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    Conflicts of Interest - The Invisible Portion   Conflicts of interest between generating a profit  and  providing a service  have two aspects, one is  the external business structure and the other is the internal human side 

       The Human Side  

       The Business Side

    On Truth  

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The Human Side:   

Here are two old saying/proverbs and two biblical quotes regarding internal human conflicts.   

     Spanish Proverb:  "He who has to serve two masters, has to lie to one."

     American Saying:   "You can't ride two horses with one ass."

     Matthew 6:24   "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

     Luke 16:13   "No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

When something is important, we often say it twice.   Perhaps then,  it's not a coincidence, an accident, or a mistake that the Christian Bible gives us the same message twice --   "You cannot serve both God and Money."   

Regardless of how you define "God," a fair interpretation the words "serving God" would be, among other things, honoring, respecting and caring for God's creations,   and God's creations include our fellow human beings and the billions of non-human life forms that share the planet with us.    

The Business Side:   

When you examine the business side of conflict between service and profit, you'll soon notice that what is commonly called "free market capitalism" is an illusion.   There is no such thing as free market capitalism.   

The present system is "exploitation capitalism," which is a euphemism for "Screw anyone, everyone, and everything as long as it makes a buck."   The only  thing that matters is profit, and not just profit, but short term profit -- profit that will show up on the next corporate, quarterly report.  It's obvious that the corporate world is serving money.   Perhaps it's time to introduce you to The Great God - MONEY  .

The typical villain in a James-Bond-type book or film exhibits certain character traits.   Like dogs bark and cats meow, worshippers of The Great God - MONEY  also express their own predictable behavior patterns.    Below is a not-so-subtle,  poke-fun-at-them description of those behaviors.   Unfortunately and all-to-often, these character traits show up in real-life money worshipers.

(A)   Self-interest as Prima Donna.

(B)   The only criteria for judging actions is "THE-BOTTOM-LINE.” -- What is the physical result? -- Did I get what I want?   Did it produce aprofit?

(C)   Acts of war'ship to the deity,  The Great God - MONEY,  are rewarded, not in some pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by kind of way,  but in the  “prove-it-to-me,”  “show-it-to-me”  tradition of:  "Lie another lie  and kiss my thigh  all the way to the bank."  (Unless, of course, they own the bank.)

(D)   All the invisible hocus-pocus that the old, "religious fools" call “spirit" has been neatly thrown away.

(E)   There is absolutely no consequence or responsibility for any actions -- unless the doer gets caught in the act.

(F)    The long-term effects of one’s actions upon the Earthly environment and upon future generations are completely irrelevant.

(G)   As war’shippers of The Great God Money, they even have their own Golden Rule:   “He who holds the gold, rules.”

On Truth:   

Most children are taught of good and to be good.   Rarely are they shown how and where evil really lies.   Evil dresses itself up as good; puts forth a bright, shiny surface and sings with golden throat and silver tongue.   To the naive ear, the lies sound like music and promises of manna.   The following is a quote from a fantasy interview the devil him/herself:

To know the truth, one must penetrate the facade of faces.   Only inside, can one meet content and context.   When we listen with our inner ear we can  hear when silver tongues are selling false messages.   Only with true knowledge of good and evil can one be free to choose.   Until then, mechanical men continue to strangle each other in the name of piety.   Until then, mechanical men continue to rape  Sacred Mother Earth in their worship of their revered deity  "The Great God Money".  

2 Corinthians 3:6                                                                                                    .2Cr3:6.                            ...

" Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.”

u    Even regarding our written and spoken language, the Bible tells us that life is  in the spirit [i.e. the intention] and not in the words themselves.   You might also ask how this passage affects the literal interpretation of the Christian Bible.   Also consider this:  A literal interpretation of the Bible is still an interpretation and that or any other interpretation is a function of the believer and not the Bible, itself.  

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