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FatHatter Regular user I'm here you're there and that's that. 137 Posts 
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On 2012-09-27 06:49, irossall wrote: Well first one would need a home now wouldn't one? |
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Pecan_Creek Veteran user The Nation of TEXAS! 323 Posts
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Home is where the heart is !
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Pecan_Creek Veteran user The Nation of TEXAS! 323 Posts
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I apologize if I offended anyone with the comment about the homeless starting a business.
After reflecting on it I remembered a incident in my younger days: I came home and realized I couldn't find my keys. Then I remembered I had given my butler the day off. Can you beleive it! I had to sleep on the tennis court all night. I definently can empathize with the homeless. It Sucks! Sorry guys. |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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Huh. I thought I made a post here about my experience of spending a winter homeless. Maybe it hadn't finished submitting when I closed my laptop.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts
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On 2012-09-27 06:49, irossall wrote: "There's a hole in the bucket, Mariah-Mariah, there's a hole in the bucket, Mariah, a hole."
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2012-09-26 14:09, stoneunhinged wrote: But as entertainment? Will they put on shows? Will the cage managers charge to attend? Will there be a petting zoo?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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Mighty Joe Young, entrepreneur.
Click here to get Gerald Deutsch's Perverse Magic: The First Sixteen Years
All proceeds to Open Heart Magic charity. |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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Throughout history, and undoubtedly throughout prehistory, almost all of the people who lived in the world were desperately poor.
All of the animals are desperately poor, too. They are naked, homeless, and spend all of their time foraging for food, or hunting for food, or trying to escape from predators. When pestilence, plague, and natural disasters don't overwhelm them. That is the natural condition of mankind, too. The question is not, therefore, why there are poor people, but rather, what is it that enables people no longer to be poor. There are 10 times as many people in the world as there were 500 years ago. The standard of living for half of today's people is probably not much different than it was for 98% of the world's people 500 years ago. But half of the people on earth today have a standard of living immeasurably better than almost anybody had 500 years ago. How did that happen? |
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kambiz Inner circle Perth, down by the cool of the pool 1129 Posts
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On 2012-09-27 21:39, Woland wrote: Accompanied education? What are your thoughts Woland? Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break. .....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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Hi Kam,
Education is undoubtedly important. But I think the most important element that changed, roughly 500 years ago, was the gradual and then more accelerated appearance of economies that were not rigidly controlled by governments whose rulers and bureaucrats thought they knew what was best for everyone. |
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irossall Special user Snohomish, Washington 529 Posts
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On 2012-09-27 19:56, Jonathan Townsend wrote: that's up to the TSA. Iven 
Give the gift of Life, Be an Organ Donor.
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kambiz Inner circle Perth, down by the cool of the pool 1129 Posts
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On 2012-09-28 06:43, Woland wrote: Thanks Woland. What sorts of things happened 500 or so years ago that, in your opinion, were significant contributors to this rapid advancement? Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break. .....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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Hi Kam,
As I said, I think it was the gradual appearance of free economies in northern Europe that prepared the way for mercantile and industrial progress, which has made a dramatically improved standard of living possible for many times more people than lived on this earth, almost all of them in dire poverty, 500 years ago. The rebirth of Mediterranean trade in the Renaissance, this time without the overall domination by an imperial bureaucracy, and the foundation of the Hanseatic League, are two examples of the processes that began around 500 years ago and started the process. |
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