Breaking free from the old matrix | |
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Freyja (OP) User ID: 3454 United States 12/17/2005 01:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a list of some good sites: Tree Hugger - Very good blog commenting on news, new products & green technologies [link to www.treehugger.com] -- World Changing: Another World is Here. - Another good news & info blog From their about us page: WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together. [link to www.worldchanging.com] -- Inhabitat - A blog mostly about sustainable architecture and interior design. [link to www.inhabitat.com] -- Green Home Building - More info on sustainable architecture [link to www.greenhomebuilding.com] -- Metaefficient - I've only just come across this one but it looks interesting - "A Guide to the Most Efficient Things in the World" [link to www.gotoreviews.com] -- And lots more links here: [link to www.ecobusinesslinks.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 52612 Netherlands 12/17/2005 01:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | LoL As people get this notion that they DO actually live in a matrix then there is only one way out, only one.... Imagine we live in the Matrix and it is around us outside of us. When we look into the world we see the Matrix, we observe it and then all that we learn by observing the workings of this Matrix is to put us even deeper within this Matrix because we understand how it works. The relativity theories of Einstein are observations of this Matrix thinking within this Matrix but would they be able to exist outside the Matrix? Everything any scientist tells us is from their knowledge and understanding of this Matrix and they strengthen our believes in the workings of the Matrix, every book, every movie, every teaching, it is meant to solidify your believes in the existence of this Matrix. Even those books of 'enlightenment' are the works of the Matrix and by following them you only attain the next level of the Matrix, the new age Matrix. Do we ever get out? Sure we can, very easy but the Matrix makes it difficult because those people of the Matrix don't want that. They want to keep you in this Matrix because that has been teached to them and they teach it to others. The more books you read the deeper you're stuck within this Matrix, even books like the bible or Kabbalah or Koran, they all are created from within the Matrix following the Matrix guidelines and the irony is that the more learned you become about this world, the more stuck your mind has become imprisoning you within invisible walls that make up the Matrix. See that is how sneaky it is, it creates invisible prisons and so noone suspects he or she is walking in a prison yet they do so. Finding your own way out of this Matrix is the only option you have. |
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Dilatoriness User ID: 51202 Austria 12/17/2005 02:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They even manipilated it down to the atomic levels. But the atomic correction generators are in place and working since some weeks. I am here to challenge your indoctrinated false belief that flaming queens don't use shovels ... |
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Sophia User ID: 23 New Zealand 12/17/2005 02:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | -If you bump into anyone who needs help, help them at no charge. That doesn’t mean you have to do everything for free, as you might have to earn money to keep things stable. But do most of your work for free. Money will come from strange places.- I can charge?????? |
Freyja (OP) User ID: 3454 United States 12/17/2005 02:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think I will opt for semi *off the matrix*, with only those things that do not serve me or my family with joy and freedom. Living a life a solitude would be difficult for me I think. Living the Potlatch as an Economy; The Economy of Giving and Sharing First of all, a Potlatch is a community effort based soley upon gathering/growing resource (mainly food), creating gifts , and giving everything not needed for the community it's self freely to other communities in the form of a great feast, gifting, and party. Communities then invite each other from Potlach to Potlatch in a continuous spread of goods and resources through ongoing re-distribution. (Today, a community means more than one, as in two or more...i.e. the family, not the entire village or orgazational unit as it once did.) Mostly, a Potlatch is a giant feed created from what you have grown, gathered, or recieved at another Potlatch, all that you have "put-up" and canned or stored extra from it, items made by members of your family community (even children may give their latest art work to guests) as gifts, musicians play their music, story-tellers and poets emote, dancers dance their lastest moves to the music they're moving to. Everyone eats, drinks, and merries to the hilt, and the guests take their bounty (including any left-overs) home when it's over. They can last one night, or planned for even longer. Money may also be Potlatched as you find you have more than you need by living within the Economy of Potlatch giving! And there is nothing wrong with sending some of that Potlatch bounty you recieve as gifts to those on your list for gift giving....after all, this IS about giving to other communities is it not? Make a list of those you know who might/would be interested in being a part of Potlatching communities, and set up a meeting to propose the idea to them. Meals could even be done as a pot-luck, with everyone bringing their gifts and talents for distribution, pot-luck style as well (as in, no prior planning other than just showing up and taking turns if turns need taken). Or they may be done family to family(s) to family(s) by invitation. There is no size limit, either direction, as to how big a Potlatch is, to be considered as such, as long as everyone gets the same in gifts to take home. The quality and quantity of gifts given, and being the hosts with the most, is all that limits a Potlatch! The best part is, there isn't even a limit on the number of hosts one can have at one! The main principle behind the Potlatch, is to give to communities (and individuals w/o community) which do not have enough of what you have, which includes inviting the homeless and the poor to them as well, it is considered bad form to give only to those who already have. And everyone, even the poor and homeless, have many talents and stories to share! What to do with the extra bushels of apples and potatoes (or whatever) you got at that Potlatch you just got back from? Invite other communities (families) (not anyone who was at the apple/potatoes Potlatch) to a Potlatch you now get to throw for them! Keeping the apples and potatoes you DO need, and adding the rest to your gifts of abundance and creativity to give for distribution. All guests are required to take all of their gifts home, all over-abundance is then added to the Potlatch cycle of giving. Potlatch to Potlach, cycling everything abundant, created, and talented out as gifts in giving. Once something has been given, it's time to create, grow, or make even more to give at your next one to keep the cycle going, and growing. Once a Potlatch has been attended, it is only polite to invite the host community(s) to one of yours as well. It's much like a lump of sour-dough, it has to be cycled in use to keep going, or it dies and becomes useless, and that's the end of it. Why not join the circle of living the Potlatch? Where everyone gets to give and get from the abundance and bounty of all! |
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Freyja (OP) User ID: 3454 United States 12/17/2005 02:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How to Drop Out: [link to ranprieur.com] The Slow Crash: [link to ranprieur.com] How to Survive the Crash and Save the Earth: [link to ranprieur.com] from the above link: Jesus is coming. If you believe the Bible, Jesus told us when he was coming back to save us. He said, "This generation shall not pass." That was 2000 years ago. Stop waiting for that bus and get walking |
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malu User ID: 11 United States 02/15/2006 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i agree with everything but this good morning everyone! i see you all survived valentines day! spring is but a week away! and then i can start to escape my matrix edit: calendar was on the wrong page! make that five weeks,,,, i am going back to bed! "By way of deception, thou shalt do war." Israel's Mossad "The truth shall set you free." U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Motto |