Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother Charles was both celebrated and demonized for transforming American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, died Friday at 79.
The cause of death was not disclosed, but Koch Industries said Koch, who lived in New York City, had contended for years with various illnesses, including prostate cancer.
https://www.twincities.com/2019/08/23/ap-source-billionaire-david-koch-has-died-at-age-79/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/david-koch-dead.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-koch-died-conservative-donor-and-philanthropist-dead-age-79-2019-08-23/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/23/david-koch-dies-billionaire-leader-koch-industries-79/2094016001/
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 24 2019, @12:31AM (7 children)
Please spare me all the "legacy" bullshit, and I'll just pass here.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @12:51AM (6 children)
Sucks to be you, doesn't it?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @09:58AM (5 children)
Sucks more to be him. Pascal's wager: live your life righteously, and miss out on the Epstein action// or be evil and have to face justice in the afterlife. If there is a god, David is fucked, and not just royally fucked, but divinely fucked with unimaginable punishment for eternity, involving oil pipelines and paper cuts. The Horror, the Horror!
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday August 24 2019, @12:53PM (2 children)
Or live your life righteously and still face judgment for all those people you had a chance to proselytize but failed to. Some Christian denominations cite Ezekiel 33:1-9 [biblehub.com] for what will happen to people who refuse to warn others about what is to come.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:23PM (1 child)
I would question why this all-powerful god is unable to pass on his own damn message.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 25 2019, @05:31PM
Because if you do the research you'll find out he's just one of the ancient-Near-Eastern pantheon, that Judaism has been essentially reworked Zoroastrianism since the Exile, and that if this Yahweh character actually exists, by definition he *can't* be God since he doesn't posses the properties a being *must* possess in order to *be* God.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Saturday August 24 2019, @02:22PM (1 child)
Pascal's wager assumes God is good. I see no evidence of that. If he existed, I would love to point out all the hypocrisy he's engaged in over the ages, as well as actions that are as bad as anything any human being has ever done.
Love isn't conditional, but it's that way with Christianity - love Jeebus or go to hell. I treat my dogs with more respect than that.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 25 2019, @07:00AM
A jew, a holocaust survivor who managed to live to be an old man, dies and goes to heaven.
He meets God, and tells God a joke about something that happened while he was in a concentration camp.
God replies, "That's not funny."
The Jewish man says, "I guess you had to be there."