Money, is it the root of all evil?

[Carl East]

I don't really enjoy political threads, yet I see this turning into one. But I firmly believe that money is the root of all evil, mainly because everything we do in life depends upon it so much.

Opinions? If any.

Carl

 

[Evil Alpaca]

I don't really enjoy political threads, yet I see this turning into one. But I firmly believe that money is the root of all evil, mainly because everything we do in life depends upon it so much.

Opinions? If any.

Carl

Money is NOT the root of all evil. Money grows ON trees, entirely seperate from the root system.

Hah! Take that, political threads!

 

[Guest]

The love of money is the root of all evil. That's the rub and think that makes a lot of difference.

Sadly (or not?) we all need money to survive and get by. I can't see us ever going back to a bartering system.

Lou

 

[Guest]

I think the seduction of power is the root of most evil, and of course the need for money is tied to that. For me, the opposite of power is love.

Perdita

 

[cantdog]

I love that one, Pear.

 

[Guest]

I love that one, Pear.

It's what Wagner's "Ring" is all about. P.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Yes, but only the cube root.

Desire for power and control have been eking it out of the square root spot.

But I have hope it will get back to the square root spot with a few more privatization bills.

I look out for my evils

 

[rgraham666]

Money is simply a tool. Useful for certain things, but no more.

The problem with money can be summed up in the old aphorism, "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

Money is used to value some things. But it is also used to value things that it shouldn't be used to value, like our personal views of ourselves.

At that point it stops being useful.

As far as evil goes, the root of that is in ourselves. We can't blame money for what we decide to do.

 

[cantdog]

It's what Wagner's "Ring" is all about. P.

Well, and he took hours, didn't he, love? You did it in a few words.

Perdita one, Wagner zero.

 

[Couture]

I love money. In God we trust. Not me. In money - I trust. In fact I'd love to have a millions of them. I'd kiss them and hug them, and rub that green stuff all over me. Jefferson is sexy, but Franklin is even hotter. I'd love to be in a bed, naked and covered with thousands of bills.

If this makes me evil, I'm okay with it.

 

[R. Richard]

IMNTHO, the root of at least most evil is not money, but incompetence. In order to gain what they think they want, incompetents will do almost anything.

As a child, I had NO money. I had to shoplift and commit other crimes, just to get food to eat.

Later, when I had deternmined that earning money was probably better than stealing it, I was faced with an enormous problem. The people who were in charge of the schools wanted nothing to do with anything that might realistically produce income. I had to battle to learn anything that did not involve memorizing useless crap.

When I finally got out into the world, I found that the incompetents had arrived first. It was tough until I got a little bit of working capital. Then, it got easy. I would find an incompetent who had achieved great position and either bet against the incompetent or just take the money from the incompetent.

Once I got a sufficient amount of money, I became Mister Richard, instead of 'Hey Boy!' I am now able to run my own operations and I prey on the incompetent. Turnabout is fair play!

 

[TheEarl]

Assume that women need time and money. Thus:

Women = Time x Money

Everybody knows that time is money, therefore:

Women = Money x Money = Money ^2

Money is known as the root of all evil:

Women = (sqrt(All Evil))^2

Therefore:

Women = All Evil

Simple Maths.

The Earl

Yes I know it doesn't hold up in several ways. Don't be pedantic

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Well, and he took hours, didn't he, love? You did it in a few words.
Perdita one, Wagner zero.

Cantdog,

It is not about the speed of the journey, but about the grace of the dance.

 

[fifty5]

It is not about the speed of the journey, but about the grace of the dance.

Sure, but didn't 'Dita do it with grace?

 

[fifty5]

The love of money is the root of all evil. That's the rub and think that makes a lot of difference.

Sadly (or not?) we all need money to survive and get by. I can't see us ever going back to a bartering system.

Lou

Thanks for saving me from having to say that, Lou. Money as a means is something that (barter, as you say being almost extinct) is difficult to escape, no matter how virtuous one may be.

Money as an end in its own right is right along there with power as an end in its own right - both corrupt.

Eff

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I think evil is a primary cause, doesn't have a root.

 

[cantdog]

I like that one.

I don't think so, myself, but I do like it.

 

[Guest]

A cosmologist from Oxford used to say, "I don't believe in God, but I do believe in evil."

Perdita

 

[impressive]

My brain registered the title of this thread as:

Monday, is it the root of all evil?

I'm still trying to decide if that's psychologically significant in some way.

 

[TheEarl]

My brain registered the title of this thread as:

Monday, is it the root of all evil?

I'm still trying to decide if that's psychologically significant in some way.

Mandy, is it the root of all evil?

I told oyu that Manilow was dangerous.

The Earl

 

[oggbashan]

I think it is evil that the pound nearly equals two dollars.

What is the US administration doing about its external debt?

Good time for a visit to the US.

Og

 

[fifty5]

I think it is evil that the pound nearly equals two dollars.

What is the US administration doing about its external debt?

Good time for a visit to the US.

Og

And he's back in, so waiting (if 2 for 1 isn't enough) might make it so...

Eff

 

[Edward Teach]

I love money. I don't see anything wrong with money or wealth or power.

There is hardly anything you can do without money, including good.


Ed

 

[Lisa Denton]

I love money. I don't see anything wrong with money or wealth or power.

There is hardly anything you can do without money, including good.


Ed

Is credit cards the root of all good?

 

[Edward Teach]

I think it is evil that the pound nearly equals two dollars.

What is the US administration doing about its external debt?

Og

Og, the short answer is nothing. Saw a symposium the other day of members of several different think tanks discussing what to do if the dollar collapses. They thought it a real danger. Money isn't just running out of this country right now, it is gushing out as if our economic aorta has been severed. And the real effect of the deficits hasn't kicked in yet.

The number of deaths in Iraq will be minor in comparison to the number of deaths caused by this admisistration's economic policies. I would bet that the number of deaths this winter caused by inflated fuel prices will be greater than the number of soldiers killed in Iraq to date. When people have to go without medicine and proper food to buy fuel to keep warm, they die.

Ed