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Is’nt Money the Root to all Evil??

When I look around I see how money destroys people’s lives. It’s as though it creeps into the human system like a thief in the night and then starts eating away like a cancer into the very core of the human value system.

I don’t dispute the fact that all of us need money to survive in this world but in reality how much do we need?? Coz the way I see it the more money people have the more they want.

Some people even tend to have the perception that money can buy you anything. I don’t agree with such people coz to me it seems a very shallow way of thinking. Happiness and love which are some of the most magnificent gifts in life can not be bought.

Some parents work really hard to earn lots of money to give their kids every luxury in life. But at the end of the day what’s the use of it all?? Those parents will only be able to provide materialistically for their kids which is simply NOT ENOUGH. Children need much more by way of love, affection and not forgetting the most important on the list Time.
In my eyes it seems as though money has been the ruination to everything in life, specially the human value system….. What do you think???



Comments

Anonymous said…
Money aint the root of all evil.. LACK of money is the root of all evil :)
Darwin said…
Actually, I do believe religion is the root of all evil, as was very succinctly put by Richard Dawkins.
Sam said…
//I do believe religion is the root of all evil//
I have to agree with that some what. Even though it is not the root, it is the most evil thing exists in the world so far.

//LACK of money is the root of all evil :) //that is bloody evil. Indeed

Money is not the root of evil. Money is a great system humans ever invented.

By the way I don’t think there are any roots to evil. Evil is just different to goodness. For goodness to exist, evil must exist too.
Mahisha said…
people's attitude towards money, religion will make money/religion a good thing, or a bad thing. so the root is attitude.

For me, I want to earn a sufficient amount to maintain my life style. Each ones lifestyle will differ from person to person.... so the amount needed, and the way you go about collecting it will be different...

Religion: not everyone who does 'not have a religion' is bad (or good); not everyone who 'has a religion' is good (or bad)- boils down to whether he/she believes in hurting other people under what ever pretext... a
Anonymous said…
i know wat u mean abt money causing problems but it's a necessary evil...
What on earth is wrong with you people !!! I AM THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL !!!
Anonymous said…
I remember reading a formula from long time back that suggested that women are the root of all evil.

women require time and money therefore;
women = time * money
Time is Money therefore;
Time = money
and;
Women = Money (squared)
Money is the root of all evil
Therefore;
Money (squared) = evil
From above;
women = money (squared)
Therefore;
Women = evil

(ok so they may not be the root of all evil, but evil nonetheless.)
Dark_Horse said…
Money is just a tangible version of human greed. Human greed is the evil (the root, the trunk, branches, the leaves and all of it). We all want more and more... money is the accepted method of getting more and more... thus human desire/greed is the evil....
Anonymous said…
oh no...i didnt ditch it...illl never ditch ym old blog...its just that kottu couldnt get the feed form a blogsome server...so i parallely made this blog just for kottu's sake... so both blogs would exists....and the same posts would be on both of them... so dont worry! lolz
n#, hmmm, I can neither agree nor disagree with you coz just as much as money can be the root of all evil, lack of money too can bring on just as much evil…

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Darwin I don’t agree with you at all. How on earth can religion is the root of all evil??? (care to explain your theory) Gosh Sam, on what basis do you agree with Darwin??? And what did Richard Dawkins say??? “(Im blank on that one)
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Ya Sam, money is a good system, but acquiring too much of money is when evil sets in….

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Mahisha, ya I guess a person’s attitude too can play a big role in the existence of evil. But what I don’t get is how it can be applied to religion? (Of all things Religion)

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Hey Anonymous, why don’t you sign off with a pen name? (any name that you want to be identified with) . That’s just a suggestion, coz many people can leave a comment with the name “Anonymous” and then there’s no knowing who is who.

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Gosh ddm, you sound like your obsessed with maths……... errr!!! I have no mathematical formulas for that one. But I do not agree with it at all.

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Gosh Dark Horse you sure have a very good argument there. And I have to say that I wholeheartedly agree with it.

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Hey Parthi, nice to hear from you. Hmmm that’s strange that kottu couldn’t get a feed from the blogsome server… anyway good to hear that you are still aboard kottu. Btw hope that life is treating you better. Take care.
Mahisha said…
Oh....what i meant was people's attitude towards religion and some religious teachings. Eg: stem cell research - could potentially offer cures, but would not religion step in? certain religious 'leaders' opinion on contraception, euthanasia.... not everyone wants to live by them.

Most people want to 'belong' to something, and as a result they would follow what they are told to follow. even in married life, if they were to strictly adhere to some religious leaders, it would cause a lot of problems esp with regard to contraception.

IMO:No one should be allowed to force their view on the other - that is evil - making other's live their life, the way so-called leaders want them to....
Hey Mahisha,
Now I get what you were trying to say and I should say it makes a lot of sense.
Hey Mahisha,
I don’t mean to display my ignorance but what does “IMO:” mean??? Does it mean something like “In My Opinion”???

And does “Kudos” mean something like congrats or similar meaning??? :)

By the way if time permits I won’t mind if you can share some/all of the short acronyms that you know like IMO….. coz I hardly know any :)
Mahisha said…
:) oh... i use a number of TLA's (Three letter abbreviations every now and then... you probably know most of them.. I will just list the few that come to my tiny mind, which i have had to tell what it was meant to stand for, when i first used em ....

kudos: praise

IMO: correct ;)
IMHO: in my humble opinion
ETA: estimated time of arrival (my favourite!)
FYI: for your information
TBD: to be done
WIP: work in progress
WPB: waste paper basket - I used a long long time ago when speaking with my first employer... it was, so very funny having to explain it to him and argue for it!
CYA: Cover your ass - Uhm, not meant in any sort of 'bad' way - but to ask people to put 'disclaimers' about certain expressed opinions (sometimes for legal reasons) and to cover themselves from certain accusations...
Hey thanks a million Mahisha for updating me on so many TLA's. I should admit I haven’t heard more than half of them.
Anonymous said…
Totally agree.
Anonymous said…
Actualy its money and women. The two MOST WANTED things.
ha ha :) i dont agree with you on the latter part. I dont think that everyone can be judged by the same yardstick so i think its wrong to think that all women are the root to all evil. May be a few of them but then again i think a few men too fall into that category.
Anonymous said…
ok... your talking about the ROOT of all evil right? So it isnt religon because some religions formed just to make money... but it isnt money or lack of money either because humans created money. so what is it REALLY? well I guess you could say HUMAN EXISTENCE is the root of all evil... I mean you could take it a step further: Human creation is the root of all evil... HOWEVER this is where it gets controversal and debatable because of mannnyyy different beliefs of human creation : big bang, adam and eve, evolution, etc... so I think its safe to take it back just as far as Human existence....

that is all... :)