Avaricious Riches and Hedonistic Society

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• Kweku Babone 10 years ago

  Those who seek filthy lucre did faster than those who are poor. No matter your riches, you will eventually die and leave your wealth behind. The law of karma rules. Whatever action you take to acquire filthy lucre, there is a ...
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  Those who seek filthy lucre did faster than those who are poor. No matter your riches, you will eventually die and leave your wealth behind. The law of karma rules. Whatever action you take to acquire filthy lucre, there is a price to pay.

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• Nana Kwaku 10 years ago

  Your contribution is so sensible that you don't deserve that name. The Kwaku is ok, but I have a problem with the babone.
  
  I have asked myself this question a couple of times about the acquisition of wealth. I read an intel ...
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  Your contribution is so sensible that you don't deserve that name. The Kwaku is ok, but I have a problem with the babone.
  
  I have asked myself this question a couple of times about the acquisition of wealth. I read an intel that the money that was transfered to Saddam Hussein was done through a bank that belonged to the late pope John Paul II. This question then came to mind. Why would a so called vicar of Christ amass so much wealth. He was not the first nor shall he be the last. All popes have amassed serious wealth, and still do.
  
  Try asking any pastor why he/she is chasing wealth, and they will make it look like God sees people who chase riches as more serious in life and that the less privileged as lazy. That's why they don't care if armed robbers donate not to charity but churches.
  
  As for the law of karma, nobody gives a hoot. As one politician said "all die be die"

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• Kweku Donsuro 10 years ago

  Thanks Nana Kwaku. I like Ananse stories, hence the monikers or pseudonyms. The capitalism theory propounded by Adam Smith in his treatise of 1776 in The Wealth of Nations glorified wealth as the reward for the pursuit of ind ...
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  Thanks Nana Kwaku. I like Ananse stories, hence the monikers or pseudonyms. The capitalism theory propounded by Adam Smith in his treatise of 1776 in The Wealth of Nations glorified wealth as the reward for the pursuit of individual pursuit, fair or foul. This is wealth for its own sake without regard for the means, toeing Machiavelli's idea or maxim 'of the end justifies the means'. People of lesser thinking and earth-bound are interested in vainglory and self-serving ends, forgetting that death the leveller is the ultimate of man. Better die poor with a clean conscience than stinking rich with a guilty conscience. Money is something but not the ultimate measure of man. Let us have callings to live for, and our faith to guide us. Popes are mortal and fallible, aren't they? Seeking-Christ-like life is a tall order, but that is the ideal.

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• francis kwarteng 10 years ago

  Well said Kweku Donsuro!
  
  Nana Kwaku has made a very powerful point. It is sad that wealth acquisition, no matter how it is realized, has come to assume more respect that human dignity in many instances.
  
  It is not as i ...
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  Well said Kweku Donsuro!
  
  Nana Kwaku has made a very powerful point. It is sad that wealth acquisition, no matter how it is realized, has come to assume more respect that human dignity in many instances.
  
  It is not as if one is saying wealth is not good. That is beside the point. How it is sometimes acquired in the issue. Sometimes stealing in the name of the lord.
  
  The church, one reggae musician once opined, has become a den of thieves. This is just one of the many surprising examples...
  
  Sad.

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