To: Maurice Winn who wrote (37508 ) 1/24/2011 11:19:35 PM From: saraw1 3 Recommendations Respond to Mqurice, Mqurice, Mqurice: what will I do with you?!our beautiful cyberspace resonated with aspects of of Buddhist philosophy. I merely pointed out that there were similarities. Not once did I suggest that the Internet was a form of Buddhism, thereby implying that it requires us to release all attachments in order to gain relief from the suffering that is life. Common threads do not a knot make.value and cash are entirely different things . I suspect the citizens of any country that has experienced hyper-inflation (Argentina, anyone?) would be more than happy to provide illustrative examples. When you say teaching - or any other female-dominated profession - is fading in value, I suspect you are referring to cash value, which is and always has been a chimera, a fantasy - or as a Buddhist would describe it: Maya (illusion). Per the sign that Einstein kept on his door at Princeton: Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted . Oh, by the way, men in female-dominated professions make less than men in other fields, but they still make more than equally qualified women holding the very same jobs. Last time I checked, the ratio of womens' salaries to mens,' correcting for time in role, level of competence, education, and etc., was in the range of .79-.81 on the dollar. What we are talking about here is not a tectonic shift in the locus of value -- it is a case of a) misplaced valuation, and b) discrimination.This is purely outstanding: "Then there was the question of whether God plays dice and whether Schroedinger is dead or alive [detectable only if he opens the box to see if we are alive - thinking out of the box so to speak]." just plain wrong : I already told you I wasn't a Buddhist!
