Posts Tagged ‘money’

MAP

Okay, so what do I do with the chat yesterday on businesses?  Do we give them up?  How do we make money?  How do we survive?

You survived long before money was ever invented.



Money is simply a token of exchange.  Instead you have given your power to money – much more than just making it a token.

You have forgotten yourselves, and each other, with your use of money.  continue →

[Update to Socialist By Nature]


When I saw this RSA presentation by Jeremy Rifkin on Homo empathicus in The Empathic Civilisation I was reminded of the post I wrote oh so long ago on our socialist nature.





I think this idea has continue →

MAP

If you’re seeking something profound, turn to yourself.

How did you come to be here now at this time?  Why now?

Are you here on purpose, in purpose?  If you were here to make a change, what would that change be?

It is highly unlikely you came here continue →

MAP

What do you want to talk about today?

Well, the first thing that popped to mind was not creation.

But everything is creation.  How do you stop that?  How can you not talk about that?

I get that part.  I just figured there was some detail or aspect where we could get more specific.

Like what?

I’m drawing a blank here under the pressure of the moment.

We could talk about more tools, something radical, play out in left field.  Right now my head is blankly full or fuzzy.

Okay then, how about we talk about life.  continue →

Yesterday I roamed the aisles of the local grocery store searching for the few remaining items we wanted to include in the Holiday Hampers for the local woman’s shelter.  I wandered up one aisle with shelves overflowing with pop and down the next brimming with potato chips.  Over one row was an entire aisle of cereal followed by another one stocked half way full of crackers. continue →

I was amused to see “socialism” being used as a scare tactic in the US Presidential race a couple of weeks ago.  I don’t think the attempt gained a lot of traction because it flies in the face of both common sense and human nature.  continue →