Money is an invention by humans that we have become subservient too. The vehicles for this subservience are greed and stupidity. Depressions, crashes, Inflation, run on banks, collapses, deflation, disinflation and so on are due to the subservience through greed and stupidity.
DT
Very simple, everybody agrees to lower prices! Of course the people causing the inflation will not want to lower their prices
DT
The holy books actually teach us something we need to understand, unfortunately we seem to be missing it. Consider that thought is capable of sustaining itself from generation to generation. This gives rise to the stream of human consciousness, where ideas and beliefs are sustained. In many instances people are thinking the exact same thing as people that lived thousands of years ago. Some people question what has been passed down and others do not and I'm uncertain as to why. In the case of the holy books, perhaps the people that accept them do it because they think they are getting something out of them, i e, Salvation. The idea of salvation is a thought sustained idea, people think they need to be saved via the holy book that then purports to save them.
Let's consider, if the stories of the bible were introduced today for the first time. These tales would most likely, not be taken seriously, as the word of god, they would be taken for what they are and that is, tales. They may be seen as allegory but certainly not actuality. It is doubtful that people would be arguing to justify these tales, they would more likely be seeking proof. This proof would not be accepted if it came from with-in the tales themselves. The proof would need to be arrived at through the use of logic, i e, justified by reason. We also must consider that concrete proof one way or the other may not be possible, proof needs to be objective not subjective.We cannot say our holy books are true via their content or because they say they are.
Do we see the role that thought is playing? Our handed down thoughts are responsible for the role the holy books are playing in our lives. In one word "tradition" it seems to add validity to our beliefs. Yet is there such a thing as tradition or is it just more thinking? As we see, if thought did not play this role, we would question the validity of the contents our holy books. We think we need salvation via the books that tell us without actual proof that they are the way to thought induced salvation. Delving a bit further into the role that thought is playing in our lives. We see that thought is constantly projecting the me in surroundings that are also projected. Here's the thing, there is no reason to project this reality because it is already happening without the interference of thought. In other words thinking you are here is redundant. Then there is this, if we are "thinking our existence" then we are missing the actuality of existence. Can we see that much of the stream of human consciousness is habitual. One more thing concerning the role that thought plays in our religious beliefs, every individual perceives god in their own unique way. Doesn't this tell us that it is our perceptions, that we are taking for god. If this were not the case everyone would think of god in the exact same way which would imply knowing. This points out that we do not know the god that we claim to worship. We just think we do. A god that needs or wants worship is a needy god which is pretty much a disqualification, of godliness.
We are back again to awareness just look at awareness, it is natural, we are always aware, yet we must be aware that we are aware. The people that penned the holy books because they were unaware set in motion the quest for salvation which has resulted in human suffering and sorrow. What I am about to say for me, seems to be true but I cannot say that it is actually true. "Yet" This natural awareness will awaken us, allowing us to meld with our true nature eliminating our questions concerning existence.
DT, On The Road To Freedom!
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If the body receives a physical injury the nerves respond by alerting us with pain. Pain is simply telling us that there is something wrong and we must take corrective action. With that in mind we could say that pain is a good thing. I am going to suggest that mental pain is serving the same purpose. Mental pain has many sources that I will divide into two parts. The first one sees pain arise in regards to our personality. An example of this would be feeling pain because we think and feel that we are in some way not living up to standards be they self imposed or imposed through societal pressures. There are countless ways this type of pain can arise. The second avenue for the sensation of pain has to do with "being". A good example of this type of pain has to do with, not understanding why I, we are here, this encompasses the entirety of our existence. This pain is also telling us that there is something intrinsically wrong with our life. This type of pain explains the rise of religion however it is important to understand that religion is the outcome of pain, if there were no pain, people would not pursue religion. Religion arose after the feeling of pain. Religious people have not put an end to pain in many cases religious belief has worsened their pain. Religions, have their followers waiting for a reward, in the mean time pain prevails.
The pain we are feeling from not understanding our place in life can only end when we have an insight into living. This insight will not come about through the process of thinking. This insight must be natural and there is only one thing we have that is natural and that is awareness. See that you are aware without any effort, when you are aware that you are aware, stay there, at first your mind will wander just be aware. Imagine God creating us and then making us pass a test to gain the totality of creation. What ever talents we possess to pass Gods test are God given, there is simply no logical way around this.
with love, DT
I don't know how it is that I am considered a Democrat. I am not a member of any political party. It is factual that both major parties Democrats & Republicans have sold our government to the wealthy. I suggest you work to change all this before it is too late.
With just 4.4 percent of the global population the United States has over twenty percent of the worlds population of prisoners. Why? The US has turned the prison system into a business. The US ranks number 79 in violent crimes, of all the nations on Earth. Right now there are about one million six hundred thousand US citizens incarcerated.
These numbers are represented by poor white men, black and latino men. Many of these prisoners have not had a fair trial. This is criminal behavior by local, state and the federal government. We must put an end to these crimes against our citizens.
Link: "The Sentencing Project" See what's been going on for 50 years os mass incarceration.
I will add more to this as I do more research.
DT
In the beginning our Founding Father's made it clear.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution,"
The beginning of the preamble of our constitution, where it states that the Government of the people will promote the general welfare of the people, they meant all the people. Today the Country via the government has lost its way, unless you are a wealthy Corporate Oligarch, then the government provides for your general welfare and far beyond. Unfortunately this has left the vast majority of US citizens without, many of the things that provide a meaningful life "general welfare". The current situation is permeated with corruption, couple this with an uninvolved citizenry and what you get for the the average US citizen is one of the poorest standards of living in the so-called developed world. The members of both major parties are at fault via taking money from the Corporate Oligarchs thus becoming indebted or in this case "literally owned".
To ensure that their crimes (they swore an oath) go unchallenged one of the tactics used by our leaders is to promote divisions among the electorate, today the US is divided, some even comparing our time to the era of the Civil War. Consider also that many people believe that the things we are lacking should not be provided by the government, even when the government has taken away the avenues to procure what would deliver a decent way of life. Even when the Government in conjunction with the Oligarchs have made a decent life financially unreachable for millions of US workers. Wages have not kept pace with the cost of living for over five decades. Many of our citizens have not received a proper education therefore they are easily duped. Consider that corporations have turned the state against its own people in ways that are many and far reaching. Look at the way consumers are controlled through fine print contracts. It is now legal for the wealthy and corporations to give undisclosed political contributions. The tax system provides loop holes for the wealthy while the average wage earner just pays their taxes with no such benefits. The US has the worst labor laws of all the Western countries. The reason behind all this can be explained with just one word, "greed". We seem to have forgotten that the Senators and the Congressional Representatives work for us they don't work for wall street, well they're not supposed to, work for Wall Street.
So to begin, we need to find common ground issues that all or most US citizens agree upon, then united bring our demands to the five hundred and thirty-five members of the US Congress. If we don't do this, things will only get worse, more people will become bankrupt (one million per year) more people will become homeless (currently 600,000) more people will find it impossible to achieve a decent life style and the country will slip further and further into third world status.
Here are some things we almost all can agree upon: A living wage, as stated it is over five decades since the average wage has been increased. Wages have not kept pace with worker productivity and wages for the US workers have fallen drastically behind the increases seen by the top wage earners. Some executives have seen a four hundred percent increase in earnings while the average earner has seen a net zero increase. This is criminal and shameful.
Most citizens agree we are paying way too much for pharmaceuticals, most citizens agree that the country needs election reform, most agree that members of Congress should not receive benefits that the US workers do not receive. Most of us agree that health care should be affordable and available to all citizens and Healthcare billing fraud must be illuminated. Most of us agree that the Congress should be subject to term limits. Almost everyone thinks that we need to somehow get money out of politics. Most agree that Corporations are not people, in the 1800's corporations achieved personhood. Most agree that billion dollar bailouts of Wall Street should end especially when companies don't pay taxes nor some type of security like the average citizen. Most of us agree that monopolies should be broken-up, just look at the influence of companies like Google and FaceBook. Large corporations control the media hence, we hear what they want us to hear. Education must be available to all either free or at an affordable cost. Most agree that the US military budget is out of control, we must take a sensible approach to shrinking this out of control unregulated spending. Most agree that the laws of the country must be exercised evenly and ensure no one is above the law.
The only way woe can bring these changes is to organize and bring our demand directly to the congress. We must begin with town meetings and grow outward from there. We must summons our representatives to our meetings. It is said that it will only take one percent of the people to bring about the changes we desire.
Bill Rogan AKA Dung Teller
Science is showing us that Space and Time are not fundamental. They don't hold up past 10 to the minus 33 centimeters. As we've already seen "what we can observe", cannot stand on its own, everything we see is finite meaning there is something else giving structure to what we observe, and it isn't material.
The way humanity has chosen to live its life is completely wrong. I am not saying maybe it is wrong - science and philosophy are beginning to make this fact abundantly clear. To make something of ourselves to raise a family are not the rai-son d'ê-tre, I'm not saying not to do so. However these things are actually trivial when understanding is reached.
A billion dead from wars, hundreds of millions dead from starvation, possible self annihilation, environmental destruction this cannot possibly be the right way to live.
DT
Follow the link! Can we gain what is rightfully ours? What the government and the Plutocrats have stolen from us?
https://youtu.be/eY266lx9Lpk
