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   Intelligent Party to Intelligent Party   
   Bump (2/2)   
   21 Oct 21 15:34:40   
   
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   > Russia, the waste of the likes of the Faberge Eggs - extremely expensive art   
   -   
   > contributed the Russian civil war, and over half a century of Marxist   
   Communism,   
   > which caused the Cold War.)   
   >   
   > Selling contagious poison, as food and recreation, while building no equity,   
   is   
   > yet my big question to America.  The more we study and think about this   
   issue the   
   > richer we may become.  COVID is a new and fairly unstudied topic.  As the   
   more you   
   > analyze, the more you know how to allocate, and the richer you become.  What   
   do   
   > logic, reason, and intelligence ultimately and further dictate?  To know, we   
   have   
   > to think.  This is a question so far, if it's not clear.   
   >   
   >   
   > "Those who remember always that they know nothing, and who have become   
   willing to   
   > learn everything, will learn it.   
   > ...Think not you understand anything until you pass the test of perfect   
   peace" - A   
   > Course in Miracles   
   >   
   > "My fellow Americans, you're owed nothing less than the truth." - President   
   Joe   
   > Biden, - March 11, 2021   
   >   
   >   
   > How is there non-essential work being done, ever.  While "work from home if   
   you   
   > can" is a great law, and taking all consumer and employee precautions, and   
   > protection, is imperative; isn't all work essential?   
   >   
   > Rather than "Non-Essential Services," "Commercial Entertainment Services" and   
   > perhaps "Commercial Entertainment Real Estate," should be eliminated.   
   >   
   > If the movie theater were a "public" structure, that could be reserved to   
   show   
   > your rented movie to hundreds, at least we would be able to use the   
   structure over   
   > and over, vs. building a movie theater or a football stadium instead of   
   housing.   
   > Yet the people providing the "non-essential entertainment service" produce no   
   > equity whatsoever, and after the waiter's work is done, he goes home having   
   > produced NOTHING.  No dinning room table to last years.  A mere food store   
   in the   
   > movie theater is notwithstanding.   
   >   
   > So "Public" Entertainment Real Estate," is that still bad?  So, do we want   
   > "Entertainment Real Estate" at all?   
   >   
   > 1. Real Property, 2. Personal Property, 3. Consumption.   
   > Service is a Consumption, unless it produces Personal Property (or Real   
   Property).   
   >  Consumption is all gone once the work's done.  A gardener's work lasts a   
   couple   
   > weeks.  I guess you have memories of a waiter's service.   
   >   
   > Plus, is it really anyone's passion to be a waiter?  How about a masseuse,   
   or a   
   > whore, or are those even more important than haircuts as healthcare, but do   
   people   
   > want to do it, how about to be in a show, on Broadway or in a play?  It's   
   their   
   > passion?  You think it's not work?  People should wake up happy every day to   
   work.   
   >  Are these people happy?  Don't we want to eliminate _work_?  Life is about   
   art,   
   > and science, and friends.   
   >   
   > Should _art_ be all hobby?  You can cook for your friends.  Not be enslaved   
   for   
   > other's entertainment and amusement.   
   >   
   >   
   > "The foundation of empire is art and science.  Remove them or degrade them,   
   and   
   > the empire is no more.   
   > Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose." - William Blake   
   >   
   > "Sex and art are the same thing." - Pablo Picasso   
   >   
   > Left Brain/Right Brain = Science/Art   
   >   
   > "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful   
   servant.   
   >  We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the   
   gift."   
   > - Albert Einstein   
   >   
   > "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye   
   need to   
   > know." - John Keats   
   >   
   > ... if you have industry and science and you're rich!   
   >   
   >   
   > Yet,   
   > "Love is your power, which... gives you everything."   
   > - Jesus Christ, A Course in Miracles, Chapter 7, Section 6   
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