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To all Flame Throwers $ or Time

Posted by Avid Reader on Wed May 31 06:34:53 2023

The Magic Bank Account

Imagine that you had won the Following *PRIZE* in a contest:

Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400

In your private account for your use.

However, this prize has Rules:

The set of Rules:



1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you.



2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account.



3. You may only spend It.



4. Each morning upon awakening,

The bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that Day.



5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time, it can say, Game Over!" It can close the account

And you will not receive a new one.



What would you personally Do?



You would buy anything and Everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right?



You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right?



ACTUALLY, This GAME is REAL

...

Shocked ???

YES!



Each of us is already a winner Of this *PRIZE*.

We just can't seem to see it.



The PRIZE is *TIME*



1. Each morning we awaken to Receive 86,400 seconds

As a gift of Life.



2. And when we go to sleep at Night, any remaining time

is Not credited to us.



3. What we haven't used up that Day is forever lost.



4. Yesterday is forever Gone.



5. Each morning the account is Refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time WITHOUT WARNING...



SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds?



Those seconds are worth so much More than the same amount in dollars. Think about it and remember to Enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than You think.



So take care of yourself, be Happy, love deeply and enjoy life!



Here's wishing you a wonderful And beautiful day.

Start spending....



"DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLD…!"



SOME PEOPLE DON'T GET THE PRIVILEGE!

Avid



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Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time

Posted by William A. Padron on Wed May 31 09:50:57 2023, in response to To all Flame Throwers $ or Time, posted by Avid Reader on Wed May 31 06:34:53 2023.

Wise, insightful, clever and savvy post indeed!

Thanks for posting and sharing this here

P.S. And I am making full use of my own retirement by being more active and busy, while enjoying all the while, than I ever was when I was working. And so it goes...

-William A. Padron
["That's All Folks!"]


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Re: To all Flame Throwers—$ or Time?

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Aug 5 14:04:13 2026, in response to To all Flame Throwers $ or Time, posted by Avid Reader on Wed May 31 06:34:53 2023.

We don't get a dollar for every second we're alive.

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Re: To all Flame Throwers—$ or Time?

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Aug 5 14:04:13 2026, in response to To all Flame Throwers $ or Time, posted by Avid Reader on Wed May 31 06:34:53 2023.

We don't get a dollar for every second we're alive.

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Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 5 14:54:20 2026, in response to To all Flame Throwers $ or Time, posted by Avid Reader on Wed May 31 06:34:53 2023.

I know this wasn’t your point, but I would obviously put it all instantly into an index fund. That counts as “spending.”

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Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time

Posted by AlM on Wed Aug 5 18:11:11 2026, in response to Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 5 14:54:20 2026.

That counts as “spending.”

Not under the rules OP was proposing.



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Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time

Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Aug 6 18:14:16 2026, in response to Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time, posted by AlM on Wed Aug 5 18:11:11 2026.

I don’t agree. It’s not a transfer, I’m buying something.

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Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time

Posted by AlM on Thu Aug 6 19:41:47 2026, in response to Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Aug 6 18:14:16 2026.

Well, OP was posing an absurd hypothesis. Doesn't that give him the rights to make the associated definitions as he wishes? :)



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Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time

Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Aug 7 13:46:52 2026, in response to Re: To all Flame Throwers $ or Time, posted by AlM on Thu Aug 6 19:41:47 2026.

Yeah, but I used the exact definitions/rules!

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