I can save you $10,000+ (553 hits)
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Submitted by Rockstar (View user info) at 2005-04-19 16:16:03 EDT
Blink.
Now imagine you are blind based only on that blink.
Think of a time when you have been asleep and not dreamed.
Now imagine being dead, using that sleep like the blink.
I am for the record an atheist, but it doesn't matter what you believe, the point is the same, don't buy life insurance. When you are dead and gone, you may leave people destitute or fucked completely, but it won't matter. Imagine your favourite t-shirt. You love this t-shirt more than anything in the world, you cherish it, and everyday you want it by your side. It does not love you; it is the same as a corpse in a grave.
I really hate this line of thought but I'm going to follow it. To save you money.
I'm not being selfish, at all. To be selfish you must have what the others want. But I had it right? I'm being selfish because I have used what I had before somebody needed it?
Imagine I stood before a child who wanted candy and ate a huge lollipop in front of her. I'd be selfish. Imagine I ate a huge lollipop and in six years time the child wanted the lollipop, would I be selfish?
Wait that's not right. It's not right because it would be selfish, because I would know the child wanted it in six years and I had access to a storage device that would keep the lollipop fresh.
Imagine I had a huge lollipop and I ate it because in six years time I couldn't eat and would never be able to taste or remember taste or remember THE LOLLIPOP or the child or the six years or what it felt like to run my hand through the child's hair on her head or anything at all. But I should give the child the lollipop because it would be unfair not to? No.
Death you see is unfair, and it is unfair to the living but it is infinitely worse to the dead because they are nothing and all that is left is the unfairness to the living, there is no I to be unfair, to be selfish.
I love seeing life insurance in action. It's great, it does wonderful things. I love seeing people get the pay off. But you'll never see your own in action. It won't happen.
Don't buy life insurance.
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Submitted by Deidra (user info) at 2005-06-17 17:55:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Interesting.. but i love my family, so i'm keeping my insurance.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-06-17 17:52:07 EDT (#)
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Good point. I'm still keeping my life insurance though.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-06-17 17:37:54 EDT (#)
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Rational selfishness rocks. All human virtue is owed to the workings of the self.
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2005-04-20 01:42:49 EDT (#)
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Everything you ever wanted to know about blank_mind
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Well, you can kiss that good-bye.
Submitted by lordofthedance (user info) at 2005-04-19 21:42:39 EDT (#)
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I died.
I had life insurance.
I came back to life.
I am now rich.
The lawyers who drafted my policy failed to put a special "In the event you are Jesus or a buddhist and you are reincarnated you must repay all proceeds from your life insurance policy."
Suckers.
Don't listen to this guy. Instead. Get life insurance. Kill yourself. Come back to life. It's foolproof.
Submitted by Umbilical_Cord (user info) at 2005-04-19 21:27:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
see you point, makes sense
Submitted by sword (user info) at 2005-04-19 18:56:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
it is sad that this post, where you obviously tried, is rated worse then this post http://www.ubersite.com/m/64586 where the author obviously tried to get minus 2
Submitted by MoonStone (user info) at 2005-04-19 18:43:15 EDT (#)
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That's weird. It's like something out of that twilighty show about
that zone.
-- Homer Simpson
Treehouse of Horror VI
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-04-19 18:21:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
*plays world's smallest violin*
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2005-04-19 18:11:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
whoops..
DetriTus
Still a -2
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2005-04-19 18:09:17 EDT (#)
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ooooh goodie! A place to use my Word of the Day.
Detrius
There - that felt good!
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-04-19 17:59:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Well this sure reaks of shit.
Submitted by blank_mind (user info) at 2005-04-19 17:26:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Ejryuu
you missed the point, entirely.
When you die will you care about the people you left behind?
I'm not saying you wont love them when you're alive but not once you're dead
Its just that simple, so don't buy life insurance. Life insurance is something you never have to buy for yourself. Just trying to save you alot of money.
Submitted by ChristPuncher (user info) at 2005-04-19 17:07:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
life insurance saved my ass and made me the Beeb I am today
take your theories and go to hell
Submitted by Ejryuu (user info) at 2005-04-19 17:05:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Life insurance isn't directly for the person buying it, but rather for their loved ones in case shit happens. I'm sorry that you've had this epiphany just recently. I'm young enough to where I don't have any loved ones (ha!) so I'm not worried about it just yet. And your post had the word "imagine" in it way too much with not enough good comparisons. Take out a policy quickly as people will be out for your blood with such a shitty post.
Submitted by blank_mind (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:49:38 EDT (#)
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but the point is you'll have nice cutlery and maybe china plates
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:47:23 EDT (#)
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WE WILL FEAST ON YOUR SOUL
Submitted by blank_mind (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:45:10 EDT (#)
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Look on this way, now you never have to.
Submitted by PoTtY (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:43:36 EDT (#)
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I can't afford life insurance.
Submitted by freebie (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:38:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
What bob said.
Submitted by blank_mind (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:27:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I don't get it, if i gave you 10 grand im sure id get a +2.. you people dont like money?
Submitted by Yes (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:25:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
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Submitted by blank_mind (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:24:59 EDT (#)
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why the minus two bob? I just saved you like 10 grand
Submitted by Josephine (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:24:28 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:20:20 (#)
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Huh?
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-04-19 16:20:20 EDT (#)
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Huh?