What do you all think about diamonds?

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I refuse to buy diamonds at all. NONE. You never know when they could be coming from countries like Sierra Leone where every diamond you buy helps the rebels purchase weapons.

 

To answer your question "how do I rationalize all the useless crap that I couldn't live without," I tell myself that if I didn't buy all those Collector's Edition DVDs, video games (I own at least $1500 worth of video games, not counting consoles. I'm a game junkie), computer software/upgrades, anime, and sports parafanelia I probably would have spent the money on fast food and cheap hookers. And I definitely wouldn't want to be a fatass with herpes now would I?

Trust me, I know exatly what you mean.

 

i never knew where diamonds come from (besides the earth.. i know they can be manipulated, somebody explain please)

 

to me the're just another silly thing that gullible people
waiste a lot of money on.

it seems to be up to each of us though
which is more important us:
to try to impress each other
or the kind of world we all have to live in.

=^^=
.../\...

 

Diamonds are formed in Kimberlite pipes, which are formed through geothermal processes where lots of heat and pressure deep in the earth morph common carbon (coal, for example) into a new crystal structure, a diamond. You mine these, which are in a rough condition, and then you cut and polish it into the final product. Of course, most diamonds aren't gem quality, and are used in industrial persuits, like diamond dust saws for cutting stone and dentist drills.

Diamonds can be made artificially with special equipment, and can be made out of nearly anything with enough carbon in it (read somewhere that you could hypothetically use peanut butter). I don't think this produces gem quality diamonds, but I could be wrong.

Heres a great place to learn more: http://www.howstuffworks.com/diamond1.htm

 

The rock on your finger is a signal to other men that you're taken, and by virtue of the fact that you're wearing the signal, you're O.K. with that. From a man's point of view, knowing that most of us men are dogs who will act as dogs do, we want it to be plain to the rest of the dogs, that if you mess with my bitch, there's going to be trouble. Big diamonds say that loudly.

 

Diamonds are a girls best friend, right?

Well if I could afford them, they certainly would be, in my case. I love all jewels, and all jewelry...including diamonds. Not for what they're worth, but because of their beauty and everlasting quality. I love heirlooms, also...there is alot to be said about something so priceless that is passed lovingly down each generation, along with all of its memories, and hope for its new owner. I'm not particularly religious, but I have a gold cross that my father gave me, who has owned it since he was 16 years old. It was the only thing that he ever gave me, without feeling obligated to do so. I'm passing it on to my first born, when they're 16.

Anyways, thats my two cents, althought it wasn't all on topic!

 

my last name is diamond, i guess that means im really valuable
diamonds are the hardest, but also the most brittle substance, becuase once a diamond is damaged, its totally permenant

 

Nope. Don't like the diamonds at all. Here's my policy on jewelry: It's gotta be hemp, or under two bucks, or it has to give me a green rash. I guess cheap is a better word?

 

I don't think about diamonds at all and I don't see the need to ever buy or own one.

 

The diamond industry is one of the worst industries on the planet. First, nearly all the wealthy created is taken out of the mostly-third-world nations where the diamonds actually are (mostly in africa) and sent to european and american corporations. The wealth that does stay in African countries has often been used to fund wars and atrocities, including the genocidal abuses in Sierra Leone, Angola, and Congo. Much of the mining is done by slave labor or wage slaves (often children) who have to submit to humiliating body cavity searches after working in the mines. As someone else pointed out, diamonds are not even rare - the "preciousness" of diamonds is a creation of the diamond industry, which only releases a certain number of diamonds to the market every year, artificially creating a small supply.

As to the original post here, wearing a diamond that has been in the family for years and that has long since been paid for really has no effect on the industry one way or another - but it does send a message about the values of the person wearing it. If one is willing to accept this consequence, there is nothing inherently "immoral" about wearing it.

 

Diamonds mean nothing to me, they are just rocks.
Too many people suffer for the sake of rich people and rappers to wear rocks around their necks.

 

Hi! Just ENJOY it! You could always put it aside for that rainy day stash/cash! I look for neat,old rings in the pawn shops,there are some pretty pieces in those places! I once pawned a ring for my honeys' guitar strings & breakfast,we were that BROKE! Oh,the bad ol' days,ha!

 

you can buy a machine for ~$50,000 that can make diamonds, not just little tiny ones either.

 

they're the hardest stones, they cut ceramics, glass and alike quite good.
and women are such dumbasses to pay them shit loads of money (or make their husbands do so).

 

I like diamonds and jewels they are pretty.

 

Everyone does it though. If it's not diamonds it's a new atv; if it's not that it's a new video card, and if it's not that, it's that cool pyrex bong at the head shop for a 90 bucks. We all blow our cash on shit we don't need, just some people spend their cash on really really stupid shit, like a shiny rock.


BTM: I saw this video of these guys using that machine to make a turkey into a diamond. They're of gem quality, but I heard a bunch of companies bought it to keep the prices up.

 

The diamond industry is absolutely horrible. Amnesty International has been working for years to change the conditions in the diamond mines. This short animation clip gives a basic overview of the some atrocities that are committed in the name of the diamond industry and I beg anyone with a conscious, please don't spend your money supporting an industry that helps to kill and maim thousands of people, including children every year.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/diamonds/d4.html

You can find more info here:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/diamonds/index.do