Time magazine's cover asks, "Does God want you to be rich?" It's sitting on the kitchen counter next to the coffee maker so every time I go by I read the question. And every time I go by, I answer, in my head, "I don't know, but I know he doesn't like me owning an undented car."
Do you get that? Dents I mean. You can drive a heap for years and nothing will touch it, but spend the money for a new car and all of the sudden, rocks, shopping carts, kids on bicycles, and other vehicles' doors will become magnetized to your new ride. Same thing with windshields. I never get a windshield replaced if it's just got those little craters and dings. It's new windshields that attract the really big rocks. Sometimes they'll get you before you even get out of the windshield guy's parking lot.
Anyway, does God want you to be rich? Would he have given us taxes and Democrats if He really wanted us to be rich? Would he have given us orthodontists? Cable bills? The answer is yes, but He didn't say it'd be easy.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
A Question of Time
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Hello Jack and all,
RE: "Does God want you to be rich?"
How about, does the Creator want some people to suffer and starve while some wallow in luxury and ignore the plight of others? What about "serving mammon" (money and materialism) instead of truth, justice, and your fellow souls? How about the rich man and the eye of a needle? Talking about the blind leading the blind...
To take this a step further, what would the Creator say about forming organizations (corporations, religions, governments, political parties, etc.) that accumulate vast wealth and resources while living people and other lifeforms suffer as the direct result? What does this say about the complete hypocrisy of all religions?
Here's some pivotal knowledge (wisdom) so people can stop focusing on symptoms and obfuscatory details and home in like a laser on the root causes of and solutions to humanity's seemingly never-ending struggles.
Money is the lifeblood of the powerful and the chains and key to human enslavement
There is a radical and highly effective solution to all of our economic problems that will dramatically simplify, streamline, and revitalize human civilization. It will eliminate all poverty, debt, and the vast majority of crime, material inequality, deception, and injustice. It will also eliminate the underlying causes of most conflicts, while preventing evil scoundrels and their cabals from deceiving, deluding, and bedeviling humanity, ever again. It will likewise eliminate the primary barriers to solving global warming, pollution, and the many evils that result from corporate greed and their control of natural and societal resources. That solution is to simply eliminate money from the human equation, thereby replacing the current system of greed, exploitation, and institutionalized coercion with freewill cooperation, just laws based on verifiable wisdom, and societal goals targeted at benefiting all, not just a self-chosen and abominably greedy few.
We can now thank millennia of political, monetary, and religious leaders for proving, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that top-down, hierarchical governance is absolute folly and foolishness. Even representative democracy, that great promise of the past, was easily and readily subverted to enslave us all, thanks to money and those that secretly control and deceptively manipulate all currencies and economies. Is there any doubt anymore that entrusting politics and money to solve humanity's problems is delusion of the highest order? Is there any doubt that permitting political and corporate leaders to control the lives of billions has resulted in great evil?
Here's a real hot potato! Eat it up, digest it, and then feed it's bones to the hungry...
Most people have no idea that the common-denominator math of all the world's currencies forms an endless loop that generates debt faster than we can ever generate the value to pay for it. This obscured and purposeful math-logic trap at the center of all banking, currencies, and economies is the root cause of poverty. Those who rule this world through fear and deception strive constantly to hide this fact, while pretending to seek solutions to poverty and human struggle. Any who would scoff at this analysis have simply failed to do the math, even though it is based on a simple common-denominator ratio.
Here is Wisdom
Doctrine of Two Spirits...
Peace...
So on the "God wanting you to be rich" question, I'll put you down in the undecided column. At least you didn't blame the Jews.
Does God want us to be rich? I see sombody's glass is always half empty. Only those who envy other's money would see it first as a question of finances. How does one get to be so ungrateful for life's manifold blessings?
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