Edit: A word of caution to readers who take the following seriously. Don't be a bitch or a bastard; don't hurt people. Know what it is you're looking for; know that one-night stands are ultimately unsatisfying. If you use these techniques, use them for the good. I am by no means a master, and after just a few weeks I've developed mixed feelings towards the thing as a whole. Know the means, but keep to the end. And the end is, for most people, love. Helping people to be themselves is the greatest gift you can give them. They are nice to throw in, but use them wisely. The fact that you can be a bitch/bastard does not give you the warrant to - The evil we commit lives on.
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In the past week or so I've been trying my hand at seduction. Considered some techniques, applied them with my own twist... And it works! I'll give a brief outline of the kind of things that drive people wild...
1. Emotional Independency. Most people, when confronted with someone who is emotionally independent will sense this and go quite mad. Why? Because it's something most don't have - Co-dependency and love are what people are brought up to expect in a relationship. Demonstrate that you are emotionally independent and people will cleave to you without thinking.
2. Not-Bored. Most people get bored with their day-to-day, static existence. Because for most people in the twentieth century, life can be very regimented and dull. Being unpredictable, hard to fathom - These things are inherently attractive because such a child-like quality reminds people of happier times, and it is infectious.
3. An Aura of Mystery. Give little away about yourself, create a mysterious persona. All this requires is to not talk about oneself excessively - It also gives the seduced the opportunity to talk more, which for a woman is very flattering... And how the darling creatures love to talk!
4. Cunning Linguistics. Language is everything - But not specifically spoken language. Body-language is the greatest sign, and the biggest come-ons are unspoken in nature. A combination of the two can produce a very intoxicating effect - Blazing eyes and equivocable words can reduce a person's heart to mush. Dispel and dismantle objections with laughter and pedantry - This will help to reinforce that aura of mystery.
5. Subtle Contradictions of Character. To convey one thing with actions and its opposite with words is perhaps a seducer's greatest weapon. Logically, anything follows from a contradiction - This helps to reinforce the impression of unpredictability. Telling people that you are no good for them will appeal to their Thanatos instinct - Some people [women especially] just want to be ridden roughshod over. That doesn't give one license to do that - For one it's caddish, and certainly not the behaviour of a gentleman. Remind them that you are poisonous, far more than they suppose... This self-denouement, combined with a pleasant attitude will make people start to think about you of their own accord... And when this happens, they begin to seduce themselves. Self-denouement can be fatal to a woman's heart - As soon as she starts to feel sorry for him with a black heart, she will start wanting to change him... She envisages a complete transformation, she wants to tame him. Love is born from sympathy, this is a rule of the female sex...
6. Keep the Seduced at Arm's Length. If they cannot get close to you, they will become frustrated. The more frustrated they become, the more passionate the outcome will be. Maintaining this distance will not only prove maddening for the seduced, but it will also deepen the intensity of their feelings. Before they know it, it will be them chasing you... A job well done.
7. Strike an Impression. Flattery works well, but don't lay it on too thick. You want it to be subtle, almost unnoticeable. People will pick up on it without even realising - When you are with them, they will be happy without even knowing why. Soon enough they'll start to think about you, to miss you... Aww.
8. Hot and cold, cold and hot. Being this way and that, kind and mean, altruistic and egoistic, here and there, near then far... These work wonders. The seduced will want to be accepted by you, and not before long they'll start wanting you. It drives people crazy, because they just don't know what is going on. And people are naturally curious - They'll want to find out.
9. Create Desire. Last but not least, mimesis. Mimesis is the emotional mirroring of another human being or creature. Mothers feel sad when their children do, partners feel joy with each other. You will want to instill desire in the seduced by leading them into emotional territory of their own accord. Subtle hints, off-hand gestures... People take all of this in, and they register with greater strength than do most words. Simply stroking one's lower lip in thought with a semi-scornful gaze is enough to send a tingle down someone's spine. Don't make it too overt or they may run a mile - You must learn to disguise your intentions and make it seem as if it is the other person taking the lead.
Thursday 25 November 2010
Monday 15 November 2010
Breaking ties -
I'd rather you hated me, and not yourself... Here is a sea deep enough for your pain!
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Psychological theories of types
All things are contained in the hearts of men. This has been one of my maxims for a good long while.
What does it mean? That man is capable of any deed. And precisely therein lies the proof.
This leads us to the paradoxical conclusion that a man is [or ought to be] identified according to those aspects
of their character which are repressed, whether consciously or unconsciously.
Typology in this sense pertains only to that which isn't done - Which gives us, I feel, a greater understanding of people as a whole. The darker side of our nature can tell us more than psychologists think. The fact that for most people that side remains consciously repressed is a sign that many choose good [or at least balance] over evil.
What does it mean? That man is capable of any deed. And precisely therein lies the proof.
This leads us to the paradoxical conclusion that a man is [or ought to be] identified according to those aspects
of their character which are repressed, whether consciously or unconsciously.
Typology in this sense pertains only to that which isn't done - Which gives us, I feel, a greater understanding of people as a whole. The darker side of our nature can tell us more than psychologists think. The fact that for most people that side remains consciously repressed is a sign that many choose good [or at least balance] over evil.
Speculations of a general nature
Ever since I was a teenager I knew that something weird was going on in the world. People said they lived in a democracy, yet they were constantly moaning about how things were run - And this state of affairs has continued for a long time. Perhaps it will continue indefinitely?.. No.
I predict a future event - I do not know its exact nature - Let's call it Event X. It'll be a 'blue pill'; a doorway to the metaphorical rabbit-hole. It'll be a blessed day, though not without reckoning - Suffering appears to be the only thing which brings people back to themselves. They want to lose themselves in pleasure - Well, let them suffer awhile! They will become all the more stronger for it.
Most people have no clue about what's going on. Give them a Blackberry, an iPad and they'll be content to while away their lives on a piece of stupid technology... 'But technology is good, right?'
That's a thorny question. Given the uses to which it has so far been put, technology represents a tool of oppression. Indeed, as an object of fascination, it leads people outside of themselves. Materialism - as a system of values - attempts to externalise what is truly valuable to man. People neglect their true inner wealth and occupy themselves with chaff.
The fascination with technology is idolatry of a sort. I'm no Christian, but it's pretty sensible to say: 'Don't make for yourself any idol which neither lives nor breathes.' Conversely, the Judaeo-Christian God [beardy-guy in the sky] is saying 'Honour and respect those things which live', albeit in a rather cryptic fashion.
Our true wealth lies inside - An ego is simply the vehicle through which we realise one-ness with the world. But it is in no way innate to man. Else the first thing babies learn to say would be 'Me'. But this is not the case! Self-reference occurs later in development, a long time after toddlers have begun to express love and compassion for things. I've even read some 'concerned mothers' writing about how their children don't repeat their own names - Aaargh! It's not a fault, it's a good thing. The ego develops only later in a child's life - It is no way inborn or innate.
What is truly valuable? I will offer some thoughts.
1. No object exists of itself; no object exists which is not dependent on observation. Without our observation of a table, the table is naught. The existence of external objects is dependent on internal processes.
2. The capacity to experience joy, happiness, pleasure and contentment all derive from internal phenomena. The iPhone doesn't make you happy, it has no value in itself.
3. Your body is the most amazing thing. It can adapt to any situation, stimulus, environment - It's incredible. Why feed it meds and crap food which fucks it up? [Slight confession: Just ate a chocolate bar with a 'honey centre' which had a honey content of 0%.]
4. Laplanders can sleep in snow at sub-zero temperatures. Primal humans have senses which rival those of wild beasts. Humans have innate ESP.
5. Reality is nothing without expectation/observation. Reality is formed and actualised through expectation, observation and pure potentiality. No expectation/observation without an 'expector'/observer. And potential is nothing without subsequent actualisation.
6. Through introspection we arrive at the Source. We cannot discover it through anything external to ourselves.
I predict a future event - I do not know its exact nature - Let's call it Event X. It'll be a 'blue pill'; a doorway to the metaphorical rabbit-hole. It'll be a blessed day, though not without reckoning - Suffering appears to be the only thing which brings people back to themselves. They want to lose themselves in pleasure - Well, let them suffer awhile! They will become all the more stronger for it.
Most people have no clue about what's going on. Give them a Blackberry, an iPad and they'll be content to while away their lives on a piece of stupid technology... 'But technology is good, right?'
That's a thorny question. Given the uses to which it has so far been put, technology represents a tool of oppression. Indeed, as an object of fascination, it leads people outside of themselves. Materialism - as a system of values - attempts to externalise what is truly valuable to man. People neglect their true inner wealth and occupy themselves with chaff.
The fascination with technology is idolatry of a sort. I'm no Christian, but it's pretty sensible to say: 'Don't make for yourself any idol which neither lives nor breathes.' Conversely, the Judaeo-Christian God [beardy-guy in the sky] is saying 'Honour and respect those things which live', albeit in a rather cryptic fashion.
Our true wealth lies inside - An ego is simply the vehicle through which we realise one-ness with the world. But it is in no way innate to man. Else the first thing babies learn to say would be 'Me'. But this is not the case! Self-reference occurs later in development, a long time after toddlers have begun to express love and compassion for things. I've even read some 'concerned mothers' writing about how their children don't repeat their own names - Aaargh! It's not a fault, it's a good thing. The ego develops only later in a child's life - It is no way inborn or innate.
What is truly valuable? I will offer some thoughts.
1. No object exists of itself; no object exists which is not dependent on observation. Without our observation of a table, the table is naught. The existence of external objects is dependent on internal processes.
2. The capacity to experience joy, happiness, pleasure and contentment all derive from internal phenomena. The iPhone doesn't make you happy, it has no value in itself.
3. Your body is the most amazing thing. It can adapt to any situation, stimulus, environment - It's incredible. Why feed it meds and crap food which fucks it up? [Slight confession: Just ate a chocolate bar with a 'honey centre' which had a honey content of 0%.]
4. Laplanders can sleep in snow at sub-zero temperatures. Primal humans have senses which rival those of wild beasts. Humans have innate ESP.
5. Reality is nothing without expectation/observation. Reality is formed and actualised through expectation, observation and pure potentiality. No expectation/observation without an 'expector'/observer. And potential is nothing without subsequent actualisation.
6. Through introspection we arrive at the Source. We cannot discover it through anything external to ourselves.
Thursday 4 November 2010
'Communism doesn't work'
I'm not a socialist but I've been thinking about the argument that communism doesn't work. Guess what? It's fallacious [gasp].
It presupposes that that a country with that particular system cannot produce an amount of commodities equal or in excess of that which it consumes.
I don't believe in politics - I'm an anarcho-primitivist [or rather, I believe in a synthesis of the natural world and civilisation]. However, it goes to show how capable most people are when it comes to intellectual matters. If money was removed from the equation we've still have the goods - The resources aren't spun out of money.
It presupposes that that a country with that particular system cannot produce an amount of commodities equal or in excess of that which it consumes.
I don't believe in politics - I'm an anarcho-primitivist [or rather, I believe in a synthesis of the natural world and civilisation]. However, it goes to show how capable most people are when it comes to intellectual matters. If money was removed from the equation we've still have the goods - The resources aren't spun out of money.
Invincibility and Metaphysics
'... Yes, there is something invincible inside me - It is my will. Silently it strides through the ages... Hail my will! You will always break out of tombs, shattering gravestones... And only where there are graves are there ressurections.' - F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
We are told that Achilles became invincible after being dipped in the Styx as a child. The Styx is the middle passage between life and death. Sun Tzu says: 'Throw soldiers where they will face death and they will rather die than yield... Men who have faced death can face anything.'
From this we may perhaps infer that Homer is hinting that Achilles had a near-death experience during his youth. This is what gave him his invincibility - He had faced death; it didn't scare him. He wasn't invincible like Superman, but possessed indomitable courage. He considered himself invincible, and this belief lent his spirit a kind of quasi-immortality.
When it comes down to it, the worst anyone can do is kill you. Which means what? That you have been returned to the source, albeit prematurely. Freed from the life of suffering and struggle, you return to the point of universal inception; to the singularity which flows through and maintains all life.
There the grass is truly greener! No amount of hasheesh will furnish you with the kind of serenity one finds there. The Buddhists are the happiest religious sect on earth, scientifically speaking - They have the highest serotonin/dopamine count among humans. Why is that? Because their entire system of belief revolves around emptiness! The great prophets in man's history are depicted with halos, symbolic of radiance. 'Why is the master radiant? Because he lets himself be.' Buddha has a third eye. We do too. The only difference is that his was open; we have yet to open ours. There are powers in this world who would prevent man from attaining enlightenment through the chemical crap they're pushing via material values and the 'pleasure principle'. Sodium fluoride calcifies the pineal gland, which has traditionally been seen as the 'third eye' in mystery-cults. It's in toothpaste, water, non-stick frying pans, Coca Cola, etc etc. The pineal gland is disproportionately larger in children than in adults, which may say something about your 'maturity'. Remember when you were a child and nothing bothered you? If pain was your lot then you would accept it and be at one with it. Contentment, happiness - You were happy gathering sticks, piling up stones, stroking a rabbit etc. Anything could make you happy, because you could always find something in any situation to engage your interest. You didn't need BMW's, gossip, facebook, iPhones. The first recorded use of sodium flouride was by Nazis on Jews in concentration camps. Bit weird. But as I say: Know your enemy.
The power of mind is absolute. Sub-atomic particles interact with consciousness in ways which quantum mechanists don't even understand. 'Mind over matter' is not the principle here: Matter is mind. Various philosophical sects throughout the ages have argued that a chair is nothing without being consciously experienced by an observer. One of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics no less - And people think that modern civilisation is the pinnacle of evolution? Have a bubble. Without a conscious observer, any situation is just a cloud of infinite possibilities - This is the very nature of existence, chaos. Observation makes it lawlike. If you are a determinist then the world will be deterministic, because your expectations coupled with subsequent observation make it so. If you believe the world is magical, then the world will be magical for the very same reason. The world is anything, everything, and nothing all at the same time. Live in a rut and the rut will be your lot. But fundamentally, as the old folk wisdom goes: 'The world is what you make of it.' Very profound, and a testament to the profundity of peasant folk!
Were you born into existence simply to be a cog in a machine? To perform the same mundane tasks day after day, with the only hope in sight is the prospect of rest at the weekend? That is what is expected of you - Does that therefore mean you must behave so? Who makes the rules? The world in herself knows no rules - She is chaos, through and through. Embody this chaos, this emptiness and completeness, endless possibility - And you will be born anew.
You cannot have the source, but you can be it - Therefore its value is above all reckoning. Do not strive after material possessions when you have no idea of what they actually are. If you knew what they were [and hopefully now you will have at least some idea of their ontology] then you wouldn't seek them with such ardour. They are nothing, nothing, in comparison to the gifts you are born with. Do not neglect them, I beg you from the heart.
'If you want to be given everything, then give everything up' - Lao Tzu
We are told that Achilles became invincible after being dipped in the Styx as a child. The Styx is the middle passage between life and death. Sun Tzu says: 'Throw soldiers where they will face death and they will rather die than yield... Men who have faced death can face anything.'
From this we may perhaps infer that Homer is hinting that Achilles had a near-death experience during his youth. This is what gave him his invincibility - He had faced death; it didn't scare him. He wasn't invincible like Superman, but possessed indomitable courage. He considered himself invincible, and this belief lent his spirit a kind of quasi-immortality.
When it comes down to it, the worst anyone can do is kill you. Which means what? That you have been returned to the source, albeit prematurely. Freed from the life of suffering and struggle, you return to the point of universal inception; to the singularity which flows through and maintains all life.
There the grass is truly greener! No amount of hasheesh will furnish you with the kind of serenity one finds there. The Buddhists are the happiest religious sect on earth, scientifically speaking - They have the highest serotonin/dopamine count among humans. Why is that? Because their entire system of belief revolves around emptiness! The great prophets in man's history are depicted with halos, symbolic of radiance. 'Why is the master radiant? Because he lets himself be.' Buddha has a third eye. We do too. The only difference is that his was open; we have yet to open ours. There are powers in this world who would prevent man from attaining enlightenment through the chemical crap they're pushing via material values and the 'pleasure principle'. Sodium fluoride calcifies the pineal gland, which has traditionally been seen as the 'third eye' in mystery-cults. It's in toothpaste, water, non-stick frying pans, Coca Cola, etc etc. The pineal gland is disproportionately larger in children than in adults, which may say something about your 'maturity'. Remember when you were a child and nothing bothered you? If pain was your lot then you would accept it and be at one with it. Contentment, happiness - You were happy gathering sticks, piling up stones, stroking a rabbit etc. Anything could make you happy, because you could always find something in any situation to engage your interest. You didn't need BMW's, gossip, facebook, iPhones. The first recorded use of sodium flouride was by Nazis on Jews in concentration camps. Bit weird. But as I say: Know your enemy.
The power of mind is absolute. Sub-atomic particles interact with consciousness in ways which quantum mechanists don't even understand. 'Mind over matter' is not the principle here: Matter is mind. Various philosophical sects throughout the ages have argued that a chair is nothing without being consciously experienced by an observer. One of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics no less - And people think that modern civilisation is the pinnacle of evolution? Have a bubble. Without a conscious observer, any situation is just a cloud of infinite possibilities - This is the very nature of existence, chaos. Observation makes it lawlike. If you are a determinist then the world will be deterministic, because your expectations coupled with subsequent observation make it so. If you believe the world is magical, then the world will be magical for the very same reason. The world is anything, everything, and nothing all at the same time. Live in a rut and the rut will be your lot. But fundamentally, as the old folk wisdom goes: 'The world is what you make of it.' Very profound, and a testament to the profundity of peasant folk!
Were you born into existence simply to be a cog in a machine? To perform the same mundane tasks day after day, with the only hope in sight is the prospect of rest at the weekend? That is what is expected of you - Does that therefore mean you must behave so? Who makes the rules? The world in herself knows no rules - She is chaos, through and through. Embody this chaos, this emptiness and completeness, endless possibility - And you will be born anew.
You cannot have the source, but you can be it - Therefore its value is above all reckoning. Do not strive after material possessions when you have no idea of what they actually are. If you knew what they were [and hopefully now you will have at least some idea of their ontology] then you wouldn't seek them with such ardour. They are nothing, nothing, in comparison to the gifts you are born with. Do not neglect them, I beg you from the heart.
'If you want to be given everything, then give everything up' - Lao Tzu
Tuesday 2 November 2010
Land of the Gun
'Them people, law enforcement [if you want to call them that] were here and they were shaking in their shoes. They were physically shaking, scared to death. Because certain people, said I'm a radical, I'm a wild man, I got a gun under every arm, if you say anything I'll shoot you. If the people find out how they've been ripped off, and enslaved, they will revolt with the blood running in the streets.' - James Nichols, Bowling for Columbine.
When peoples' riches turn to dust in their hands, they will remember exactly what it is they've always had. Themselves, their family, their roots [perhaps even the source?] Everything that ever mattered. As Nietzsche observed, many acquire wealth and become poorer with it. It is my belief that spiritual and material values are inversely proportional - This is why the great prophets have never sought riches, and the richest men are spiritually bankrupt. Buddha abandoned his palace and manufactured paradise in order to embrace the totality of existence with all its evils. Many a one in this Western culture seek to distance themselves from pain, because they think it evil. Yet suffering is just as much a part of our existence as pleasure is - Pain and pleasure bring each other into sharper definition.
Those who have no concern for their own well-being may well be called self-destructive. Personally apathetic is the correct description. But for those of us who throw our lot in with the rest of existence, all people and animals become almost mirror-like - We see ourselves in everything. Compassion is a necessary [though sometimes slow consequent], and even if the bile of misanthropy should rise in our throat, we know deep down that to find those qualities which make us disgusted with others, sometimes we need look no further than ourselves.
As Lao Tzu says: 'The Master sees his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts'; Carl Jung talks of a repressed shadow-side. They were both talking about the same phenomenon. Stay true to yourself and you will remain true to your people.
When peoples' riches turn to dust in their hands, they will remember exactly what it is they've always had. Themselves, their family, their roots [perhaps even the source?] Everything that ever mattered. As Nietzsche observed, many acquire wealth and become poorer with it. It is my belief that spiritual and material values are inversely proportional - This is why the great prophets have never sought riches, and the richest men are spiritually bankrupt. Buddha abandoned his palace and manufactured paradise in order to embrace the totality of existence with all its evils. Many a one in this Western culture seek to distance themselves from pain, because they think it evil. Yet suffering is just as much a part of our existence as pleasure is - Pain and pleasure bring each other into sharper definition.
Those who have no concern for their own well-being may well be called self-destructive. Personally apathetic is the correct description. But for those of us who throw our lot in with the rest of existence, all people and animals become almost mirror-like - We see ourselves in everything. Compassion is a necessary [though sometimes slow consequent], and even if the bile of misanthropy should rise in our throat, we know deep down that to find those qualities which make us disgusted with others, sometimes we need look no further than ourselves.
As Lao Tzu says: 'The Master sees his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts'; Carl Jung talks of a repressed shadow-side. They were both talking about the same phenomenon. Stay true to yourself and you will remain true to your people.
Friday 15 October 2010
What kind of world do we live in?
The world is infinite, boundless. There are no constraints on possibility, because the world is fundamentally chaos. None may plumb the depths of nature. Which, you would think, should inculcate some kind of sense of wonder at the mystery. No such thing.
People think they know it all. Which is fair enough, if this 'all' were constrained to a limited account of what we may know. Philosophers through the ages have said that when one touches on the limits of knowledge, one touches on truth.
Mystery is ubiquitous. Language cannot even begin to convey facts about the 'nature' of the world. Perhaps the world has no nature - Nature's essence is nothing, empty. Or it could be flux and mutability. But one thing is for sure - Nothing lasts forever in nature. The only enduring thing is the source from which all things spring, and the fact that these manifestations are themselves impermanent. That's factual - We're mortals.
But as I said, people think they know everything. They set their goals according to what their social group believes; they pursue material wealth without even considering that the feel-good factor of being rich lasts only so long as it does - Not long. In the words of Mephistopheles - 'You are, when it comes down to it, what you are.' Wealth doesn't contribute anything to what it is that is truly *you*. It's just chaff. Sometimes useful, oft baneful. Is it possible to prolong that feel-good factor by becoming more rich? Aye, in the same way that a crack addict pursues their addiction. They want to hit that initial high, that rush, which they first experienced when using the drug. Tragically, in both cases that doesn't really happen.
Moreover, many don't care who they impoverish in their wealth-seeking. All wealth comes from somewhere; surplus comes from deficit and deficit from surplus. Wealth and poverty depend upon one another. When Jesus said that the poor will always be with us, he should have added '..or for at least as long as the rich are.'
I think half the world's population lives on less than a dollar a day. And because their natural economies have been subverted by Westernisation, many starve to death. Was there this much poverty and need in Africa before the white man moved in? My guess is No.
We issue from the source, live among its creations and then return to it. That is life, in a nutshell - All humans are born to the same griefs and sadnesses.
This world is a wonder. Wonder of wonders, nothing can even begin to explain or account for it. Why does it exist? My advice to the metaphysicians is to move on - There's really nothing to see here.
And so, through the mysterious workings of the source a being I call I, Me, is manifested in this reality. The present point is merely a continuation from my birth, and my birth - Like all others - Reaches out through infinity and back to the source. We all have this bond, this one thing we share in common with each and every thing. There is nothing existent that does not come from the source.
With this in mind, let's take a look at the world we live in.
Poverty - 90% of the world's wealth is controlled by the richest 4-5%~ of the population [and the wealth-divide is widening.]
Sickness - 29,000 children die every day from preventable diseases.
Stupidity- I don't see stupidity as a condition of the brain but of beliefs. There are so many brainwashed dolts out there who take everything they're force-fed by the media as Gospel. Terms like 'recession', 'terrorism', etc do not refer to actual things in the world but ideas which are collectively shared by groups of people. People believe in these things. They believe in what the politicians say about these things; they believe in talking heads on the tube. They believe in the cue cards. They don't know that 95% of news comes from the Pentagon, as established by Herman and Chomsky in 'Manufacturing Consent'. Why? There's several elements to it. Sometimes they crave submission - Responsibility can be a burden. If there are immutables in this world then who can help those, hey? We've just gotta live with them.
Nuh-uh. The recession - We all know where that comes from right? Sure, we know that governments borrow and overspend. But the money they're borrowing is just pretty pictures printed on pieces of paper. So there's gotta be something more to it.
National debt is a necessary consequence of having private interests in control of the money supply. Why's that? Because when a national bank prints out - say, a dollar - the government accrues a certain percentage of debt on top of that. So when the bank loans you a buck, you gotta pay that back plus the percentage.
Assume we've got an enclosed economy. I am a banker. You ask to borrow One Gloon. I say 'Sure, I'll lend you a Gloon. But you've gotta pay me back One Gloon and One Gloonth.' OK, we've got the Gloon - We can pay that back. What about the Gloonth? Where can we get that from? Well, that would come from the bank. So if you wanna pay back that Gloonth, you've gotta borrow more money. Which means what? An endless cycle of debt. That's what money means in the present day - It's written into the very definition of money. Money means debt. The men who attempted to dismantle that extra percentage on top were assassinated shortly after drafting laws to do away with it. Among these are Abraham Lincoln and JFK.
So debt is necessary, given the present circumstances. In the bigger picture it's not. But hey, things have gotta change for that.
This is England. Every five years we go to the polling station and tick a box on the ballot. People call that a democracy, and then equate democracy with freedom. Is it, though? Really? No. Democracy seen in this sense amounts to little more than lunacy. We vote people in who enact the legislation drafted by previous governments. We have 'continuity of government', which happens behind the scenes. Politicians merely rubber-stamp pre-approved legislation and then patting each other on the back, saying what a fine job they've done. But that's because they're puppets - Public men. If the masses get angry and want things to change, hell, they can call down as many curses on the heads of the politicians as they like - They can even change the public men, because that doesn't really change anything. We don't have people with ordinary upbringings put into power, have have people from abundantly priveleged backgrounds put into power. Every five years some phantoms are hovered in front of our eyes - Cameron, Clegg, Blair - They're all the same. They won't change anything, they'll only make it worse. Because they get their orders from somewhere else. And if those puppet-masters don't want them in, they'll simply take 'em out.
So who are these puppet-masters? The tip of the pyramid, the progeny of those who contradicted all natural law and custom in amassing wealth beyond their means or needs. They don't need hundreds of billions. That very tiny percentage has a vested interest in maintaining the current state of affairs because otherwise they'd simply be like us. And they can't stomach that - No, they're not human. No way can they be human! I mean, no-one with that much money can still be a human being, surely? With that lineage? They must be the new Nietzschean Ubermenschen... Bullshit.
All this contemptible crap aside, people cling to what little material possessions they have because they've worked their life for them. And I understand that. But you were robbed, son. Corporations suck the wealth out of nations and communities alike, by taking the resources and translating them into money elsewhere. But people like you and me - We like strong communities. We like knowing each other. We like self-social determination. We like providing for ourselves and our families. These are human values. To what extent are we and our communities dehumanised by the 'progressive' onslaught of these corporate machines? Polluting our rivers and sucking the earth dry? Is it worth it? They benefit only a few, while the rest are left to shift for themselves.
Meanwhile, natural and organic foods are being criminalised by governments and unvoted-for-superstates [such as the North American Union, the EU etc]. A food crisis is said to be coming, yet governments are illegalizing fruit and veg grown in our own gardens? And not only that - They're trying to take natural foods off the market. 'Food safety' they call it. But the nutrients in GM aren't absorbed into the human body - And it's perfectly plausible that a man could starve for lack of nutrients, even though his belly were full.
People think they know it all. Which is fair enough, if this 'all' were constrained to a limited account of what we may know. Philosophers through the ages have said that when one touches on the limits of knowledge, one touches on truth.
Mystery is ubiquitous. Language cannot even begin to convey facts about the 'nature' of the world. Perhaps the world has no nature - Nature's essence is nothing, empty. Or it could be flux and mutability. But one thing is for sure - Nothing lasts forever in nature. The only enduring thing is the source from which all things spring, and the fact that these manifestations are themselves impermanent. That's factual - We're mortals.
But as I said, people think they know everything. They set their goals according to what their social group believes; they pursue material wealth without even considering that the feel-good factor of being rich lasts only so long as it does - Not long. In the words of Mephistopheles - 'You are, when it comes down to it, what you are.' Wealth doesn't contribute anything to what it is that is truly *you*. It's just chaff. Sometimes useful, oft baneful. Is it possible to prolong that feel-good factor by becoming more rich? Aye, in the same way that a crack addict pursues their addiction. They want to hit that initial high, that rush, which they first experienced when using the drug. Tragically, in both cases that doesn't really happen.
Moreover, many don't care who they impoverish in their wealth-seeking. All wealth comes from somewhere; surplus comes from deficit and deficit from surplus. Wealth and poverty depend upon one another. When Jesus said that the poor will always be with us, he should have added '..or for at least as long as the rich are.'
I think half the world's population lives on less than a dollar a day. And because their natural economies have been subverted by Westernisation, many starve to death. Was there this much poverty and need in Africa before the white man moved in? My guess is No.
We issue from the source, live among its creations and then return to it. That is life, in a nutshell - All humans are born to the same griefs and sadnesses.
This world is a wonder. Wonder of wonders, nothing can even begin to explain or account for it. Why does it exist? My advice to the metaphysicians is to move on - There's really nothing to see here.
And so, through the mysterious workings of the source a being I call I, Me, is manifested in this reality. The present point is merely a continuation from my birth, and my birth - Like all others - Reaches out through infinity and back to the source. We all have this bond, this one thing we share in common with each and every thing. There is nothing existent that does not come from the source.
With this in mind, let's take a look at the world we live in.
Poverty - 90% of the world's wealth is controlled by the richest 4-5%~ of the population [and the wealth-divide is widening.]
Sickness - 29,000 children die every day from preventable diseases.
Stupidity- I don't see stupidity as a condition of the brain but of beliefs. There are so many brainwashed dolts out there who take everything they're force-fed by the media as Gospel. Terms like 'recession', 'terrorism', etc do not refer to actual things in the world but ideas which are collectively shared by groups of people. People believe in these things. They believe in what the politicians say about these things; they believe in talking heads on the tube. They believe in the cue cards. They don't know that 95% of news comes from the Pentagon, as established by Herman and Chomsky in 'Manufacturing Consent'. Why? There's several elements to it. Sometimes they crave submission - Responsibility can be a burden. If there are immutables in this world then who can help those, hey? We've just gotta live with them.
Nuh-uh. The recession - We all know where that comes from right? Sure, we know that governments borrow and overspend. But the money they're borrowing is just pretty pictures printed on pieces of paper. So there's gotta be something more to it.
National debt is a necessary consequence of having private interests in control of the money supply. Why's that? Because when a national bank prints out - say, a dollar - the government accrues a certain percentage of debt on top of that. So when the bank loans you a buck, you gotta pay that back plus the percentage.
Assume we've got an enclosed economy. I am a banker. You ask to borrow One Gloon. I say 'Sure, I'll lend you a Gloon. But you've gotta pay me back One Gloon and One Gloonth.' OK, we've got the Gloon - We can pay that back. What about the Gloonth? Where can we get that from? Well, that would come from the bank. So if you wanna pay back that Gloonth, you've gotta borrow more money. Which means what? An endless cycle of debt. That's what money means in the present day - It's written into the very definition of money. Money means debt. The men who attempted to dismantle that extra percentage on top were assassinated shortly after drafting laws to do away with it. Among these are Abraham Lincoln and JFK.
So debt is necessary, given the present circumstances. In the bigger picture it's not. But hey, things have gotta change for that.
This is England. Every five years we go to the polling station and tick a box on the ballot. People call that a democracy, and then equate democracy with freedom. Is it, though? Really? No. Democracy seen in this sense amounts to little more than lunacy. We vote people in who enact the legislation drafted by previous governments. We have 'continuity of government', which happens behind the scenes. Politicians merely rubber-stamp pre-approved legislation and then patting each other on the back, saying what a fine job they've done. But that's because they're puppets - Public men. If the masses get angry and want things to change, hell, they can call down as many curses on the heads of the politicians as they like - They can even change the public men, because that doesn't really change anything. We don't have people with ordinary upbringings put into power, have have people from abundantly priveleged backgrounds put into power. Every five years some phantoms are hovered in front of our eyes - Cameron, Clegg, Blair - They're all the same. They won't change anything, they'll only make it worse. Because they get their orders from somewhere else. And if those puppet-masters don't want them in, they'll simply take 'em out.
So who are these puppet-masters? The tip of the pyramid, the progeny of those who contradicted all natural law and custom in amassing wealth beyond their means or needs. They don't need hundreds of billions. That very tiny percentage has a vested interest in maintaining the current state of affairs because otherwise they'd simply be like us. And they can't stomach that - No, they're not human. No way can they be human! I mean, no-one with that much money can still be a human being, surely? With that lineage? They must be the new Nietzschean Ubermenschen... Bullshit.
All this contemptible crap aside, people cling to what little material possessions they have because they've worked their life for them. And I understand that. But you were robbed, son. Corporations suck the wealth out of nations and communities alike, by taking the resources and translating them into money elsewhere. But people like you and me - We like strong communities. We like knowing each other. We like self-social determination. We like providing for ourselves and our families. These are human values. To what extent are we and our communities dehumanised by the 'progressive' onslaught of these corporate machines? Polluting our rivers and sucking the earth dry? Is it worth it? They benefit only a few, while the rest are left to shift for themselves.
Meanwhile, natural and organic foods are being criminalised by governments and unvoted-for-superstates [such as the North American Union, the EU etc]. A food crisis is said to be coming, yet governments are illegalizing fruit and veg grown in our own gardens? And not only that - They're trying to take natural foods off the market. 'Food safety' they call it. But the nutrients in GM aren't absorbed into the human body - And it's perfectly plausible that a man could starve for lack of nutrients, even though his belly were full.
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