tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20154279.post7266790030014405100..comments2024-02-06T12:28:07.710+00:00Comments on Sunday Posts: Arguments with Myself: Pandora's GiftSupriyo Chaudhurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05447230684750188797noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20154279.post-65244342543665467202011-02-14T16:00:09.823+00:002011-02-14T16:00:09.823+00:00Niti
I think we are in agreement, actually.
In ...Niti<br /><br />I think we are in agreement, actually. <br /><br />In fact, selfish accumulation of wealth leads not just to unhappiness, but lack of health and general well-being. Indeed, there is a debate raging at this time, starting with Richard Wilkinson's highly influential The Spirit Level, and Michael Foley's The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it hard to be happy, and theSupriyo Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05447230684750188797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20154279.post-55448436295427875532011-02-14T14:53:02.776+00:002011-02-14T14:53:02.776+00:00I think you over estimate the rich. I read somewhe...I think you over estimate the rich. I read somewhere that 'the size of happiness in a family is inversely proportionate to the size of the house.'<br /><br />The God would never be redundant. God itself, gowever is a debatable issue. God is a very personaly choice. Some see idols, I see an energy that does exist, beyond our capacity to understand it.<br /><br />Philosophically and Nitihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09852060249428063274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20154279.post-17640836905192288012011-02-14T13:44:23.110+00:002011-02-14T13:44:23.110+00:00Sherri
In a way, Church was right: Galileo starte...Sherri<br /><br />In a way, Church was right: Galileo started it all. Since his time, and Francis Bacon, we have started believing in progress, that knowledge can be enhanced and lives can be better, rather than accepting the inevitable cyclical nature of history and that since all is evident to God, we can't expand the knowledge anymore, but may gain some additional glimpse upon connecting Supriyo Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05447230684750188797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20154279.post-35505863899296300112011-02-14T13:01:00.357+00:002011-02-14T13:01:00.357+00:00thought provoking post & comments, too.
The...thought provoking post & comments, too. <br /><br />The rich, whom I don't know and don't understand, must hope too - but sometimes I think they hope for pure power, the only thing they have left to aspire to. In their quest to achieve it, they crush the poor and middle class, whom they don't know or understand.<br /><br />I notice that the 'elite' are after God lately.Sherri Bones Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06178910355643411128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20154279.post-16934272918691890552011-02-13T08:20:32.663+00:002011-02-13T08:20:32.663+00:00"I had so many people complaining that God is..."I had so many people complaining that God isn't acting rationally, or that His sense of justice is difficult to follow, I tend to think that we impose our sense of fair play on God too. "<br /><br />Well said! :)Nitihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09852060249428063274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20154279.post-57449519101500041092011-02-12T17:30:08.494+00:002011-02-12T17:30:08.494+00:00Niti
You are right. The rich indeed expect and de...Niti<br /><br />You are right. The rich indeed expect and desire and the beggars indeed wish and pray, and the object changes depending on where you are in life's, and sometimes Maslow's, pyramid.<br /><br />Rightly, you bring in faith. Yesterday, someone was explaining to me how faith is a great leveller. I am sure this is right. However, I shall think faith in God is somewhat like our Supriyo Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05447230684750188797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20154279.post-7045071670683972832011-02-12T16:12:48.421+00:002011-02-12T16:12:48.421+00:00I completely admire the way you write. That said, ...I completely admire the way you write. That said, I don't think that the rich don't hope. I believe the benchmark for hope changes. The rich don't hope for mortgage house or cars, just like the middle class doesn't hope for survival like a beggar does. Hope is what keeps one running all through their life, irrespective of their bank balance. If they have the money, they hope for aNitihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09852060249428063274noreply@blogger.com