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Comment on EXPELLED: Evolutionary Ignorance by katelynjane

katelynjane — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:45:05 +0000

This is all really interesting! I’ll be looking into those books, thanks for the tip! I personally believe in Creation and I find it extremely frustrating when my views are put down asap. I have a right to share my opinion and beliefs too! It’s funny how people say that Christians and Creation believers are closed-minded, when really, as soon as they hear what we believe in, they ignore us. Not all of course, but most do.

Thanks for sharing!

Comment on Just How Bad Is It? by wrightdoyle

wrightdoyle — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:01:53 +0000

Thanks for this good comment. I like Weiss et al. precisely because they do tell you what to do to protect your capital and even make it grow in times like these. (They don’t pay me for this!). For example, they would take issue with you on domestic real estate and domestic securities (except for a few sectors, like commodities and energy and food) at this time. In other words, they modify the definition of “diversification” and “asset allocation” to include non-US investments and non-traditional securities. But thanks for your contribution. It was very balanced - not easy these days! Wright

Comment on Three conversations by Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:53:35 +0000

hey wright,

I’m encouraged by how quickly and joyfully you turn your conversations to Christ. Praise God for your boldness and love for Him!

Comment on Just How Bad Is It? by Thomas H

Thomas H — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:35:35 +0000

I think one thing that needs to be used to qualify all the doom and gloom prognosticators however is the questions of timing. In any day and age one is always able to find people who see the financial viability of the american economy in the future to be negative. It’s simply too easy to look at the bad events that are happening in the world and look at the disaster that could happen.

That said, I dont believe the american economy is in a good position right now. However, the growth of the market and the economy has proven surprisingly resilient against troubling forces and times.

I think few people tend to look at the market in a vacuum. In fact, I think there might be an overtendency to look at investments from too macroscopic a perspective without a serious enough inquiry into the valuation of a specific security or investment. And why not? Specific analysis of an investment is tough. Its difficult. It’s far easier to look at the front page of the wall street journal or CNN and consider “how is this going to affect my investment” rather than to follow conference calls and quarterly reports, and SEC filings.

Many educated people can identify the factors for worry. government policies, cnnmoney.com, relative strength of the euro, the toll of the war, rise of oil and energy, the economic boom of china and india.

What most people cant do is empirically determine the weight that should be accorded to those broad factors and make a subsequent evaluation on what to invest in. At the very least, I would argue they can’t do it well. There’s a reason for the success of passively managed index portfolios. SPDRS

I think the lesson to take away from all this isn’t to reject the american markets outright for the next few years…but rather to use a philosophy that has endured as wisdom in investing: Diversification (in domestic securities, foreign markets, real estate, precious metals, etc.) and Dollar Cost Averaging.

I think its only then that you, that an investor truly captures the aggregation of the data…..that he doesnt know what’s going to happen next in spite of what he knows.

Comment on by wrightdoyle

wrightdoyle — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:47:39 +0000

Yes, that’s what it says. The books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers are full of instructions to the Israelites about the various offerings they are to bring to their God. He is said to be pleased with these, and anthropomorphic terms are used, as in this passage, to describe his pleasure.

Elsewhere, however, the Bible tells us that God is a Spirit, and cannot be seen (John 4:24; 1:18), so almost all of those who believe the Bible to be God’s Word consider passages like this one to be figurative, pointing to a truth about God in a pictorial way.

Likewise, the death of Christ for our sins is called “an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma” (Ephesians 5:2). This cannot possible refer to any sort of “physical” sense of smell, but rather to the acceptance of the self-sacrifice of God the Son by God the Father.

Comment on Why I like “Pride and Prejudice” by Alan MacDonald

Alan MacDonald — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:19:09 +0000

Wright,
You don’t claim to be a movie critic but you write like one of the best of them! I enjoyed reading your “review” of P&P. It took me back a few years to the major commitment I made to watch all of Nicholas Nickleby!

Comment on by Tim

Tim — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:59:21 +0000

God is pleased by the smell of burning meat.
num 15:10

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