Originally posted by winston
*something deeply philosophical and existentialist that jivebojingles will reply astutely while lira scratches his head and thinks, is this really diggerz or not?*
But I know you're Diggerz!
I mean, even if you turn out to be an impostor, pretending to be Diggerz while Enrique himself is somewhere lost in the South Sammich Islands, you're so Diggerish that for all practical purposes, you are already Diggerz, you see?
bas
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Originally posted by Cloudburst
aka the Star Trek universe :o
/nerd
Exactly :o
Frenchie
lolo1 I was thinking C.R.E.A.M when reading this too.
Aortik
Money is just an idea - a notion we have thought into existence as a medium to regulate our trade of goods, essential or and otherwise. If it is a route to evil, it is undoubtedley so out of human caprice, not dissimilar at all to the notion of "evil" in the first place. If money is evil, it is because man has corrupted it.
But "evil" does not exist. Just like money, it is wrapped up in the trade of ideas, a fabrication used to assign value or caution to something society has based its transmission upon. "Evil" is in ideas. It is in beliefs; it exists in that little slice of paradise we all would like to attain on Earth - impossible though it may very well be - "Evil" is the extremes of what we do to attain this.
Simultaneously, it is what "they" do - you know, evildoers. It has always been what "they" have done, and to attain our paradise, to achieve heaven, it is important to be ever-vigilant in the pursuit of stamping out "their" ways. Were their ways to ever be known however, individuals might find themselves at the mercy of compassion, understanding - things quite antagonistic towards maintaining any effective war of ideals.
What we know in a universal sense as evil is, more often in our modern, more civilised terms - merely the culmination of violent behaviour or thought. Violence has become the new standard by which evil is to be judged, crude as it may very well be, "peace" is our collective heaven, freedom from distress, from effort, in a western sense, and that base option which underlies our every action and thought.
Money did not create all of this, beliefs did. People exact violence upon one another for many reasons, chief among these in a political sense being the galvanization of ideals and the people who uphold them through polarization and unity, horrifying though its manifestation is, the notions of justice and honour, and the subsequent demonzation of avarice, as evident by the addages everyone seems to espouse: Down with money, down with greed! Down with the things which litter the road of excess, for I may trip upon them while following the things in life which make me happy!
Silky Johnson
Do you ever get on your own nerves, Hal?
Aortik
Nowhere near as often as you do.
Silky Johnson
Just makin' sure!
pkcRAISTLIN
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Originally posted by Slylee
got into an interesting "what if" conversation (yes we were stoned:p) with the boyfriend the other night about how the world would be if money were just taken out of the equation.
i mean really it's the root of all evil. things that we need for basic survival cost money like healthcare and food, etc... isn't that ed?
this entire world is based on nothing but money and greed. every single little last thing in this world revolves around it.
anyway just wanted to share that. our convo got a little deeper than that though...like how we could all survive on trade and how or bodies were made to be able to survive off the earth but yet look at all this artificial we all put into our bodies, which is probably the cause of all the diseases in this world and mental illnesses. pregnant women should only eat nutritious things and if they all did that, everyone would be healthier, bla bla bla
/rant
:stongue:
selfishness and greed are the reasons why we in the west can live such a nice life by historical standards. you know, adam smith's invisible hand etc.
pkcRAISTLIN
also, you might note that it is the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil. not money itself ;)
Frenchie
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
also, you might note that it is the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil. not money itself ;)
As much as it pains me to say it. You got Kyrptownd.
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Originally posted by Krypton
Actually, money is nuetral. The love of money is root of all evil.
pkcRAISTLIN
oh well, that's what you get when you only read the OP! i suck at the internets.
