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ROOT OF ALL EVIL what is it??????

Posted on 07/23/2003 10:09:15 AM PDT by GrandMoM

For years people have said Money is the Root of all Evil, would that still hold true today?

....Is it that one thing or a combined number of things that makes this world so evil???????


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To: GrandMoM
Money is not the root of all evil. It is a form of exchange that is the product of mans ingenuity and ability to create something that is of value to others. The real evil is the thought that money is the root of all evil. This thought leads to the confiscation of money from the most productive of our citizens, and giving it to those who did not earn it. Money is only evil if you did not earn it, instead mooched it from a productive person.

The love of money is also the love of productiveness and using to the full extent one's creative abilities, one's mind and one's body. If you beleive that the love of productivity, resulting in earning more money, is the root of all evil, then I have to ask how else can you measure your own productiveness in our society?

The real evil is the theft from the productive to give to the unproductive, therefore removing all motivation to be creative and realize the potential of the human mind.
21 posted on 07/23/2003 11:53:00 AM PDT by CSM (To be anti smoking is to be anti life! Ayn Rand, provided to me by Beckett)
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The real evil is the theft from the productive to give to the unproductive, therefore removing all motivation to be creative and realize the potential of the human mind.....I saw much of that when I lived in a low income complex when I first divorced.

The only motivation I saw there was picking up a easy roll paper a rolling a joint or rolling a dollar to snort some coke then walking to the mail box for their welfare check

Oh yeah, I forgot, they did go to 7/11 for diapers and Pepsi!

22 posted on 07/23/2003 12:14:26 PM PDT by GrandMoM ("Vengeance is Mine , I will repay," says the Lord.)
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To: GrandMoM
"Oh yeah, I forgot, they did go to 7/11 for diapers and Pepsi!"

Using the food stamps provided by the productive individuals such as yourself. Glad to see the reference was in the past and you are no longer in that environment.
23 posted on 07/23/2003 12:51:27 PM PDT by CSM (To be anti smoking is to be anti life! Ayn Rand, provided to me by Beckett)
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To: GrandMoM
The root of all evil is people who not only think they know how others should live, but are prepared to make it mandatory.
24 posted on 07/23/2003 3:36:41 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: GrandMoM
For years people have said Money is the Root of all Evil, would that still hold true today?

Actually, I think power is a "root of all evil" as well. Course, it takes money to have power today. You won't have any otherwise. LOL

Is that U, MG?

25 posted on 07/24/2003 12:08:23 AM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
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It takes a lot of money to root out evil. Maybe the obsession about money is worse than the love of money.
26 posted on 07/24/2003 4:49:06 AM PDT by Consort
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