RE: [pf] Golden Calf; melt it down and let it run back into rock cracks

· Respect for people living with little money; making other things top
priority. In the case of our three (in their 20s now), a confidence that
they can stay alive and make their own way even when they have _very_
little income. Including using much of that income to travel to strange
countries.

>At 09:52 AM 6/18/01 -0500, Diane Fitzsimmons wrote:
>>..  our autos; the greatest single way an individual can affect the
environment, ... it makes great sense ... informational demonstrations to
remind people of this fact.
>>
>
At 16:52 18/6/2001 -0400, tully wrote:
> ...
>I think one of the main core problems our culture has is too much love of
money, idolizing the golden calf.  There is no respect for being poor. ...
we don't see the value, freedom, or virtue of it.  It is more than feared,
it is despised. 
>
>True, we are trying to make the word "poor" a little more palatable by
using a new term for it:  simplicity.  But what is wrong with starting to
value being poor?  Taking pride in succeeding at it.  Living poor with
style.  Jesus tried to show us the honor that is there. ... what can we do
to bring the honor of being poor back to our society?  Could there be a
time coming where we might actually see being rich as scandalous and
immoral?  Where we could actually throw the golden calf into the fire?
>


>On June 1, at 06:34 1/6/2001 -0400, Gary Barrett wrote:
>>David, how does your daughter take to your being such an adventurer in
simple living?  From my own experience, the kids in my area (rich and poor)
would have their parents arrested for child abuse rather than live such a
frugal lifestyle.  (An exaggeration, but not by much.)
>>
At 05:51 2/6/2001 +1200, David Mac wrote {at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2001II/msg01708.html } :-
>
>· There are several parts ..: age, ...
>
>  By the time the youngest (the daughter) reached 13-14, I had retired ...
all three have come to accept that they are among the poorest people they
know; they even, now they're in their 20s, ... take some pride in making do
with little; the "moral high ground", I guess.
>

· After the upbringing they've had with us (including living in India and
Africa), they're not scared of being outside the current money-and-jobs
focussed system.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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