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Current time: May 4, 2024, 1:02 pm
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If you had the wealth of religion?
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Bad Wolf
Compulsive procrastinator  Religious Views: Agnostic atheist, anti-theist, whovian, misanthrope?
Maybe he doesn't exist, but with that amount of money, we could make a batman. We could probably build a Gotham city, kill some rich kids parents and train him to become batman. I mean the Vatican alone is worth something like $8 billion and that is just a fraction of the amount of money we would have. Imagine the possibilities!!
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House “Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom "If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech 
I have had friends in recent years that have cystic fibrosis, a lung disease. I'd likely donate either to individuals waiting transplant, or to research of CF.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
I'd give a lot of it to medical research but I think it should be the governments job to pay for medical things for the people so with some of the rest of the money I would hire private detectives several of them to dig up dirt on politicians just to fuck them off in some way, just basically to vent my anger on them.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. 
I'd donate it to education, scientific and medical research, conflict resolution, vocational training programs, and the like.
Silly what-if, but whatever.
I'd give some back, so they religious institutions wouldn't starve to death, for starters. I'd pretty much give everything to Effective Altruism (by Peter Singer) as laid out by givingwhatwecan.org, Doctors Without Borders and the like.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
I think I'd give the lot to Cancer Research UK.
I would use all that money to start my own religion, and then spend the money that my countless followers donate on myself.
You know, nothing new. Just the same old business plan the Church has got going now. Tried and tested over 2000 years! |
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