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A short history of what man covets most - STUFF : Comments
By Chris Shaw, published 14/3/2007Man, oil, materialism, greed, money: a lighthearted but serious look at the state of our planet and the human race.
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Posted by BOAZ_David, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 7:32:38 AM
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Davo! G'day mate.
Jeez, you get around: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/david_boaz/2007/03/the_belief_that_dare_not_speak.html :) Posted by Chris Shaw, Carisbrook 3464, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 9:00:50 PM
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someone please tell me who/what are: the bearded entity, mysterious force, and the minor historical deity who had been sacrificed in the early 20th century.
Posted by cjwirth, Sunday, 15 July 2007 12:23:59 PM
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Jeepers, I thought this thread was dead.
Hello cjwirth. The bearded entity and the mysterious force is a god (fill in your personal preference). I particularly referenced the god who supposedly left the Jewish neo-faithful a pawn ticket for the land of Palestine (a 3000 year-old pawn ticket according to the Zionist settlers). My interest in this is not for any religious reason. Honestly, I couldn't care less about the religion that one happens to be cursed with. Rather it is because of the the criminal way that the country now known as Israel, has and is being used, as an aircraft-carrier in the fight for the last of the world's great deposits of sweet oil. - that's how I see it anyway - The minor historical deity is Archduke Francis Ferdinand, whose assassination was given as the official reason for the precipitation of WW1. That's when the Great Getting Machine (mechanised, corporatised, industrialised warfare) first mowed down men like wheat. My dad survived that one by the skin of his teeth. : Posted by Chris Shaw, Carisbrook 3464, Monday, 16 July 2007 1:52:57 AM
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your response. I read all of your stuff and it is enlightening, and I send it to my colleagues and students at the University of New Hampshire (USA) and my family. My email is wirthcj and then @ and then hotmail.com. If you send me an email, I will send you or others some extensive research stuff which summarizes as best I can where the US/world stands on peak oil/natural gas/coal. It doesn't look good, and the "quicksand effect" and "the worse things get, the worse they get" factors are here now. In any case, I will send this stuff to www.energybulletin.net. You and others will probably find it interesting. Keep in touch. Cheers, Cliff Wirth Posted by cjwirth, Saturday, 28 July 2007 11:29:46 AM
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here is Jesus take on 'stuff'.
13Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
14Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?" 15Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
16And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'
18"Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." '
20"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
21"This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."
That kind of says "it all"
cheers.