[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

The state and federal government taxes your estate, even though they already taxed it when you earned it.

Taxes, in general, are MERELY designed to provide revenue for various governments. "Fairness" isn't attempted because it would be impossible to please everyone. Too many people look for logic and "fairness" in the tax system. The system is created by lawmakers that are available and imperfect. Better to just accept taxes as part of modern life.

Estate taxes, the so-called death taxes, are not actually unfair as most would think - but actually in keeping with the VERY American ideal that each generation and each individual should be required to earn THEIR own wealth........not get their wealth HANDED to them on a platter from their parents. The basic HISTORIC principle is that without estate taxes the US would evolve FROM a Democracy into a KINGDOM, like the Old England that the Colonists ran (or sailed) away from. So, Estate or death taxes are basically a good thing that helps INNOVATION and helps the average man keep the KINGS away. There are and have been many schemes implemented by large estates to avoid paying estate taxes. These are all to the benefit of individual families, but to the detriment of American SOCIETY.

Therefore, after you die, if your estate has paid its FAIR share of estate taxes, you can float around in the clouds of heaven playing a harp and feeling GOOD that you left the world a better place.

[ex34449]

Having been dead and not at all religious... it was quite peaceful. Never saw any supreme being either good or bad. Just an indescribable peace and understanding of everything. It took me months to relive what I had experienced in as many seconds. Still haven't completed the job as I've started to forget many of the finer details of the trip.
If and when it happens again, I Do Not want to come back.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Taxes, in general, are MERELY designed to provide revenue for various governments. "Fairness" isn't attempted because it would be impossible to please everyone. Too many people look for logic and "fairness" in the tax system. The system is created by lawmakers that are available and imperfect. Better to just accept taxes as part of modern life.

Estate taxes, the so-called death taxes, are not actually unfair as most would think - but actually in keeping with the VERY American ideal that each generation and each individual should be required to earn THEIR own wealth........not get their wealth HANDED to them on a platter from their parents. The basic HISTORIC principle is that without estate taxes the US would evolve FROM a Democracy into a KINGDOM, like the Old England that the Colonists ran (or sailed) away from. So, Estate or death taxes are basically a good thing that helps INNOVATION and helps the average man keep the KINGS away. There are and have been many schemes implemented by large estates to avoid paying estate taxes. These are all to the benefit of individual families, but to the detriment of American SOCIETY.

Therefore, after you die, if your estate has paid its FAIR share of estate taxes, you can float around in the clouds of heaven playing a harp and feeling GOOD that you left the world a better place.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Taxes, in general, are MERELY designed to provide revenue for various governments. "Fairness" isn't attempted because it would be impossible to please everyone. Too many people look for logic and "fairness" in the tax system. The system is created by lawmakers that are available and imperfect. Better to just accept taxes as part of modern life.

Estate taxes, the so-called death taxes, are not actually unfair as most would think - but actually in keeping with the VERY American ideal that each generation and each individual should be required to earn THEIR own wealth........not get their wealth HANDED to them on a platter from their parents. The basic HISTORIC principle is that without estate taxes the US would evolve FROM a Democracy into a KINGDOM, like the Old England that the Colonists ran (or sailed) away from. So, Estate or death taxes are basically a good thing that helps INNOVATION and helps the average man keep the KINGS away. There are and have been many schemes implemented by large estates to avoid paying estate taxes. These are all to the benefit of individual families, but to the detriment of American SOCIETY.

Therefore, after you die, if your estate has paid its FAIR share of estate taxes, you can float around in the clouds of heaven playing a harp and feeling GOOD that you left the world a better place.

Bla bla bla

[jimbomaybe]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

Huh? "God is everywhere. Consciousness is everywhere". Ok! So when you talk to God you are actually just talking to yourself. Makes sense, sort of.

"The main godhead"?? "Aspects" (of God?) "have forgotten who they are" sounds like universal consciousness does not equal universal awareness. God has amnesia? Or dementia? No wonder the world is in such a state. This does not make sense to me. Sorry.

I guess the good news is that my cell phone is still working, somewhere

[Veiragirl]

Originally Posted by chrissy2231

Kind of like the question "What is Love?"

I believe when we pass, our energy goes to a loving, kind "space" where will see our loved ones who passed before us.
I was raised Catholic but do not practice it or any other "man made" religion. To me, they were mostly made for power and money. I definately do believe in a "God"...a higher spirit with no particular religion. I think Budda, Jesus, Allah etc. do represent God. To me the Higher Spirit is the combination of them all

[Babubhat]

Absolutely nothing

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by jimbomaybe

I guess the good news is that my cell phone is still working, somewhere

Oh my! I hope you have an unlimited plan.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Babubhat

Absolutely nothing

There is another thread for that. 😏

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by djlnc

What do you think happens when you die?


Heart stops beating, brain activity ceases.

Lights out. That's all folks!

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Kenswing

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out……

The worms crawl in and then you shake 'em all about...............La la la la la la la la la.
That's what it's all about.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Djean1981

I'm going home to the Lord.

Have a good time.

[chrissy2231]

Originally Posted by ex34449

Having been dead and not at all religious... it was quite peaceful. Never saw any supreme being either good or bad. Just an indescribable peace and understanding of everything. It took me months to relive what I had experienced in as many seconds. Still haven't completed the job as I've started to forget many of the finer details of the trip.
If and when it happens again, I Do Not want to come back.

The exact moment of death is peaceful. Just that moment, no matter what took you there. It's birth that's painful. Being pushed out of a warm, safe place into a brightly lit, noisy room, then being spanked is the pain!

[chrissy2231]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

You can't take it with you.

figure out a way to spend it all. And if you can't, be sure everything is in a trust or Uncle Sam will rob your inheritors.

[chrissy2231]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Yeah, hunters' lives matter!

On Venus the animals have the guns, and they mount human heads on their walls!