To: Keith F. Wunderlich who wrote (800 ) 12/21/1997 9:22:00 PM From: IngotWeTrust Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1756
The battle, gents, is Learning to Love...the Creator with all one's heart, soul, mind and strength, AND to love one's neighbor AS ONE LOVES ONE'S SELF! I reject the concept of inate moral depravity, frankly, which was a concept I formerly maintained w/vigor. But when I became an adult, I put away childish notions, and learned otherwise. Starting with inate depravity only leads to more practiced skills and application of same as one matures. Believing in a totally different starting point, i.e., the ultimate paradigm shift, believing in inate goodness, is the only hope to achieve with practice and skill betterment for all.I'm not inately depraved. I'm inately good. I'm not perfect in my betterment skill set. I daresay, neither are any other threaders!But it is for certain, we all exhibit different betterment of self and others skill sets!!!! I cannot speak for others who exhibit pleas for love by their unskillful and malicious actions toward themselves and others. You see, all actions are either from a place of love or from a PLEA, spoken or mutely acted out for love/acceptance/equality/betterment. If we are all created inately depraved, then what does that say about our Creator? What does this have to do w/Gold and the XAU... Only that this subject-- Who has the gold?, Who wants it? How much is there? Where can I find some?-- ultimately originates from whether we will skillfully exhibit love in our seeking & sharing gold, or abuse others by withholding and leveraging it against them, either nationally or individually by imposition of some sort of "external transparency" of fiscal affairs by some either equally inately depraved "know it all" or equally inately good "loving neigbor." Fascinating turn this topic has taken...