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by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 5:39 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Social Security ....The monthly Check...yes or no
Replies: 185
Views: 100196

Re: Social Security ....The monthly Check...yes or no

Demographic changes are coming for the plain people. They have been having smaller and smaller families along with the rest of society. This is going to matter in the coming years, as fewer young people will be working to support the number of retirees in their communities. It's a problem everywher...
by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 5:05 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Social Security ....The monthly Check...yes or no
Replies: 185
Views: 100196

Re: Social Security ....The monthly Check...yes or no

The difference of course between the privately-run program I described (by memory and probably getting facts wrong) and Social Security, is that it will probably be much better run than SS with an actual chance that the participants will get back all of their investment with a return. The total adm...
by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:55 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Social Security ....The monthly Check...yes or no
Replies: 185
Views: 100196

Re: Social Security ....The monthly Check...yes or no

The difference of course between the privately-run program I described (by memory and probably getting facts wrong) and Social Security, is that it will probably be much better run than SS with an actual chance that the participants will get back all of their investment with a return.
by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:53 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Social Security ....The monthly Check...yes or no
Replies: 185
Views: 100196

Re: Social Security ....The monthly Check...yes or no

Incidentally, it's a much better deal for most people to invest 15.3% of their income elsewhere and use that to retire... a typical Amish person invests in real estate which is one of the best performing investments there is. Financial planners and advisors recommend not relying on Social Security ...
by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:22 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: "The lean years"
Replies: 8
Views: 1410

Re: "The lean years"

Our lean years weren't as bad as some since my debt wasn't crushing, but the first years of marriage were tight. I was making around $18,000 a year teaching private school plus what I could make in the summer. Once I borrowed money from my dad for heating oil, and my wife and I worked after school a...
by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:06 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Appalachian Mennonite Church
Replies: 145
Views: 163952

Re: Appalachian Mennonite Church

joshuabgood wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:52 am What to say and what not to, in leadership, is one of the great wisdom questions.
Yes.
by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 10:09 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Appalachian Mennonite Church
Replies: 145
Views: 163952

Re: Appalachian Mennonite Church

I know this thread meandered a bit….such is life. I do wonder, does anyone KNOW, not a single person telling someone here their opinion, but really know on a more wide spread basis, has there been a groundswell of feeling in Eastern about unfair or troublesome ordination practices? I find, and unde...
by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:20 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Dispensationalism, John Darby, etc.
Replies: 201
Views: 79531

Re: Dispensationalism, John Darby, etc.

JohnHurt wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:42 pm Peter is warning all of us that the unlearned that don't know any better, and the unstable that do, will twist the writings of Paul to contradict the teachings of Christ. This seems like a description of your position - twisting the writings of Paul to cont...
by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 8:42 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Dispensationalism, John Darby, etc.
Replies: 201
Views: 79531

Re: Dispensationalism, John Darby, etc.

John, so your way of dealing with Peter's statement about Paul in 2 Peter is to throw the letter out as not having been written by Peter anyway, as you do with all writings you think contradict Christ. These are fundamental questions that I asked, and you did not answer. Thank you. I was correct the...
by mike
Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:28 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Dispensationalism, John Darby, etc.
Replies: 201
Views: 79531

Re: Dispensationalism, John Darby, etc.

Peter is warning all of us that the unlearned that don't know any better, and the unstable that do, will twist the writings of Paul to contradict the teachings of Christ. This seems like a description of your position - twisting the writings of Paul to contradict the teachings of Christ, and of the...