At the Jewish cemetery in Mexico City

[nadinbrzezinski]

they have a series of writings from the sages, on how you cannot take anything to the grave with you, and once we all die we are pretty much equal.

I just found a FB meme that does that very well as well.

Enjoy...



Oh and I know a few people who would be considered 1% and let me tell you, what really scares the living daylights out of them is this...

[PeteSelman]

1. Death scares them?

Or not being able to take money with them? Or what? That at the end of the day they'll be as dead as the guy who didn't have an awesome life of privilege?

I'm not trying to be a dick but I'm not quite understanding the point. Wouldn't you rather be the guy on the left even though you're still going to die as surely as everyone else?

Money doesn't make you a better person but you do have a much easier life.

[AcertainLiz]

2. I guess that in the end we're just gonna die?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. I showed an actual grave to my boyfriend (now husband).

I took him into Glenwood Cemetery and went up to a grave.

It said "Howard Robard Hughes, Jr." 1905-1976 and I said "Sic transit gloria mundi".

Howard Hughes was once the richest man in the world, in the 1970s.

"Sic transit gloria mundi" is Latin for "Thus passes the glory of the world."






Now it has a fence around it and a locked gate.

[ucrdem]

4. Yes and no.

On the cemetery question, it makes a big difference whether it's kept up or not. A really big difference. In L.A. there are several badly kept cemeteries that look like holy h--- because the owners have not only skimped on upkeep but sold off the perimeters to strip malls. I mean come on. That's disrespectful. So yeah you can take it with you and unless you want to shame your future relatives you might invest a little in the great beyond.

Anyway nadin this is a very interesting post so thanks.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

5. Nadin, your friends can cry me a river. These greedy bastards deserve their karma. . .too bad it

will happen when they are dead and in hell and no one can see them suffer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. It is not about crying a river

These people were friends of my dad, and they made their fortunes after the holocaust. So they are near that point. But they are rather religious, and terrified. I once quipped about guilty consciousness...oh the glares.

They are not monsters though. In Mexico getting credit for newly arrived immigrants in the 1950s was quite impossible, so they did make loans to many of the people who were selling baubles in the streets who came from Europe to start business. I calculate that they are directly or indirectly responsible for over 20K jobs.

As I once told my dad, that was a different Mexico. But just from net worth, they are up there. And death absolutely terrifies them.

In other words, ironically, they were job creators to use a favorite turn of phrase, and they invested locally. They were micro loans, before the term was invented.

[Gore1FL]

6. I'd still rather be rich. n/t

[PCIntern]

7. BTW:

If anyone ever gets a chance to see a Mexican film about the Jewish community and other religious entities entitled "Nora's Will", don't miss it. It is both poignant and hilarious.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Yup

And since I grew up in the community there are a lot of inside jokes. And the director is a young (by my standards) Jewish kid. He got an all star cast for that though. And the areas it was filmed, like Polanco, I walked those streets.

[pipoman]

8. Equal unless you have a tattoo, in which case you're not welcome. .

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. I've got several million tons of limestone at Giza says otherwise... N.T.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. And those were robbed by grave robbers

And point to a new one. In the end they still went back to the ground, sort off...mummification though was done by all Egyptians who could afford it. That excluded slaves.