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RE: Oh Yeah - There Are Some Assholes Running Around Loose
June 8, 2015 at 10:20 am
I could've understood a headline that reads "man blows psychic for $700,000." But this, this is just... damn.
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RE: Oh Yeah - There Are Some Assholes Running Around Loose
June 8, 2015 at 10:31 am
(June 8, 2015 at 9:37 am)Faith No More Wrote: (June 7, 2015 at 6:30 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: You don't have to be smart to be rich.
Oh, yeah, American celebrities make that quite clear. I'm just wondering what his secret is.
There's no real secret. Human beings are very complex, skilled in some things, not so much in others. Sometimes you see extremes where a person is extremely good at one thing and so bad in another that it defies belief.
I had a coworker in 1981 who's father was at Princeton and knew Einstein. He said Einstein would frequently bump into someone in a corridor and get drawn into a conversation. When the conversation was over, Einstein would often ask what direction he had been headed in because he had forgotten why he had been in the corridor in the first place. It's consistent with his autobiography where he related he locked himself out of his apartment for something like 5 consecutive days when he was a young man and the owners thought he was an idiot.
It's like the brain has its limits. If it's extraordinary in one way, sacrifices seem to be necessary in others.
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RE: Oh Yeah - There Are Some Assholes Running Around Loose
June 8, 2015 at 10:56 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2015 at 10:57 am by Faith No More.)
Oh, sure, I understand all of that quite well. My comment is made in jest at my incredulity that someone could be so moronic as to obviously bamboozled repeatedly and have amassed a large sum of money. I know how it happens, but that doesn't make it any more flabbergasting when I hear about such an egregious example like this one.
But as far as Einstein goes, his brain was busy unwrapping the mysteries of the universe in ways most of us could not begin fathom. Of course he's going to forget what direction he was going in. Absent-mindedness comes with genius, but what's this guy's excuse?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Oh Yeah - There Are Some Assholes Running Around Loose
June 8, 2015 at 12:44 pm
Damn. I'm in the wrong business. I'm going to quit my job as a forklift operator and become a psychic. It definitely pays a lot better.
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RE: Oh Yeah - There Are Some Assholes Running Around Loose
June 9, 2015 at 12:27 am
I just had a vision. A bus on a field trip filled with AF folk and it went over a bridge. The only ones that survived were the ones that sent me 10 grand.
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just send the money through paypal to [email protected])
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RE: Oh Yeah - There Are Some Assholes Running Around Loose
June 9, 2015 at 12:32 am
I have sent you the agreed sum in bananananas, now ROAD TRIP TIME
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RE: Oh Yeah - There Are Some Assholes Running Around Loose
June 9, 2015 at 10:02 am
I sent you the requested sum in Denebolan Zuulaks. Sadly, the closest place you can make a withdrawal in that currency is seventeen light years away.
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RE: Oh Yeah - There Are Some Assholes Running Around Loose
June 9, 2015 at 10:10 am
Don't forget the psychic who tells you you still owe money for a reading in a past life.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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