David Mamet sees the light

[julius]

??? The most crime-ridden areas in America are in the poor inner cities. What poverty seems to nurture more than anything--at least in places like Detroit and East LA--is violence, murder, rape, and thievery.

well duh, the Mexicans and the Blacks live in those cities.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

mark 6 : 24 - no man can serve two masters. for you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. you cannot serve both god and money

 

[maxiep]

mark 6 : 24 - no man can serve two masters. for you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. you cannot serve both god and money

Money serves me. I don't serve money.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

mathew 19 : 23-24 - Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

 

[maxiep]

mathew 19 : 23-24 - Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

So, according to our Lord and Savior, the most majestic Barack Hussein Obama, anyone who makes over $250K doesn't get into Heaven?

 

[julius]

So, according to our Lord and Savior, the most majestic Barack Hussein Obama, anyone who makes over $250K doesn't get into Heaven?

sweet! I'm in like Flynn then!!!

 

[3RA1N1AC]

im not sure god will use the guidelines set forth by obama, but he just might

luke 6:30 - Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.

 

[MARIS61]

Good grief, where do you get this stuff? Everybody would love to be rich, and most of them are not evil. Everybody wants to make more money, get a better deal on a house, win the lottery, etc., etc. Furthermore, some of the most generous people in the world are the people who have the most money. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have agreed to pass on at least half of their fortunes to charitable causes all over the world.

No, they don't.

I know scads of people who really don't, including myself.

A comfortable living is what normal people seek.

People who devote their lives to amassing billions of dollars are mentally deranged.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett leaving half of their hoard is their way of buying good PR, nothing more.

They will still have the other half, which if set up in a trust fund the interest alone could easily support every heir they have and all their heirs down the line into eternity.

People die all day, every day, simply because they lack money for medicine, or food, while the Kings of Avarice sit on their thrones of gold.

Noun 1. avarice - reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
avaritia, greed, rapacity, covetousness
deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins"
2. avarice - extreme greed for material wealth
avariciousness, cupidity, covetousness
greed - excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

 

[MARIS61]

shows how much you know, you can't grow more brain cells.

I guess he's hopeless then.

 

[MARIS61]

Being an atheist the threat of hellfire falls on deaf ears.

I'm just not greedy because I was raised by nice people.

 

[MARIS61]

Money serves me. I don't serve money.

Keep telling yourself that.

Post after post it is clear your are as obsessed with "your" money as Gollum was with the ring.

 

[Denny Crane]

Good grief, where do you get this stuff? Everybody would love to be rich, and most of them are not evil. Everybody wants to make more money, get a better deal on a house, win the lottery, etc., etc. Furthermore, some of the most generous people in the world are the people who have the most money. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have agreed to pass on at least half of their fortunes to charitable causes all over the world.

Gates' and Buffett's alternatives are to give their money to their kids (do they have any?) or to pour it in the money hole that is government.

 

[maxiep]

Gates' and Buffett's alternatives are to give their money to their kids (do they have any?) or to pour it in the money hole that is government.

Both have children. Buffett bought his son a farm (I think he raises hogs and corn) and Gates' kids are getting something like $100MM each.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Mamet always did make shit movies. House of Cards was bad. Homicide was worse. It's like Dennis Miller: you always knew the guy was a jerk, and then he goes and proves it.

 

[maxiep]

Mamet always did make shit movies. House of Cards was bad. Homicide was worse. It's like Dennis Miller: you always knew the guy was a jerk, and then he goes and proves it.

So, anyone who isn't left of center is a "jerk"? I'm just looking for clarification.

IMO, Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, Heist and The Spanish Prisoner were all terrific. And GGR and Oleanna as plays were even better.