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http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2012/..._000_years.pdf
From what I have read so far seems to be a rational analysis of what debt actually is. |
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Near the end of the document the author makes these comments:
"It seems to me that we are long overdue for some kind of Biblical-style Jubilee: one that would affect both international debt and consumer debt. ........... ......The governing class of the United States seems to have taken a remarkably similar approach:.....never allowing anyone to question the sacred principle that we must all pay our debts........... .....Nothing would be more important than to wipe the slate clean for everyone, mark a break with our accustomed morality, and start again." I am one that believes in the truth and logic of Biblical-style Jubilee. However, being the imitators and counterfeiters that the ruling elite are, you have to wonder if they are driving the world to such an unimaginable level of debt, such that they can then enact a "fake" jubilee. That is, where they offer to relieve anyone's debts who is willing to accept whatever token is required to enter into the full onslaught of the NWO (whether that token be a global ID card, or chip, or "mark"). The process might be more subtle and more drawn out than this, but you get the idea. Those that don't accept must retain their debts and debt bondage and associated complications of not being able to do business in the NWO; those that do accept have their debts "forgiven", but are then enslaved to a whole new level. Those that have no debt would of course be the best off in such a situation, especially if they have a self-sufficient lifestyle. |
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This is what the book ends with:
At this point, however, the principle has been exposed as a flagrant lie. As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. Nothing would be more important than to wipe the slate clean for everyone, mark a break with our accustomed morality, and start again. What is a debt, anyway ? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. If freedom (real freedom) is the ability to make friends, then it is also, necessarily, the ability to make real promises. What sorts of promises might genuinely free men and women make to one another ? At this point we can't even say. It's more a question of how we can get to a place that will allow us to find out. And the first step in that journey, in turn, is to accept that in the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe. It is an interesting read, but his conclusion is just a bunch of kumbaya bullshit. So, after a debt jubilee, when everyone has been relieved of their onerous debt, what the fuck then? He does not attempt to identify a money system that is honest and doesn't repeat the mistakes of the past. So, while interesting to read his history of what money/debt is/were, without some kind of solution, the book is nothing more than a somewhat interesting read with a disappointing ending. The book basically says we need to cut out the cancer (debt), but then offers no solution to preventing the cancer from reappearing and killing us. The book is just identifying a problem but offering no real solution. |
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after a debt jubilee, when everyone has been relieved of their onerous debt, what the fuck then? As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own |
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More James Allen:
It has been usual for men to think and to say, "Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor." Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, "One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves." The truth is that oppressor and slave are co-operators in ignorance, and, while seeming to afflict each other, are in reality afflicting themselves. A perfect Knowledge perceives the action of law in the weakness of the oppressed and the misapplied power of the oppressor; a perfect Love, seeing the suffering, which both states entail, condemns neither; a perfect Compassion embraces both oppressor and oppressed. |
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Perhaps the solution is an individual one? I was referring to creating a monetary system that doesn't repeat the mistakes of past ones. What, everyone creates their own money and own challenge coins to buy goods and services. What is the point of a debt jubilee if we just start over doing the same thing again? |
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I was referring to creating a monetary system that doesn't repeat the mistakes of past ones. At the time the U.S. introduced fiat they had the experience of the French following their revolution to draw intelligence from. Despite this solid example of a fiat system failure they opted to introduce fiat. Just because fiat was "re-invented" does not force anyone to make use of it. You volunteer for that. Your choice. Whatever currency system that gets invented or re-invented ... it is always going to be your choice whether you make use of it or not. What is the point of a debt jubilee if we just start over doing the same thing again? |
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That would seem to be one based upon gold or silver or some other substance wouldn't it? Didn't that exist for upwards of 70 years in the early days of the U.S. Why do you see the need to re-invent something that already existed and worked well for so many years? I want Freegold! |
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That would seem to be one based upon gold or silver or some other substance wouldn't it? Didn't that exist for upwards of 70 years in the early days of the U.S. Why do you see the need to re-invent something that already existed and worked well for so many years? |
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Hard money is never going to work again, and it never really did. Clueless is how I would classify those who would insist upon an entire transaction being performed in specie. First, it ain't going to happen. Second, if it did happen, you would likely hoard it and insist that you were as poor as the other 99.9% of the population that holds money as the master of their soul. |
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Beg to differ. Substance is one element of a common law contract. Substance doesn't mean the entire amount must be paid in specie. It means that a token or symbolic amount of $1 or 1 pound sterling represents the substance. The remainder of the exchange might take place in chicken manure or brass farthings. This remainder is called "other valuable considerations". An autograph (being private property) might be considered to be satisfactory to fulfill this remainder. If dealing with family members (or pedophiles for that matter) the "other valuable consideration" might be termed "love and affection". |
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I appreciate where you are coming from, but you macro fantasy world is not reality with 6 billion people and digital money. And regardless of what you think might work, we are headed to a new world monetary order that will not include your autographs or love and affection. |
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Your choice but in the land of the blind a one eyed man might be king. Be prepared to share the shortages rather than reap the surpluses. |
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