07-20-2010, 03:31 AM
Great question.
Here are some answers that inspire me.
From Earl Nightingale: Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
From Bashar: Abundance is the ability to do what you want to do, when you want to do it.
From Wallace Wattles: Rich means the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to a person's fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment.
From Buckminster Fuller: I now go on to speculate that I think that what we all really mean by wealth is as follows: "Wealth is our organized capability to cope effectively with the environment in sustaining our healthy regeneration and decreasing both the physical and metaphysical restrictions of the forward days of our lives."
I put an essay about money into the "trinity of pain" thread.
Our new member Phosphorous mentioned having recently completed an in-depth study of money and I hope to learn about her perspective.
The word "rich" itself has many meanings for me. It could mean exceptionally, extremely full to the greatest extent of something considered valuable; and completely free of any shortfall or lack on the downside. It could also mean highly prized or only available for a very large amount of money. Continuing past balance or reasonableness, it can mean overpriced, pretentious, unappealingly overstuffed or manipulated to seem better than reality... "Ho ho that's rich!"
Curiously enough, in the computer industry "rich" has become a jargon buzzword that means "users will love this, and you have to buy our software to make it work for them." I've never once seen an actual definition of the word, it's just thrown in to make the marketing claims richer, I suppose. For example:
"creating rich media applications and business applications for the Web, desktop, and mobile devices"
"the ability to build extremely rich and innovative applications"
"a rich set ... provides you with an amazing range of technologies to enhance the functionality"
"a rich, engaging experience that improves user satisfaction and increases productivity. Using the broad reach of the Internet..."
"access the services and peripherals of the hardware, allowing you to build feature rich applications. And all of this is accomplished using industry standard HTML..."
Can you tell which is from Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Palm?
Neither can I! Ain't that rich!
I would love for us to have a rich discussion of riches, in all the best senses of the word!
Here are some answers that inspire me.
From Earl Nightingale: Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
From Bashar: Abundance is the ability to do what you want to do, when you want to do it.
From Wallace Wattles: Rich means the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to a person's fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment.
From Buckminster Fuller: I now go on to speculate that I think that what we all really mean by wealth is as follows: "Wealth is our organized capability to cope effectively with the environment in sustaining our healthy regeneration and decreasing both the physical and metaphysical restrictions of the forward days of our lives."
I put an essay about money into the "trinity of pain" thread.
Our new member Phosphorous mentioned having recently completed an in-depth study of money and I hope to learn about her perspective.
The word "rich" itself has many meanings for me. It could mean exceptionally, extremely full to the greatest extent of something considered valuable; and completely free of any shortfall or lack on the downside. It could also mean highly prized or only available for a very large amount of money. Continuing past balance or reasonableness, it can mean overpriced, pretentious, unappealingly overstuffed or manipulated to seem better than reality... "Ho ho that's rich!"
Curiously enough, in the computer industry "rich" has become a jargon buzzword that means "users will love this, and you have to buy our software to make it work for them." I've never once seen an actual definition of the word, it's just thrown in to make the marketing claims richer, I suppose. For example:
"creating rich media applications and business applications for the Web, desktop, and mobile devices"
"the ability to build extremely rich and innovative applications"
"a rich set ... provides you with an amazing range of technologies to enhance the functionality"
"a rich, engaging experience that improves user satisfaction and increases productivity. Using the broad reach of the Internet..."
"access the services and peripherals of the hardware, allowing you to build feature rich applications. And all of this is accomplished using industry standard HTML..."
Can you tell which is from Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Palm?
Neither can I! Ain't that rich!
I would love for us to have a rich discussion of riches, in all the best senses of the word!