Comments on: Yes and no http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/10/06/yes-and-no/ Challenging the Zeitgeist Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:58:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Natalie http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/10/06/yes-and-no/comment-page-1/#comment-14168 Natalie Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:05:08 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1958#comment-14168 Graet post mate. Keep them coming.... Graet post mate. Keep them coming….

]]> By: Andrew http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/10/06/yes-and-no/comment-page-1/#comment-14019 Andrew Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:39:28 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1958#comment-14019 A friend of mine pointed out the brilliant irony on the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7654878.stm" rel="nofollow">BBC's version</a> of him saying 'the pursuit of money and success is pointless' while pictured holding a solid gold staff. SELL IT AND GIVE THE MONEY TO THE POOR. Then you can preach. A friend of mine pointed out the brilliant irony on the BBC’s version of him saying ‘the pursuit of money and success is pointless’ while pictured holding a solid gold staff.

SELL IT AND GIVE THE MONEY TO THE POOR. Then you can preach.

]]> By: 1minion http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/10/06/yes-and-no/comment-page-1/#comment-14015 1minion Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:06:34 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1958#comment-14015 I've always liked to counter that house analogy with the need for flexibility. A hard wind can topple what looked like the strongest, biggest tree yet the narrow supple one that bends and yields to the forces around it remains rooted. I'd be tempted to say that our obsession with the current monetary value system also contributes to the problem. Not that I'd have a solution for that. I don't honestly understand the mechanics that drive the economic system, but I think there should be something better than some companies hoarding goods to keep prices high and supplies low, and others flooding the markets with cheap, but inferior goods, and locking the profits away so they only benefit a select few. "Only God's words are a solid reality" -- This puts me in mind of those moments when Wile E. Coyote's just run off a cliff and that little to-the-camera moment when the reality of gravity re-asserts itself. I would think the words are only as solid as the belief in them. There may come a day when the believers of those words fall, too. I’ve always liked to counter that house analogy with the need for flexibility. A hard wind can topple what looked like the strongest, biggest tree yet the narrow supple one that bends and yields to the forces around it remains rooted. I’d be tempted to say that our obsession with the current monetary value system also contributes to the problem.

Not that I’d have a solution for that. I don’t honestly understand the mechanics that drive the economic system, but I think there should be something better than some companies hoarding goods to keep prices high and supplies low, and others flooding the markets with cheap, but inferior goods, and locking the profits away so they only benefit a select few.

“Only God’s words are a solid reality” — This puts me in mind of those moments when Wile E. Coyote’s just run off a cliff and that little to-the-camera moment when the reality of gravity re-asserts itself. I would think the words are only as solid as the belief in them. There may come a day when the believers of those words fall, too.

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