On Sep 6, 12:55 pm, re.gen.erate <[email protected]> wrote:

RE: THe god debate

The Economist - Another ungodly squabble
Hawking joins Dawkins: There is no god.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/09/science_and_religion

RE: Capitalism

Definitions thereof:

# Capitalism is an economic theory which stresses that control of the
means of producing economic goods in a society should reside in the
hands of those who invest the capital for production. It is a system
based on the production of goods and services for exchange rather than
use. Private ownership and free enterprise supposedly leads to more
efficiency, lower prices, better products. Adam Smith popularized this
theory in his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations.
http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/resources/terms.html

# An economic system based on private ownership of capital
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

# Capitalism is an economic and social system in which capital and
land, the non-labor factors of production (also known as the means of
production), are privately owned; labor, goods and resources are
traded in markets; and profit, after taxes, is distributed to the
owners or invested in ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

# Economic system in which property is privately owned and goods are
privately produced.It is sometimes referred to as the private
enterprise system.
www.mcwdn.org/ECONOMICS/EcoGlossary.html

# The current economic system of the United States and much of the
world. Capitalism operates according to supply and demand, as well as
the drive for greed and profit. But this drive for profit can cause
capitalists to disregard the safety of workers and the
environment. ...
reds.linefeed.org/vocab.html

# A system under which private entrepreneurs have complete freedom to
devise and control production and distribution for their own profits,
competition being the only limiting factor
www.perfectyourenglish.com/vocabulary/business-vocabulary.htm

# Private ownership of the businesses of a society with the freedom of
private owners to use, buy and sell their property or services on the
market at voluntarily agreed prices and terms, with only minimal
interference with such transactions by the state or other
authoritative third parties.
www.information-entertainment.com/Politics/polterms.html

# an economic (not political or governmental) system that favors and
requires a free market, competition, and private (as opposed to
governmental) ownership of the means of production (ie,
businesses). ...
www.lib.uconn.edu/~mboyer/ms2001-02glossary.html

RE: My opinion and belief:

We created gods in our own image out of fear and capitalism has its
core foundation in land.  The latter works, the former doesn't, all
else is pish tosh.

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