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Go Browsing and find something that makes you want to get a soap box of your own.
I found:
What's Yours is Yours
What's Mine is Mine
The Second-Hander believes what's Yours and Mine are His.
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Go Browsing and find something that makes you want to get a soap box of your own.
I found:
What's Yours is Yours
What's Mine is Mine
The Second-Hander believes what's Yours and Mine are His.
In front of Al Gore's mansion also.
And the White House.
And Congress.
And the EPA.
(The above is a raw train of thought as fast as a light bulb flashed in old dino's mind).).
I "slept on" your argument that "moochers" should be used in place of "secondhanders" in quote which we have been discussing.
I agree. General principle share between the two aside, the quote with "secondhanders" could be confusing.
I am removing that quote from my site until I can change the word "secondhanders" to "moochers".
On a related note...when used the term "spiritual" I did not intend the common usage of "body of light" but the collections of intangible values governing individuals' characters and choices.
Thanks for pointing out this potential problem. Let me know if you spot any more.
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There are very few who kept their wealth in England or resided there full time. John Lennon, Ringo Starr come immediately to mind in the arena of instant wealth. One of the few that remained and presumably paid the confiscatory tax rates is Bryan May lead guitar of Queen who went on to become a Professor of Astrophysics and University Chancellor.
to "E.M.?" -- who is E. M.? -- j
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Yes, overpopulation as a threat is absurd, but this quote is intended for people who believe it. Many do. I wanted to exercise the my sentiment/ the fact that for human beings, "reason is always the answer. Period". So I gave what I consider to be a reasonable alternative to the widely believed agenda of some groups to reduce the earths population. I am not of a razor wit for Humour so writing a scathingly mocking quote was not an option.
Here is my response :
Spiritual second handers tend to rely on getting a sense of self esteem from
The perception others have of them. Through others'efforts of forming an opinion of them(preferably a good one) the spiritual secondhanders are deriving the benefit of self esteem through the mental labours of others.
Same principle as the inconsiderate woman or man eating food, sleeping indoors and drawing life through the efforts of a benefactor who is not repaid neither in money nor in assistance via chores of any kind.
For my quote, I took artistic license in devising a " material" secondhander" as one who achieves values by benefitting from the labours of others. My usage in the in the quote in question is accurate.
If you like, think of it like this, a moocher is after your physical goods , a secondhander is after unearned self-esteem/ spiritual goods, they are both refusing to interface with reality directly for some value they seek.
referring to a spiritual moocher and a material secondhander Is not inaccurate on these terms.
*side note
whether a person deceives others into thinking he/ she is great/deserving so he/she can fake self esteem in the light of admiration shinning out the eyes of their victims or whether the person simply is great or otherwise deserving of esteem but hasn't the courage to claim it and so depends on others to remind him/ her of his greatness ,personally I don't make a distinction. Both to me are of one kind "spiritual Secondhanders"
I am saying this because above, for some, may seem unclear.
Great find, Winterwind!!
to be so cynical, but I've lived in the world awhile
now.
A few decades ago I was in the market for a new car and our local City Fathers had started a campaign of "Buy Local", meaning, 'support our City's merchants.'
I informed them that I'd love to go along with that, but with the budget that I had available and the kind of automobile I had chosen to meet my needs, there was only one powertrain combination that was satisfactory to me.
One was sold by a Chevy dealer IN our town; the other sold by a Buick dealer but was a Japanese manufacturer.
I closely examined the specs on each car and compared features and the Japanese model was WAY ahead of the GM one in many, many areas.
So I bought the Japanese version and apologized (really 'informed') the City Fathers of the reasons for my decision.
On a next larger scale, the Buy Local 'logic' can or should be extended to either larger OR smaller circles.... if it's logical on a city level, is it just as smart on a county or state level?
If I want corn flakes and my State doesn't grow much corn and when Local Farmers Do, they use it for animal feed and it never reaches the cereal manufacturers, What Should I Do? Stop eating corn flakes?
And at the Country Level, I LOVE blueberries in my cottage cheese or yogurt breakfast bowl. But in the winter in NC, there Just Aren't Very Many Locally-Grown blueberries around in February.
On the other hand, the 'models' from Argentina and Chile are bigger, plumper and sweeter than the Locally-Grown are at ANY time of year... even the "locally-grown" California versions.
So some of my dollars ship off to Chile or Argentina to possibly better the lives of ME AND some unknown farmers down there.
And, as one of my financial gurus points out, if you draw the circle Large Enough, it encompasses the Entire World, and as money AND energy are 'conserved,' money moves ALL around the world and rarely keeps collecting in ANY one country, state, city or village.
Ah, hell... let's not get into another religious discussion again, ok, and that's what this will become. I apologize.
And I will continue to buy the best blueberries available at my local market any time of year.
And I SHOP locally because to drive all over hell and such looking for cheaper or 'local' blueberries costs me money I conclude does not return me any better results. :)
My future father-in-law was very surprised when I first arrived at his house, driving my Toyota Celica. He said he thought I was much more patriotic than that. I responded that I was much more free-market capitalist than that.
"How Could You Say That?!" was her attitude, and my reply was, "well, it's inexpensive and economical, easy to park... "... and I don't carry the same anti-German attitude she did. I was and am 'anti-Nazi and THEIR 'attitudes' and actions, but I could separate the two in my mind and emotions. I had trouble 'understanding' why she apparently couldn't.
Some (probably simplistic) videos on YouTube seemed to imply that fractional reserves held by banks should actually work pretty well for everyone involved (i.e., 'everyone'!).
Again, it seems as if the commercial and private Banks can create a workable system under fractional reserves, but when a National Bank gets involved, things get mucked up.
I'd love to understand this issue better. Got any links?
Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_G... certainly wasn't very complimentary and the next three seemed to focus so much on money==debt without seeming to admit that there were any other alternative ways to describe it, that I got the impression that the Mandrake Mechanism is likely its own kind of cult explanation.
My suspicion is that fiat money can (and does) work just fine in real life unless some external force mucks it up... like a Federal Reserve, a Fannie or Freddie or something like that.
Thanks for your explanation and I'll keep an eye open for more explanations.
The descendants of the Morgans and Rockefellers do not want us to understand the Federal Reserve. Trust me. Read his book.