Re: in praise of gold

2001-12-04 Thread Morlock Elloi
> Compare the sum total of misery in this world to the sum total of happiness and > get back to me. Read some Schopenhauer and early Nietzsche, you'd probably find > a lot to agree with too. What happiness ? Have you ever seen anyone happy (on this list) ? Nietzsche admitted that he wrote the s

Re: in praise of gold

2001-12-04 Thread Morlock Elloi
> Bah. If you've always found that the women who are willing to sleep with you > are Look, I was discussing the meaning of "need" and pointlessness of attaching moral qualifications to that. But I'll have to oink to be understood. Prayers to the Godess of Semantics didn't help. > not spare your

Re: in praise of gold,

2001-12-03 Thread mattd
"It doesn't take a judgment by society at large to realize that some people really are better off alone instead of inflicting their destructive fucked-up personality on others (psychotics, alcoholics, etc)." What about silly little girls inflicting their e-gold (!) opinions. "if more people refu

Re: in praise of gold

2001-12-03 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Morlock wrote: Faustine wrote: > > Too bad you seemed to have missed the entire point of the passage: if your > > relationships are making you bitter and miserable, there's no sense in > > blaming the other half of the human race for whatever weaknes

Re: in praise of gold,

2001-12-03 Thread mattd
"...nothing more than a cop-out. So it seems to me, at any rate. ~Faustine. " Like you last week (agent ?) faustine (cop-in?) Silence speaks volumes in this house.

Re: in praise of gold

2001-12-02 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Morlock Elloi wrote: Faustine wrote: > Any relationship based on desperation or one partner's dysfunctional clingy > need is a complete waste of time. So if you seem to be spending a lot of time > around women who want to mash you down into a mold of

Re: in praise of gold

2001-12-01 Thread Morlock Elloi
> Any relationship based on desperation or one partner's dysfunctional clingy > need is a complete waste of time. So if you seem to be spending a lot of time > around women who want to mash you down into a mold of some cartoonish happy- > ever-after "ideal", perhaps it's time to look at why you ke

Re: Cattle Herding... (was Re: in praise of gold)

2001-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:21:07PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 23 Nov 2001, at 19:13, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > > Pecunia, the latin word for money, comes from the Etruscian pecu, meaning, cow. > > > > Cheers, > > RAH > > > > And of course the German word for money is

Re: in praise of gold

2001-11-30 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 07:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Faustine wrote: >>> Not all women are golddiggers. >> They're called 'old maids'. ALL women who are interested in a

Re: CDR: Re: in praise of gold

2001-11-29 Thread measl
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Petro wrote: > On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 07:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > >> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Faustine wrote: > >>> Not all women are golddiggers. > >> They're called 'old maids'. ALL women who are interested in a

Re: CDR: Re: in praise of gold

2001-11-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Petro wrote: > > Who was she? It's nice to see you're not bitter ;-/ > > Why do you assume it was a she? :) -- Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind.

Re: CDR: Re: in praise of gold

2001-11-29 Thread Petro
On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 07:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Faustine wrote: >>> Not all women are golddiggers. >> They're called 'old maids'. ALL women who are interested in a >> 'relationship' are 'golddiggers' in the sen

Re: Cattle Herding... (was Re: in praise of gold)

2001-11-27 Thread David Honig
At 05:21 PM 11/26/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Cows might have served well as currency for primitives like the >Etruscans, but can you imagine using them today? I took >a bus this morning, the fair was 1.10 and I only had paper money >so they ripped me off 90 cents. But if I was an Etr

Re: Cattle Herding... (was Re: in praise of gold)

2001-11-27 Thread Ken Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Cows might have served well as currency for primitives like the > Etruscans, but can you imagine using them today? I took > a bus this morning, the fair was 1.10 and I only had paper money > so they ripped me off 90 cents. But if I was an Etruscan, they > would've take

Re: Cat Herding... (was Re: in praise of gold)

2001-11-27 Thread Bill Stewart
>Cows might have served well as currency for primitives like the >Etruscans, but can you imagine using them today? I took >a bus this morning, the fair was 1.10 and I only had paper money >so they ripped me off 90 cents. But if I was an Etruscan, they >would've taken my whole cow! More likely t

Re: in praise of gold

2001-11-26 Thread Jim Choate
You should spend some time reading recent work on Chimp and Bonobo packs and the inter-pack shenanigans the females go through (as well as the mapping to human behaviour). On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On a long road trip one night, I heard an extremely interesting long > di

Re: in praise of gold

2001-11-26 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Faustine wrote: > Not all women are golddiggers. They're called 'old maids'. ALL women who are interested in a 'relationship' are 'golddiggers' in the sense they want to 'change' the other party. -- ___

Re: Cattle Herding... (was Re: in praise of gold)

2001-11-26 Thread georgemw
On 23 Nov 2001, at 19:13, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > Pecunia, the latin word for money, comes from the Etruscian pecu, meaning, cow. > > Cheers, > RAH > And of course the German word for money is Gelt, which means Gold. Cows might have served well as currency for primitives like the Etruscans

Re: in praise of gold

2001-11-26 Thread georgemw
On 21 Nov 2001, at 7:55, David Honig wrote: > At 08:12 PM 11/20/01 -0500, Faustine wrote: > >David wrote: > >George wrote: > > > >>>5) Gold makes women sleep with you. I don't know why they > >>>like it, but they do. > >>They sleep with you because of your large cattle herd only they > >>have ac

Re: in praise of gold

2001-11-20 Thread Morlock Elloi
> Not all women are golddiggers. I happen to think any woman who marries > for money or sleeps around for gifts and dinners is worse than a whore. > As the old saw goes, at least real prostitutes are honest about what they're > doing. > > The only "abstracted value" I find really intriguing is t

Re: in praise of gold

2001-11-20 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David wrote: George wrote: >>5) Gold makes women sleep with you. I don't know why they >>like it, but they do. >They sleep with you because of your large cattle herd only they >have accepted abstracted value and settle for gold or stocks... Not al

Re: In praise of gold

2001-11-20 Thread David Honig
At 07:03 PM 11/19/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 19 Nov 2001, at 17:40, Tim May wrote: > >> On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 05:03 PM, David Honig wrote: >> > >> > Yes, but what this thread has ignored is that gold (and other >> > densely precious things) were valued *in and of themselves*