tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post7735053034001930255..comments2023-11-22T06:38:33.507-08:00Comments on Counterforces and Other Little Jokes: the right uses of richeslittlejokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01036588703338799387noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post-32594239466199690052008-10-17T18:04:00.000-07:002008-10-17T18:04:00.000-07:00http://www.buddhistartnews.com/?p=2235Looking forw...http://www.buddhistartnews.com/?p=2235<BR/><BR/>Looking forward to seeing it. <BR/><BR/>jcJon Cilibertohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08610578468597428249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post-53990535917455347212008-10-12T09:45:00.000-07:002008-10-12T09:45:00.000-07:00There is a distinction between the love of money a...There is a distinction between the love of money and the love of the lovely things it allows its possessor to enjoy (except in the case of numismatists, who like philatelists are actually just a special case of lovers of design and functional art).<BR/><BR/>Envy, covetousness, and all those ten-commandment-y kind of things show that the natural human tendency to want what we have not got or to want more than we can actually use of what we have already got entered into the discourse of civilization as soon as there was discourse and civilization.<BR/><BR/>I suppose some would say it all goes back to how chimpanzees can't cooperate long enough to hunt effectively, whereas bonobos figured out on some pre-verbal level that if everybody whacks together at the critter, everybody will get some of the payoff, and a fair share because otherwise the group would already be at one another's throats. Some would say that.littlejokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01036588703338799387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post-83230316943036098372008-10-11T12:56:00.000-07:002008-10-11T12:56:00.000-07:00I recall the saying as, "radix malorum est cupidit...I recall the saying as, "radix malorum est cupiditas," that is, the love of money is the root of evil. But would money exist without the love for it?<BR/><BR/>Certainly, love exists without the money for it, but "romance without finance is a nuisance."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com