tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251496532024-03-19T01:17:12.310-06:00Moneyless World - Free World - Priceless WorldWild Nature,
outside commercial civilization,
runs on gift economy
("freely give, freely receive").
Thus it is balanced. Commercial civilization runs on thought of credit and debt ("knowledge of good & evil").
Thus it is imbalanced.
What nation can balance
its own budget or environment?
Gift Economy is Faith, Grace, Love
- the core message of every religion.
The proof is inside you:
Wild Nature is your True Nature,
crucified by commercial civilization.Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-61065333227675314632021-02-15T20:01:00.006-07:002021-05-28T18:35:19.557-06:00The Evolution of the Trinity of Agriculture, Money & Usury<p> </p><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Evolution of the Trinity of Agriculture, Money & Usury</b></h1><br /><br />You'll likely not find the ideas in this 20-minute video anyplace else. I'm feeling good about them. <div><br /></div><div>Through the evidence of Indo-European and Semitic language etymology, as well as through the Hebrew Bible, through mythology and logical deduction, I show how agriculture, money and usury are inextricably linked since their inception thousands of years ago. </div><div><br /></div><div>As well as demonstrating the destructive nature of interest (usury), I also show how the very nature of money itself separates the consumer from the producer, separates human actions from accountability, making it a thousands-year-old breeding ground for corruption, poverty, and environmental destruction. </div><div><br /></div><div>Something I forgot to mention in this video is how also in the Quran, not just in the Bible, the Fall From Grace story is also about the introduction of money and possessions, as interpreted by Quranic scholars, seen in Arabic linguistics. See my blogpost about this from November, 2019:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://zerocurrency.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-fall-from-eden-beginning-of-money.html" target="_blank">The Fall From Eden = The Beginning of Money & Ownership</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://zerocurrency.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-fall-from-eden-beginning-of-money.html" target="_blank"> http://zerocurrency.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-fall-from-eden-beginning-of-money.html</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Please come back soon to this very page if you want to see a written essay and transcript to coincide with this video. For now I just want to publish the video. </div><div>[I'm realizing the video doesn't show up for some reason for some mobile phones, so I just put the link here too]:</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/R-6cJFZbSe8" target="_blank">The Evolution of the Trinity of Agriculture, Money & Usury</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/R-6cJFZbSe8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/R-6cJFZbSe8</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R-6cJFZbSe8" width="320" youtube-src-id="R-6cJFZbSe8"></iframe></div>Links: </div><div>Suelo's website, with FAQ on living moneyless:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/" target="_blank"><b>Living Without Money, with FAQ & Essays </b></a></div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/" target="_blank"><b><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://sites.google.com/site/livingw...</span></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Quotes from the world's religions & philosophers denouncing usury:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #030303;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/what-the-world-s-religions-philosophers-say-about-the-crime-called-banking" target="_blank"><b>Is Banking Criminal? What the World's Ancient Philosophers & Religions Say</b></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Some of Suelo's other essays correlating with this video:</div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/the-seven-headed-dragon" target="_blank">The Seven-Headed Dragon, the Fall from Eden, the Beginning of Money</a></b></div><div><b><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/the-seven-headed-dragon" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/the-seven-headed-dragon</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/our-fall-from-grace--our-departure-from-gratis" target="_blank">Our Fall From Grace: Our Departure From Gratis: The Beginning of Money</a></b></div><div><b style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/our-fall-from-grace--our-departure-from-gratis" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/our-fall-from-grace--our-departure-from-gratis</a></b><p></p></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Transcript:</h2><div><div><div>Hola amigos.</div><div><br /></div><div>In case you're new here, my name is Daniel Suelo. I'm known as "The Man Who Quit Money." I lived without money for 15 years, from 2000 through 2015. Then I had to start taking care of my parents, and now just my mother. So I don't exactly live without money now. I still live minimally and use money sparingly. But I have to manage my mother's finances and do grocery shopping and pay bills, etc., etc. Anyway, if you want to know more about my life without money you can check out my website. It has Frequently-Asked Questions, and the link is below</div><div><br /></div><div>Today I want to talk about money and usury. This is in response to a comment somebody made a few weeks ago. They said that usury is the problem; money is not the problem. And I've talked extensively about usury and I've talked about the evils of usury. And there's a link, also below, about that--what the world's religions and philosophers say about usury. In this video I want to talk about how usury and money are inextricably linked, from the very beginning, from the very conception of money in the beginning, and how we can tell the history of money and the evolution of money just by our language, by the etymology of our words.</div><div><br /></div><div>For example the word "pecuniary" and words "fee" and "feudal" and "fiefdom": they all come from the same root, which is "pecu", which means cattle.</div><div><br /></div><div>And also the word "capitalism" comes from "cattle." "Capital" means "head," "kaput." "Cattle" comes from that same root, "kaput." You count heads of cattle. And "capitalism" means the principle for interest.</div><div><br /></div><div>Even look at our words for "stock," like "stock broker," "stock market." This comes from "livestock," "cattle."</div><div><br /></div><div>It's also interesting to look at the Spanish word for "cattle." That's "ganado." "Ganado" means wages for something gained and "ganar" literally means to earn wages.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now this gets really fascinating when we look up the word for money in Greek. The Greek word for money is "nomisma." The root of "nomisma" is "nomos." "Nomos" means "law," as in "the law of Moses" or "the law of the land." Now the root of "nomos" is "nemo" which means "to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals." Here we see at its root is agriculture, grazing and agriculture.</div><div><br /></div><div>Also you can see, not only the evolution of money from the idea of "cattle" in Indo-European languages, such as English, but you can also see it in Semitic languages, such as Hebrew. Like, the word for cattle in Hebrew is "mikneh." And the root word of "mikneh" is "qana." "Qana" means "to purchase" or "to own." Also, the Hebrew words for jealousy come from "qana." "Jealousy" and "own" and "possession." And "mikneh" means both "cattle" and "possessions." Basically, "mikneh" means "money" and "cattle" simultaneously.</div><div><br /></div><div>So let's talk about the very beginnings of civilization and why I believe that money and civilization and agriculture are inextricably linked, that they're based on the same principle, and this is the principle of money. It's actually a pretty simple concept. It isn't that complicated</div><div><br /></div><div>Our words for money, like, as in "cattle," </div><div>they also come from agricultural concepts. Like, we talk about seed money. You invest a seed and you reap the reward. You harvest seed, the fruit of the seed. This is investment. And this is what civilization is based upon. It's based upon agriculture: planting a seed and waiting for the reward; whereas wild nature is based upon a pay-it-forward system.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, basically, civilization, from its very beginning, is based upon owning other living beings, enslaving. We call it domestication, but domestication is actually just a euphemism for slavery. They mean the same thing: you own another creature, you exploit that creature, you use that creature. This is where the word "usury" comes from. It comes from using, exploiting, exploitation.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, basically, you own a creature. You control the creature's food supply. You control the creature's sexual reproduction. And this is for your own profit. </div><div>You use the creature for, not only labor (such as workhorses and work oxen), but also as money, as currency. And you can see that the first currency was cattle, as I pointed out in our Indo-European and Semitic roots. So, basically, civilization is based upon the concept of agriculture, money and ownership and banking.</div><div><br /></div><div>The very first land is the very first bank. This is what agriculture is: it's a bank. It's setting up land as a bank, and you invest your seeds in that bank, and those seeds reproduce and they bear interest. You put your cattle on land and the cattle reproduces, the capital reproduces. And beyond the capital is interest. That's your usury: using other living beings. And this is slavery. This is chattel. The word "chattel" comes from "cattle." Also, "chattel" and "capitalism" come from the same root: "kaput."</div><div><br /></div><div>So, basically, you can put your cattle on my land, you can invest your money in my bank, and the cattle reproduce and bear interest. Then you profit and I profit. You keep some of the profits and I keep some of the profits. It seems like a win-win situation.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, the problem with cattle is they're big and bulky, and also they take up resources. This isn't money from nothing as is usury nowadays. It's money that actually comes from expendable resources of your land. This is why many herding tribes have to keep on the move, because the cattle deplete one bit of land, so they have to move to another.</div><div><br /></div><div>But if you're in a sedentary community and you have cattle, they basically deplete the land and then you have to buy or use other land, to put your cattle on it. Also, if you're trading money, if you're trading your cattle as money. It's difficult to keep carrying cattle everywhere.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hence, this is when non-living currency was invented. This is when people started using things like metal ingots or other forms of trade, other currency of trade. And metal ingots evolved into coinage, of course</div><div><br /></div><div>But the concept of interest (usury) remained, and the concept of banking remained. This time your bank is your house, or a bench. That's what the word "bank" means--"bench." You set up your bench, people bring your their ingots or their coinage and you hold it for them. And the fee that comes from holding money is called "interest." The money, like the cattle, bears interest. It multiplies.</div><div><br /></div><div>But, this time, your money currency, because it's a non-living entity, doesn't deplete resources. That sounds great. Now you're making profit from nothing! With cattle, you're making profit with something. You're also aware that your exploitation depletes resources. But, with the new money, with ingots and coins, you realize that your money is actually an idea in the head, and an idea in the head can come from nothing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Basically you are, when you're charging interest, you are creating money out of thin air, and you are profiting from nothing! You are profiting from no resources, no goods and services, no labors, nothing. You're not working for your money, your money is "working" for you. This is the saying of an investor: "Let your money work for you, don't work for your money." By the investor's very own admission, the investor doesn't work for money. Money comes from nothing. So, for the banker, for the investor, this sounds great! You're getting money from nothing!</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's step back and look at the bigger picture. Money from nothing. You're accumulating massive amounts of wealth, now. This is what bankers do! From nothing! Not from your own work, but from thin air!</div><div><br /></div><div>So, basically, usury (gaining money from nothing) is really the same concept of counterfeiting money. We consider that criminal. Yet it's the very same principle as interest, gaining interest. And what happens is, you accumulate all of these nothings, which is what money is--it's nothing. It's an idea, an idea in the head. You're taking your nothings and trading them for somethings. You're trading them for goods and services produced by other people, produced by the environment.</div><div><br /></div><div>And this is exactly why goods and services flow from the workers to the non-workers! This is why goods and services flow from the poor to the rich! This is why there is massive poverty in the world. This is why there's massive environmental destruction in the world.</div><div><br /></div><div>We believe that we can trade nothings for something. Money creates the illusion that there are unlimited resources, because money itself is an unlimited, so-called "resource." But it is nothing! But the goods and services, that we trade for money, are limited--limited resources.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is what's insidious about money: the very idea of money separates the producer from the consumer; so we are unaware of where our goods and services are coming from.</div><div><br /></div><div>The goods that we use are produced, say, overseas in sweat shops, exploited labor. They're produced by environmental destruction, say, in the Congo by Congolese children digging up minerals, day in and day out, in slave labor, so that we can have our computers and our cell phones, etc.</div><div><br /></div><div>So we're unaware of the exploitation that our lifestyles are producing. This is why I'm adamant about figuring out a way to make money go obsolete, living without money.</div><div><br /></div><div>I want to talk a little bit more about the etymology of money and the mythology of money. We can even see it in the very beginnings of our mythology. By mythology I don't mean non-truth. I define mythology in the same way that Joseph Campbell defined it. It's a story that reveals deep principles within us, and deep principles within our civilization.</div><div><br /></div><div>So I was talking about the Hebrew word for "cattle" being "miqneh." The root of "mikneh" is "qana." "Qana" means "purchase." And "qana" means "possession." And also the Hebrew word for "jealousy" comes from "qana."</div><div><br /></div><div>Lo and behold, we find the concept of qana in the very first stories of the Bible, in Genesis, for example: Cain. There's a play on words in the story of Cain and Abel. When Cain is born, Eve says, "I have purchased a man from the Lord." The word for "purchase" is "qana." It's a play on words with "Cain." Cane represents purchase. Cain is the child of purchase.</div><div><br /></div><div>Google Translate translates it for what it says: "And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain and said 'I have bought a man for the Lord." So, yeah!</div><div><br /></div><div>So, then, let's look at the story of Adam and Eve and taking the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. This story is actually about the birth of money and interest and agriculture. What we miss out in English is that the Hebrew in the Bible is full of puns, and these puns reveal deeper meanings. Let's look at the story of the Serpent in the garden of Eden, and Adam and Eve taking the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, in Jewish rabbinical literature, it's said that Cain is the offspring of the Devil. He's the offspring of the Serpent. He's the offspring of purchase. This is what I want to show. In Genesis 3:13, after Adam and Eve had taken the fruit, Eve says, "The serpent deceived me." The word for "serpent," interestingly, is "nahash." And the word for "deceived" is "nasha." "Nasha" ("deceived") also means "to charge interest" and "to lend at interest."</div><div><br /></div><div>Also, it's interesting to look at the word for "snakebite" in Hebrew. The word for snakebite is "nashach."</div><div><br /></div><div>For example, when, later in the Torah, in the story of the Israelites in the wilderness, snakes come along and bite them. That word for bite, snakebite, is "nashach." "Nashach" not only means snakebite, but it also means "to lend on usury." It's an entering into of debt.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now remember that, in the New Testament, Jesus uses the words "debt" and "sin" synonymously. For example, in the Lord's Prayer: "Forgive us our debts even as we forgive our debtors."</div><div><br /></div><div>In another Gospel it says "Forgive us our trespasses." So "trespassing," "sin" and "debt" are synonymous. And these are core principles in Judaism and Christianity.</div><div><br /></div><div>Snakes are actually symbolic of the creditor, and the snakebite is the lending at interest.</div><div><br /></div><div>Even other words for "serpent" and "dragon," such as "leviathan," represent the same idea. "Levi," or "levy," in "leviathan," also means "to bind with debt." </div><div>And this is the whole idea of the Levitical Law, like the book of Leviticus. It's law. It represents binding in debt.</div><div><br /></div><div>And this is the idea in Christianity, of freeing ourselves from debt. "Forgive us our debts, even as we forgive our debtors." Freeing ourselves from the old law of debt, credit and debt.</div><div><br /></div><div>And this is the very first concept of money. This is the knowledge of good and evil. Like the New Testament calls the Law the knowledge of good and evil. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the Tree of Credit and Debt, the Knowledge of Credit and Debt.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is confirmed by the very vocabulary, the Hebrew vocabulary, of the Genesis stories. So, when Eve says, "The serpent deceived me," she's also literally saying, "The serpent bit me"! She's also literally saying, "The creditor charged me interest"! It can mean any of those things!</div><div><br /></div><div>And, in the end, the great curse for Adam and Eve was agriculture! No longer does the Earth provide for them, as the Earth does for all wild creatures. Now they're living in a world of domestication. Now they're living in the world of agriculture. And this is the curse, said in Genesis:</div><div><br /></div><div>"Cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground."</div><div><br /></div><div>And what is Cain's deal? Cain is the first agricultor. Cain brings produce from the ground. And Cain is the son of purchase. That is the meaning of Cain's name! And this play on words goes into the land of Canaan. The land of Canaan is the place where money and agriculture are said to have begun, in the Levant. From there spreads the commerce of the world.</div><div><br /></div><div>Reclaiming Canaan, and returning it to the state of Grace, is actually the subtle theme of the entire Bible.</div><div><br /></div><div>I talk more about these things in my website. Along with the Frequently-Asked questions, I have essays, and one of them is called "The Seven-Headed Dragon." And there are other essays also that talk about these concepts. These essays talk about these concepts in the Bible and other world mythologies.</div></div></div>Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-47170884284375208842021-01-18T13:49:00.012-07:002021-02-10T22:01:42.538-07:00"IT'S JUST WORDS": A DIALOGUE BETWEEN DONALD J. TRUMP & THE BIBLE<p>I'm ultimately not so much interested in politics but the cultural and spiritual forces behind them. <br /><br />Here's something to share with your professed Christian friends. Please do share. No commentary, no personal opinion, just Trump's & the Bible's own words. I ask an important question at the end.</p><p><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FoH58zpN4nY/YAXzWALYegI/AAAAAAAAFGo/EBW8jZV7QNY8qPSw9JYoQMRcwVY54rXegCLcBGAsYHQ/s780/its-just-words-folks.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="780" height="170" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FoH58zpN4nY/YAXzWALYegI/AAAAAAAAFGo/EBW8jZV7QNY8qPSw9JYoQMRcwVY54rXegCLcBGAsYHQ/w528-h170/its-just-words-folks.gif" width="528" /></a></div></b></span></h1><p>Starring Caste: DONALD J. TRUMP and THE BIBLE,</p><p>playing themselves, in their very own words.</p><p>…………………………………………………………………………………………………...</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON IDLE TALK</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"It's Just Words."</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." (Matthew 12:33-37)</p><p>"For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say? (Luke 6:43-46)</p><p>…………………………….</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON LOVE OF MONEY</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"I’ve always been greedy. I love money, right?"</p><p>"Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich."</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"For the love of money is the root of all evils" (1 Timothy 6:10)</p><p>"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!" (2 Timothy 3:1-5)</p><p>"Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him. And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God." (Luke 16:14-15)</p><p>"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." (Matthew 6:24)</p><p>…………………………….</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON COVETOUSNESS & WEALTH</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"The point is that you can’t be too greedy."</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." (Mark 10:25 & Luke 18:25)</p><p>“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.... But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?" (Luke 6:24,46)</p><p>"And He said to them, 'Take heed and beware of greed, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.'" (Luke 12:15)</p><p>"But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (1 Timothy 6:9-10)</p><p>"'And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?' So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.... Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Luke 12:19-21, 33-34)</p><p>"Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you." (James 5:1-6)</p><p>………………………..</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON EGO & WEALTH</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"I have featured and will always continue to feature my name prominently in all my enterprises."</p><p>"We got more money. We got more brains. We got better houses, apartments. We got nicer boats. We're smarter than they are. And they say, 'The elite.'"</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches....</p><p>They have called their lands after their own names....</p><p>This is the way of those who are foolish,</p><p>And of those after them who approve their words....</p><p>Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,</p><p>When the glory of his house is increased;...</p><p>Though while he lives he congratulates himself--</p><p>And though people praise you when you do well for yourself--</p><p>He shall go to the generation of his fathers;</p><p>They will never see the light.</p><p>Man in his pomp, yet without understanding,</p><p>Is like the beasts that perish." (Verses from Psalm 49)</p><p>"Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away." (James 1:9-10)</p><p>"Pride goes before destruction,</p><p>And a haughty spirit before a fall." (Proverbs 16:18)</p><p>"A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit." (Proverbs 29:23)</p><p>……………………….</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON REPENTANCE</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP (when asked if he’d ever asked God for forgiveness):</p><p>"I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don't think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don't bring God into that picture. I don't." (at Family Leadership Summit, July 2015)</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." (1 John 1:8-10)</p><p>“Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance.” (Matthew 3:8)</p><p>“From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, 'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.'" (Matthew 4:17)</p><p>"I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3)</p><p>"Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.” (Acts 17:30)</p><p>……………………………………..</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON BRAGGING</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"I know more about courts than any human being on Earth."</p><p>“I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me.”</p><p>"Nobody knows more about trade than me."</p><p>"I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth."</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know." (1 Corinthians 8:2 )</p><p>…………………………………………..</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON SELF-VENERATION</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"I am the chosen one" [in response to a pundit calling him “the second coming of God”]</p><p>BIBLE:</p><p>"Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'In the pride of your heart you say, "I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas." But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.' ... Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because you think you are wise, as wise as a god'" (Ezekiel 28:2, 6)</p><p>…………………………………..</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON FORNICATION AND RAPE</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it.</p><p>I did try and fuck her. She was married.</p><p>And I moved on her very heavily… I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn't get there. And she was married…. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>“But fornication and all uncleanness or greed, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them.” (Ephesians 5:3-7 )</p><p>…………………………..</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON WOMEN</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"Look at that face. Would anybody vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?"</p><p>"Horseface"</p><p>"Such a nasty woman."</p><p>"An extraordinarily low IQ person."</p><p>"You never get to the face because the body's so good."</p><p>"A crazed, crying lowlife" and a "dog."</p><p>"Does she have a good body? No. Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely."</p><p>"Asked if her butt is big: "Well, absolutely. It's record-setting. In the old days, they'd say she has a bad body.”</p><p>“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."</p><p>"I've seen a close-up of her chest. And a lot of freckles. Are you into freckles?... She's probably deeply troubled, and therefore great in bed. How come the deeply troubled women — deeply, deeply troubled — they're always the best in bed?"</p><p>“I mean, I'd look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say, 'Rosie, you're fired.'"</p><p>"Can you imagine the parents of Kelli... when she said, 'Mom, Dad, I just fell in love with a big, fat pig named Rosie?'"</p><p>"That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees."</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all." (Daniel 11:37)</p><p>“I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring.” (Genesis 3:15)</p><p>……………………………………….</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON INCEST AND ADULTERY</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>“Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?”</p><p>“My daughter, Ivanka. She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body.”</p><p>“I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.”</p><p>“She's actually always been very voluptuous. She's tall, she's almost 6 feet tall and she's been, she's an amazing beauty.”</p><p>“You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’” he continued. “And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that.”</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:28 )</p><p>………………………………………..</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON RELIGIOUS LIP-SERVICE</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>“For Christians this is a holy season, the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”</p><p>“It’s my second favorite book of all time. Do you know what my first is? The Bible! Nothing beats the Bible!”</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46 )</p><p>“He that says, ‘I know him,’ and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” (1 John 2:4)</p><p>"You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain." (Exodus 20:7)</p><p>"These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me." (Matthew 15:8)</p><p>"So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain." (Ezekiel 33:31)</p><p>…………………….......................</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON NAME-CALLING</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>“I know words. I had the best words. But there is no better word than ‘stupid’.”</p><p> “How stupid are the people of Iowa?”</p><p>“You will have a president to put it another way, who was voted on by a bunch of stupid people who lost all of these things.”</p><p>“So I hope Mike has the courage to do what he has to do. And I hope he doesn’t listen to the RINOs and the stupid people that he’s listening to.”</p><p> “Low IQ Maxine Waters”</p><p> “Fat pigs”</p><p>"Horseface"</p><p>"Such a nasty woman."</p><p>"An extraordinarily low IQ person."</p><p>"A crazed, crying lowlife" and a "dog."</p><p>“I mean, I'd look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers.”</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother or sister will be in danger of judgment. Whoever insults his brother or sister, will be in danger of the the court. Whoever says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of hellfire.” (Matthew 5:22)</p><p>“He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.” (1 John 2:9)</p><p>“If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?” (1 John 4:20)</p><p>“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” (Ephesians 4:31-32)</p><p>“To speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.” (Titus 3:2)</p><p> “But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them.” (Ephesians 5:3-7)</p><p>……………………………………………..</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON COARSE JOKING</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>“It was sarcasm. It was joking.”</p><p>THE BIBLE</p><p>“But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people, nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.” (Ephesians 5:3-4)</p><p>"Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, 'I was only joking!'" (Proverbs 26:18-19)</p><p>……………………………………..</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON INHUMANITY</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>“Torture works. Torture works”</p><p>“Would I approve of waterboarding? You bet your ass I would!”</p><p> “Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”</p><p>“I’m putting people on notice that are coming here from Syria as part of this mass migration, that if I win, they’re going back!”</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you." (Matthew 5:44)</p><p>“Therefore ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.’" (Romans 12:20 )</p><p>"Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt." (Exodus 22:21)</p><p>"You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born." (Leviticus 24:22)</p><p>"Do not deprive the foreigner or the orphan of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this. When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.... Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this."</p><p>(Deuteronomy 24:17-19, 22)</p><p>"I was a foreigner and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'... 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'" (Matthew 25:43, 45)</p><p>………………………………</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON SUING</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>“I really value my reputation and I don’t hesitate to sue.”</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>“And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloke also.” (Matthew 5:40)</p><p> “Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?” (1 Corinthians 6:7)</p><p>……………………………..</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON VIOLENCE & VINDICTIVENESS</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>“When people wrong you, go after those people, because it is a good feeling and because other people will see you doing it. I always get even.”</p><p>"I'll beat the crap out of you”</p><p>"Part of the problem... is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore."</p><p>"I'd like to punch him in the face."</p><p>"Knock the crap out of them."</p><p>“Any guy who can do a body slam — he's my guy.”</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also." (Matthew 5:39)</p><p>"Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men." (Romans 12:17)</p><p>"See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all." (1 Thessalonians 5:15)</p><p>"Not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing." (1 Peter 3:9)</p><p>………………………………………….</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON DEBT</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me."</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law." (Romans 13:8 )</p><p>"And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors." (Matthew 6:12 )</p><p>“He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head." (Ezekiel 18:13)</p><p>……………………….</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ON THE MOST BASIC CHARACTER</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>“I think I am a nice person.”</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>"You will know them by their fruits." (Matthew 7:16)</p><p>"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law." (Galatians 5:22-23)</p><p>"Love suffers long [and] is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)</p><p>……………………………</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">EVEN AFTER READING ALL THIS, WILL IT CHANGE ANYTHING?</span></b></h2><p>TRUMP:</p><p>"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible."</p><p>THE BIBLE:</p><p>“And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12)</p><p>"If they do not hear the Law and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead." (Luke 16:31)</p>Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-83999013926750226352020-10-16T12:36:00.007-06:002021-02-06T08:27:50.436-07:00The Debut of Suelo's Bicycle Camper<p>So I've been pretty confined the past five plus years since I've been my parents' (now just my mom's) live-in caretaker here in Fruita, Colorado. But I've been working on stuff, when I can. </p><p>Here's evidence I still have moneyless life on the road in my visions:</p><p>My bicycle camper! </p><p>I started working on this bicycle camper a couple years ago, then put in on hold, then, a couple months ago, got inspired to work on it again. It's made of all scavenged, discarded & recycled materials, nothing bought (except I cheated a bit and the glue is purchased). <br /><br />The inside isn't completed yet, but I did just take the camper on the road a few days ago, going 100 miles (161 km)! Thanks to my brother, Doug, staying with our mom for 3 days, I could do this. He did some of the video filming, too.<br /><br />Yes, here's a video of my 100-mile bicycle camper debut journey from Fruita, Colorado to Cisco, Utah (and back again)! I got to see <a href="https://www.eileenmuza.org/" target="_blank">Eileen Muza</a> along with <a href="https://www.eileenmuza.org/artists" target="_blank">Jon Bartel</a> (her artist in residence) and his art exhibit there. </p><p>Yeah, yeah, this video is full of typo and spelling errors. That's what I get for putting it together in a rush:</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/kuulv0zsBGg">https://youtu.be/kuulv0zsBGg</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kuulv0zsBGg" width="320" youtube-src-id="kuulv0zsBGg"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p>It was grand to see some other old friends from Moab and around I hadn't seen for the first time in like forever, as well.</p><p>The 100-mile round trip went well, though I did have a camper tire blowout on the way back to Fruita, limping back home. </p><p>It was a great trial run for possible future life on the road again. <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_nnvUiblxCE/X4nlj35Eh9I/AAAAAAAAEow/IUse3GtvGT48dCWVXCRirTO9z82ngqm0wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_nnvUiblxCE/X4nlj35Eh9I/AAAAAAAAEow/IUse3GtvGT48dCWVXCRirTO9z82ngqm0wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lR4DU9FHzGo/X4nlZoLTjjI/AAAAAAAAEos/jrRKWe9ImyEl0tqKuCvtLVOcTUiTQOF_QCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lR4DU9FHzGo/X4nlZoLTjjI/AAAAAAAAEos/jrRKWe9ImyEl0tqKuCvtLVOcTUiTQOF_QCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8drEA0iqalE/X4nlSpsmx6I/AAAAAAAAEoo/4BZtt5H8mT45k5NV5_uP3JhLPpmPUpJRQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8drEA0iqalE/X4nlSpsmx6I/AAAAAAAAEoo/4BZtt5H8mT45k5NV5_uP3JhLPpmPUpJRQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qGJc05CqkXM/X4nkhJ4n1zI/AAAAAAAAEoQ/Tl9CqLDlkpQW3V-6NhV-fbJ2s1qUUoV3wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qGJc05CqkXM/X4nkhJ4n1zI/AAAAAAAAEoQ/Tl9CqLDlkpQW3V-6NhV-fbJ2s1qUUoV3wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tGsWoNyJgf8/X4nkqNU5_BI/AAAAAAAAEoY/2GhQWoN11xw-LVdMn0qvIzju7hG75nD1QCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tGsWoNyJgf8/X4nkqNU5_BI/AAAAAAAAEoY/2GhQWoN11xw-LVdMn0qvIzju7hG75nD1QCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kv1ZlK6vxh4/X4nk_yihWHI/AAAAAAAAEog/rwOBTCUXcnsVJEv5w3avU6-TDYeNy5otQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kv1ZlK6vxh4/X4nk_yihWHI/AAAAAAAAEog/rwOBTCUXcnsVJEv5w3avU6-TDYeNy5otQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>Pics of the camper's building progress</b></h2><p></p><p>I started this in the summer of 2017. It started with a bicycle trailer my friend Tim had found abandoned in a Wal Mart parking lot in eastern Oregon. <br /><br />The frame is made from several aluminum camp chairs I found in dumpsters. It was almost mystical how they fit together perfectly, with minimal alteration, like a rector set. I also used some discarded aluminum strips from my friend's camper-trailer-building workshop (where the first pics here are taken).</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KHRZ4RN_qq8/X4ncmHKDAGI/AAAAAAAAEmo/Srh8faFmxn4gMVgCbGNiHArB_um8hIxrACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KHRZ4RN_qq8/X4ncmHKDAGI/AAAAAAAAEmo/Srh8faFmxn4gMVgCbGNiHArB_um8hIxrACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tNOHSYhaZ-A/X4nekocLPXI/AAAAAAAAEoA/gXy9Jv_tlZkCQ6DMYU1OxCfCKN3NpEWbgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tNOHSYhaZ-A/X4nekocLPXI/AAAAAAAAEoA/gXy9Jv_tlZkCQ6DMYU1OxCfCKN3NpEWbgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0T1rrETS39E/X4neda1_DdI/AAAAAAAAEn4/obTgIeG2DCU8DLnngCkB1dQ6fax3mjvdQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0T1rrETS39E/X4neda1_DdI/AAAAAAAAEn4/obTgIeG2DCU8DLnngCkB1dQ6fax3mjvdQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I then paneled it with cardboard. The windows are made of cross-sections of 5-gallon plastic buckets and clear plastic sheets I found in dumpsters. The windows are double pane, openable, and with screens.</div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SbjpD-F7Hh8/X4ncxf98wZI/AAAAAAAAEms/7ep8LoUt30cmWc8EOEfpAaEvwGDIwzHZwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SbjpD-F7Hh8/X4ncxf98wZI/AAAAAAAAEms/7ep8LoUt30cmWc8EOEfpAaEvwGDIwzHZwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The outer paneling is made with corrugated plastic campaign signs. The shingles are made with soda and beer cans, attached with staples made of discarded bailing & hanger wire.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pJyqgqTUcHc/X4nc_-ohglI/AAAAAAAAEm0/WOXOdnyFA0gYIN1kEA49VUZzk0vmfYIRACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pJyqgqTUcHc/X4nc_-ohglI/AAAAAAAAEm0/WOXOdnyFA0gYIN1kEA49VUZzk0vmfYIRACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MXgXq5VmhBc/X4ndJwBz0dI/AAAAAAAAEnA/2V3I3AtkRGgdRfyWLBU4E08mxZarsVNxwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MXgXq5VmhBc/X4ndJwBz0dI/AAAAAAAAEnA/2V3I3AtkRGgdRfyWLBU4E08mxZarsVNxwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>It even has an aluminum screen door, cut to size from a regular house screen door.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mkeBJGM4ahI/X4nc5_c_MWI/AAAAAAAAEmw/qiJ7091yq2EfsoCZ9X0b48Qx5EDaF4sgACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mkeBJGM4ahI/X4nc5_c_MWI/AAAAAAAAEmw/qiJ7091yq2EfsoCZ9X0b48Qx5EDaF4sgACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The uncompleted interior:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-igFAIfkiQy4/X4ndOz28MPI/AAAAAAAAEnE/iSvrKWPwMDEFWXpDZ2S9izqYgz21ngbWwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-igFAIfkiQy4/X4ndOz28MPI/AAAAAAAAEnE/iSvrKWPwMDEFWXpDZ2S9izqYgz21ngbWwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-awxulxlQLWo/X4nbuKteRRI/AAAAAAAAEmU/ExKDDXbbS-gxlzpEhNvXkQiONSxayWt5gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-awxulxlQLWo/X4nbuKteRRI/AAAAAAAAEmU/ExKDDXbbS-gxlzpEhNvXkQiONSxayWt5gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S_m4gLU4Wok/X4nbp8pgBbI/AAAAAAAAEmM/aQZAJ97c2N8TqqYgorUHdmHVeOmleaAxwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S_m4gLU4Wok/X4nbp8pgBbI/AAAAAAAAEmM/aQZAJ97c2N8TqqYgorUHdmHVeOmleaAxwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7W5LFktdBLY/X4nblpWquvI/AAAAAAAAEmI/FNqmhvoZph4azxoJ4YIXIghGw1LlqE5cgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7W5LFktdBLY/X4nblpWquvI/AAAAAAAAEmI/FNqmhvoZph4azxoJ4YIXIghGw1LlqE5cgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>My brother said the scale-like shingles reminded him of a dragon, so this inspired me to go with a dragon theme:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iaaCOTH2usI/X4nbM4QcflI/AAAAAAAAEls/ueUoJvWT004zQhfAJDaUgQswe5gY4jt7ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iaaCOTH2usI/X4nbM4QcflI/AAAAAAAAEls/ueUoJvWT004zQhfAJDaUgQswe5gY4jt7ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UnfxES-oO9I/X4nbgijDcNI/AAAAAAAAEmA/qpQ2ik-5oxI2eWufqKZquT5OsTPFaGF9QCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UnfxES-oO9I/X4nbgijDcNI/AAAAAAAAEmA/qpQ2ik-5oxI2eWufqKZquT5OsTPFaGF9QCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L2p7NazD11A/X4nbafOHeSI/AAAAAAAAEl4/E5uQORlhCjICyrAqPTOfbGExHwqLU6JCgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L2p7NazD11A/X4nbafOHeSI/AAAAAAAAEl4/E5uQORlhCjICyrAqPTOfbGExHwqLU6JCgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KrhI-EHKDls/X4nbWiyFmtI/AAAAAAAAEl0/D7DTWnmmPNkjtkTPA2kjwi_tYNNeOoM-wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KrhI-EHKDls/X4nbWiyFmtI/AAAAAAAAEl0/D7DTWnmmPNkjtkTPA2kjwi_tYNNeOoM-wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sS3mWtdz8io/X4nbSNQORII/AAAAAAAAElw/6TnODHqEkhsLWE8PzL3lwzcM56ZFOdZXgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sS3mWtdz8io/X4nbSNQORII/AAAAAAAAElw/6TnODHqEkhsLWE8PzL3lwzcM56ZFOdZXgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">It was even decorated for Fruita's Christmas Light Parade in 2018</h2><div>My sister-in-law, Elaine, helped me decorate the camper as the Snow Queen's castle, while I decorated my mom's wheelchair as the Snow Queen's sleigh.</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sz0fsMQIjuc/X4ndbvwcYmI/AAAAAAAAEnQ/1A5Y1xH2ZGU_VHBuxutncQchzqoCvp2hgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sz0fsMQIjuc/X4ndbvwcYmI/AAAAAAAAEnQ/1A5Y1xH2ZGU_VHBuxutncQchzqoCvp2hgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gd6j85IreIc/X4neEHr1qCI/AAAAAAAAEns/fyji1F9FBkY450mbVY87BqWhXn0j9eOhACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gd6j85IreIc/X4neEHr1qCI/AAAAAAAAEns/fyji1F9FBkY450mbVY87BqWhXn0j9eOhACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l0aqml2ZgrE/X4neQI42RMI/AAAAAAAAEnw/qDDKk7LBtb80m77HZ7jfGgIQFj3YenC8ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l0aqml2ZgrE/X4neQI42RMI/AAAAAAAAEnw/qDDKk7LBtb80m77HZ7jfGgIQFj3YenC8ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">And my (then 91-year-old) mother, Laurel, was the Snow Queen!</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iFq4dKwNLvM/X4ndlfJhzKI/AAAAAAAAEnY/hw1vHBsttiIkTZBnqJKTFVVK98g2tnbSACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="528" height="440" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iFq4dKwNLvM/X4ndlfJhzKI/AAAAAAAAEnY/hw1vHBsttiIkTZBnqJKTFVVK98g2tnbSACLcBGAsYHQ/w242-h440/image.png" width="242" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lwNZG7i_nCk/X4ndghVPobI/AAAAAAAAEnU/MrjRU_0TH-82pFlp_o89i_O2TqgG2HhSgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="960" height="176" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lwNZG7i_nCk/X4ndghVPobI/AAAAAAAAEnU/MrjRU_0TH-82pFlp_o89i_O2TqgG2HhSgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-12306113748556442042020-09-15T14:02:00.003-06:002020-09-15T14:02:50.930-06:00Natural Selection Favors the Meandering Path, the Efficient Path<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's finally here, my second Vlog post!<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mlh6gZbCw0g" width="320" youtube-src-id="Mlh6gZbCw0g"></iframe></div><p></p><p><span style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Just pondering about straight and squiggly lines in nature.</span></p><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="" dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_19z" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There aren't very many "straight" lines in nature, and really none of those that appear straight are actually straight. Even light travels in waves.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the 3rd century BCE, Archimedes first articulated that the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Now we think the shortest distance between 2 points the most efficient. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Right? </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But, I ask, is the straight line really efficient?</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If so, if natural selection selects the most fit, why does it almost always select against the straight line and for the meandering line? </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If you can pull yourself away from these gadgets and grids long enough and go into a field, just look around. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, nature is saturated with meandering paths.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But commercial civilization, on the other hand, almost always selects against the wavy line, for the straight line!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Look at city plans for thousands of years. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Look at our grids, electronics, computers, houses, windows.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Why the straight line?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We think the shortest distance, the fastest distance, is the fittest, the most efficient. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But it's not. That's right.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Commerce is goal-oriented, based on money, meaning end reward. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"Civilized" people work for the sake of end reward, not for the sake of the journey. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We don't regard work as the reward but the end as the reward. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This creates the straightest line, the quickest line possible.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By its very nature, the straight line as such disregards its environment, disregards its neighbors, disregards surrounding terrain, disregards resting and relaxation, joy in the moment. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In other words, the straight lines of civilization tell us the end justifies the means.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In other words, the straight path is the least efficient, the most wasteful path. Just look around. Overwhelming waste piles up around our straight lines. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our straight-line grid is contrary to natural selection, contrary to biology, contrary to evolution, despite what we think. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our civilization has gotten straighter and straighter for thousands of years, now straighter than ever, surrounded by insurmountable waste and inefficiency.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ancient Chinese/Taoist folklore says evil spirits travel along straight lines. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hence, traditional Asian architecture and paths are purposefully made to curve and meander.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our brains are wired in curved lines because they are selected for efficiency, awareness, intelligence, art. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our computers are wired in straight lines, because we think they are more efficient, but their intelligence is artificial, fake, contrary to awareness, contrary to 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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pandemics & Money</span></b><br />
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I'm making this blog into a vlog, and here's my first official video and transcript for it, the first in a series to come. If you feel so inspired, you may also go to my YouTube channel and subscribe (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QMVsL5o9RM&t=1s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QMVsL5o9RM&t=1s</a>)<br />
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Welcome to my very first video called Pandemics and Money. This is hopefully going to be the first<br />
video in a series about gift economy and money and how they relate--how pandemics are actually<br />
an outgrowth of money itself; and I'll explain how and why. <br /><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Pandemics A Given Fact of Civilization</span></h2>
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First of all, we see that pandemics have been a given fact of civilization since it began thousands of<br />
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What is civilization but the domestication of other species? Domestication is the very foundation of civilization. Civilization is the decision to domesticate both plants and animals and to live in close proximity with domestic animals.<br />
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Viruses, bacteria, and parasites naturally occur in wild nature, but they're kept in check because wild animals don't live naturally in such close proximity in massive populations with other species.<br />
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Such populations are the result of civilization as we know it. Civilization is quite new in the evolutionary scene. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Domestication: Denying Adulthood to Another Species</span></h2>
As far as I know, we're the only species that owns and domesticates other species.<br />
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I'm going to cut the euphemisms and call domestication for what it is:<br />
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<b>Domestication is slavery.</b><br />
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Domestication is the control of another species. Domestication is denying the autonomy of another species. That's all it is.<br />
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When you domesticate another species, you breed it to be perpetually immature. You even control its sexual life. It's not free to sexually reproduce and explore without your control. Often it's bred to not even reproduce sexually at all. <br />
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For example, we mow grass before it goes to seed. We can't allow it to reproduce freely. We have to control it. <br />
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This is what domestication does: it creates a state of perpetual immaturity in animals, because<br />
immature animals are easier to control and they're not aggressive.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Excessive Biomass of Domestic Mammals on Earth</span></h2>
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Especially presently on earth, we have an inordinate amount of domestic animals and humans, as opposed to wild animals. Right now, in human history, 96 percent of the biomass of mammals on earth is domestic animals, and only 4.2 percent of this biomass of mammals is wild. This is crazy. This is a percentage flip from the way it was only like a thousand years ago.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Fall From Grace: One Package</span> </h2>
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BG1XiqMU8H4/XqukMnmYxyI/AAAAAAAADFc/JKbZGi07ucgyM0jXG4bnuqUspbbeCsmtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/DollarsignSnake.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="351" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BG1XiqMU8H4/XqukMnmYxyI/AAAAAAAADFc/JKbZGi07ucgyM0jXG4bnuqUspbbeCsmtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s200/DollarsignSnake.png" width="150" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6kWEai_s7bI/XqukBkyUitI/AAAAAAAADFY/0TyJQGddMqQJ0-3_Ys2yW8SEuXjF_-ZEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/adam%2526eve.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="299" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6kWEai_s7bI/XqukBkyUitI/AAAAAAAADFY/0TyJQGddMqQJ0-3_Ys2yW8SEuXjF_-ZEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s200/adam%2526eve.png" width="149" /></a>My theory has been that animal and plant domestication, money, trade, and credit-and-debt thinking all came in one package. This is because they're all based on the same principle.<br /><br />I believe many of our mythologies speak of what I believe to be the beginning of this principle. For example, our own in western tradition, the Garden of Eden story, it talks about the Fall from Grace, which I interpret to mean the fall from <i>gratis</i>, from gift economy. With this fall came the idea of credit and debt, and with this came agriculture (tilling the ground by the sweat of our brows), with it came separation of male and female (domination of male over female is part of the Eden story) and clothes. <br />
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In other world myths it's the concept of stealing fire from heaven, which I'm not going to go into now), but it's the same idea. It's what separates us from wild nature.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Agriculture is the same Principle as Money</span></h2>
The way agriculture works, of course, is you intentionally plant a seed. You invest the seed and you wait for the produce. You wait for the reward. This is the same concept as money. <br />
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We even call it a seed investment: You plant an investment and you wait for the returns.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The Pay-It-Forward Principle of Nature is the Essence of the World's Faiths</span></h2>
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4HfFarGW8Ig/Xquk1Gzym9I/AAAAAAAADFw/-x2Pi5fAWdUHSUUrMdaVzgtCwkGQOdOMACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1080" height="138" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4HfFarGW8Ig/Xquk1Gzym9I/AAAAAAAADFw/-x2Pi5fAWdUHSUUrMdaVzgtCwkGQOdOMACLcBGAsYHQ/s200/Untitled.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GhKjyzjWjSs/Xqukpcymx9I/AAAAAAAADFs/ZcWM3TxVrMIoyYGscUuH0GU0BPeHLmt-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Sprouting%2Bpoop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="410" height="131" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GhKjyzjWjSs/Xqukpcymx9I/AAAAAAAADFs/ZcWM3TxVrMIoyYGscUuH0GU0BPeHLmt-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s200/Sprouting%2Bpoop.jpg" width="200" /></a>This is the principle of money that is opposed to the principle of what we could call it Pay-It-Forward in nature. For example, a bird eats a seed from a tree. It eats the fruit, swallows the seed, and poops it out somewhere else. <br />
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The bird doesn't sit there and cultivate the seed and wait for the produce. It pays it forward. Somebody else will reap the fruits of the "labor" of the bird, the so-called "labor." The birds is just doing its thing. It's the same with the bear eating raspberries. There's no conception of "I have to pay this raspberry bush back!" The bear eats the raspberry and moves on. <br />
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<b>No Distinction Between Giving and Receiving</b></h3>
And the raspberry bush, as far as it's concerned, is receiving a service by the bear eating its berries. <br />
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There's no idea of receiving and giving a service: it's all one thing! Is a bear giving a service or receiving a service when it poops in the ground? Are the organisms in the ground receiving a service or giving a service when they eat that poop or when a seed sprouts from the poop? The cycles continue a perfect balance in the natural order. <br />
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No Consciousness of Credit and Debt</h3>
I say that this is precisely because there's no consciousness of credit and debt as there is in human civilization. So with credit and debt thinking comes planting and reaping the rewards of what we plant.<br />
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Even our religious traditions recommend against this. If you want to follow the spiritual path, you give expecting nothing in return. You "pay it forward." <br />
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This is a concept in the Bible. <br />
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<i>For in this the saying is true: </i><i>"One sows and another reaps." </i><i>I sent you to reap that </i><i>for which you have not labored; </i><i>others have labored, </i><i>and you have entered into their labors. </i> --Jesus (John 4:37-38)</blockquote>
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<i>But love your enemies, </i><i>do good, and lend, </i><i>hoping for nothing in return</i> --Jesus (Luke 6:35)</blockquote>
It's concept in the Quran.<br />
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<i>Give not with the thought to gain,</i><i>And be patient unto thy Lord.</i>(Quran 74:6-7)<br /><i>He who gives away his wealth...</i><i>and he who gives no favor to any one </i><i>for the sake of reward,</i><i>but only craving the face </i><i>of his Lord most High;</i><i>in the end he shall be well pleased!</i>(Quran 92:4,18-21)</blockquote>
It's a concept in the Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad Gita is very clear on this. It even calls it<br />
relinquishing the rewards, or the fruits, of your own actions. It actually uses the word <i>fruit, </i>as<br />
if you're planting a seed.<br />
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<i>A person of yoga obtains everlasting peace </i><i>by abandoning the rewards of action.</i><i>The person ignorant of yoga,</i><i>selfishly attached to reward,</i><i>remains bound.</i>(Bhagavad Gita 5:12) </blockquote>
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It's a concept in the Tao Te Ching:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Creating without claiming,</i><i>Doing without taking credit,</i><i>Guiding without interfering:</i><i>This is the Primal Virtue.</i> -- Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching 51)</blockquote>
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It's a concept in the Buddist Suttras:</div>
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<i>Enlightened beings are magnanimous givers,</i><i>bestowing whatever they have</i><i>with equanimity,</i><i>without regret,</i><i>without hoping for reward,</i><i>without seeking honor,</i><i>without coveting material benefits,</i><i>but only to rescue and safeguard</i><i>all living beings.</i>(Garland Sutra 21)</blockquote>
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It's a concept in Judaism:</div>
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<i>Be not like the servants</i><i>who minister to their master</i><i>upon condition of receiving a reward;</i><i>but be like servants</i><i>who minister to their master</i><i>without the condition of receiving a reward;</i><i>and let the fear of Heaven be upon you.</i>(Mishna, Abot 1.3)</blockquote>
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The whole concept of money is planting a seed and waiting for rewards, taking rewards for your own actions. </div>
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Working for money puts us into a state of delusion. Money represents self-credit, right? I work for a reward. "I deserve it." Money represents working for my own reward. What is reward but praise?<br />
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All Praise to the Whole, All Price to the Whole</h3>
<i>Praise </i>and <i>price </i>come from the same root, clear back to Proto-Indo-European times.<br />
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<br />I work for my own praise. I work for my own price, whereas, in the world of reality, nothing comes from us individually. Everything comes from the Whole. We are a product of the whole. We're a product to<br />
our culture. We're a product of our biology. We're a product of the Whole Universe.<br />
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In fact, all of the energy that is running my body right now comes from the sun. It does not come from me, so I can't take credit for it.<br />
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Basically, then, not working for money is acknowledging,<br />
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"All credit to the Whole,"<br />
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"All credit to the All"<br />
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"All praise to the All"<br />
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Hallelujah<br />
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Jesus himself even says,<br />
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<i>I can do nothing of myself. </i> --Jesus (John 5:30)</blockquote>
This is the very principle of not working for money.<br />
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What also comes with agriculture/credit-and-debt thinking is ownership. Ownership is what domestication is: it's ownership of animals and plants and the processes of nature. It's control over the processes of nature that already instinctively naturally happen.<br />
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For example, in in our civilization we have an aversion to anything that's wild. We keep what's wild separate from us. We don't allow it within the walls of our civilization. Just walk around any suburban neighborhood and see how many people obsessively get rid of weeds. Because weeds are wild or feral, they have their own authority. Civilization, domestication, cannot stand us having our own authority. We have to go to somebody else for authority. We can't allow any other species to have its own authority within the walls of civilization. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">We are as Domesticated as the Creatures we Domesticate</span></h2>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xGXgLFP5kms/XquxU9R7OcI/AAAAAAAADGs/yd0iyC8wFDEX9n4oOokLFu4a_gUsf11pgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/EgyptianCats.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="133" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xGXgLFP5kms/XquxU9R7OcI/AAAAAAAADGs/yd0iyC8wFDEX9n4oOokLFu4a_gUsf11pgCLcBGAsYHQ/s200/EgyptianCats.png" width="200" /></a>What we don't understand is we are as domesticated as the creatures we domesticate. In fact there's no reason any creature would want to domesticate another creature unless it itself is immature. It is<br />
immaturity that causes us to own another creature, whether it's slavery of humans or slavery of animals.<br />
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And we become what we control. <br />
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So it is with the authorities that we put ourselves in submission under. Our authorities also are domesticated and immature. <br />
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What mature person would want to<br />
control another? What mature person would want to deny another autonomy, self-authority, adulthood? <br />
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Factory Farming & Overpopulation</h2>
Now our agriculture has evolved into factory farming. Massive amounts of animals in inhumane conditions live together and live in close proximity with us. <br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wP9CqcxhTnQ/Xquyhq-cT0I/AAAAAAAADHU/qBhPpxNSSq4vji4lM3Qfru60nPbgltS0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/HumanCrowds.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="340" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wP9CqcxhTnQ/Xquyhq-cT0I/AAAAAAAADHU/qBhPpxNSSq4vji4lM3Qfru60nPbgltS0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s200/HumanCrowds.png" width="145" /></a>Yes, another thing that comes with domestication is overpopulation. We over-populate the<br />
domestic animals that we raise, we over-populate ourselves.<br />
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Cancer Also Comes in the Package</h2>
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This is just a hunch; this is intuition: But I feel that excessive cancer and monetary civilization also come together in the same package. Cancer appears to be a manifestation of money thinking.<br />
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Case in point: the only two things that i can think of that "think" that unlimited growth is a virtue<br />
are cancer and monetary economy. Go to any city or county council meeting and note: what's the one thing that nobody will dare question? Unlimited growth! If your economy is not growing perpetually then we think there's something wrong. The only other organism that I can think of that "thinks" this way is cancer (if you can call it thinking). It runs on the principle of exponential growth. <br />
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Look at cancer, economy, human population, and even CO2 levels in the climate: they all grow exponentially. They coincide together. There is a correlation.<br />
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With overpopulation of both humans and animals comes pandemics. Big populations of<br />
animals and humans living together breeds pandemics. In addition to this overpopulation of animals in factory farms is the excessive use of antibiotics and antiseptics, as also happens in hospitals. These extremely sterile environments, of course, weed out the weaker microbes and the<br />
strongest survive by the laws of natural selection. We're creating super-germs.<br />
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We're creating not only pandemics but super-germ pandemics. It's inevitable that we will see more<br />
pandemics as time goes, because we are the petri dish of pandemics.</div>
Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-8752848262946369612020-01-05T17:54:00.000-07:002020-01-08T06:30:59.918-07:00Antichrist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm still caretaking my mom, going on over 4 years now. But a few weeks ago my brother, Doug, transferred his job to Grand Junction so he could live with us and help care-take our mother.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I mull over things like this. So I'll share it with you:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The Greek root of "Apollyon",<a href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G684&t=NKJV" target="_blank"> <i>Apoleia </i>[<b>ἀπώλεια</b>]</a>, means excess, waste, loss, perdition, destruction.<br /><br /><i>Apoleia </i>is almost always, if not always, associated with wealth and money in the Bible. For example, the Bible states how wealth is always lost [<i>apoleia</i>] and those who trust in wealth will be lost [<i>apoleia</i>] with it (<a href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G684&t=NASB" target="_blank">Acts 8:20, 1 Timothy 6:9, 2 Peter 2:1-3, Revelation 17:8-11</a>).<br /><br />The Antichrist is called the Son of <i>Apoleia </i><a href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/2th/2/3/t_conc_1118003" target="_blank">(Son of Perdition) (2 Thessalonians 2:3)</a>. Jesus even calls his betrayer, who sold him for money, the <a href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/jhn/17/12/p0/t_conc_1014012" target="_blank">Son of <i>Apoleia </i>(John 17:12)</a>.<br /><br />Bible readers will notice the Christian scriptures show no greater anger than when wealth and religion are mixed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Your money perish (<i>apoleia</i>) with you!", cries the apostle (<a href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/act/8/20/t_conc_1026020" target="_blank">Acts 8:20</a>).</span></div>
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You would think a Christian would make every effort to avoid Antichrist, <a href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1ti/6/9/s_1125009" target="_blank">Apollyon, root of all evil</a>, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/#:~:targetText=Although%20extinction%20is%20a%20natural,extinct%20every%20day%20%5B1%5D." target="_blank">Everyone else is going extinct, day by day.</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/domesticated" target="_blank">Domesticated</a></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">means owned,<br />not autonomous,<br />not free.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*dem-?ref=etymonline_crossreference" target="_blank">The root of <i>domestication</i>, DOM</a>, indicates ownership, subjugation. slavery, housed in a box, DOM-ination.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/domestication" target="_blank">Domestication</a></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(ownership, subjugation) is the very premise and foundation of the money system, of commerce.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commerce" target="_blank">Commerce</a> cannot rest until every living being on earth is not free (even as it sells the idea of "<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freedom" target="_blank">freedom</a>").<br /><br />Even the definition of a <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/weed" target="_blank">weed</a></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">is a plant that is free, autonomous, not domesticated, meaning undesirable.<br /><br />“Wild and free” is redundant. “<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wild" target="_blank">Wild</a>” and “<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free" target="_blank">free</a>” are synonyms.<br /><br />To the domestic mind, wild means "undesirable, frightening, <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbaric" target="_blank">barbaric</a>."<br /><br /><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbaric" target="_blank">Barbaric</a>.<br /><br />Ah, irony.</span></div>
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-57543498691250467852019-11-09T10:29:00.000-07:002019-11-10T04:14:52.523-07:00The Fall From Eden = The Beginning of Money & Ownership<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I just stumbled upon something about Islam, the Tree of Life, and money I'd never realized before.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />For years I've studied <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/the-seven-headed-dragon" target="_blank">the Fall from Grace, the beginning of money and ownership, portrayed in the Biblical Eden story</a> as well as world mythology, alluded to in <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/our-fall-from-grace--our-departure-from-gratis" target="_blank">the Universal Myth of Stealing Fire From Heaven</a>, described in my essays on my website:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Tree of Life</span></b></a>, because, in another way, it is so blatantly confirms the same theme in the Biblical Eden story!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>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, </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_(Islam)" style="font-style: italic;">Satan</a><i> appeared to them and told them that the only reason God forbade them to eat from that tree is that they would become </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_view_of_angels" style="font-style: italic;">Angels</a><i>, or they start using the idea/concept of </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership" style="font-style: italic;">Ownership</a><i> in conjunction with inheritance generations after generations, which </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iblis" style="font-style: italic;">Iblis</a><i> convinced Adam to accept</i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life#cite_note-26">[26]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life#cite_note-27">[27]</a><i> The hadiths also speak about other trees in heaven.</i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life#cite_note-28" style="font-style: italic;">[28]</a><i> When they ate from this tree their nakedness appeared to them and <span style="background-color: yellow;">t</span></i><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">h</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">ey began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden</span></i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life#cite_note-29" style="background-color: yellow;">[29]</a><i style="background-color: yellow;">. The </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic" style="background-color: yellow; font-style: italic;">Arabic</a><span style="background-color: yellow;"><i> word used is </i><b>ورق</b> </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">[<b>w</b></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>araqi</b></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">] </span><i style="background-color: yellow;">which also means </i><span style="background-color: yellow;">currency/notes</span><i style="background-color: yellow;"> </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life#cite_note-30" style="background-color: yellow;">[30]</a><i style="background-color: yellow;">. Which means they started to use currency due to ownership.</i><i> </i><i>As Allah already mentioned, that everything in Heaven is free (so eat from where you desire) </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life#cite_note-31">[31]</a>,<i> so using currency to uphold the idea of ownership became the reason for the slip. </i>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Sure enough, I looked up the Arabic word for leaf [<b>ورق</b> ]<span style="text-align: justify;"> </span>in the <a href="http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=wrq#(20:121:10)" target="_blank">Quran and Arabic lexicon</a>, and it's true. This root word for leaf [<b><i class="ab" style="color: #0000c8; text-align: justify;">wāw rā qāf</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> (</span><span class="at" style="color: #329632; text-align: justify;">و ر ق</span></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>)</b></span>] occurs four times in the Quran:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><i>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 </i><b><i style="background-color: yellow;">leaves </i>[</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>وَرَقِ</b> <span style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b></span><b style="background-color: yellow;">waraqi</b></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>]</b><i> 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?" </i></span><span style="text-align: justify;">(Quran </span>7:22<span style="text-align: justify;">)</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <i style="text-align: justify;">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 </i><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><i>leaves</i> </span>[</b></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">وَرَقِ</span></b> <span style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">waraqi</span></b></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>]<i> </i></b></span><i style="text-align: justify;">of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred. </i><span style="text-align: justify;">(Quran </span>20:121<span style="text-align: justify;">)</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><i>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 </i><b><i style="background-color: yellow;">silver coin </i>[</b></span>بِ<span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">وَرِقِ</span>كُمْ<b> <span style="text-align: justify;"> </span>bi<span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: large;">wariqi</span>kum</b><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>]</b><i> 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.</i></span> <span style="text-align: justify;">(Quran 18:19</span><span style="text-align: justify;">)</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="text-align: justify;">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 <b style="background-color: yellow;">leaf</b> </i><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>[</b></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: large;">وَرَقَ</span>ةٍ</span> <span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: large;">waraqa</span>tin</b><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>]</b></span><i style="text-align: justify;"> 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. </i> <span style="text-align: justify;">(Quran 6:59</span><span style="text-align: justify;">)</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, see what the other world religions say about money, possessions and banking: </span><br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-70941312915938737682019-08-23T17:11:00.002-06:002019-08-25T08:19:53.812-06:00BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO IN HIS OWN WORDS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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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.</div>
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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. </div>
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<b>BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO in his own words:</b></h2>
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<b>ON THE AMAZON FOREST, GUNS, AND GENOCIDE</b></h3>
“It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn’t been as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians.”<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">*</span> Correio Braziliense newspaper, April 12, 1998<br />
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“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”<br />
In Congress, posted on January 21, 2016<br />
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“[indigenous reserves] are an obstacle to agri-business. You can’t reduce indigenous land by even a square meter in Brazil”<br />
Campo Grande News, April 22, 2015<br />
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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.”<br />
Estadão, April 3, 2017<br />
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“If I become President there will not be a centimeter more of indigenous land.”<br />
Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, February 8, 2018<br />
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“There will not be a centimeter demarcated for indigenous or quilombo reservations.”<br />
Talk at Clube Hebraica in Rio de Janeiro, on 3 April 2017.<br />
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“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<br />
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“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<br />
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<b>ON TORTURE</b></h3>
“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.”<br />
Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).<br />
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<b>ON GENOCIDAL MILITARY DICTATORSHIP</b></h3>
“The Military Police should have killed 1,000 rather than 111 prisoners in the Carandiru massacre.”<br />
Folha de S.Paulo (3 October 1997).<br />
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“Pinochet should have killed more people.”<br />
Veja essa. Veja (3 December 1998).<br />
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“I will not fight against it nor discriminate, but if I see two men kissing on the street, I'll beat them up.”<br />
Folha de S.Paulo (19 May 2002).<br />
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“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.”<br />
Inverview to Playboy magazine in 2011.<br />
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“The scum of the world is arriving in Brazil, as if we didn’t have enough problems to solve.”<br />
About Senegalese, Haitians, Iranians, Bolivians and Syrians in an interview to Jornal Opção on 17 September 2015.<br />
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“I wouldn't hire them [women] with the same salary.”<br />
RedeTV! (15 February 2016).<br />
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“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.”<br />
In interview with Zero Hora newspaper on 10 December 2014.<br />
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“I have five children. There were four men, on the fifth I got weak and a woman came out.”<br />
Talk at Clube Hebraica in Rio de Janeiro, on 3 April 2017.<br />
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“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.”<br />
At Campina Grande Airport on 8 February 2018.<br />
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“Brazil above all, God above everyone.”<br />
In the presidential debate held by TV Bandeirantes on 9 August 2018.<br />
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""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."<br />
Speaking to the "March for Jesus", a huge throng of Evangelicals, June 21, 2019<br />
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“It's my advice and I do it: I evade all the taxes I can.”<br />
On the program “Câmera Aberta at Band” on 23 May 1999. Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).<br />
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“We want to have a great Brazil just like Trump wants to have a great America.”<br />
Jair Bolsonaro’s speech to the Chamber of Commerce on 18 March 2019.<br />
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"The next blow to his religious convictions came when he and Corinne went to visit a missionary....<br />
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....<br />
...boasted the missionary, 'Now the Christian Indians are the richest in the jungle.'<br />
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'This is why governments all over the world love missionaries-- they civilize people and get them into the money system...<br />
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'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.'<br />
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"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.<br />
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'What about the jungle?' Daniel asked.<br />
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'It's infinite,' said the missionary. 'If you're up in a plane, look at the Amazon. It goes for miles.'<br />
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Daniel took a scenic flight over the Amazon. 'It looked like Paul Bunyan had taken a razor blade to it.'<br />
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'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.'" <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">*</span>Notice Bolsonaro is paraphrasing Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf, expressing inspiration and admiration for the USA's extermination of indigenous peoples:<br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-6391320642409469392018-10-19T23:19:00.002-06:002019-03-26T20:19:33.512-06:00Gift Economy - Suelo's TEDx talk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: red;">Yeah, I know, I'm past due for another blog entry. Hold on to your hats for a few more days.<span style="font-size: large;"><b>]</b></span></span><br />
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Hey! My TEDx talk from 9 months ago in Grand Junction, Colorado is finally published! I seriously thought they hadn't posted it because my talk wasn't up to par (and I was actually quite ok and kind of relieved about that).<br />
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I just listened to this for the first time and realize it isn't as clearly presented and woven together as I wanted it to be. But I can forgive myself since I had been asked to do this talk only a day and a half before! And I tried to fit decades of what I'd learned into 20 minutes. Also excuse the poor sound quality and slide presentation, as they were having technical difficulties that day.<br />
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For a longer and more in-depth examination of some of the ideas in this TEDx talk, see my presentation from 2017, "The Physics and Spirituality of Gift Economy" (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/the-physics-and-spirituality-of-gift-economy">transcript here</a>):<br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-10097381284629535312018-09-16T14:13:00.006-06:002018-09-17T13:23:21.302-06:00Money, Religion, & Law: An Inseparable Trinity. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"When I make enough money, I'll be able to do a lot of good," I always hear.<br />
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I like exploring the root of everything. Root of all evil. Root of all good.<br />
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Money, Religion, and Law are an inseparable trinity.<br />
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Have you noticed how each creates debt,<br />
then each creates punishment or atonement for that debt?<br />
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Money is debt and credit. Religion is debt and credit. Law is debt and credit.<br />
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In Biblical Greek, these three words are of the same root:<br />
<b><i>nomos </i>(νόμος)</b> is the word for <b>law,</b><br />
<b><i>nomisma </i>(νόμισμα)</b> is the word for <b>money</b>, and<br />
<b><i>nomodidaskalos </i></b>(<b>νομοδιδάσκαλος</b>) is the word for <b>religious teacher</b>.<br />
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And check out the Indo-European root of our English words:<br />
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Debt is ob<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*leig-#etymonline_v_53438" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">lig</span></b></a>ation is Re<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*leig-#etymonline_v_53438" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>lig</b></span></a>ion is Law is <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*leig-#etymonline_v_53438" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">leg</span></b></a>ality.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*leig-#etymonline_v_53438" target="_blank">LIG</a> </b>or <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*leig-#etymonline_v_53438" target="_blank"><b>LEG </b></a>is an Indo-European root meaning "to tie, bind."<br />
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Binding chain links and ropes, fences and cages, are necessary to domesticate (own) wild creatures, human or otherwise.<br />
Once your creatures are domesticated, you can then be merciful and unbind them for a bit! Your mercy, your generosity, feels good, doesn't it? You take <i>credit </i>for it. For every <i>debt </i>there must be an equal <i>credit</i>.<br />
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<i>Credit </i>is your reward! <i>Credit </i>is what it's all about!<br />
<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/credit" target="_blank"><i><b>Credit </b></i>means belief (<i><b>creed</b></i>)</a>. None of it works without belief! <br />
Money, Religion, Law are one <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/credit" target="_blank"><b>creed</b></a>, one Trinity.<br />
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Lest you lose the loyalty of your domestic creatures, go ahead and be merciful (within "reason")! Keep them believing! Be generous (within "reason")! "Give" them every weekend off and even a two-week vacation per year! And "let<i>" </i>them camp on public (unowned) land for two weeks, but no more! Tell them they live in a <i>free </i>country and to be grateful for their <i>freedom</i>! However, for domestication to work best in your favor, make sure you don't let your pets off their chains <i>too </i>long!<br />
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You have thus achieved your system of <i><b>debt </b></i>and <i><b>credit </b></i>(Money, Religion, Law).<br />
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<a href="https://www.freeaog.com.au/userfiles/files/sermons/2013/Forgive%20us%20our%20Debts/forgive_us_our_debts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://www.freeaog.com.au/userfiles/files/sermons/2013/Forgive%20us%20our%20Debts/forgive_us_our_debts.jpg" width="200" /></a>Meanwhile, keep up the propaganda. Tell them how advanced civilization is, how it has has surpassed the cruelty of nature! Make sure your domestic subjects aren't aware that chains, punishment, mercy, and atonement are foreign and unnecessary to non-domestic creatures, are foreign to wild nature outside the walls of civilization. Make sure they don't become aware that the balance of nature happens automatically, without ob<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*leig-#etymonline_v_53438" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">lig</span></b></a>ation, re<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*leig-#etymonline_v_53438" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">lig</span></b></a>ion, or <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*leig-#etymonline_v_53438" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">leg</span></b></a>ality. This is why you usually don't allow more than a couple weeks free in wild nature.<br />
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Even so, natural law seeps through the cracks of religion. Religion calls this lack of chains, lack of punishment, lack of need for atonement and lack of need for mercy the state of <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*gwere-?ref=etymonline_crossreference#etymonline_v_53052" target="_blank"><b>Grace (Gratis)</b></a>.<br />
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There can be no <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*gwere-?ref=etymonline_crossreference#etymonline_v_53052" target="_blank"><b>Grace (Gratis)</b></a> where there is money, religion, law.<br />
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Apart from money, religion, and law,<br />
there is no need or desire to do good,<br />
there is no need or desire for philanthropy,<br />
there is no need or desire for charity,<br />
because there is no debt to pay,<br />
no debt to counter,<br />
no debt to be forgiven.<br />
And there is no desire for credit.<br />
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Free means no money.<br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-71391122636095963432018-08-22T23:32:00.001-06:002018-08-22T23:41:48.938-06:00Suelo Sweet Chairiot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is a follow-up to my last video post, <a href="http://zerocurrency.blogspot.com/2018/07/diy-no-cost-bicycle-cart-for.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">DIY No-Cost Bicycle Cart For the Disabled/Elderly</a>, on July 19, 2018. Since then, I've made some improvements to my 91-year-old mother Laurel's Wheelchairiot, painting it and making a removable protective cover for rain and snow.<br />
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And, yes, she loves it. We ride it all over Kingdom Come (all around Fruita, Colorado). The river you see is the Colorado River.<br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-67907009529715611112018-07-19T13:55:00.000-06:002018-07-19T13:55:00.410-06:00DIY No-Cost Bicycle Cart For the Disabled/Elderly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's my third year of being a live-in caretaker for my now 90-year-old mom. Again, though I manage her finances and haven't lived totally moneyless through this interim (I use money sparingly and reluctantly), I still love making due with only what is freely given, freely found, and freely created with my own hands. <br /><br />This has been my time of deepening my philosophy of a world without money, a gift economy. But this post is not philosophy, just practicality. Philosophy is useless if it can't translate into basic practicality.<br /><br />Here I share with you my latest finished project, costing zero money:<br /><br />DIY Chair-iot (Bicycle Wheelchair Cart) for the disabled and/or elderly.<br /><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AbcdJur6QfU/W1DsXZqQ82I/AAAAAAAACVc/w8gUbfvoDwocWjFga78aKCKTsV9_jZ89gCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_0491.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AbcdJur6QfU/W1DsXZqQ82I/AAAAAAAACVc/w8gUbfvoDwocWjFga78aKCKTsV9_jZ89gCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_0491.JPG" width="240" /></a>Yes, I just finished building this bicycle chariot for my mom yesterday! We went for a sunset test run for several miles and it was a glorious ride! My mom loves it, as you can see! (watch us riding at the end of video)<br />
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It's made with all scavenged materials! I pieced it together from 2 wheelchairs I found (one from the hospital dumpster, the other abandoned by the river). I put dumpstered bicycle tires on the rims. The poles and even the bolts are scavenged. And I even found the bicycle abandoned by the road and fixed it up!<br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-22031308114405239232018-06-27T08:11:00.003-06:002018-07-02T23:18:27.320-06:00The Art of the Deal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">--</span><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/inside-donald-trumps-relationship-rev-billy-graham/story?id=53448191" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Reverend Franklin Graham</a><br />
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"For the love of money is the root of all evils"<br />
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"Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich."<br />
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"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!"<br />
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"The point is that you can’t be too greedy."<br />
--<a href="http://www.droidinterface.com/pages/art_of_the_deal.php" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a></div>
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"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."<br />
--Jesus (Mark 10:25)</div>
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“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. . . .<br />
But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?"<br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-59125526110547707372018-03-19T12:46:00.000-06:002018-03-28T23:09:18.288-06:00The Physics and Spirituality of Gift Economy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-eea26db4-3f70-1240-1d41-1d669ed1f464" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, here it is: the updated video of the presentation I gave last year, plus the edited transcript of it! I'm excited about it. Frankly, I passionately feel in my bones I'm onto something. If you feel the same, please share this. It's an hour & a quarter long. I was going to divide it into short segments but then realized it would be like dividing a knit sweater. </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve been realizing that you can boil down all the conflicts of religion and politics between two things:Justice and Grace, and each feels that it is morally superior. Justice and Grace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Justice is deserved law, it entails Trade, Credit and Debt. Usually those who hold to Justice envision an angry God.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then there's Grace: unmerited favor, forgiveness, and gift economy. Here's where we envision, like in the Christian tradition, the Madonna and child, Mary and Jesus. Grace. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Politics</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But think about. This is how our politics divides, our political parties. We’ve got one that’s saying, “We have too much lenience. We have too much grace. We need more justice.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The other party is saying, “We have too much justice. We need more grace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And you’ll notice how characteristics of each faction come together. In the justice faction: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Justice faction: trade economy, credit and debt, greater military, greater prison system. “We want more justice because too many people are getting by with too much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then the other side, the Grace faction: “No, we need a more forgiving society. We need more giving freely. We need to get away more from this credit and debt thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Religion</span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Something more I've noticed. I’ve studied religions for many years. This same pattern happens in religion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christianity</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is what happened in the Reformation. At that time the Roman Catholic church was really into justice and commerce (even selling indulgences so parishioners could get into heaven), punishment, and inquisitions.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Reformation was Martin Luther's big Epiphany. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="180" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/r2R8r-C7bQfQKdrOSFVgZg5zI5AG4K2AH5cds_ITS0jY5jugXLbeYvBUmILM3ixmDNWMINJLFta2YRV_wVPv91VKO3qQ7cL2bdfCPhb4ZppRa8t4Ikwu-OrbhbhQbY_fkIX5KUrs" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="320" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Salvation is by grace, not working for merit, not all this punishment, not constant beating yourself down to get into heaven. Look at the word Grace itself: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">grace</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gratis</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gracious </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gratitude </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all come from the same root.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But this is not just discounting Justice. I want to show how Grace and Justice are one single thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve noticed the same pattern happens in other religions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hinduism</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the whole debate in the Bhagavad Gita, in Hinduism. It’s a debate between grace and works, Grace and justice. There's karmic law, meaning if you work hard enough, you'll be reincarnated into a higher level.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buddhism</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Same thing with Buddhism. The Buddha was reacting to a system of too much justice, too much emphasis on karmic cycles. And we can transcend that. And that was the old Hinduism.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Religious Reformers: Reinstating Grace</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the Bhagavad Gita is also a reaction against the old Hinduism. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And Martin Luther was a reaction against the old religion of what Christianity had become.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus was a reaction against the hardcore legalism of Judaism and he was bringing out the concepts of Grace that were already there.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now it's almost like Catholicism and protestantism have switch roles again. In evangelical, fundamentalist protestantism there’s a hard emphasis on legalism and hardcore justice, pretty much for everybody else, but for ourselves, grace. That’s the catch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything is already instantaneously paid for. So how is this? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was showing that with the body: When you when you pick a thorn from your foot, who’s getting the credit and who's getting the debt? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was just showing you the cycles of life. This blue one is how we envision it. We see it as one process going forward, around and around, and eventually we get back what we need. This is how we envision the world with our money minds. This is how we’ve been raised to think. And it's a partial truth. This [blue arrows going clockwise] is the dominant, possessive provider. And the repayment is delayed. Since, in the natural cycles, it's pay-it-forward, where we don't see that there's a mutual exchange. This is the reason we create our monetary system. We can’t see the immediate repayment, so we think we need to set up the system where people pay us back for services. We think, “this payback isn't the way nature set up. Nature's unfair, because this is all we see, going in a circle. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But here is what I realized on the road, accepting charity:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There's an equal and opposite circle going this way [red arrows going counter-clockwise]. See, in our system, we consider it the domesticated, recessive receiver. You'll notice there's an obvious male and female thing going on here. The giver and the receiver. Look at the receptive. In our thinking we tend to look down on the receptive because we see only ourselves as the giver. We don't recognize the equal and opposite gift that’s being given back to us by the receptive. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like even those words, selfish and selfless, have no more meaning. When we realized that there’s total oneness of everything you realize there's not a single particle in this universe that can exist independently by itself! I am the accumulation of the whole universe and so are you! Like, where does “me” start and “you” end? Where's the line of division?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is what we see right here. There's something going around in the circle: the hand helps the foot and the hand will eventually receive a reward in the pay-it-forward system; yet, at the same time, both are receiving the same reward exactly simultaneously. It’s one thing!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The First Law of Thermodynamics</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9iWSnL86Lw&t=1440s" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24:00</span></a></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, when you look at it this way, nothing is lost in the universe. We're always so worried about loss of energy. But when our consciousness, our mind, is on the whole rather than on just ourselves, we realize that benefit to the Whole is benefit to me. Benefit to me is benefit to the Whole, including my loss of energy to another component in the universe. It’s life and death! It's it's inevitable! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Money is not energy. Money is created and destroyed out of thin air. Energy is not. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. Money is a belief in the head. Money is a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">symbol </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of energy, money is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">energy. This is an idea I feel is destroying our earth. It's our mistaking the symbol for the reality. Money is not a material substance. Money is a belief in the head shared by two or more people. Money is not coins. Money Is not gold. Money is not anything but a belief in the head. And we impose this belief on objects like coins or blips in a computer and in a bank. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Money is a creed. Religion is a creed. Why do I say money as a creed? Money is credit. Look at the root meaning of credit: belief, trust. Credibility, incredible. It means belief. That's what credit is. Credit is a belief in our heads. It's not a physical substance. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Any being that sparks economic interest is doomed. Eskimo curlews, passenger pigeons, puffins, teals, plovers, all these and more were exterminated or diminished by the insatiable lust for killing that our economics both rationalizes and rewards.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">....</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“[Without money incentive] You or I could catch all the fish we could ever eat, cut all the trees we could ever use, kill all the animals whose skins we could wear, and we still would not destroy the planet. Or rather, we could kill all that is given to us only so willingly as we give back. What the hell use would it be or me to overfish..? Why would I possibly take every fish? They would rot. It makes more sense to leave them so I can come back next week or next year, or never.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">....</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“If none of the...fish could be converted to cash, no sane people would ever want to kill so many, which is itself powerful support for the thesis that our economic system makes us crazy, or at least manifests prior insanity, or both."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">--The Derrick, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Language Older Than Words</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our word </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">money </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">comes from the Roman goddess Moneta. Juno Moneta was a Roman goddess, and at the very center of Rome is her Temple. This Temple of Juno Moneta was the mint. Moneta is where words mint and money comes from. Moneta. The goddess Moneta. Money. This was her Temple, and this temple you can see in ruins today. And there's a church also built upon these grounds, the Church of Santa Maria in Araceli in Rome. This is the coin </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">moneta</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This is the first money. Well, there were coins before this, but this was the first time it was called money. Monetary. Money. And it was considered sacred, so it was minted right in the temple.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This actually is based on some profound truths, and I’ve just been talking about them: what is self-interest and what's interest of the whole? Like, what is the difference between the self and whole? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And these are ideas that Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman picked up on. And this has gotten a grip on our culture, because it is based on a truth and I can see how this appeals to us!</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xAlevih2IYJAwMb7B7lTRTksV6iqASpOdif72UDKttJgWOheBdjxeg9r2UCgZKZ8nP4Liz0xYq7CHExoMtmasWxbM8ZTElai75v6L_wfUnDqzI_feusoe7Hg4Zt8rgfRjtdPaLZf" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xAlevih2IYJAwMb7B7lTRTksV6iqASpOdif72UDKttJgWOheBdjxeg9r2UCgZKZ8nP4Liz0xYq7CHExoMtmasWxbM8ZTElai75v6L_wfUnDqzI_feusoe7Hg4Zt8rgfRjtdPaLZf" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="200" /></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And, of course, the one who owns, believes in the “free market.” You'll notice that this is the most popular philosophy among the most wealthy in the world, like the Koch brothers. They love free market philosophy. Because they don’t want control over themselves, but they won't control over everyone else! They want to manipulate. And this doesn’t matter whether you’re liberal or conservative; people who own love this philosophy because they don't want control over themselves. They don't want control by the people, they want some mysterious invisible to make it all morally correct. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Praise </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">means "to laud, commend, flatter," "to praise, value," from the Latin </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">preciare</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which means </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">price</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">! (This is from the Online Etymological Dictionary. You can find amazing things with it). Only in the English is it differentiated in form from the cognate, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">price. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, in English, price and praise are two different words, but in other languages it’s the same word. “I give you price.” “I give you praise.” Now think about this. We're getting somewhere. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does the hand expect praise? Does it expect credit? Credit is praise, price! Does the foot feel debt or guilt? Debt and guilt are the same thing. Our civilization is running on credit and debt, praise and guilt. We love praise. This is what Jesus talked about: you love the honor of people, you love the praise of people. [John 5:44] And this is a concept I find in all the ancient religions. Same concept! So how about if we switch the word </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">God </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whole</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: All credit to the Whole, all price to the Whole, all praise to the Whole. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nearly every modern English translation adds </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> animals. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is in italics because it's added, because we can't handle that idea. It goes against what we've been taught all our lives, especially in our faith. They all have one breath. This word </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">breath </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ruwach </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">רוּחַ</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in Hebrew, and it means </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">air</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it means </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">breath</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and it means </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">spirit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ruwach </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the name of the Holy Spirit. It's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ruwach Qodesh</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Holy Spirit. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Sanskrit word Atman means breath. But in English translations of Hindu scriptures it's usually translated as soul or self rather than breath, just like we translated it as Spirit, when in the original it means breath or air in Hebrew and in Greek. The English word, spirit, itself means breath: like respire, or inspire, breath in. One atmosphere, one breath, one Spirit, one self. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Early Christians were communal, against privatization, renouncing self-credit. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9iWSnL86Lw&t=2717s" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">45:17</span></a></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This’ll surprise a lot of Christians today and you’ll wonder if this is even the same religion as it was in the beginning. Augustine said this, as well as, unanimously, the church leaders in early Christianity said the same things about the possessions and money and common property. Augustine I like because he's equally revered by both Protestants and Catholics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those who wish to make room for the Lord must find pleasure not in private, but in common property…. Redouble your charity. For, on account of the things which each one of us possesses singly, wars exist, hatreds, discords, strifes among human beings, tumults, dissensions, scandals, sins, injustices, and murders. On what account? On account of those things which each of us possesses singly. Do we fight over the things we possess in common? We inhale this air in common with others, we all see the sun in common. Blessed therefore are those who make room for the Lord…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And if you look it up you see that all of the major early church leaders said the same things. Augustine, Tertullian, and Ambrose… the list goes on and on. Every single one of them you can find quotes like this. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Other world religions testify to this same principle</span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here’s this Atman thing again in Hinduism. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You were created as but One Soul.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And as One Soul </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you shall be </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">raised to life.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">God hears All </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and sees All.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you give up your idea of God being a separate man in the sky, all the sudden you realize, well, of course, the whole is omnipresent. How could it not be? The universe is omnipresent. The Whole is personal! My person is part of the universe, therefore the the universe is personal! It's impersonal too! Everything you can think of that's in the universe is a characteristic of God, or the whole! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Quran says </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“He who gives away his wealth….</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and who gives no favor to anyone </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the sake of reward,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but only craving the face </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of his Lord most High;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the end he shall be well pleased!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This concept is found over and over in the Quran, and then it's found over and over in the Bhagavad Gita:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A person of yoga obtains </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">everlasting peace </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by abandoning </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the rewards of action.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The person ignorant of yoga,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">selfishly attached to reward,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">remains bound.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Tao Te Ching, from China:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lao Tzu says,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Creating without claiming,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doing without taking credit,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guiding without interfering:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the Primal Virtue.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Enlightened beings are magnanimous givers,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bestowing whatever they have </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with equanimity,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">without regret, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">without hoping for reward,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">without seeking honor, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">without coveting material benefits,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but only to rescue and safeguard </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all living beings.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="225" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/RuQOWRzktD0qQOxYrjR48yr6dtbZWyxxGbHZkd4WuIWbxriSjLJwFvbQxyXh-PtN1idyQRKKBd09Y-cfp7Z34AcLDX2A1h2kNs5Cg1anh1NqfQFG22IAaVTmvM9aChZNng2gWEzx" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="400" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Golden Rule. This is another thing: we think of the golden rule as a commandment, and it’s not! All the sudden, I realized, it's a statement! Every single creature in the universe follows the Golden Rule! It’s good to put away the idea that this is a commandment. Love cannot be commanded! If it can be commanded it’s not love! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You always do unto others as you would have them do unto you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If I'm bad, if I’m mean, cruel, I do unto others as I would have them do unto me. If I'm loving, I do unto them as I would have them do unto me. You always love your neighbor as you love yourself. If you love yourself a lot, you love your neighbor a lot! If you love your neighbor a lot you love yourself a lot! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="225" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uy1OSLlyrQ9of4vmT9qY84Ke2o80RT_Zx0K6ln9W-wZlN-1o1UI1oHp_anDcoOex_-BgAFjr-N_3G7e9CIGZceDSoFu6lu_--foxqLTg96Rmxvdp1459YdypXJ8tMk5ThEaTuQ_y" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="400" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's basically the law of physics. Every particle in the universe follows this law, as all is the law of physics! For every action there's an equal reaction. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've even looked it up and he realized it's not imperative tense! All these years, for centuries, we’ve thought this is imperative, that it's a command, but it's just a simple statement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the world of reality there is no self, there is no other than self. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img height="224" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ANGUbiva5uAVwUWuawRR6yDBhRyL9tPZFesvyh6_ZqJRBT973ypA9oJoslyr4LUP-1cJS9AYOaCN1d4GZO0NXSnfz_jft6ldl29p_oJES-BHGPHWMr5d01GUKJaljfqr6yr2q3ok" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="400" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I cannot reach fulfillment without thou. The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Usury/Interest</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 20pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9iWSnL86Lw&t=3060s" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">51:00</span></a></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The word </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cattle </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">comes from the French </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">chattel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. It means property or wealth or money. And it's the same idea of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fee </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pecuniary, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">words which also come from the word for cattle. You can see that, for our ancestors, probably their first money was cattle. They stopped seeing them as cattle, as living beings. Now these are creatures of trade. I can put my cattle on your land and my cattle will multiply and you get to keep some of those cattle and I get cattle. It all increases, and that's interest. Yes, the word </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fee </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">comes from pecu, root of pecuniary, meaning cattle. That's an Indo-European root, going way back when. The Egyptians and the Saharans had the same ideas. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“One who lends money on usury cannot be regarded as reformed until he tear up his account-books and effect a complete reformation.” (Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin II.) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He who lives by usury in this world shall not live in the world to come. --(Midrash, Exodus Rabba 31).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or anything that can earn interest. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother interest” (Deuteronomy 23:19-20)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is something that I've avoided for years. I didn’t want to touch this. This was a perfect set up in the Middle Ages. Jews were very persecuted they weren't allowed to own property. They lived in ghettos, and the church considered them not worthy of owning property or conducting regular business in society. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now there's this little loophole here. “Okay, Christians aren't allowed to lend money to each other… but we could go to the Jews.” And the Jews agreed. This is only living they were allowed to make. They were living in poverty. But they were given the handover of money. “You may charge a foreigner interest but you must not charge your brother interest.” This set up a system of paranoia and atrocity in Europe and in the whole world that's going on today. Of course, the Jews became wealthy and Christian Europe became resentful because the increasing power of the Jews who originally were in the ghettos. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Getting to the bottom of this problem in the Hebrew Bible.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9iWSnL86Lw&t=3546s" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">59:06</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hebrew does have an imperative tense. But I noticed that this, just like “love your neighbor as yourself,” is not imperative tense! The Ten Commandments are not commandments, they are statements, too! They are not imperative tense. This is where we've made Grace into Law, we’ve made a description into a law. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is what it literally says: “You are not causing interest* to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything lent on interest. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To a stranger you cause interest*, but to your brother you are not causing interest*…” (Deuteronomy 23:19-20, literal translation) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I looked up the Hebrew verb tense. The word for charging interest is teshich [תַשִּׁיךְ], which literally means “causing interest.” It is not imperative. It is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hiphel </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">imperfect tense. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hiphel </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tense indicates causative action. Imperfect indicates action in progress. You are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">causing </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">interest when you lend to a stranger, not to your familiar. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(There’s your neighbor, there’s your loved one, there’s your familiar) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For two strange bodies, separating by distance, there is unequal exchange, energy loss and energy gain between unfamiliar bodies. (See, there’s that pay-it-forward thing. There’s the usury and loss of energy. You can see where these concepts are coming from). </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then, something else I was noticing: </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You find this all over the Americas, with the Native Americans. They have some story of stealing fire from the gods or from heaven and bringing it to mankind. It's an explanation of what separates us from animals. Like, what other creature uses fire? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Greek myth, Prometheus is the one who steals fire from heaven. Prometheus in Greek means forethought. It's related to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">promise</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. A promise is a forethought. Latin </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">promissum </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">& </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">promittere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. A forethought, a promise, a vow: it’s an entering into debt when you make a promise. This is this something that's emphasized in both the Bible and the Quran: don't make promises, don't make vows, don't enter into debt. Our whole society is built on promises and vows, and we're living in the future and the past, not in the present. To promise is to enter into debt. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The conclusion: Falling & Returning to Grace </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9iWSnL86Lw&t=4006s" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1:06:46</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is what it boils down to. It’s balance. We all know this when we've tried to ride a bike, or if you’re a tight-rope walker or a ballet dancer or just plain walking on our feet. The more you try, the more imbalance you feel, the more likely you’re going to fall. When you give up trying, stop controlling credit and debt or positive and negative balance, then, all the sudden, it works out! To me, this is the same principle, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“but when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing so that your gift may be in secret.” this is Jesus’ statement in the Bible. The Quran takes hold of this and goes deeper with it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucifer the Arch-Angel's Fall from Heaven</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9iWSnL86Lw&t=4073s" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1:07:53</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As soon as you're worried about what the other person is getting or not getting, credit and debt, you go out of balance. See, I have a picture of the Ark of the Covenant here. This is symmetry. See, as long as these two angels, they’re called archangels, keep their focus on the center, not on each other, as long as their focus is on the Whole, they're in balance with each other. But as soon as one looks up and worries about the other, and they become in competition, they fall from grace. This is the idea of the Archangel, Lucifer, falling from Heaven, becoming the devil. Suddenly it dawned on me this is what is going on here. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chuang Tzu's principle of Tai Chi: the Laissez Faire of Nature.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9iWSnL86Lw&t=4117s" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1:08:37</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is what Chuang Tzu is saying in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Pivot</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keep your focus on the central pivot:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">..“Yes” and “No” pursue each other </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">around the circumference.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The pivot of Tao passes through the center </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">where all affirmations and denials converge.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; 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I haven't been the best at keeping up with blog posts since being hunkered down the past 3 years as the live-in caretaker of my parents (now care-taking just my mom). Though, three years ago, I returned to dealing with money (having to manage my mom's finances and do her shopping) and returned to living sedentary, indoors, using money sparingly, I still feel passionately about moneyless gift economy.<br />
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Frankly, my heart has often been heavy the past three years, face-to-face with death a lot. The last few months two of my young vagabond friends also died. You never know when somebody will go, so treat everybody as if it's the last time you'll ever see them. </div>
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On January 27, I gave a TEDx talk in Grand Junction, Colorado. I did it on last-minute notice, only having a day and a half to prepare. I'm still not sure if the video will be published, but I'll let you know if/when it is.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>New version of the video,</b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>"</b><b>The Physics & Spirituality of Gift Economy"</b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>coming soon!</b></span></span></h4>
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I've also completed editing slides and music into the already-published video, "The Physics and Spirituality of Gift Economy", of the presentation I did a year ago. You may have already seen it, but it is incomplete without the slides.<br />
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I also wrote an edited transcript of it. I plan to publish both the new video version and the transcript very soon, so check back here. I've never edited videos before, and knew nothing about it. That means it consumed most my time over 3 months to do it. <br />
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I feel excited about it. I feel in my bones I'm onto something. And I hope you feel it too. It's a crystallization of what I've learned from 57 years of living, including my 15 years without money. And there is more to come besides that. By grace I hope to share it all.</div>
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-52823468164839487762017-11-09T13:28:00.002-07:002017-11-10T09:26:23.758-07:00Are You Denied the Right to Adulthood?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Take note that I'm not saying how anybody should or shouldn't live. <br />
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WILD CREATURES <span style="font-weight: normal;">(i.e., </span>weeds*<span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span>wild animals<span style="font-weight: normal;">, and </span>gatherer-hunter peoples<span style="font-weight: normal;">) share 3 common characteristics:</span></h2>
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CIVILIZED CREATURES <span style="font-weight: normal;">(i.e., </span>domesticated** plants, non-human animals, & humans<span style="font-weight: normal;">) share 3 common characteristics:</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. They don't have the legal right to mature to adulthood </span>(ie,<span style="font-size: large;"> self-rule</span>, living without permission of an authority, such as the right to even freely lay down their heads or the right to freely reproduce by unrepressed sexual union). <b>Even the ruling authorities themselves lack this right. </b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. They cannot legally integrate into wild societies</span>, meaning they cannot legally live on unowned land. In the US, for example, they aren't permitted more than 2 weeks on unowned land, and, then, only in highly-controlled, designated zones.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Permission to live unowned on unowned land creates the greatest threat to civilization: <b>Adulthood</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">*</span>My friend <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/03/my-town-calls-my-lawn-a-nuisance-but-i-still-refuse-to-mow-it/?utm_term=.61384b2d543a" target="_blank">Sarah Baker (who became internationally renowned for refusing to mow her lawn)</a>, pointed out to me that we do not even allow our plants to sexually mature; or, if they are allowed sexual union, it is controlled and repressed. This revelation inspired me to write this blog post.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">**</span></b>The root of <i><b>domestication </b></i>is <b><u>dom</u></b>, also the root of <b><i>dominion</i></b>, <i><b>dominate</b></i>. Its Proto-Indo-European root is <b><u>dem</u></b>, meaning <i>domain </i>or <i>household</i>. It represents our ancestors' forsaking the nomadic gatherer-hunter life for the householder's life of land ownership, the life of the Land Lord, of <b>dominion </b>over others, the life of <i style="font-weight: bold;">owning fellow living beings</i> (<b style="font-style: italic;">domestication</b><b>)</b>.</span></blockquote>
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Okay, I’ve had it. This is for my nationalistic, Bible-waving friends: a world history and Bible lesson:<br />
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Pride comes before fall</h2>
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Notice the great empires of the world--Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Greece, Rome, Abyssinia, Egypt, Aztec, Inca, etc—all were known for their nationalism, believing themselves divinely favored, supreme above other nations, thinking they would last forever.<br />
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Yet they all either ended up backwater countries or vanished, except for ruins. Can you believe Portugal, for example, was once the wealthy world-dominating empire?<br />
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Many ancient empires existed long before my northern European ancestors were considered "civilized", calling them "Barbarians" (from their “bar bar” talk, thinking the hairy northern Europeans were so backward they had no real language).<br />
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The rise and fall of nationalist empires is the Bible’s central theme. Over and over, Old Testament prophets preached against nationalist empires and their leaders’ arrogant, bragging supremacism, extravagant wealth, world commerce, and world domination.<br />
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National pride comes before fall, they kept warning.<br />
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And lipservice to God is what made their national pride and wealth most abhorrent to the prophets.<br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: small;">O Lucifer, Son of the Morning! </span><br />
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Note another irony: pious nationalists are often obsessed with the Devil, looking for demonic conspiracy around every corner. But let’s sit down and look at the famous, traditional depiction of the Devil in the Bible:<br />
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In Christian and Jewish tradition, the famous story of Lucifer and his fall from Heaven comes from Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. Lo and behold, you find this Lucifer is none other than the personification of nationalist, wealthy, commercial, world-dominating Empires and their arrogant, boasting, extravagantly rich leaders.<br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: small;">"Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom:</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: small;">She and her daughter had pride,</span><br />
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All the Old Testament prophets, not just Isaiah and Ezekiel, warn against nationalism, greed, commerce, arrogant leaders, and, especially above all, disregard for the poor, which doom empires to fall, especially when masked under religious piety. Isaiah and Ezekiel (Isaiah chapters 1, 3, 13, Ezekiel 16) even interpret the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah being due to nationalism, extravagant wealth, commerce, arrogance, and, especially, disregard for the poor and oppressed, with not a single mention of sex.<br />
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Go ahead. Wave around your Bible and flag; brag how your religion and culture and nation is the greatest and divinely favored. See what happens.<br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-42040853375995575892017-05-28T15:40:00.000-06:002019-04-22T23:54:51.883-06:00For Self-Proclaimed Christians in Trumpeting America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A little something for self-proclaimed Christians in Trumpeting America. Not my opinions, just quotes. Judge for yourselves whether or not this is your religion. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of quotes. And that's the point -- an overwhelming mass of testimony. And this isn't even all of it:</h3>
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for yours is the Kingdom of God.<br />
. . . . But woe to you who are rich,<br />
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--Jesus (Luke 6:24)<br />
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"Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, 'Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?'<br />
So Jesus said to him, 'Why do you call me good? No one is good but One God. ... One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me. ….It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.'"<br />
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"'No servant can serve two masters,<br />
for either he will hate the one and love the other,<br />
or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.<br />
You cannot serve both God and money.'<br />
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money,<br />
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"So likewise, whoever of you<br />
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"Listen, my beloved brethren:<br />
Has not God chosen the poor of this world<br />
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which he promised to those who love him?<br />
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But you have dishonored the poor man.<br />
Do not the rich oppress you<br />
and drag you into the courts?<br />
Do they not blaspheme<br />
that Noble Name by which you are called?"<br />
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"Come now, you rich, weep and howl<br />
for your miseries that are coming upon you!<br />
Your riches are corrupted,<br />
and your garments are moth-eaten.<br />
Your gold and silver are corroded,<br />
and their corrosion will be a witness against you<br />
and will eat your flesh like fire.<br />
You have heaped up treasure in the last days.<br />
Indeed the wages of the laborers<br />
who mowed your fields,<br />
which you kept back by fraud, cry out;<br />
and the cries of the reapers<br />
have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.<br />
You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury;<br />
you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.<br />
You have condemned,<br />
you have murdered the just;<br />
he does not resist you."<br />
(James 5:1-6)<br />
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"Now all who believed were together,<br />
and had all things in common,<br />
and sold their possessions and goods,<br />
and divided them among all, as anyone had need.<br />
So continuing daily with one accord in the temple,<br />
and breaking bread from house to house,<br />
they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,<br />
giving Credit to God<br />
and having Grace with all the people.<br />
.... Now the multitude of those who believed<br />
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were of One Heart and One Soul;<br />
neither did anyone say<br />
that any of the things he possessed was his own,<br />
but they had all things in common."<br />
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"...persons who are depraved in mind<br />
and bereft of the truth,<br />
imagining that godliness is a means of gain.<br />
…But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation,<br />
into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires<br />
that plunge men into ruin and destruction.<br />
For the love of money is the root of all evil;<br />
it is through this craving<br />
that some have wandered away from the faith<br />
and pierced their hearts with many pangs."<br />
--Apostle Paul (1 Timothy 6:5-10)<br />
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"Then Peter said,<br />
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Note that all the recorded early Christian leaders (that I've found so far) unanimously agree that Jesus & the Apostles meant what they said:</div>
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"Those who have endured the labors and dangers of the sea and then amass material riches, even when they have gained much desire more. They consider what they have at present to be nothing, and reach out for what they have not got. We, who have nothing that we desire, wish to acquire everything through God."<br />
--Amma Syncletica of Alexandria (died 350AD)</div>
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"Those who wish to make room for the Lord must find pleasure not in private, but in common property…. Redouble your charity. For, on account of the things which each one of us possesses singly, wars exist, hatreds, discords, strifes among human beings, tumults, dissensions, scandals, sins, injustices, and murders. On what account? On account of those things which each of us possesses singly. Do we fight over the things we possess in common? We inhale this air in common with others, we all see the sun in common. Blessed therefore are those who make room for the Lord, so as not to take pleasure in private property."<br />
--Augustine (354–430 CE)<br />
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"I now come to the accusation that most of us are said to be poor; that is not to our shame, it is to our great credit. Men’s characters are strengthened by stringent circumstances, just as they are dissipated by luxurious living. Besides, can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more. And so it is that when a man walks along a road, the lighter he travels, the happier he is; equally, on this journey of life, a man is more blessed if he does not pant beneath a burden of riches but lightens his load by poverty. Nevertheless, we would ask God for material goods if we considered them to be of use; without a doubt, He to whom the whole belongs would be able to concede us a portion. But we prefer to hold possessions in contempt than to hoard them: it is rather innocence that is our aspiration, it is rather patience that is our entreaty; our preference is goodness, not extravagance."<br />
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“We who share one mind and soul obviously have no misgivings about community of goods.”<br />
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"You are like one occupying a place in a theater, who should prohibit others from entering, treating that as one’s own which was designed for the common use of all.<br />
Such are the rich. Because they were first to occupy common goods, they take these goods as their own. If each one would take that which is sufficient for one’s needs, leaving what is in excess to those in distress, no one would be rich, no one poor.<br />
It is absurd and disgraceful for one to live magnificently and luxuriously when so many are hungry…If one who takes the clothing off another is a thief, why give any other name to one who can clothe the naked and refuses to do so?The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor. … How can I make you realize the misery of the poor? How can I make you understand that your wealth comes from their weeping?”<br />
– Basil (329–379 AD)</div>
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"Thank God for the things that I do not own.<br />
.... Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.<br />
....It is quite important to withdraw from all unnecessary cares and business, as far as compatible with the duties of one’s state of life, in order to enter the second mansion."<br />
-- Teresa de Ávila (1515-1582)</div>
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"We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing.<br />
.... O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!"<br />
-- Clare of Assisi (1194-1253 AD)</div>
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“We who once took most pleasure in the means of increasing our wealth and property now bring what we have into a common fund and share with everyone in need.”<br />
– Justin Martyr, 100-165 AD<br />
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“And instead of the tithes which the law commanded, the Lord said to divide everything we have with the poor. And he said to love not only our neighbors but also our enemies, and to be givers and sharers not only with the good but also to be liberal givers toward those who take away our possessions.”<br />
–Irenaeus, 130-200 AD<br />
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“Private property is the fruit of iniquity. I know that God has given us the use of goods, but only as far as is necessary; and he has determined that the use shall be common. The use of all things that are found in this world ought to be common to all men. Only the most manifest iniquity makes one say to another, ‘This belongs to me, that to you.’ Hence the origin of contention among men.”<br />
– Clement of Alexandria, 150-215 AD (Paedagogus, 2)</div>
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“Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all people. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there might be food in common for all, and that the earth should be the common possession of all. Nature created common rights, but usurpation has transformed them into private rights…God gave the same earth to be cultivated by all. Since, therefore, His bounty is common, how is it that you have so many fields, and your neighbor not even a clod of earth? ….You are not making a gift of your possession to the poor person. You are handing over to him what is his."<br />
--Ambrose of Milan, 340-397 AD.<br />
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“The rich are in possession of the goods of the poor, even if they have acquired them honestly or inherited them legally.<br />
Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours but theirs. When you are weary of praying and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him. The dispersion of property is the cause of greater expenditure and so of poverty. Consider a household with husband and wife and ten children. She does weaving and he goes to the market to make a living; will they need more if they live in a single house or when they live separately? Clearly, when they live separately. If the ten sons each go his own way, they need ten houses, ten tables, ten servants and everything else in proportion… Dispersion regularly leads to waste, bringing together leads to economy.”<br />
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“Give away these earthly things, and win that which is in heaven. Give that which you must leave, even against your will, that you may not lose things later. Lend your wealth to God, that you may be really rich. Concerning the way in which to lend it, Jesus next teaches us saying: ‘Sell your possessions, and give alms, provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail’ … Worldly wealth has many foes … but no one can do damage to the wealth that is laid up above in heaven.”<br />
– Cyril of Alexandria, 378-444 AD</div>
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“All things belong to God, who is our Father and Father of all things. We are all the same family: all of us are brothers and sisters. And among brethren it is best and most equal that all inherit equal portions.”<br />
– Gregory of Nyssa, 330-395 AD<br />
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“Share everything with your brother. Do not say, ‘It is private property.’ If you share what is everlasting, you should be that much more willing to share things which do not last.”<br />
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"...their property held them in chains . . . chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their souls… And our Lord, the teacher of the good, looking to the future warning us against this, saying: ‘If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.’<br />
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If the rich would do this, riches would not be their ruin; if they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not have an enemy and a thief within their own household; …. But how can those who are tethered to their inheritance be following Christ? …. They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves. The apostle was pointing to our times and to these very men he said: ‘Those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.’"<br />
– Cyprian, 200-258 AD, (The Lapsed 11-12)<br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-51162903077862045232017-03-12T17:46:00.000-06:002017-03-15T18:19:24.692-06:00The Physics & Spirituality of Gift Economy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here's my debut blog/vlog, after over a year sabbatical of not blogging! And I must admit I feel excited about publishing this video, "The Physics & Spirituality of Gift Economy." This talk is a crystallization of years of what I've learned living without money.<br />
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Thanks to my friend Cullen Purser for filming this talk. <br />
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I dare say you'll hear things in this talk you've never heard before... that I know of. Yeah, that I know of. New buds on a tree blossom all over the tree, so perhaps you will witness this same blossoming in other parts of the world. They are not from me but from the Whole. <br />
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My dad passed away over a year ago (February 19th, 2016) a month before what would be his 88th birthday on March 23rd. Then, it felt gloomily auspicious that on March 23rd, 2016, my moneyless comrade in Germany, <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/shes-69-and-hasnt-used-money-for-15-years-and-has-never-been-happier/">Heidemarie Schwermer</a>, passed away. So it's been me living with and taking care of just my mom since then. 2016 felt like one of the darkest years of my life. And I haven't been able to bring myself to blog until now. <br />
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I gave this presentation on March 1st at <a href="http://www.lithicpress.com/index.php/bookstore-gallery">Lithic Bookstore & Gallery</a> through <a href="http://www.cavalcadefruita.com/">Cavalcade </a>in Fruita, Colorado. I'm including the intro advertised on on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/991127897688472/">Lithic's facebook page</a>:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;"><b>The Physics & Spirituality of Gift Economy</b></span></div><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span> </span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">By Daniel Suelo</span></span></div><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: x-small;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: small;">Two years ago, after 15 years of living without money, I had to put my moneyless lifestyle on hold to be the live-in caretaker of my aging parents. One year ago, my dad passed away. </span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: small;">Ironically, I’ve had to manage my parents’ bank account, go shopping, and deal with the bureaucracy and culture shock of it all as well as go through the grieving process. This time has give me the opportunity to delve inward, to process ideas from the previous 15 years of living moneyless. It helps me empathize with a world trapped in commerce.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: small;">I’ve watched these ideas blossom into epiphanies. And these epiphanies are crystallizing into a coherent science, philosophy, and theology of gift economy. Gift economy (meaning economy without money or conscious barter) is already the law of this infinite universe all around us. Now I am grateful for the opportunity to share these epiphanies with the public.</span></blockquote></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">You can't see most my slides in this video, so I'm including the slides separate for reference (List shows slide numbers that coincide with video times):</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f6b26b;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_HJCx0du5OM/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_HJCx0du5OM?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <b>S2*<span style="color: #38761d;">5:16</span>. S3*<span style="color: #38761d;">9:00</span>. S4*<span style="color: #38761d;">10:10</span>. S5*<span style="color: #38761d;">15:35</span>. S6*<span style="color: #38761d;">15:50</span>. S7*<span style="color: #38761d;">18:05</span>. S8*<span style="color: #38761d;">23:00</span>. S9*<span style="color: #38761d;">23:10</span>. S10*<span style="color: #38761d;">25:10</span>. S9*<span style="color: #38761d;">25:30</span>. S10*<span style="color: #38761d;">25:50</span>. S11*<span style="color: #38761d;">26:00</span>. S12*<span style="color: #38761d;">26:10</span>. S13*<span style="color: #38761d;">27:25</span>. S14*<span style="color: #38761d;">28:05</span>. S15*<span style="color: #38761d;">28:25</span>. S16*<span style="color: #38761d;">28:45</span>. S17*<span style="color: #38761d;">29:30</span>. S18*<span style="color: #38761d;">30:00</span>. S19*<span style="color: #38761d;">35:00</span>. S20*<span style="color: #38761d;">36:10</span>. S21*<span style="color: #38761d;">36:35</span>. S22*<span style="color: #38761d;">38:35</span>. S23*<span style="color: #38761d;">39:40</span>. S24*<span style="color: #38761d;">40:15</span>. S25*<span style="color: #38761d;">40:30</span>. S26 <span style="color: #38761d;">41:00</span>. S27*<span style="color: #38761d;">42:55</span>. S28*<span style="color: #38761d;">45:00</span>. S29*<span style="color: #38761d;">45:40</span>. S30*<span style="color: #38761d;">46:25</span>. S31*<span style="color: #38761d;">47:20</span>. S32*<span style="color: #38761d;">48:20</span>. S33*<span style="color: #38761d;">49:00</span>. S34*<span style="color: #38761d;">50:00</span>. S35*<span style="color: #38761d;">50:30</span>. S36*<span style="color: #38761d;">52:15</span>. S37*<span style="color: #38761d;">53:05</span>. S38*<span style="color: #38761d;">54:55</span>. S39*<span style="color: #38761d;">55:15</span>. S40*<span style="color: #38761d;">56:05</span>. S41*<span style="color: #38761d;">56:20</span>. S42*<span style="color: #38761d;">56:40</span>. S43*<span style="color: #38761d;">57:00</span>. S44*<span style="color: #38761d;">57:30</span>. S45*<span style="color: #38761d;">57:35</span>. S46*<span style="color: #38761d;">58:25</span>. S47*<span style="color: #38761d;">59:10</span>. S48*<span style="color: #38761d;">59:15</span>. S49*<span style="color: #38761d;">59:45</span>. S50*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:00:15</span>. S51*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:00:30</span>. S52*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:02:30</span>. S53*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:02:40</span>. S54*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:04:30</span>. S55*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:06:40</span>. S56*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:10:00</span>. S57*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:11:30</span>. S58*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:13:15</span>. S59*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:14:10</span>. S60*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:19:00</span>. S61*<span style="color: #38761d;">1:19:55</span>.</b></span><br />
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</div>Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-3054947633081618542016-01-03T15:57:00.001-07:002016-01-03T23:48:36.368-07:00Patriarchy,Terrorism & Mammon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm still in Fruita, Colorado, caring for my aging parents. It is heart-breaking, watching their bodies and minds fade. It's a time of grieving. But there is also a blessed time of intimacy with my parents, and there is something intensely rewarding about this, doing a proper good bye. The only worthy reward is the reward in doing. <br />
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I continue to have many thoughts about slow, prolonged suffering within domestic civilization. I might write about it later, as I deal with this lesson presently.<br />
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Meanwhile, other matters. Here's something I just wrote & posted in facebook:<br />
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A militant fighting for a minority is called a terrorist.<br />
A militant fighting for the majority is called a patriot.<br />
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Every nation was founded upon terrorism.<br />
Terrorism is the mathematical result of patriotism.<br />
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Patriotism and terrorism are the life blood of all monetary economy,<br />
pumping through its arteries and veins.<br />
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Patriotism is patriarchy,<br />
pledging allegiance to, bowing to,<br />
the Pater and his Prostitute Mistress Mammon<br />
and their bastard son Terror,<br />
Prince of World Economy.<br />
<br />((Notice the little Terror is disrespected, being a bastard and all.<br />But know he is Prince, destined to become Pater, Ruler of the Majority, <br />as Pater's own Pater was once also a disrespected little bastard Terror)).</blockquote>
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com73tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-81825292167564471642015-11-18T14:41:00.000-07:002015-11-18T15:05:09.187-07:00A Message to the Bible Belt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Compassion is always, always, always risky.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you fear risk, you have no compassion.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A theorem: </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Generally, how much a state's citizens </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>that state refuses Jesus' basic teachings. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Anybody who cracks a Bible </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>may judge whether or not this observation is true.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Yes, it's understandably risky </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>to help a person </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>on the side of a terrorist-infested road.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>And it's often only a person </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>of another, despised religion (Samaritan) </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>who's willing to help,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>which some homeless radical </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>to those of his own Bible religion </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>(Luke 10:25-32).</b></span></div>
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-8511251514438471412015-11-02T12:58:00.000-07:002015-11-02T23:53:01.348-07:00To Answer My Accusers: You're Right, I Have Not Earned Anything<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">To answer my accusers: you're right, I have not earned anything.<br /><br />I did not earned any clothes I wear, any food I eat, all gleaned from massive heaps thrown away.<br /><br />I did not earn the sunlight or the communal air giving us all energy and life.<br /><br />I did not earn my mother's love. <br />Neither can I ever pay her back.<br /><br /><br />Now, I ask you: have you earned anything? <br /><br />Have you earned anything you purchased at Walmart?<br /><br />Did America's wealthiest family, the Walton family, earn its $149 billion "net worth"? (Forbes: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/walton-1/">http://www.forbes.com/profile/walton-1/</a>)</span><br />
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Suelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739011165937473840noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25149653.post-8309848644766739682015-10-27T01:03:00.000-06:002015-10-28T11:48:12.902-06:00Persecution Complex, Wealth, and Religion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It may be time to start blogging regularly again.<br />
Before getting started, sharing this video is a must:<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153251545240983">Some of the most generous people I know have no money</a><br />
1 minute of wise words from part 1 of the brilliant 3-part film HUMAN. Watch it here: http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/human/<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Adapting To My New Life</span></b><br />
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It's taken me a while to adapt to my new life of living with and caring for my aging parents, living with compromise.<br />
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It's taken me a while to fully realize how precious a privilege this is.<br />
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Yes, I'm still living with my parents in their house, part time. Part time means I also have a camp near the Colorado River, to help me not lose touch with the realworld. <br />
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Ironically, though I still do not have, take or use money, I keep my parents' financial books, and I help my dad with shopping. And, of course, we live in a house owned and provided by my wealthy uncle (and, yes, I am grateful for his generosity), utilities paid through my parents' social security, which I would otherwise choose not to live under.<br />
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We could totally live well on scavenged & home-grown food alone, but it's hardly possible to get two 88-year-olds to fully agree to that. But, amazingly, unlike most 88-year-olds, they gladly and wholeheartedly eat the bulk of their diet from my scavenging & home gardening. And I love to cook. Cooking is a forte of mine. <br />
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There are lots going on around Fruita with prime friends, as well as family, I'd like to talk about in future posts. In the mean time, I have other things to share.<br />
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After many months of feeling dried up, I have been experiencing epiphanies the past few weeks. I have posted some on facebook, and I'm sharing them with you here:<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Musings on the Persecution Complex</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Overcoming </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>the taste of Death</b></span><br />
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All of us, without exception,<br />
will give up all our possessions,<br />
voluntarily or involuntarily,<br />
and return to our nativity, the earth.<br />
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There is no taste of death (no sense of loss)<br />
if we do it voluntarily.<br />
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Voluntarily means doing exactly what we want,<br />
not because we have to.<br />
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You have only 2 immutable choices:<br />
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Give it up because you have to,<br />
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or give it up because you don't have to.<br />
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When we don't voluntarily give up possessions,<br />
we identify with them,<br />
we think they are our selves.<br />
We say "thank you" when somebody compliments our possessions.<br />
And we are offended when somebody insults our possessions.<br />
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Most of all, we think any challenge to our possessions is persecution,<br />
even if it is simple suggestion of sharing.<br />
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When our possessions, our whole identity, is challenged,<br />
we live in fear, fear of persecution.<br />
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Beliefs we cling to are no less our possessions.<br />
Our most cherished religious beliefs are possessions, dogmas.<br />
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A challenge to our dogmas is perceived as persecution.<br />
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Paradoxically, if we are to find the truth of our religion,<br />
we must give up all possessions.<br />
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That includes all beliefs we cling to.<br />
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Paradoxically, only then can we understand faith<br />
when there is nothing more to cling to,<br />
nothing more to possess.<br />
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There is then only the unseen, the un-thought.<br />
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When there is no more possession,<br />
there is no more loss,<br />
meaning there is<br />
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no more taste of death.<br />
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Immortality is freedom from possession.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Persecution Complex</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">of the Dominant Religion</span></b><br />
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I grew up white Evangelical.<br />
I sincerely believed we were the persecuted minority,<br />
all outsiders our enemy.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Persecution Complex </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">of the Dominant Social Class</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>®</b></span><br />
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<i>Please, let's take a moment of silence® to contemplate the suffering of this persecuted minority®. Don't be afraid to cry®.</i><br />
<i>Let it all® out.</i><br />
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<i>A religiously Right® chap recently posted on Facebook® that people who speak ill of amassing wealth® are just jealous.</i><br />
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<i>This is why we® recommend editing© the most blatant wealth bashers, like Jesus Christ and Apostle James, right out of our Bible© (see below),</i><br />
<i>and we® need to excommunicate all of the early church fathers and mothers, who unanimously bashed accumulation of wealth® (see below)</i><br />
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<i>Then we® can finally enjoy the blessings® of trickle-down™ warm golden liquid®.</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Golden Rule & the Persecution Complex</span></b><br />
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Yes, droves of people in this world think they are the persecuted minority.<br />
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I had an epiphany just the other day while hiking the canyons, about the Golden Rule:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">"You always do unto others<br />as you would have others do unto you."</span></b></blockquote>
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Duh! This is not a command! <br />
Love can't be commanded.<br />
There can be no grace in commandment.<br />
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It is a statement,<br />
and not necessarily a positive statement.<br />
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This Golden Rule is a law, the social manifestation of the law of physics:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>"<span style="color: #351c75;">For every force there is an equal and opposite force, simultaneously.</span>"</b></blockquote>
The law of physics is not a command.<br />
All of us follow this law whether we hate people or love people! <br />
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The Golden Rule is the Mother of all laws.<br />
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When I love people, I want and have love for myself, and vise versa. <br />
Self-love is light, self-dissolving into all, aware of others.<br />
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When I have a persecution complex, I hate myself,<br />
and I persecute others unawares, and vise versa,<br />
and I want to be persecuted.<br />
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Self-hate is self-absorption, blindness, unaware of others.<br />
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And guess what?<br />
I looked up "Love your neighbor as yourself" in the Hebrew Torah<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[<a href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/ylt/lev/19/18/p0/t_conc_109018">Leviticus 19:18, Young's Literal Translation, plus Hebrew text</a>]. </span><br />
Indeed, literally it is not a command, not imperative tense.<br />
It simply describes what is!<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"<b><span style="color: #351c75;">You always love your neighbor as you love yourself.</span></b>"</blockquote>
Simply describing what is brings light to what is.<br />
All resolves itself in the light, which does not command, does not force, does not control.<br />
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In the light all that is illusion vanishes, all that is real remains.<br />
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This is the Tao<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Broken Spirit Behind the Machinery </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">of "Free Market" Capitalism</span></b><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>If our spirit (empathy) has been broken through abuse, we become machines without empathy, and we want to deregulate unfeeling machineryand we want to regulate life.</i></blockquote>
"Free market" is an oxymoron.<br />
Free means no money.<br />
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"Free market" is called "laissez faire economy."<br />
This is Orwellian doublethink.<br />
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Laissez faire means "let it be" or "hands off".<br />
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Natural ecology is the only balanced<br />
laissez faire economy.<br />
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Laissez faire is impossible in a money economy,<br />
as history never ceases to show us,<br />
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because the very nature of money is control of the balance of positive and negative, credit and debt.<br />
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True laissez faire, in fact, is the philosophy of living without money.<br />
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Invention of money is loss of faith<br />
in the laws of physics and ecology,<br />
fall from grace, fall from gratis.<br />
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True laissez faire is faith in the very law of physics and ecology:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>For every negative there is always an equal positive.<br />For every credit there is an equal simultaneous debt.</b></span></blockquote>
All life is already balanced - we've just become blind to this.<br />
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You can try laissez faire for machinery or<br />
you can have laissez faire for life.<br />
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You must choose one. You can't have both. <br />
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You can serve (work for) money or<br />
you can serve (work for) life.<br />
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It is impossible to do both. <br />
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The market is a machine, without empathy.<br />
Machinery has no morality, no life, to self-regulate.<br />
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Ecology is life, whose essence is empathy.<br />
Empathy is self-regulating morality.<br />
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Life has already regulated itself for eons<br />
and undomesticated life already regulates itself in balance<br />
as we observe all around us.<br />
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Those who deregulate machinery must regulate living beings.<br />
Those who deregulate living beings must regulate machinery.<br />
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None of us wants to be regulated ourselves,<br />
We all want laissez faire for ourselves.<br />
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So we deregulate what is like ourselves,<br />
and we regulate what is unlike ourselves.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>If our spirit (empathy) has been broken through abuse,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>we become machines without empathy,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and we want to deregulate unfeeling machinery</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and we want to regulate life,</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>and we regard empathy as silly naivete.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>If our spirit triumphs through abuse,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>we become life, compassionate,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and we want to deregulate life</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and regulate the machinery </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>that would otherwise regulate and abuse life,</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>and we regard empathy as the essence of life.</b></span><br />
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When we have life, machinery serves us.<br />
When our spirit is broken, we serve machinery.<br />
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Laissez faire of life is the spiritual concept<br />
that all life balances itself outside our control <br />
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(Like "Tao" in eastern tradition, "Grace" in western). <br />
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Attempting laissez faire of machinery is materialistic<br />
(materialistic means matter without empathy),<br />
In other words, deregulating machinery is based on desire to regulate nature, <br />
based on the concept that nature needs our control;<br />
It is based on our loss of faith that the laws of physics and ecology actually work. <br />
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"Free market" capitalists hijack such profound spiritual concepts for marketing purposes.<br />
They have hijacked religion, as they hijack music, art, food, and all life, stripping it all of empathy.<br />
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Money has upset the balance of ecology.<br />
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True laissez faire can only work for life, not money. <br />
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It's the same principle as a tight rope walker losing balance when consciously trying to control balance, when the left hand tries to know what the right hand is doing, not letting it be.<br />
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<b style="color: #cc0000;">"<span style="font-size: large;">COMMUNISM:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>1 a : a theory advocating </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>elimination of private property</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>b : a system in which goods </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>are owned in common and </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>are available to all as needed"</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>(Webster's Dictionary)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>"Now all who believed were together, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and had all things in common,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and sold their possessions and goods, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and divided them among all, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>as anyone had need."</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>(The Bible, Acts 2:44-45)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>"Now the multitude </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>of those who believed </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>were of one heart and one soul; </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>neither did anyone say </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>that any of the things he possessed </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>was his own, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>but they had all things in common."</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>(Acts 4:32)</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Confirmed by our</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">®</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> witnesses:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"Christians despise all possessions</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">and share them communally"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">--Lucian of Samosata (c. 125-180 CE)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Assyrian Pagan Author</span></div>
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List of the<b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">WANTED</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">For Sedition Against Our Empire</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>®</b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Jesus Christ</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(from a painting in Rome, 530 CE)</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">"One thing you lack:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Go your way, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">sell whatever you have</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">and give to the poor,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">and you will have treasure in heaven;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">and come, take up the cross, and follow me.". . . .</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">It is easier for a camel</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">to go through the eye of a needle</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">(Jesus, Mark 10:21, 25)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">So then, none of you can be my disciple </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">who does not give up all his own possessions.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">(Jesus, Luke 14:33)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Iacov</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">(James,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">brother of Jesus)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Listen, my beloved brethren:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Has not God chosen the poor of this world</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>which he promised to those who love him?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>But you have dishonored the poor man.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Do not the rich oppress you</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and drag you into the courts?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Do they not blaspheme</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>that Noble Name by which you are called?. . . .</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Come now, you rich,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>weep and howl for your miseries</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>that are coming upon you!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Your riches are corrupted,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and your garments are moth-eaten.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Your gold and silver are corroded,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and their corrosion will be a witness against you</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and will eat your flesh like fire.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>You have heaped up treasure in the last days.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>which you kept back by fraud, cry out;</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and the cries of the reapers</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury;</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>You have condemned,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>(James 2:5-7 & 5:1-6)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>"Those who wish to make room for the Lord</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>must find pleasure not in private,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>but in common property….</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Redouble your charity. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>For, on account of the things</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>which each one of us possesses singly,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>wars exist, hatreds, discords, strifes</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>among human beings, tumults, dissensions,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>scandals, sins, injustices, and murders.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>On what account?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>On account of those things</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>which each of us possesses singly.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Do we fight over the things we possess in common?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>We inhale this air in common with others,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>we all see the sun in common.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Blessed therefore are those who make room for the Lord,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>so as not to take pleasure in private property.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Let us therefore abstain from the possessions of private property—</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>or from the love of it, if we cannot abstain from possession—</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and let us make room for the Lord."</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">"You are like one occupying a place in a theater,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">who should prohibit others from entering,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">treating that as one’s own</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">which was designed for the common use of all.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Such are the rich.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Because they were first to occupy common goods,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">they take these goods as their own.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">If each one would take that which is sufficient for one’s needs,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">leaving what is in excess to those in distress,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">no one would be rich, no one poor."</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">(Basil the Great, 329–379 CE)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">"Thank God for the things that I do not own."</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">(Teresa of Ávila, 1515-1582)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">“We who once took most pleasure</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">now bring what we have into a common fund</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">and share with everyone in need.”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">(Justin Martyr, 100-165 CE)</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“And instead of the tithes </b></span><b style="color: #351c75;">which the law commanded,</b><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>the Lord said to divide everything we have with the poor.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>And he said to love not only our neighbors but also our enemies,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and to be givers and sharers</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>not only with the good</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>but also to be liberal givers</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>toward those who take away our possessions.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>(Irenaeus, 130-200 CE)</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">“Private property is the fruit of iniquity.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">I know that God has given us the use of goods,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">but only as far as is necessary;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">and he has determined that the use shall be common.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">The use of all things that are found in this world</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">ought to be common to all men.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Only the most manifest iniquity</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">makes one say to another,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">‘This belongs to me, that to you.’</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Hence the origin of contention among men.”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">(Clement of Alexandria, 150-215 CE)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">“We who share one mind and soul</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">obviously have no misgivings</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">about community of goods.”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">(Tertullian, 160-225 CE)</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“Nature has poured forth all things</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>for the common use of all people.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>And God has ordained that all things should be produced</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>that there might be food in common for all,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and that the earth should be the common possession of all.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Nature created common rights,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>but usurpation has transformed them into private rights…</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>God gave the same earth to be cultivated by all.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Since, therefore, His bounty is common,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>how is it that you have so many fields,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>and your neighbor not even a clod of earth?” </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>(Ambrose of Milan, 340-397 CE)</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">“The rich are in possession of the goods of the poor,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">even if they have acquired them honestly</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">or inherited them legally.”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">“Not to enable the poor to share in our goods</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">is to steal from them and deprive them of life.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">The goods we possess are not ours but theirs.”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">(John Chrysostom, 347-407 CE)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>that you may be really rich.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>‘Sell your possessions, and give alms,</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">“Share everything with your brother.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Do not say, ‘It is private property.’</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">If you share what is everlasting,</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Refining & Repackaging</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Indigenous Peoples!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Co-opting & Marketing </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Spiritual Traditions</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>For Your Security!"™</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">New!</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Fun Size!</span><span style="color: blue;">Slick Disposable Packaging!</span><br /><br />Do not purchase if Seal is broken.</b><br />
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<b><br /></b><b><span style="color: magenta;">Your Trademark</span></b><br />
<b style="color: magenta;"> of Monetary Empire</b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">®</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">for over Seven Millenia:</span></b><br />
<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Facing both Right and Left</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">for your baffling entertainment!</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Empire of Rome®</span><b style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;"> </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td><img height="200" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/4Pc93LTrvn17s-yWRdF9aXQQXVuC67KgVGFN1XctU-4LasZdCw7oGM8dD7pSAC1uTjcJt9N5vsjt-0YG-qdOqNK9r6r1q5RjGk06I9nnNEWvjO4--q7bmRGfkSW97RSgKCeCgRyH7pfxg2Q66KItYsaCkg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="195" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Empire of America®</td></tr>
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<tr><td><img height="153" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-7HO8pdcNvWU6O5AFV83oYXlx5Xn5O0RxKyVYvBk70KY_XlugAzDpnn-kKJXEmlih-ncNi6CmweVZNy8CuK18TgJXIVw3VNb7kTtzhYKlXMvaNWURRhWq6vlNMKLLI9gD0Dtu74l5BA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Holy Roman Empire®</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">, Russian Empire</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">®</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">, Turkish Empire</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">®</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: start;">
<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Austrian Empire®</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">, Byzantine Empire</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">®</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">, Albanian Empire</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">®</span></div>
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<tr><td><span style="font-size: large;">Family Owned & Operated</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Since Our Humble Beginnings</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in c. 5500 BC!</span><br />
<img height="133" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/gmIFYF5-XsFr2UTIlkKi9P5eIN_XXgUWGpMTbnYeUBJiFQqySaEcAd7-fn1yXOBbT8zIXDZsCHhTO5X1DTGGaLm3l67PZ4zPCXOkHgbVr2ol1EkqhAIcUnw__Ddb4esldJsMvy99j3Sq-M_562ZDN5mqfvc" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Empire of Sumer<br />(Babel)</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">®</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td><img height="200" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/yU-OV8S1h6OAFkhbbe23W6CQgbctGggv-j1eDiJ6XHExzEZxyHZ4C_XBl5EkO5sA3AXzlIS8tlUVpDAqdSY3vtAu5Df9jX_dqMcI2PwdIlVfycDyvDPJMFg9bbQNCivmQhY_HzylsEuzbjfr1Q" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="150" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Empire of the Aryans of India®</td></tr>
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<tr><td><img height="130" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-y6HRiEIiGkywqD8ujAmXzXHBpGAgziJ2mAI3eiEKb9DMdAgbW3yBHqkm-N3rTYoSMkrHXh6R-NG1jZXQHnt5jY" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Empire of Egypt®</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td><img height="136" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Dm3roQUFf9GOnE4hOv9ps_iU6-AzF-VD1h5-rZB0X3kCz8wAhhe6DskqlIhnwf8D1UH-QvP2NWRPQVeNOgrCeA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Empire of Babylon®</td></tr>
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<tr><td><img height="158" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/3oOPQ12oV1cpTwp94RroRIaKSMjq0q_VRFB8P5gXS1oPaqdvhn1Lpw6kdMUCWcsWAPIKAgOvokygOFFsTjT9EFQ8dhnNgyIOgFPTgao7ExNXFVWNUVih6PzVRi_4fP0i6MDCM9YRaXLBx8rX7-KtuAalAJerp81C" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Empire of USSR®</td></tr>
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<tr><td><img src="http://chinatravelagency.freechinalink.com/national-emblem.jpg" height="200" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="198" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Empire of China®</td></tr>
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<tr><td><img height="147" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/uHwoEgsinVBc7FLAchNaXGDY2UBDoG_C0Z4XTmFCu7z-tPNCuz20KcQg2odTYo4px9ihx5gH6mkf_Ahxwci5-aVeu9UxQz6uM8m1BT49qPsvBSg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Empire of Fascism®</td></tr>
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<tr><td><img height="181" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Coat_of_arms_of_Mexico.svg/1129px-Coat_of_arms_of_Mexico.svg.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Empire of Latin America®</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://galleryplus.ebayimg.com/ws/web/141782476735_1_0_1.jpg" height="200" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Empire of Southeast Asia<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">®</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Empire of Arabia<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">®</span></td></tr>
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</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Empire of Israel<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">®</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, I'm still alive. Yes, it's been over 4 months since I blogged.</span><br />
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My life has gone through huge upheaval.<br />
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Four months ago, my mom contacted me. She said she and my dad were becoming unable to fully care for themselves, and they didn't want to go into assisted living. Neither did I want them to go into assisted living. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can living without money include ditching our parents and grandparents to a system of paid assisted living? How can it include trashing what has been basic family responsibility for thousands of years? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My parents didn't question taking care of their grandparents and parents. And my parents took care of me. Now it's my turn. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I instantly dropped my whole life in Moab and my life on the road.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here I be, in Fruita, Colorado.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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Honestly, this has been one of the hardest things I've ever done, letting go of attachment to freedom from attachments, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">leaving friends behind, ditching plans & expectations I had for the coming year and beyond. Forget plans for moneyless community, projects, activism, travel, spiritual retreats in the wilderness, freedom. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've had to make lots of room for compromise. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I realized this is what my path is all about, giving up all possessions, attachments, expectations, including my attachments to ideals. Find contentment and consistency in spirit in the hardest obstacle course of all, the biological family! </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When all possessions are given up, can there be greater triumph and freedom? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm finally coming to the point of fully embracing the hand life is dealing me. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I get past the intense burden of old family repeating patterns, I'm realizing the richness of connecting with my parents at a deeper level, of love, as they face their final days.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This has been my big test. Wandering without money in the middle of nowhere is child's play compared to this.</span><br />
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It's testing my ego. There is no glory in doing this. Notoriety I've experienced the past years has been going flat. Media has no interest in this (which, in a lot of ways, is a relief). There's not much for me to blog about, <i>so I've thought</i>. Hence, my silence of 4 months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the brighter side, I love my parents dearly and we have a good relationship. But it's still incredibly difficult for anybody being with mom & dad again after decades of independence. And I have difficulty with old religious patterns.<br /><br />But their relationship with each other, and their love and thoughtfulness toward me and my friends is incredibly beautiful. </span></span></div>
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I still am not taking or using money for myself, and I still have no identification documents. I still scavenge food as much as I can. But I share meals with my parents, much bought with their limited Social Security income, and I use utilities in the house, albeit as sparingly as possible. I have set up a camp at the river with a friend, but I still must stay at my parents' house a lot of the time. And I might have to get a drivers license since my dad is losing his ability to drive and my mom can no longer drive. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, lo and behold, my parents are handing over their financial bookkeeping to me. Yes, to a man who hasn't balanced a checkbook in 15 years, much less used money! I also do yard work on a ridiculous lawn and other classically suburban silliness I don't fully jive with. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I have planted a garden in the back, growing potatoes, corn, lentils, squash, peppers, tomatoes, cantaloupes, watermelons, lettuce. Besides my letting the wild, edible <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea" target="_blank">purslane </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenopodium" target="_blank">goosefoot </a>grow voluntarily, my garden isn't exactly permaculture, but it sure beats cultivating a useless patch of lawn in a desert landscape! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My brother, Ron, is also here, at least temporarily, so it seems. He has a disability, but does what he can to help out. I am also gaining deeper levels of relationship with him.<br />
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My nephew, Justin, and his wife, Mandy, live a few blocks away from here. Justin made the video of my parents a couple months ago. If you've read <a href="http://marksundeen.com/the-man-who-quit-money/" target="_blank">The Man Who Quit Money</a>, you might recognize much of this story in it, straight from the horse's mouth!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I had thought there wasn't anything in Fruita for me, I discovered treasured friends and community in Fruita, hiding in the woodwork. As time goes, I'd like to talk more about them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, I have one of my best friends, Cullen, here in Fruita. We discovered each other a couple years ago, actually. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a teaser of what Cullen has been working on for over a year. A modern Leonardo Da Vinci, Cullen is a genius, artistic at everything he touches. And this is a work of love, not commerce, the impetus of his life. Thus, I prefer him to any commercial producer & am infinitely grateful. He's submitted it to the <a href="http://www.telluridefilmfestival.org/" target="_blank">Telluride Film Festival</a>, so it probably won't be available to the general public for some time:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've tried staying indoors here, but it has felt quite oppressive, with major insomnia, so a few weeks ago I went exploring and was elated to find beautiful camping near by. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first night camping out I slept deeply for the first time in months. I awoke feeling intensely grateful. I said to myself, "I think I'm ready to host visitors again, and maybe even form a little moneyless enclave here!" I kid you not, like a sign dropped from the sky, the very next day I got a call at my parents from a guy I'd never talked to before named Geryn, aka "G", asking if he could stay with me! He had just arrived in Fruita on his bicycle.<br />
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G seems just as gung ho about this budding little enclave by the river as I do. Okay, I must mention that it's refreshing that G is exotic. He's a a dread-locked black dude, 30ish, whose childhood and family roots was in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad" target="_blank">Trinidad</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This has been another reason I haven't been motivated to continue publicizing my life to the world.<br /><br />But now I've decided it's important to publish a bit of ugliness in my life under the "April 5th" heading below.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />So the nation has made a historical jump in accepting gay people, and most of my friends are okay with my being gay, not even thinking twice about it. Such is not the case with some family members (in another state) & their church cronies. It's been sometimes hard resisting falling back into the hopeless distress & feeling of isolation I felt decades ago. Although I feel completely confident in accepting who I am, it's just not easy when some of your own flesh and blood can have their flesh and blood hearts hardened harder than concrete by the letter of religion.<br /><br />The greatest enemy of Christianity is not Muslims, not Atheists, not hedonists and political tyrants, but self-proclaimed fundamentalist Christians. It is only when I am dealing with them that I start feeling that faith is worthless and destructive, that there is no greater reason to be an atheist. This is when I must go away from people and simply hang out in the wilderness, where all is divine, all is its own evidence, where no words, no arguments, no self-proclamations are needed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been evicted again! I just got word yesterday somebody turned me into the authorities, so I cleaned out my camp & missed the 1st Annual Tipipalooza last night (I heard it exceedingly exceeded awesomeness expectations).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The past weeks it has felt everything has gone eerily wrong, one thing after another! Last night I was dwelling on this, how utterly unjust our system is, but then had an instantaneous switch-a-roo. "I am liberated!" I hollered ecstatically as I cleaned out the camp and got rid of months of accumulated stuff from myself and many visitors.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needless to say, I love visitors, but you can't stay with me - you gotta figure out your own accommodations. And don't bring me anything, please. And pack out everything you come with. One day, perhaps a moneyless tribe will be possible. Right now all is up in the air.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Treasures are right under (or above) our noses, local, strong & wild or feral. Elm trees are seeding now, even before leafing! Last year Cody James let me know they are edible! Though still green, they're even now edible & delicious, even with the tender husks! Last year, I winnowed & ground dry ripe ones & made amazingly delicious pancakes & waffles, tasting like buckwheat. My parents even loved them. Elm seeds are crazy abundant, easier to harvest & winnow than wheat, and I've a hunch they're a complete or near-complete protein. And you don't have to wait for autumn to harvest them, no tilling, no coaxing them to grow! A permaculture wonder! I've an inkling the whole Moab population could be fed with them. Perhaps they could become a staple crop around the world!</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you Steven Loggins for so enthusiastically bringing me here, and thanks, Hannah, Ariella, & Stephanie Raven for accompanying us here. My parents were grateful & overjoyed by your presence, my friends. And Thanks, Stephanie Raven, for taking these pics (Hannah didn't want to be photographed). </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">(pics by </span><a href="http://stephaniesummerfield.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;" target="_blank">Stephanie Raven Summerfield</a><span style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">March 29 Fruita, CO The Highest Ideal - Mark Boyle's perfect response to my deciding to compromise and care for my parents.</span><span style="color: #660000;"></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I usually only post gift economy stuff, not usually so vocal about being gay. But lately I'm realizing if I don't stand tall in the light with my full person, who will for me? These gay posts don't get many hits, because the majority naturally isn't so interested in minority issues. But I still gotta stand even when I feel like crying.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Someone in my family (XXX) keeps posting things such as the following from a recent thread. Though it doesn't shake my peace in who I am, it hurts like a knife because this person is family, and this person's opinion is rampant in the US. I've decided it's beneficial to post this person's comments anonymously as XXX. I've left out others' interjections:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"I've got a genetic predisposition for being a hothead. In fact, there have been some people I would have liked to put out of their misery. Nevertheless, I refused to act on my impulses. My genetic predisposition is not my preference. Refraining from murdering someone is my preference. Others have preferred to murder. They are sitting behind bars right now. Science has found no homosexual gene. Therefore, they cannot rely on genetic predisposition for their condition. Nevertheless, I'll give homosexuals the benefit of the doubt and allow that they are intrinsically homosexual and that it is not their preference. However, acting on the impulse is certainly a preference. When we give in to our impulses, we are doing what we prefer to do. It's time for all of us to take responsibility for our actions."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Does the homosexual prefer heterosexuality rather than what he is predisposed to? Or is it really that he prefers society to accept the homosexuality he is very happy to be predisposed to have, so he can act on his impulses without the repercussions? In other words he doesn't prefer heterosexuality, but no repercussions for what he loves."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Suddenly their "personal" choices have gotten into the public square and legal system and are imposed on whoever doesn't agree with them. THEIR "personal" choices have now become a personal matter to us!"</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"It harms the gay person themselves when they act out on it. Are they not important too? Why hide the facts from them and let them go on in self-destructive delusion? They harm us by imposing destructive laws on us. They harm the children they raise. The studies are coming in on that fact."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"They perpetuate harmful diseases"</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"They also die younger."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Immorality of any flavor perpetuates destructive consequences."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Biblical laws against immorality were given as a protective fence to keep us safe, not make us miserable!"</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">SUELO:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"I am gay... I do have an agenda, to be accepted for who I am, not to impose my ways on anybody else, even though heterosexuals have vehemently tried to impose their ways on us gay people all my life, make us all like them, which is impossible. And I find it disgusting to have who I am lumped in with murderers.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"And, xxx, if you chose to be celibate and by yourself without intimacy most your life, then you might have a little more understanding and credibility to set yourself up as judge to prescribe celibacy and lack of intimacy on somebody else. My lifestyle imposes absolutely nothing on you or anybody, harms nobody and is absolutely none of yours or anybody else's business. Not that it's any of your damned business, but I likely have had less sex and less intimacy than any person posting here who sets yourself up as judge to prescribe how I should live. Though totally not your business, I say this to make a point."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"...most every gay person I know of my generation did not want to be gay, and, if given the choice, we would have been straight. We were in a society that constantly told us that being gay was worse than murder.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"But after years of self-loathing and spiritual seeking, I realized we can't be pleasers of people, and we cannot covet what does not belong to us, and we must fully accept what God, yes God, has given us, even if, yes, our own families demonize it. I realized that nothing trumps love, and "love does no harm to her neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." I rest on that, not on xxx's opinion. And nothing else can give me such overwhelming peace."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">XXX:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Who says it's not anybody's business? Prove it does not harm anyone."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"The science is against you."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Your lifestyle has affected thousands, Daniel, because you have spent your life devising a made up religion to justify it!"</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">SUELO:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"I have nothing to prove. I am who I am, and can be nothing else."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">XXX:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Well, then, if you can make declarations with nothing to support them, so can anyone. You are not god over us."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"If you can do as you please with no repercussions, so can the rest of us."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Life is a free-for-all."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"May the strongest and biggest con-man win--which is how it goes. The most wicked power-mongers conquer and win, for power and control. Your religion does not provide a solution for that, because it is not only against nature, it is against God."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"It is built on false and contradictory assumptions."</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"The gay lifestyle IS harmful, to yourself and to others. It IS trespassing, against society, even if society accepts it. It IS perpetuating disease, broken families, broken hearts, as all immorality does. Yes, we all accept our sinful condition, admit this IS the way we are, and then find Grace in the Lord Jesus Christ. If you cling to your self-righteousness, you will go away a sinner and die in your sins. It is the sick that will meet the Physician, not those that (think) they have no need of a Physician. I don't care if the whole world and my entire family praise you and lift you up as righteous, and the whole world condones the homosexual lifestyle. I will stay the course and NOT enable you. This is because I DO love you and care for your soul. "</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"In case we don't get the picture yet, God also specifies:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Leviticus 20:13 'If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.'"</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are no debts to pay, no guilt to requite, ever. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guilt is debt is guilt is debt. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See a problem, fix it. But if you see it as a debt to pay, you're stuck in painful delusion, creating cycles of never-ending debt. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See a person harming you, address the behavior as a problem to simply fix. But if you see the person as guilty, to be blamed and punished, you're stuck in painful delusion, creating cycles of never-ending guilt and blame. Never ending vengeance, pay-back.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Money clouds our vision of this most basic truth, which is why most everybody reading this will likely disagree, initially. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same applies to credit as to debt. See a person doing good to you. Freely accept it as gift, not payment or a debt to be repayed, then both you and the giver have joy. But if you feel too proud to take a gift, or you take it weighed down by a sense of debt (guilt), you deny both yourself and the giver joy, you are stuck in painful delusion, creating cycles of never-ending credit and debt. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a river over-runs its banks and floods a village, the fool beats the water with a club to punish it. The wise person simply builds a dike, with no sense of punishment. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn't our entire culture, from top to bottom, stuck in painful delusion, creating cycles of never-ending credit and debt? Our economic, judicial, political, and religious systems, and our entertainment, as well as our social and personal behaviors are all one thing. To fix one is to fix all. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, don't laugh. Sometimes I turn into a crazy numerologist. Maybe ego fishing for importance & order in a seemingly random, chaotic world.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier today I thought how number 54 felt boring and insignificant.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a couple hours ago the Rosary flashed into my mind (though I'm not of Roman Catholic culture):</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's half of the 108 beads of Eastern prayer mala (Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, etc).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The golden ratio is the ratio found in geometry & spirals in all of nature."</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nepalese Japa Mala: 108 beads (54 x 2) complete the circle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christian Rosary: 54 beads complete the pentagramic circle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Golden Ratio is the ratio of geometry & spirals throughout all of nature.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sine of the 54 degree angle is half the Golden Ratio (sine of 108 degrees)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 2 Fruita, CO On Calling Oneself "Christian" or any other Religious Label</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Now I plead with you …</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that there be no divisions among you,</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind ...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For it has been declared to me ...</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that there are contentions among you...</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or 'I am Apollosian,'</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or 'I am Cephasian,'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">or </span><span style="background-color: #8e7cc3;">'</span><b><span style="background-color: #8e7cc3;">I am Christian.</span></b><b style="background-color: #8e7cc3;">'</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--The Bible (1 Corinthians 1:10-13)</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interestingly, the Biblical name for the Devil is “the <b>Accuser</b>,” t</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ranslation of the Greek "<b>Katēgoros</b>" (κατήγορος), from which our word "<b>categorizer</b>" comes!</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 11 Fruita, CO On Heaven & Hell</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When your goal is heaven, to be saved from hell, your motivation is credit & debt. You have ulterior motivation. Thus you are false.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice how the mind concerned with heaven & hell is also obsessed with money & commerce & nationalism.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice how such a mind has no place for compassion.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life is a big test:</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you value most?</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You get only 2 choices:</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) embrace love or</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) save your ass from hell & go to heaven.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"For whoever desires to save her life will lose it,</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but whoever loses her life for my sake will find it." (Matt. 16:25)</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do we really think about this? That word "lose" here is 'apollymi' (ἀπόλλυμι), usually translated as "perdition", referring to the curse of hell & applied to Antichrist ("Son of Perdition").</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everything, I mean everything, must be given up for love. Even heaven.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing is higher than love, nothing else matters.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not even eternal heaven or hell matter in the face of Love.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, this was my liberation through a lifetime of religious programming.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not want to go to a heaven built for those who rant against LGBT people, look down upon women, curse other religions, despise other ethnicities & customs, against other nations. If that is Christianity, then I denounce it and take hell. I would rather be in hell for the sake of love.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To find life you must give up life.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To find Christianity you must give up Christianity.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To find Islam you must give up Islam.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those who want heaven & fear hell will be appalled by my heresy.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my sincere and gentle wish that this pisses people off, on all sides of the spectrum.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 27 Identical Twins: Fundy "Christians" & Fundy "Muslims"</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do we not have identical twins, one professing Christianity, the other professing Islam? Do they both not have one identical spirit?</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Muhammad and Jesus and the Jewish rabbis, as well as the sages of every religion, preached the Golden Rule as the essence of true religion. If any of us actually practiced it, wouldn't we see our exact mirror reflection in the other? Wouldn't we listen to another religion, considering that they could be right, as we would have them to do to us?</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we've missed the Golden Rule, haven't we missed all of our own religion, according to the the very fundamental of our own religion?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hello suelo,</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there is only one true religion in the world and the true one is islam. Other than islam is a false one. please...try to see the real life.. There is no god but ALLAH and Muhammad pboh is the mesenger. The Last messenger. Please you must read, study alquran... see how Cat Steven convert to Islam .... , Study the life of the last prophet from a true history not from the oreantalist/western manipulation. Then you know prophet Muhammad is the perfect man in the world."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"How good is someone is...but if he/she die in other religion ...the punishment is hell forever and ever... ""I hope you will embrace islam before you die , otherwise you will be thrown into hell forever and ever..I think you can be a very good muslim if you convert because the way you live is very humble. But if you still as it is now, for sure, confirm you will be in hell... because all non-muslim or kafir will be in hell. For your information Jesus, Abraham,Noah, Joseph, Isaac, and all the mesengers of god..peace be upon them were muslims , they were not cristians or jews. They were all muslims and will be in heaven . Muslim believe Jesus is the mesenger of god not the son of god. So you don't accept prophet Muhammad pbuh is the last prophet...come on man...have you study the life or sirah prophet Muhammad pbuh...please open your heart...don't you afraid of hell????. The life of hereafter is real and will and must happen as mentioned in The Holy Quran...and all non-believers will and must be in hell...oh so sad... I hope that Allah bless me and put me in heaven."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This is how you live when you don't have guidance. You use your intellect in a capacity that it was never meant for, drawing up your own reality. God meant for you to work, earn a living, and be functional."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"'Enlightenment' thank you for wasting my tax money because someone pays for your ridiculous ideologies! And some ignorant people reading this ( we are still in a recession), and we are encouraging economic stimulus how the heck are people going to read this and what to aid in getting the American dream back? God created all things just like he created the people that have the ideas to create and discover what we have in this world. To me you are offending God to the highest extent by acting holier then though to not use the products, and knowledge that we have been given and especially if you don't pay for it and you use it or whatever you do then you are stealing from another persons lively hood."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stuff like this makes me so happy. This hombre in Colombia, Juan Manuel Idrobo, contacted me 3 years ago, saying he wanted to live without money, & maybe start a community in Colombia. After 3 years he just contacted me again. Look what he's doing. I myself have yearned to start moneyless community but it hasn't worked out for me so far. So it thrills me to see other people are successful doing it or making steps toward it all over the world. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">June 8 Fruita, CO On the Irresponsibility of Using Banks </span></h3>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bank lent us absolutely nothing in the first place.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's amazingly simple when we erase the illusion of numbers and look at actual goods and services.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we have more than we need, we are in debt to those with less than they need, from whom those goods were taken.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In banking, those with less than they need are 'in debt' to those with more than they need, which is contrary to all the physical and spiritual laws of the universe.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other words, 'Owe no one anything, but to love one another' means don't take more than you need, and share everything as the atmosphere is shared by and for everything." </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/how-to-become-free-from-debt" target="_blank">How to Become Free From Debt https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/Home/how-to-become-free-from-debt</a></span></blockquote>
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DNA analysis is showing that we and peoples all over the world can trace our genetics to the ancestors of the Bushmen in Southern Africa. Bushmen have some of the greatest, if not the greatest, human genetic variation in the world.<br />
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