The wealth of a rich man is his fortress;The poverty of the poor is his ruin.How to become rich anons?
>>24687543And when a rich man loses his wealth?
>>24687543Wisdom
>>24687543>Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal, But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
>>24687543Start a career in the finance industry.
>>24687554based
KNAWLEDGE.
>>24687557This
Turn the tv on, put it on the boomer finance channel (bloomberg, fox business, anything is fine) and buy slightly OTM options contracts for any ticker you hear dated 6 months out.Read some gay books while you wait for them to turn green
>>24687626What if they turned into red
>>24687626I know this post is intentionally retarded as a joke, but there are lots of financially illiterate people on here, so you really shouldn't be posting something like this.
>>24687674bro pwease expwain? What appening ere?
>When you know yourselves, then you'll be known, and you'll realize that you're the children of the living Father. But if you don't know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty
>>24687608Love burger pronunciations
>inb4 shitcoins
>>24687543Ahem...
>>24687547Right, a man who is dependent on good fortune is not truly free. He is a slave to fortune. Boethius was the second most powerful man in Rome, possessed of immense political power, great wealth, great status, etc. He had a loving wife and family. Both his sons were made Consuls of Rome. Yet he lost everything when fortune turned against him and yet was sublime while awaiting torture, ready to die a gruesome death. This is the measure of wisdom. Likewise, Saint Paul and Saint Ignatius are sublime in prison awaiting their deaths. Loazi, the Desert Fathers, and Saint Francis flourish in poverty, in the wilderness with nothing.By contrast, someone like Jeffery Epstein is ruined as soon as fortune turned against him. Indeed, how many celebrities are ruined by fame and wealth alone? How many "trust fund kids" are likewise ruined? Whereas Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Thomas Aquinas, etc. renounced their noble status and wealth, giving it away in search of wisdom and beauty.
>>24689281I've seen people criticize this because Augustine himself was only ever the wicked rich man, but Epicetus, the great Sphilosopher slave, says the exact same thing, just a bit less pithily.
>>24687557>For what great matter is it for the Gentiles to share their material wealth with the Jews; if the Jews have shared so generously their spiritual wealth with the Gentiles?
>>24689336The Macedonians gave willingly, that statement isn't to be taken the way you've intended
>>24687557>>24688244>>24689281>>24689294>>24689298Holy fucking slave morality. What happened to this board? You edgelords decided to LARP as trad Cathlodox and unironic Stoics and Platonists so hard that you actually became full on memes denying 500 years of philosophical progress. Morality has been deboonked. You can either become an empiricist eliminativist bugman or a Nietzchean hyperchad or an ascended post-structuralist, but becoming an unironic Platotroon is embarrassing. You do realize that the people who actually developed this philosophy were almost universally homeless, penniless, virgins, right? That's why they all look like bearded wizards. Some of them legit lived in caves.
>>24689381>philosophical progressspook
>>24689369oh, so I should give up my spiritual treasures because the moths or whatever, but the jews should get to have all my treasures? of course they did it willingly, because they were duped by a jew grift. the context surrounding it doesnt make it any better
>>24689336Uh, didn't they condemn us to original sin (Eve and Adam being Jewish), then get the whole world killed (seed of Cain and Seth), and then, to top it off, crucify God himself?It seems like they mostly enraged God and insulted Him, even on their own account.
>>24687543i had a lot of money but then i fell and lost it all over time. now i have no money and even if i got more money again i'm sure i'd waste it all again
That is backwards and satanic.Greed is a prison, faith is a fortress.Material wealth fades into nothing.
>>24690131This thread also has nothing to do with literature.
