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Julia
As to the long hours, I have seen it in many of the jobs that I have done - there is really a culture of work being priority and not worrying about the family.
Who says family should be a priority?
Not everyone gets married and has kids.
Perhaps you might like to explain what you mean.karma.
Perhaps you might like to explain what you mean.
Karma...like your very successful and drive a flashy car etc in this life, because in your last life you were a one legged, dirt poor, subsistence rice farmer in the Dutch East Indies in your last life.
So Cynical: I'm quite cognisant of the idea of karma. I was hoping qe2 would explain how he/she saw the relevance in this thread.
My understanding of it is that we will eventually experience the consequences of our actions, i.e. if we've dealt with others unfairly during our present lives, then we will experience the results of this in another following life.
So just the fact that you were successful and drove a 'flashy car' in this life, doesn't mean you're destined to be poor in the next life. If, however, you acquired the success and the 'flashy car' by cheating and doing wrongly by other people, then karma would suggest you would be penalised in the next life.
I don't necessarily subscribe to any of this stuff, but am interested in why qe2 would suggest some people are poor because of karma. It seems a simplistic and even irrational explanation to say the least.
People can be poor despite their very best and most diligent, honest efforts, e.g. someone becoming too ill to work.
So Cynical: I'm quite cognisant of the idea of karma. I was hoping qe2 would explain how he/she saw the relevance in this thread.
My understanding of it is that we will eventually experience the consequences of our actions, i.e. if we've dealt with others unfairly during our present lives, then we will experience the results of this in another following life.
So just the fact that you were successful and drove a 'flashy car' in this life, doesn't mean you're destined to be poor in the next life. If, however, you acquired the success and the 'flashy car' by cheating and doing wrongly by other people, then karma would suggest you would be penalised in the next life.
I don't necessarily subscribe to any of this stuff, but am interested in why qe2 would suggest some people are poor because of karma. It seems a simplistic and even irrational explanation to say the least.
People can be poor despite their very best and most diligent, honest efforts, e.g. someone becoming too ill to work.
Well there you go Julia...i always thought it (Karma) was more a yin and yang type thing, like unlucky in this life = lucky in the next, not just a good v bad type of thing.
Karma is something i have little time for.
Julia, Julia, Julia...
What is wrong with you!
your reply here and to the bank vault thread seemed quite negative. Are you a nasty person, are you having a bad day or is your humour just going str8 over my head.
To me the posts you quoted weren't meant to be taken seriously just an attempt to entertain the masses. You seemed to try to make the posters look like fools. Why are you doing this??
Bingo - anyone who has read Julia's posts on this and other threads knows she is anything but nasty.While she speaks her mind and calls a spade a spade, to assume she is a nasty person is absolutely unfounded IMO...
Julia, Julia, Julia...
What is wrong with you!
your reply here and to the bank vault thread seemed quite negative. Are you a nasty person, are you having a bad day or is your humour just going str8 over my head.
To me the posts you quoted weren't meant to be taken seriously just an attempt to entertain the masses. You seemed to try to make the posters look like fools. Why are you doing this??
yeah well done...but how many good sorts have you thrown your legover???while sitting around every friday night counting your cash?
You definitely have the right attitude and practices for creating wealth. Enjoy your input on this forum.One big fallacy that I have seen in my life is that, Spending less than you earn = Enjoying life less. This is simply untrue.
I mean the best things in life are free, (or at least very cheap).
However, the economy keeps ticking over because people SPEND. Without the majority of people spending their money (consumerism), businesses would not prosper. Imagine if everyone lived their lives as you do. Society, status and the whole system would collapse.
So let us not forget that without the spendthrifts, the misers would be broke.
However, the economy keeps ticking over because people SPEND. Without the majority of people spending their money (consumerism), businesses would not prosper. Imagine if everyone lived their lives as you do. Society, status and the whole system would collapse.
So let us not forget that without the spendthrifts, the misers would be broke.
Fair play to you. Be interesting to see in the years ahead if the richer countries mindsets do adjust or whether it's back to Plumperville in better economic times. The amount of waste is phenomenal and accepted.I think we have seen in the american example that an over consumption mentality and a failure to save can weaken even the strongest nation.
Trust me I spend and consume, I just don't over do it. their is a firm middle ground that the average guy should aspire to where he spends less than he earns, and saves for a comfortable future.
You'd be amazed at just how much money some of these places take in on a Saturday night especially. Truly amazing when you look at the $ taken in and then look at how many people are actually there. It's not cheap that's for sure.But some people think they will enjoy life better if they spend big on flashy clothes go to a night club and drink 20 $8 vodka and red bulls shout some random girls $12 drinks catch a $50 cab home at 5 in the morning (without the girls) sleep all day with a hang over and then go and do the same thing saturday night and be broke monday.
Me and my mates took option 1 after we got sick of the night club seen, and to be honest option one gave us more oppotunity to meet good girls,
Of all the people you know who are in long term relationships or who are married, how many of them met their partner in a night club? Not many...
But a packed dancefloor, smoke machines and stobe lights, music you'd never listen to anywhere else played at 110 dB and with the staff wearing ear plugs? Not a likely place to meet a long term partner really.
I'm not a fan of many Gen Y traits by any stretch of the imagination, but preliminary studies have shown they are generally far more frugal with their finances than given credit for. They're probably as varied as every other generation in Australian history though.Not unusual to find 50% plus of a young person's total income being spent at night clubs...
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