Eddie Bennett

Running ethics out of a community can be done, with enough power. Money, and government has more of it than most rich people, talks. But where does that leave the working class? Is the working class all in the 90 to 100 percentile? I can't believe that 90% pf us don't work enough to be more wealthy than we are.

I don't call what you are doing working. Get back to work, Thoughts, I'm retired, and drawing a big Social Security check!

Why do people say 'yes'? How can we get them to comply with our requests? Associate David Palmer, PhD, MBA, CPA, is an expert on negotiations and marketing. David Palmer has read more business books and managements books than any other person I have ever met, says Patricia Fripp (a person with several Degrees herself); without hesitation he always refers to the best book to help anyone in their career - "Robert Cialdini's Influence: Science and Practice." All of us are taught we should find some way to repay others for what they do for us. Most people will make an effort to avoid bei

That is creative!

I understand what people are saying when they get down on the helpless people in this country. They seem to take, and take, and take, and then take some more. I was watching the cattle barrens and the settlers of the old West, on the History Channel last evening. It inspired me to think about how people transact then, and today, along with the media. Cattle barrens were there before Abraham Lincoln made it legal to claim land, as your own, after living there for five years. I forget how many acres a person could claim, but it was quiet a few by today's standards. Anyway, cattle b

Thank you, very much, gfh! Wouldn't it be nice if everyone could say things that are so true, honest, benevolent, and compassionate, as PUBBY can say them. I greatly appreciate, and thank God, that I am able to recognize that kind of character in a person. Don't get me wrong though, gonefromhere, I see you too! Thank you for being who you are ALSO.

LPPT, I thought it was ME, the reason p.com was so nice as that. You know I'm just kidding; don't you, LPPT?

I know what you mean, but I don't know how you and your son must be feeling. I can only pray that you can get the help you need.

If he is out of school he could join the army. That will occupy his mind. He want have time to get depressed. The drill Sargent want allow bullying, I don't think. My grandson is 19, and he is going to boot camp next week, in Columbus GA. I know I may not be helping at all, but I have talked quiet a bit with my grandson. He is worried that he will not fit in, because he is a mommy's boy. It could be worth looking into. We always hope our sons and daughters are going to be okay, and sometimes we find that even though there is heavy growing pains, sometimes, they turn out fine most of t

Thanks for that input, Veritas! I did not know those details. As I said, my education is from self study, and I missed that part of the equation. You are probably right. I just learned something from a person younger that I. My grand children are coming out of college and making me feel like, really stupid sometimes.

So true, PUBBY! I have been called jealous, but I am no such thing. Just because I mention some things I think is wrong with our healthcare system. Called jealous, and I envy the upper class, when it's not that at all, because there are some of them that make me sick, how can I envy something that makes me sick? Anyway, you know exactly how it is. I can't even say things as well as you can say them, and it be so obviously true. Thank you for being you!

I have a philosophy of looking after number one, but it doesn't end there. I figure the better I take care of myself toe more I can help others. People who know nothing about philosophy seems more apt to help themselves without consideration of others. Your son is clearly a person of integrity. His philosophy will be all he needs one day, because he has taken, well enough, care of his world that he will only be able to help others, because he has taken good care of himself.

Philosophy can be a money making tool, if a person want to use his understanding to make money. Let us suppose that you run a business and that you make some product X. X is of different value to different people, but of course you can only sell X at a fixed price. This means that the majority of people who buy X from you came out ahead in the transaction; despite paying you they are better off then before the transaction. Thus by selling X you are making a lot of people better off then they were before. And increasing the wellbeing of many people, and thus of the community, is ethically

Studying Philosophy is not a required subject, but it is very useful, in my opinion. I don't have a Degree in Philosophy, but I have been studying it for 50 years. It has been good for my health, and for my mind. But, still I am far from being perfect. In fact the more I study, more I find that I don't know. I'm 66, and when I was about 16 I felt so dumb and subject with nonsense that I picked up some self help books. I would hate to have been born a slave, like some people were a few years back before I was born. I would not have been able to pick us a book without fear of being beaten.

What could you do with a Degree in Philosophy? It is the highest degree that can be achieved. You can't get a Degree in Philosophy without first having a Bachelors Degree and a Masters Degree. That is three years of study even after you have the other two degrees. http://youtu.be/Pb7NHERV-Eo

Good analogy, WHITY!

I can't imagine why any Paulding resident would not approve of this endeavor. We need the jobs, and the possible other benefits that have the potential of a side effect with the Movie Studio.

Don't encourage that attitude, LPPT! There is enough of this going on, without getting a gun. Someone could hold a gun on me and make me do ANYTHING they ask, if it will keep me alive, but just as soon as they turn their back and leave, I'm calling the governing police.

You are welcome, ca2ga! Your emotional outburst, can get to me, but when I take a breath and start thinking; I ask myself, what difference does it make in regard to what ca2ga spouted from his subjective thinking?

You would be better off eating poop, and running a few rabbits, than to get into a dog fight, ca2ga! I'm not here to win your approval, of anything I do. If you will mind your own business, then you want be minding mine!

When someone has decided that they are not a pillager upon society, they have made a concrete distinction, no problem, no confusion, they have an objective. It is not based on subjective opinion, because they can rely on the credibility they have assigned to themselves. But, now, when one is labeled as "hopeless" or "loser" or "ugly," someone is attacking their worth. I'm sure there are people who are menace's to society, but the numbers as not near as high as portrayed by a few people in this society. The entire working, middle class, is being down sized into a lot of poverty; n

Thanks, BD! That's good, in some ways. The secondary TV need not be HD. It is not an HD TV. In fact I don't pay extra for HD on my HD TV, because I can't tell enough difference for it to be worth the extra cash. I only use the secondary TV in order to view programs that my wife doesn't like to participate in. She is ok with not having HD, also. I have already called the service company, and almost told them to take all their service away from me. But, before I went off completely half cocked, I did keep one TV. In my way of thinking I was already paying them enough, but they raised

Thanks, LPPT! I see what you are saying. But, that is not being a control freak. You do the right kind of controlling. You know the sun doesn't rise just because you gave it permission. You know the planets are going to orbit whether you allow them to do it or not. Control freaks on the other hand, have an arrogance, and an egotism, that says the sun can't rise without their permission, and the planets orbit at their command. Being rational is not in their way of thinking. There are, actually, things one cannot control. It's the things one can control that a rational mind recogni

Thanks, j2! It's a good thing I asked.

You can't be the best of whatever you are by hanging with the status-quo, that's a cop out if there ever was one. It attacks your own authority, and you are messaged on what is expected of you if you are to be a good "sheep." You are not in this world to live up to anyone's expectations but your own. Let other people live in this fog of self deception while you take off the blinders, and deal with the truth as it really is. It's no scrimmage, no practice. There's no martyr's hall of fame. Your time on this Earth takes it toll, and every day's your Superbowl.