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Gold/Mining/Energy : At a bottom now for gold? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bo Bob Brain who wrote (1089)	2/24/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1911

With trouble in the Middle East waning, oil, already pressured by El Ni¤o's warming effects, continues its slide. Metals will no doubt languish a bit here. However, I foresee further Presidential problems and the possibility of neither Clinton or Gore finishing the year in office. That should stir up the waters a little bit. Question: If the SS trust fund (which will be insolvent in 15 years) is running a $100B surplus, and this surplus is put into bonds (i.e. the general fund) thus giving us a $10B net surplus for the year, isn't it silly to say that we need to use that surplus to "shore up Social Security"?

To: Bo Bob Brain who wrote (1089)	3/13/1998 2:08:00 AM
From: brian krause	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1911

Has gold started to build a foundation or do you think those working to undermine it are just taking a breath or two.

To: Bo Bob Brain who wrote (1089)	6/15/1999 10:49:00 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1911

Sure wish you were still around like a couple of years ago at this time when we posted here. I wrote a play based on Job for a church retreat in Western Guatemala back in '91 and rewrote it last spring. I'm posting it here. Job: A Modern Paraphrase in one act. By Alan L. Gust (8/91) Scene 1 A coal mine somewhere in the Southern Appalachiens Youngest son: Dad, here are the core specimens you wanted. Good luck! Well I better get back down to shaft 12 and pick up my gear. I'm ready to head out for some cake and icecream. Job: When you have God, you don't need luck son! Thanks for helping out on your day off. (exit youngest son) Job: (to himself) I hope this vein of ore pans out. I'm missing my oldest son's birthday party to prepare for assay these mine samples. (miner enters, running) Coal Miner I: Mr. Job! Mr. Job! Some guy just jumped into your new Bronco and spun out like a bat out of hell--it's stolen. Job: Stolen? Good grief, I'm not even insured for theft. Coal Miner II: Hey Job, you have a call on the field phone! Job: Hello. Voice: Mr. Job, this is John Messenger from the Uz County Health Dept. Our recent turberculosis check on your shorthorns tested positive--the entire herd will have to be destroyed. Job: Destroyed? But... Messenger: Sorry Mr. Job--state law. (squad car pulls up) Deputy: I'm deputy Joshua Servant, Uz County Sheriff1s Patrol. Is there a Mr. Upwright Job here? Job: That'd be me--you're just the guy I want to see... Deputy: You don1t know why I'm here. About two hours ago a twister cut a swath along highway 7, just south of the county line. Job: That1s where my eldest son lives! Deputy: Im sorry Mr. Job. a number of your relatives may have been killed--I1'm to take you to the Uz County Coroner1s office to make positive ID's. (ground rumbles, whistle blows, miner comes running) Coal Miner I: Mr. Job! There's been a cave in at shaft 12. Mr. Job--my God, nobody made it. Your son--young Donny--is gone. Job: I came into this world with nothing. I guess I'll 1.21-22 leave it with nothing. The Lord gave to me (paraphrase) generously, and the Lord has saw fit . to take it away. Bless the Lord. Scene II Some months later...1000 ft. below the earth... Coal Miner I: Where's Job? Coal Miner II: Down in shaft 12--spends a lot of time down there since his black lung diagnosis. Coal Miner I: Can't be doing his breathing any good sitting down there. Coal Miner II: Taking the death of his sons hard--who wouldn't be? Coal Miner I: Hmm, must really be suffering, all that's come down on him. Coal Miner II: Yeah, and he refuses pain killers--let's get Ely and Billy and at least go set with Upwright for awhile. Scene III Job stares at his friends--shaft 12 Ely: What are you doing down here in the dark, Job? Job: What good is light to someone who's in misery? 3.20-22 For that matter, what good is life to someone (paraphrase) who would dig for death with more zeal than for a pipe of diamonds, but it just won't . come--for someone who would rejoice if they . could only find a hole to bury themselves in? ELY: Take your punishment like a man, Job. You've Job 5.17-18 never been one to question God before. His ways (paraphrase) sometimes hurt, but he gives comfort too. He . allows sickness and injury, but he also is the . source of healing. Job: Do I have the strength of granite? Is my skin 6.11-12 iron ore? What strength do I have left (paraphrase) that I should still bother to hope? . With all I've lost, what prospects do I have that . I should be patient about anything? . Billy: I admit patience before God won't bring back your Job 8.20-21 sons, Job, but I still don't believe God rejects (paraphrase) the righteous and God fearing, nor is He is . complacent about the evils we suffer. I believe God will one day put laughter in your . mouth again. Coal Miner II: If we could only understand the wisdom of God, our trials wouldn1t seem so severe. But that's what faith is all about . (reading of Job Chapter 28) Job: I don't understand God's wisdom anymore. Why 24.1, 10, 21, 12, 25 does He let the bad continue? (paraphrase) Why are there faithful who go . without food and clothing, while the evil fee on women and children? . From out of the city the dying groan and the . wounded from the depth of their soul cries for . help, and God seems to just ignore their . prayers. If any of this is not so, then . show me a to be a liar and that there is . . . nothing to what I say. Otherwise leave me alone. Coal Miner I: Mr. Job, I don1t think anyone has ever answered your question to anyone1s satisfaction. But I've always been under the impression that the ones God puts through the hardest trials are the ones He has the highest opinion of. If this were not so, why would it be written "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints"? Or, "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all"? And who are we to question how the Creator of everything decides to go about his delivering? (Psalm 116.15; Psalm 34.1) Or why would a loud voice from God's throne shout to us at the end of all these struggles here on earth, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away." (Rev. 21.3-4) Job: You're right. Who has the wisdom to really revere their (9.32-33) Creator? Who knows enough to avoid sin? Who can talk to . God with a right heart and receive an answer with his . . ears? God is not a man as I am that I might speak to him . directly, or meet him face to face. And who can ever fill . that separation and reconcile us--who will lay his hand on . us both? Coal Miner II: Christ, the Messiah.