Love of money
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Take Me Out to the Ball Game — But Pay Me a Living Wage Michael Winship
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Origin
Often misquoted as 'money is the root of all evil'. Originates in the Bible, Timothy 6:10 (King James Version):
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. --
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people. Though repentance and the cleansing of forgiveness, we can rid ourselves of this burden and begin to let God transform our value system. Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others. --
A dreadful thing is the love of money! It disables both eyes and ears, and makes men worse to deal with than a wild beast, allowing a man to consider neither conscience nor friendship nor fellowship nor salvation.
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Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'
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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens
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Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
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From all the above its obvious then that money is a "neccessary evil", or is that a contracdiction in itself how can something neccessary be evil or how do you need an item or object and not love/like it; its concepts like these that confuse the world and create more confussion, what is money, what is love, what is evil, how do we love and why must we use money, if what you need should not be loved, then we are in for inconsistency in life which will definately breed more confussion and the end result is left to the imagination.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Victor Lustig: the Man who sold the Eiffel Tower
Known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower", Victor Lustig was one of the most talented confidence tricksters who ever lived. Born in 1890 in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, he was a glib and charming conman, fluent in multiple languages. He established himself by working scams on the ocean liners steaming between Paris and New York City. Lustig's first con involved a "money-printing machine". He would demonstrate the capability of the small box to clients, all the while lamenting that it took the device six hours to copy a $100 bill. The client, sensing huge profits, would buy the machines for a high price, usually over $30,000. Over the next twelve hours, the machine would produce two more $100 bills. After that, it produced only blank paper, as its supply of $100 bills became exhausted. By the time the clients realized that they had been scammed, Lustig was long gone.
In 1925, Lustig's master con began when he was reading a newspaper: an article discussed the problems the city was having maintaining the Eiffel Tower. So he adopted the persona of a government official, and sent six scrap metal dealers an invitation to discuss a possible business deal. Lustig told the group that the upkeep on the Eiffel Tower was so outrageous that the city could not maintain it any longer, and wanted to sell it for scrap. So he sold the Eiffel Tower to one of the scrap metal dealers and took a train to Vienna with the suitcase full of cash. The buyer was too humiliated to complain to the police.
Later, Lustig convinced gangster Al Capone to invest $40,000 in a stock deal. Lustig kept Capone's money in a safe deposit box for two months, then returned it to him, claiming that the deal had fallen through. Impressed with Lustig's integrity, Capone gave him $5,000. It was, of course, all that Lustig was after.
On 1907, Lustig arrived to the United States and conducted a number of scams, but eventually his luck ran out: he was arrested for counterfeiting and sent to Alcatraz prison. On March 9, 1947, he contracted pneumonia and died two days later.
In 1925, Lustig's master con began when he was reading a newspaper: an article discussed the problems the city was having maintaining the Eiffel Tower. So he adopted the persona of a government official, and sent six scrap metal dealers an invitation to discuss a possible business deal. Lustig told the group that the upkeep on the Eiffel Tower was so outrageous that the city could not maintain it any longer, and wanted to sell it for scrap. So he sold the Eiffel Tower to one of the scrap metal dealers and took a train to Vienna with the suitcase full of cash. The buyer was too humiliated to complain to the police.
Later, Lustig convinced gangster Al Capone to invest $40,000 in a stock deal. Lustig kept Capone's money in a safe deposit box for two months, then returned it to him, claiming that the deal had fallen through. Impressed with Lustig's integrity, Capone gave him $5,000. It was, of course, all that Lustig was after.
On 1907, Lustig arrived to the United States and conducted a number of scams, but eventually his luck ran out: he was arrested for counterfeiting and sent to Alcatraz prison. On March 9, 1947, he contracted pneumonia and died two days later.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The truth
We all love it. Some of us will be true ourselves others will not, but this i know everyone loves money
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
लव ऑफ़ money
It is said the
“Love of money is the root of all evil”
Now what is love?
Is it the unexplainable deep feeling of affection towards someone or something? Or the deepest regards towards something or someone? Which ever it is it tends towards
“A feeling of reverence” towards something.
Evil can be defined as a negative destructive and bad act, state or a broad term used to describe an intentional negative moral acts or thoughts that are cruel, unjust or selfish.
And
Money is the means of exchange pure and simple!
Is this what is responsible for all the evil?
“Love of money is the root of all evil”
Now what is love?
Is it the unexplainable deep feeling of affection towards someone or something? Or the deepest regards towards something or someone? Which ever it is it tends towards
“A feeling of reverence” towards something.
Evil can be defined as a negative destructive and bad act, state or a broad term used to describe an intentional negative moral acts or thoughts that are cruel, unjust or selfish.
And
Money is the means of exchange pure and simple!
Is this what is responsible for all the evil?
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