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counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.
This pales in comparison, but it's the best I've got.

My mom wasn't supposed to be able to have kids, so I was unexpected. During the pregnancy, my dad, who by all accounts was not very religious at the time (He had kids from two previous marriages and one ...acquaintance) began to receive 'visions' and by the time I was born, he was fully convinced that if I wasn't the second coming of Jesus, I was at least like a Moses or Joseph Smith level preordained holy religious figure (They were Mormon), and that's the only reason I was conceived, which was supposed to be impossible. They started going back to church, and he was super-super religious for the rest of his life. He only told me this when I was like 18, in a desperate attempt to talk me out of sleeping with my girlfriend, it didn't work :smuggo: Supposedly, he never told me before because I had stopped going to church some years previous, and I can't know about that stuff while living a sinful life or something to that effect. I wanted to know more, but he said I couldn't know more unless I started going to church again. I didn't, and he never would go into anymore detail. He's passed away since, so I guess I'll never know about my missed opportunity to be nu-Jesus or start my own cult or something. It sounds absurd now, but at the time I was considering what sort of prophesied religious role I could fill, and was briefly very concerned that I might be the anti-Christ.

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counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.

METATERREN posted:

On the one side of my family

We lost millions in the great depression (millions in 85 years ago money) -- a bunch of farms owned on debt, leveraged up from the equity of a lifetime of hard farm work coming from the backwoods of a remote countryside (they lived in a wooden shack in a place with a population density of maybe five people per square mile)

We lost millions in 1987's black monday -- investing on margin without hedges. Nearly all of the money earned by a farm boy through entrepreneurial hard work in business after serving in the U.S. military

We lost a few millions in the early 90's -- trusting a business associate to an exceeding degree

On the other side, 1st generation immigrants from an outside country arriving in the USA in abject poverty (the family couldn't eat sometimes). Lost every net worth earned through a lifetime of entrepreneur-style hardwork in the 2007 recession and have dozens of millions of debt baring down with zero assets against it.

Also we're so pitiably poor that the familial elders can't pay for the most recent generation's college tuition and living expenses.

My goal is to get it all back in today's money.. and then some!

The dynasty will be established. The dynasty will thrive!

P.S. educate your farm boys and immigrants in money logic and history

So your family has millions before the 1930s, lost it all, earned millions again just in time to lose it in 1987, earned a few millions quickly enough to lose it in the 1990s, and finally earned millions some more only lose it again in 2007?

loving meritocracy at work? Your family is dumb as poo poo.

Also, bullshit

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