Re: What Would You Do If You Had A Million Dollars?
August 27, 2013 at 4:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2013 at 4:35 pm by NoraBrimstone.)
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What Would You Do If You Had A Million Dollars?
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I genuinely read that as "nice hat", there. This Blackberry has such a small screen.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
I'm lucky enough to know someone who won £2.3m ($3.1m) on the UK lottery a few years back, which got me thinking about this fairly seriously at the time and here's conclusion I came up with.
The interest he receives is approx £32,000pcm so more than enough to live very nicely on. I would buy everything of medium/high value on credit and pay this off with the interest accrued every month, thereby getting what I want without dipping into the main sum of money. Boring I know, but financially sensible.  (August 26, 2013 at 6:21 pm)pocaracas Wrote: $1m.... put it in a savings account at ~5% yearly interest rate. Boring and sensible, sounds just like me! Where do I sign up for this plan?  (August 27, 2013 at 4:36 pm)StuW Wrote: I'm lucky enough to know someone who won £2.3m ($3.1m) on the UK lottery a few years back, which got me thinking about this fairly seriously at the time and here's conclusion I came up with. Way to work the system! *making mental note of this for possible future use...* **Slapping self upside the head for thinking I'd ever be handed $1M** (August 27, 2013 at 4:29 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Put a deposit on a nice flat.  I. Want. That. Flat. Seriously, though, I'd probably invest it and use the interest as income while I design and build a dream home and work at a hobby-job or volunteer. I might "splurge" and invest in some real estate while the dream house gets built, and maybe buy a new car; I've been so focused for the past few years on saving a down payment that I don't even know what I would spend money on anymore... Well, that's not true. I'd do some traveling and maybe buy some good photography gear since I can't currently afford good stuff.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
No, scratch that what I said earlier, I'd make a Real TARDIS hotel and become a billionaire.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
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