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Generalley Cool
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Registered: 08-2003
Location: -NO, YOU prove im NOT diana!
Posts: 483
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Re: Money the root of all evil, or something more sinister than money?
money aint evil on its own, its people WITH the money that make it evil. you cant live without money nowadays, litterally, we BUY our nurishment, we BUY our warmth, we BUY our habitate, we BUY our fun.
you can get by without money, but youl only have the clothes you can make, the food you can make and the toys you make. if you steal you get thrown in the slammer.
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2/Nov/04, 1:29
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Firlefanz
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Registered: 05-2003
Location: Germany
Posts: 560
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Re: Money the root of all evil, or something more sinister than money?
Joe, I do agree with you. Money has been around for much longer than the current problems in our society.
I believe that it's a mistake to use money for measuring happiness, or even success. I believe that inner strength, decency, honestness and plain goodness cannot be measured in money and will not be expressed through owning luxuries.
Plainly, we have come to use a wrong indicator for happiness and success in our lives. I for one believe that quality of live can be attained without being stinking rich.
--- - Firlefanz
Reading: Anthology Stories
Rewriting: "The Cloth-Merchant's Daughter", 2nd Lar Elien book
My board - Schreiberlinge unter sich
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2/Nov/04, 10:20
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Firlefanz
Senior Member
Registered: 05-2003
Location: Germany
Posts: 560
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Re: Money the root of all evil, or something more sinister than money?
C Brenice, I readily agree that having enough money so one doesn't need to worry about being warm, fed and clothed as well as buying books does attribute to happiness.
But to be so rich as not to know what to do with the money, that's nice, but most often more of a headache than anything else.
--- - Firlefanz
Reading: Anthology Stories
Rewriting: "The Cloth-Merchant's Daughter", 2nd Lar Elien book
My board - Schreiberlinge unter sich
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2/Nov/04, 13:02
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Ahlyssah
Senior Member
Registered: 07-2004
Location: Lost in a dream of mirrors
Posts: 830
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Re: Money the root of all evil, or something more sinister than money?
Ah, but bartering does present a problem: how does one determine the worth of their product (i.e., cookie boquets or sliced pineapple) in exchange for services and keep it consistent for all barters? A chiropracter who loves toasted almonds may be willing to crack those tendons for a small handful, but your pyschologist may be apatheic to nuts, and therefore demand more for his services than just a few hundred almonds. What do you do then? Plus, if you sell books at the country, and most of your customers are produce farmers, what the heck are you going to do with all the bushels of corn and tomatoes and squash you are paid in return for your items? See, bartering won't work on the expansive scale we have nowadays. Life is just too complicated. If their were less people, and a great deal more toleration, it might work out, but I think that once you put your hand in a barrel of money, the cash will stick to your fingers.
--- There are things which Man can not understand. For everything else, there's a lie.
Let's see if we can't get to the truth of the matter, hmm?
'Lyssa was here . . . and she'll be back
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11/Nov/04, 15:56
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Loud G
Senior Member
Registered: 01-2005
Location: Maryland, USA
Posts: 273
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Re: Money the root of all evil, or something more sinister than money?
well, true greed is bad....but greed is a form of pride.
when you get right down to it, everything that we can do bad is a form of pride (putting ourselves above others).
stealing (duh, me take from you)
killing (you not worth living, me better)
cheating (me need be best no matter what)
Greed (me want more)
Lying (you not important, I tell you what I want to)
just an observation. most people don't think of it that deep, but when you get right down to it, all crime boils down to pride.
On another note, money can be quite useful when used:
a. in moderation
b. for a good purpose
c. not accumulated for the sake of accumulation
We could not feed the homeless if we had no money. We couldn't do much at all in today's society. So, money is not inherently bad, just as TV is not inherently bad, or shotguns are not inherently bad, etc. It all boils down to HOW we use it :)
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19/Mar/05, 7:18
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