On May 16, 6:24 pm, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 16, 9:03 am, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > On Fri, 16 May 2008 13:04:11 +0530, "John Galt"
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> >> >><retrogro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 07:58:05 +0530, "John Galt"
> >> >>> <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >>>>> NO. If people say they are happy then they are happy. It is
not
> >> >>>>> up
> >> >>>>> to
> >> >>>>> you to tell them what makes them happy.
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> >> >>>>You're suggesting that people will be happy with less money to
spend
> >> >>>>next
> >> >>>>year than they do this year?
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> >> >>>>Seriously?
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> >> >>> Do you honestly believe wealth and happiness are related. LOL.
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> >> >>Wealth? Who said anything about wealth? I'm talking about raising
> >> >>families.
> >> >>I'm talking about food on the table, enough money for your kid to
play
> >> >>Little League, having your kid's birthday party at Chuckie Cheese,
or
> >> >>maybe
> >> >>if you can afford piano lessons for your daughter. At the lower and
> >> >>middle
> >> >>class layers of society, you're damn right money is tied to
happiness.
> >> >>If
> >> >>it
> >> >>wasn't, money wouldn't be continually cited as one of the primary
> >> >>causes
> >> >>of
> >> >>divorce.
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> >> > Nonsense.
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> >> Then feed me more than your personal anecdotes in refutation. I KNOW
poor
> >> people can be happy -- I've spent no shortage of time educating their
> >> children. That said, the idea you're proposing, that people don't
care
> >> about
> >> giving their children "things" as cited, and they're just as happy if
> >> they
> >> cannot if they can, is absurd.
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> > Dear God..they let a Randroid teach their children? <shudder>
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> If you're referring to somebody who follows the philosophy of Ayn Rand,
I do
> not.
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Of course, which is why you chose the name of the Randroid's favorite
ficitional character for a pseudonym.
Didn't you get on my case awhile ago about reading only half of "Atlas
Shrugged"?
Sounds like a Randroid to me.
> You know what they say about people who assume.
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And they also say if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
> JG
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> > The only subjects Randroids are suitable for teaching are Sociopathy
> > 101.
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