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Huh?To slave one's sense of success or failure, rich or poor, to one's position relative to others, is true slavery. Relativists will never know contentment or charity, which are true freedoms.
I feel that I am a slave to your obscure writings and bad poems. I beg for charity that you will stop.To slave one's sense of success or failure, rich or poor, to one's position relative to others, is true slavery.
Relativists will never know contentment or charity, which are true freedoms.
Apparently your lack of understand of business and economics is outdone by your lack of understand of people.To slave one's sense of success or failure, rich or poor, to one's position relative to others, is true slavery.
Relativists will never know contentment or charity, which are true freedoms.
... devout relativists.
As with all relativists, these seek the exculpatory.
Unfortunately, the exculpatory is also the least empowering.
Relativists are content to have less, as long as they are not aware of others having more.
Jealousy is a strong desire for what belongs to oneself.
Covetousness is a strong desire for what belongs to others.
Envy is a strong desire to prevent others from obtaining more than oneself.
I saw a movie wherein the zombies were infected with a rage-virus.
We have become a plague nation, we are infected with envy.
Because the envious slave their sense of success or failure, rich or poor, to their position relative to others, they are content with less, as long as they are no aware of others having more. This consistently proves irresistible to the covetous, who seek to obtain what belongs to others by promising equal outcomes to the envious.
The covetous receive their authority from an envious majority at the expense of a jealous minority.
The covetous often enslave the envious by promising them equal outcomes, and that makes me jealous.
I speculate that if everyone had a wish, no one would get anything,
because we would all cancel out eachother's wishes.
That's exactly what's happening.
All of the obsticles we face, as a nation, are obsticles we have conjured up against ourselves. We have become "Les Nesman tape on the floor silly".
I'll give this word to the envious and covetous relativists out there;
we can out wait you, you're hurting yourselves more than you're hurting us.
To slave one's sense of success or failure, rich or poor, to one's position relative to others, is true slavery.
Relativists will never know contentment or charity, which are true freedoms.
If the Jones' have three square meals a day, shelter, clothing and some measure of safety and security, then a pox on the man trying to keep up with that! He's just keeping himself from being happy!Great thoughts, Bricklayer. I believe there's a bit of philosopher in you. You're right, the guy trying to keep up with the Jones' really is the slave. Even if he reaches his goal, he find it empty.
But demanding that someone else pay for it does. Getting to the root cause of the rise in health care costs is one thing. Throwing in the towel and empowering the state to confiscate the property of others to provide you with an unearned benefit is another.I always hear people around here talking about how the poor are envious of the rich, and are using the rich-poor divide as a baseline, but every poor person I've met uses "can I afford rent/medicine this month" as the baseline. I hear the millionaires talking about how if they were taxed less they could afford another yacht to "spur the economy," but asking to be able to afford health insurance when you work 60 hours a week hardly seems like "envy" to me.
But demanding that someone else pay for it does. Getting to the root cause of the rise in health care costs is one thing. Throwing in the towel and empowering the state to confiscate the property of others to provide you with an unearned benefit is another.
Paid for by whom?Then we have a warped definition of "earned." Anyone contributing 60 hours of necessary work per week to the economy of the country should be able to not worry about getting sick. I don't care if you're job is scrubbing toilets, you're still putting in full time hours to keep the country running. It seems to me like anyone with a full time job should "earn" healthcare, rent, and food.
Paid for by whom?
Preferably those at the top of the pyramid. It's all well and good to claim "everything I own I earned," but try running a shipping company without your delivery workers. Everyone with a job contributes to a functioning society, so we should all chip in to make sure that everyone can have healthcare, pay rent within their means, and eat foods within their means.
If the Jones' have three square meals a day, shelter, clothing and some measure of safety and security, then a pox on the man trying to keep up with that! He's just keeping himself from being happy!
Well sure, preferably anyone but you, I suppose. But from where do you derive the 'right' to take what belongs to someone else and use it for your own purposes?Preferably those at the top of the pyramid.
Within their means? You mean within the means of others.It's all well and good to claim "everything I own I earned," but try running a shipping company without your delivery workers. Everyone with a job contributes to a functioning society, so we should all chip in to make sure that everyone can have healthcare, pay rent within their means, and eat foods within their means.
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