Money is the most important thing in life

Quote from: Space Cowgirl on December 25, 2012, 04:03:09 PM

Here Tom, a year hasn't even passed, the answers probably haven't changed much.

I forgot about this one. Perhaps a mod can combine them. In the new one I believe I make a convincing argument for why money is more important than the love between a man and a woman.

If money was not the most important thing in life then why do we spend more time working than with our own families? We spend half our lives in school preparing to go into the world and start a career, and then spend eight hours of our day in dedication of it, yet some people dare say money isn't the most important thing in our lives.

Money provides your food, your housing, your clothing, and your health. You are sitting in a room surrounded with material things bought with money. You can live without love, but you cannot live life without money. Money provides the necessities of life, and this is why it is the must be embraced, not shunned. People with more of it should be idolized, not demonized.

Enjoying friendships, eating good food, going to parties, having interesting hobbies, reading books, and relaxing are all pleasure activities. How could a pleasure activity possibly compare with the very thing which allows all of that to happen?

It might be argued that health is more important than money, but an independently wealthy person has more opportunity to exercise often, eat expensive healthy foods, and better afford medical care than a person working 60 hours a week at service jobs. Money triumphs.

It is often said that love is more important than money, but this is easily seen to be a farce. There is no such thing as unconditional love between a man and a woman. Without exception, the woman who marries you will expect you to support the household and any children you bring into the world. You are expected to work for the rest of your life and do whatever it takes to support your family with cold hard cash.

If a married man quits his job, sells the house and all of its possessions, sells his car, moves into his parent's basement, uninterested in looking for gainful employment in preference of playing video games all day, is it likely that his wife will stick around to love him in his video game squalor? Likely not. Surely if love were more important than money, in such a situation the wife would desire to be with him no matter the circumstance.

You are suggesting that the most important thing on a trip to Hawaii is the airplane, and completely ignoring the fact that Hawaii is the most important thing about a trip to Hawaii.

The most important thing about a trip to Hawaii is that you earned the money that got you there. You slaved away all year exchanging your labor and saved up for the opportunity to add a little pleasure to your life. It's the happy ending of a story of struggle. The story is the important part, not the ending.

Earning money is the most important thing in life because it can give you a trip to Hawaii, or it can give you a liver for your dying child. It should be everyone's personal goal to be independently wealthy. Rather of demonizing those with wealth, people of wealth should be your personal idols and heroes for being smart and cunning enough to attain the ultimate happy ending in this game of life.

I disagree.  I think that the earth is more important because without it we would not exist.

Quote from: OrbisNonSufficit on December 25, 2012, 10:35:05 PM

I disagree.  I think that the earth is more important because without it we would not exist.

The earth is nature. The earth, DNA, oxygen in the air, etc, are not the most important in one's life because everyone has it and there is nothing an individual can do to control it. It's just there. The rich and the poor live on the same earth, have relatively the same DNA, and breathe the same oxygen. The thing which separates them are the human choices they or their families have made.

The rich are the elite players who won at life through their smarts and intelligence. The losers at life have to work for a living, slaving away day after day for their master, exchanging time and labor for dollars, because that's all they know.

Are you going to be a winner, or are you going to be a loser?

http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0304spiritpsych/030412.Wattle.Getting.Rich.pdf

Money isn't the most important thing in our lives.

Earning money is the most important thing in life because it can give you a trip to Hawaii, or it can give you a liver for your dying child. It should be everyone's personal goal to be independently wealthy. Rather of demonizing those with wealth, people of wealth should be your personal idols and heroes.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

Quote from: jroa on January 16, 2013, 02:10:03 PM

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

A banana is an herb.

Checkmate.

Quote from: Thork on January 16, 2013, 02:12:59 PM

Quote from: jroa on January 16, 2013, 02:10:03 PM

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

A banana is an herb.

Checkmate.

Mint is also an herb, and it too goes well in a fruit salad.

Quote from: jroa on January 16, 2013, 02:10:03 PM

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

A banana is an herb.

Checkmate.

Quote from: Thork on January 16, 2013, 02:12:59 PM

Quote from: jroa on January 16, 2013, 02:10:03 PM

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

A banana is an herb.

Checkmate.

The banana plant is an herb that produces a fruit that we call the banana.  So a "banana" is not an herb, although does grow on a 40 foot tall herb.

Quote from: Thork on January 16, 2013, 02:12:59 PM

Quote from: jroa on January 16, 2013, 02:10:03 PM

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

A banana is an herb.

Checkmate.

The banana plant is an herb that produces a fruit that we call the banana.  So a "banana" is not an herb, although does grow on a 40 foot tall herb.

Read the last chapter, at least, several times; your comments do not apply at all to the work I quoted from.

Money = an increase in the telluric energy in one's life

This must be balanced by a corresponding increase of virtues - a very rich person MUST have virtues which are more intense and refined than those of an "ordinary" person in order not to lose sensibility (given the action of the telluric energies).

Virtues: purity, nobleness, gratitude, compassion, integrity.


Wealth is first obtained in one's mind and heart.


Read Wattles' book again, and you will discover what it means to be rich in a noncompetitive way.

Quote from: OrbisNonSufficit on January 16, 2013, 02:39:38 PM

Quote from: Thork on January 16, 2013, 02:12:59 PM

Quote from: jroa on January 16, 2013, 02:10:03 PM

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

A banana is an herb.

Checkmate.

The banana plant is an herb that produces a fruit that we call the banana.  So a "banana" is not an herb, although does grow on a 40 foot tall herb.

Why are you sucking all of the fun out of this forum?

Herbs are natural, and therefore good for you.