Is money everything?

Everybody knows that United States currency is issued with the declaration, In God We Trust.

So why do so many place their focus on the money itself?

Why do they concentrate more on the numbers located in the four corners rather than that declaration?

It seems to me that if the focus was more on that declaration, our world would be so different and a far better place.

I can't help but think how things would be so different in the internet marketing arena as well.

I imagine that internet marketers as a whole wouldn't have been given such a bad rap.

Spamming wouldn't exist!

Google wouldn't have to spend so much time evaluating and re-evaluating their algorithms so often, and could have kept the Panda in its cage.

So many complaints from marketers having to clean up Panda poo from their sites wouldn't be cluttering up the forums and they could better invest their time in providing value and sharing positive information instead.

I have nothing against money at all. It is a necessity, a requirement to live even, and to save lives.

Money within itself is a neutral tool neither representing good or evil. But the motivating factor behind what we do to accumulate it and what we wish to accomplish with it does come from good or evil.

Do not be deceived because some have deceived their own selves.

When one decides to value money more than anything else, giving it more worth than human life, and begins to covet it doing anything to get more with total disregard to right or wrong, turning their backs on their conscience because they are blinded by greed, then the evil they create abounds and spreads.

It eats away at everything good just as leprosy eats away flesh.

People have enough sense to avoid coming in contact with fellow human beings infested with flesh eating diseases, but not those diseased with soul destroying greed which quickly spreads as fast as a plague. We have the intelligence to put those infested with such diseases in quarantine, to help protect the public, and impede its spreading and causing a killer epidemic. But do nothing of the kind to stop the silent spread and infestation of the very root of all things evil; the love of money.

My point is, if we took the time to read the inscription, before we read the numbers, if we took the time to focus on the value of giving God some trust, we wouldn't have to love the currency, putting all of our trust in it to gain what we really are seeking. We wouldn't breed with evil. We would merely see the money as a tool that can be used for great good or malignant evil and be better equipped to choose if we will rule the currency or let it rule us.

I don't believe for a minute that all believe they are doing good with money, I believe they lie to themselves and believe those lies to soothe their guilty consciences, and they do know deep down that what they are doing is evil. They ignore that still small voice within them revealing the truth to them just as they ignore that inscription. I think it was very wise to use that inscription on money as a way to instill checks and balances when handling it.

It's too bad that it is ignored. Did you ever notice that the word ignorance has "ignor" as its root?

Sorry, didn't mean to rant, but since I did, rant over!

Terra

And if you dont have, you need to driver others' car

Thank you for the compliment ibiamu, but that wasn't intended to be an article, lol!

I merely wanted to post my views on the subject of money being everything and it turned into a rant.

I have been told before that I talk too much, lol! :p

Terra