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Post your views on Money!
guys post what you think about money here!
here is a view which i think is very insightful, i didn't write it, its an extract from a post:
"This idea that money must make money is a falsehood and a perversion. Money is meant to increase the wealth, the prosperity and the productiveness of a group, a country or, better, of the whole world. Money is a means, a force, a power, and not an end in itself. And like all forces and all powers, it is by movement and circulation that it grows and increases its power, not by accumulation and stagnation.
Money is not meant to make money, money is meant to make the earth ready for the advent of the new creation. "
Original source:The Money-Force: Nature and Value
here is a view which i think is very insightful, i didn't write it, its an extract from a post:
"This idea that money must make money is a falsehood and a perversion. Money is meant to increase the wealth, the prosperity and the productiveness of a group, a country or, better, of the whole world. Money is a means, a force, a power, and not an end in itself. And like all forces and all powers, it is by movement and circulation that it grows and increases its power, not by accumulation and stagnation.
Money is not meant to make money, money is meant to make the earth ready for the advent of the new creation. "
Original source:The Money-Force: Nature and Value
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It can't buy happiness, but apparently, buys an excellent quality of misery.
You either have it or you don't.
I've been in both situations, and whilst I have tried hard to accept things as they are, when they are, it's easier to accept things as they are, when they are, when they're buoyant, rather than stagnant or sinking....
"Life is difficult" right now.
(understatement).
I'm metaphorically about three feet underwater, and my foot's caught in an old discarded net....
But I'm hanging in there, as philosophically as I can, until I reach the surface once again.
Sit and breathe.....:)
The whole point of money is so we don't have to barter for everything.
Bingo!
I think Eckhart Tolle has a great take on money in his book "A New Earth". A good read in any event.
Mtns
As long as I have enough to pay bills, feed and clothe my family - that is all that matters. If I have more, I will help those who need it.
Raven
Could you imagine a peaceful world where we all lived as one collective family?
You wouldn't barter with your father or sister, would you?
Realistically, money causes far more damage than benefit. The people are paid for the jobs they do is often very much out of balance with the type of work or effort they put in. This creates inequality among fellow humans and causes those with less money to be jealous (which often results in crime).
Perhaps this is the way that currency should be handled in modern society:
http://www.ithacahours.org/faq.php :cool:
Elusive for those that don't understand it.
Easy to obtain for those that understand its workings.
Think cashflow, not net worth.
Do investment and business owner, not employee and self employed.
RK - money guru.
Hehe - that's probably the most cryptic post I have ever produced...
I'm extremely stingy. I'm the cheapest person I know. I grew up with no disposable income of my own, and now that I have it thanks to good-paying job, I feel a compulsion NOT to spend it. And not to mention I was raised by an extremely financially self-restrained father. My friends find my cheapness quite comical.
much for money.
Money can't buy me love"
Haha. Very true. You can never quite have enough to feel secure, and no matter how much you say you hate it, you can't live without it.
It's kind of sad that humans are the only species that can't survive without some invisible currency scheme (yes, most of the money floating around is virtual, not solid currency).
Quite pathetic actually :buck:
Though, giving it to friends who need it for rent, that was cool.
I once tipped $15 for a $16 pizza. I wouldn't normally have tipped like that, but I felt like a dick for asking this guy to bring me a pizza in torrential rain, so I pulled out all the cash I had in my wallet at the time and handed it to him.