Shadow-San
02-28-2009, 08:10 AM
In this discussion, and future ones, i want to discuss the reality (which is entirely based upon your perception) of topics that affect us all. I will start each one with my reality of it, and, i hope, you will write what you believe, starting with the headline of either "AGREE" or "DISAGREE", and then follow with how you perceive the "reality" of the situation. So here goes.........
MONEY
In reality, money wasn't ever needed. you don't need money to hunt for your food.. you don't need money to find a mate, nor do you need it to build anything.literally everything we pay money for, we could get for free (with a little effort on your parrt, of course), or even barter for. honestly, if you think about it, money is useless, just printed on paper less valuable than the ink and material used to print it. All we look upon is free, yet we scramble for every piece of these papers we can grab..for what?, greed? Greed inspired by useless pieces of paper. People work their whole lives to earn them, to sustain themselves and families with each and every scrap they find. they pick it up off filthy streets, out of dumpsters if they spot some in one, and... beg for them. Everything we work for, for these papers, could be traded directly for what we work so hard to obtain. Since the invention of money, the gold dabloons, coins, and other items, emblazoned with an emporor's head, just as our dollars are today, have been worshipped ,something that we were told that,in order to survive, we must have it. so easily obtained and stolen by a few and yet are just another form of slavery, you are a slave to someone in hopes that they will give you another piece of the pie to feed yourself and/or family, figuratively speaking, only you don't get the the whole pie directly, you have to trade what you worked so hard for, to obtain only a small piece of it. then you must continuously slave for another piece and another. Has anyone ever even thought about reinstating the barter system? i know, i know..the world would crash and crumble, and disappear as we know it if that ever happened?, but really, is that such a loss? think about it....
A world in which crime for money is meaningless, because there is nothing to obtain by it, of course, there will still be crime, but, what would you get out of it? Not a single dollar. there would be murder....but without money, there wouldn't be as many. you may say it would be trading one reality of evil, for another, albeit lesser, form of evil. But at no time will this world ever see peace. truthfully speaking it isnt in human nature to co-exist peacefully with anything. we as a race, destroy everything we come into contact with. WE as a race, discriminate against EACHOTHER. You may lie to yourself and say " I don't do that."," I'm a good person.", or the ever popular, "I don't hate anyone for anything but their actions". Even IF that were the case, you would still be discriminating against SOMEONE. WE can't co-exist with ANYONE that doesn't fit into our description of how you should act, what is acceptable, and what you can/can't do. The non-existence of money would bring out what we truly are like. Take away a man's possesions, and you have just that man and his desire for his possesions and acceptance and love, right? But make those possesions non-existent, and you have Just the man and his desires, whether it be for "love" acceptance or gain. Take away what causes the desire to do anything for the financial gain, and you have just that.....the desire to do anything for gain, just in a lesser amount. There wll Never be anything remotely similar to a peaceful planet, i mean look at nature. But, we can take the violence, predjudice, and greed, the desire for acceptance, "love", and longing for better, all of which will Always be a part of nature, and bring them down to just the most basic level, refine it, and come out with a product that isn't rife with excuses. It's just what it is.
The Reality of The Situation.
MONEY
In reality, money wasn't ever needed. you don't need money to hunt for your food.. you don't need money to find a mate, nor do you need it to build anything.literally everything we pay money for, we could get for free (with a little effort on your parrt, of course), or even barter for. honestly, if you think about it, money is useless, just printed on paper less valuable than the ink and material used to print it. All we look upon is free, yet we scramble for every piece of these papers we can grab..for what?, greed? Greed inspired by useless pieces of paper. People work their whole lives to earn them, to sustain themselves and families with each and every scrap they find. they pick it up off filthy streets, out of dumpsters if they spot some in one, and... beg for them. Everything we work for, for these papers, could be traded directly for what we work so hard to obtain. Since the invention of money, the gold dabloons, coins, and other items, emblazoned with an emporor's head, just as our dollars are today, have been worshipped ,something that we were told that,in order to survive, we must have it. so easily obtained and stolen by a few and yet are just another form of slavery, you are a slave to someone in hopes that they will give you another piece of the pie to feed yourself and/or family, figuratively speaking, only you don't get the the whole pie directly, you have to trade what you worked so hard for, to obtain only a small piece of it. then you must continuously slave for another piece and another. Has anyone ever even thought about reinstating the barter system? i know, i know..the world would crash and crumble, and disappear as we know it if that ever happened?, but really, is that such a loss? think about it....
A world in which crime for money is meaningless, because there is nothing to obtain by it, of course, there will still be crime, but, what would you get out of it? Not a single dollar. there would be murder....but without money, there wouldn't be as many. you may say it would be trading one reality of evil, for another, albeit lesser, form of evil. But at no time will this world ever see peace. truthfully speaking it isnt in human nature to co-exist peacefully with anything. we as a race, destroy everything we come into contact with. WE as a race, discriminate against EACHOTHER. You may lie to yourself and say " I don't do that."," I'm a good person.", or the ever popular, "I don't hate anyone for anything but their actions". Even IF that were the case, you would still be discriminating against SOMEONE. WE can't co-exist with ANYONE that doesn't fit into our description of how you should act, what is acceptable, and what you can/can't do. The non-existence of money would bring out what we truly are like. Take away a man's possesions, and you have just that man and his desire for his possesions and acceptance and love, right? But make those possesions non-existent, and you have Just the man and his desires, whether it be for "love" acceptance or gain. Take away what causes the desire to do anything for the financial gain, and you have just that.....the desire to do anything for gain, just in a lesser amount. There wll Never be anything remotely similar to a peaceful planet, i mean look at nature. But, we can take the violence, predjudice, and greed, the desire for acceptance, "love", and longing for better, all of which will Always be a part of nature, and bring them down to just the most basic level, refine it, and come out with a product that isn't rife with excuses. It's just what it is.
The Reality of The Situation.