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21-10-2010, 04:32 PM
Lycanthrope

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Originally Posted by TimstaH

So very true! :)

:D

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Originally Posted by DenSweeP

I dunno hey. I reckon with a couple of million $$$, I could be pretty happy. And even if money doesn't make you happy, if does make life easier and a easier life is a happier life!

I'll agree--it does make life easier. Personally though, I'd rather be a poor schmuck living in a shack with my soul mate (if you believe in silly things like that, otherwise just use it pragmatically for what it implies :p) than have a fortune and no-one to share it with :D
21-10-2010, 04:45 PM
OmegaFenix

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Originally Posted by DenSweeP

I dunno hey. I reckon with a couple of million $$$, I could be pretty happy. And even if money doesn't make you happy, if does make life easier and a easier life is a happier life!

If I had a couple of (hundred) million I would totally invest in my own island or at least something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading
21-10-2010, 04:52 PM
Tsar

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Originally Posted by Lycanthrope

You are such a goofball :p

Money doesn't buy happiness; at most it just buys you a key. At the end of the day, you have to make your own happiness and deal with your own problems. The only real problem that money solves is the lack of money :p

But that is what I mean. At the end of the day no matter how happy you are you still need money for bills food and what not. So it still makes you a slave to the god damn system.
21-10-2010, 04:56 PM
DenSweeP

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Originally Posted by Lycanthrope

:D

I'll agree--it does make life easier. Personally though, I'd rather be a poor schmuck living in a shack with my soul mate (if you believe in silly things like that, otherwise just use it pragmatically for what it implies :p) than have a fortune and no-one to share it with :D

I'm not changing any other aspect of my life. It can stay exactly as it is, happily married, 5 dogs, one cat. Add millions to that, and i would be much happier. I mean, if we are choosing a happy scenario here, well, then I choose what I have now, just some extra millions.
21-10-2010, 04:57 PM
Lycanthrope

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Originally Posted by Tsar

But that is what I mean. At the end of the day no matter how happy you are you still need money for bills food and what not. So it still makes you a slave to the god damn system.

Not at all. Nothing legitimately prevents you from putting up your own--likely self-constructed--cottage on some unclaimed land in a forest somewhere and living off of nature's bounty. The problem is that you (and most people, in fact) are slaves (to use your term) to society. Medical care, easy-to-acquire food, delicacies, technology, you name it--all things that we have because society works together.

Could you live in a cottage somewhere and fend for yourself? Probably. Would you be happy? No, which is why you haven't done so already. You choose to be a part of society :)

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Originally Posted by DenSweeP

I'm not changing any other aspect of my life. It can stay exactly as it is, happily married, 5 dogs, one cat. Add millions to that, and i would be much happier. I mean, if we are choosing a happy scenario here, well, then I choose what I have now, just some extra millions.

*nod* I feel the same as you :D But see? You've already found what brings you happiness--money just makes it all easier. Having money first then hoping for the rest... too many complications there, methinks, to ever know if it'd all be real.
22-10-2010, 01:47 AM
Raven Gold

I've got more money than I know what to do with (got most of it locked up in investment plans), but that money doesn't make me happy, the games it buys for me makes me happy! :D
22-10-2010, 07:54 AM
Voicy

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Originally Posted by Raven Gold

I've got more money than I know what to do with (got most of it locked up in investment plans), but that money doesn't make me happy, the games it buys for me makes me happy! :D

I thought you pirate your games a la ThunderAxe's gripes with you...
22-10-2010, 08:24 AM
DenSweeP

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Originally Posted by Raven Gold

I've got more money than I know what to do with ...

I can help you with that problem.

See, I have this house I bought, and well, if you want, you could put some of that problematic money towards that? Or, there is this car my wife would love, so that's another option. On that same house, I have many plans and ambitions for improvements and extensions, so maybe another project? :D :D :D

But please, don't be modest or anything... :p
24-10-2010, 01:12 PM
Raven Gold

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Originally Posted by Voicy

I thought you pirate your games a la ThunderAxe's gripes with you...

The ones I buy, make me happy, the ones I pirate, don't do all that much for me.
24-10-2010, 03:06 PM
Azimuth

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Originally Posted by Lycanthrope

There is no horse, I was just stating a fact. There is nothing to discuss :) It's not a choice. Can you have sex with a man? Easily, but do you have an attraction to men? Can you have a committed, fulfilling relationship with another man? No.

There is nothing to discuss. You and Neo said it was a choice; all I did was say that I made the choice to be gay the same day you made the choice to be straight. That statement requires nothing more than for one to use one's comprehension and understand the gross fallacy of calling it a choice in spite of contradictory evidence--evidence that even a straight person can bear witness to by asking themselves at which point in their lives they decided that the opposite sex is what does it for them.

That's all :) Nothing more, nothing less.

This. Thanks for saving me the trouble. :P

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