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kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

Isnt money freedome?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

"Freedom is a glorious thing" but does not, I think mean the worship of Mammon ! If you become a slave to the God of Money you are lost - irrevocably, some would say.

Ask yourself, "How much is enough". You will find that there is never enough and that you always want more. I saw an example last month - a friend aged 60, reluctant to leave Aramco after 28 years service becasue he really "needed" another million greenbacks. Sad !

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

I remember a teacher living on RANCO compound in Riyadh saying he went to a masallamah party for an old boy who had spent something bizarre like 35 years in Saudi and when asked what he was going to do back in UK, he was planning to live with his sister in Bognor Regis. The teacher telling the story told him he should go to Thailand and marry an 18 year old girl.

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

johnslat · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:15 pm Post subject:

Dear kazazt,

"Isnt money freedome?"

It can be - or it can be slavery. Piling up money can become an obsession, and, as scot57 wrote, for these people, there's no such thing as "enough money."

So, it's a case of who's the master: the money or you.

We say that "Time is Money," but it's can be true the other way around: "Money is Time;" cash can buy you time, time to do the things you really want to do.

Regards,
John

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

Just as homemade wine can be a good slave but a poor master.

johnslat · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:19 pm Post subject:

Dear kazazt,

The stuff (I hesitate to call it "wine" for fear of libel) I used to make wasn't even a good slave. However, I was its slave for quite a while, and it was a very hard master.

Hope that doesn't sound like I'm whining. Smile

Regards,
John

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

Plenty of people who earned a load in Saudi found they lost most of it when they divorced.

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

Like Scot

johnslat · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:15 pm Post subject:

Unlike John. Admittedly, I was dumb enough to make two bad marriages, but I was also smart enough to get married in a "No Fault" divorce state: Florida.

Regards,
John

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

you marry thais or philipinos

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

johnslat · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:54 am Post subject:

Dear kazart,

Nope, both were 'Mericans, born and bred. The first one was too crazy (literally) and the second one was too sane. I'm on my third now, five and a half years, and this time I got it right - inshallah.
I was really tempted once when I was teaching in Indonesia, but she told me that she'd never leave her homeland, and I didn't think I wanted to spend the rest of my days there - although it is a lovely place.

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

How do we get from the dates on a calendar to johnslat's serial polygamy ?

johnslat · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:23 pm Post subject:

Dear scot47,

Seems a logical enough segue to me: dates often lead to marriage, after all.
Smile

Regards,
John