JRR Tolkien.
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  A vengeful phallus

  by IP_SEC in

  1. jw
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  so i?m thinking of going out to a lonely place once a month or so to smoke a tobacco product in rebellion against the wts.

  (hey gimme a break here, i cant go out on a fornicatin spree).

  cigarettes aren?t really my style, so i?m thinking a cigar.

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  Robert K Stock

  A vengeful phallus is better than an irritable bowel.
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  catholic question

  by candidlynuts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in cindys post she mentioned that her grandad had been pulled aside by his catholic priests and asked to contribute more or his mother wouldnt get out of purgatory.

  do catholics really do that?

  pay to get outta purgatory?

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  Robert K Stock

  My experience with the Watchtower Society makes me look at such claims with suspicion
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  catholic question

  by candidlynuts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in cindys post she mentioned that her grandad had been pulled aside by his catholic priests and asked to contribute more or his mother wouldnt get out of purgatory.

  do catholics really do that?

  pay to get outta purgatory?

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  Robert K Stock

  "When a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from Purgatory springs."

  One of the major reasons for the Reformation.
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  A vengeful phallus

  by IP_SEC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i?m thinking of going out to a lonely place once a month or so to smoke a tobacco product in rebellion against the wts.

  (hey gimme a break here, i cant go out on a fornicatin spree).

  cigarettes aren?t really my style, so i?m thinking a cigar.

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  Robert K Stock

  Like the time I snorted coke and nearly drowned!
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  A vengeful phallus

  by IP_SEC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i?m thinking of going out to a lonely place once a month or so to smoke a tobacco product in rebellion against the wts.

  (hey gimme a break here, i cant go out on a fornicatin spree).

  cigarettes aren?t really my style, so i?m thinking a cigar.

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  Robert K Stock

  Aren't US legal Cohibas from the Dominican Republic? Since both countries are so close in location, what would make Cuban cigars better than Dominican cigars? The allure of forbidden fruit?
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  A vengeful phallus

  by IP_SEC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i?m thinking of going out to a lonely place once a month or so to smoke a tobacco product in rebellion against the wts.

  (hey gimme a break here, i cant go out on a fornicatin spree).

  cigarettes aren?t really my style, so i?m thinking a cigar.

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  Robert K Stock

  There is a joke there some where Classicist.
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  Charles & Camilla

  by Englishman in

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  my sister in law jackie and her hubby came to visit this weekend.. .

  last month, so they told us, they went to the opera, in sheffield.

  just before the opera started a couple of security guys arrived and asked them if they would please stand so that 2 people could pass them to some vacant seats further along the row.. .

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  Robert K Stock

  Englishman:
  

  Monarchies are more stable then republics? How do you define stability?

  The Swiss republic has lasted hundreds of years with great freedom for its citizens.

  The English monarchy is only stable because it is accountable to the people through Parliament. The Royals are your countries' greatest draw for English tourism but don't you think of the Prime Minister as the real leader of the British people?
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  Can 'the truth' survive the Internet?

  by Noumenon in

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  great article here, from some university prof. doesn't seem he was ever a jw either.. http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2003_10/cox-truth.html

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  Robert K Stock

  Taylor S:

  I am an honest person and value greatly the founding ideas of America. Republican democracy, freedom of expression and laissez-faire capitalism are great blessings to mankind from the American Revolution and the philosophy of the Enlightenment.