The Ghost Of Christmas Forever!
It took a trip into the future and one glimpse of its potential bleakness to convince this Dicken's character to give emotions a chance. Why? Penny-pinching old Ebenezer was a personality style and breed we know well, pure Diligent: Thinking /Working and /Emoting. Diligents often come off to others as emotionless, because their enormous intellect requires logical proof and their serious need for economic security leaves little room for fantasy or ridicule and no room for error.	Ebenezer by candlelight
But Diligents are human and all humans have emotions. So how did Dickens make it possible for Scrooge to trust his? The proof of his ultimate demise as viewed through the looking glass of tomorrow was believable to the old coot, because it was so logical. Ebenezer bought it. As a result,Tiny Tim got his goose, and we all have a nice Christmas story with a moral as logical for today's Ebenezer's, as then. Not all Diligents are misers, but it is absolutely true that all misers are ANSIRreg; Diligent, at least to some significant degree. Spending money is largely an emotional experience. Once need is past, want takes over. Want is fueled by emotion, especially during holidays. What appears miserly to the nonDiligent is simply an ability to let need override want in the name of logic.

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