MT drags Angra Mainyu to room edge.
"Statesmanship demands that the United States stand aside in watchful waiting, armed to the teeth, while these men exhaust themselves. Then the most powerful and potent nation in the world can talk to mankind with a voice that will be heard. If we get involved in this struggle we, too, will be exhausted and feeble."
-Herbert Hoover, June 29, 1941
We all know they're effectively the same entity.
Which is why they don't have to say that.
They can simply say they're not going to make Disney's bonds whole. And then charge them with racketeering and fifty years of income tax evasion.
Because that's what it was. Disney has money. Disney wants something built. RCID issues muni bonds to build thing for Disney. Disney buys all the bonds. RCID taxes Disney. Disney deducts these taxes from their corporate income taxes. RCID pays for thing to be built. RCID pays its bond holders. Disney's income from this bond is not taxable because it's a muni.
It's a tax shelter. Not a big one, but it does effectively allow them to sneak money past their liability in the two bolded steps.
RCID had responsibility over less than 40 square miles of land and yet had over a billion dollars in bond liabilities. BECAUSE IT WAS IN DISNEY'S INTEREST to maximize the amount of money RCID owed it.
The state can't just go "you owe $1b now" to Disney.
Who do you think RCID's biggest bondholder is?
While you roll that around in your head, I'll tell ya what the state CAN say:
"Fuck you, we're not paying you shit."
Now do you have a guess at who RCID owes money to?
It's really not a hard question when you realize that muni bonds aren't taxable, and taxes to RCID are deductible. Now who might want a road-building tax shelter?
The ultimate goal of every person is “evolve” like super God, to know their origins and their position in the Universe.
No it's not.
My ultimate goal is to die of a heart attack while motorboating. Preferably on a boat.
That is how the world works isn't it.
But in all seriousness, we ditched scripture, iconography, and clergy because forms are restrictive. Every being has a connection to god, we perceive it when we experience pain from knowledge. It's what differentiates us from organisms. We WERE and remain organisms, but something else besides which they are not. In that way, we are both flawed and deviant from god's design (relative to other organisms), but simultaneously more alike to and connected to god.
While it might be blithe to shrug off original sin as a happy little accident, that's kinda what it was.
Because two shuttles exploded and that apollo fire was pretty gruesome too.
"The most important part of rocket travel is the blast off. I always take a blast before I take off. OTHERWISE I WOULDN'T GET IN THAT THING!" -60's joke popularized by Bill Dana and Alan Shepard