Living Without Money

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"Jesus said, 'don't lie, and don't do what you hate.'"
(Gospel of Thomas 6)
If you doubt what's in this website, follow this saying,
then you'll know whether or not it is true.
Aren't lying and doing what you hate one in the same?

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):

  33. What about hygiene? (And its High Philosophy)

All ABOVE FAQ's ON 1 PAGE FOR PRINT-OUT  

Please feel free to print & copy.  Nothing on this site is under copyright.  These ideas cannot be owned.

    Links:

    Contains links to other moneyless individuals (see below) all over the world, and info on living in and creating a moneyless world for yourself!
    Created by el Pavlik (see below)

    The Zeitgeist Movement
    visions of a moneyless world from some different perspectives than my own.

    Quotes about money & banking 

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    SOME OTHER FOLKS 
    VOLUNTARILY LIVING MONEYLESS
    IN THE MODERN WORLD:

    Heidemarie Schwermer
    living moneyless in Germany since 1996.
     
    Mark Boyle,
    An Irishman living moneyless in the UK
    freeconomy, online gift-economy community he founded
    His book, The Moneyless Man

    Raphael, Benjamin, Nieves & Camille (Forward the (R)evolution):
    from Germany & France (repectively) who have boat-hopped & hitch-hiked around the world with no money, raising consciousness. 

    Peace Pilgrim
    Most hard-cord of all of us!  She lived nearly 30 years without money, wandering North America with nothing but the clothes she wore & a few items in her pockets until she died at age 79!

    elf Pavlik,
    Gave up money a couple years ago on the European continent (he claims no nationality or state I.D.) and has been bringing us moneyless folks together into a cohesive movement. 

    Tomi Astikainen
    from Finland.  He gave up money a couple years ago and has been traveling internationally since.  He is writing an online book for free!
     
    Adin,
    proving "Umbutu" in South Africa.  He started a 5-year experiment in 2009 of not spending money, though he raises it, not for himself, but for good causes.

    Sonja Kruse,
    proving "Umbutu", in South Africa.  She wandered without money for about a year and discontinued it to do other grand things with her life.

    Öff Öff Jürgen Wagner,
    in Germany. Theologian living moneyless (I hope to update about him when I know more).

    There are probably others I've missed and many more who are off the grid and under the radar who can't be listed here.

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    Audio & Videos

    Moneyless In Moab  (15 min) 2006 docu-film by Gordon Stevenson

    Zero Currency (10 min) 2009 docu-film by Brad Barber
     
    Beehive Stories: Grand County (5:48 min) KBYU TV docu-film, part of a Utah series by Brad Barber, taken from filming for Zero Currency above.

    Two videos, featuring Mark Boyle & Suelo, made by our wandering Christian friends:

    Money As Debt     (47 min) Banking & money explained so simply a child can understand it.  After watching, I challenge you to ask yourself: Is it possible to ethically do any business with any bank anywhere?

    9. What will you do when you get old?

    If I live to get old, I will get old and die, like every living creature.  Who can prevent it.  Who has ever prevented it?  Would it be better to die in a nursing home with tubes stuck in me or would it be better to die in a canyon or by a wild animal or a virus?
     
    Sufficient for today is the evil thereof.
     
    How many robins or alligators or chimpanzees do you know of who have life insurance policies?  Walk into a hospital geriatric ward and ask yourself if we are any better off than the chimpanzees.  Go ahead.
     
    Many religious people freak out when I speak of chance and natural selection, betraying themselves that they do not really believe that God is omnipresent.  If you say "chance", they think you are talking of something apart from God.  But chance is the very mind of God.  Chance sends its rain on the just and on the unjust alike.  Chance is no respecter of persons.  Chance formed me and continues right now to mold me from the dust of the earth.  Chance evolved me from an ameoboid to a human.  Why, after millions of years of honing me down, would chance forsake me now? 
     
    Pure and simple, faith is trusting yourself to chance. 
     
    Again, don't get all high-minded & smart, you materialists.  If you're a materialistic Darwinist, and you really believe you came about by chance, then why do you not trust yourself to chance?  All science and all religion are one, and all are faith and came about by faith.
     
    If you're a religious, and you really believe that God is all sovereign, why do you think chance is somehow apart from God?  
     
    Chance created us. 
     
    Both of you, religious and materialist, can you honestly look at your beautiful hand or your complex brain or your lymph system or your splendid eye and think that the universe is somehow going to fall apart if you stop worrying about it?  What has worry ever accomplished? 
     
    On the flip side, do you think you or anybody can ever, ever, ever stop decay and death?  Will worrying make it better?
     
    Every moment is death.  Every moment is born again.  Ye must die and ye must be born again.  If you can't embrace death voluntarily right now, do you think it will be easier when it inevitably crashes onto you against your will later?
     
    Plan for the future by living your fullest now, by being fully present now.  There is no other way to plan for the future.  There is no other way to be at optimum health, now or in the future.  None.