Health is everything. Without it, you cannot have money or pursuit your wishes.

Money isn't everything but it sure is close! I would love to have a lot of money. :)

It's good to have a lot of money, you can buy all the things that can be bought. However, not all things in this world and lifetime can be bought. Health in a way can be bought, but luck cannot. If you are lucky, you can be healthy without spending much and not have any serious illnesses.

arthur

Health is everything. Without it, you cannot have money or pursuit your wishes.

Money can buy you the best medical team out there... Ted Kennedy anyone?

Spudsy

Money can buy you the best medical team out there...

The best medical team is not everything, not even concerning health. There are diseases that are just not treatable. And it's always better to prevent an illness that cure it and that's not up to money, it depends on how you take care of yourself (education, maturity, etc) and luck.
Enough nonsense Spuds, you're only doing pointless posts.

Money is for the most people something that they have never enough of.
You can buy all the stuff you want, you never have to think about things like: " Should I choose this one or maybe the other one? "
But having money just can't make you happy as you may not get true friends that easy.

If others know that you are never out of money, then they are likely to abuse that. They may seem to be friendly, but afterall they just want to get an advantage from you.

Life is not about having money for everything you want to do, that would be a lazy ones life. But I rather prefer to live my own life, to earn my own money.
Even if I cannot afford all the things I want, I may value the things more, for that I worked hard, than the things I just buy, look on them once and afterwards they are just collecting dust.
Furthermore I do not get the problem, that someone might abuse my richness, because I am not that rich, that it could be abused.

Though money solves a lot of issues, it may not solve them all. Sometimes money just worsens the case.

Spudsy

Someone has to pay the troops, for the weapons, the vehicles, the rations, etc.

You said state a war that was started over money. I gave you two, not quite sure what you're talking about here.

Spudsy

There's a reason that there's the saying: Time is money, and money is time.

I haven't really got a clue what you're talking about there, it doesn't really seem connected at all to my post. Unless you were agreeing with it with that quote or something?

irove

The best medical team is not everything, not even concerning health.

While this maybe somewhat true, I will agree, but there's some things that people think are not curable unless you have a wad of money.

irove

Enough nonsense Spuds, you're only doing pointless posts.

I'm arguing point by point here. I tell you what, let's not resort to personal attacks and keep to the topic at hand shall we?

deer

You said state a war that was started over money. I gave you two, not quite sure what you're talking about here.

My bad I thought I asked you to state and instance that is not fueled by money. Taking this new point on the two Gulf Wars, I'm going to have to disagree. Now I'm not going to push the points, because they're politics, and politics is one of the two major things you don't argue with on a forum, but I will say that (please take no offense to this) your view might be heavily bias based on the fact that you are from a country that did not start those wars (although you did participate in this second one (not sure on the first) so your word has merit none-the-less, I won't discredit you there).

I Said

There's a reason that there's the saying: Time is money, and money is time.

deer

I haven't really got a clue what you're talking about there, it doesn't really seem connected at all to my post. Unless you were agreeing with it with that quote or something?

Just sit on that and think about it then. I think you might get the point I was trying to make.

Money is not everything but it is THE thing!! :D

Money is only as much as we believe it to be. Money's value depends on the people's trust in that currency and linking to that the government which controls the supply of that money. If a man had all the money is the world, it would be worthless, because no one would want that money. What makes people rich is not money, but stuff. The amount of items that one currently possesses and the value of those items are what make people rich not money. So realistically, money=nothing.
To be factual, about 90% of all money doesn't even exist as bill/coins that we commonly see. But rather they exist in the form of loans given out by banks.
Now, if we are going for the idea or misinterpretation of money, I would have to say that money is not everything. While it is important for an individual to obtain wealth, saying that the goal of everything is to obtain wealth is naive. Unless, you mean everything to be the goal in life. Then the title is horribly incorrect and you are generic. And the goal of life is debatable, but I would rather think that it is not the goal in life that is important but the journey, another generic saying.

On those who say war is funded by money, you are as shallow as any average person. Do a bit of research. The money in America used to fund the War is not our own. The US Government does not take tax money and put it into the war. It borrows money from foreign investors that pays for our debt, which increases interest rates and more economic hassle.

Of course this is the discussion board, so everything I just typed up will be ignored by some retard who doesn't read and post and go, just like this idiot above me.

gogo

The money in America used to fund the War is not our own

Does 9 trillion in debt sound familiar?

gogo

Money is only as much as we believe it to be.

While this statement does have some meaning I could argue this:

If a man believes money to be nothing that he gives away all of it, he becomes homeless and poor, and will certainly die before the age of 40. Is this acceptable?

I think its not good talking about absolutes, I think that everything is playing and important role in the pieces of our life.
Health, money, family, self-trust, love, etc. are balanced, if lose control on any of this, the other can be affected.

arthurgomes

Health is everything. Without it, you cannot have money or pursuit your wishes.

The thing with money is that they are really important,not thinking only ta buying something that pleases you but thinking also that most of the things aren't for free and that having money gives you an idea of having no problems.But well the idea when a person is very rich that he/she doesn't have nay problems is wrong,we saw at TV or in the newspapers in many cases that the richest persons are the ones with the most obsessions,with the most problems concerning alcohol and other stuff,with love too too.
Money can't buy anything and from my point of view luck isn't the most important thing.I mean what is luck or what is money if you have problems with your health.
There are serious health problems that don't have any cure even now when science got where it got.What can we do with money when we live in a vary polluted environment and when we get earthquakes,storms or tornadoes or even very high temperatures.Actually life is very fragile so it's not a matter of luck here or of money,I believe.
Concerning luck when it comes to money,yeah rich people had also a lot of luck to get all those amount of money but also a lot of work some.We can say that some where also lucky of making profits on someone else's back or by stealing and other things and they didn't get captured,that is some luck too.
But what are money without brains,what is luck without brains also.
Just look at so many cases of very rich people going bankrupt,what did they do after,most of them didn't started everything again from the beginning they pretty much got insane or decided to end everything.
But from my point of view and in my country,maybe it is in yours too,there is a saying that goes something like "You can make your own luck",I mean if you are a little bit lucky but you don't "help" your luck you don't improve.
Yeah money are the root of evil in many cases but again I don't deny their uses and their importance,I usually think it's good to have a nice situation without financial problems but that doesn't mean the everything goes well just because one has money.
There are many things that money can't buy and those things are the most important: health,happiness,love(yeah some could disagree here but for those who buy the so-called love is always that fear that they aren't loved,that only the money are the reason why they are loved),so I correct myself hear into:real love,also youth(come on all those methods offered by medicine can't last all the time,eternal life and there could be even more.

Spudsy2061

While this statement does have some meaning I could argue this:

If a man believes money to be nothing that he gives away all of it, he becomes homeless and poor, and will certainly die before the age of 40. Is this acceptable?

It is not that 1 man's belief that sets the value of money, but the general publics or the international communities belief in that money.
And everything is acceptable, just depends who you are. If you are Christian you accept a Christian god, if you are Muslim you accept Muslim god. And the fact is that people don't really care. So what if people are dying, my life is wonderful. Thats how we see the world, thats how we live it.

gogo

It is not that 1 man's belief that sets the value of money, but the general publics or the international communities belief in that money.

Completely agree here actually.

gogo

And everything is acceptable, just depends who you are. If you are Christian you accept a Christian god, if you are Muslim you accept Muslim god. And the fact is that people don't really care. So what if people are dying, my life is wonderful. Thats how we see the world, thats how we live it.

I actually have to applaud you here, I don't think I can come up with anything to counter this argument. Very well put there my sir, I tip my hat to this.

In conclusion, I want to wrap up all my quarreling into a point. That point being that, although it is somewhat true that money is not everything, and certainly I will not think so in terms of say, marriage, it is such a nice commodity. I am a man who loves power, and please don't take this as a bad thing, for power is not evil. People who obtain power choose how to use it, so those who let it corrupt them make themselves evil, because something intangible can hardly be evil. Anyway, power is something I strive for, it is why I am VP of the anime club, and why I will run for cabinet of student government in the fall after being a senator for 3 semesters. The power to serve the public and improve the standard of living is a wonderful thing, and so I will strive for it. Outside the university though, one obtains power through money, so if I want to continue to strive for the power I love to have so much, then I will need money. This is why I argue that if it isn't everything, then it's certainly 95% of everything. Also, good topic, lot of good discussion.