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To: Lazarus who wrote (110171)	1/26/2015 1:51:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218671

Thanks for the free psychoanalysis, which is very popular in American circles. <RE: " You really don't have any idea what wealth is." Ironically, neither do you.... for wealth, my friend, is one of life's illusions, and you really don't know wealth at all. But the best of you is found in these words: "Bludger scum like you calling me a self-indulgent pig can go to Hell." AH... an atheist who's been insulted to such an extent as to hope the injustice he's suffered can be punished ... not just in this life... but in the one to come.... of which he proclaims does not even exist.> It's always amusing when people can do mind-reading over the internet. Actually, I do have a very good understanding of what wealth is. And thanks for explaining to me that the infrastructure I built decades ago stands for generations and is of benefit to all those new 1%ers to come who did not have to build them and can stand on the shoulders of the hordes who have gone before. Wealth is not one of life's illusions. It's a very practical concrete thing such as "Oh look, I can eat a cob of corn instead of starving today." If you think starving is an illusion, you are welcome to demonstrate it and you can also investigate whether there is a Hell or not after you have starved. You can explain to the tenants there that it turned out the cob of corn was wealth. Yes, I do hope the Nazis of the world go to Hell and are punished on the way to dissuade others. It's not really much to do with atheism or theism. It's educational. Having not had wealth, and had it, I can tell you that it's very convenient to have wealth. It's not an illusion. I find I know wealth quite well. I far prefer having it to not. Why do you think you have such trouble identifying wealth? Do you think a road is an illusion, a car an imagination, a fuel station a phantom, a CDMA signal a will o' the wisp, an A380 ethereal? Mqurice

To: Lazarus who wrote (110171)	1/26/2015 2:18:30 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218671

Managing capital is lifting a finger. People who can't manage it destroy lives en masse. The terrible and stupid idea "it's only money" is evil incarnate. <His philosophy was simple: For example, if he had an investment in the newspaper company you delivered papers for, or the cement company that you lugged those sacks for, or in the railway that carried them, he understood that the wealth created by his investment was built upon the backs of hardworking people such as yourself. He didn't lift a finger, so to speak; it was the likes of folks such as yourself doing all the real work, thus the wealth would be returned to the workers of society who actually created it.> My back-strengthening work was to enable me to save money and get to the stage where I could invest, which happened by the time I was 6 and started earning interest in my ASB bank account, and became a dinkum capitalist at 16 when I bought my first shares, in Mt Isa mines, which I sold and used the gains to buy a Yamaha YDS5E to replace my aged and decrepit BSA Bantam Major. I had already used earnings and interest to buy a newer bicycle when I was about 14, with drop handle bars and actual gears. The bikes were wealth. Especially the newer ones which replaced the old ones. The people who organized the capital and projects on which I worked were the ones who created more value than I did. I just moved stuff around as per directions. I didn't plan the thickness of the concrete or the number or size of steel rods to put in. As a scaffolder, I was just the help while the ticketed scaffolder told me where to put the bars. If we put it together incorrectly, we would have fallen 9 stories onto hard ground so I appreciated his know-how and that of the engineers who designed the bolts which had to not break. My work wasn't the "real" work. It was just part of it. The real work is the thinking work. A well trained monkey can wheel concrete in a wheel barrow and climb bare foot around on scaffolding like I did. A monkey would do it better as they could grip with their feet as well as their hands. Warren Buffet does the real work. I do the real work now, managing capital. Warren Buffett doesn't think "real work" is the back-strengthening work. He knows the value of great management. You can read what he says about them and the companies they run. He knows a monkey is useless unless told what to do by the investors and managers. Giving a monkey a pitchfork and stupid envious ideology and telling him to "go and get that there wealth which belongs to you" is not going to end up well for the monkey, or anyone else. Mqurice

To: Lazarus who wrote (110171)	1/27/2015 3:39:50 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218671

Look to MQ skull with the prominent browridge. He is Neanderthal. Message 29895483 You can see MQ's prominent browridge which points to possible Australoid genes. Forensic anthropologist Caroline Wilkenson wrote in 2004 that Australoids have the largest brow ridges "with moderate to large supraorbital arches" Th browridge does not allow for a big frontal lobe. Compare the 2 skulls below. My skull conforms to the Homo Sapiens Sapiens while MQ tend to the Neanderthal. Message 29895941 the small frontal lobe: The frontal lobe contains most of the dopamine-sensitive neurons in the cerebral cortex. The dopamine system is associated with reward, attention, short-term memory tasks, planning, and motivation. Dopamine tends to limit and select sensory information arriving from the thalamus to the forebrain. A report from the National Institute of Mental Health says a gene variant that reduces dopamine activity in the prefrontal cortex is related to poorer performance and inefficient functioning of that brain region during working memory tasks, and to slightly increased risk for schizophrenia. [1]