In a message dated 6/16/02 2:05:35 AM GMT Daylight Time,
DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org writes:
> Squonk, Roger and all:
>
> Just a few thoughts.
>
> Ben Franklin retired at the age of 42 because he thought he had better
> things to do with his time than "sit around all day" making money. (I know
> a
> woman who is actually paid to sit around and read Chaucer all day. Well,
> not
> JUST Chaucer. She's a medieval Historian.) Its absolutely a good thing for
> all of us that Ben Franklin quit making money and really went to work.
>
> Roger, its not a contest between lazy slackers and wage slaves. Its not a
> choice between destroying the economy and working your whole life in
> pursuit
> of someone else's goals. How dismal that would be. I think Elliot and
> Squonk
> are trying to get at a high quality of life every bit as much as you are.
> They want to go beyond both slackerdom and wage slavery. It takes a little
> imagination, but that's ok.
>
> Malcom Forbes spoke at my college commencement ceremony. He urged us to
> just
> do whatever we loved, and promised that this was the only true way to
> become
> wealthy. And he wasn't just talking about money.
>
> That's my attitude too. The trick is to find something that you'd do
> whether
> you were paid for it or not. Or as a line in a song goes, "If they pay me,
> well that's great. But its just gravy. I'd do it anyway."
>
> The fact that people have to sell their souls in order to fill their
> bellies
> is nothing to be happy about.
>
> Material wealth is about 10% of a rich, full life. And its about 90% of an
> empty, shallow life.
>
> Desire is the cause of all suffering.
>
> Its easier for a camel...
>
> You know.
>
Thanks. :)
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