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THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IS MONEY
Submitted by Justin Barber on 26/Jun/2011
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ROOT OF ALL EVIL, MONEY
The one illusion in life that smothers all true emotion, blurs our perception, and drastically alters personalities, is money. It gives us the most superficial purpose for living that we become oblivious to the real reason for being. It’s the root of all-evil! What is this thing? It’s money!
If you go one more step down the ladder you’ll find none other than the government in control. The government has not only told us how we should live, but how we have to live. Without it we cannot live, and with it we are confined within its boundaries of greed and social molding. We are made to go to school to waste 12 years of our lives in order to gain an education. And with that education we go to college, another 2-4+ years wasted just to further that education for the sole purpose of getting a job. And a job that pays well is key, because our only purpose in life as humans confined to the rules and regulations of the government is to earn money, and as much of it as possible. Once we get our job we live the rest of our lives working. When do we enjoy the things we work for? Never.
Humans thrive on materialistic possessions, and it’s all about social status. If you have a nice car, a nice house, a high paying job, and you have an insane amount of money, you’ll be admired and desired. That’s how the world works. You could relate it to our more primitive instincts of survival of the fittest. Whether we know it or not the social aspect of our lives is similar to that of animals. We try to make connections with those who will benefit us; We compete with each other and put down those less fortunate, all for the sake of trying to make it on top of the social ladder. We strive to gain the respect and admiration we all wish for. How can anybody get by in life knowing that you are only liked for your status? How can you live with love that was established by what you have, not by who you are?
I don’t see how anybody can find true happiness and love in a relationship based on something so fake. Because if you are what you have and what you have is all of a sudden gone, then what are you? To those who only cared for your belongings or your status you are now nothing, and if you live a superficial life revolving around possessions you’re only as good as what you possess. I have to live for true love and true happiness. Anything even remotely fake turns me away for fear of getting involved with something that I’m not appreciated for. It’s this blind obsession of humans that results in confusion.
Your goals in life will only be based around money, because money is what gets all of your possessions. And if at the end of the tunnel all you see is a dollar sign you’ll walk through life as unhappy as can be. You will use people for what they have to get on top, and earn yourself a few enemies. Your decisions will be based around what benefits you the most financially, and the right decision will be behind your haze of greed. Your goals of being successful will throw true happiness to the side, and while you think the power of money will get you all you ever dreamed of, all of it will be fake. Here’s your plastic face of happiness boys and girls, enjoy it while it lasts.
I find it wrong to be forced into having money just to live. I consider that having too much control. For anybody to be able to say what you must do in order to live is wrong. Then it’s living for the government, not yourself. Your judgment of reality is obscured because money has no worth, it’s just paper, its value is simply all in our minds. But the value of true happiness and true love is something that can’t be touched, can’t be explained, can’t be felt unless experienced, and then you’ll understand just how superficial this world is. How brainwashed we’ve become to put so much faith in paper that we’ll kill others over it. I believe our purpose is to strengthen our own souls, and the only way to do that is to find true happiness, true love. We need truth and understanding without the deception of currency clouding our purpose and forming a religion of its own. There‘s no doubt we have more faith in the dollar bill than we do ourselves. We need a revolution.
 - J.R.
Justin R. Barber
DIGIFLUX.COM
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