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Money=Root
    #23781311 - 10/28/16 09:21 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

So there is that saying.
Money is the root of all evil.
While this may be true, This also proves one other thing.
This, that "The root of all evil is progress."

Your Thoughts?
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Re: Money=Root [Re: littleton]
    #23781318 - 10/28/16 09:24 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Money is just energy. It's neither inherently good nor bad.

That's just like the saying Guns kill people. No, they fucking don't.


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Re: Money=Root [Re: littleton]
    #23781329 - 10/28/16 09:27 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I think it's supposed to be "the love of money" in the saying. IMO neither progress nor the love of money is the root of all evil. If anything, it would make more sense to consider human nature as the root of all evil.


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Re: Money=Root [Re: Shroomism]
    #23781333 - 10/28/16 09:28 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I should rather say "if" this is true, Than the root of all evil is progress."

(myself) I am curious about the Progress aspect. Because man does not progress than says to himself this, (its all fake, its wrong)

It is a very delusional idea.


Edited by littleton (10/28/16 09:30 PM)


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Re: Money=Root [Re: littleton]
    #23781377 - 10/28/16 09:47 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

My take on that saying is more the concept of money is the root of all evil. The idea of putting a value on everything leads to greed.

Everyone succumbs to it to varying degrees and many crimes are committed becouse of the mental shackles money puts on everyone.

Clearly it isn't inherently bad but I would argue that the mindset of turning everything into a commodity is evil for a few reasons.


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Re: Money=Root [Re: littleton] * 2
    #23781385 - 10/28/16 09:50 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Pussy is the root of all evil.


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Re: Money=Root [Re: littleton] * 1
    #23781412 - 10/28/16 10:00 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Money is a concept created by mankind in order to create an incentive
for work when we created agriculture and trade. It started
out as trading goods and services, then figuring out that some goods are
especially desirable, like precious metals, and using them as substitutes
for other goods and then eventually using these metals as a currency in
themselves. But in truth the only true value any of it has is value
allotted to it by us and for us. It has value because we give it value.

Now we don't even have the precious metal backing our currency, so it is
essentially an arbitrary piece of cotton based paper; as worthless
as the scraps of levi's they are made from. But it has value because
the govt. says it does.

Money is not inherently the root of all evil, but the purpose of money,
incentive for work, and our own folly perpetuated by human greed has
created a monster for sure. Now money is equal to food. If you don't
work, you don't eat. If you want to grow your own food, you better have
the land to do it. Hmmm I need to practice more urban foraging :strokebeard:


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Re: Money=Root [Re: natedawgnow]
    #23781428 - 10/28/16 10:07 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

is the idea that humans need money to motivate them a flawed one?

Everyone thinks we cannot live like star trek where money doesnt exist because then everyone would just be lazy and not do anything or want to achieve anything.

but i think they are forgetting about another motivator, which is status.

In a money-free society im sure status still counts. So the more abilities and skills you develop the more valued you will be in your society.


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Re: Money=Root [Re: Shroomism]
    #23781447 - 10/28/16 10:17 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Shroomism said:
Money is just energy. It's neither inherently good nor bad.

That's just like the saying Guns kill people. No, they fucking don't.




All matter is energy :cookiemonster:

Also I don't think "Guns kill people" is a saying,  "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" is a saying.

Money is power and influence over others, and I have never met someone who craves these things who doesn't have traits that could be considered evil.  Hail Satan :rockon:


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Re: Money=Root [Re: SleepyE]
    #23781449 - 10/28/16 10:17 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Greed causes people to do evil things. That's where the saying comes from. Economies for the last several thousand yrs have used some form of money for acquisition.

However, even in a barter system, people still kill and manipulate to aquire things. We are animals after all. The constant want for more is what drives the evil. A monetary based economy created the saying that money is the root of all evil. Had money never existed, the saying probably would have been "greed is the root of all evil". Humans are greedy. Even when we're financially comfortable, we still manipulate others to get more. It's mere human nature.


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Re: Money=Root [Re: thebug76]
    #23781478 - 10/28/16 10:29 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

The true root of all evil is hard to determine, because evil comes in many forms and from many sources

Some people become evil after going through intense heartbreak, loss or sorrow.. some people aren't really evil, they just act like they are for some personal reason, such as fear or manipulation

Then there's the people who just straight up just enjoy being evil, they're the worst/most dangerous of the bunch IMO because evil runs through their very blood, thus it cannot be removed except through execution

I for one know that I'm a good person, a bringer of light I would call myself, and I like to think most people are truly good deep in their heart.. but at the same time I believe that all people have evil in their hearts as well.. just like the Yin Yang, good cannot exist without evil, they are intertwined and define each other

But I also think that the evil side of most people's personalities lays dormant.. But for whatever reason, in some people it ends up taking over, and all the positivity in their personality turns into negativity.. it eventually warps their mind into something foul and unpleasant, or destroys it entirely

There is no happy ending for evil people.. in the end, light will always conquer darkness and karma will have its way with those who choose the path of depravity


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Re: Money=Root [Re: psi]
    #23781684 - 10/29/16 01:10 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

psi said:
If anything, it would make more sense to consider human nature as the root of all evil.





This. I would say human nature is the root of all evil, the root of all evil thats related to anything human anyway. Like, humans can't be the root of all universal evil, that's incredibly small thinking, and thinking money is the root of all universal evil is even smaller thinking. But I think what OP meant was in the context of humans.


I do agree that it's like thinking "guns kill people" ... no, they don't, there needs to be someone pulling the trigger. Guns don't just go around killing people, they can't lol

Overall, I think the saying just means that money causes a lot of evil things. People with fuck tons of money can do really fucked up things with it, and people who barely have any money will do fucked up things to get it. I'd say "money is a catalyst of evil" but that just doesn't roll off the tongue lol


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