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?

    29. What about eyeglasses and dental care?

    My old eyeglasses broke several times, and I rebuilt them several times with melted plastic until they looked pretty goofy.  Then they finally disintegrated a couple years ago.  I was kind of happy about it and  decided I didn't need eyeglasses.  It would be like I was in a Monet painting, I thought.  It was, and I was okay with it for about a year.  But I started feeling embarassed because I couldn't recognize my own friends at a distance, and they were thinking I was "stuck up."  I decided I wanted to see more clearly again, and I was mentioning it to a friend.  Another friend, Holly, who worked at the local thrift store, overheard our conversation and told me they had droves of old eyeglasses people donated, and to go and see if any fit my prescription and I could keep them for free.  So I tried on several pairs, and the one that I thought looked most cool (Buddy Holly glasses) happened to be just my prescription.  I've been wearing them since.

     

    I have gotten a couple cavities the past decade because I've eaten too many sweets.  I've been daily packing them with pinion pine pitch, which is both a protectant and antiseptic, killing caries germs.  The summer I worked on the fishing boat I slacked in packing my first cavity in a molar and it grew until the pain was excruciating for about a day.  I found my pinion pitch and packed it again, and the pain vanished.  But by that time the cavity was pretty deep, and half my tooth eventually broke off (without pain).  I still have half a molar.  Another tooth recently developed a cavity, which I've also been packing with pitch.  It hasn't been hurting me.  

     

    Okay, I must be honest and say that teeth and mosquitos are two things that get me to question the perfection of nature.  But I'm still looking at them as great teachers, even though I haven't quite learned my lesson from them, yet.  I feel that a teacher will not leave, must not leave, or we can't leave the teacher and graduate, until we have learned our lesson.  So, teeth and mosquitos, what are we learning from you?