I'm sorry that we did not all have access to the schooling that you obviously had.
But you can tell a lot from a person that talks down their nose, irregardless of how much schooling you may or may not have had. Virgil Bierschwale http://www.tccutlery.com http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Aráoz Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 1:27 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Colateral damage of no importance? Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > People were present during those time frames. > People were people back then, just like they are today. > > Forget about all the history our historians have supposedly taught you. > Stories get exaggerated when people sit around a camp fire at night, > having a few cool ones.. > > Look around you, and you will find that people are allways asking > themselves first, whats in it for me. > They did it back then too.. > > Open your closed mind, and you will see that what I'm telling you is > true for the past, just as it will be true in the future.. > Sorry about my closed mind. Is just that I can't abandon the habit of READING what you write : "What you're not understanding is capatilism (sic) is what keeps us all working and what makes us strive to be the best." I was so closed as to think you meant "capitalism" when you wrote "capatilism", now I see that you clearly meant "people" and you were referring to "self interest". Can't figure out how could I misrepresent what you meant. Sorry, must be my bad english. > > Virgil Bierschwale > http://www.tccutlery.com > http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ricardo Aráoz > Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 7:42 PM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: [OT] Colateral damage of no importance? > > Virgil Bierschwale wrote: >> Yep, and I'd bet that in there time, every one of them was known as >> an entrepreneur of some sort.... >> Captialism has been around since the first person learned how to >> barter their skills for something they didnt have and it will >> survive every one of us.. >> >> A farmer doesnt even plant his crops unless he can use the feed for >> his livestock so that he can sell them, or unless he knows he can >> sell the products of his labor... >> >> > > What we have here is a problem of understanding. Capitalism is an > economic system, it was NOT present in the middle ages, it was NOT > present in old Greece, it was NOT present in the renaissance. Self > interest has been around for a longer time. Intelligence, > entrepreneurship, ingenuousness, curiosity, investigation, invention, > have been around for a looooooooonger time. You are connecting what is > independent. Bartering is not necessarily related to capitalism, neither is farming, they've been around much longer. > Of course you can construct your own mythology and pray to the gods of > capitalism (what did the bible say about that?) but you should do that > in private. > > > >> Virgil Bierschwale >> http://www.tccutlery.com >> http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Ricardo Aráoz >> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 7:18 PM >> To: ProFox Email List >> Subject: Re: [OT] Colateral damage of no importance? >> >> Virgil Bierschwale wrote: >>> Why I agree with him. >>> What you're not understanding is capatilism is what keeps us all >>> working and what makes us strive to be the best. >>> >>> Would you prefer that we all lived in the same community where we >>> were born with none of the improvements that captialism brought to us. >>> After all, we would not have one single improvement if it werent for >>> business, wall street and the bankers.. >>> >> You should polish your history. Might I remind you of the roman empire? >> Really good engineers. Arabs and greeks, math and geometry. Incas >> empire, good astronomers. The renaissance? >> >>> Virgil Bierschwale >>> http://www.tccutlery.com >>> http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>> Behalf Of Helio W. >>> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:02 PM >>> To: ProFox Email List >>> Subject: Re: [OT] Colateral damage of no importance? >>> >>> *"It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. >>> Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty-three years and four >>> months in active military service in this country's most agile >>> military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks >>> from Second Lieutenant to Major General. And during that period, I >>> spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big >>> Business, for Wall >> Street and for the Bankers. >>> In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."* >>> >>> ~ Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, 1933 Two-time recipient of the >>> Congressional Medal of Honor >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
