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Posted by creative1985@gmail.com on April 7, 2009, 10:58 pm
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> creative1...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Warm Worm> wrote:
> >> Leonardo DiCaprio apparently bought an entire island off the coast of
> >> Belize, and plans on a resort, even though he hasn't necessarily worke=
> >> any harder than your average nurse or designer-- an entire island, tha=
> >> he's going to 'develop'. Meanwhile he just produced a green documentar=
> >> about the multitude of environmental issues we face.
> >> What's wrong with this picture?
> > Lots of things, from various angles.
> > I saw a video where he was chastizing people for their behavior
> > regarding the *green* issue of the day.
> > He should clean his own act up and let other people alone.
> > Regarding his land: Rulemakers use the monopoly on force to tell Leo
> > what he can and can't do with his own property.
> > Most unfortunate, and immoral.
> > The degree of *hardness* in his work is irrelevent to just about
> > everything except as a pivot point for those consumed by envy.
> For the sake of in some sense clarifying my stance, let me give you 2
> simplified hypothetical scenarios:
> 1. If every rich person were to buy up all the land in the world, then
> there'd be little land left for anyone else, and what was left would be
> very expensive.
What if gov'ts stole money from people and bought up all the land with
it, then charged outrageous sums from everybody to live on it?
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> 2. If a native American tribe owned all the land in America and a
> European tribe came over and bought it with all the money they had, it
> would still not equal the value of the land.
Is it an urban legend that the indians did not believe in owning land?
If not, then how could they sell something they didn't own?
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> > Where others gravitate to envy but I frequently see inspiration.
> > Read everything by Napolean Hill.
> With all the literature pining for my attention so that it might take a
> few lifetimes to get through, why should I read him in particular?
I'm working on a book right now titled something like "365 ways to
deal with stress" and I am continuously amazed at what some publishers
think will sell.
Not long ago I did one called *Obamaland*, a guy from england
preaching to the choir about the messiah.
Enough already.
6 months ago I blew $200 at amazon and haven't touched any of them
yet...........
Did you know that history says baseball was invented in Cooperstown NY
in 1839 by a dood named Abner Doubleday, a man that gained his
famousness mainly from his role in the civil war, and its all based on
the word of his best friend another dood named Abner something or
other who was declared mentally unstable and eventually committed a
homicde on himself, and no other proof at all?
Coincidently, the rules Doubleday supposedly wrote for baseball look
hauntingly similar to those written about a ball game in a 15th
century british novel.
Thats from a book I worked on a couple months ago about the Baseball
Hall of Fame.
Next in line: a book dealing with the entire history of Darwin, ought
to be interesting, and then one by an astronaut from the early 70's.
Oh, did I mention that I have broadened my horizons, in many ways? heh
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>> Leonardo DiCaprio apparently bought an entire island off the coast of
>> Belize, and plans on a resort, even though he hasn't necessarily worked
>> any harder than your average nurse or designer-- an entire island, that
>> he's going to 'develop'. Meanwhile he just produced a green documentary
>> about the multitude of environmental issues we face.
>> What's wrong with this picture?
>
> Lots of things, from various angles.
> I saw a video where he was chastizing people for their behavior
> regarding the *green* issue of the day.
> He should clean his own act up and let other people alone.
>
> Regarding his land: Rulemakers use the monopoly on force to tell Leo
> what he can and can't do with his own property.
> Most unfortunate, and immoral.
> The degree of *hardness* in his work is irrelevent to just about
> everything except as a pivot point for those consumed by envy.