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10-23-2014, 07:14 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: San Diego
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Finally found what money really is. You know it is true because it is on the Internet!
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Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
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10-23-2014, 08:28 PM
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#62
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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I'm in the security camp. They say that anything that can be fixed with money ain't really all that bad. Having more money widens the scope of things that can I can fix.
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10-23-2014, 10:45 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,934
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by Major Tom
How does money give you integrity?
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It allows me to look at myself in the morning and not see a slave.
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And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know.
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10-23-2014, 10:47 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
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I don't think integrity is quite the right word, Onward, but I understand your point.
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Contentedly ER, with 3 furry friends (now, sadly, 1).
Planning my escape to the wide open spaces in my campervan (with my remaining kitty, of course!)
On a mission to become the world's second most boring man.
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10-24-2014, 02:39 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 2,929
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Major Tom
I don't think integrity is quite the right word, Onward, but I understand your point.
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Perhaps "authenticity" is closer to the mark?
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10-24-2014, 06:24 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Utrecht
Posts: 2,650
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Maenad
Options.
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Different words I guess for the same meaning
Options = Freedom
Freedom = Independence
Independence = Possibilities
Possibilities = Flexibility
And all these may mean Intelligence, which is nice TED | An equation for intelligence by Alex Wissner-Gross | KurzweilAI
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10-24-2014, 06:34 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 6,179
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Independence, with security/options/flexibility close seconds.
I enjoy having money because it makes me less dependent on others... I guess I've just been one who never liked having to ask for things. Along with seeing my parents sacrifice for me growing up, my resolve was to never have to go to them (or others) in need of money.
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10-24-2014, 06:39 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 6,695
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Good answers, everyone.
I saw money as a means to buy my way out of things, particularly misery when it came to reducing and eventually eliminating the long and awful commute I had in my years of working by reducing and eventually eliminating my weekly hours worked. 
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Retired in late 2008 at age 45. Cashed in company stock, bought a lot of shares in a big bond fund and am living nicely off its dividends. IRA, SS, and a pension await me at age 60 and later. No kids, no debts.
"I want my money working for me instead of me working for my money!"
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10-24-2014, 07:28 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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Quote:
Originally Posted by scrabbler1
Good answers, everyone.
I saw money as a means to buy my way out of things, particularly misery when it came to reducing and eventually eliminating the long and awful commute I had in my years of working by reducing and eventually eliminating my weekly hours worked. |
Be sure to carry your Freedman Papers with you at all times. Ever see 12 Years a Slave? You could be back in a cube.
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10-24-2014, 07:35 AM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2014
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable
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10-24-2014, 09:01 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 8,418
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Stored energy
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Living well is the best revenge!
Retired @ 52 in 2005
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10-24-2014, 09:59 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 2,301
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I suppose this is not surprising on an ER board but nobody listed social status.
Even when I was a child (many years before reading your money or your life) I was thinking in terms money = time I needed to work at a job.
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10-24-2014, 11:39 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 1,901
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Money, it has been said, "is the sixth sense that allows you to enjoy the other five".
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“I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said” Alan Greenspan
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10-24-2014, 04:20 PM
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#74
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 1,248
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Peace of Mind
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10-24-2014, 04:26 PM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Marietta
Posts: 43
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Security and independence. two words, sorry
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10-24-2014, 04:30 PM
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#76
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 1,248
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10-25-2014, 07:51 AM
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#77
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Seattle
Posts: 6,023
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Time
You have 80 odd years on this planet if you are very lucky. 20 of those years you can barely wipe your butt and 40 of those years you spend working to get enough money to enjoy the remaining 20.
Money is time.
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10-25-2014, 11:25 AM
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#78
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: bay area
Posts: 3
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love and hate relationship you can't live with it but can't live without it.
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10-25-2014, 11:53 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Yuma AZ
Posts: 274
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Money is a means by which we accumulate purchasing power until there is some good or service needed or otherwise worth purchasing.
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10-25-2014, 04:56 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 2,796
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Escape from the salt mines.
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