When we refuse to pay a bill requested by a bank for our labour-earned profit in exchange for their monetized credit (aka nothing) i.e. a credit card bill, we are not acting in any way unlawful. In fact, by not contracting with these fraudulent theives we are upholding the law. The banks cannot validate the debt because they never sustained a loss; they cannot verify any claim against us because we are not the NAME in which the banks are billing. They cannot produce a copy of the contract because one doesn't exist. What exists is an unenforceable UNIlateral contract. What the bank refers to as 'your contract with us' is not a valid BIlateral agreement since the four requirements of a lawful, binding contract were not met on the credit card 'application', namely:
1. Full Disclosure (we are not told that we are creating the credit with our signature);
2. Equal Consideration (they bring nothing to the table, hence they have nothing to lose);
3. Lawful Terms and Conditions (they are based upon fraud); and
4. Signatures of the Parties / Meeting of the Minds (corporations cannot sign because they have no right, or mind, to contract as they are legal FICTIONS)
"The actual process of money creation takes place primarily in banks ... bankers discovered that they could make loans merely by giving their promise to pay (the fractional reserve system), or 'bank notes', to borrowers. In this way banks began to CREATE money. Transaction deposits are the modern counterpart of bank notes. It was a small step from printing notes to making book entries crediting deposits of borrowers, which the borrowers in turn could 'spend' by writing checks, thereby 'printing' their own money."
'Real' money does not exist anymore; for money to be 'real' it must be based upon substance i.e. gold, silver, etc. What we think of as 'real' money is only borrowed into existence; it doen't exist until someone borrows it. If in this debt-based economy all that exists is the money that is borrowed, then where is the 'interest'? It doesn't exist. Because the supply of our conceptual dollar must constantly increase to attempt to fill in the hole that 'interest' creates, The value of what we call our 'intrinsic wealth' must become devalued and this is why we have inflation. The currency we use is based upon our FUTURE labour which the money issuer has promised to the banksters. It also does not yet exist. Future generations are already enslaved to pay debt which does not exist. Plus how can we pay debt with something of no substance value?
What if you found out that everything you ever needed or wanted was already paid for? - that you didn't OWE anyone anything? When you go into a store to buy a book and you pay in whatever manner you choose, what do you get for the payment? No, not the book; you get a receipt. The evidence for this is that the dollar amount on the receipt matches precisely the dollar amount on your payment. It is an exact exchange. The book is not even part of the equation. It was pre-paid; all you did was go to the store to claim and retrieve it. In order to understand the concept of ‘pre-paid’, imagine this:
Suppose you want to open a restaurant and you just need another $10,000 and so you ask a friend to lend it to you. Knowing that there is no money and the currency your friend has is essentially worthless compared to what he truly wants in his life, he sure wouldn’t mind lending it to you. So after a couple of months you ashamedly go to him and say that there is no way you can ever pay him back, what with interest and all, yet you are so ingratiated to him you tell him that he can eat in your restaurant any time he wants – for free. Not only that but also you would be so grateful if he would because, alas, it would assuage your guilt. All he is required to do when the waiter presents him with an itemization of his meal is to sign it; he is not required to pay for his meal – its ‘prepaid’.
In the same way, our bills are already paid and, in fact, the corporate entity which is billing us would be only too grateful if we would take advantage of our having prepaid them because then they wouldn’t have to pay the tax on the money we send them. So all that is required of us is to sign the invoice and return it to them. The telephone company is funded by the government; you and I, and everyone who has a birth certificate or socialist number have funded the government. So, we have an ‘exemption’ the same way your friend is exempted from paying for his meals at your restaurant. Why is the telephone company sending us a statement (not an invoice) with a ‘amount owing’ on it? We paid up front. All goods and services are now lawfully ours just for the asking.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Wu Wei
One is by nature neither good nor evil. Selfish, non-contrived action is what makes one good or evil. Both "good" and "evil" are but CONCEPTS; a concept, not an objective. If one is naturally good, then he or she must also be naturally evil. If good exists then too must evil; they arise mutually through relative distinctions that we create. Good is no "better" than evil, and so is evil no "better" than good.
Happiness is a state of mind that we experience from time to time; it is an integral part of certain situations, such as being with a friend or eating a good dinner. To mentally abstract this condition of happiness, as if it were something in itself, and then make it an object of desire is a fatal mistake. BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HUMANS DO ALL THE TIME. "Happiness" thus becomes an external object, as it were - somethjing to be attained - just as "unhappiness" is a thing to be avoided.
The problem with seeking to be the prefect, ideal person is in the very seeking itself. One can only seek that which is external to oneself. Fullfillment in life is not to be found by SEEKING it or trying to GRASP it. The result of an ongoing effort to control one's environment is ultimately DOOMED to failure. The effort to grasp and control life creates a kind of bondage to one's concepts of what the "good" is, and the desire to achieve it. Fulfillment is to be found, not through seeking it, but through NOT-SEEKING, through letting go of the SELF (ego) altogether. Only by letting go of our precious, but fake/phony, conceptual world do we discover real freedom.
All of us acquire a set of values as we grow up. Ordinarily, these are the "conventional values" of the society in which we live, values that were first taught to us when we were children. Having such values seems to be an important part of a successful life; our values shape our goals. HOWEVER, these are CONCEPTS only; they have no corresponding reality in nature. What is bad is only bad because we recognize it as such. Something is "bad" and therefore makes us unhappy not because it really is bad in some objective sense, but rather because we have decided that it is bad.
If, at some deep level, we decide that having lots of money is good, then it must follow that having very little money is bad. Of course, neither one is objectively good or bad (nothing is objectively good or bad!). But once the decision is made and the concept is formed, it follows that we will SEEK to achieve the concpetual reality that WE have defined as "good" and thus, hopefully, be happy.
Ills are only ills because one recognizes them as such. If one would once forsake his or her habit of labeling things good or bad, desireable or undesirerable, then the SELF-MADE ills would disappear and no longer be seen as ills.
Not attempting to control one's world, one can relax and allow himself or herself to be a FREE and spontaneous EXPRESSION of the movement of the natural world. In doing this, one will intuitively come to see the magnificent unity of nature. "Things" have no independent existence or meaning, including the "thing" I call "myself".
There is no special relationship between person and nature. We have to liberate ourselves from the self imposed isolation of being some kind of god-like VISITOR in the universe, surrounded by the natural world, and essentially not part of it. In freeing oneself, one doesn't have to prove anything. One is free to live simply and modestly and has nothing more to prove than does the grass. Each is splendid just as it is.
Inspired by one's vision of the unity of nature, one is thus free to live as a natural human being. Nature is so beautifully regulated, that once in accord with it, essentially one doesn't have to do anything, in the sense of pushing it around. Just go with it, like the grass grows. Of course, the nature of grass is very different from the nature of human beings, and therefore this "non-action" is expressed differently in human beings.
The movement of water reveals the way of nature. Water is powerful, yet it is also the most yielding thing in nature. Water is a wonderful example of "non-action". It flows and accomplishes all within it's very nature yet ultimately does not ACT.
Happiness is a state of mind that we experience from time to time; it is an integral part of certain situations, such as being with a friend or eating a good dinner. To mentally abstract this condition of happiness, as if it were something in itself, and then make it an object of desire is a fatal mistake. BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HUMANS DO ALL THE TIME. "Happiness" thus becomes an external object, as it were - somethjing to be attained - just as "unhappiness" is a thing to be avoided.
The problem with seeking to be the prefect, ideal person is in the very seeking itself. One can only seek that which is external to oneself. Fullfillment in life is not to be found by SEEKING it or trying to GRASP it. The result of an ongoing effort to control one's environment is ultimately DOOMED to failure. The effort to grasp and control life creates a kind of bondage to one's concepts of what the "good" is, and the desire to achieve it. Fulfillment is to be found, not through seeking it, but through NOT-SEEKING, through letting go of the SELF (ego) altogether. Only by letting go of our precious, but fake/phony, conceptual world do we discover real freedom.
All of us acquire a set of values as we grow up. Ordinarily, these are the "conventional values" of the society in which we live, values that were first taught to us when we were children. Having such values seems to be an important part of a successful life; our values shape our goals. HOWEVER, these are CONCEPTS only; they have no corresponding reality in nature. What is bad is only bad because we recognize it as such. Something is "bad" and therefore makes us unhappy not because it really is bad in some objective sense, but rather because we have decided that it is bad.
If, at some deep level, we decide that having lots of money is good, then it must follow that having very little money is bad. Of course, neither one is objectively good or bad (nothing is objectively good or bad!). But once the decision is made and the concept is formed, it follows that we will SEEK to achieve the concpetual reality that WE have defined as "good" and thus, hopefully, be happy.
Ills are only ills because one recognizes them as such. If one would once forsake his or her habit of labeling things good or bad, desireable or undesirerable, then the SELF-MADE ills would disappear and no longer be seen as ills.
Not attempting to control one's world, one can relax and allow himself or herself to be a FREE and spontaneous EXPRESSION of the movement of the natural world. In doing this, one will intuitively come to see the magnificent unity of nature. "Things" have no independent existence or meaning, including the "thing" I call "myself".
There is no special relationship between person and nature. We have to liberate ourselves from the self imposed isolation of being some kind of god-like VISITOR in the universe, surrounded by the natural world, and essentially not part of it. In freeing oneself, one doesn't have to prove anything. One is free to live simply and modestly and has nothing more to prove than does the grass. Each is splendid just as it is.
Inspired by one's vision of the unity of nature, one is thus free to live as a natural human being. Nature is so beautifully regulated, that once in accord with it, essentially one doesn't have to do anything, in the sense of pushing it around. Just go with it, like the grass grows. Of course, the nature of grass is very different from the nature of human beings, and therefore this "non-action" is expressed differently in human beings.
The movement of water reveals the way of nature. Water is powerful, yet it is also the most yielding thing in nature. Water is a wonderful example of "non-action". It flows and accomplishes all within it's very nature yet ultimately does not ACT.
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