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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 12:44 AM
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How much faith do you have in the concept of debt?
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When does it become real and manifest? When owning is a collective belief and is backed up with guns jails and threats.The earth once gave us food shelter everything we needed raw material wise for free. But we let the man sit on the box and take it all and "redistribute it" for a price.That day we lost our freedom to economics.

"Empathy is antithetical to control, which is why control systems demand psychopathy as the standard mode of function."

" Keep hierarchy and contractual obligation(debt) prostrate before caring, compassion, and a heart-felt responsibility for all life."

"What we want . . . is the complete destruction of the domination and exploitation of man by man; we want men united as brothers by a consensus and desired solidarity, all cooperating voluntarily for the wellbeing of all; we want society to be constituted for the purpose of supplying everybody with the means for achieving the maximum well-being, the maximum possible moral and spiritual development; we want bread, freedom, love and science--for everybody."


The Parable of the Box....

The box is full of salmon, and a man sits atop the box. Long ago this man hired armed guards to keep anyone from eating his fish. The many people who sit next to the empty river starve to death. But they do not die of starvation. They die of a belief. Everyone believes that the man atop the box owns the fish. The soldiers believe it, and they will kill to protect the illusion. The others believe it enough that they are willing to starve. But the truth is that there is a box, there is an emptied river, there is a man sitting atop the box, there are guns, and there are starving people


http://ranprieur.com/readings/jensenbox.html
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