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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Domestication

I'm giving no opinions or suggestions here, and I'm not telling people how to live or how to eat. I'm simply presenting facts and basic observation.  All I can do is trust your intelligence and your conscience to do as you see fit with this:

Meditate on each photo here.









Domestic humans and big ag livestock now account for 96 Percent of mammal biomass on earth.


Everyone else is going extinct, day by day.

Domesticated
means owned,
not autonomous,
not free.

The root of domestication, DOM, indicates ownership, subjugation. slavery, housed in a box, DOM-ination.

Domestication
(ownership, subjugation) is the very premise and foundation of the money system, of commerce.

Commerce cannot rest until every living being on earth is not free (even as it sells the idea of "freedom").

Even the definition of a weed
is a plant that is free, autonomous, not domesticated, meaning undesirable.

“Wild and free” is redundant. “Wild” and “free” are synonyms.

To the domestic mind, wild means "undesirable, frightening, barbaric."

Barbaric.

Ah, irony.

Saturday, November 09, 2019

The Fall From Eden = The Beginning of Money & Ownership

I just stumbled upon something about Islam, the Tree of Life, and money I'd never realized before.

For years I've studied the Fall from Grace, the beginning of money and ownership, portrayed in the Biblical Eden story as well as world mythology, alluded to in the Universal Myth of Stealing Fire From Heaven, described in my essays on my website:


The Seven-Headed Dragon: World Commerce  
(which I wrote years ago but hope to revise, both expanding upon it and clarifying it)

and

Our Fall From Grace: Our Departure From Gratis: The Beginning of Money (Examining the Meaning of the Universal Myth of Stealing Fire From Heaven)

I've also studied the Quran a lot, so I'm surprised I had somehow missed this, which I just read in the Wikipedia article on The Tree of Life, because, in another way, it is so blatantly confirms the same theme in the Biblical Eden story!


Painting of Tree of Life in interior of
Shaki Khan palace,
Azerbaijan National Art Museum,
Usta Gambar Garabagi
Muslims believe that when God created Adam and Eve, he told them that they could enjoy everything in the Garden except this tree (idea, concept, way of life), and so, Satan appeared to them and told them that the only reason God forbade them to eat from that tree is that they would become Angels, or they start using the idea/concept of Ownership in conjunction with inheritance generations after generations, which Iblis convinced Adam to accept[26][27] The hadiths also speak about other trees in heaven.[28] When they ate from this tree their nakedness appeared to them and they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden[29]. The Arabic word used is ورق [waraqiwhich also means currency/notes [30]. Which means they started to use currency due to ownership. As Allah already mentioned, that everything in Heaven is free (so eat from where you desire) [31], so using currency to uphold the idea of ownership became the reason for the slip. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life]


 Sure enough, I looked up the Arabic word for leaf [ورق ] in the Quran and Arabic lexicon, and it's true.  This root word for leaf [wāw rā qāf (و ر ق)] occurs four times in the Quran:


So he made them fall, through deception. And when they tasted of the tree, their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten together over themselves from the leaves [وَرَقِ  waraqi] of Paradise. And their Lord called to them, "Did I not forbid you from that tree and tell you that Satan is to you a clear enemy?" (Quran 7:22)
 And Adam and his wife ate of it, and their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves [وَرَقِ  waraqi] of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred. (Quran 20:121)
And similarly, We awakened them that they might question one another. Said a speaker from among them, "How long have you remained [here]?" They said, "We have remained a day or part of a day." They said, "Your Lord is most knowing of how long you remained. So send one of you with this silver coin [بِوَرِقِكُمْ   biwariqikum] of yours to the city and let him look to which is the best of food and bring you provision from it and let him be cautious. And let no one be aware of you. (Quran 18:19)
And with Him are the keys of the unseen; none knows them except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea. Not a leaf  [وَرَقَةٍ  waraqatin] falls but that He knows it. And no grain is there within the darknesses of the earth and no moist or dry [thing] but that it is [written] in a clear record.  (Quran 6:59) 

 See also what the Quran and Hadith say about money and possessions:


Also, see what the other world religions say about money, possessions and banking: 





Friday, August 23, 2019

BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO IN HIS OWN WORDS

I haven't blogged here for months - my apologies.  Yes, I'm still living with and care-taking my 92-year-old mom, unable to go anywhere, but brainstorming and philosophizing a lot on money, gift economy, and spirituality.  I hope to share the fruits of this time of pondering in future blog posts.

Meanwhile, I feel the urge to post this wake-up call. It's a departure of my usual posts. But it is the perfectly  obvious object lesson of the predictable end of the "Christian" mind that pretends it can serve both "God" and Mammon.  


BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO in his own words:


ON THE AMAZON FOREST, GUNS, AND GENOCIDE

“It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn’t been as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians.”* Correio Braziliense newspaper, April 12, 1998

“In 2019 we’re going to rip up Raposa Serra do Sol [Indigenous Territory in Roraima, northern Brazil]. We’re going to give all the ranchers guns”
In Congress, posted on January 21, 2016

“[indigenous reserves] are an obstacle to agri-business. You can’t reduce indigenous land by even a square meter in Brazil”
Campo Grande News, April 22, 2015

If it’s up to me, every citizen will have a firearm in the house. There will not be a centimeter demarcated for indigenous reservations or quilombolas.”
Estadão, April 3, 2017

“If I become President there will not be a centimeter more of indigenous land.”
Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, February 8, 2018

“There will not be a centimeter demarcated for indigenous or quilombo reservations.”
Talk at Clube Hebraica in Rio de Janeiro, on 3 April 2017.

“The Indians do not speak our language, they do not have money, they do not have culture. They are native peoples. How did they manage to get 13% of the national territory” Campo Grande News, April 22, 2015

“There is no indigenous territory where there aren’t minerals. Gold, tin and magnesium are in these lands, especially in the Amazon, the richest area in the world. I’m not getting into this nonsense of defending land for Indians” Campo Grande News, April 22, 2015


ON TORTURE

“I'm support torture. You know that. And the people too. Through the vote, you'll change nothing in this country. Nothing, absolutely nothing. We'll only get change, unfortunately, when we go into a civil war here someday and do a work the military regime didn't do, killing as much as thirty thousand people, starting with FHC. It's all right if some innocent people die. Innocent people die in many wars.”
Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).


ON GENOCIDAL MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

“The Military Police should have killed 1,000 rather than 111 prisoners in the Carandiru massacre.”
Folha de S.Paulo (3 October 1997).

“Pinochet should have killed more people.”
Veja essa. Veja (3 December 1998).


ON GAY PEOPLE

“I will not fight against it nor discriminate, but if I see two men kissing on the street, I'll beat them up.”
Folha de S.Paulo (19 May 2002).

“I would be incapable of loving a gay son. I wouldn't be a hypocrite. I prefer that he die in an accident than show up with some guy with a moustache.”
Inverview to Playboy magazine in 2011.


ON IMMIGRATION

“The scum of the world is arriving in Brazil, as if we didn’t have enough problems to solve.”
About Senegalese, Haitians, Iranians, Bolivians and Syrians in an interview to Jornal Opção on 17 September 2015.

ON WOMEN

“I wouldn't hire them [women] with the same salary.”
RedeTV! (15 February 2016).

“She doesn't deserve it [to be raped] because she's very bad, because she's very ugly. She's not my type, I'd never rape her. I'm not a rapist, but if I was, I wouldn't rape her because she doesn't deserve it.”
In interview with Zero Hora newspaper on 10 December 2014.

“I have five children. There were four men, on the fifth I got weak and a woman came out.”
Talk at Clube Hebraica in Rio de Janeiro, on 3 April 2017.


ON NATIONALISM AND CHRISTIANITY

“Since we are a Christian country, God above all. This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian and the minority that is against it can leave.”
At Campina Grande Airport on 8 February 2018.

“Brazil above all, God above everyone.”
In the presidential debate held by TV Bandeirantes on 9 August 2018.

""You were decisive in helping to change the destiny of Brazil.... This is the first time that the name of God is being heard within the Brazilian presidency.... It's very good to be among friends. And even better when they are friends with God in their hearts."
Speaking to the "March for Jesus", a huge throng of Evangelicals, June 21, 2019


ON TAX EVASION

“It's my advice and I do it: I evade all the taxes I can.”
On the program “Câmera Aberta at Band” on 23 May 1999. Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).


ON HIS ROLE MODEL DONALD TRUMP

“We want to have a great Brazil just like Trump wants to have a great America.”
Jair Bolsonaro’s speech to the Chamber of Commerce on 18 March 2019.

____________________________________________

WHEN I VISITED THE AMAZON AND SAW THE ROOT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW







"The next blow to his religious convictions came when he and Corinne went to visit a missionary....
The missionary, with the blessing of the Ecuadoran government, had gone into the cattle business, shipping a herd from North America. He had brokered a deal with his converts: if they raised and fed his cattle, the government would grant them a plot of jungle, and the converts would be entitled to keep every other generation of calves. The alternating generation would be added to the American's herd....
...boasted the missionary, 'Now the Christian Indians are the richest in the jungle.'

'This is why governments all over the world love missionaries-- they civilize people and get them into the money system...

'What of Jesus's teaching his followers to give up possessions? And suddenly it dawned on me: if you were going to call something Antichrist, this would be it. The people who were promoting this so-called Christianity are really Antichrist.'
....
"What's more, with each acre of land doled out to ranching, more jungle was clear-cut. And after just a few years of grazing, the land was unusable, turned into desert.

'What about the jungle?' Daniel asked.

'It's infinite,' said the missionary. 'If you're up in a plane, look at the Amazon. It goes for miles.'

Daniel took a scenic flight over the Amazon. 'It looked like Paul Bunyan had taken a razor blade to it.'
....
Suelo juggled the contradictions.
....
'There was no poverty in the jungle until they introduced money, and all the sudden there's poverty,... and all the diseases that come with it. And you look at people and they're not happy. They have all these goods, and they're unhappy.'" 
[p. 84-86, The Man Who Quit Money, by Mark Sundeen]

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*Notice Bolsonaro is paraphrasing Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf, expressing inspiration and admiration for the USA's extermination of indigenous peoples:
 "But in North America the Teutonic element, which has kept its racial
stock pure and did not mix it with any other racial stock, has come to dominate the American Continent and will remain master of it as long as that element does not fall a victim to the habit of adulterating its blood. . . .  
"We ought to remember that during the first period of American colonization numerous Aryans earned their daily livelihood as trappers and hunters, etc., frequently wandering about in large groups with their women and children, their mode of existence very much resembling that of ordinary nomads. The moment, however, that they grew more numerous and were able to accumulate larger resources, they cleared the land and drove out the aborigines, at the same time establishing settlements which rapidly increased all over the country." (Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, p 238, 252)