Posted on 11/27/2001 4:25:49 PM PST by Orion78
Although not addressed to me, you're right - I didn't read it.
"Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickle, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know that are able to deserve it."
And I just skimmed this one too. More atheistic tripe from that genius without a soul, Ms. Rand.
To love money is to set it up as one's idol, and is not only sin - but is the epitome of selfish greed.
The author sets up a straw man that to love money is to love work - and to therefore create all kind of wonderful endeavors for mankind. This doesn't fit my experience of people who love money. They tend to find non-productive occupations that produce the maximum amount of revenue for least amount of constructive effort (ambulance chasers; serial sue-ers; etc).
Work is a gift from God. He made Adam a tiller of the garden, and work is the highest form of stewardship. Doing our daily work, whatever and wherever, at our best - is service to God as 'loving our neighbors as ourselves'. Using the gifts of God to their fullest is to acknowledge our gratitude to God.
I like Ms. Rand's politics - but I've never been able to get through more than a paragraph of her writings without getting sick to my stomach. Although claiming to be for freedom she leads her followers into chains:
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Lovers of money are nothing more than slaves of their god. (By the way, that god is named Mammon.)
She must be talking about Morgan and Carnegie (sp?), googooplexing the "nickle" part of course. The coal miners can still spit Morgan with soot in any language. Long live the unions; corrupt as they are, they're nothing but a balancing force.
This just stuck out to me, for some reason. Care to guess why?
TG
Geesh, are people so dumb or even stupid not to see through her godless and illogical rantings? Don't answer. It's obvious many don't.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that [the 'love' of] money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another - their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
Amazing? No. They just want to advertise and dazzle you with their terminal ignorance. You see, they are quite proud of it. It's the common ploy of the faith in oneself mentality.
Is it a wonder that the material, selfish and self absorbed LIBERALtarins love her and identify with her? They are just like her - dumb fools.
"Your participation on threads should be to discuss the issue at hand, the article topic and any discussion relating to that topic. Anything outside of that range can be cause for suspension."
Of course, if it doesn't, I'll get suspended meself for posting this. Catch 22.
Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickle, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know that are able to deserve it.
The ones who scream this the loudest are the ones who produce nothing...
They have no values to trade on the open market...
They must survive by usurping those values necessary to live through theft and fraud...
Who is their anger geared toward???
The value producer...
They use things such as the government who takes those values created by the producer at gunpoint and gives it to others who have not produced the values they recieved...
They use such things as guilt to make the producer feel guily and evil for his own "selfish desires" in increasing his own value to society...
And his guilt will of course disappear as soon as he gives of his earned values to those judged by others as worthy of receiving unearned wealth...
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