Haifisch posted:

What does #addictionrecovery have to do with this?

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

computer angel posted:

It would be sick if Jesus materialized and started whipping banking CEOs to death.

Youth Decay posted:

Much like other cults, MLMs often market to people in vulnerable mental states i.e. sexual abuse survivors (Younique is especially gross about this) and recovering addicts.

Phanatic posted:

The Bible is BWM:


An IRA is unChristian. Those cousins know what's up.

Haifisch posted:

What does #addictionrecovery have to do with this?

quote:

I also posted this over in legaladvice, wanted to check with you all too in case you know something on the mortgage side.

Around a month ago, my spouse and I filled out an application to rent a home, and were told our credit would be pulled. We gave the realtor our information to run a credit check, which was then passed along to a woman associated with the realty who ran a credit check.

Today we received a bunch of paperwork in the mail from a lending company congratulating us on applying for a mortgage. We contacted the loan officer, who confirmed that a mortgage application was filled in our names but there was no property attached to the loan.

We then contacted the woman who ran the credit check, and she said that in order to pull our credit, she applied for a mortgage with this company. She said "don't worry, there's no property attached so it's not a REAL mortgage, and this is how all credit checks are run".

Sounded fishy to us, so we went and contacted the credit bureaus to freeze our credit. Transunion then told us that someone had logged into the Transunion website as us and checked our credit reports - this was done on the same day that the mortgage application was filled out.

So basically this woman applied for a mortgage to pull our credit, and then logged into Transunion pretending to be us and checked our credit.

Setting aside the obviously illegal Transunion identity theft piece, we have two questions:

1) Is this normal procedure/legal for someone to apply for a mortgage in order to check someone's credit? We obviously didn't authorize her to apply for a mortgage in our names.

2) If not, any advice on what we should do?

computer angel posted:

It would be sick if Jesus materialized and started whipping banking CEOs to death.

SlyFrog posted:

I had a (non-religious) friend in college who printed out slips of paper with the "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" quote on them.

He then went to church parking lots on Sunday and slipped them under the windshield wipers of the various BMWs, Mercedes, etc.

Chocolate Milk posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/7pcmei/realtor_had_someone_else_apply_for_a_mortgage_in/?st=JC968JW4&sh=10e75311

This is not bad with money for OP but realtor is definitely bad with money because this is not going to work out well for her.

22 Eargesplitten posted:

My grandparents also believe that the whole “As you have done for the least of these, you have done for me” thing is by country and not by person because it says God fathers all the nations of the Earth. Individual responsibility absolved.

They’re also Mennonites (pacifists) who believe that it’s our duty to support Israel in their war against Palestine.

22 Eargesplitten posted:

My grandparents also believe that the whole “As you have done for the least of these, you have done for me” thing is by country and not by person because it says God fathers all the nations of the Earth. Individual responsibility absolved.

John 12:1 posted:

Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. Then Mary took about a pinta of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.”

BarbarianElephant posted:

Clearly talking about individuals, unless countries can also be sick or in prison and need visiting.

Oddly enough, Judas's main beef with Jesus is that he was Bad With Money:

John 12:6 posted:

[. . .]It was worth a year’s wages.” He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

canyoneer posted:

Literally in bad faith

No Butt Stuff posted:

also the idea that the poor can't have nice things

BarbarianElephant posted:

Clearly talking about individuals, unless countries can also be sick or in prison and need visiting.

DarkHorse posted:

You have the parable of the rich man, who asked how he could follow Jesus, and was told to give up everything he owned and follow him (he didn’t); GWM

You have the parable of another rich man, whose dogs ate better than the beggars at his gate because they got the scraps from his table, but went to hell for it.

You have the story of Zacchaeus, a tax collector and therefore hated as a traitor to his fellow Jews for selling out to the Roman Empire*, but Jesus called him by name and he ended up giving half his wealth to the poor. BWM

There are quite a few more, but looks like following Jesus is bad with money

*(Fun note: as I understand it, Romans outsourced their tax collection in territories and Satrapies by having an auction to who could collect the most. These bidders then could keep any extra they were able to scrounge up, so there was an incentive to lie cheat and steal; explains the hatred, beyond just having the foreign entity taking your money)

DarkHorse posted:

*(Fun note: as I understand it, Romans outsourced their tax collection in territories and Satrapies by having an auction to who could collect the most. These bidders then could keep any extra they were able to scrounge up, so there was an incentive to lie cheat and steal; explains the hatred, beyond just having the foreign entity taking your money)

Dwight Eisenhower posted:

Well, and, apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Dwight Eisenhower posted:

Well, and, apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Moneyball posted:

Son is GWM

Hoodwinker posted:

You can't pull that out and leave out literally the next line:

howdoesishotweb posted:

I’m pretty sure this country was founded on selectively quoting and the Bible, then interpreting it entirely without any historical context.

Teeter posted:

Is this GWM? There's no such thing as a free horse.

If any of you in AZ want a horse (or 50 of them) here's your guy.

Vox Nihili posted:

I wonder how much slaughterhouses pay for horse meat anyway.

quote:

Doug Verstraete, manager of Beaver Hill Auctions, said the price of loose horses averaged 55 to 60 cents a pound, but some prices reached as high as 70 cents per lb.