Re: is poverty really noble?

From: <glennmorton@entouch.net>
Date: Tue May 30 2006 - 17:19:50 EDT

Hi Iain,

>>>On Tue May 30 15:54 , "Iain Strachan" sent:

Glenn,

Just a brief thought while it's in my mind.

I don't think there was anything in what I said that could be
interpreted as saying there was "nobility" in poverty. I said there
may be richness (spirtually) in poverty, just as there may be
spiritual poverty in richness. That's a different thing entirely than
saying poor people are "noble".<<<<

I guess, what made me think about this issue was that you didn't like my statment about the Tibetans being poor by choice--religious choice and then brought up the poem and Singh.  I interpreted this as praising poverty as a value to be attained, yet, while I agree that there are people heavyladen with gold, there are probably more who are heavy laden with poverty.

I chose the word 'noble', because it seems that the poor are always praised (especially the poor by choice), but few really want to live that way.

Received on Tue May 30 17:21:27 2006