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Originally posted by Afterthought
A man comes up to you with three lottery tickets. He tells you to pick one, which you do. He then tells you that if it's the winning ticket, you will get $500 million dollars in 20 years or you can throw it away and just take $5 million now. What would you choose?
And if you die before the 20 years are up, your estate will be liable to pay taxes on $500 million that you never saw a dime of, because the way the laws are written.
Originally posted by Afterthought
reply to post by AugustusMasonicus
Thanks for making my point.
Me? I'd wait the twenty years. Why? Because I'm not just thinking about my own situation. My family and a couple of close friends would also be able to enjoy it. I would see that they and theirs were comforable, but I wouldn't be able to do this with only $5 million.
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Quite possibly the most ominous potential tax liability facing a lottery winner is the federal estate tax upon the winner’s death. The value at the time of death of all the winner’s property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, wherever situated is included in the winner’s gross estate. I.R.C. § 2031(a). Consequently, the gross estate includes any lottery proceeds the winner has already received but has not yet spent as well as the present value of future lottery payments.
Conversely, it's arrogant of you to assume that if we took the $5 million today, we'd keep all of it for ourselves. $5 million today can solve a lot of problems for a lot of charities. Today. People who are starving today who will be dead in 20 years. People who have diseases whose research could use the money. Today.
Originally posted by Afterthought
Thinking of yourself and what you can have now is the basis of satanism.
Originally posted by Afterthought
It wasn't my intention to derail this thread with an analogy about greed. I'm even more upset that that's what is being done. Thinking of yourself and what you can have now is the basis of satanism. All you have to do is look at today's society and see how it's filled with people who are only concerned with instant gratification. People used to value patience and realized that some things are worth waiting for. Not anymore.
The Masons are really on the move right now, they have published several books confronting a lot of the anti-Masonic theories and teachings, and things like that. And they're being very aggressive about it. They're coming out and they're talking about a lot of these hard issues, and Luciferian Worship, and stuff like this. Because it seems, as much as I can figure out, that they're really trying to CLEAN UP THEIR IMAGE.
But they're often defending the indefensible, and one of the things is Manly P. Hall. They try to get away from Hall but they have such a hard time... And the reason they want to deny Hall is because Hall tells you in The Lost Keys of Freemasonry that when the Mason truly understands the Secrets of his Craft, "then will he hold the SEETHING ENERGIES OF LUCIFER IN HIS HANDS".
Quoted from minute 27:40 in the video posted directly beneath this excerpt.
And they're being very aggressive about it.
I'm so glad you brought up Baal. I just read an interesting book called "Workman Unashamed" by Christopher Haffner where the author first starts talking about the very name of God and its start as YHWH leading to the transformation into Jehovah, meaning "Lord" and its applications through the Bible and variations between the different versions of the Bible. Examples is Jehovah Elohim, Jehovah Rohi, and so forth (fascinating read). He then starts on Ba'al and the Bible where he states the following things:
Despite the fact that no Royal Arch ritual uses the word Ba'al...
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Throughout the Old Testament, the word Ba'al is an ordinary everyday word, with ordinary everyday meanings. It is true that it is used sixty-nine times to represent a Canaanite god or gods, although often not as a proper name, but as a description. It is used as a proper name of other things or persons many times. For Example Ba'al is the name of a city in 1 Chronicles 4:33. In 1 Chronicles 5:5 and 9:36, it is a name of a Jewish person.
It is used even more frequently in combination:
Baal Gad, Baal Hazor, Baal Hermon, Baal Meon, Baal Perazim, Baal Shalisha, Baal Tamar, Baal Zephon, Baalah, Baalath (feminine of Baal), Baalath Beor and Baale are names of towns or places.
Baal Hanan and Baalis are names of kings.
Baal Berith, Baal Peor, and Baal Zebub (Lord of the Flies) are names of gods.
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However, what is much more significant is the use of baal translated into other words. It is translated as "master" four times...
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This is very important, as by analogy, Yahweh is the Ba'al of Israel. Another translation is "owner" (twelve times).
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A third translation is as husband (eleven times).
He then goes on to talk about Stephen Knight's book, The Brotherhood, and debunks much of the Masons worship Ba'al myth:
With disregard for logical thought, Knight makes assumptions about the meaning of the second Royal Arch word which appear nowhere in any Masonic ritual, and then treats them as if they were true. He proceeds to suggest that the words of an obscure sixteenth century demonologist are relevant to twentieth century Masons. Knight is attacking only what his imagination has led him to believe is the meaning of the second word, with no reference the only relevant meanings - those which are explained to every new Royal Arch Mason.
He discusses an interesting theory to the beginning of the Royal Arch and its secret words, and how over time they have been slightly changed in pronunciation.
I don't agree with everything in the book, but it's an interesting read.
The number 5 has always been regarded as mystical and magical, yet essentially 'human'. We have five fingers/toes on each limb extremity.We commonly note five senses - sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. We perceive five stages or initiations in our lives - eg. birth, adolescence, coitus, parenthood and death. (There are other numbers / initiations / stages / attributions).
The number 5 is associated with Mars. It signifies severity, conflict and harmony through conflict. In Christianity, five were the wounds of Christ on the cross. There are five pillars of the Muslim faith and five daily times of prayer.
Five were the virtues of the medieval knight - generosity, courtesy, chastity, chivalry and piety as symbolised in the pentagram device of Sir Gawain. The Wiccan Kiss is Fivefold - feet, knees, womb, breasts, lips - Blessed be.
The number 5 is prime. The simplest star - the pentagram - requires five lines to draw and it is unicursal; it is a continuous loop.
Originally posted by Afterthought
reply to post by KSigMason
Actually, the number 5 is the most significant of all in regards to religion and the esoteric:
The number 5 has always been regarded as mystical and magical, yet essentially 'human'. We have five fingers/toes on each limb extremity.We commonly note five senses - sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. We perceive five stages or initiations in our lives - eg. birth, adolescence, coitus, parenthood and death. (There are other numbers / initiations / stages / attributions).
The number 5 is associated with Mars. It signifies severity, conflict and harmony through conflict. In Christianity, five were the wounds of Christ on the cross. There are five pillars of the Muslim faith and five daily times of prayer.
Five were the virtues of the medieval knight - generosity, courtesy, chastity, chivalry and piety as symbolised in the pentagram device of Sir Gawain. The Wiccan Kiss is Fivefold - feet, knees, womb, breasts, lips - Blessed be.
The number 5 is prime. The simplest star - the pentagram - requires five lines to draw and it is unicursal; it is a continuous loop.
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