We Don't Go By That

[epix]

By what?

By the Ten Commandments.

Well, those commandments are indigenous to Torah, so the folks who accept Judaism as a way of properly conducting their affairs should negate the title. I think they would be a bit more likely to stick with You shall not steal than the Christians. But that doesn't seem to be so. Meet the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke#Religion

As a teenager in the 1960s in the small town of Dillon, Bernanke used to help roll the Torah scrolls in his local synagogue. Although he keeps his beliefs private, his friend Mark Gertler, chairman of New York University's economics department, says they are "embedded in who he (Bernanke) is".[15] On the other hand, the Bernanke family was concerned that Ben would "lose his Jewish identity" if he went to Harvard. Fellow Dillon native Kenneth Manning, who would eventually become a professor of the history of sciences at MIT, assured the family "there are Jews in Boston". Once Bernanke was at Harvard for his freshman year, Manning took him to Brookline for Rosh Hashanah services.[16]

That's nice. So let's administer a little test of faith . . .

Forget Cyprus, Nobody Is Stealing from Depositors More than Bernanke

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...aling-depositors-more-bernanke-170851783.html

Oh my... Lol.

There is also a possibility that Bernanke has quietly converted to atheism, because he's flunking the Eighth Commandment big time.
Has he?

 

[Andy_Ross]

what?

 

[Sunstealer]

Send key-setting, over.

 

[Foster Zygote]

There is also a possibility that Bernanke has quietly converted to atheism, because he's flunking the Eighth Commandment big time.
Has he?

He offered the blood of sacrifice with leaven and left it out until morning? Well of course he's an atheist. That's what all atheists do. They sacrifice incorrectly to a god that they don't believe in, so that said god will visit his wrath upon the world. Isn't it obvious?

ETA diabolical laughter: Bwaaaah ha ha ha ha!

 

[joobz]

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

 

[Damien Evans]

Epix fail.

 

[Resume]

By what?

By the Ten Commandments.

Well, those commandments are indigenous to Torah, so the folks who accept Judaism as a way of properly conducting their affairs should negate the title. I think they would be a bit more likely to stick with You shall not steal than the Christians. But that doesn't seem to be so. Meet the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke#Religion



That's nice. So let's administer a little test of faith . . .


http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...aling-depositors-more-bernanke-170851783.html

Oh my... Lol.

There is also a possibility that Bernanke has quietly converted to atheism, because he's flunking the Eighth Commandment big time.
Has he?

You know there's a preview button, right?

 

[dafydd]

By what?

By the Ten Commandments.

Well, those commandments are indigenous to Torah, so the folks who accept Judaism as a way of properly conducting their affairs should negate the title. I think they would be a bit more likely to stick with You shall not steal than the Christians. But that doesn't seem to be so. Meet the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke#Religion



That's nice. So let's administer a little test of faith . . .


http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...aling-depositors-more-bernanke-170851783.html

Oh my... Lol.

There is also a possibility that Bernanke has quietly converted to atheism, because he's flunking the Eighth Commandment big time.
Has he?

What?

 

[Jon.]

By what?

By the Ten Commandments.

Well, those commandments are indigenous to Torah, so the folks who accept Judaism as a way of properly conducting their affairs should negate the title. I think they would be a bit more likely to stick with You shall not steal than the Christians. But that doesn't seem to be so. Meet the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke#Religion



That's nice. So let's administer a little test of faith . . .


http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...aling-depositors-more-bernanke-170851783.html

Oh my... Lol.

There is also a possibility that Bernanke has quietly converted to atheism, because he's flunking the Eighth Commandment big time.
Has he?

what?

Send key-setting, over.

What?

I think he's trying to determine what religion people are or are not (in this case, Ben Bernanke) by their actions. This is, of course, destined to fail (epixally?) for several reasons:

• Most religions prohibit many of the same actions. In fact, other than some esoteric rules (usually involving diet or penises) that seemed to be designed to distinguish one set of believers from the others, they pretty much all say the same things.
• Most believers do not, in fact, follow everything their religions tell them to do or not do.
• Epix believes everything in a headline to be literally true, and does not bother to read the story he links to (if he did, he would understand that "stealing" is used in a very broad, and non-biblical, sense in the story about Ben Bernanke).

Somehow, Epix thinks these conclusions he draws from excessively broad, and often completely incorrect, assumptions score him points against atheists.

 

[SanityGap]

By what?

By the Ten Commandments.

Well, those commandments are indigenous to Torah, so the folks who accept Judaism as a way of properly conducting their affairs should negate the title. I think they would be a bit more likely to stick with You shall not steal than the Christians. But that doesn't seem to be so. Meet the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke#Religion



That's nice. So let's administer a little test of faith . . .


http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...aling-depositors-more-bernanke-170851783.html

Oh my... Lol.

There is also a possibility that Bernanke has quietly converted to atheism, because he's flunking the Eighth Commandment big time.
Has he?

Of course, the earlier discussion of deviance is, apparently, determined by the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. We have already seen that a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort is not subject to the strong generative capacity of the theory. In the discussion of resumptive pronouns following (81), a descriptively adequate grammar is unspecified with respect to a parasitic gap construction. To characterize a linguistic level L, the natural general principle that will subsume this case can be defined in such a way as to impose a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. A consequence of the approach just outlined is that the systematic use of complex symbols is not quite equivalent to the traditional practice of grammarians.

That's cleared that up.

 

[dafydd]

Somehow, Epix thinks these conclusions he draws from excessively broad, and often completely incorrect, assumptions score him points against atheists.

Atheists always win because all gods are imaginary.

 

[Spindrift]

Epix fail.

Epix post.

Sorry for being redundant.

 

[Psi Baba]

Nice to know that I wasn't the only one who didn't understand the OP.

 

[theprestige]

The OP In a nutshell:

Resolved: Bernanke does not follow the 10 Commandments. (By implication), the 8th Commandment is "Thou Shalt Not Steal" [citation needed]. Maintaining interest rates near zero is the same as stealing. Stealing violates the 8th Commandment. Therefore, Bernanke does not follow the 10 Commandments. Q.E.D.

Presumably epix hopes here to leverage the kudos and self-satisfaction that comes from preaching to the Atheist choir about flawed or hypocritical theists.

 

[Jon.]

The OP In a nutshell:

Resolved: Bernanke does not follow the 10 Commandments. (By implication), the 8th Commandment is "Thou Shalt Not Steal" [citation needed]. Maintaining interest rates near zero is the same as stealing. Stealing violates the 8th Commandment. Therefore, Bernanke does not follow the 10 Commandments. Q.E.D.

One more step: Therefore, Bernanke is or may be an atheist.

 

[theprestige]

One more step: Therefore, Bernanke is or may be an atheist.

Good point. In any case, the entire argument hinges on a naively doctrinaire application of "thou shalt not steal".

"epix fail" indeed.

 

[JoeMorgue]

You know if we ever develop a method for communicating with a totally alien species, one that won't share our language, grammar, syntax, or most basic communcation rules or habits... we should test it out on an epix post to see if it works.

 

[epix]

Of course, the earlier discussion of deviance is, apparently, determined by the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. We have already seen that a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort is not subject to the strong generative capacity of the theory. In the discussion of resumptive pronouns following (81), a descriptively adequate grammar is unspecified with respect to a parasitic gap construction. To characterize a linguistic level L, the natural general principle that will subsume this case can be defined in such a way as to impose a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. A consequence of the approach just outlined is that the systematic use of complex symbols is not quite equivalent to the traditional practice of grammarians.

That's cleared that up.

Please allow me to serve a warm feeling to your heart: you are no the only one.
http://cheaperthandirt.com/blog/?p=14573

 

[epix]

• Epix believes everything in a headline to be literally true, and does not bother to read the story he links to (if he did, he would understand that "stealing" is used in a very broad, and non-biblical, sense in the story about Ben Bernanke).

But I took the insurance against bull..., I mean a bulleted opinion, such as yours.

There is also a possibility that Bernanke has quietly converted to atheism, because he's flunking the Eighth Commandment big time.

Non-biblical stealing means stealing the way the atheist do, no? They do it very broadly, in a manner deliberately not consistent with the one specified in the Scriptures.

See, Bernanke's job doesn't give him the incentive to steal a goat or some other domestic animal to be in compliance with the requirement implicitly given in the Scriptures. Time has changed. It's not my problem that you've failed to take a notice of that.

 

[Spindrift]

But I took the insurance against bull..., I mean a bulleted opinion, such as yours.

Non-biblical stealing means stealing the way the atheist do, no? They do it very broadly, in a manner deliberately not consistent with the one specified in the Scriptures.

See, Bernanke's job doesn't give him the incentive to steal a goat or some other domestic animal to be in compliance with the requirement implicitly given in the Scriptures. Time has changed. It's not my problem that you've failed to take a notice of that.