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5 ABSOLUTE TRUTHS

Faster horses

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These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read. This is one paragraph that should be in every book in every school room in every city in every state in our great Union ... Our educators should make a lesson plan on this one statement and instill these words in the minds of all students.



1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation..

5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
 
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Anonymous

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Faster horses said:
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read. This is one paragraph that should be in every book in every school room in every city in every state in our great Union ... Our educators should make a lesson plan on this one statement and instill these words in the minds of all students.



1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation..

5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.


Sure would make foe some great billboards poior to the elections :wink:
 

burnt

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Faster Horses, "absolute" is a pretty strong word and I question its applicability here. To me it means something that is unchanging and irrevocable, standing on its own merit alone.

While I understand what each of those statements mean,or at least the intention behind them, I do not see them as absolute because they each could be proven to have exceptions.

For instance, if I were literally to never divide my "wealth", I would never give anything to anyone else, not even a birthday or Christmas present to my wife or kids. You see what I mean?

So while I understand the intent of each statement, I would not call them absolutes.

Just something I'm kinda picky about, because I believe in one "Absolute" truth alone. :wink:
 
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Anonymous

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burnt said:
Faster Horses, "absolute" is a pretty strong word and I question its applicability here. To me it means something that is unchanging and irrevocable, standing on its own merit alone.

While I understand what each of those statements mean,or at least the intention behind them, I do not see them as absolute because they each could be proven to have exceptions.

For instance, if I were literally to never divide my "wealth", I would never give anything to anyone else, not even a birthday or Christmas present to my wife or kids. You see what I mean?

So while I understand the intent of each statement, I would not call them absolutes.

Just something I'm kinda picky about, because I believe in one "Absolute" truth alone. :wink:


The difrence burnt is as follows. The Constitution was drawn up by men with Christian Principles in mind. Those princiles don't need the government to decide who gets what. Nor does it need to cost 58 to 75 cents on the dollar to help people out of every dollar handle!

Burnt the absolute truth you speak of does not call for the government to care for people rather for people to do it out of a GODLY AND WILLING HEART AND CONVICTIONS. :wink:
 

backhoeboogie

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burnt said:
For instance, if I were literally to never divide my "wealth", I would never give anything to anyone else, not even a birthday or Christmas present to my wife or kids. You see what I mean?

I don't. If I could not afford a birthday or Christmas present, I wouldn't have any wealth to begin with.

Uncle Sam takes a huge cut of my paycheck. Then there is the property tax, sales tax, annual truck and trailer registration, and a host of other things going out of my income without choice. Put it all together and your salary is cut in half. I manage to save something every pay day. Now Pelosi wants some of that too. Maybe I should have spent it?
 

burnt

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Pig Farmer said:
burnt said:
Faster Horses, "absolute" is a pretty strong word and I question its applicability here. To me it means something that is unchanging and irrevocable, standing on its own merit alone.

While I understand what each of those statements mean,or at least the intention behind them, I do not see them as absolute because they each could be proven to have exceptions.

For instance, if I were literally to never divide my "wealth", I would never give anything to anyone else, not even a birthday or Christmas present to my wife or kids. You see what I mean?

So while I understand the intent of each statement, I would not call them absolutes.

Just something I'm kinda picky about, because I believe in one "Absolute" truth alone. :wink:


The difrence burnt is as follows. The Constitution was drawn up by men with Christian Principles in mind. Those princiles don't need the government to decide who gets what. Nor does it need to cost 58 to 75 cents on the dollar to help people out of every dollar handle!

Burnt the absolute truth you speak of does not call for the government to care for people rather for people to do it out of a GODLY AND WILLING HEART AND CONVICTIONS. :wink:

I agree with you but somehow cannot see that what you are saying changes anything that I said in my post. :???:

The government is incapable of doing for people what people should be doing for themselves. Yet, I cannot see how a country could function without government, as much as I hate its interference.

I was originally making the point that absolute is too strong a word to use in the above context.

Interestingly enough, while most agree that both of our countries were formed "with Christian principles in mind" few would support that that truth makes either of our countries "Christian".

A country can only reflect what the majority of its people are. And I don't like what either of our countries have become.

I think that Canada has become a pansified dumping ground for every kind of godless, liberal thinking and that the U.S. has become a country that has moved away from recognition of, inclusion into daily living, and dependency on a Mighty God and toward an over dependence on its military might.

No country that has taken either path in the past has survived long. And what Faster Horses' 5 truths at the beginning of this thread have shown is that we are well down the road toward the end of our societies as we have known them.

But I talk too much and don't act enough myself . . . :roll:
 

Soapweed

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Recently I attended an "absolute land auction." One would assume that with this title, the land would "absolutely" sell to the highest bidder. This didn't happen. My conclusion is that by "absolute land auction," it was meant that absolutely only land would be offered at auction. There would absolutely be no cattle, machinery, or household goods up for sale. :roll:

We hold these truths to be self-evident. :?
 
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Anonymous

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burnt said:
Pig Farmer said:
burnt said:
Faster Horses, "absolute" is a pretty strong word and I question its applicability here. To me it means something that is unchanging and irrevocable, standing on its own merit alone.

While I understand what each of those statements mean,or at least the intention behind them, I do not see them as absolute because they each could be proven to have exceptions.

For instance, if I were literally to never divide my "wealth", I would never give anything to anyone else, not even a birthday or Christmas present to my wife or kids. You see what I mean?

So while I understand the intent of each statement, I would not call them absolutes.

Just something I'm kinda picky about, because I believe in one "Absolute" truth alone. :wink:


The difrence burnt is as follows. The Constitution was drawn up by men with Christian Principles in mind. Those princiles don't need the government to decide who gets what. Nor does it need to cost 58 to 75 cents on the dollar to help people out of every dollar handle!

Burnt the absolute truth you speak of does not call for the government to care for people rather for people to do it out of a GODLY AND WILLING HEART AND CONVICTIONS. :wink:

I agree with you but somehow cannot see that what you are saying changes anything that I said in my post. :???:

The government is incapable of doing for people what people should be doing for themselves. Yet, I cannot see how a country could function without government, as much as I hate its interference.

I was originally making the point that absolute is too strong a word to use in the above context.

Interestingly enough, while most agree that both of our countries were formed "with Christian principles in mind" few would support that that truth makes either of our countries "Christian".

A country can only reflect what the majority of its people are. And I don't like what either of our countries have become.

I think that Canada has become a pansified dumping ground for every kind of godless, liberal thinking and that the U.S. has become a country that has moved away from recognition of, inclusion into daily living, and dependency on a Mighty God and toward an over dependence on its military might.

No country that has taken either path in the past has survived long. And what Faster Horses' 5 truths at the beginning of this thread have shown is that we are well down the road toward the end of our societies as we have known them.

But I talk too much and don't act enough myself . . . :roll:


Burnt hear in America 1 in three workers work for the government. 50% of Americans receive some form of government assistance. Simply put that means that the ones paying the goverment workers salary and entitlements is a very small pool that cant take any more pressure.
 

burnt

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Not sure that you've got anything over us up here north of the 49TH! I fully understand the 4th "truth".

When I look at what government workers earn and how many of them there are, I have to wonder why I keep on working for almost nothing while they make serious money doing next to nothing, it seems. And then retire with fat pensions . . .

And that doesn't even begin to address the issue of those on welfare . . .

Oh yeah, I hear ya!
 
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Anonymous

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burnt said:
Not sure that you've got anything over us up here north of the 49TH! I fully understand the 4th "truth".

When I look at what government workers earn and how many of them there are, I have to wonder why I keep on working for almost nothing while they make serious money doing next to nothing, it seems. And then retire with fat pensions . . .

And that doesn't even begin to address the issue of those on welfare . . .

Oh yeah, I hear ya!

Average goverment worker in the us makes 50% MORE THAN the American citizen that works. Then add in the benifits like health care vacations and such and the difference is double.

It only took greece 8 years to go under once it adapted a socialist system. America will beat that by 6 years.
 

Liveoak

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Not likely! Any good investor though, makes wealth by dividing it and investing it; aka 'don't put all your eggs in one basket'.

I doubt if Palin would understand much of it either. She understands "lights, camera, action" though.
 
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