|
Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums "The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!"
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
orr_1
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 2
|
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:30 am Post subject: The money |
|
|
The money is between the best important think in the life of any one, it forme the gaz of a good life, it is a dream for the majority of the people on that earth. But no body now the trues of the quality of the money, the money is a material and still a material but a lot of people transfer to a sleaves for the money, they spend their lives one working to have money. For that people i will say, do not forget to have a time to have fun to your money, to spend this money. For my the money is a person how kill the human, to be care is more importante. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
hamadito
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Lebanon
|
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:34 am Post subject: reply from daly and mohamad S |
|
|
Money is very important in our life. With money you can buy a house but not a home, that means money without love and happiness is nothing.
Money is important but not interesting because we can live a normal and a happy life with a little budget, we don't need millions to have fun or to bring our needs.
If you compare a very rich man and a very poore man you will find that the rich man thinks only about making a lot of money just to be the richest man on the earth otherwise the poore man thinks about earning money to make his family happy so all he thinks about is his family.
For example: When Hariri's son died, he became very sad because he spent all his life earning a lot of money and he forgot that he has a family who need him, at least talking to him, when he lost his son, the only thing that he thought about that he didn't have enough time to spend it with him and to know him more. At that moment he wished to lose all his money and to turn his son back.
What I wanted to explain from the example that I gave is: You can buy a clock but not a time. My advice to you is: we live once, so dont waste your time with earning money and forgetting your family. You must work but give your family the right to spend time with you. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
orr_1
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 2
|
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:50 am Post subject: MONEY |
|
|
In our society many pressures push the people to love many things that they don't beleive in.For exemple live's need push many people to love money.I beleive that money is helpfull in our life,but it's a problem if money become all our life.I beleive too that people who love money more than every thing show a low degree of beleiving in God and all the other value.Because in my opinion , a superstitious person can understand the real cause that money exist for.
CHARBEL YOUSSEF |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
RedRose

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China
|
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:11 am Post subject: |
|
|
Money is important in all cultures. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
proudsouthamerican
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 13
|
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
of course money is so important in all cultures
but in eastern culture, is so different, look how horrible is india! oh my God, i would never go to india, how can u be classified because of what you own????
or what about arabian countries, where if you are a rich man, you can buy a wife, that's really disgusting. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
haoren
Joined: 01 Nov 2005 Posts: 48 Location: china
|
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: |
|
|
nowadays money is a topic that people have to take about in my country.people am eager to earn money,because no money means nothing.
if you have no money,you will have no clothes to wear,no food to eat,no house to live in.although the government takes measures to help poor people,the help is limited.if you want to live a better life,you have to work hard.if you donot work hard enough,you will lose your job in my country where it is difficult for people to get a job.
if you have no money,you cannot get a higher position in the society.people admire the rich and dream of all that the rich own,such as a beautiful wife,a new house,a new car,a respectable position and so on.some people look down upon the poor.some of the rich are not willing to help the poor but to live in luxury.the government has taken measures to sovle the problem,i think,the situation will get better.now in my country,all poeple work hard to leave themselves out of the poverty.
if you have no money, you will do things that you are eager to do.you like to travel,but you cannot afford it;you like to play net-games,but you have no money to buy a conputer;you are dying to do your own business,but you have no money to start it...
nowadays most people have realised that money is not the only thing that they long for in their lives and some things cannot be bought with money. they know they have lots of things to do besides earning money.they should love their family and live with them ;they should spend some time sharing the happiness and suffering with their families;they long for love and pure friendship,they need communication with others,they wish they could find their lovers and some close friends with whom they can share their success and failure.
i think that we cannot buy everything with money,but we donot live without money.money help us to live a better lives,but it is not everything.we should know that we earn money not only to earn it but also to live a better lives. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
RedRose

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China
|
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject: |
|
|
haoren wrote: |
nowadays money is a topic that people have to take about in my country.people am eager to earn money,because no money means nothing.
if you have no money,you will have no clothes to wear,no food to eat,no house to live in.although the government takes measures to help poor people,the help is limited.if you want to live a better life,you have to work hard.if you donot work hard enough,you will lose your job in my country where it is difficult for people to get a job.
if you have no money,you cannot get a higher position in the society.people admire the rich and dream of all that the rich own,such as a beautiful wife,a new house,a new car,a respectable position and so on.some people look down upon the poor.some of the rich are not willing to help the poor but to live in luxury.the government has taken measures to sovle the problem,i think,the situation will get better.now in my country,all poeple work hard to leave themselves out of the poverty.
if you have no money, you will do things that you are eager to do.you like to travel,but you cannot afford it;you like to play net-games,but you have no money to buy a conputer;you are dying to do your own business,but you have no money to start it...
nowadays most people have realised that money is not the only thing that they long for in their lives and some things cannot be bought with money. they know they have lots of things to do besides earning money.they should love their family and live with them ;they should spend some time sharing the happiness and suffering with their families;they long for love and pure friendship,they need communication with others,they wish they could find their lovers and some close friends with whom they can share their success and failure.
i think that we cannot buy everything with money,but we donot live without money.money help us to live a better lives,but it is not everything.we should know that we earn money not only to earn it but also to live a better lives. |
yes, your msg totally makes sense.
and in South China, money seems more important than it dose somewhere else. here people care about money-earning moe than Politics. we don't really care who will be the next Chairman of China. we think, no matter who will become the leader of China, that won't make big difference for money-earning. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
haoren
Joined: 01 Nov 2005 Posts: 48 Location: china
|
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:53 am Post subject: |
|
|
yes ,you are right.RedRose!!!
it is the problem that we should worry about.we have reponsibility to care for the future of our country.do you agree with me? it is very dangerous for people not to focus on the politics. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
RedRose

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China
|
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: |
|
|
haoren wrote: |
it is the problem that we should worry about.we have reponsibility to care for the future of our country.do you agree with me? it is very dangerous for people not to focus on the politics. |
But the South China is defferent from the north China. Northern people care about politics more than we do.
Besides, I find that women less care about politics than men do.  |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
UOB002

Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Lebanon
|
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:51 am Post subject: |
|
|
proudsouthamerican wrote: |
of course money is so important in all cultures
but in eastern culture, is so different, look how horrible is india! oh my God, i would never go to india, how can u be classified because of what you own????
or what about arabian countries, where if you are a rich man, you can buy a wife, that's really disgusting. |
I think we should say in some Arab nations. The Arab world, on the other hand, has some great values that go back in history. Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, for example, are countries where men and women built great ancient cultures. The ancient ruins remind us of that. Visit the British Musuem or Louver and see. Also India has wonderful things, at least the language we are using right now goes back to Sanskrit (from India!). I think every culture has some good and bad things. And everyone should be proud of his or her culture. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Marine
Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 77
|
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:38 am Post subject: |
|
|
haoren wrote: |
yes ,you are right.RedRose!!!
it is the problem that we should worry about.we have reponsibility to care for the future of our country.do you agree with me? it is very dangerous for people not to focus on the politics. |
Yes, that is what I worry about, I was born in GuangDong and got my University Education in Sichuan, and after graduation, I worked in north of China. I know the difference between the people Southern and Northern. what the Southern people care about is no more than moeny, otherwise, the Northern people is a happy heathly life. Many people in the southern judge someone by the money he has, the car he drive, and the beautiful house he own, all they care about is how to earn much more money. that is the real culture in the south. But in the northern China, most people like policy, they take himself as the host of our country, they will be aproud of the achivements we have in different field during the opening up and reforming of our country. they want to live a healthy happy life, spending much more time with family, sharing the success and surferring, making pure relationship with friend, even without much memey.and that is the culture in the north. Maybe the difference due to the culture can trace to the history of China long time ago. Southern China ever considered as the barren land has never been the policital center of old China. Therefore, the culture of caring nothing about policy was generated.
Do you think so?
But How can we change this situation, I worry about it! _________________ Reading make a full man; conference a ready man; and writting a exact man. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|