Comments on: Is Money And Credit The Problem?

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:27:52 +0000

I vow to reincarnate as a lethal virus to humble the evil elite.

Let’s outlaw money on 09.09.09.

http://paradise-planet.blogspot.com/2008/11/your-last-chance.html

By: swan

swan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:30:54 +0000

Thank you Phill, but don’t despair. At the end, if you read A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, Kurt Vonnegut teetered on despair about humanity, and suggests that we all 1) get a dog, and 2) find comfort in being very kind toward sales clerks, grateful for them being there. I treasure this advise. And David G., thank you so much for your truth telling.

By: David G

David G — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:01:05 +0000

Yeah, it's a pretty funny world, Phill, in a sick kind of way. Thing is that shares and real estate is where the wealthy have their gold nest eggs and there's no way they are going to allow the system that allowed them to become rich to be threatened.

This financial crisis is an opportunity for the world to set up a whole new economic order, one based upon equality and cooperation. Instead governments take taxpayers' money to prop up the corrupt, elitist, dog-eat-dog system.

The purpose of mentioning Ancient Greece was to point out that there have been a few societies that weren't driven by naked greed, that actually had values!

Cheers.

By: Phill

Phill — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:59:26 +0000

You know it's funny, it is obvious in a round about way some of the contributors to this blog, actually are, in a not to subtle way, defending a system that is rotten to its very foundation.

Of course what they will always tell you is, that Wall St creates wealth, jobs, and we have never had it so good.For the people at the very bottom nothing has changed.

Before it was the "Medievil" bully boys calling the tune, and now it is Wall St.

And even after the whole house of cards is tumbling over before our very eyes,and the crisis that is unwinding and sending country's bankrupt, they still think it's "business as usual"

I really can't believe how people are taking this fiasco so lightly.Billions of dollars are being extracted out of government coffers, )never mind the fact it can take governments 12 months to decide where to place a public toilet,)"at the speed of light"

To try and look for answers in Greek philosophy and mythology in circa 2008 really does blow my mind.

What should be happening here is,the law enforcement agencies of each of the countries affected (of course after they have weeded out the corrupt bastards that are involved in this fiasco)the C.E.O.s stock brokers and all the other shysters that have been living high on the hog on the backs of factory workers and others.

Should be taken out and strung up on a light pole.Yes! I am damn serious.

As an aside, I watched Foreign Correspondent last night,a stock broker or number cruncher, came out of the NYSE on Wall St and on seeing a demonstrator with a placard with GREED on it called him a loser.Yea only one, it screamed out volumes about these greedy toads.

You know I was brought to tears about ten years ago,a women had a garage sale in a suburb near us.The purpose of which, was to raise money for a wheelchair for a child with a disability.The government telling her there was no money.

Sort of sums up the human race for me.

I bloody despair.

By: Adina

Adina — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:28:12 +0000

So HAPPY you like it! It was inspired by our discussions, and by this blog.. I m happy I can contribute to this Great Blog!

By: swan

swan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:34:41 +0000

You are a business man, David G., right. And so if seeing the behavior of the stockbrokers at the Wall Street Exchange shocks you, let me tell you, it totally grosses me out.

By: David G

David G — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:56:37 +0000

Just love your poem, Adina, so clever! You bring a new dimension to my humble blog.

Peace.

By: Adina

Adina — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:05:53 +0000

I ve visited Seeking Utopia.. and I ve become highly inspired by it. i therefore chose to write a poem .. about Oneness, God, and trivial matters, as I live it..

Oneness

I Loved to Pray, and Hated money.
I humbly lived to please my God.
The Corporate Business moved to China.
My wish was heard. I lost my job.

I loved to pray, I hated money.
I humbly lived below my means.
But when the Corporate moves to China
Even “Below” “Foreclosure” means.

I stick to God, went to His shelter.
Found many like me, prayed as such.
The priest had welcomed all our sufferance.
He loved us.. and loved my Son too much.

I moved away, to distant country.
But here my hair seems to be shame.
I said to God:”Why have you made me?”
“To obey Me, and please your man”.

My agony has reached the limit,
I thought: “ the Oneness “. True belief.
But when they charged PayPal Or Visa..
Oh, Oneness.. GST* relief? *(or VAT depending to your country)

******
I loved to pray. I hated money.
I fooled you all, since I began.
For I, myself ..
Have never had a Son.
Or house to lose, for what it matters…
But that’s the feeling
If you claim you’re ONE…

By: David G

David G — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:08:00 +0000

I do not desire more than I need and I wish for the well-being of all others, Racetoinfinity but I do not feel at one with Spirit, whatever that means.

Perhaps you could elaborate?

By: racetoinfinity

racetoinfinity — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:34:07 +0000

Greed has always existed. The “cure” for greed is not to outlaw money, but to promote an evolution in human consciousness. Money is chased and hoarded as an IMMORTALITY substitute by the ego, which fears death, because the human race has not evolved in sufficient numbers to realize the awareness that the only true immortality is found within, i.e., at/one with Spirit, which is Eternal and Infinite Light and Love, which fosters a consciousness that does not desire more than it needs, and wishes for the well-being of all other beings on this planet.