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kwassa

(23,340 posts)
5. He also said that he didn't belong to an organized political party. He was ...
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 12:20 AM
Dec 2014

after all, a Democrat.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
6. Interesting. Heard this at a church one time, too, or rather close to it. Their take was:
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 07:54 AM
Dec 2014

God didn't give you talents for nothing, or just for yourself. Whatever gifts you were given, intelligence, personality, health or whatever, were meant to be passed on.

Your wealth only exists to give to others and make the world a better place, your talents are different than other people, but they are worth as much as you. It was not meant to stay in your hands, it's not your reward.

They said it was meant to pass through your hands so all could benefit by what gifts you had. In Ayn Rand's America, that's now heresy. But it isn't the thought pattern everywhere.

My own concept of money is that it is a representation of energy of many types. That it is designed to keep moving, or it loses value. Just my two cents on Will using the concept of money passing through hands.


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