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Re: The Root of all Evil [Re: Veritas]
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I only hate money because of the problems I have that are associated with it. Which means if I had enough money that there were no financial problems, I probably would no longer hate it the way I do.

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Re: The Root of all Evil [Re: adrug]
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To hate or oppose anything sets one up for resistance.


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Re: The Root of all Evil [Re: adrug]
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Sounds like what you are hating is the restriction of limited resources. :shrug:  The money is just a token, a representation of energy and power.  There is no reason to hate or love it, but many reasons to learn about our habitual ways of using it.

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Re: The Root of all Evil [Re: Veritas]
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Good point about needs. A need doesn't exist until a goal is defined. If the goal is to survive, you don;t need much. If the goal is to own an island, the need is a bit greater. And who is anyone to judge what another thinks is necessary, so long as a person's pursuit of a need does not infringe on the liberty of another.

This is the whole problem with collectivism and the Marxist maxim: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

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Re: The Root of all Evil [Re: Viveka]
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That maxim is fine if "need" means survival needs.  When we go beyond that, into needs which exceed mere survival, it is every human for themself.  :wink:

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Re: The Root of all Evil [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Heh, yes. Money is a tool and in such a neutral thingy (if it's properly 'rooted').
BUT, it works as an amplifyer for good and evil.
So it aids as a notificator and a benefitor for good and evil at the same time. In real, and for us to learn.
It just is an accelerator.
And a very fast one.


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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Acceptance is the absolute key - at that moment you gain freedom and you gain power and you gain courage'

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Re: The Root of all Evil [Re: BlueCoyote]
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Yes but hating money is like hating technology.
Just because people are unable to use it properly and do some major fuck up, it doesn't mean that we have to stop using it.
It only means that we have to become more aware and learn to use in a responsible way. :shrug:


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All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
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Re: The Root of all Evil [Re: MushroomTrip]
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That's exactly right :cool:


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Though lovers be lost love shall not  And death shall have no dominion
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'Acceptance is the absolute key - at that moment you gain freedom and you gain power and you gain courage'

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