Money is Not the Answer

Market research asking people what would make their life even better-happier, healthier, and more secure-revealed a surprising fact: Many people think that having more money in their lives would solve all their problems. Consider that the amount of money that comes into one's life is irrelevant in regard to wealth. Many people who make hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars a year are close to broke. Many of them do not have the cash to go out to lunch!

If the amount of money coming in does not determine wealth, than what does? Some people say it is how much you keep that counts. This is definitely part of the definition. What else matters?

What you give is what you get. Talk with the wealthiest people on earth and you will find they consistently give away their wealth to causes, to people, to charity, etc. Of course they also practice healthy money management: they pay themselves first, they bring in more than they pay out, they put money away for financial freedom day (living off passive income, never having to work unless they want to), they share their wealth, and so on.

Every person has a built-in program that works like a financial set point. People can only achieve wealth up to that financial set point. If more money comes to them than their program specifies they can handle (feel worthy of having), they take actions that cause them to lose that extra money. The financial set point explains why most lottery winners find themselves broke three years later!

People can choose to learn what their financial set point is and how to change it by reprogramming their subconscious mind. Or they can say rich people are lucky or rich people work smarter or rich people work harder or whatever excuses they create as to why they themselves are not living their dreams.

Is money a bad word? Some people say "Money is the root of all evil. " Actually the Bible those people claim to be quoting says, "The love of money is the root of all evil." In fact, money makes a person more of who they already are. A generous person becomes more generous while a greedy person becomes more greedy.

Interestingly, many people who do not have money talk about how unimportant money is. Fact is, money allows you to eat well, get medical care when needed, create health-supporting programs and illness-prevention routines, participate in stress-reducing activities like sports and vacations, etc. You get the picture.

Zig Ziglar says it best, "Money may not be the most important thing in life, but it ranks way up there with air and water."

Money is not that worth ,really it was!
Sometimes mitsa pa nga ng buhay mo eh,
We need money especially cash ,but wag nating gawing panginoon ang pera lets value money as it was and spend it wisely !
And let our health be our wealth !

money is worth nothing if you would let it rule your entire life...

money is the root of all EVIL

The motivation given for work was not to accumulate wealth but to have something to share with others. From the biblical perspective, therefore, work is useful and most fulfilling when it enables us to help others.
We make a living by what we earn; we make a life by what we give.

money is not the answer...love doesnt have anything to do with money...you do not know if the person you think you love is after your money and body not your love...beware

money shared is money gained

ssshhh cupid heals

the happiest people don't have the best of everything,they just make the best of everything that comes their way,money was just money dont let it controls you,spend it wisely....

they said "money can buy you everything except happiness,

money can bring you everywhere except heaven" and its really true.

money is just money just like a piece of paper, what makes it

important is when you strive for it to share with your love ones.

you want money to makes life easier for those you love, to enjoy life

with your family.to make a difference in other peoples life not just

yourself.

we enjoy spending money if we shares it to our love ones, making

them happy with little luxuries brought by money and they enjoy

things not just because its money but because its from someone

who love them. so money is just money

Money is a life. In this generation if we dont have money we cant get what we want and we cant have what we need enewe money is really important they said nothing is impossible in money in this world only and with the permission of the creator

MONEY IS IMPORTANT TOO! PERO WAG LANG ITO DIYOSIN ,SPENT WISELY .....IMPORTANTE LAHAT .UNA .HEALTH ,LOVE AND PERA

actually matter in life, especially when it comes to what’s important in families? Take a look at what this supposedly civilized, progressive, evolved, capitalist type of system does to people, to families, to the opportunities for real happiness (as opposed to the illusion of happiness this kind of society is selling).

There is something very, very rotten here that most people are too greedy, weak, lazy, and/or cowardly to acknowledge and actually deal with.

And trying to point to a poor person within the context of a capitalist system to try to prove that money is important because it at least provides a person with the means to pursue happiness is an invalid argument based on circular logic: you need to already have a money-based system to be “poor” in the first place. The assumption of what is trying to be proved is necessary to prove it.

We need oil for our cars because there are no alternatives, so oil is (universally and objectively) “important?” No! No car, no “need.”

This is an issue of context, of controlled monopoly dictating ideology. But, that’s very flawed and invalid logic. Something is only “important” within a manufactured physical and ideological context.

The logic is essentially this: money is important because in a society in which money is necessary for a decent life, money is important—basically, that money is important because it’s important. Or, said another way, one needs money because in a society in which one needs money, one needs money. No shit! That is actually not about money, but about the context in which the money exists and functions. As such, such an argument is basic circular logic and is therefore baseless and absurd.

This is also a good example of the idiocy of typical American pragmatism. You can’t use the ostensible “result” of something to prove its “cause.” A slave is not naturally a slave because he’s a slave. Americans may have learned the fallacy of this logic when it comes to one kind of slavery, but they do not yet recognize it when it comes to the slavery of the American “pursuit of happiness.”

Is having money important in this society? Of course! Who, with any sense, would try to argue otherwise? If a car is designed to run on oil, is oil important to the car? Of course! That’s not at issue here. What is at issue is the fact that the ignorant values on which a money-based society such as this one are based are incompatible with the pursuit of happiness/enlightenment, and that the pursuit of enlightenment has nothing directly to do with money nor anything materialistic.

What is also at issue is the fact that it is certainly not noble, in any way, to be a victim of circumstance.

Now, to acknowledge an ostensibly valid counterpoint, I do think that one could choose to work a job in a capitalist society for the express purpose of making enough money to get to the point of no longer having to work for money and then spend his time wisely pursuing enlightenment. This is possible, in theory. But, I think the reality of this is much more complicated than this idyllic theoretical example implies, not only because most people will never be able to make that kind of money because of the structure and nature of the system, but also because once one sees through the bullshit of the nature and function and purpose of the system, how and why should he work for it?

It’s like after seeing that the wizard of Oz is just a man, trying to pretend that you don’t know that and still believe that there is a wizard—why? To get what? Money? Material things? “Security?” These are self-ish pursuits which have nothing to do with happiness/enlightenment; and not only that, but once one understands what happiness is not, why would he continue to work for, and in, a system for the things he knows will not bring happiness, for things that are illusory? See?—it just can’t work.

If one does have money and pursues enlightenment, it’s really arbitrary, not symbiotic. When one understands the reality of the system in which one would have to work to get themselves to that point, and they see what happiness/enlightenment really is, he will see that it just doesn’t add up to work within/for the system to do that which has nothing to do with the system, and is also absolutely contrary to the system. Think about it.
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batang-mental wrote:actually matter in life, especially when it comes to what’s important in families? Take a look at what this supposedly civilized, progressive, evolved, capitalist type of system does to people, to families, to the opportunities for real happiness (as opposed to the illusion of happiness this kind of society is selling).

There is something very, very rotten here that most people are too greedy, weak, lazy, and/or cowardly to acknowledge and actually deal with.

And trying to point to a poor person within the context of a capitalist system to try to prove that money is important because it at least provides a person with the means to pursue happiness is an invalid argument based on circular logic: you need to already have a money-based system to be “poor” in the first place. The assumption of what is trying to be proved is necessary to prove it.

We need oil for our cars because there are no alternatives, so oil is (universally and objectively) “important?” No! No car, no “need.”

This is an issue of context, of controlled monopoly dictating ideology. But, that’s very flawed and invalid logic. Something is only “important” within a manufactured physical and ideological context.

The logic is essentially this: money is important because in a society in which money is necessary for a decent life, money is important—basically, that money is important because it’s important. Or, said another way, one needs money because in a society in which one needs money, one needs money. No shit! That is actually not about money, but about the context in which the money exists and functions. As such, such an argument is basic circular logic and is therefore baseless and absurd.

This is also a good example of the idiocy of typical American pragmatism. You can’t use the ostensible “result” of something to prove its “cause.” A slave is not naturally a slave because he’s a slave. Americans may have learned the fallacy of this logic when it comes to one kind of slavery, but they do not yet recognize it when it comes to the slavery of the American “pursuit of happiness.”

Is having money important in this society? Of course! Who, with any sense, would try to argue otherwise? If a car is designed to run on oil, is oil important to the car? Of course! That’s not at issue here. What is at issue is the fact that the ignorant values on which a money-based society such as this one are based are incompatible with the pursuit of happiness/enlightenment, and that the pursuit of enlightenment has nothing directly to do with money nor anything materialistic.

What is also at issue is the fact that it is certainly not noble, in any way, to be a victim of circumstance.

Now, to acknowledge an ostensibly valid counterpoint, I do think that one could choose to work a job in a capitalist society for the express purpose of making enough money to get to the point of no longer having to work for money and then spend his time wisely pursuing enlightenment. This is possible, in theory. But, I think the reality of this is much more complicated than this idyllic theoretical example implies, not only because most people will never be able to make that kind of money because of the structure and nature of the system, but also because once one sees through the bullshit of the nature and function and purpose of the system, how and why should he work for it?

It’s like after seeing that the wizard of Oz is just a man, trying to pretend that you don’t know that and still believe that there is a wizard—why? To get what? Money? Material things? “Security?” These are self-ish pursuits which have nothing to do with happiness/enlightenment; and not only that, but once one understands what happiness is not, why would he continue to work for, and in, a system for the things he knows will not bring happiness, for things that are illusory? See?—it just can’t work.

If one does have money and pursues enlightenment, it’s really arbitrary, not symbiotic. When one understands the reality of the system in which one would have to work to get themselves to that point, and they see what happiness/enlightenment really is, he will see that it just doesn’t add up to work within/for the system to do that which has nothing to do with the system, and is also absolutely contrary to the system. Think about it.
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Why money?does it offer the ultimate life or does only give people status,it is absolutely the only thing that will make us happy?Well if there's money people will obey,it gives us power,jewels and all that we need. But does it really gives us the most imp0rtant of all,does it makes love people more?Happiness,love and feeling,money cant revolve it can only feed us and give shelter.

heavensangel_force wrote:Why money?does it offer the ultimate life or does only give people status,it is absolutely the only thing that will make us happy?Well if there's money people will obey,it gives us power,jewels and all that we need. But does it really gives us the most imp0rtant of all,does it makes love people more?Happiness,love and feeling,money cant revolve it can only feed us and give shelter.

OWO NA TAMA NA KAYO........... :tv:LA AQ MASABI EH

people can't live without money,