How? Because it's happening to me, just as it's happening to ants and deer and slugs and sparrows and bacteria and atoms and galaxies. That's right, it's Nothing Special! It's happening to the whole, infinite universe outside our teeny-tiny itty-bitty Babylon we call "civilization" (which we think is the whole universe).Yup, I boast!
I boast about Nothing Special.
Let the Nothing-Specials boast,
for Babylon has boasted its dilusions of "value" & "progress",
and trampled Nature,
shat on Beauty,
long enough!
Enough!
"My Gratis is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in Weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my Weaknesses"
(Apostle Paul)
Faqr Fakhri
"Poverty is my Pride."
(Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh) I've been living without a cent to my name since the autumn of 2000 (with a month's exception during my first year). I don't use or accept money or conscious barter, and I don't take food stamps or other government dole (not that I think those things are bad or that those who use them are in any way inferior).
And, after years of doing this, to my joy, I've learned there are other people in the world doing the same.
Why? I simply got tired of acknowledging as real this most common world-wide belief called money! I simply got tired of being unreal. Money is one of those intriguing things that becomes real because you believe it is real.
Wild Nature, outside civilization, runs on gift economy: "freely give, freely receive." Thus it is balanced. Commercial civilization runs on consciousness of credit and debt (knowledge of good & evil); thus it is imbalanced. What nation on earth can even balance its own budget or environment? Gift Economy is Faith, Grace, Love - the message at the heart of every religion, though rejected by virtually every religious institution. The proof is inside you: Wild Nature is your True Nature, crucified by commercial civilization. One Day, in the Present,
we will dis-cover
True Civilization:
New Jerusalem,
descending from Now,
Above!
--yes, Artistic Splendor that makes what we now call "civilization" pale to absurdity! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Things About Money
"They" Don't Teach You:
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 Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can’t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man’s worth couldn’t be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorney or politicians, therefore we couldn’t cheat. We were in a really bad way before the white man came, and I don’t know how we managed to get along without the basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized society. -- Lakota Sage Lame Deer (from John Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions)
 You can't get rich if you treat your relatives right.You can't get rich without cheating people.
Cheating people is the wrong way.
That way gets you into trouble.
Men should be honest to get along.
--Anonymous Navajo Leader (p. 32, The Book of the Navajo, RF Locke, 2001)
Question to Peace Pilgrim: "Why don't you accept money?"
 Peace Pilgrim: Because I talk about spiritual truth, and spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.... "Those who attempt to buy spiritual truth are attempting to get it before they are ready. In this wonderfully well-ordered universe, when they are ready it will be given. Non-possession is allied to non-stealing. A thing not originally stolen must nevertheless
 be classified as stolen property, if we possess it without needing it. Possession implies provision for the future. A seeker after Truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow. God never stores for the morrow. He never creates more than what is strictly needed for the moment. If, therefore, we repose faith in His Providence, we should rest assured that He will give us every day our daily bread, meaning everything that we require.... Our ignorance or negligence of the Divine Law, which gives to man from day to day his daily bread and no more, has given rise to inequalities with all the miseries attendant upon them. The rich have superfluous store of things which they do not need and which are, therefore, neglected and wasted, while millions are starved to death for want of sustenance. Those who wish to make room for the Lord must find pleasure not in private, but in common property…. Redouble --Saint Augustine (354–430 CE), unanimous with virtually all the early church fathers & mothers. Is this the same religion as what passes itself off as Christianity today? Augustine is beloved (in word) by both Evangelicals and Catholics.
 Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we can't eat money. -- Cree proverb I'd rather starve than exert myself
 physically for wages, anyhow.-- Everett Ruess (Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty, p. 57) In proportion as he Simplifies his Life, the
 Laws of the Universe will appear less complex, and Solitude will not be solitude, nor Poverty poverty, nor Weakness weakness. --Henry David Thoreau I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the God.
 I know that my plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth?. . . .
I am that gadfly which God has given the state and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you...
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And that I am given to you by God is proved by this: - that if I had been like other men, I should not have neglected all my own concerns, or patiently seen the neglect of them during all these years... exhorting you to regard virtue; this I say, would not be like human nature.
And had I gained anything, or if my exhortations had been paid, there would have been some sense in that:
not even the impudence of my accusers dares to say that I have ever exacted or sought pay of anyone; they have no witness of that.
And I have a sufficient witness to the truth of what I say--my poverty.
--Socrates
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I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war."
- Abraham Lincoln
Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins) Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)  When you finally face the root of all evil within yourself, you find the root of all good. Grace. Gratis. Then by Grace you find what goes beyond good and evil: The One Root of the world's religions & of all existence.
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your charity. For, on account of the things which each one of us possesses singly, wars exist, hatreds, discords, strifes among human beings, tumults, dissensions, scandals, sins, injustices, and murders. On what account? On account of those things which each of us possesses singly. Do we fight over the things we possess in common? We inhale this air in common with others, we all see the sun in common. Blessed therefore are those who make room for the Lord, so as not to take pleasure in private property. Let us therefore abstain from the possessions of private property—or from the love of it, if we cannot abstain from possession—and let us make room for the Lord.