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Message:: [QUOTE="longnine009, post: 2292636, member: 1886"]Mikem2000 I did not say anything in that post that was tongue-in-cheek. What I said I believed, I do believe and for the reasons stated. The aesthetic  value I find in silver  is my value. I don't expect anyone else to believe as I do. It's much like art. I don't care how much of a genius someone thinks Jackson Pollock was, I wouldn't pay 29 cents for that crap-unless I could flip it without looking at it. I do agree with you that there is a big measure of belief or faith in stackers. Is that different from "This (pick a place any place) area is special that's why the values will keep going up." Is the faith stackers have so different from the faith you have in the stockmarket? The Dow was down 285 points when I last looked. You can say it will recover. You can say the Dow always recovers. You can prove it with stats too. But you will still be predicting the future and that is faith. What would the USD be without faith in our military, productive capacity, ability to innovate and our undying belief that the same fate Rome and England happened upon will be too scared of us and just go around. I can hear it now:  "'cuse me captains, mind if go around you here, please don't sic the unicorns of death on me .." It's hard to think of anything that doesn't involve faith/belief directly or indirectly.[/QUOTE]