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Look at the flip side. Space mining kicks in and gold is found in abundant quantity across the solar system - the price of gold will tank. Keeping ifs and buts aside, having a marketable investment >>>> hiding something under your pillow.

Gold is intrinsically worthless. It has any value you place on it and it makes no difference whether it's in electronic form or in hard form - except for the fact that the previous is marketable and helps accelerate growth.

This would simply be a matter of the temples hiring proper advisers or setting up trusts to manage their investments in marketable forms. Gold locked up results in a gain for no one.

A lot of this gold is locked up and is not recirculated into the economy. From an economic perspective, making these marketable will push in billions of dollars into the economy accelerating growth. The temples will not be worse off since it's just gold for cash. It's a win-win.

People getting trolled by Fox News :disagree:

I call for an official premptive ban on consuming Brontosaurus meat. :enjoy:

China has done well to incorporate capitalism in its style of functioning - and promoting based on merit very efficiently. Social mobility is usually a by-product of freedom to exploit opportunity. Well done China! India has a lot to learn from China/Singapore/USA in establishing a meritocratic...

The only things Christian education has taught us is men were magically created by an all powerful supernatural entity in a garden and that earth is 6000 years old - and you don't need medicine to cure stuff because there's always faith. I can do without that - thank you.

It all depends on the perspective. IMHO, a super-power status is achieved not just by military might or economic infrastructure but by the ability to integrate several cultures, attract strong talent pool worldwide through their education system and high end work opportunity. In other words, it...

Alien life will, in the positive side, unite humans and hopefully put an end to all religion. The negative flip of that would be some of these religious people trying to spread their version of the word of god to these aliens too. What do you base that on?

It won't be long till nut cases like this Lakhvi get bored of India and make a u-turn to a location where they've garnered massive support. Fully respect the judicial system of Pakistan but it's also important for us to keep a bit of a pressure from our end to ensure attention on the issue is...

This. You can blame India/RAW/Mukti Bahini/USA/Crab People/Neptunians as much as you'd like but the primary trigger remains a simple differential treatment in your own country. Sri Lanka had a similar issue that resulted in nearly 50 years of civil war. India was close to a similar fate several...

Shobaa De is the icon of free speech in India now...:hitwall:

I protest against this thread on the grounds that its making me extremely hungry :partay:

LOL, nice. What do you do there? Talking of LOTR, they must do better in the next Hobbit movie. The previous one ended with the dragon putting mokka for 30minutes towards the end. Totally messed up.

Coming back of course - here on a company rotation for a couple of years. What about you?

@Maravan Unga signature oda order romba pidichurukku :D - athu enakkum poruthama erukkum

The biggest advantage of the Dharmic religions is its flexibility and openness to adaptation. Hinduism has undergone several revisions over the last 4000 years which has kicked out dogmatic practices but kept elements that were good. To be clinging on to past cultural values and backing them up...

Most of this has no scientific basis and borders beyond pseudo-science. Sorry. I'd say 19 are quite dubious - except Surya Namaskar. To be portraying this as a work of science is just wrong. Well, as I said - a lot of these have no scientific explanations. These are trivial aspects of Hinduism...

I'd love to be among your shameless mob who congratulate those who hurl insults at you. How do I apply? That is unfortunately your family problem. I have no intention of commenting on that. Unfortunate that your childhood "repressed" memories are coming back to haunt you :lol: Genius at...