Do You Own Any Diamonds?

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You don't have to answer that? I was just wondering... After I saw the movie, “Blood Diamonds” with Leonardo DiCaprio, I decided that I would NEVER purchase another diamond. Have you seen this movie? Leonardo does a fabulous acting job in this movie. (He always does though.) I just couldn’t believe what was depicted in this movie about what is called "Conflict Diamonds." I was appalled by the TRUTH behind diamond mining and methods of marketing used by the owners of these diamond mines to keep the price of diamonds at an all-time high. Really, when you think about it, what is the TRUE value of a diamond? The average person wouldn’t even know that a diamond was worth anything, if the marketing experts didn’t convince us that we NEED diamonds to make us “happy.” And a diamond “in the rough” or an UNCUT diamond, presents itself as just another piece of rock. I wonder who figured out that this piece of rock could be cut in such a way that it would become valuable? Certainly a question to ponder, don’t you think? With other gems, it’s the same question. Who decided that these gems are valuable? Why do we need them at all?