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To: Chas. who wrote (47312)	3/10/2009 4:19:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218057

Thank your for the suggestion Chas, but I have tried having no material possessions and being homeless. It's very unpleasant when there are mosquitoes, it's cold and you have only a can of baked beans and no can opener and no water to drink. Sand is also very hard to sleep on and it's better to head for some grass on the side of the road. Two years of it would be very unpleasant and pointless. I prefer to put a bit of effort in and come up with some excellent and well-appointed material accoutrements to enhance my life. Material possessions are no more limiting to mindfulness than is having feet, hands, eyes or ears. They simply help provide an interface from mind to 3D. I suggest you cut off your feet and hands to see what I mean. That might seem at first glance a silly idea, but that's just because you are trapped in your own mind. See how you are trapped in your own mind with this idea? <As for you escaping the depths of your own mind, it is pretty much hopeless at your advanced age... > It is fixed and false belief you gained and have imprisoned your own thinking with it. Mqurice

To: Chas. who wrote (47312)	3/10/2009 7:17:46 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218057

so far, per report from hk-based luxury goods distributor, the mainland chinese middle class purchase of luxury goods is flat year on year, and buying by hk-based middle class is down 20-40% year on year depending on item in question. iow, mainland chinese middle class is not even aware that a global depression is well underway. they will be milked for tax to feed the 20 mn unemployed, doubtless. but that is not what revolutions are made of. revolutions are made of events whereby an entire generation of people are pauperized right during the leadup to their otherwise golden retirement years, and find that their college graduating kids have no jobs to go to and must live with mom and dad, sharing the single car, while all must defend against folks from the south gushing north, powered by the same saving-free inertial that leads to inevitably chaotic conditions suitable for revolutionary reset. without revolution now, when it could be relatively inexpensive in cost and comparatively short in duration, a greater crisis will be, say within 7 tp 10 years, i figure.