25 Feb 09
Originally posted by twhiteheadEasy for you to say.
It is amazing how many people entered the stock market with the belief that it can only go up - and only go up at the top advertised rate.
I thought everybody knew that the stock market was a gamble, but it seems the brokers managed to make it so complicated and persuade people that by spreading your risk you have no risk etc.
As long as you give your m ...[text shortened]... in the stock market or even own a house so you should all stop feeling so sorry for yourselves!
but I'm not complaining, merely musing.
my own fault and I know it. I KNEW I should have gotten out at 14,000.
I also know that staying in will bring me back up to a comfortable level before I really want to throw in the towel. In the meantime, I'm not exactly bringing this up to whine or comaplin or focus on me, I'm more interested in whether the laws of chance, the probabilities stack up against Einstein's claim that God doesn't play dice with the universe.
What did he mean by that, I wonder. I have my take, but what do others think he might have meant?
26 Feb 09
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Originally posted by ScriabinImagine him turning down your generous offer. Go figure? If you ask me, he should be flattered.
why can't He send me next month's financial page so I can retire? I'll even promise to go praise his name in every Italian church I can visit in Umbria and Tuscany -- even Sicily, too.
27 Feb 09
Originally posted by Scriabinhe could but he would make it blank, be careful what you wish for it may come true
If there is an anthropomorphic God who pays attention to individual biological organisms infesting a speck of dust in the vastness of this universe, one of many or even an infinite numer of potential quantum realities, why can't He send me next month's financial page so I can retire? I'll even promise to go praise his name in every Italian church I can visit in Umbria and Tuscany -- even Sicily, too.