[heroineworshipper]

We need a suicide counter.

[Denny]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hermes', 'L')ooking at us looking at Merckle is an interesting exercise.

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When I first joined the board less than a year ago, this bunch of folks felt quite secure with Axioms they held as incontrovertably true, that the outrageously rich Pigmen would walk thru this unscathed, and that the moderately rich syncophants would suffer some difficulties but most of the pain would be visited on the poorest members of society. Arguing that this was not so in my thread "Falling Stockbrokers and Going Postal" brought guffaws and jeers, I was told that it was far more likely middle class J6Ps would be commiting suicide than the Pigmen. However, what I predicted has come to pass now, it really IS Raining Pigmen.

[lawnchair]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'B')eing in my 50's, I find the beauty of nature, simple travel, the wisdom of the gospels and the change of seasons are something I enjoy experiencing more than any other time in my life.

For me, though I have some degree of material comfort, I could be just about as happy living on tuna sandwiches, and having no car, as long as I have my friends to talk to and my physical heatlh stays intact. That is not something I could have said in my thirties or forties.

For you who worry so much in your youth, while it is one thing to seek wisdom and to take good counsel learning from the mistakes and problems you see around you, do not dwell or worry much about these. Look forward to your middle years of life to come, and do not be materialistic.