[MD] empathy

[Frank Booth]

But fingers are just salad forks.

And yes, bartering would be quite a challenge too.




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From: John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Thu, March 31, 2011 6:03:44 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] empathy

And yet,
there are men,
standing at the full bowl of life,
starving,
because they  have forgotten how to eat with their fingers.

Some evolutionary devices have a backfire effect.



On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Frank Booth <frankbooth66 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Money is not a social phenomenon.
>
> Money is the best the best salad fork.
>
> Otherwise you will eat with your face in the bowl.
>
> Money is an evolutionary device.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 10:33:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [MD] empathy
>
> Dan and Craig,
>
> I used to sort of wonder about the biblical admonition about the love of
> money being the root of all evil.  I mean really:  ALL evil?  But Pirsig's
> MoQ cleared it all up for me for then  I understood the problem to be one
> of
> conflation of value on two different levels.  Money is a social level
> phenom, and we should strive for our values to come from a higher level.
>
> tah-dah.  Once again, Pirsig explains the bible in easy-to-understand
> terms.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:20 PM, <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > [Craig, previously]
> >
> > 1) Money represents economic value.
> > 2) A good economic person loves economic value.
> > 3) :. A good economic person loves money.
> >
> > [Dan]
> > > 4) A good economic person loves (the source of all) evil.
> >
> > For 4) to follow we need:
> > 3.1) Money is the source of all evil.
> >
> > But 3.1) is silly & should be rejected.
> > Craig
> >
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