Think what you like and I will do the same.
Buffett's big giveaway is as much horseshit as Gates' is. It is a big fat tax
break for them, plus they mainly give to foundations that they and their
families control, and use the money they give the foundations to leverage
whatever they want in terms of political and other types of control through the
threat of loss of such revenue to the beneficiaries of the largess of said
foundations.
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Mind of the Meditator"
Michael,
This one incident determines his all time personality? According to wikipedia,
he disowned his son Peter's adopted daughter, that is she was not related to
him except as an in-law. He reportedly wrote to her 'I have not emotionally or
legally adopted you as a grandchild, nor have the rest of my family adopted you
as a niece or a cousin.' He had for some time felt ambivalent about Nicole and
her sister's claim to his fortune. The perceived sense of entitlement and
Nicole's self-appointed role as family spokesperson prompted Buffett to tell
Peter that he'd renounce her. It would appear the film was just the last straw
in a more drawn out family squabble.
In June 2006, he announced a plan to give away his fortune to charity, with 83%
of it going to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His children will not
inherit a significant proportion of his wealth. This is consistent with
statements he has made in the past indicating his opposition to the transfer of
great fortunes from one generation to the next. Buffett once commented, 'I want
to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do
anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing.'
On December 9, 2010, Buffett, Bill Gates, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg,
signed a promise they called the "Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge", in which they
promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over time, and
invited others among the wealthy to follow suit.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
Buffett is as big an asshole as ever lived. He disowned one of his
granddaughters for appearing in The One Percent, a documentary by Johnson &
Johnson heir Jamie Johnson about the gap between rich and poor in America.
Screw Buffett.
From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Mind of the Meditator"
Away for a day and the thread moves on to other things. My take on the wealthy
is some people pay attention to some of them, like Warren Buffet because he has
had a rather astounding ability to make money and is nonetheless perceived as a
fairly normal person without a lot of pretension. As for the 'Mind of the
Meditator' my experience is that over a long period of time, for me, TM has
resulted in 'open monitoring', the technique working in a kind of back door
approach. TM and mindfulness are now essentially identical because there is no
inner/outer dimension to meditation. That would be to say the techniques,
though different in their approach, result in convergent evolution of
experience as far as result. Once open monitoring is established, TM becomes
more effort-full compared to mindfulness because you actually have to do
something to initiate the process while with open monitoring, you need do
nothing. For beginning meditators this distinction is different for it appears
TM is a bit more efficient in helping people deal with discursive thought which
tends to be rampant with newbie meditators, but this difference diminishes over
time. TM mythology seems less adaptable to scientific discourse than do certain
forms of Buddhist explanations for the nature of enlightenment, and seems to
promote belief in imaginary ideas beyond what is necessary to get someone
interested in enlightenment, which is much much less than what people imagine
it to be.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote :
Actually, people DO pay attention to what billlionaires say and do.
You have completely departed from reality with this statement. Nobody gives a
toss what millionaires do, their lives are so far removed from ours that they
might as well be alien.
It's like the celebrity obsession the TMO has, so what if some model or actress
does the same sort of meditation, are they really so dumb they think people go
"Wow, such and such does it, I'm gonna give it a try!" What do they take people
for?
They really DO set the trends and fashions of society.
Bullshit. Would you hang out with someone who dressed like Bill Gates?
And of course, when Ray Dalio appears on the stage with Bob Roth, it makes all
sorts of headlines in business journals.
Cultmania. I love it.
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