Unless you are a protestant, in which case money is the reward that god gives to the hard worker, so it can survive his times in earth before entering heaven.
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. (not an actual quote but a resume)
I do agree desires picks "sides" that's why i said that those are derivatives that get out of hand, into the rights of others or into extremes, but in essence desire is neutral, to want something, if we remove that part of man, that part that lingers for things, like lets say, love, knowledge, health, fun then we end with an empty husk, hardly worth of being called alive, because it also loses his desire to be alive, even unicellular beings have this, and that is the wonder of life, that it persist being.
Funny enough, in these religions with life after death, the person has a facility to separate itself from this desire of being alive, so it can pass and be in other places, luckily some solve this by making suicide an evil thing, but then again is not giving yourself away in defeat to join a god in another place also a form of suicide? to stop fighting and resign yourself into death? to embrace an end? just because you think that "your time" has come, and now you get the believer that refuses treatment and just wants to die and go to the promised land, inst that person giving up his life in pro of another supposed one? isn't that subject committing suicide? suicide disguised as transcending?
Doomroar
Indeed all those things that i listed are derivatives of desires that get out of hand, because desire itself is also neutral, but i think we all agree now that money is not the root of all evil, and that was pretty much the point, so thanks there S3C.
VicariousE
Nah, I think like lots of shit, desire picks sides :| Good is a very narrow path, paved with nonjudgmental love.
The chances of a camel passing through the eye of a needle, is less than chances a rich man has, of entering Heaven. -- Bible, kinda.