I'd not thought of that, maybe you can take it with you, maybe you need some to get there, maybe the poor are screwed, you've ruined my day.:lol:
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I'd not thought of that, maybe you can take it with you, maybe you need some to get there, maybe the poor are screwed, you've ruined my day.:lol:
Money is very important, it has allowed us to work and earn,be healthy and well fed, but one should be
humble with the awareness that it could disappear in the blink of any eye, be thankful for
the ability to earn the money, be humble in this world, for we are just beings, alongside
other beings and animals, forging our way throughout life, not better than others, or below
others.
Being humble does not mean being unaware, or weak, or unworthy, but eyes wide open and
the vision of who you are and where you're going, without pushing and shoving others.
Without money, one has to find a living, one has to eat and keep warm, what do you do then,
live off of others?
humble with the awareness that it could disappear in the blink of any eye, be thankful for
the ability to earn the money, be humble in this world, for we are just beings, alongside
other beings and animals, forging our way throughout life, not better than others, or below
others.
Being humble does not mean being unaware, or weak, or unworthy, but eyes wide open and
the vision of who you are and where you're going, without pushing and shoving others.
Without money, one has to find a living, one has to eat and keep warm, what do you do then,
live off of others?
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail...........
Not permanently, mind you. Been a nail so long I couldn't take the abrupt change.
8O
You've got money confused with labour. As soon as you sell your labour (rather than convert it directly into BTUs) you have to discount your work and therefore your time, which is short, this is systemically imposed exploitation of your very life, as an individual it is very inefficient use of your precious time and resources (sweat equity) currency permits transactions in labour over distance and time.
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You will get to reconsider that along with the rest of us before spring I bet.:smile:
The one and the other are held together unnaturally by debt. The wealthy are never aside when it comes to money and labour, they live exclusivly on exploited labour.
The one and the other are held together unnaturally by debt. The wealthy are never aside when it comes to money and labour, they live exclusivly on exploited labour.
darkbeaver
You got that right. Our monetary system would collapse without dept. In the seventies and eighties I lived in the forest of northern BC (ie: squatting). I left Montreal with the idea that the system would crash because it had no substance, no real value. I wanted to learn to live without it as much as possible. To a large degree, I was successful but the government found out what I was up to and hunted me down.
After a prolonged battle involving threats and attempts at burning me out by the Forest Ministry, and do to an unforeseen accident, I was no longer able to live that lifestyle. But I learned to live without debt and being a slave to the system. I found that one can live in a small town without too much compromise of principle and life style. Simplicity is the key.
We don't need to work for all the useless stuff that the ad agencies say we will never be happy without. We don't need to live in mausoleums that keep us in servitude for many decades and that we never really own in the end, or buy un-realestate. Dwellings can be built for very little more than the sweat of your brow. Being involved directly with the processes of your life, like getting water and heat, are far more rewarding than turning a switch and then having to work at a meaningless job to pay someone else to provide those things for you.
darkbeaver
You got that right. Our monetary system would collapse without dept. In the seventies and eighties I lived in the forest of northern BC (ie: squatting). I left Montreal with the idea that the system would crash because it had no substance, no real value. I wanted to learn to live without it as much as possible. To a large degree, I was successful but the government found out what I was up to and hunted me down.
After a prolonged battle involving threats and attempts at burning me out by the Forest Ministry, and do to an unforeseen accident, I was no longer able to live that lifestyle. But I learned to live without debt and being a slave to the system. I found that one can live in a small town without too much compromise of principle and life style. Simplicity is the key.
We don't need to work for all the useless stuff that the ad agencies say we will never be happy without. We don't need to live in mausoleums that keep us in servitude for many decades and that we never really own in the end, or buy un-realestate. Dwellings can be built for very little more than the sweat of your brow. Being involved directly with the processes of your life, like getting water and heat, are far more rewarding than turning a switch and then having to work at a meaningless job to pay someone else to provide those things for you.
I think you are confusing lonely with alone. How do you know he was lonely, may be he just likes to be left alone, maybe he enjoys his own company more than that of anybody else.
If a person does not like his/her own company, what do they have? How can a person enjoy the company of others if they don't like their own? They would be constantly thinking the other is better, has more fun, more stuff... whatever, and their life would suck. To that person I would say, lock yourself in a room until you come to terms with yourself or commit suicide. Either way, their misery would be over.
You could always take them moose hunting, if you gut them before taking them to the hospital their chances of surviving are nil.
Maybe you should give them the innernet so they have some sort of entertainment.
Maybe you should give them the innernet so they have some sort of entertainment.
Sweat equity man, there's something the school system is charged with keeping from our children. They teach management and administration and inovation and deception of others to fulfill needs that our own hands have provided for ever. They want you to be slave to the system. Every young man and woman could build their own houses with their own hands with a little help from cooperatives,useing materials as common and cheap as clay. But what does our school system teach? It teachs a life of bondage and obediance to the ruling hierarchy thereby insuring substandard housing that takes a lifetime to pay off. You must have some very good advice for youth.
Without money, one has to find a living, one has to eat and keep warm, what do you do then,live off of others?
......or the government ...
Or the Forest. People lived for thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of year from the bounty of the forest. In BC we are blessed with a wide variety and great quantity of wild foods and medicines. One can find a fairly comfortable life there and it is usually not to far from any town.
When I lived in the forest, 80+% of my food came from there. Some of it I raised myself. I had goats for milk cheese and yogurt and ducks for eggs. I built a sweat lodge for hygiene and used a plumbers helper as a washing machine in conjunction with an old hand crank wringer. I discovered that taking care of necessities took far less time than a 9 - 5 job so I had a lot of time to fish and enjoy the company of friends.
......or the government ...
Or the Forest. People lived for thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of year from the bounty of the forest. In BC we are blessed with a wide variety and great quantity of wild foods and medicines. One can find a fairly comfortable life there and it is usually not to far from any town.
When I lived in the forest, 80+% of my food came from there. Some of it I raised myself. I had goats for milk cheese and yogurt and ducks for eggs. I built a sweat lodge for hygiene and used a plumbers helper as a washing machine in conjunction with an old hand crank wringer. I discovered that taking care of necessities took far less time than a 9 - 5 job so I had a lot of time to fish and enjoy the company of friends.
That liesure time you discovered Cliffy is exactly what the system does not want people to discover and they certainly don't want you doing it for free do they? We're not supposed to live we we're meant to slave for perenially shrinking wages. Hey, I'm thinking about getting a pair of goats for the winter and laying hens. Have you got any advice?