Friends, credit has dried up. The capitalist world as we know it is in jeopardy. The wealthy have been struck by waves of heavy losses. Some of them have been put in jail!
We, the people who have contributed to the emergence of countless millionaires and billionaires over the last few decades must assume some responsibility for the plight of the rich as they try to cope with falling real estate and share values. Imagine if you’d become rich, then lost it all. How would you feel?
Alright, so you don’t really know. Don’t be selfish. Just because you’ve never lived the life of the idle rich is no excuse. Use your imagination. Put yourself in their Italian shoes, try to imagine eating lobster for breakfast, dining at the Ritz, drinking Grange as a mouthwash.
Once you feel some empathy, what you are required to do is as follows:
1. Tomorrow, go out and get as many credit cards as possible.
2. Next, avail yourself of the low interest rates that have spread around the world like blowflies in summer. Buy a mansion. You may be able to get a 3% variable mortgage loan with no deposit. Of course, if inflation kicks in, this loan may soon go up to 20% but them’s the breaks! You can’t cry over spilt milk.
3. If the Government is offering first home buyer’s grants and you’ve never owned any real estate, go out and buy three or four properties using different names. Try to use names like John Smith and Bob Brown rather than Dimetri Osckcapopolous. The reason is obvious. Don’t be daunted by the debt. Imagine being a big-time property owner and screwing your very own tenants for a change. What fun you’ll have.
4. Buy a new car immediately. Something foreign and red. Someone will arrange a loan, you know, something like $50 down and terms spread over twenty years. Insist upon getting a sport pack, something that goes with your new image.
5. Once the real estate and automobile issues have been resolved, take your credit cards and go on a spending spree. Don’t just shop in your local supermarket! Leave your checkout job and get on a plane. Go to Paris and New York. Stay in the best hotels. Make those credit cards overheat! Never look at prices. Remember the struggling rich reduced to eating sardine sandwiches and drinking tap water should your resolve falter.
6. Check around for magazines that feature the World’s Richest People. Each month, send one of them a cheque for a $100. You’ll feel so good knowing that you’ve helped to alleviate their poverty and privation.
7. This is a very important step. Once you’ve completed steps one to six, don’t answer any knocks at the door. Fill your letterbox with wastepaper so it can’t hold any bills. Cut your phone off. Better still, move into the dumpster at the end of your street and feel happy that you’ve helped to make someone important in the world happy. Your destiny is achieved.
Remember, it is more blessed to give than to receive!
Yes, David, and the ‘wealthy’ have the court (of justice!!! )/legal system completely on their side on the bargain, when it comes to legal disputes.
I’ve had my own experiences in that respect. When I bought a (coin-operated) launderette (back 1979).
on false informations (annual sales, etc.)
Eventually I took the seller (a liar) to court to get some justice.
But what happened ?.- .no justice did I get – but, on the contrary, being told that I was ‘too’ stupid to put my nose into ‘big’ business affairs because I had trusted what the seller(a liar) told to me.
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I finally received a personal response to one of many emails I send to elected officials.
The zoo in Philadelphia has two elephants that are in cramped facilities and a sanctuary in
California offered to take them, even paying for their journey.
This would save the PA. taxpayers $20m. and the facilities would still be too small for such large mammals. My state representative thanked me for *bringing this to his attention.”
The moral of the story? If it’s relevant, work tax savings into your messages, keep in touch with them routinely, tell them how you want to be represented (can’t hurt).
fNow if I were wealthy, I could have just had my secretary call & say keeping these huge beasts confined in the zoo was akin to them being imprisoned , inhumane and cruel.
Now I have to email a few friends to reinforce the message & hope these reps do the right
thing..
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coco Reply:
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:51 am
good luck with your endeavours kate. i too have rescued/saved animals. it’s a daunting prospect but eventually (well in my case) if you plug hard and long enough, people get the message that you aren’t going to give up. perseverence is the name of the game. and the more the merrier. get your friends involved. keep bugging them. and let them know that you are adamant that these two pachyderms are worthy of better living arrangements.
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John, sorry to hear of your injustice. Unfortunately, what happened to you happens to many!
Kate, your compassion for animals is admirable given that most most humans don’t even care about their fellows.
Cheers.
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btw david, do you know why cd has stopped the links on their comments page?
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Coco, I don’t know but I guess it’s to try to stop CD contributors from looking at other websites.
It’s a pretty small-minded position to take because the strength of the internet is in our unity.
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coco Reply:
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
or is it to stop more ‘knowledge’……………..knowledge is power…….after all.
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coco Reply:
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
and i understand that we can always go to these links by ‘manual’ means but it’s easier to just click on the link. so maybe you are right after all…………….but
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David G Reply:
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Coco, sometimes I wonder whether our Masters are happy that blogging keeps all the dissenters together, each blogger communicating with the converted.
The people who we want to reach, who we want to convert, DON’T read our blogs. They visit right-wing blogs or, more likely, watch American Idol and Faux News.
It’s hard to know whether we have any real impact at all! I notice the number of comments on CD and ICH keep dropping.
Perhaps blogging has had its day?
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you could be right david………i’ve noticed too a decline on cd of some of the ‘diehards’. they’ve
given up the ghost and are perhaps busy preparing for the ‘end of the world’……….
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The US taxpayers are giving another trillion dollars to the rich to prop up a failed system. The government wants people to borrow more money the won’t be able to pay back. Even though most of the people in this country don’t want anymore bailouts they still keep coming. What the people want does not seem to matter; it is only what the rich want that gets taken care of.
People voted for Obama because they wanted change, what they got was a more articulate and applealing version of Bush. Take care of the rich and f**k everyone else seems to be the only policy of both the republicans and the democrats.
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CD had a great thing going. It seems like when Lina passed, that Craig was finally able to do all the things that had been pent up inside of him. All the changes however, changed the vibe too much and there IS a sense of distrust now. Even when I would click on a link i would always find my way back because CD was like HomeBase – and the commenter list used to just seem longer and longer – the opposite of now.
These days, probably because it is spring here and there is SO much to do lately, I don’t post like i would prefer to. I do miss some people when they go away. I also enjoy the new people that show up ‘out of nowhere.’
Besides, changing oneself and what one does is a deep process and takes time to process. Finding people that are moving from the ordinary to the neo-human, here, among atheists, I find the ‘spiritual’ support needed for this kind of movement.
I have been thinking alot about conscious communities lately. Like the one in Italy built on a spiritual line in the Earth and all their activities are of a Right-livelihood (Buddhist). These communities are usually mostly self-sustaining. Or the one in Ireland with the big cabbages, because they ae doing everything in harmony with the Earth itself.
Peace out.
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David, would you expound upon: “that all sexual preferences are equally good,” from the neo-Human manifesto, please : ).
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Coco, it could be that. It might also be that facebook, etc, has taken over.
Jeannie, certainly the rich seem to occupy pride of place in this capitalist world!
Grace, atheists are not troubled by fantasies. They deal in reality and truth. If they can do so in small, self-sustaining communities then so much the better.
Regarding your question about sexual preferences, let me say that the ‘anything goes’ approach is, I believe, damaging to human development and tends to encourage behaviour and thinking which can be best described as deviant and dangerous.
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Is “anything goes” part of sexual indoctrination? I always thought it was the opposite and that people breaking out of well set moulds were the ones with open minds. There is already tremendous shame of bodies and preferences, Most people who are alternative do so privately usually. Not every sexual preference is what I would call healthy, but then I don’t like pain, but the point is that some do. It is up to them to discover the pschic wounds these desires arise from. There is very rigid sexual indoctrination from what I can tell and lots of judgemental Quaker Oat men and women feeling free to judge. Although out of this environment lots of kids are having all kinds of things other than intercourse and not even calling it sex so as not to be judged. I think it is most important to honor the one you are with and not go outside of that trust, however within the realtionship all kinds of things are possible and not necessarily standard procedure!
Thank you for replying David, I really appeciate that about your site.
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Politicians of both parties belong to the rich. People with the most money (war profiteers, drug dealers, common criminals) own their politicians. Look at the wealthy families and how they made their money. It’s very ugly and very criminal. Polite society does not mention that today’s princes are the offspring of the criminals. Unfortunately it has always been that way. Look at European nobility – the thieves and murderers were the kings and queens of their countries. Why should the United States be any different? I lost a lot of money, however, none of these thieves will go to court as they also own the judges…..a very old story! Guess what would happen if someone steals my car or breaks into my home. The criminal will probably wind up behind bars. These rich banksters/gangsters spend my money at their country clubs!
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No worries, David, I am totally with the Neo-Human Manifesto you wrote. I find it is helpful to look at and to affirm who I am. The point I questioned is the only one I don’t fully understand perhaps, your wording. I mean it is important to do the right thing from every standpoint, in every aspect of our lives. What I meant about appreciating your site, is that it has been unique being able to engage with the author. Many sites that I go to are not as direct and it adds to the uniqueness and specialness. Lots of times when I don’t write is because I need time to think a thing through. Writing is easier for me because it allows time. Thank you, have a nice day. Happy spring, peeps.
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I was never a money chasing person and as a single parent tried to spend most of my free time with my son.
Few years back I was even thinking of getting a mortgage to buy a house but then I woke up.
I realised that I am signing my life to the bank and to afford the monthly payments I will have to spend less and less time my son which I wasn’t prepared to do.
Now after couple of years of research I have decided to buy a house with a piece of land in a different country and be totaly self-sufficient.
Solar and wind power, growing my own food and the best part is that the house and land are cheaper than a garage in this country.
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David,
Good morning. I have read (To question: That all sexual preferences are equally good) and I still do not understand your wording and your intent in your wording and find that if I am not worth your explanation, I truly need to move on. I am choosing to let you know why I am absent so it won’t be a mystery why i disappear. I am a thinking member of the human race for asking. Thanks. Bye.
George B., that is awesome what you have done.
Grace
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David G Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 9:17 am
“Thank you for replying David, I really appeciate that about your site.”
“…and find that if I am not worth your explanation, I truly need to move on.”
There appears to be a contradiction here, Grace.
Take care.
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David, I thanked you for the response you gave, however, my response continues with further questioning, so I was thanking you in advance, because I know this is how you run your site. The problem is that your responses did not satisfy my question. I live in the State of California, where all sexual preferences are still NOT considered equally good. If you are a woman who falls in love with a woman and are true to each other and wish to spend lifetimes together – as spousal lovers – you cannot legally marry. Even in liberal California, everything does Not go – legally anyway. So to say that we should question our sexual indoctrination – you know, the one where anything goes, then I would have to say that we had different sexual indoctrinations. I strongly agree with everything else you have written in the N.H.Manifesto, however, whether it is the wording or itent I have mistaken, I could not accept this without questioning. I do not want to assume what it is you really meant, I would rather hear it from yourself. Thank you again David. Cheers!
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It may come from my psychology and sociology training, Grace, but I tend to look beyond contemporary attitudes to things like sexual preferences and try to reflect upon how these things might impact upon individuals, society as a whole, and upon children in particular.
As with everything, there are pros and cons to most issues but many people can’t or won’t accept this reality. Cheers.
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I think alot of unconventional preferences have been going on a long time. It is just that now people are less willing to live in secrecy and hiding as was required in other times. I gave the example of the gay women as an example of this very concept. For sure how traditional and non-traditional sexual preferences affect everyone involved is what matters. The octo-mom with the 14 in-vitro babies is an example of “anything goes” -and its not so great for the children (in my opinion).
For sure, I had to decide if staying married to a suicidal alcoholic was good for my son. We separated and I am not as burdened of a parent (yes), but I also did not abandon his father and he eventually quit drinking! Life throws all kinds of situations our way and we have to do what is best for the children, best for all.
Ok David, I accept your most recent response. Have a nice day. Thanks for answering my question.
Grace
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