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Originally Posted by ccperf721p  Don't know about insignificant, he did leave a mark. His business practices overshadowed his contributions and only having himself to compete with left a lot to be desired.. |
In the tradition I follow, One gains significance, when one rises above. When one over comes one's own self and and establishes a just mean in one's own life. Bill wanted what all men want. Bill cared about what any man can care about. Given unfettered opportunity, Bill was utterly unable to control himself, utterly unable to establish a connection to a just middle way that might guide him.
In Washington state alone there are thousands as greedy, tens of thousands as selfish, who knows how many as un-insightfully evil...What else do we personally know Bill for? Making money? Almost everyone wants to do that anymore... nothing special there...."The dumbest farmer gets the biggest patatos" (German folk saying) He made more money than most... yet the amount never became suffienct... I've met hundreds who always want more! LOL
What did Bill ever risen above? I say, here is a man who has completely succumb to this world. Here is a man who is but the pawn of of his own twisted desire to own this world..."A world he can see, but just can not touch.."
It's me or Bill. Only one of us can possibly be right about the right way to live. In my View Bill is an insignificant man. He has not one thing to teach this world and has harmed many who did. The best of those he harmed will rise above him and attain significance before gods and men... and over time teach us a better way to measure men, a better way to live. ":O}