The Yin and Yang of it all: Class, be seated.
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, May 27, 2024 15:25
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Great minds think alike, ChrisIsAll.... 
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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I suppose, but I think thats boiling it down to much...
I think of greed as more of a compulsion to gain wealth, rather than a fear of losing it...
Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.
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Quote:EXACTLY! Better than I said it!
Originally posted by SergeantX:
Most people I know who are compulsively driven to make money seem to have a kind of insecure streak about them. It's never enough you know?
Loss for linguistics Chrisisall
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Quote:While I agree with most of your thoughtful post, I feel there will always be those who are economically and politically protected from punishment, not just here, everywhere. One of the imbalances...
Originally posted by fivver:
The difference is that here we can denounce and punish people that would misuse what what we hold dear. In the Muslim world, the extremists pull the strings.
But knowledge of an imbalance is the first step toward acheiving homeostasis.
Tech-talk Chrisisall
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Quote:A compulsion, yes. Born of...?
Originally posted by citizen:
I think of greed as more of a compulsion to gain wealth, rather than a fear of losing it...
Not anger.
Not happieness.
Not contentment.
Doesn't fear seem to fit?
Chrisisall who needs Perfessergee for socio-backup
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Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
...But knowledge of an imbalance is the first step toward acheiving homeostasis.
I always suspected you were part of the homostasis agenda! People like you won't rest until you foisted your perverted lifestyle on mainstream America.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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Possibly, but I always thought of greed as an emotion in its own right...
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Quote:lol, okay, you got the first funny in that was actually funny.
Originally posted by SergeantX:
I always suspected you were part of the homostasis agenda!
Take my six year old son, he's a great kid. Today I took him on the bumper boats at the park (we don't get to do that as often as I'd like), and he was being a total brat. His mom is on a trip, and he hasn't seen her in 2 weeks. What's wrong? Fear - fear of not seein' his mom again. I told him she'll be back tomorrow, but kids don't always believe adults (we tell them so much crap), and the feeling is welling up inside him so close to her return. And he's being 'bad' because of it.
And I only realized this just now because of starting this thread!!
Dummy Chrisisall
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Quote:I remember times when I was greedy about something (particularly as a child), and always remember an angst associated with it, like the feeling I would never get to have or do this again, it seemed fear-based to me...
Originally posted by citizen:
I always thought of greed as an emotion in its own right...
Child psychologist Chrisisall
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Hmm, I've never really felt that overwhemingly greedy for something... So maybe I don't really have a clue...
Maybe fear is associated to it...
But the more you boil things down the closer you'll get to basic emotions like fear.
At the end of the day, most of what we do comes down to survival of the species...
Self-preservation and procreation...
Wishes he got to do a bit more of the latter, Citizen-isall 
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