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[Crazyhole]

Why does your kind and loving god give a Children Cancer? Or have famines and plagues? Or allow kids to be the innocent victims of gang related violence?

Seems like a swell guy!

There's a lot of directions we could go with this.

What makes him a loving God isn't because life is wonderful all of the time. What makes him a loving God is his forgiveness to begin with. Beyond that, and more importantly, is that our existence isn't limited to just the 70 or 80 years we have on earth. I'd disagree with the sentiment that God "gives" a child cancer, but even if he did the offer of eternal existence (aka, forever) far outweighs the short term suffering. Id take that trade-off every day of the week. The alternative is that a kid gets cancer just via random happenstance and thats the end of their existence. I choose to believe in hope.

 

[Crazyhole]

1) I didn't say evil doesn't exist.

2) Christian faith (to you apparently) is all about everybody believing what you do.

This type of fundamentalist "it's me or the highway" viewpoint explains why more lives have been lost in the name of religion than any other reason.

Again with the strawman argument.

 

[goodknightfl]

This. Plus add in the ridiculous increase in tuition, housing and automobile cost. Nearly all of the high paying jobs will require more than a 4 year degree which means 6 figures in student loans and they are competitive so there is depression of those wages. That 4 year UCF degree will cost nearly $70K and unless it is in engineering won't recoup that money anytime soon. The trades are mostly for men but become very difficult to do for 47 years (18yo-65yo). The real money is in owning a business and getting others to work for you but private equity acquired/destroy profitable small businesses in order to make more money for their investors.

You don't need private equity investors to start small business, just an Idea a few bucks and the willingness to take a leap of faith. I owned 3 different very small businesses while still working a full time job. And have been totally self employed since 1988. Other than a few bank loans for vehicles or equipment, and open account for materials, I never had any outside $$. The bank loans were even private personal loans and not even business.

The # one thing needed to start and run small business is faith in self, #2 is perseverance.

 

[firm_bizzle]

You don't need private equity investors to start small business, just an Idea a few bucks and the willingness to take a leap of faith. I owned 3 different very small businesses while still working a full time job. And have been totally self employed since 1988. Other than a few bank loans for vehicles or equipment, and open account for materials, I never had any outside $$. The bank loans were even private personal loans and not even business.

The # one thing needed to start and run small business is faith in self, #2 is perseverance.

No, you don't need PE money to start a small business. However, if you are successful and you have good margins, PE will either try to buy you out or compete with you using resources that you can't match.