I would obviously pay 100 million in tithing. Then I would move next door to Camilla Belle.
How about you?
If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do?
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_Everybody Wang Chung
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If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do?
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_just me
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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do
After my recovery from shock I would do the following:
*Buy a house
*Finish college
*College funds for my 3 children
*Buy 2 new vehicles
*Pay off my folks home
*College funds for all my nieces and nephews
*Travel
*Invest
*Either start a charity or find one I want to support
Then spend the rest of my life giving and living a full and joyful life.
*Buy a house
*Finish college
*College funds for my 3 children
*Buy 2 new vehicles
*Pay off my folks home
*College funds for all my nieces and nephews
*Travel
*Invest
*Either start a charity or find one I want to support
Then spend the rest of my life giving and living a full and joyful life.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden
~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
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_Blixa
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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do
Much like just me...
*Quit my job and move
*Buy a house and property in Utah (big enough for several friends to live with me/stay with me)
*College funds for nieces and nephews (or in case of those finished, a similar amount of $ to help them in their chosen field)
*New vehicle (something for off road driving as well as around town)
*Decent camera equipment and darkroom for film work
*Donate to mostly educational charities and universities
*Travel
*Invest
*WRITE! WRITE! WRITE*
*Quit my job and move
*Buy a house and property in Utah (big enough for several friends to live with me/stay with me)
*College funds for nieces and nephews (or in case of those finished, a similar amount of $ to help them in their chosen field)
*New vehicle (something for off road driving as well as around town)
*Decent camera equipment and darkroom for film work
*Donate to mostly educational charities and universities
*Travel
*Invest
*WRITE! WRITE! WRITE*
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
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_son of Ishmael
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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do
Not pay tithing with it.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. - The Dude
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk - Tom Waits
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. - The Dude
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk - Tom Waits
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_Fence Sitter
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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do
Try and figure out how not to screw up my life and my families lives with it. That much money would bring a lot of unhappiness.
I'd settle for a couple million in unmarked bills.
I'd settle for a couple million in unmarked bills.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
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_madeleine
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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do
Sleep in.
Buy a beach house in Lanikai.
Buy a boat to go with the beach house.
Build an art studio in Lanikai.
Move to Lanikai.
Keep enough to live and for my daughter to inherit.
Establish a charity/trust to give the rest away.
Buy a beach house in Lanikai.
Buy a boat to go with the beach house.
Build an art studio in Lanikai.
Move to Lanikai.
Keep enough to live and for my daughter to inherit.
Establish a charity/trust to give the rest away.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
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_Morley
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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do
Honestly? I'd support a lot more charity. To the outside world my life wouldn't look any different. On reflection, I guess my life is pretty good.
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_Quasimodo
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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do
I'd fix up my old Jeep, pay off my bills and have a nice dinner with what was left over.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
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_Sophocles
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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do
I would spend some time cultivating the mindset that management of that asset is now my full-time job.
And then I would go to work.
And then I would go to work.
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_Morley
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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do
Just re-thought this. With a billion dollars, I'd resurrect a childhood ambition that I've only recently given up.
I'd buy a sailboat and sail around the world, touching the coast of every continent, breaching the water of every sea. I'd meet eager maidens, brown and fair; fight viscous enemies, great and small. In the end, sunburned and dying of thirst, my boat would capsize and I'd be consumed by the giant, grey octopus that lives off the footprint atoll of Diego Garcia.
I'd buy a sailboat and sail around the world, touching the coast of every continent, breaching the water of every sea. I'd meet eager maidens, brown and fair; fight viscous enemies, great and small. In the end, sunburned and dying of thirst, my boat would capsize and I'd be consumed by the giant, grey octopus that lives off the footprint atoll of Diego Garcia.