Causes of Crime

[donquixote99]

Horatio Alger stories just about always involve some rich person being impressed by the striver's moxie, talent, charm, etc, and bestowing opportunity upon them. Did such an angel play a role in your wealth acquisition, ZJ? Can you see where differently-cultured persons may find such angels extremely hard-to-find?

[BlueStreak]

Amazing how someone can keep repeating the same tired old mantra of "Cadillac driving welfare queens" to this group, which AFAIK contains NO ONE who currently lives on government assistance. Some of us are even quite successful in our chosen fields.

Cognitive Dissonance, anyone?

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Look who's suddenly a Marxist!

"Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions."

Yep.

Dave

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

Opiate.

Yes you probably did not have one to lose in the first place.