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To: TH who wrote (49459)	4/10/2006 3:48:44 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

The exchange of information will trump the snipers and their guns. And yet with the internet we still have all these secrets - black box voting - illegal pollution - perhaps some problems are just beyond information gathering: Message 22341687 Follow that thread through a couple comments on the NARUS technology used to track you and give me your thoughts. Do you think buying gold is going to stop the corruption and evil around you? A lot of people tell me buy gold Shades - that will keep the gubbment honest - I think they are delusional. Gold won't keep the gubbment honest - never has. It's not about the gold, never was. I want my militia to be formed by the guy two doors down from me and across the street (common average guys), and the pastor, preacher, minister, whatever of the local church. My bum friend in hawaii said it really sucked when they arrested the preacher at the protest last week. starbulletin.com When and if the time comes to form a militia, the cause will not require explanation. Yah my bum friend said it is sad there are thousands of homeless starving to death in one of the richest states in the nation with billions dollar citizens all around - hehe. A bunch of gun-nuts that want to take turns patrolling a border does not meet my litmus test. Have you been to hawaii - they love hula hoops and surf boards, not guns - but I guess there just isn't enough pineapple and macadamia nuts to go around - hehe. Digital money and gold should never exist in the same sentence. Gold is the anti-digital money. Yet one is our present and future, and one is our past - hehe. Bre-X? So I shouldn't invest in energy because of Enron? Thats actually a pretty good point - you would think people would learn wall street isnt there to help them. I'm surprised you have not accepted one basic reason gold is valuable. Women like it, Some people have some very distorated pre conceived notion about my humor - regardless you must have missed the tons of posts I made to General Chen where I gave my nieces some gold bracelets and necklaces and they took them to the pawn store and traded them for brittney spears cd's. Frankly I quit caring about "what women want" a good time ago in the way you are talking about. Gold has value because it has 5000 years of acceptance. First read this by my hero - the Big Lebowski - jeffbridges.com Then this - ageofconsent.com - for thousands of years sleeping with a 10 year old child was accepted too - see how silly your arguement is? The world changes - change with it or get left behind. answering-christianity.com Some more on doing things just because they have always been done that way Drop me in any country on earth, and in a few hours I can convert gold to a currency that can be used for exchange. Les Stroud gets dropped in many different places and countries - he lives not because he has a gold trinket in his pocket - have you ever watched survivorman? I imagine in many places if I dropped you with a gold coin you would be dead - not even to get your gold - just because some people like to kill you. When, where, how much are all determined by the person with the gold. No that is a flat lie - the gold never mattered - the guy with the gun backing the gold, the sea shells, the paper - that is all the REALLY matters. George Orwell. ... people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf Go watch Mad Max 3 again - it aint the man with the gold that gets the camels - its the man with the planes and the guns from what I saw. The guy with the paper has to look around a bit longer to reverse the transaction. Gold trumps all paper, and it always will (digital too). I will make a bet with you - my 20 sniper guys wearing govt issued bullet proof vests and the jail cells they will put you in and the lawyers they have backing them and the wall street guys, bankers, finance folks all over the globe versus you and mogambo and your shiny trinkets - I bet you are gonna lose. I'm not too interested in the honest money angle of gold. I'm interested in protecting X hours of labor. Now we are getting into the REAL reason gold bugs get so SCARED - as they become marginalized by machines or globalisation from cheaper workers or what have you - they don't want to lose thier standard of living - they want to be VALUABLE to the future and get all the nice things that future society will bring them - that is why GOLD sucks you all in - you WANT to think you can walk over to the coin shop singing zippity do dah and not have to do ANYTHING ELSE to have WEALTH in the future - well friend let me tell you as an EX ibm genius that got the boot from some cheap Indian boys - you are in NEVER NEVER LAND with PETER PAN. You want to have wealth in the future - you want a nice standard of living in the future - you better remain COMPETITIVE to what the world of the future values and needs on a daily basis - daily consumables - or go bolshevik with Marx and realize as you age and get less and less valuable to society and less wanted and needed by your kids - they will value you in thier heart for more than how many shiny metals you have collecting dust up in your closet. John Henry knew he had to fight that drilling machine - gold was not gonna keep the food coming to his table for very long. The sauds are scared shitless we will find Mr. Fusion to power our cars - then what will they have but worthless black goo? And, I never owned a single ounce of gold before 2003, so I'm not a perpetual bug. Gold is a reset button. Like all those that horded it in 1929 eh? Right now your currency is playing musical chairs. I have elected to stop playing for a while, as I don't like the current tune. The thing is - if society resets - you are still gonna need gas to make your car go, food to make your bones grow, medicine to make the pain slow. After you have spent up your gold on medicine I will still be fixing the doctors computers and getting mine - then what will you have - no skills, no medicine, no gold - the grim reaper is all that will be left for you. We will see how it plays out, but I would not be surprised if gold was again a top performer in 2006, and 2007, and maybe well beyond. Gold going up in worthless clown bucks is not the answer to the worlds ails - don't become a religious nut. Dont follow the herd, invest in yourself - that beats gold or dollars.