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12549 Surly 1%About SimonBolivar

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Both vacations (Mexico & Canada) are done for the year so it's back to saving season. Wife's teacher bonus is a nice $13K this year coming in a few weeks which will push her to over $80K after her stipends. She is looking for a career change, but that's not bad money for only her 5th year teaching in Texas and not in DFW, Houston, or Austin. She's going to max out the IRA for the year and stick the rest in our HYSA to keep us at around a year's worth there. One little thing that I've enjoyed doing outside of our retirement accounts is buying about $50/day of O just for income and slowly adding bills that are paid off of the monthly dividend. It would be better in the long run to stick it in an index fund, but I enjoy seeing the more immediate results while the retirement accounts cook.
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The only thing better would be to leave the arcade after a couple of hours to hit up the waterslide. Remember when towns would have that one big waterslide where you'd pay by the half hour, get a mat, and ride over and over again? Damn that was a blast. Looks like there's still one out in the middle of nowhere Missouri.
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PTSD is already on there and the websites claiming to get you your card make it seem like, without saying it, that pretty much anyone could qualify.
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"Longest serving televangelist" is a perfect view into his brain.
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Why does Jimmy Swaggart look like Will Farrell playing Jimmy Swaggart on SNL?
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I've been to their campus. I get it.
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I mean, I'd believe it.
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All of them that I've attended both public and private, including Baylor (hah), when looking at the history of religion in the United States. It's pretty undeniable that Mormonism was considered an outsider religion that was unacceptable to American society. Americans were not tolerant of other religions, like Catholicism, but not to the extent that Mormanism was to where its adherents were pushed further and further away from "polite society". It's also taught as a way to understand the Americanization of the figure of Jesus (like in Prothero's American Jesus) to where Americans remade Jesus to be more in their image and their ideals with it being an original American invention. Obviously with the expansion of religious pluralism in the United States it has become much more acceptable to non-Mormons to where nobody cares if you're Mormon in 2025. The cultural history and current makeup of Mormonism and its traditions are still based upon that outsider image and the struggles they faced for centuries here.
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If you study cults at the college level in the United States, then Mormonism is usually one of the main topics for the semester. Cult has a negative connotation, but it really just means a group of people that live outside of the norms of society especially religiously.
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Liberty can fix him!
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I really like oysters, but I'm not gonna sit in this thread and lie. You could give me a gulf coast and tell me it's a Blue Point and I wouldn't know the difference.
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Nobody is set up to win National Titles in the Stephen Miller Era like BYU. They're going to feast.
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
SimonBolivar replied to Mitch Cumsteen's topic in Basketball
One of Lopez, Capela or Kornet should be available to fill that back-up role and hopefully be enough to get over the playoff hump. Hell I wouldn't even be upset with a play-in appearance with the core being young and getting their feet wet. Sort of like the 2015 Astros. -
Why do you think God invented Staten Island? It wasn't because he thought it was cool.
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Our society, as it currently stands, can accept anything with the exception of boredom. Anything that isn't silly or fantastical in the political realm is boring.
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