--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > shempmcgurk wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > >> MDixon6569@ wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> In a message dated 10/20/06 11:44:47 P.M. Central Daylight > >>> > > Time, > > > >>> noozguru@ writes: > >>> > >>> Yup, oil for the rich and misery for the poor. Dick Cheney's > >>> > > world for ya. > > > >>> > >>> > >>>> Well, I think Maharishi would agree with me, that until the > >>>> > > poor do > > > >>>> something worth celebrating, they will always have misery. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> How arrogant. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> It's a fact of life and a spiritual principle. The rich shall > >>> > > get richer and > > > >>> the poor shall get poorer. Until a poor person breaks that mind > >>> > > set that > > > >>> keeps him down he will always be poor and miserable. Nobody can > >>> > > break it for > > > >>> them. They have to do it for themselves. You can give the poor a > >>> > > hand out or a > > > >>> hand up or all the help you want but until they do what they > >>> > > need to do to > > > >>> break out of poverty they will remain miserable. > >>> > >> FYI, Harvard did a study several years ago on why people get > >> > > rich. They > > > >> concluded it was just luck. You can't just make yourself rich. > >> > > You > > > >> have to be in the right place at the right time. I know people > >> > > who have > > > >> had brilliant ideas that were ahead of their time but the time > >> > > wasn't > > > >> right and it didn't go anywhere. Later someone else did the same > >> > > thing > > > >> at the right time and it took off. Bill Gates is an example of > >> > > someone > > > >> being the right place at the right time. > >> > >> > > > > Yeah, the lazy prick. > Microsoft would probably have just been a little part of the early > history of computer had not Gary Kildall of Digital Research missed a > meeting with IBM executives who were looking for an OS for their desktop > computer. The chairman of IBM happened to know Gate's mother as they > were both involved in the United Fund organization. There was a > meeting set up for IBM to look at what MS could do. They basically had > a simple OS that they had bought from another Seattle computer company > written by one guy Tim Patterson. The rest is history. It was very > much a case of being in the right place at the right time though some of > us who do astrology looking at his chart think that Gates could have > dropped dishes and become a billionaire. I know of another person who > was born a month earlier but has a similar chart and became wealthy. He > claims that serendipity had a lot to do with making his wealth. >
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