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DuneyBlues
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Age: 20
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Location: Enjoying Solitary Confinement
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Mine is to create ideas about the phenomenon taking place around me in the real world , this will build up on my already tarnished self-worth.
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Doubutsu
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Age: 21
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I want to learn as much as I can. I also don't want to die but... 
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Mayel
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Joined: Jul 31, 2011
Posts: 460
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I want to learn as much as I can,...as much as possible. Someday, I hope I'll be able to describe the world in terms that are understandable for everyone but also for myself in the hopes to let a sense of serenity be felt by others if they understand.
This is the most generalized way to put what I would consider my life goal. |
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TheDarkMage
Velociraptor
Joined: Feb 21, 2012
Posts: 418
Location: united kingdom
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AnnettaMarie
Phoenix
Joined: Jan 10, 2012
Age: 25
Posts: 1238
Location: Issaquah, WA
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I want to restore old paintings and books before they're put on display in museums.
I would also like to create a short film using very soft music to create the story of make believe little creatures using stop animation and sculptures/puppetry.
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Sweetleaf
Metalhead
Joined: Jan 07, 2011
Age: 23
Posts: 14869
Location: Somewhere in Colorado
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I don't really know.
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nick007
old-skewl fan-boy
Joined: May 05, 2010
Age: 30
Posts: 9805
Location: was Louisiana but moved in with my girlfreind in Vermont
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kg4fxg
Snowy Owl
Joined: Feb 08, 2012
Posts: 168
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:57 pm Post subject: $$Money$$ |
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To make money, the root of all that is good.
If I had plenty of money and no need to work I would pursue a PhD. Most likely in Philosophy. Second I would pursue a Law Degree. Currently, I have a B.A. degree, CPA, CGMA certifications. I would forever live in some college library.
"Money is the tool of men who have reached a high level of productivity and a long-range control over their lives. Money is not merely a tool of exchange: much more importantly, it is a tool of saving, which permits delayed consumption and buys time for future production. To fulfill this requirement, money has to be some material commodity which is imperishable, rare, homogeneous, easily stored, not subject to wide fluctuations of value, and always in demand among those you trade with. This leads you to the decision to use gold as money. Gold money is a tangible value in itself and a token of wealth actually produced. When you accept a gold coin in payment for your goods, you actually deliver the goods to the buyer; the transaction is as safe as simple barter. When you store your savings in the form of gold coins, they represent the goods which you have actually produced and which have gone to buy time for other producers, who will keep the productive process going, so that you’ll be able to trade your coins for goods any time you wish.
When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor—your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?
Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions—and you’ll learn that man’s mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.
But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made—before it can be looted or mooched—made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders.
Most people lump together into the same category all men who become rich, refusing to consider the essential question: the source of the riches, the means by which the wealth was acquired.
Money is a tool of exchange; it represents wealth only so long as it can be traded for material goods and services. Wealth does not grow in nature; it has to be produced by men. Nature gives us only the raw materials, but it is man’s mind that has to discover the knowledge of how to use them. It is man’s thinking and labor that transform the materials into food, clothing, shelter or television sets—into all the goods that men require for their survival, comfort and pleasure.
Behind every step of humanity’s long climb from the cave to New York City, there is the man who took that step for the first time—the man who discovered how to make a fire or a wheel or an airplane or an electric light.
When people refuse to consider the source of wealth, what they refuse to recognize is the fact that wealth is the product of man’s intellect, of his creative ability, fully as much as is art, science, philosophy or any other human value.
Money is a great power—because, in a free or even a semi-free society, it is a frozen form of productive energy. And, therefore, the spending of money is a grave responsibility. Contrary to the altruists and the advocates of the so-called “academic freedom,” it is a moral crime to give money to support ideas with which you disagree; it means: ideas which you consider wrong, false, evil. It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers."
From Ayn Rand Lexicon |
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TenPencePiece
Curiosity Killed the Cone
Joined: Dec 12, 2009
Age: 18
Posts: 44574
Location: Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
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I don't know - something to do with the autism spectrum I would have thought.
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JesseCat
Sea Gull
Joined: Dec 27, 2011
Posts: 228
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Join the Air Force. Travel the world. See the Aurora Borealis. Get my PhD. Become an astrophysicist or engineer. Live to over 100.
I might never achieve any of these, but it's worth a shot. |
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OliveOilMom
Queen of cans and jars
Joined: Nov 12, 2011
Posts: 6990
Location: Living in Faulkner's nightmare
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To be happy.
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