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14 Jul 2021, 8:23 am

“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money."



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14 Jul 2021, 8:25 am

Brainiac42 wrote:
You cannot eat money.
Without money, many people go hungry.


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14 Jul 2021, 8:31 am

Fnord wrote:
Brainiac42 wrote:
You cannot eat money.
Without money, many people go hungry.


You are strengthening the point in this quote/song.



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14 Jul 2021, 8:32 am

Brainiac42 wrote:
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Brainiac42 wrote:
You cannot eat money.
Without money, many people go hungry.
You are strengthening the point in this quote/song.
Oh, I am so sorry ... was I supposed to argue against it?  I must not have received the memo...


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14 Jul 2021, 8:36 am

No memo. Just a misunderstanding.



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14 Jul 2021, 12:44 pm

We need to get back to the ancient Roman model and pay people in salt.


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14 Jul 2021, 1:39 pm

roronoa79 wrote:
We need to get back to the ancient Roman model and pay people in salt.


Lol.



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14 Jul 2021, 1:44 pm

Well, assuming it's the old paper currency and not these new fangled plastic notes you actually can eat money to some extent.



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14 Jul 2021, 1:49 pm

Nades wrote:
Well, assuming it's the old paper currency and not these new fangled plastic notes you actually can eat money to some extent.


The purpose of the song, condensed, is that we ruin our planet for material items/to make money but when the planet is ruined and no longer habitable, we cannot eat that money to survive.



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14 Jul 2021, 3:10 pm



Oh, The Instant Gratification
Of 'Abundance'; All Creatures

Big And Small,

Evolving Still,

For Intermittent

Gratification; Human

Pandemic Gone CuLTuRaLLY

Rogue, Particularly in the United

States As 4 Percent of the Globe's Population

of Humanity Selfishly And Most Efficiently Capitalistically

Uses Money To Consume 40 Percent of the Resources Used;

Yet It's True, Self Fulfilling

Hunger of Soul,

Only Comes

From Within

After Basic Needs

Are Met; Yes, Basically We

Are Eating Our Own Face in

'Zombie Apocalypse' Ways As This Home

Now Of Nature Is US; We May Not Expect

To Keep Eating Our Own Face out of Balance

And Expect to Continue to LiVE iN THE Only

Home We Are Evolved to Breathe A World Without

Bees Just one

Insect the

End of Life

As We Know it at Least...

A World Without Flowers For

Those Who No Longer Appreciate Beauty With NDD/GDD Nature

Deficit Disorder/God Deficit Disorder, Same Damned DiSEaSE NoW

The Beauty oF iT ALL A World Already Gone Lost for Many Indeed...

i Tender A Whole Lot of Money, More Than i'll Ever Spend; Perhaps Enough
For my Wife, If She Lives in Accordance With Her Allowance; i Save Face of Nature (RealGod)

By Not Using it to Consume Nature (US) Out of Balance by Building A Bigger Home or Fancier

New Car or Boat or Camper to Find A Home Displacing Wildlife in my Back Yard... Well Yes

Money is Okay

As Long as

We Do Not

Use it To Consume our Face...

What Good Is it to Eat Anything

Without A Soul of Love; None That
i See; None That i See to Truly BREaTHE NoW



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14 Jul 2021, 3:36 pm

Nades wrote:
Well, assuming it's the old paper currency and not these new fangled plastic notes you actually can eat money to some extent.


I dont think so. Humans cant eat wood pulp. American cash is called "cabbage" because it just looks like that.



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14 Jul 2021, 4:07 pm

Wood pulp was in some high fiber bread years ago.We can eat it, just not digest it.You’ll starve, but with a squeaky clean colon.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/16/gard ... bread.html


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14 Jul 2021, 5:23 pm



Ya Sure Can't Digest Money; Yet
Ya Sure Will Live For Money...

Rich Wanna Be Dad,

Poor Mom;

Poor Soul,

Much Larger Soul;

What's the Difference;

My Mother Totally Satisfied Whole Complete

Enough Living on 500 Dollars A Month Social
Security Pay Refusing Even the Supplemental
Part She Was 'Entitled' Too As Well; My Father on

The Other Hand, Who Didn't Cash in His Retirement
At Age 49 To Finish His College Degree, Like my Mother Who
Got Tired of Editing for the Government Wanting to Move into Social

Work That She Did the Years Before Social Security Age Enough at 500 Dollar A Month...

Yes, on the Other Hand, my Father Who Left When i Was 3, to Find A Woman to Make Money
More than Raising Children, Retiring At Full Social Security Pay and 46 Years of A Law Enforcement
Career, Once Longest Serving Deputy Sheriff in Florida at Age 69; Spending His Last Years of Life; All
81 And Some Months, Buying Weekly 500 Dollars Worth of Lottery Tickets As He Could Never Make Enough

Money to
Get Rich

Like His Half

Jewish Brother

(My Father's Father
A Rather Famous
Infamous Irish
X-Catholic Priest;
Who Left His Family too)

Whose Jewish Father Was

Also A Cop Like My Father's

Identical Twin Brother Yet He (My Father's Twin)
Then Married into Money Quick, Home All Paid Off...

He Got to Do Basically What he Wanted to Do Self-Employed

too as My Half Jewish Uncle Got to get Rich Off Selling Vacuum
Cleaners, Buying A Fabulous View Home on the Emerald Gulf Coast Shalimar Bay Pointe...

True About As Close As Ya Get to the French Riviera in the PanHandle of Florida; All Emerald Green Waves

Of Peaceful Water And Overgrown Beach With Condo's Taking the Breath of Nature Farther And Farther Away...

Yep 'Rich Dad' Wanna

Be And Poor Mamma Who

Only Cared About Loving Others...

Particularly Her Children And 'the Church' of Course...

True, Her Love Much More Restricted than Mine for Others
Of Course As Those Walls Exclude So Many Others Different For Sure...

Anyway, Money Will Buy Ya Financial Independence; i Surely Bought that
For me By Basically Forgoing A Consumer Based American Dream As i Wasn't
Gonna Be a Slave to Someone Else's Life Play In Corporate or Government Story my Entire

Damned

Life For Sure...

So My Green Dollar

Bill Flavored Rich Dad Wanna Be
So Terrified When i fell Ill in Mid-Life
(Thinking i Might Ask Him For Help then)
Almost Dropped Dead Then on the Phone

When i Informed Him After Keeping One Wife,
One Home, Same Cars for 15 Years or So And Not all

The Homes and Four Marriages He Did Mostly As Apartments

For Decades too; even Married to the Same Woman Twice too;

As There is a Certain Value in Emotional Intelligence of Love Still Now

(Yes, at 28 Years Younger, 'Foolish Poor Start Son' After 3 College Degrees, Saved 6 Times

More Than Rich Dad Wannabe) For others Unconditionally Expressing that too Priceless Indeed;

All the Colors of
Love to Give
And Share
Free Caring Unconditionally;

And True; Yet i Went Quiet
too Much of my Government
Career of Working With Computers
And Things Toward The End Away from

People too... My Mother Always Said Happiness comes

From Within; She Was 100 Percent Correct; It takes Very Little
to Get 'Buy' When One Lives A Life of Green Within Instead of

(And For me Moving, Connecting, And Co-Creating is Key)

Valuing

Things

(STUFF)

More;

Including

Always Looking

Forward to the Next
Capitalism Lottery Pay-off

In Life; Oh, to Be Free At Least
From Making more money; Truly Worth
HeLL ON Earth Then for 66 Months too...

All Those Year Spent Working For the Government With Retired Military Folks Then Blessed

With A Guaranteed Pay Check From the Government, Never Really 'Under The Money Gun',
Every Month for Just 20 Years of Service; Yep, i did 25, And 8 Other Years of Paid Work;
Never Going to Bloody War At Least As Civilian; Where Close to 40 Years Will Come

For Full Retirement in Less than a Year Now; Yet i Already Have Enough Now; it'll Be

Just More to Pad the Retirement of my Wife; my Mother's Philosophy of Life Is Still

Forever Loving Life Now Free For me;

And My Father's

A Scratch-Off

Drop Dead

Ticket Then

of Life; Yet Indeed,

At Least it Gave Him

Something to Live for;

Like People Who Worship

After Death More Than Life;

True, at Least my Mother Wasn't too Afraid to 'go' Either...

It's All Relative, Really, Whatever Ticket Buys Us Paradise Now or Just Surviving;

Yet Best Part of All Is For Those Who Manage Their REAL Breathing Soul to make Heaven

Now Real Within....

True Whole
Complete

Enough

Within NoW;

It's Hard to
Wanna Eat Much
of Anything When
One is Always Empty
Within, Truly Always Starving For As Real As Real Gets

Now; A Currency of Love, Pay Rate, And Pay Grade Same the

Very, Very, Best Life Within REAL Soul Offers to me, to Give, Share, Care, For Free...



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14 Jul 2021, 5:54 pm

Brainiac42 wrote:
Nades wrote:
Well, assuming it's the old paper currency and not these new fangled plastic notes you actually can eat money to some extent.


The purpose of the song, condensed, is that we ruin our planet for material items/to make money but when the planet is ruined and no longer habitable, we cannot eat that money to survive.


the song doesn't go into who "we" are, does it? because jeff bezos won't live to the point where he needs to eat his money anyway. The remaining Koch brother definitely not. I might. my nephews pretty certainly will.


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14 Jul 2021, 6:08 pm

I don't know. Maybe with the right sauce.


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15 Jul 2021, 3:08 am

VegetableMan wrote:
I don't know. Maybe with the right sauce.


Leafy green stuff?

Thats a job for salad dressing. Not sauce. :lol: