Replies to post #265099 on Monk's Den

[cmistocks]

You obviously have issues with money...I don't care one way or the other if I get rich with money...I am rich in my heart because of the love of God...period!!!

[Stockbert]

For me it's not the love of money. I can no more love money than I can a hammer. I'm driven more by the hatred of working for Da Man than the love of money. How do I know this? For one thing, I know what enough is. Once I have enough to do what I want for the rest of my life, and be able to leave a little for the kiddies, but I don't need more than that. What would I do with a billion dollars, it'll be 990 million more than I'd know what to do with.

[bkbirge]

It is important to note the distinction between money as an object and a human's obsession with obtaining it which is actually what the original phrase talks about. I'm not a bible thumper, just found this on Wikipedia...

The phrase derives from a saying attributed to Jesus in the Apostle Paul's First Epistle to Timothy in the New Testament: "The love of money is the root of all evil" (1 Timothy 6:10, KJV). The expression is commonly misquoted as simply "Money is the root of all evil". A more accurate rendering from the original Greek may be: "For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil," (New American Standard Bible).