Bill and Warren go Christ like

[Mikey]

Where does the line start?

[BSmack]

Comparing Buffet to Jesus is a little extreme. I mean he's going to have 5 or so billion left over when he's done. He's given away 80% of his personal fortune and at the end, he will still be richer than all but 20 or 30 people ON THIS PLANET.

[Mister Bushice]

A opposed to him keeping it all until he dies and then his relatives spend the rest of their lives fighting over who gets what, I think I'll just say " Rack warren" and leave it at that.

Course if he tossed a mil my way, I would be even rackier.

[Risa]

A opposed to him keeping it all until he dies and then his relatives spend the rest of their lives fighting over who gets what, I think I'll just say " Rack warren" and leave it at that.

Course if he tossed a mil my way, I would be even rackier.

Didn't look at it this way. That's true. What makes them different from other billionaires? The fact they announce this? How much of a hand they have in their own businesses? Their children? Their hookers? Drugs?

[Cicero]

RACK Warren.

[Van]

I don't exactly see where people who are as wealthy and as important to their shareholders as Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are could ever hope to quietly bow out without announcing both the method and the reasons pertaining to their withdrawal from their corporate positions...

They both head publicly traded companies. A lot of people will be affected by such a decision so they owe it to a lot of people to clearly announce the why's and wherefore's of what they're doing with these retirements and donations.

I think that given the particulars here Christ would likely understand, and I don't see any reason why he wouldn't also applaud their historically unprecedented benevolence.

What a gawdammn powerful and awesome feeling that must be though for a guy like Buffett, to be able to make the largest charitable donation in the history of mankind while still leaving yourself with $5,000,000,000 with which to scratch out your existence during your final few days on earth...

"It's good to be the king!", or so they say.

It's even better to be a private citizen who's richer than a king and beholden to no one. What a gesture. What a life.

[LTS TRN 2]

Buffet, Gates (and George Soros) are living in THIS world and seeking to help it. Jesus never had anything to bequeath, and left nothing but false hopes to his cult followers concerning some sort of pie in the sky afterlife--which, he also falsely predicted, would be coming in the very lifetimes of those same original cult members. Saul continued this bald and hollow assertion as the Christer Church cult got rolling (by incorporating the Goddess in the 6th century) and started seriously COLLECTING money, not giving it away. Thus, any comparison between modern philathropy and Jesus and his moronic followers is completely backwards. Gee, I wonder what kind of foundations the Walton family (christers to the nth) is has established....abstinance programs?

[Mister Bushice]

[Diego in Seattle]

Rack Warren for the donation......but bonus points for saying that the reason he was doing so was so that he "wouldn't have to write a letter starting Dear Anna Nicole Smith."

[War Wagon]

" Rack warren" and leave it at that.

Wha? :?

Did you get all growed up and stuff whilst I wasn't looking?

Probably not, but nice sentiment.

There may be hope for you yet...but don't get your hopes up too high.

[poptart]

Jesus never had anything to bequeath, and left nothing but false hopes to his cult followers concerning some sort of pie in the sky afterlife--which, he also falsely predicted, would be coming in the very lifetimes of those same original cult members.

link ... ?

[Mississippi Neck]

Buffet, Gates (and George Soros) are living in THIS world and seeking to help it. Jesus never had anything to bequeath, and left nothing but false hopes to his cult followers concerning some sort of pie in the sky afterlife--which, he also falsely predicted, would be coming in the very lifetimes of those same original cult members. Saul continued this bald and hollow assertion as the Christer Church cult got rolling (by incorporating the Goddess in the 6th century) and started seriously COLLECTING money, not giving it away. Thus, any comparison between modern philathropy and Jesus and his moronic followers is completely backwards. Gee, I wonder what kind of foundations the Walton family (christers to the nth) is has established....abstinance programs?

bitter bitch

[Nishlord]

Could be, history wise. Very major industrialists really giving to society. Prolly will be.

Well done Mr Buffett. Although with wealthy industrialists donating gargantuan sums of money to purge their guilt, an unworkable moral edifice, the last thrashings of organised religion as a power structure and disasterous attempts to hold the Empire in place, it seems that America is rapidly receding into the Victorian age. Jess will be going up chimneys next and selling his arse for thruppence ha'penny on the docks.

[BSmack]

Could be, history wise. Very major industrialists really giving to society. Prolly will be.

Well done Mr Buffett. Although with wealthy industrialists donating gargantuan sums of money to purge their guilt, an unworkable moral edifice, the last thrashings of organised religion as a power structure and disasterous attempts to hold the Empire in place, it seems that America is rapidly receding into the Victorian age. Jess will be going up chimneys next and selling his arse for thruppence ha'penny on the docks.

Buffet is no industrialist. He's a financier. Think J.P. Morgan, not Andrew Carnegie.

[Jack]

I should have been given a GLASS DICK for posting this thread....

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Carry On!!

[Nishlord]

Could be, history wise. Very major industrialists really giving to society. Prolly will be.

Well done Mr Buffett. Although with wealthy industrialists donating gargantuan sums of money to purge their guilt, an unworkable moral edifice, the last thrashings of organised religion as a power structure and disasterous attempts to hold the Empire in place, it seems that America is rapidly receding into the Victorian age. Jess will be going up chimneys next and selling his arse for thruppence ha'penny on the docks.

Buffet is no industrialist. He's a financier. Think J.P. Morgan, not Andrew Carnegie.

My, as you say, bad. In any case, China has all the industry these days. My analogy still stands. It won't be too long before people on this board have ankles in their avatars and won't be able to write posts of more than 80 characters, due to rickets.

[BSmack]

My, as you say, bad. In any case, China has all the industry these days.

As I recall, the beginning of the end of the British Empire was after the American Civil War when our industrial output finaly began to rival that of Europe. I suspect the Chinese are reaching that point, or have already done so.

My analogy still stands. It won't be too long before people on this board have ankles in their avatars and won't be able to write posts of more than 80 characters, due to rickets.

I must say, I'm not sure if you meant that literaly, or if ankles in the avitars is some kind of English slang that Ozzie Guillen would use to describe Jay Mariotti.

[PL]

nice of him to "give back" some of the money he's been fucking out of people over his lifetime. he has a debt that cant be paid back.