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Banjo2553
10/29/17 12:43:21 PM
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Does anyone else get ticked off when people use this phrase? It's not the correct phrasing, it should be "The love of money is the root of all evil."

Money is a necessity of life, and the phrase in the topic title suggests it's a necessary evil, but I don't believe in necessary evils.
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Fam_Fam
10/29/17 12:44:33 PM
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if there was no money, there would be no love of it
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Squall28
10/29/17 12:45:21 PM
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What is the root of all evil though? I wouldn't save love of money. Maybe everyone's own personal insecurities.
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Gunpo
10/29/17 12:45:50 PM
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Broke boi
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FLUFFYGERM
10/29/17 12:46:00 PM
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The reason it gets misquoted a lot is because there are people who are literally bitter at the concept of money itself. Don't ask me why, but they have a seething irrational hatred for money and for anyone who knows how to use it. So they try to borrow ammunition from what is a perceived authority source.
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Two_Dee
10/29/17 12:46:49 PM
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thrashmetal14
10/29/17 12:47:08 PM
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Humans created money so what really is the root of evil in this situation?
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DoctorPiranha3
10/29/17 12:47:43 PM
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Banjo2553 posted...
Money is a necessity of life

No, it literally isn't. Food, water, shelter are necessities of life.

Money just makes it easier to acquire those things in developed countries, but it's not a necessity for life.
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itachi15243
10/29/17 12:47:50 PM
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Banjo2553 posted...
Does anyone else get ticked off when people use this phrase? It's not the correct phrasing, it should be "The love of money is the root of all evil."


No matter how you phrase it it'll never be right. People were doing evil things before money even existed.
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HorrorJudasGoat
10/29/17 12:59:30 PM
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The root of all evil is beauty. According to Ellen G White, Lucifer saw that he was beautiful and became even more selfish than God.
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EbonTitanium
10/29/17 1:00:50 PM
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It's " The love of money is the root to all evil".
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ThyCorndog
10/29/17 1:01:20 PM
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DoctorPiranha3 posted...
Banjo2553 posted...
Money is a necessity of life

No, it literally isn't. Food, water, shelter are necessities of life.

Money just makes it easier to acquire those things in developed countries, but it's not a necessity for life.

this. money is an invention to facilitate trade between individuals in a more ordered way. people used to barter instead, or just take what they wanted (people still do this, just not as much)
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EbonTitanium
10/29/17 1:01:32 PM
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HorrorJudasGoat posted...
The root of all evil is beauty. According to Ellen G White, Lucifer saw that he was beautiful and became even more selfish than God.
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http://www.whiteestate.org/books/gc/gc29.html

That's not beauty, it's pride.
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Banjo2553
10/29/17 1:07:27 PM
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ThyCorndog posted...
DoctorPiranha3 posted...
Banjo2553 posted...
Money is a necessity of life

No, it literally isn't. Food, water, shelter are necessities of life.

Money just makes it easier to acquire those things in developed countries, but it's not a necessity for life.

this. money is an invention to facilitate trade between individuals in a more ordered way. people used to barter instead, or just take what they wanted (people still do this, just not as much)

Points taken.
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Knowledge_King
10/29/17 1:12:11 PM
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Banjo2553 posted...
Money is a necessity of life


That's not true.
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Raikuro
10/29/17 1:13:46 PM
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plenty of evil exists without money ever getting involved
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Fossil
10/29/17 1:14:56 PM
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Banjo2553 posted...
Money is a necessity of life

lmao

Go back to school.
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DirkDiggles
10/29/17 1:18:48 PM
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FFVII_REMAKE
10/29/17 1:32:34 PM
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Only a broke person would say that. If everything were free, most of us would be dead.
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tennisdude818
10/29/17 3:00:42 PM
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Money is a tool that the market uses to set prices and allocate resources efficiently. Communist countries have shown that without market prices, people starve to death.

People confuse money with the economic reality that resources are finite, but human desires are infinite.
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