Just goes to show that money and class frequently don't go together.
--Bob
On Oct 21, 2012, at 4:45 PM, John Hudson wrote:
> Read here:
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/biggest-house-in-america-david-siegel_n_1677741.html
>
> and in particular the last paragraph !
>
> David Siegal's 90,000 square foot home was borne out of a giant Ponzi
> scheme !
>
> jh
>
>
> On 21/10/2012 5:20 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> Not so much subsistence as free from the attachment to materialism. There's
>> a line in Lord of the Rings that struck me the first time I read it. It's
>> Galadriel talking to Gimli the Dwarf. She says words to the effect that much
>> gold would pass through his hands, but that it would not hold dominion over
>> him.
>>
>> I don't advocate wasteful lifestyles either, such as the time share
>> billionaire in Florida who's building the largest house in America while
>> telling his employees that if President Obama is reelected, he may have to
>> downsize the company. Who needs the biggest house in America? That's all
>> ego. In our country he may have every right to spend his money that way, but
>> I believe he also has a moral responsibility not to. He may be free to build
>> his house, but if he were truly free, he wouldn't have to.
>>
>> My plumber put it another way: Want what you have.
>>
>> Fairly smart piece of advice.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think they mean the same thing. You can feel unattached to the food
>>> you eat, but none of us are independent of food.
>>>
>>> Did you mean "don't care" or did you mean "don't need?"
>>>
>>> Bill Gates may claim to be "unattached" to his material goods. A tribe of
>>> indigenous natives may well be independent of them.
>>>
>>> My interpretation was that you were advocating a subsistence life-style!
>>>
>>>> On Oct 20, 2012, at 1:32 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> But this one goes in my quotes database, Bob: "freedom is a state of
>>>>> being independent of material goods."
>>>
>>
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