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
ations are bollocks unless panocoptincons and regular stings/tests are done.Hanssen didnt tell the russkies anything they couldnt have worked out them selves. No response? Trawling for bigger game? pot bellied,aging brilliant thorns in the side of your country? Then...'In praise of gold:

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*

In praise of gold

2001-11-19 Thread georgemw
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* and so > > using them as money was not symbolic. You trad