Where would you go after robbing a bank?

[wild_bill]

To the closet bar you can find of course!
http://helenair.com/articles/2009/03...90310_bank.txt

[I_Love_My_Vans]

I would go to my bank to deposit the takings...

[EntityX]

I wouldn't rob a bank in the first place. I think you should make money the old fashion way. Earn it.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Your point of view is medieval.

[KiwiDexter]

I wouldn't rob a bank in the first place. I think you should make money the old fashion way. By exploiting the natives.

Fixed for ya

[BillGeek]

I'm busy working on a plan where money will not serve me any purpose ever again!! :mwhahahahaha:


EDIT: But I'm not going to tell you.

[schoolbusdriver]

Same place as last time.

[arunb]

go home with the loot

[wossname]

VisualAd's house.

[Arrow_Raider]

I would go to jail.

fail.

[Merrion]

The naughty step

[NeedSomeAnswers]

I would retire with a nice pension pot of some £700,000 at the taxpayers expense.

Oh damn someone's already done that !!!

[homer13j]

I would go to jail.

Think about this...

At first, Cooper told investigators he only recalled leaving God's Love shelter to go to an alley to drink wine and didn't remember anything past then up until arriving at the Gold Bar, where he was later apprehended by police.

"God's Love shelter" sounds like a place for the homeless & destitute. I'll bet this guy decided Montana winters were too much, got drunk, robbed a bank and now will have a warm bed and three square meals for at least the next few years...

Perhaps this is BillGeek's plan as well?

[Shaggy Hiker]

"God's Love shelter" sounds like a place for the homeless & destitute. I'll bet this guy decided Montana winters were too much, got drunk, robbed a bank and now will have a warm bed and three square meals for at least the next few years...

Perhaps this is BillGeek's plan as well?

We can only hope...

[EntityX]

I'm busy working on a plan where money will not serve me any purpose ever again!! :mwhahahahaha:


EDIT: But I'm not going to tell you.

I like the idea. I've been working on such a plan myself. In Autobiography of a Yogi written by Paramahansa Yogananda he writes about Trailanga Swami who could live comfortably with nothing. If you can do that then you can live comfortably without money. As long as you desire food, shelter, clothing and other things you need money. It's not easy to live without food and air but there are souls that can do it but it's rare to find such a soul in a body on this planet. You have to be advanced spiritually to pull it off.

[wossname]

....

Then the Park Ranger showed up and ran himself over with his own Jeep.

[Siddharth Rout]

You reached chapter 17 in 12 mins

[wossname]

It's mostly pictures.

[EntityX]

Chapter 17 of Autobiography of a Yogi is entitled Sasi and the Three Sapphires. I don't seem to remember anything about a park ranger running himself over with his own jeep. Perhaps I'll have to read it again.

[BillGeek]

Perhaps this is BillGeek's plan as well?

Thanks for spoiling it.

[Siddharth Rout]

Ah!!!!

EntityX has fallen for it

Cat! You are devious!!!!! Meow....

[mendhak]

As long as you desire food, shelter, clothing and other things you need money. It's not easy to live without food and air but there are souls that can do it but it's rare to find such a soul in a body on this planet. You have to be advanced spiritually to pull it off.

I think I prefer living with food and air. Mainly the air bit. I find that almost all organisms on the planet require air or oxygen to survive. Call me a kook for it, but I read it in a book once.

[timeshifter]

I would retire with a nice pension pot of some £700,000 at the taxpayers expense.

Oh damn someone's already done that !!!

Try more like $7,000,000,000,000.....

[EntityX]

Ah!!!!

EntityX has fallen for it

Cat! You are devious!!!!! Meow....

Not really but I like to play along with his jokes.

I think I prefer living with food and air. Mainly the air bit. I find that almost all organisms on the planet require air or oxygen to survive. Call me a kook for it, but I read it in a book once.

I live with food and air too but the point I was trying to make is that it is possible to evolve to a state where they aren't necessary. You would never fear starvation or suffocation and there are other advantages too like not having to pay for food. Just keep on taking out your limitations one by one and some day you'll be a master. That's my theory. I believe that Christ and Krishna and all the masters were once like you and I but they kept working at perfecting themselves and then one day became perfect and free from all limitations. One day at a time.

Yogananda says it takes around 1,000,000 years of incarnating in a human body to attain Cosmic Consciousness. Let's say you averaged 70 years per incarnation. It would take you more than 14,000 incarnations to reach the goal. If you don't believe in reincarnation or immortality then what I'm saying is just a bunch of garbage and that's ok with me.

There are ways of accelerating your progress. Meditation is one of them.

[kleinma]

Considering if you rob a bank, most of the police force on duty is going to be over there trying to figure out what happened, I would say it would be a safe bet to go rob another bank after you rob the first one.. just keep doing that and you will always be one step ahead of the police

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedSomeAnswers
I would retire with a nice pension pot of some £700,000 at the taxpayers expense.

Oh damn someone's already done that !!!

Try more like $7,000,000,000,000..... ]

meant to say £700,000 a year !!! :0)

Now if that ain't robbing a bank i don't know what is !!!

[Undocked Windy]

I wouldn't rob a bank in the first place. I think you should make money the old fashion way. Earn it.

You sound guilty.

[wossname]

I see your point Mendhak, but consider this: every day we see TV and magazine advertisements for famine relief and homelessness charities and so forth, but when did you last see a charity trying to raise funds for those too poor to afford air?

Humanity callously neglects those without free access to air and other significant gasses.

[CVMichael]

I'm busy working on a plan where money will not serve me any purpose ever again!! :mwhahahahaha:


EDIT: But I'm not going to tell you.

I guess you saw this movie then: ZEITGEIST II ADDENDUM

[wossname]

I live with food and air too but the point I was trying to make is that it is possible to evolve to a state where they aren't necessary.

It's called "death". It is very popular, most people do it at least once.

Air is an arbitrary requirement for the vast majority of lifeforms on Earth, many can survive without it. Food however is a species-specifically defined substance. Food just means some form of external energy source (sugar, sunlight, lager, beef stroganoff etc...). Removing food from a life form would lead to the cessation of life shortly thereafter, in accordance with the laws of Thermodynamics.

[kregg]

It's called "death". It is very popular, most people do it at most once.

Corrected it for you.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

It's called "death". It is very popular, every living thing does it once.

Corrected your correction.

[kregg]

It's called "death". It is very popular^{[citation needed]}, every living thing does it once, and no more than once.

Corrected your correction of my correction

[EntityX]

It's called "death". It is very popular, most people do it at least once.

Air is an arbitrary requirement for the vast majority of lifeforms on Earth, many can survive without it. Food however is a species-specifically defined substance. Food just means some form of external energy source (sugar, sunlight, lager, beef stroganoff etc...). Removing food from a life form would lead to the cessation of life shortly thereafter, in accordance with the laws of Thermodynamics.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda writes about Giri Bala and Therese Neumann who both lived without food. It is a rarity but it is possible. Therese Neumann said while speaking to Yogananda, "One of the reasons I am here on earth today is to prove that man can live by God's invisible light, and not by food only."

In my opinion anyone who feels that they have to have food to live isn't a free being but someone that is bound and limited. Which means that almost everyone is bound and limited. There are souls that are truly free meaning that there isn't anything material that they have to have to live. To me that's true freedom.

Ramana Maharshi said, "A man can live happily only if he knows he requires nothing with which to live." It takes spiritual evolution to pull it off but I'm convinced it is possible. Take out your bad habits one at a time and then someday you can eliminate the bad habit of feeling that you have to have food and air and any other so called material necessity to live and if you succeed at all of that then you'll be truly free and not before. I'll say that I'm not there and have much work to do.

[mendhak]

I suppose I have unintentionally tried that quite a lot. When playing games, I convince myself that skipping a meal won't do me any harm as long as long as my mind is off food and on the game. Of course at some point, a day or two later, I become really weak, proving that "Iz doin it wrong". Plus there's the whole material aspect of gaming too.

I do often wish that I didn't need food to survive because it's such a waste of time away from coding and gaming and posting on VBF... but if you really, really think about it - if nobody needed food, then our race would cease to be. There would be no reason to work, no reason to go anywhere or even move (like Alabama, but larger). The things we do nowadays all center around the fact that we do need food and our actions are derivatives of that. It's in the R-Complex of the brain, I saw it there with a brainoscope. That is counter-intuitive to our purpose as a species but only if you believe in some form of evolution or intelligent design.

[EntityX]

These desires like for food, air, sex, possessions and other things keep the machinery of this world going but sometimes a soul wants to be free of it all and they can get free if they never give up but it takes quite a while to become comepletely free as I stated above. Literally thousands of human incarnations. A Christ, a Krishna or a Yogananda doesn't need food or any other material thing to live but if you're not there then you have to be practical but you can gradually move toward the state that they attained. Try to practice a little more self control with regard to food, sex and everything else and someday you can realize your complete freedom. Inner Joy that doens't need any external at all. Do you want your happiness to be forever dependent on externals. I don't. If people say I'm dreaming then I'll anwswer yes I am but I say I can realize the dream if I never give up.

There are homeless people that might feel like getting a good job is an impossibility but there are of course plenty of people that have good jobs. There are beings above us that have realized things that many of us would consider impossible. Christ said, "nothing is impossible to him who believes." The miracles that are written about in the bible I believed really happened and Christ said that we can do what he can also. It takes patience and determination and faith. There are problems in programming that you can solve that others can't and there are problems of other sorts that you may feel you can't solve but there are others that have solved those problems.