Re: Latest News

From: Pig Bladder (pig_bladder_at_anyspammer.org)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:38:44 GMT

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:01:55 +0000, R. Steve Walz wrote:

> Rich The Philosophizer wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:31:54 +0000, R. Steve Walz wrote:
>>
>> > Tom Seim wrote:
>> >>
>> >> "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com> wrote in message news:<41A04596.7677@armory.com>...
>> >> > Tom Seim wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Rich The Philosophizer <null@example.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.11.20.02.01.44.925063@neodruid.org>...
>> >> > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:08:20 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:15:24 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
>> >> > [rich vs. poor stuff]
>> >> > > > >
>> >> > > > > But spending isn't primarily what rich people do. Poor people think
>> >> > > > > about all the things they would buy if they were rich. But the essence
>> >> > > > > of being rich is *not* spending. A billionaire may have three houses
>> >> > > > > and ten cars, but not 3000 houses and 10,000 cars.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Well, yeah, but here's the thing. To the guy who has no hope of
>> >> > > > ever having even one house that he can ever call his own, that
>> >> > > > second or third house that the billionaire just conjures up
>> >> > > > with a flip of his wrist really, really rankles.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Would they also be pissed off at a millionaire that owns only one
>> >> > > (really nice) house?
>> >> > ----------------
>> >> > You mean like with ten thousand rooms? If they don't have any and he
>> >> > made them build it and then made them live there and pay rent?
>> >> > Betcher fuckin' ass!
>> >> >
>> >> > -Steve
>> >>
>> >> Ten thousand rooms? Have you ever seen such a house? If such a thing,
>> >> were it to exist, would be out of the price range of a millionaire.
>> > -----------------------
>> > Even so, we're talking about mass deprivation. My analogy is accurate.
>> > Don't be an ass who takes metaphor serioiusly to dodge the argument.
>>
>> So, when do you plan to heal your own denials, which are, after all, the
>> cause of your victims' plight?
>>
>> Inquiring minds want to know.
>> Rich
> -----------------
> No victim. No denials. Lies.

Heh. This is precisely what denial is.

This is THREE of them, one on top of the other.

Heal Thyself.

Or not - it's your call, after all. But watch out when your victims come
for their pound of flesh. Be sure you're armed to the teeth. 

-- 
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, still waiting for 
some hot babe to ask what my favorite planet is.