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Knowledge or wealth

Knowledge or wealth


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If you had to choose between being ignorant and wealthy or being poor but understanding the truth, which would you choose?
 
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The truth about what? I don't always want "the truth." Generally people don't want the truth and will get angry or deny it if told the truth.

There is almost no situation where a person can be both rich and ignorant. But being stupidly happy and rich is far superior that realizing the full misery of your impoverished life living in a cardboard box wondering where your next meal is coming from.
 
Generally people don't want the truth and will get angry or deny it if told the truth.

That's right and is why if most people REALLY had the choice, they would choose ignorant and wealthy. Very rare would someone actually choose poverty and knowledge.
 
The rich have their own truths.

Knowledge and understanding is wealth.
 
The rich have their own truths.

The rich, like almost everyone else, have their egotistical illusions that they cater to. The truth is only useful when it suits those purposes, otherwise not.

Knowledge and understanding is wealth.

Absolutely! Ignorance is at the root of all suffering.
 
If you had to choose between being ignorant and wealthy or being poor but understanding the truth, which would you choose?

If I had the choice between the two I would pick ignorant and wealthy. I know what it is like being poor. I know what it is like living paycheck to paycheck.
 
Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance with a heaping helping of cash to go along with it is even better.
 
I could never be happy with being ignorant even more so with being wealthy and ignorant as that can be dangerous . Besides a fool and his money are soon parted
 
I could never be happy with being ignorant even more so with being wealthy and ignorant as that can be dangerous . Besides a fool and his money are soon parted

Hmmmm? They still pay the First Moron GWBush to give speeches.
 
If I had the choice between the two I would pick ignorant and wealthy. I know what it is like being poor. I know what it is like living paycheck to paycheck.

Ain't that the truth. A lot of people on here seem to be ignorant of what that is really like.
 
If I had the choice between the two I would pick ignorant and wealthy. I know what it is like being poor. I know what it is like living paycheck to paycheck.

You have made an honest statement and that is surely the choice that most people would make. However, what you don't realize is that real knowledge would make it such that you would be very happy, even if you had no wealth.
 
You have made an honest statement and that is surely the choice that most people would make. However, what you don't realize is that real knowledge would make it such that you would be very happy, even if you had no wealth.
Ignorance is also bliss.Plus wealth means you don't have to worry about a lot of things that poor people do.
 
Ain't that the truth. A lot of people on here seem to be ignorant of what that is really like.
I think a lot of those people never grew up poor.Yes you can be happy and poor.But money solves a lot of problems.
 
Nonsensical question. If you have knowledge, then you can make wealth.
 
Ignorance is also bliss.Plus wealth means you don't have to worry about a lot of things that poor people do.

No ignorance is not bliss, rather it is at the root of suffering. Although a person with wealth may not have the precise types of financial problems that people without wealth experience, nonetheless they experience anxiety and suffering. Here's an example of a well know case.

Cline said she gave Limbaugh 10 pills the next day and agreed to give him 30 of her husband's pills each month. When the doctor stopped renewing the prescription in early 1999, Limbaugh allegedly went ballistic.

"His tone was nasty and bullying. He said, 'I don't care how or what you do, but you'd better - better! - get me some more,'" Cline said.

The housekeeper said she found a new supplier and arranged to hide Limbaugh's stashes under his mattress so his wife, Marta, wouldn't find them.

After several months, Limbaugh told her he was going to New York for detox and didn't need any more pills, Cline said.

But a month later, he said his left ear was hurting and asked her for hydrocodone, followed by an order for OxyContin.

Limbaugh, 52, suffered from autoimmune ear disease, a condition that left him deaf and had to be corrected with cochlear implant surgery two years ago.

Cline said she continued to make deliveries to Limbaugh even after she quit as his housekeeper in July 2001 - but he became increasingly paranoid, even patting her down for recording devices, she said.

In June 2002, Limbaugh told her he was going to New York for detox a second time.

After he returned, "I went to talk to him, and he cried a little bit," she said. "He told me that if it ever got out, he would be ruined."

She claimed that a lawyer for Limbaugh gave her a payoff - $80,000 he owed her, plus another $120,000 - and asked her to destroy the computer that contained the E-mail records.

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The truth jamesrage is that we do not understand the extent of our massive ignorance. The problem is that because the phenomenon of sentience is beyond what can be properly understood through mundane logic and empirical based research, it is something that is not currently understood in the various paradigms of knowledge that have been devised by western civilization. Therefore modern human civilization has evolved around knowledge that is very narrowly confined to mundane things. In contrast, the Katha Upanishad contains detailed information about the nature of sentience. The Sanskrit terms for sentience are cetah and atma. Actually, although we don't realize it, the sentient being, atma if you will, has a problem that is quite a bit larger than lack of wealth. That problem is that although it is eternal, it is trying to experience happiness through the acquisition of mundane things which are temporary. The atma experiences suffering because by nature it is eternal and desires eternal happiness, but it can only attain to a type of temporary, and therefore illusory happiness by such endeavor. The only way for the atma to experience happiness is for it to link its activity with that of the Supreme atma, or what is known in Sanskrit as the Paramatma, also known as the Paramishvara, Supreme Controller, God. There is no other way. Wealth simply cannot do it. Its just like a junky trying to be happy by getting a temporary high with drugs, or a man trying to be happy by paying a prostitute for sex. Such endeavor can only led to temporary, illusory happiness only, and result in suffering in the end.
 
Hmmmm? They still pay the First Moron GWBush to give speeches.

LOL, Bush is much smarter than most Americans. Even White House Counsel Lanny Davis admitted that Bush was a genius when it came to understanding other people and being able to get along with them


His military IQ test demonstrated he scored higher than either Kerry or Kennedy. and like it or not, you cannot graduate from Harvard Business school if you are a moron.

when Bush was a pledge back in the days Yale had fraternities, he and all the other pledges were in some meeting with upper class members. Pledges were asked if they could name all the other pledges in the room and Bush not only did that, he had learned their home towns as well

sorry DF-Morons cannot do that sort of thing.
 
The truth about what? I don't always want "the truth." Generally people don't want the truth and will get angry or deny it if told the truth.

There is almost no situation where a person can be both rich and ignorant. But being stupidly happy and rich is far superior that realizing the full misery of your impoverished life living in a cardboard box wondering where your next meal is coming from.

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LOL, Bush is much smarter than most Americans. Even White House Counsel Lanny Davis admitted that Bush was a genius when it came to understanding other people and being able to get along with them


His military IQ test demonstrated he scored higher than either Kerry or Kennedy. and like it or not, you cannot graduate from Harvard Business school if you are a moron.

when Bush was a pledge back in the days Yale had fraternities, he and all the other pledges were in some meeting with upper class members. Pledges were asked if they could name all the other pledges in the room and Bush not only did that, he had learned their home towns as well

sorry DF-Morons cannot do that sort of thing.

The whole "Bush is a dunce" thing was always wrong. He's not a polished speaker, so the Left takes that a stupid. Of course Hillary's shrill style, is like music to their ears. :roll:
 
If you had to choose between being ignorant and wealthy or being poor but understanding the truth, which would you choose?

Better to have bucks in the bank.

However, I'm not really sure what the underlying point is, or even if you meant to have one.
 
LOL, Bush is much smarter than most Americans. Even White House Counsel Lanny Davis admitted that Bush was a genius when it came to understanding other people and being able to get along with them


His military IQ test demonstrated he scored higher than either Kerry or Kennedy. and like it or not, you cannot graduate from Harvard Business school if you are a moron.

when Bush was a pledge back in the days Yale had fraternities, he and all the other pledges were in some meeting with upper class members. Pledges were asked if they could name all the other pledges in the room and Bush not only did that, he had learned their home towns as well

sorry DF-Morons cannot do that sort of thing.

He's not a moron although even I personally sometimes would want to call him one. However, I seldom agree with many of the things he has done/advocated for.

That guy signed the PATRIOT act, and the way that act is abused is almost treasonous. That's my biggest "WTF" with Bush.
 
Better to have bucks in the bank.

However, I'm not really sure what the underlying point is, or even if you meant to have one.

Not so. You should know that the soul is eternal.
 
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