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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (512)	9/16/2005 3:37:43 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217588

Maurice Re: "digging up everything to find more" That is probably the best argument against the use of gold as a currency. But that is an argument based upon logic and reason and the human desire to own gold is not of necessity a logical thing. But I don't suppose it is an innate desire either, it is learned and is traditional. But beyond a skillful propaganda effort against the idea of "gold as wealth" how would you accomplish your "logical" effort to suppress gold ownership? Governmental coercion or forced confiscation? OTOH you could clearly make a sort of "secular" counterargument that as all human effort serves no real higher purpose "digging up everything" to find gold is as valid an activity as any other. Come to think of it I have heard libertarian argumnets of exactly that nature. Slagle

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (512)	9/16/2005 10:47:41 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

Hello again, Maurice, <<They need money and their pixelation process is like a heroin drip, mainlining them on a daily basis. Pulling the needle will not make them happy>> ... all true, except the end game is the same each and every awful time. You do see that truth, do you not? Life, for the most part, does not involve happiness. It is all about excitement and thrills, lessons, and teachings. <<There simply isn't enough of it in existence to act as a currency and if it was used, it would have to be something like $10,000 an ounce >> ... and precisely what would be so strange about this most certainly possible outcome. It is not as if it hadn't happened many times in the past. Chugs, J