Liberty Day Challenge July 4th 2013 V2
Submitted by Josf on Tue, 10/23/2012 - 10:45Link to Liberty Day Challenge July 4th Volume 1:
http://www.dailypaul.com/244168/july-4th-2013-liberty-day-ch...
Two directions are possible from this moment on as proven by historical precedent. Either an individual will be subjected to suffering by Legalized Criminals and be forced to pay all debts collected in that evil enterprise or an individual will move in the direction of Liberty.
What happens if enough of us move far enough toward Liberty to swing the pendulum, the total collective sum of voluntary actions, our way, and we do so by July 4th 2013?
If by that date enough American people, as one large and powerful number of former victims, have invented, produced, and supplied a number of competitive legal supplies, monies, currencies, agreements, and defensive efforts, for each other, voluntarily, without resort to deceit upon the innocent, and without resort to threats upon the innocent, and without resort to violence upon the innocent, then those American people will take back their power to prosper, at will, for their own and for posterity.
Sign on in spirit or sign on in actual reality, either way the days will move in a direction and the Legal Criminals score their progress with or without your willful participation toward their goal of absolute despotism.
May God have mercy on our souls.
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Music?
http://www.constitution.org/fletchr/fletchr.htm
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A good militia is of such importance to a nation, that it is the chief part of the constitution of any free government. For though as to other things, the constitution be never so slight, a good militia will always preserve the public liberty. But in the best constitution that ever was, as to all other parts of government, if the militia be not upon a right foot, the liberty of that people must perish. The militia of ancient Rome, the best that ever was in any government, made her mistress of the world: but standing armies enslaved that great people, and their excellent militia and freedom perished together. The Lacedemonians continued eight hundred years free, and in great honour, because they had a good militia. The Swisses at this day are the freest, happiest, and the people of all Europe who can best defend themselves, because they have the best militia.
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3.
Bring the Troops Home
1 and 2 are End the FED and End the IRS because that is the flow of power from the targets to the employers of mercenaries, for love of destruction, for fun, for profit, and who is handed the bill?
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By the constitution of the present militia in both nations, there is but a small number of the men able to bear arms exercised; and men of quality and estate are allowed to send any wretched servant in their place: so that they themselves are become mean, by being disused to handle arms; and will not learn the use of them, because they are ashamed of their ignorance: by which means the militias being composed only of servants, these nations seem altogether unfit to defend themselves, and standing forces to be necessary. Now can it be supposed that a few servants will fight for the defence of their masters' estates, if their masters only look on?
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My father,who is now dead, taught his boys how to shoot. He served in Korea. I won an M1 Garrand, like the one I am holding in that picture, by shooting in a sanctioned Rifle Match, through the Division of Civilian Marksmanship.
There is no glory in the defense of Liberty, it seems to me, for any connection to the enemies of Liberty, at all, is an injury caused by those inhuman souls.
I really appreciate the help of my recently found friend IN Liberty, as I think I am beginning to understand the scripture concerning The Fear of God, being, to hate evil.
I may be wrong of course.
Joe
What is realistic?
I think marching on DC is a waste of resources. I'm sorry, I admire Adam's stones for making the call but I think it is going begging for trouble when it is growing wild right outside the door.
(Forgive me for calling attention to this article again, I think it is important to get this woman's story out and I can't make a thread.)
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/
This woman needs us to attend her court hearing. Unarmed, dressed nicely and I would not even carry a sign. We simply have to start showing up at the hearings, every time liberty is on trial. Now, if you want to make July 4 a big nationwide kick off for the effort, that is a great idea, but there needs to be an event in every community. Invite the cops and judges, serve them good organic, home made food, and let them know you are not the enemy, you are their neighbor, and you are a good citizen. Then be a good citizen. (And before the sovereigns eat me alive for using that word, I am trying to convey concepts with the language most understand.)
Ron Paul supports a new 9-11 investigation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH9nOWnp5G0
I may be the odd one.
I understand how my errors work to some extent. Where I fail is where I need help.
I don't think I am in error in this case, so I need help, if I am in error in this case.
You offer help generously, and thanks.
Is it help that you offer?
Is it either Adam does things according to your sense of right and wrong, or, allowing Adam to do things his way, you do things his way.
1.
You and Adam must do things the same way.
2.
You and Adam do things differently.
Is it either/or, or is it Liberty?
How about this angle:
1.
Do no willful harm upon an innocent person including the concept of avoiding a failure to fail to act when an act can be done to help some innocent person who will be harmed if you fail to help that person who will be harmed.
2.
Willfully harm innocent people for fun and profit.
3.
Blind Absolute Abject Belief in Falsehood Without Question.
Some people choose the second. Some people choose the first. Some people do nothing but obey as they are told to obey, and they do so without question.
Where does Adam fit in?
Where do you fit in?
Where do I fit in?
Can Adam specialize in an area of conduct that you are not fit to be in?
Can you specialize in an area of conduct that Adam is not fit to be in?
Am I similarly constrained within the areas I fit within?
You offer a very good example, generously so, of an area where some people may fit into, where an innocent person is being injured unjustly, by the criminals who have taken over the power of government.
Where were we, you, me, and Adam, when the following was current:
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/deat...
Some people were active.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mNIgVb5aIo
Some people have special talents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4fABBLdMQE
How many ways can the victims think and act in defense of Liberty?
1. Do no harm, including the harm that will be done if you do nothing.
Is it easy?
I don't think so.
There was at the time of Waco a call to march on Washington armed, to conduct trials, and to execute punishments upon those found guilty of the murders in Waco Texas. The person calling for that march was Linda Thomson, who is now dead.
I called the number to join that march with reservations concerning my own judgment as to the feasibility of doing no harm, including the harm that will be done if I do nothing.
There were no returns phone calls, there were not enough numbers, and I ended up getting on the National Congressional Election Ballot for my district instead of an armed march on Washington.
I once won a contest (Honorable Mention) that may be relevant here, as I try desperately to answer your generous offering of information.
I hope the next link helps.
I can hope, can't I?
http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/bsbhm2.html
I won a subscription to Conceal Carry Magazine.
When I was conducting my Congressional Campaign for office, on the "it is not a good idea to torture and murder babies in churches" ticket, at my own expense, I spoke at an NRA meeting.
The people at the NRA meeting were there to support their gun grabber Candidate who openly supported the so called "Assault Weapons Ban," I raised my hand in the audience, during the question part of the event, and I stood up.
I said to deaf ears that no piece of paper has the power to disarm me, or some such statement of fact.
I think I did the right thing then.
I think Adam is doing the right thing now.
I have been wrong often.
Joe
I do not see myself in conflict with Adam.
I admire his (and your) moxie, but I cannot get to DC for a variety of reasons, and I suspect MOST people - even those who would carry arms - cannot either. I think it is more important to engage those who cannot get to DC at the local level. I'd make a friendly challenge to Adam, if he were to promote both concepts and see which is more effective...
I think your essay is outstanding, thanks for sharing.
Do you really want to know what is in my heart? I am an odd duck, I have spent perhaps too much time listening to the wind, and this is what it has whispered to me, and so it is I believe. The women have to rally, they have to lead a march. Every mother has a mother near in her, and they must be made to realize their children are falling prey to a rapacious, carnivorous beast. When the women remember they HAVE to protect their children, they will need armed men to stand behind them. But as long as women cower in fear and send their children off to murder other mother's children... They fear distant "terrorists" more than they fear the casket of their own child... It is the heart of our "disease" - it is why the attack on the "traditional family" model is so sinister. I am no "gay basher" - far from it. But the sacred role of Mother has been so devalued (and the sacred role of Father so twisted) that we will remain in an endless cycle of war and fear without healing the damage done to the image of "mother."
Ron Paul supports a new 9-11 investigation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH9nOWnp5G0
Confusing
Not that you are guilty, but to merely point out a confusion that does occur often enough to suggest a need for me to look in my own mirror.
They who are guilty, of anything, are, and that is their business, and those who are not, are not, and so confusing the two may be worthy of note.
This next quote has helped me.
“The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.”
— Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943)
In context, what is reproduction?
Making units used to lower gas prices?
Joe
Bumbling and Stumbling
Off the beaten path?
http://www.constitution.org/fletchr/fletchr.htm
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I lay no great stress on any other limitations of those monarchies; nor do I think any so essential to the liberties of the people, as that which placed the sword in the hands of the subject. And since in our time most princes of Europe are in possession of the sword, by standing mercenary forces kept up in time of peace, absolutely depending upon them, I say that all such governments are changed from monarchies to tyrannies. Nor can the power of granting or refusing money, though vested in the subject, be a sufficient security for liberty, where a standing mercenary army is kept up in time of peace: for he that is armed is always master of the purse of him that is unarmed. And not only that government is tyrannical, which is tyrannically exercised; but all governments are tyrannical, which have not in their constitution a sufficient security against the arbitrary power of the prince.
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The subjects formerly had a real security for their liberty, by having the sword in their own hands.
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It is pretended we are in hazard of being invaded by a powerful enemy; shall we therefore destroy our government? What is it then that we would defend? Is it our persons, by the ruin of our government? in what then shall we be gainers? In saving our lives by the loss of our liberties? if our pleasures and luxury make us live like brutes, it seems we must not pretend to reason any better than they. I would fain know, if there be any other way of making a prince absolute, than by allowing him a standing army: if by it all princes have not been made absolute; if without it, any. Whether our enemies shall conquer us is uncertain; but whether standing armies will enslave us, neither reason nor experience will suffer us to doubt. It is therefore evident that no pretence of danger from abroad can be an argument to keep up standing armies or any mercenary forces.
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Note: Magna Carta and Trial by Jury is dated in the 13th Century, and this work by Fletcher is dated at 1697 or 17th Century.
On Trial by Jury:
http://www.barefootsworld.net/trial01.html
That work is dated at 1852, just before the supposed "Civil War" in these Demented, Consolidated, Nationalized, States under the color of law.
In an up-side-down world, it seems, the flags aught to be flown the other way.
http://anoncentral.tumblr.com/post/12971849238/the-upside-do...
Returning to Fletcher:
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Let us now consider whether we may not be able to defend ourselves by well- regulated militias against any foreign force, though never so formidable: that these nations may be free from the fears of invasion from abroad, as well as from the danger of slavery at home.
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Now, here, there are words that may be of some present use, perhaps not to stoop down the level of argument of the sake of argument with dupes, slaves, and liars, criminals, with or without badges, but to focus mind and body into harmony or balance; as if self-governing was actually possible.
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After the barons had lost the military service of their vassals, militias of some kind or other were established in most parts of Europe. But the prince having everywhere the power of naming and preferring the officers of these militias, they could be no balance in government as the former were. And he that will consider what has been said in this discourse, will easily perceive that the essential quality requisite to such a militia, as might fully answer the ends of the former, must be, that the officers should be named and preferred, as well as they and the soldiers paid, by the people that set them out. So that if princes look upon the present militias as not capable of defending a nation against foreign armies, the people have little reason to entrust them with the defence of their liberties.
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I may be the one out of balance, of course, a given; however, in those words are the accurate measures of a Patented Absurdity.
If it be true, for example, that "we" have to fight "them" over there, so as to avoid the hazard of "us" having to fight "them" over here, then, that being a well established maxim of truth, here in these good ole' "United" States (dare to disunite and see what happens), land of the free, home of the braves, all true, very true, so, that being true, "we", by that thinking, have won, right?
"We," do not have to fight them over here, since "we" won, right?
No?
"We" did not win, so now "we" have to search each other at the airports?
"We" did not win, so "we" have to lock down our cities and search each house for the enemy "we" failed to defeat over there?
If "we" did not win, over there, then by whose accurate judgement, honestly conveyed in English, from peer to peer, are "we" supposed to assess the possibility that the same dunderheads can be trusted to defend us at home?
FAT BOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9k_eJFW3c
Joe
Knowing the Stakes
Below are three links concerning current realities based upon past realities.
If someone is thinking about using their power, knowledge, wisdom, or other tools, such as arms, and the willful process of thinking is lacking in power, insufficient knowledge, wisdom, or dull tools, weak tools, power-less-tools, it is likely, very likely, that the road ahead will be hazardous.
I hope that you can find something of value in these links.
http://wakeup-world.com/2013/02/18/all-corporations-banks-an...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lVsMU...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPkauG6qE8k
I added the third link because the speaker was my friend, would still be my friend, but his life ended abruptly.
Finding a link back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGjfKnAjnNI
Joe
Powerfully Armed
The following link is a competitive solution to a clear and present danger.
http://www.adamvstheman.com/
Before I quote from that link, and before I comment on the substance in that link I will offer my own competitive solution to a clear and present danger.
1.
End the FED.
Do so by inventing, producing, and maintaining competitive forms of money that are legal forms of money when the term legal means that the money will be recognized as payments of taxes from an individual who decides to pay the tax to an individual who then receives the tax payment.
I choose my words carefully, because great care is needed in our times. I use the word "our" carefully. I mean to acknowledge the fact that people living today will make the future the way the future will be made by us. It is our life to make the way we make it.
Ending the FED is the most important thing we can do between now and the day we end the FED.
Ron Paul said as much, or I'll eat my hat.
We can most certainly End the FED by July 4th 2013 but it will take many more of us working to reach that goal than the number needed to peacefully march, armed, around Washington D.C.
Ending the FED is understandable as a method by which the worst criminals among us are no longer powerful, as their source of power is unplugged, as their line of credit is cut off, as if We The People join together and cut the Credit Card that exists, and is used, by those most powerful criminals among us.
Once the most powerful criminals among us find that their Credit Card has been cut, they will kill each other in their effort to seize control of the power that they have accumulated among themselves, and that can happen on another planet as far as We The People are concerned. Who knows what the most powerful criminals among us will do once they start feeding upon each other like the rats and roaches that they are, once the connection to their source of power is severed between their number and the number of people who constitute their host, like picking off a tick, or other parasite?
That goal of Ending the FED is not only the most effective way back to Liberty, the most vital first step, it is also the most productive, most peaceful, and easiest to do, with vim, and with vigor, and we don't need blue pills to inspire us into such action. Just look at how much more of the power that you earn will be yours to command instead of having your power stolen, as the thieves then use that power they stole to steal more from you. A quick look in your wallet, at the end of each pay day, and know, in fact, that you can easily double your pay rate by simply using sound money, instead of using fraudulent money, whereby the most powerful criminals among us are stealing your pay, by at least half, through the device that was once called "inflation," and is now called "Quantitative Easing". The most powerful among us, those criminals at The FED, can write themselves any amount of money on their personal check books, all legally done according to them, whenever they want, and there is no limit, and each check they write is charged to you and I, or to anyone who actually produces anything worth stealing.
Know this 1 thing, know it can be done, and know it can be done by a certain date in our future, as we will it to be done by that date.
End the FED.
2.
End the IRS.
Like a two headed dragon, like falsehood needs violence, and like violence needs falsehood, The FED needs The IRS, and The IRS needs The FED, there is an intimate bond, and if the Credit Card of The FED is cut in half, the Creditors, The Good Faith and Credit of The American People, must consider the necessity of returning to a Democratic Federated Republic, which is a Free Market Government Design, IN LIBERTY, the same Liberty we invent, each day, by producing more of those wants and needs each day, as we may, or may not want, or need, to invest in ways to avoid being victims or criminals. The IRS is the means by which The FED Monopolizes, or gains control over, all the surplus wealth produced by anyone capable of producing anything of value. The IRS has to End, if we do not end it, another Money Monopoly will take the place of The FED, leaving the victims trapped in a Business Cycle (psycho) of perpetual war for perpetual peace, as the most powerful criminals among us keep us divided and fighting over each other blindly, without effective remedy, because we are fooled into a false belief in investing in the cause of our own misery; like attaching leaches to remedy the ailment of anemia. More leaches attached does not remedy anemia, if you can understand this analogy, the desired goal is pushed further away, and the desired goal is impossible to reach with this method.
The IRS funds Dictatorship, so that has to End, and in place of it can be State Governments where 50 odd experiments in taxation are offered to The People as a Free Market of Government, and each individual, a potential tax payer, can volunteer to go to the best State, with the highest quality government, at the lowest cost, as a Democratic Federated Republic works the way it is intended to work.
If the exact same IRS and the exact same FED is created and used in New York, for example, The People in Utah don't have to copy such idiocy, and all those who love involuntary servitude can flock, like sheep, to New York, and real men, and real women, can opt out in Utah, or Montana, or wherever Liberty does rule the day.
A true Federal Government is merely a club joined by State Governments, as they wish, or as they don't wish to pay the costs of operating, according to The People's wishes, and this is not news, this is our history in our Liberty.
Ending the IRS can be a simple matter of our numbers refusing to pay false Federal taxes, and instead we choose to pay whatever State taxes we wish to pay, and if any one of us are charged with a false crime of failing to pay a "National" tax, then we get our behinds on juries, and we acquit each one of us in turn.
Again, we must volunteer in large numbers, or our power is divided too thinly, and we fall as individuals against a false collective of lies, at the hands of a very few, very powerful, criminal gang.
3.
Bring the Troops Home
Here is where the link at the top of the page can be commented on in greater detail, having information reported on one of the Troops at Home, a person named Adam Kokesh, doing things at home.
Who owns Washington D.C.?
Do you want to know who owns the Legal Fiction which consumes all of your earnings, or do you know from where your earnings are taken by you?
Do you not want to bite the hands that feed you, or do you know that you can no longer afford to give all of your power to the people who destroy you?
Where does the rubber meet the road when you look in the mirror?
Find the Troops, bring them Home, help them, be safe, in Liberty; start with a careful look (figuratively or literally) in the mirror.
These are, again, the times that try our souls.
I can comment further if a demand for such things are obvious and measurable.
Joe
The Elephant and the Tape Worm
http://www.dailypaul.com/278719/catherine-austin-fitts-the-l...
Total Wealth
A study was done to see how much Total Wealth (Surplus Wealth or POWER) would increase if money was actually invested for that purpose, for individual gain, while those external to the individual also gain, as being the opposite of crime where an individual gains at the expense of other people.
The numbers were beyond belief?
What does that say about "our" knowledge of political economy?
Joe
Total Wealth
Shrinks
Joe
Another good showing from the Girl Scouts?
Note: The link contains some cuss words, and is inflammatory, which ought to be reconsidered. It may be a good idea to self-censor and not view the video messages.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/04/manifesto-of-evil-...
"Hello, my name is Ann Barnhardt, and I am apparently one of the very, very last people left in Western Civilization who possesses any quantity of brains and balls simultaneously."
From my copy of the April Law Dog Reports:
http://www.beatthecourt.com/APRIL.pdf
Joe
Misunderstand...Misinterpret...Misrepresent...Misfit
I
Misunderstand:
to misconceive; to mistake; to take in a wrong sense.
which causes me to
Misinterpret:
to interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
And I now I must accept that I must wear the placard:
"bear Misrepresents"
to represent falsely or incorrectly; to give a false or erroneous representation, either maliciously, ignorantly or carelessly.
I do not misrepresent out of malignancy or carlessness. It is because I am ingnorant and unable to explain correctly because I misconceive the message between my 2 ears.
"Please don't make up things about me that are just not true."
I am sorry. I would like to say that I will not do that anymore, but I do not know whether I will be able to make that promise because I failed to realize I was doing it once again.
Perhaps I am a
Misfit:
One who is unable to adjust to one's environment or circumstances or is considered to be disturbingly different from others.
and cannot measure up because the last thing I want to do is to say things about Joe, or anyone for that matter, that are untrue. And the very last thing I want to do is what I have now done repeatedly.
I am sorry Joe.
sources use: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/misfit and http://www.webster1828.com/websters1828/wordsbysearch.aspx?s...
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Unable to conform
"Misfit:
One who is unable to adjust to one's environment or circumstances or is considered to be disturbingly different from others."
To me your most unique asset, which is powerful beyond accurate measure, an inability to conform.
In my case it is willfully non-conformist.
"and cannot measure up"
Here is the same problem of misunderstanding me. How can you get it so wrong? I don't know. The measure of you, from me, that measures up is your unique capacity to overstep the boundaries placed upon you, and even the boundaries that you may set for yourself, and in that sense you not only measure up, in my view, you raise the bar, and in a good way, a competitive way, an exemplary way.
Not to be confused with anything you do that does not register as being accurate in my measure, or eventually, in your own measure, as far as I can tell.
"I am sorry Joe."
If I can be of any help, then my help is to help you find where error is measurable, and where you can avoid repeating those errors, if not, if I can't, that does not, in my mind, diminish, in any way, the good things that you do, uniquely so much better than any one else can, in your shoes.
In that, perhaps, I share your absolute belief in God as the one true power of creation. You are here for a reason, and I can't know what it is, but I can say that your unique qualities (goodness) stand out like the little girl in red in that black and white movie titled Schindler's List.
Joe
Perfection
bear,
Please check this out:
http://www.dailypaul.com/comment/3000741
I hope that you understand my viewpoint on that, at least partially.
Joe
I saw that before I realized I was invited to see it!
I didn't say anything because I didn't want to always be sticking my bear nose into your "honey." But it seems this bear nose sees Josf's words as honey :)
I saw this from the OP:
"That is your cue, reason it away."
And I saw Josf take that offer and succeed in the task of reasoning away the points made as to the OP's suggestion of the perfect slave. Yes, I have been treated to your honey often enough this last year that I understood and agree with your viewpoint. Thanks for the invite to comment, as if I need one :)
I see you are back. When Jeff is late I imagine the worse. You do not know the thoughts that have gone thru my mind this morning as I wondered of your well-being.
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Too much information
Internet information advertizes a lot of things, and my thinking was to avoid announcing a trip out of town, at the risk of what happened. I passed on costs to you, knowingly, and I am sorry about doing that, with a need to avoid such things in the future.
An e-mail note may not be any less of a risky announcement of absence from home, but my guess is that another power is at work here whereby there really isn't much I can do to avoid that which will happen.
When my Russian friend did not reply I began imagining things too. That turned out to be my neglect too.
Joe
No worries
Understand completely. I am glad you were able to get away and celebrate. I am also glad you are safe and sound. No worries about passing on costs. They are well worth it IMO. I am also glad the Russian is still on the friend bus. That is good news that you are still sharing perspectives.
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Cut and Pasted from another thread
bear wrote:
Still working on http://praxeology.net/BT-SSA.htm
When you say Socialism is the study of society is this what you are saying:
“Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.”
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On the deal about renting houses, if I understand Social Anarchism correctly, the application does not disallow anyone from renting, but rather removes the obstacles that make the “playing field not level,” and those obstacles being government monopoly whereby legal criminals make their crimes legal thereby putting labor at a disadvantage to capital. So, if capital (products) were only the price of cost, then capital would be within everyone’s reach.
So, then, with my understanding of capitalism is that prices are set upon supply and demand, then that would not work with the idea of cost being the limit to price. Am I thinking correctly?
It is very hard for me to conceptualize cost being the limit to price…for everything. It is hard for me to put into concrete ideas. I think I understand the “theory” of it, but not how to apply it. My imagination is not very good, and I find trying to concentrate and imagine the implication almost past my capability or desire as it makes my brain hurt. The ability to do that is like seeing a whole chess game at once. So, that link I handed you this morning…the guy was talking about federated voluntarism…would anarchistic socialism work in limited area, or would it take a great country of space and people to realize the benefit? i.e. if socialists had to compete next door to capitalists, would that work? Would a socialist society be able to purchase capitalist priced raw goods needed within the socialist society?
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OK, this bothers me too:
“Their attitude on this is a key to their attitude on all other questions of a political or social nature. In religion they are atheistic as far as their own opinions are concerned, for they look upon divine authority and the religious sanction of morality as the chief pretexts put forward by the privileged classes for the exercise of human authority. “If God exists,” said Proudhon, “he is man’s enemy.” And in contrast to Voltaire’s famous epigram, “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him,” the great Russian Nihilist, Mikhail Bakunin, placed this antithetical proposition: “If God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.” But although, viewing the divine hierarchy as a contradiction of Anarchy, they do not believe in it, the Anarchists none the less firmly believe in the liberty to believe in it. Any denial of religious freedom they squarely oppose.”
Not that they would not deny religious freedom, but that Bakunin says if God exists, it would be necessary to abolish Him. That sure would leave a vacuum for evil, since of course God does exist and so does Evil. If God were removed, Evil would run rampant.
James 1:16 Do not er , my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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Joe
Working on removing confusion
"On the deal about renting houses, if I understand Social Anarchism correctly, the application does not disallow anyone from renting, but rather removes the obstacles that make the “playing field not level,” and those obstacles being government monopoly whereby legal criminals make their crimes legal thereby putting labor at a disadvantage to capital. So, if capital (products) were only the price of cost, then capital would be within everyone’s reach."
First:
It is made clear by Stephen Pearl Andrews that the unwise choice of employing the word Anarchism was originally made by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and this was at the time of the forming of the modern vernacular of Political Economy into the two basic (false) "Sides" of "Capitalism" and "Socialism".
Anarchism was wrongly chosen as a word to be used to differentiate between those people who work toward Liberty (strictly voluntary associations) and those people who work toward Slavery (Involuntary associations or Monopoly), so the use of the word Anarchism, or Socialism, or Capitalism, has to be understood in the context of goals.
If the goal is Liberty, then the words used will be accurate words, intending to inform, not intending to deceive.
If the goal is Slavery, then the words used will be false on purpose, intending to deceive, not intending to empower, inform, enlighten, in a competitive (not antagonistic) way.
"...the application does not disallow anyone from renting, but rather removes the obstacles that make the “playing field not level,"...”
I think that it is very important to get all the pieces together and then look back at that sentence from a viewpoint that identifies the word "removes" as a contentious word. The force that "removes" anything is a force that is cooperatively competitive, as opposed to antagonistically competitive.
Better is chosen over worse, in the sense that many better choices are much better than one poor choice, and in the case of money the concept of cooperatively competitive versus antagonistically competitive shows up without any room for doubt as to which is better, and which is worse, and if people have the choice, many people on a long, long, list of people, all having a choice, then all those people choose better, and they all don't choose One Legal Fraud and Extortion Money made Legal, by criminals with badges.
"...the application does not disallow anyone from renting, but rather removes the obstacles that make the “playing field not level,"...”
The force that removes the obstacles that make the playing field not level is, in the very capable illustration of legal money, choices for many people to make, between better and worse, and worse goes out of circulation, and better keeps on getting better, and that is called competition, but again, words either have accurate meaning or words are purposefully intended to deceive the targets, and confuse the targets.
Might makes Right, for example, is an antagonistic from of competition, as if saying, OK, the person or group that can lie the best, threaten the best, and violently destroy innocent people the best, is the perfect example of the best competitor.
If that "might makes right" is your working definition of the word "competition" then you won't understand a word written by Josiah Warren, Stephen Pearl Andrews, Benjamin R. Tucker, or Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
If that is your working definition of "competition" whereby "Might makes Right", then you are more likely to understand Marx or Ben Swan, or anyone else having that working in their brains, where Might makes Right, and that process is the shinning example of what is meant to compete in competition.
I know I go off on these tangents, as do you, but we are just two competitive people seeking better for worse, and having a very difficult time finding agreement. Wouldn't it be easier for either of us to just cut corners, resort to deception, instead of actually working toward a negotiated agreement?
"...and those obstacles being government monopoly whereby legal criminals make their crimes legal thereby putting labor at a disadvantage to capital."
Here, in those above words, are to me cause for more celebration, not Glory, but cause to step on this step and look all around, and see, and know, that this is a point of competitive understanding.
You don't say "government" without the qualifier of "monopoly".
Now you say, or write, "government monopoly", and to me the use of the word "government" is the one word that does not fit, since it is "monopoly" that is the working thing, not "government", but the words do combine to make better sense of what type of "monopoly" is being looked at, inspected, measured, and found to be what it is, and found not to be what some people claim that it is, for whatever reasons they may have for falsifying the meanings of words.
"...labor at a disadvantage to capital..."
Here is a potential mine field. Just as it was demonstrated by Andrews that the word "anarchism" is a poor choice of a word, because it alienates so many people right away, turning so many people off, like a "knee jerk reaction", immediately turning off so many people to any further interest, the words "labor" and "capital" are as potentially destructive in the same way, to enter a person's brain, to then be immediately rejected, calling forth any number of bad feelings, and then that interest in that person to know what anything else might be said by that person, is gone in a flash.
You combine those words in that order and your intended partner in competition toward knowing better is put off, never to listen to you again?
"..labor at a disadvantage to capital.."
It may be a good idea to avoid those words,and to speak in more accurate terms, since no one is going to buy those words, since those words are on the bad list of words, for about half of the worlds population.
If you are speaking to the non-capitalist polarized world, then those words will be welcome to them.
"..labor at a disadvantage to capital.."
To be more specific, consider, competitive terms as such:
"...honest productive people are at a disadvantage to criminals with badges..."
I don't know if you can make any sense of all this, at this point, but the Web of Deceit is woven very tight, and has been worked on, by very bad people, for centuries, so the job can't be easy.
"So, if capital (products) were only the price of cost, then capital would be within everyone’s reach."
Again, terms that you now understand may not convey well to anyone else, since you have done so much costly work on getting past "seeing red", or seeing past the lies, and instead you are finding the facts, just the facts, thank you very much.
I see you use parenthesis, toward that end, on your own now, as if you do realize what I am trying to say to you.
Example:
Competition A:
"So, if capital were only the price of cost, then capital would be within everyone’s reach."
Competition B:
"So, if capital (products) were only the price of cost, then capital would be within everyone’s reach."
Competition C:
"So, if products were only the price of cost, then products would be within everyone’s reach."
Here, even here, without using the word "capital" there are people who will be threatened by those words as they want to hold their "profits" dear to their hearts, and if that is so, then there is confusion on their part.
Costs are whatever the most efficient producer makes them, including the costs of going on vacation, to charge batteries, and those costs are added to the Cost/Price so long as some other competitor is not offering lower Cost/Price without the vacation.
So the falsehoods still work upon the dupes who can't see, as they are then inspired, by falsehood, to claim that no one can afford any vacations under such conditions of competition.
That is not true, and the reason that is not true is knowable when understanding how power abundance works compared to power scarcity.
In Josiah Warren's day, for example, mid 19th century, the work load per person for an average standard of living was about 4 hours a day. That was before the use of oil, electricity, and natural gas, and that was before modern communication, connectivity, where information can travel instantly from one person to everyone else.
Where does all the profits go (why use the word profits?) while there is now so much more power that allows human beings to work less and get more for each hour of work?
A person reading your words, and then claiming that you are working to take away their profits, take away their vacations, take away their retirements, is a person stuck in the Web of Lies, and they are inspired to write another check to the IRS, or lie less on their Federal Tax forms, or at least hire better liars to make the "workers" pay their taxes, and put in jail those who don't, so as to perpetuate this method of making sure that the "laborers" don't take over MY MONOPOLY "government".
This is where I ask you, over and over again, what makes an employer no longer an employee?
What makes a borrower no longer a lender?
The President of a Bank does not work?
The President of a Bank does not labor?
Cut through all the Might makes Right dogma, please, and just ask, and find out, where does all the power to purchase go, since we human beings are now so able, so capable, of making things that make things, and once made, turn on the switch, and things that were scarce are now abundant.
Where does all that power go, and how does all that power flow that way, and any time spent on this trail constitutes following the ONE MONOPOLY money trail.
Forget about all the dogma about who earns what, how, and when, until you solve the Monopoly Money problem, and then things may fall better into place as to who is a Friend of Liberty, what they are going to do to get away from the opposite, and who is a Friend of Legal Crime (Legal Money Monopoly Fraud Crime in Progress) and what they are willing to do to get their way.
One way is honest and productive, and measurably so, and the other way is dishonest and destructive, and measurably so, and what then is the standard of measure in either case?
"So, then, with my understanding of capitalism is that prices are set upon supply and demand, then that would not work with the idea of cost being the limit to price. Am I thinking correctly?"
Pricing POWER has to be understood in any case, and I think it is vitally important to do the work necessary to know better, and in any case of anything one person has in exchange for something another person has, the work, in each case, has to be done, over and over again, until you defeat the dogma/dragons/lies/propaganda/brainwashing/response conditioning/behavioral modification that infects your brain.
Why is one person said to be selling and another person said to be buying something? Each person, in an equitable trade, each time, is seller and buyer.
In each case of just two people, each is seller, each is buyer, not one at a disadvantage to the other, or if there is disadvantage, then what is that disadvantage, and how is it measured?
I can offer an example, and my choice is chosen for a reason.
Ben Bernanke is selling this very big lie to everyone using dollars as money. Ben writes a check for as much money as everyone else combined, and then Ben sells that check to everyone else, and in this case of commerce, in this case of trading, in this case of an exchange of one thing for another thing, what does Ben Bernanke get, and what does everyone else get in exchange for that check?
Is that too complicated?
How about you writing a check for tomato jars? You write a check that says this money is good for 10 tomato jars full of delicious tomatoes. Can you sell that check?
So, you have now two homework assignments, if you care to do the work, and tell me whatever you can about these two transactions, as to how one transaction compares to the other transaction, and in this work you can answer some of your own lingering doubts as to what you do know and what you have yet to know, and know better.
1.
Ben Bernanke writes a check that amounts to "as much purchasing power" as everyone else combined, and Ben does, in fact, sell that check to everyone else who uses FRNs. To be more clear, every producer of wealth who uses FRNs to do business, they buy that check from Ben Bernanke because Ben Bernanke spends all the "profits" earned by all the producers with that check Ben Bernanke write for himself and his exclusive group of Legal Criminals.
2.
bear writes a check for 10 tomato jars worth of tomatoes in jars, and bear imagines finding someone who will buy that new inventive form of competitive money.
"It is very hard for me to conceptualize cost being the limit to price…for everything."
The work you may do on 1 and 2 above may help. How much do you get when you sell your check for 10 tomato jars? Do you settle for a trade that is less than all the costs you spend on making those 10 jars of tomatoes? If so then it won't do you any good, economically, to spend that one check on buying only 10 empty glass jars. Can you add the cost of going on vacation for a year in Rio? Ben Bernanke can buy all the materials needed to start, persecute, and clean up World War III.
Somewhere in the middle of you with your money and Ben with his money is people happy about eating tomatoes in jars and people happy about buying World War III.
One direction works to use the power available to make more power, to make power move from scarcity into abundance, and the other direction works to move all power from every source to the few legal criminals and in order to accomplish that goal all competition must be destroyed.
If you can think in terms of power, where is it, what is it doing, then you can start seeing the difference between productive power, what does it do, how is it measured, who measures it, how much is there, how much will there be in the future, and what a future looks like when productive power is abundant, and compare that future to the future that is demonstrated by those who use the power they steal to then steal as much as they can, and inevitably they must destroy all competition to keep that power going, and it is destructive power and by that process the inevitable goal is reached, where power is so scarce that almost everyone will do almost anything asked of them, to avoid starvation, and death.
This is not so tough, but your work has to be done, when you have the power to do the work, and if you don't have the power to do the work, then you are powerless, as power is scarce, so why does that not make sense?
Take the historical example of Egypt and see how power was so readily available, so abundant, that those people could live, reproduce, and make Pyramids.
Take away their power to farm, take away the power of irrigation, take away the water, and can they still build Pyramids?
What happens if instead of building Pyramids they used the power consumed in that work to make more power out of less power?
No Pyramids, what did they buy instead?
Take modern times, today, and wake up tomorrow with no more gasoline, no more home heating oil, no more coal, no more electricity, no more water, no more food, no more houses, no more clothes, and everyone tomorrow morning wakes up in the dirt.
Power is relatively abundant right now. Tomorrow it is scarce compared to right now.
Who does what, competitively, to make more power out of less power, and what does that person do with that new supply of power abundance?
Does that person use that power to do The Ben Bernanke on everyone else, or does that person try to find someone willing to repeat, reproduce, the example, and then other people have more power too, and in what way, what form, what type, of power is produced with the scarce power available?
Productive power?
Destructive power?
Which direction is better?
What is the goal?
Use scarce power to make more power out of less?
Use scarce power to steal power from other people who also have scarce power, and logically, use scarce power to defend against people using scarce power to steal power?
There is, obviously, measurably, three types of exchanges of power, that can be measured physically, as in a measure of Kilowatt Hours, or calories, but that also requires a psychological power to judge if a calorie is worth anything compared to a kilowatt hour.
Focus on the three types and then things may make more sense.
1. Inequitable by mutual agreement (charity)
2. Equitable by mutual agreement (equity)
3. Inequitable by lies, threats, and violence (crime)
Which way ends up with more power at the end of the day compared to the amount of power at the start of the day?
"So, that link I handed you this morning…the guy was talking about federated voluntarism…would anarchistic socialism work in limited area, or would it take a great country of space and people to realize the benefit?"
You are where I was, low power at the start of the day, lower power at the end of the day, and eventually, if you persist, in my opinion, you can figure out how to use scarce power to make more power by the end of the day. Things begin to make sense, and then it begins to be a self sustaining power that can be called knowledge, but there are dangers, since the subject matter can be very disturbing.
To be more specific:
"would it take a great country of space and people to realize the benefit?"
Economies of scale work this way, where a small benefit is gained by one person, where the day starts out with low power and the day ends with more power, in a physically measurable way, and as is found out the next morning, in a physiologically measurable way, starting out another day with even more power than yesterday, and ending the day with more power still, and that is then physically and psychologically (what I say is economic and political) powerful.
Less in the past, more in the future, power, reaching toward power independence - individually.
What happens when two people are on that path competitively, each showing the other one how to gain more during the day compared to yesterday?
The benefits are not a sum of the two individual parts when there is cooperative competition (opposite of antagonistic competition) because of division of labor and specialization, something we can go over again, but the present question concerns the process, or phenomenon, of economies of scale, suffice to say that cooperative competition is an exponential increase in benefits and an exponential decrease in costs.
One person can only make enough to survive.
Two people can make a third person.
100 people can run a system called Trial by Jury based upon sortition and exemplify how crime can be practically eliminated from human activity.
How many people is required to send a person to Mars? How much power is needed, compared to the power required to build a Pyramid?
" if socialists had to compete next door to capitalists, would that work?"
In the case of the working example of The Articles of Confederation between 1776 and 1788 there were States of various stages of despotism, slavery, involuntary associations, among the competitive examples of cooperative political economy, making less power into more power, and some were this way and some where that way, and claiming that some were "socialists" and some were "capitalist" is part of the problem, a game of dividing and conquering, and those who buy into that falsehood pay the price, so I see past the labels, and I get to the root of the matter. If a person like Daniel Shays's continues the battle to stop the criminals from taking over the government in Massachusetts, but fails, then that individual can shop around for a better government, because the design of the government is a Free Market design, so Daniel Shays's votes with his feet, a runaway slave from Massachusetts, and he runs to Vermont, all nice a legal, in a Free Market Voluntary Government design, which is the way that works when it works that way.
No "federal" troops conscripted by a dictator in chief sent into Vermont to take the runaway slave out of Vermont and kidnap the slave, and enslave the slave, lawfully, placing the slave back into the hands of the slave masters in Massachusetts who have given themselves badges.
Free Market Government can be said to be a capital idea?
If it is a flow of power flowing from many people into one storage place, then it is socialism by almost every person who uses the word socialism, since collecting all those collections of all that individual power from all those individuals flowing into the one place, is by that physical measure, a collectivizing of power, or collectivism.
Every man for themselves, on the other hand, is not collectivism.
How bad can the evil of deception get?
How is bad measured?
I keep linking the autopsy (falsified) reports from Waco, where all those terrorists killed themselves by burning themselves alive, and their heads were missing, and their bodies crushed, and their bodies were piled up into one commingled mass of former living human beings, and I paid for it, that was financed by me, the "Federal Income Taxes" I paid at that time were enormous. I was taking in about 70 grand a year in those days, working my life to death.
Why?
How?
Where are my blinders, my ear plugs, and my muzzle made in China?
"OK, this bothers me too:"
Please bear in mind that Andrews is speaking about the work of Benjamin Tucker who was speaking about the work of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. It was Tucker who wrote about the "anarchists" Warren, Proudhon, and Marx, where Warren and Proudhon went the Liberty Way (competition) and Marx went the other way (State Socialism or what I call Legal Crime), so, so, so, it is not Andrews to be held to account for those things that bother you, rather, it is Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who was speaking about religion.
I think that Andrews was trying to separate Proudhon, and his ideas, from Warren, Equitable Commerce, and those things proven by Warren to be true, and not just "theory".
Keep in mind that there is now this nebulous "Labor Theory of Value", something that may have been started by Benjamin Tucker, but that fails to actually convey the information offered by Warren in Equitable Commerce, so I think Andrews is offering a competitive "translation" of Proudhon, which is something that Benjamin Tucker was less able to accomplish.
Please note how Warren and Equitable Commerce is missing in almost every case of any discussion about Political Economy when any reading of the actual work uncovers very important discoveries, inventions, and step by step methods of reaching Liberty.
Why?
"Not that they would not deny religious freedom, but that Bakunin says if God exists, it would be necessary to abolish Him. That sure would leave a vacuum for evil, since of course God does exist and so does Evil. If God were removed, Evil would run rampant."
Yes that was the other person involved in Political Economy at the time of the beginning of Communism (Bolshevism being the historical example) and both Bakunin and Andrews were thrown out of The Internationale, for speaking their heresy (voluntary associations).
Bakunin, and many of the atheist, as far as I know, are targeting False Religions, and they declare their disbelief in False Religions, as everyone should, since they are false. As to what is, or is not, true religion, as far as I know, as far as I can know: God is either known, on an individual basis, or not known, according to God and God's will to let the individual in on the truth.
We go over and over that often, and I'm really trying to know better, but not much success is measurable in a physical way.
James 1:16 Do not er , my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Words can be confused, "above" is a direction opposite the force of gravity on earth? If so then above is an infinite number of directions all at once. Looking up is the same as looking down, if the idea is to actually find God looking back?
I can wave, but I'm not so sure that he is waving back to me.
Joe
To clarify
I am still working on Benjamin Tucker's work concerning state socialism and anarchy. I have not yet read Andrew's work on Proudhon. So the concepts I am trying to iron out are from Tucker's work. I wanted to get those concepts settled in my mind before I move on to Andrew's work. Why add confusion upon confusion :) I think at least I know enough now to know what I am confused about instead of thinking I know what things mean when in reality I have no idea. So now that I know I have no idea, I am asking.
You gave me some homework:
1. Ben Bernanke writes a check that amounts to "as much purchasing power" as everyone else combined, and Ben does, in fact, sell that check to everyone else who uses FRNs. To be more clear, every producer of wealth who uses FRNs to do business, they buy that check from Ben Bernanke because Ben Bernanke spends all the "profits" earned by all the producers with that check Ben Bernanke write for himself and his exclusive group of Legal Criminals.
Ben Bernanke’s check is written out of debt and the faith and hard work of the American people are the collateral. He has invented money out of debt. His money is based on future product (capital)
2. bear writes a check for 10 tomato jars worth of tomatoes in jars, and bear imagines finding someone who will buy that new inventive form of competitive money.
I have created a product (capital) for which I will trade for product (capital). Under Warren’s system, the price of my product will be limited to cost. Cost can include anything…like vacation. So I have a question. Who says what type of vacation. What if I add a 10 day vacation to Hawaii to my cost, but you add a 1 day vacation to your cost. Then the price limit of cost is no longer equitable. What if I have doctor bills I must add to cost, but you don’t? It seems to me the limit of cost can be ambiguous. Who is to say what the limit of cost is? Maybe I have 10 kids and you only have 1 so I have to add college for 10 to my product and you add only college for 1. How is the trade going to be equitable when my costs are larger than your costs?
Please know that I am asking honest questions here. I am not trying to be tricky or seeing red. I am trying to understand how cost can be limited and why cost is not limited by the price the market will bear?
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As far as the Pyramids in Egypt…I hear they used slave labor.
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“I can wave, but I'm not so sure that he is waving back to me.”
• 1 John 4:10 KJV
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Joe, God has been waving to you your whole life, and He still is.
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Cooperative, productive, competition.
Cooperative, productive, competition is not the opposite, since the opposite is antagonistic, destructive, competition.
"Cooperative, productive, competition.
"Who says what type of vacation?"
Here is where the so called capitalists tend to earn credit, or here is where the false capitalists take credit, and the answer is determined by negotiations at the time of sale. If you sell enough coupons, checks, promises to pay the holder of the note 10 jars of tomatoes, and in each case of you finding someone to buy your money, you get something in return, 10 FRN's for each of your dollars, because your sales pitch is "I need the FRN's to buy supplies, and then I will have those 10 jars of tomatoes ready for you, and they will be as delicious as the sample you are now eating, and your purchase with the money you are buying from me will be ready at the end of the month, it says so on the money you are buying from me.", and then you go on vacation, buying a vacation with the FRN's you gathered from 1,000 people, as you printed up 1,000 of your own competitive money, and at the end of the month, you have had a vacation, and no power to buy anything to make any tomatoes in jars, and there are people wanting those tomatoes in jars as they have your capital in that form of your own good faith and credit as an individual American.
Meanwhile, down the street, someone else did exactly the same thing you did, but they didn't go on vacation, not yet, what they did was stretch the POWER they borrowed and ended up making twice as many jars of tomatoes as was the price set on the cost of one Tomato Jar Dollar, at that exchange rate of 10 FRN's, or so much weight in gold, or so many Euros, or so many Marks, or so many Yuan, or so many Pesos, or so many Yen, or so many Rubles, or so many Francs, on and on. The competition down the street can then honor the original issue of currency, pay out 1,000 tomato jars, and have 1,000 more tomato jars to sell for the current Monopoly Money that does not require so many sales pitches to sell the money, since the prevailing legal currency is the stuff everyone thinks they need, because there are these goons that will show up and kidnap anyone failing to have the FRN's demanded for "Federal Tax Liabilities".
Now the Tomato Jar competitor, who did not go on vacation, could diversify, expand, improve, lower costs, be more efficient, improve, and if there are still any customers wanting Tomato Jars, and if you have not raised the bar, somehow recovering credibility, then that competitor could gain more power for less work, or "profit", because the supply is still prices at the lowest cost compared to any competition and there is still a demand for that lowest prices product on the cooperative, productive, competitive, free market.
If the same producer is never challenged by a better example of a producer, then that producer has an effective monopoly, so long as there remains a demand for those Tomato Jars. What happens when there is a monopoly and there is then no help by anyone else in improving quality and lowering cost by the competitors inventive employment of power?
The monopoly producer may then, without competition, begin to raise the price to "that which the market will bear" as high as possible, without any competitor setting that cost/price lower, and in that sense that quality of equity is moved off that scale and onto a different scale.
How so?
What, if a monopoly producers has grown accustomed to a life without competition, and therefore there is a relative ease to the amount of cost paid by the producer relative to the benefit earned by the producer, when suddenly, rudely, a competitor upsets the balance of pricing at "that which the market will bear" instead of at the most efficient cost price possible?
Mr. Fat cat, Tomato Jar producers, down your street, meeting the demand for these Tomato Jars, at the highest price possible, the lowest quality possible, and still, somehow, meeting the demand at that bare minimum of quality and at that maximum of cost, is suddenly, rudely, confronted by you, as you begin to offer at least as high quality of tomatoes, but half his price, and you are set to corner that market.
What do you think Mr. Fat cat may want to do in this case of unwelcome competition?
Cost/price is the logical result of consistent, cooperative, productive, competition, where competition is welcome because everyone wins, as everyone is seeking the better ways, the higher qualities, and the lower costs.
We have yet to introduce, and explain the terms known as surplus wealth and unearned income.
Surplus wealth can be measured as prices falling to zero.
Surplus wealth can be measured as National Debt.
If you sell Tomato Jars at half the cost of production, and you factor the cost of expansion, the cost of a good standard of living, and you are meeting a demand that exists, competitively, then the other half of the "cost of production" is surplus wealth at that moment, and you can consume it, go on vacation, or expand your business, which invests that surplus wealth, save it in some form where it will not evaporate, which is consuming it as an investment (but saving it so it can be like a battery storing electric power), or send it to The Federal Government so that they can steal more from you, or crush your competitive Tomato Business, or use the Surplus Wealth you produced to crush your competitive money business.
Unearned income is not you, as a monopoly, having no competition, and setting your price as "that which the market will bear" just because you can, you are earning your income, but as soon as you resort to crime to crush your competition, then, what are you buying with your earned income?
You buy liars to lie for you, you buy goons to threaten your competition for you, or you buy violent people to crush your competition, and from then on, do you "earn" your income?
"What if I add a 10 day vacation to Hawaii to my cost, but you add a 1 day vacation to your cost. Then the price limit of cost is no longer equitable."
No, that is not true. If you are selling a higher price, lower quality, product to 1,000 people, and they are getting exactly what they want at the price you ask, then that is equitable, and that is equitable by that fact, a voluntary association free trade. If you know that I am down the street selling the same thing you are selling at half price, because I don't go on vacation, or because my idea of vacation is providing better tomatoes in jars for less cost compared to you, then do you keep that knowledge from your customers?
If you know that all your customers are paying twice as much for the same thing from you as they could be paying from me, then do you keep, without, and censor that information? Do you buy all I produce, from me, then sell all my products to all your customers because then you don't even have to make another Tomato Jar, all you have to do is keep the information secret?
Is that then the definition of equity?
1,000 people could, without your "help", buy directly from me, at half price, but your POWER to keep the information flowing affords you the opportunity to buy from me and sell to your customers at a "profit" you manage to gain, for doing what?
On the other hand, so it was cool, you could get away with not be very competitive, selling at full price, that which the market will bear, and then I show up, raising the bar, selling at half price, and you are finding out that your price was equitable without competition, but is now measurably not equitable as more people find out that the measure of equity is higher quality and lower cost than what previously was equity by your exclusive example.
"What if I have doctor bills I must add to cost, but you don’t? It seems to me the limit of cost can be ambiguous."
We have not yet discussed the concept of insurance, and we can, but Equitable Commerce is strictly dealing with commerce between individuals, so a move from individuals to "collective" funds owned in some way "collectively", such as insurance, is definitely not having anything to do with Josiah Warren and Equitable Commerce, which is odd, since it was Andrews, not Warren, who connected "socialism" to Equitable Commerce.
Setting aside collective ownership of something, which is definitely not anything Warren advocated, exactly opposite in fact, setting that aside, the concept of pricing being ambiguous is false.
Here:
"What if I have doctor bills I must add to cost, but you don’t? It seems to me the limit of cost can be ambiguous."
That is false, cost is exactly what it is at the time of transfer from A to B, exactly that, each time.
Arriving at that cost/price which is always exactly what it is at the time of transfer, can add to the cost during negotiations, removing any ambiguity that may linger, and then the price (cost) is exactly what it is at that time when transfer occurs.
Arriving at the cost, can be costly, or efficient, and that was covered in Equitable Commerce with the chess clock punched by the seller at the moment someone starts haggling over the price. If the price is not low enough, why add to the price while the clock is ticking? This is where, again, the concept of this nebulous "labor theory of value" is false. Equitable Commerce is what it is, and it happens all the time, whenever competition is the force that forces people to price at a competitive price or cost/price, as competition with one's self, or with other people, forces price down to cost, and not price moving up to some other measure.
Haggling over price may be a form of competition, like the liars club, the ambiguous ambiguities of truth?
In Equitable Commerce as explained by Warren a price is set by the trader or "seller", a person in the business of offering specific, not ambiguous, products in exchange for a specific product, a Tomato Jar for 10 Debt Notes, not 9 Debt Notes, not 11 Debt notes, but 10 Debt notes, is offered to anyone who can afford that price, that is the cost price, as far as the Equitable Exchange is offered, exactly that, by that trader.
You want one, you can equitably trade one for the cost price of 10 Debt Notes (or some other THING, exactly that THING, set as the price by the equitable trader) and if someone starts haggling over the cost price, then the trader starts the clock, each minute adds a Debt Note to the cost/price, and soon enough that haggler prices himself out of the market, for having added so much to the price, as the trader having the product is forced by the haggler to waste the traders time.
If the thing isn't worth 10 Debt Notes to anyone, then haggling over the price adds costs to something that isn't worth the cost of it in the first place. Someone, somewhere, made something or traded for something that they paid for it more than it cost that person who traded for it, so why add to the cost of it?
If it cost you X to make tomato jars, and no one will buy one, or the price that someone will buy one is less than your cost, less than X, then how can that be considered an equitable business when it is an obvious case of charity?
Equitable Commerce is not ambiguous, it is exactly what it is in each equitable case.
Charity can be ambiguous, crime can be ambiguous, but Equitable Commerce is exactly what it is when trades are made at cost each time and the equitable cost price is the price at the time of the exchange, not before, not after, and finding the cost price can be ambiguous, or not yet found, up into the price is set, then it is the cost price, right on the price tag, if cost price is reached for, the cost price is found, and it goes on the price tag.
If the trader doesn't even look for a cost price, and just grabs a price from the hat, an ambiguous price, something random, and is then ready to haggle, at that point, then, even then, what if the price taken out of the hat is half the cost of production?
You go out of business fast, or even at that price no one wants to buy without having haggled their way down to half the price you are asking?
Now I'm confused.
"How is the trade going to be equitable when my costs are larger than your costs?"
To me, but not said in Equitable Commerce that I can remember, the Equitable nature of a trade is any trade that is not made as a result of anyone resorting to falsehood, threats, or violence as a means of one person, the criminal, gaining at the expense of the victim, and if your costs are too high then you are wasting time in the wrong business, so why waste any more time, learn from competition, stop wasting your time, and find where your unique talents are competitive, are higher in quality, and lower in cost compared to the competition?
Warren and Tucker point out how the end of the Money Monopoly (which in our case is The Fed/IRS/Troops trio of monopolies) releases competition for so many inventors, producers, experimenters, entrepreneurs, no longer rendered powerless by that very destructive monopoly power, which then increases the demand for simple labor, where so many people are now unemployed, and unemployable, whereas there would then be much incentive, much reward, for laborers, so named, to be induced to work, please work, please someone work, for me, I have so much that can be done, but not enough people to employ at all this work that can be done.
What is, here and now, is power scarcity, all around, very measurably are so many powers made so scarce, that the prices are well over cost, just look at mortgage interest, "taxes" (which could be merely competitive insurance policies where investors are buying potential benefits in case of loss by criminals, including criminals with badges), water prices, gasoline prices, electric prices, medical prices, education prices, and monopoly insurance prices (mandatory?).
What can be is power that is abundant as prices are driven down to cost, such as less than 1% mortgage interest, no inflation, deflation instead of inflation, electricity at cost (which can quickly reach zero with solar panels alone), cars run by electricity (no fuel costs, or almost zero fuel costs), on and on.
What is, all around, is crime made legal.
That is what is, so the rules that apply cause this and that to be this way and that way.
What happens in the other direction?
Power is now stolen and consumed in the work required to steal more, and a whole lot of power is now being spent on World War III.
Power can be used to make more power out of less, and then what happens?
"Please know that I am asking honest questions here. I am not trying to be tricky or seeing red. I am trying to understand how cost can be limited and why cost is not limited by the price the market will bear?"
More homework for you as:
1.
What is Surplus Wealth?
2.
What is Unearned Income?
I have offered competitive answers earlier. If you can, try to explain those concepts in terms that begin to make some sense, and then we may be able to work on how life changes when power is no longer consumed into a forced state of scarcity.
From that viewpoint the works of Warren and Tucker (and others) may be easier to understand.
"As far as the Pyramids in Egypt…I hear they used slave labor."
We are slave laborers, the point is to point out that there is more power than meets the eye, unless you start looking at the Pyramids and wonder, wow, if they could do that then, what can we do now?
If they can do that, even with all the power consumed in maintaining slavery, what could they have done then, and what can we do now, without all those costs consumed in the all the destructive work required to enforce slavery?
"Joe, God has been waving to you your whole life, and He still is."
That must be nice to know. I'll keep waving back.
Joe
Follow up to "I am laughing"
“Surplus wealth can be measured as prices falling to zero.
Surplus wealth can be measured as National Debt.
If you sell Tomato Jars at half the cost of production, and you factor the cost of expansion, the cost of a good standard of living, and you are meeting a demand that exists, competitively, then the other half of the "cost of production" is surplus wealth at that moment, and you can consume it, go on vacation, or expand your business, which invests that surplus wealth, save it in some form where it will not evaporate, which is consuming it as an investment (but saving it so it can be like a battery storing electric power), or send it to The Federal Government so that they can steal more from you, or crush your competitive Tomato Business, or use the Surplus Wealth you produced to crush your competitive money business.”
You said “If you sell Tomato Jars at HALF the cost of production…”
Did you mean TWICE the cost of production? Wouldn’t I need to sell at twice the cost of production to have surplus or residual wealth?
So are you saying that if the market will bear the price of surplus wealth, it is OK to charge twice the cost of production so I might have “insurance” upon continuance of my wealth?
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Unearned Income…is what I give myself when I resort to violence, threats, and cheating and deceit to maintain my wealth. So Unearned Income is income received thru ill-gotten-gain.
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OK, I want to talk about buying your tomato jars at half price so I can double my mine on them, me being the middle man or the retailer and you being the manufacturer. Is there room for that? Maybe you can make lots of tomato jars cheaper without having to deal with customers. Maybe you like tomatoes but not people, so I am doing you a favor being the one to put up with customers who want to haggle. Maybe I have a place that is readily available to lots of people and you are in a town of 700 and everyone grows their own tomatoes and they don’t need yours. So, I would be helping you if I bought your tomatoes and resold them.
Is that OK?
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The next thing that bother ms:
"Even in so delicate a matter as that of the relations of the sexes the Anarchists do not shrink from the application of their principle. They acknowledge and defend the right of any man and woman, or any men and women, to love each other for as long or as short a time as they can, will, or may. To them legal marriage and legal divorce are equal absurdities. They look forward to a time when every individual, whether man or woman, shall be self-supporting, and when each shall have an independent home of his or her own, whether it be a separate house or rooms in a house with others; when the love relations between these independent individuals shall be as varied as are individual inclinations and attractions; and when the children born of these relations shall belong exclusively to the mothers until old enough to belong to themselves."
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Causes of confusion exist.
Finding the causes of confusion can be added costs to life on Earth.
"Did you mean TWICE the cost of production? Wouldn’t I need to sell at twice the cost of production to have surplus or residual wealth?"
Yes, I did mean TWICE, not HALF, but from whose viewpoint?
To one trader the cost is twice, to the other trader the cost is half, so what is the cost price?
The cost price is the price at the time of transfer?
So the doubling, or halving, is a judgment call made by the trader who has the thing to be traded, and that trader is in the process of determining the cost/price, why two words?
If there is always competition, a person competing with his former self, or her former self, trying to be better today than yesterday, then does that person jack up the price to that which the market will bear, because there is no external competition?
Why?
Who wins? Who pays?
If the idea is to increase the costs of production, to send the kids to school, is that not a good standard of living worth exemplifying? Who would be able to undercut that cost? Are "jobs" so scarce that we have to be at each other's throats, making a killing, to make sure that we are cornering that scarce bit of economy where so many people are fighting over so few opportunities to supply the few things people want?
That is up-side-down, in so many ways. People want things, so why is there a scarcity of POWER to supply the things people want?
Suddenly, inexplicably, no one wants anything any more, no one is wiling to work another second to get something better instead of settling for worse?
What happened to demand?
There is no demand?
Since there is no demand, obviously, there is no, or very few, opportunity to work at supplying that demand?
Really?
Are we that stupid?
It is the Elephant in the room that stomps out competition, the Legal Fraud and Extortion Money Monopoly Elephant, crushing everything that threatens that Elephant with any POWER that does, in fact, constitute a threat to that Power.
What happens when competition in legal money exists?
No monopoly.
What does competition do - exactly - in reality, in human reality on earth?
Competition (not antagonism, not false competition, not crime made legal) forces quality up and cost down, in reality.
What happens, how is it measured, when quality goes up and costs go down?
Power becomes abundant.
How?
If you want to see, you can find a way to see, and you are persisting, and what do you already measure by that investment of your power of knowledge into gaining more power of knowledge?
If you can imagine a million moms just like you, doing a fraction of the work you are now doing, and at the very least those moms then refuse to dress their children up as "soldiers" to then make war, because war is so good for the economy, then how many sons, and how many daughters are then creating opportunities instead of destroying them?
What happens when good people do good things compared to what happens when those same good people are led down a false path where those good people are forced to choose the lesser of two evils, and they then become evil themselves?
How is this all not easily accountable to that Elephant right their in your living room, stomping out all your earned income, taking everything that can be stolen from you, and transferring the power you need to defend yourself to those who then overpower you and they steal even more power, and the things that they do with your power makes your ungodly thoughts, and your ungodly actions look, by relative comparison, to be good thoughts and good actions.
I'm reaching for my 8x10 glossy photos taken by the medical examiner, you know, you know, the broken record, like a Business Psycho, skipping on the same scratch each revolution, as the stomach turns.
"So are you saying that if the market will bear the price of surplus wealth, it is OK to charge twice the cost of production so I might have “insurance” upon continuance of my wealth?"
Think hard about that concept of Surplus Wealth, and if you can borrow my brain, then think in terms of being a disinterested, foreign, observer, just looking at an electric circuit.
There are these things in electric circuits called capacitors, and these things store power when there is too much power, and then when there is not enough power these things unload that power.
If all the surplus wealth is stored in one capacitor in the circuit, then that circuit has that feature, that design, as all the surplus power flows into that one capacitor.
What power determines when there is too much, or not enough, power in the rest of the circuit when there is only one capacitor?
That capacitor, if you are looking at THE FUND (which is the real capacitor not The FED), or look at THE FED, whatever, there is one capacitor in this circuit called The Dollar Hegemony, the electricity, the power, is measured in dollars, not watts, not amps, not calories, but dollars, Federal Reserve Notes at this time, in this place, and all of the Surplus Wealth flows in this circuit to that one storage place. Not all of it, but you have to actually detach some of your vested interest in your own supplies of power, your friends in the game, whatever.
If,there was only one Savings Account, in the circuit, then see how that simplified circuit works, and a quick look at the National Debt Clock (Real Time), official, supports the realization that there is ONE dominant savings account, even if there are many other retirement accounts, personal savings accounts, etc.
If there is one, what determines when, and how much, that one savings accounts collects surplus wealth, stores it, or what determines how much, and when, that savings account releases power?
Surplus wealth is power, the power to purchase, or it isn't surplus wealth because it has no power to purchase.
If it is "dollars" then it is fraud and extortion made legal, which is destructive power, but that is besides the point I suppose.
Reminding where I am here:
"So are you saying that if the market will bear the price of surplus wealth, it is OK to charge twice the cost of production so I might have “insurance” upon continuance of my wealth?"
Insurance ought to be kept on the back burner, or at least understood to be either or an individual store of power, a personal insurance storage power thing, or, on the other hand, a collective insurance fund/power/capacitor/storage medium of power.
In your sentence I think you are referring to "insurance" as being a water tank on your property, or a cellar full of food, or batteries in a flash light, or a tank of gasoline, or something other than dollars, legal money, "collective insurance", something other than that, in that case.
This case:
"So are you saying that if the market will bear the price of surplus wealth, it is OK to charge twice the cost of production so I might have “insurance” upon continuance of my wealth?"
What is that not a reasonable, equitable, efficient, competitive, honest, productive, additional cost, to add a measure of storage of power to the cost of the things to be traded, to be supplied to meet the demand for that thing to be traded, to be added to the competitive cost price demanded by the trader, or no less than that, to meet the costs, when trading that things supplied to meet that demand for it?
How is that not a very competitive part of the total cost of doing equitable business, to earn, a measure of surplus wealth?
Step back, move your mind to the moon, or to mars, look through your telescope at America, see what is, with that one capacitor stealing a great, significant, majority of all the surplus wealth, and ask yourself why, and ask yourself what could it be if instead of one big, full, nasty, capacitor, there were instead many little capacitors at each house, a Solar Panel Array, at each house, two cars where electric power is stored in their batteries at each house, each house has a water well and a water tank, each house has a few Modular Green House Farming Units, Each house as a portion of all that Gold that is stored in that one place, and that doesn't even touch, not one foot, into collective supplies of surplus wealth, no insurance of any collective kind at all, all you see through your telescope in an imaginary future, is equitable traders adding the cost of storing personal, individual, supplies of surplus wealth, in their own estates, with their own castles, in Liberty.
What is missing, but the power of knowledge, and what is in the way, except the falsehoods planted between all those ears on that distant planet from your observatory on Mars?
You tell me.
"So are you saying that if the market will bear the price of surplus wealth, it is OK to charge twice the cost of production so I might have “insurance” upon continuance of my wealth?"
What is the goal? Cut each other's throats or a better idea?
"OK, I want to talk about buying your tomato jars at half price so I can double my mine on them, me being the middle man or the retailer and you being the manufacturer. Is there room for that? Maybe you can make lots of tomato jars cheaper without having to deal with customers. Maybe you like tomatoes but not people, so I am doing you a favor being the one to put up with customers who want to haggle. Maybe I have a place that is readily available to lots of people and you are in a town of 700 and everyone grows their own tomatoes and they don’t need yours. So, I would be helping you if I bought your tomatoes and resold them."
"Is that OK?"
You are describing division of labor and specialization. We can go over that again, and again, and why would it not be OK, so long as there is no resort to deception, which was the angle of view offered, not this angle of view you offer in reply.
A.
Resort to deception, such as omission, which is deception.
B.
Those who are best at a job tend to be those who do the job most efficiently, at the lowest cost to them, and therefore the least expense to anyone else, as people find where their special talents are most competitive in a free market (free from crimes such as fraud of minor measure or fraud of extreme destructiveness).
C.
Why does scripture bear this out so well: Fear of God is to Hate Evil (not external evil but internal evil)?
Am I learning?
You will have to be more specific as to what bothers you in Andrews writing. All he is saying is that forced, by evil, by fraud, by threats of violence, and by violence, man upon man, or woman, in any case not God acting, forced "might making right" marriage is wrong.
That is all he is saying in principle. If he thinks that people will do as they please without being forced by another human being to act according to whatever another human being thinks is good, or bad, then are you saying he is wrong?
He does not say that absent the force of man upon man, or woman, absent the force of human being upon human being, absent that force, no one will seek God, find God, and behave as God instructs human beings to behave.
Is that what you think Andrews says?
I don't think so.
I've been wrong often enough to know better than to believe that I am absolutely right. I know of one absolute truth, so far, and that is all I have power to know, absolutely, so far. We went over that some.
I certainly need to know better at this point. Where do I get the power to know any better?
Joe
Elephants and Dragons
“Yes, I did mean TWICE, not HALF, but from whose viewpoint?”
It seems to me that the cost of production is fixed, so any price above that cost is the same from anyone’s viewpoint no matter how I try to look at it.
“If there is always competition, a person competing with his former self, or her former self, trying to be better today than yesterday, then does that person jack up the price to that which the market will bear, because there is no external competition?”
Yes, if that person is actively pursuing their work.
“Why?”
I think it is human nature to get as much as one can in business.
“Who wins? Who pays?”
Both “traders” win and pay. Both are gaining capital at an exchange agreed upon
“It is the Elephant in the room that stomps out competition, the Legal Fraud and Extortion Money Monopoly Elephant, crushing everything that threatens that Elephant with any POWER that does, in fact, constitute a threat to that Power.”
I have started listening to Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope:” I guess I listened upto number 7 of 31 thru the night, so I don’t know what I heard. But I woke up to the speaking here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBDAGNocnzM&list=PLMMPK5eDLaV... Starting about minute 11 I believe the elephant is evident. At 25 minutes Africa colonization is discussed and the elephant is stomping on the natives and white people about also become subject to stomping thru laziness as the reading continues thru the hour. I am finding the information very interesting, except one has to get used to the computerized reading voice.
“If you want to see, you can find a way to see, and you are persisting, and what do you already measure by that investment of your power of knowledge into gaining more power of knowledge?”
I think part of my problem continues to be prejudice in the sense I prejudge the meaning of Equity not to include abundance, but only bare necessity, because I continue to confuse equity with criminal/involuntary economy. I think perhaps a dragon is being slayed!
The Elephant = Monopoly = Unearned Income = the opposite of Joe’s Law = Scarcity
“In your sentence I think you are referring to "insurance" as being a water tank on your property, or a cellar full of food, or batteries in a flash light, or a tank of gasoline, or something other than dollars, legal money, "collective insurance", something other than that, in that case.”
But is there anything wrong with story money if it is not criminal monopoly money? So if my equipment breaks I have money which is readily convertible. Or if I get sick, I have money to go to the Dr., etc.
“Why does scripture bear this out so well: Fear of God is to Hate Evil (not external evil but internal evil)?
Am I learning?”
Because when we abhor internal evil and cast it away, we are able to live as Equitablists not resorting to deceit, threats or violence upon our neighbor. Hating any internal evil we find within ourselves is the source of proper self-governance.
What do you think this verse means?:
• 1 John 4:18 KJV
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment . He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
“You will have to be more specific as to what bothers you in Andrews writing. All he is saying is that forced, by evil, by fraud, by threats of violence, and by violence, man upon man, or woman, in any case not God acting, forced "might making right" marriage is wrong.”
I think it is Tucker’s writing that I am quoting: http://praxeology.net/BT-SSA.htm
“SSA.32
Even in so delicate a matter as that of the relations of the sexes the Anarchists do not shrink from the application of their principle. They acknowledge and defend the right of any man and woman, or any men and women, to love each other for as long or as short a time as they can, will, or may. To them legal marriage and legal divorce are equal absurdities. They look forward to a time when every individual, whether man or woman, shall be self-supporting, and when each shall have an independent home of his or her own, whether it be a separate house or rooms in a house with others; when the love relations between these independent individuals shall be as varied as are individual inclinations and attractions; and when the children born of these relations shall belong exclusively to the mothers until old enough to belong to themselves.”
Specifically what is concerning to me is the after creation, the first institution was the family. A husband and wife are to cling to one another. Why confuse something that is not marriage with marriage? Why call crime marriage? Why say that children born out of marriage with belong exclusively to their mothers? Why not say be married and have children which belong to both the mother and the father? Why is it necessary to remove the family unit in anarchism?
I found this passage interesting in that Martyrs Mirror book:
http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/martyrs004.htm
“OF MARRIAGE
Marriage we hold to be an ordinance of God, which was first instituted by God in Paradise, and confirmed in our first parents, Adam and Eve, who were created after the image of God, male and female, while they both were yet in favor with God. Gen. 2:22; 1:27.
Page 32
In accordance with this first institution, and agreeably to Christ's ordinance, Matt. 19:5, the marriage of Children of God (who are not too nearly related by consanguinity) must be entered into, after prayer, and kept inviolable, so that each man shall have his own, only wife, and each wife her own husband; and nothing shall separate them, save adultery. Lev. 18;20; I Cor. 5:1; Matt. 19; Rom. 7:2; I Cor. 7:2; Matt. 5:32; I Cor. 9:5.
Thus, it is lawful for a brother to take a sister to wife; a sister, also, may be married to whom she will, only in the Lord, that is, according to the ordinance and pleasure of the Lord, as mentioned before. But we do not find that God has anywhere, through His Word, ordained or instituted, that a believing member of the church should enter into matrimony with an unbelieving, worldly person; on the contrary, we find, that God the Lord was very angry with those who did so, and declared that they were flesh, who would not be led by His Spirit; therefore, we reprove all those who follow herein the lust of their own flesh, in the same manner as we do other carnal sinners. I Cor. 7:39; Deut. 7:3; Neh. 10:30; 13:25-27; Gen. 6:6.”
Note that in that last paragraph. The terms brother and sister are not speaking of blood, but of Believers in Christ. I am in that sense Jeff’s sister because I also am a child of God. Note also that a wife is to marry who she pleases”
“Thus, it is lawful for a brother to take a sister to wife; a sister, also, may be married to whom she will, only in the Lord,”
So now I am thinking this is for believers and those who do not believe will live as they wish perhaps moving from partner to partner leaving a bunch of fatherless children who have no male input into their lives. Sons need fathers to model being men. So the words to partner around as you please (in so many words) are evil as they are not the Creator’s plan for families.
I am glad my laughing made you smile. Thank you for your time today Josf.
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Who decides your pay scale?
"It seems to me that the cost of production is fixed, so any price above that cost is the same from anyone’s viewpoint no matter how I try to look at it."
That is exactly the point.
If you do not take responsibility for determining your pay scale, then you are Un-American. Ha, ha, ha, don't you think that I could make a good propagandist?
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Yes, if that person is actively pursuing their work.
“Why?”
I think it is human nature to get as much as one can in business.
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So...if you place no limit on what you will do to gain at the expense of someone else, then where can you look to find the source of iniquity in human life on Earth?
"That which the market will bear" is this:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/about.html
If you don't set limits, who does?
"Both “traders” win and pay. Both are gaining capital at an exchange agreed upon"
So, suddenly, despite every effort on my part to focus attention on the Elephant in the room, you suddenly find a way to make it disappear at the wave of your magic wand - again?
If you are speaking about equitable trades, then exemplify one, and we can both look at such a nice thing, right there, or over there, or here, or under that rock. If not, then what are we looking at, and why would anyone ever want to confuse an equitable trade with a counterfeit version?
"The Elephant = Monopoly = Unearned Income = the opposite of Joe’s Law = Scarcity"
That is almost spelled out that way by Tucker speaking about Warren, Proudhon, and Marx.
According to Tucker the work of Warren (and I suppose Proudhon but Andrews throws light on that question) went toward Liberty (competition and abundance) and Marx went toward Legal Crime (monopoly and scarcity), but you and I may be the only one's on the planet who are working on the Power measures of reality here on Earth, in this unique way. Is the power formula valid?
I've already told you that Howard Bloom, the only one I've ever had the chance to ask for any kind of "official" opinion, as to the validity of the Joe's Law equation and he says it looks right - not quoted verbatim because we were typing in a discussion at the time and I did not save the text exchange.
Bloom is big on utilizing Satellites in Space to collect Solar Power and send that power to a collector on Earth for electric Power, which according to his work (and that guys does extensive work) it is already possible - nearly unlimited cost-less electric power without need to buy any oil, or coal, or wood, or produce any nuclear waste that is not so much of our daily lives.
I point out, and no one listens, that Solar Panels reproduce themselves, in other words they generate enough power to pay for their own costs and at least one more, and that cost/benefit FACT is getting better not worse, so there is no reason, other that that Elephant in the room, for POWER to be scarce on Planet Earth.
This is so simple, since POWER is the stuff required to do anything, and so, again, why are those demands people make, not being supplied by all those people who supposedly can't find a job, and earn an equitable living?
Demand will always be high, so long as human beings are as God made them, and therefore THE reason why supply of the demand is scarce has to do with POWER being made scarce on purpose.
Mortgage interest at nearly ZERO means how much more POWER for each family (or individual) on Planet Earth?
False TAX (extortion payments) at nearly ZERO means how much more POWER added to the Mortgage Interest savings?
Electric Power at nearly Zero, combined with very much more efficient Electric Cars (a no brainer in more ways than one), means Electric Home Power, Electric Business Power, and almost all Transportation Fuel costs at nearly zero, added to Mortgage Interest savings, added to No More Legal Criminal Extortion Payments, is how much savings added up so far?
How much will food cost, and how good will food quality be, and how many jobs will be up for grabs by a steadily shrinking supply of the unemployed if Vertical Home Farming Modular Units, as a growing business, explodes onto this small Planet Earth?
Adding up some of the most Obvious savings:
1.
Mortgage Interest at near zero
2.
Tax "Liabilities" at near zero
3.
Electric Power supplies at near zero
4.
Transportation FUEL costs at near zero
5.
Food costs at near zero
Why, if you think with your prejudiced, infected, brain, do you think Alaska as a "government" pays people to be citizens? Do you think that all the other States in the Involuntary Union are subsidizing those payments? Is there nothing of value in Alaska that could possibly be the source of that POWER, such as all that Oil that is reported to be in Alaska, as reported by the person Lindsay Williams, and others?
"The Elephant = Monopoly = Unearned Income = the opposite of Joe’s Law = Scarcity"
There is the Elephant!
What Elephant, I see no Elephant.
Look at your Mortgage interest payments, and if you have none, good for you, but look at the whole circuit of POWER flowing from many to one FUND, and then see what that is, in FACT.
Look at all those "Federal Tax Liabilities" and know what is being done with all that POWER as all those wars just keep on going, and going, and going, as if by some accident, yet the POWER still flows into those wars, leaving unambiguous money trails, purchase orders, with or without the signatures.
Look at the cost of Electricity.
Look at the cost of fuel for transportation, yours, yours alone, each time you fill up, and then add the WHOLE number of all that fuel flowing and all those "added costs", all that "unearned income" due to "tax payers FUNDS" flowing into Armies of Mercenaries, so as to "Spread Democracy" where, as it happens, there is, by some strange coincidence, a very large supply of oil handy: monopolizing transportation fuel markets.
Look at the quality of food, and the cost of food, and picture a future generation, after a reasonable adjustment of power being spent, not on Monopoly Food Producers, with their seed patents, and their Aluminum and Barium Pest Control Methods (Persistent Vapor Trails), where every home, like having a Garage with 2 cars, now has their own self-sufficient supply of competitive food for use or for trade, competitively, cooperative, and not antagonistically.
We have not even touched on medical or insurance costs and what does all that above add up to, as you somehow, again, and again, and again, fail to measure, or even see, The Elephant in the room?
How do I know, that you still slip back into abject belief in falsehood without question?
You write this:
"Both “traders” win and pay. Both are gaining capital at an exchange agreed upon"
You can't even put period on the sentence as you stumble to find reason to confuse equity with that same stomping Elephant.
Why?
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I think it is human nature to get as much as one can in business.
“Who wins? Who pays?”
Both “traders” win and pay. Both are gaining capital at an exchange agreed upon
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Who decides your pay scale, and are there any limits on what you will do to increase your pay scale?
What is the point of our discussion at this moment as you read this challenging question?
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“In your sentence I think you are referring to "insurance" as being a water tank on your property, or a cellar full of food, or batteries in a flash light, or a tank of gasoline, or something other than dollars, legal money, "collective insurance", something other than that, in that case.”
But is there anything wrong with story money if it is not criminal monopoly money? So if my equipment breaks I have money which is readily convertible. Or if I get sick, I have money to go to the Dr., etc.
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Going back to you pretending to be on Mars, looking through your telescope, and measuring the flow of POWER on earth, try to imagine the accurate identification, and measure, of ONE very large FUND, that works like a Capacitor, where all these producers of POWER send POWER to that one FUND (IMF, Global Bank, The FED, The IRS, Wall Street, Fort Knox, The Dollar Hegemony, The New World Order, the POWER to write a check for as much money as everyone else combined and buy World War III, etc.) and that ONE FUND grows, and grows, and grows, in its POWER to FEED ITSELF, and it releases that POWER very carefully, targeting all competition, crushing all competition that DOES measurably threaten that one POWER.
If you could, and you want to read something very entertaining, then read Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, or read, again very entertaining, a chance to charge your batteries, read The Ender Series of books written by Orson Scott Card. In these books the authors let you borrow their brains, and they take you to other planets so that you can then begin use that method of looking back on Earth with the POWER of detachment/disinterest/no prejudice or whatever words convey the process of inventing a competitive viewpoint in that way.
What way?
Pretend to be someone living on Mars, just for fun, look at those things on Earth, what are they doing?
What were they thinking?
How do they survive?
Isn't that interesting in a foreign sense? I mean, so what, if they blow themselves up, so what, who cares?
If you remove your too often resort to attaching emotion, long enough, you may find the disinterested viewpoint worth checking out, for fun, if for no other reason. Kurt Vonnegut is a fun read for many people. You may not like it, and Orson Scott Card is a treasure, to me, but you may not like his viewpoints either, but these are novels, these are forms of artwork, not the heavy reading that you are investing in heavily right now.
"But is there anything wrong with story money if it is not criminal monopoly money? So if my equipment breaks I have money which is readily convertible. Or if I get sick, I have money to go to the Dr., etc."
That is exactly the point, since the Elephant in the room takes all those many individual storage units and consumes all the power that would otherwise be in those many individual storage units. The Elephant in the room is designed to make sure that all those individual storage units can't exist, for if all those individual storage units were allowed to exist, the Elephant in the room would vanish over night.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
• 1 John 4:18 KJV
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment . He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
I think that works as productive power when Love is placed into my formula.
Love produced into a state of oversupply reduces the price of love down to zero, while purchasing power increases, because Love reduces the cost of production.
So many people in my life have told me that they were going to miss me at work, because I have this power to make work fun, they say that, and I know it is true, but not because I make it true, but because those special people are aware of these facts too.
So many people, on the other hand, lie, cheat, and steal their way to some imaginary "top" of the heap, and there is no way, none whatsoever, not in all my experience, to speak accurately with such a person, unless you speak their language, which are lies, threats, and violence.
Productive power does this, and destructive power does this, and why is that at all a mystery?
"Why confuse something that is not marriage with marriage?"
Who is confusing one with the other? I won't muddy these waters anymore, if I can help myself, so please show me where anyone, anywhere, has, in a demonstrable way, confused something that is not marriage with marriage?
I can then have something to see, exactly that, this demonstrated case of this person who is confusing something that is not marraige with marriage. If you can demonstrate that event, then I can know where you are getting this bothersome ideas, or thoughts, into your life, your thinking, your being. Pick out specific parts of the quotes, for example, where you are then demonstrating where someone (if it is Tucker that is THE someone) confuses something that is not marriage with marriage.
"So now I am thinking this is for believers and those who do not believe will live as they wish perhaps moving from partner to partner leaving a bunch of fatherless children who have no male input into their lives. Sons need fathers to model being men. So the words to partner around as you please (in so many words) are evil as they are not the Creator’s plan for families."
If someone says to you that false gods are false, then you understand that, it is common sense, or self evident, if you have that power to see those facts.
In some cases it is easy, as a false god may be just a man, a man claiming to be god, and then when put to the test the false god can't do things that god can do, this false god can do things that human can do, and no more.
So Tucker, Warren, Andrews, Spooner, at least those four, point out that someone, somewhere, dictating to other people, telling other people what must be done, and what must not be done, according to that one person's exclusive power to know these things, without question, without any power afforded to anyone other than this person, this dictator, this one man, or this one woman, no power allowed for any questioning whatsoever, all power held in that one person, is absurd, a lie, as pretentious as someone claiming to be god, these 4 people pointing this out to you, is bothersome to you?
They are saying the same things said in scripture concerning who has the authority to force their will upon innocent people, which is to say, that such power is not commanded by any man, or any woman ever living, alive now, or ever will live.
The only difference is, perhaps, that these 4 people, and I, making 5 in this group of Warren, Tucker, Spooner, Andrews, and I, do not make any exceptions, and you do, since you, and your group, claim that Jesus is the one exception.
Does Jesus go around taking children from the women that bear those children?
Andrews does not, Tucker does not, Warren does not, Spooner does not, and neither do I, with no exceptions that I know about, but here is room for confusion.
Example:
You walk in on a mother ready to insert the coat hanger to solve her financial problems associated with having to pay for a baby that she cannot afford, and right there in front of you, on your dinner table, is this event.
"...the children born of these relations shall belong exclusively to the mothers until old enough to belong to themselves."
That is Tucker speaking.
Tucker, Andrews, Warren, and Spooner, you and I, in fact, speak about things that can cost us much, we do so because we believe in things such as Love, and other things, and these beliefs we have threaten people in power, where the power these people are in, where these people have their power threatened by us, may want to do us harm in some way.
Is that true?
Andrews was run out of Texas, if I have the story understood, for "freeing the slaves", a serious crime.
Freeing the slaves.
A serous crime.
So I'm going to speculate, pre-judge, as if making a wager, betting the farm so to speak, as to what this group, in question, would do, in this case in question, presented to you.
5 people in one group.
You in the other group.
5 people walk in on this event, this coat hanger event, where this woman, this "mother", is now ready to make life less expensive for this "mother".
Warren, Tucker, Andrews, Spooner, and me. 5 people.
What would we do?
I can't speak for Warren, but I know, as his words report, that his efforts to speak to other people, were subject to liabilities in his day, and he knew this. I can get the quotes now.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/warren/...
"123. Now are heard the wails of distress from all quarters. The papers are filled with accounts of brutal violence on both sides -- villages burning -- men hanging -- ferocity let loose in every horrid shape and form. The heated passions on both sides become more and more ferocious, -- a curious way to promote "Union"! A frenzy of rage sweeps over the land while I write. The last step of despotism has been taken by both governments. Freedom of action and speech are annihilated in "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Even these written words may prove the death-warrant of the writer. Nothing but the clamor of war and the fear of prisons and violent deaths, smother, for the moment, the low moan from desolated hearths and broken hearts from the depths of the hell we are in!"
I had to speed read to find that here:
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/warren/...
So, back to my own story, these 5 people in this dastardly group of so called "anarchists" walk in on the "mother" tending to her "child" with a coat hanger, and we do what, exactly.
What do you do?
Are we speaking about good things in our future or are we speaking about The Elephant on the room?
"Why is it necessary to remove the family unit in anarchism?"
When you can demonstrate to me, specifically, where someone, somewhere, finds it "necessary to remove the family unit in anarchism", then we can look at that being demonstrated, and then we can start discussing that event in the past, in the present, or in the future case where that exact thing is demonstrated.
I may be jumping out of order at this point.
"I am glad my laughing made you smile. Thank you for your time today Josf."
Thanks for the smile, and your time too.
Joe
Back to Work
“Bloom is big on utilizing Satellites in Space to collect Solar Power and send that power to a collector on Earth for electric Power, which according to his work (and that guys does extensive work) it is already possible - nearly unlimited cost-less electric power without need to buy any oil, or coal, or wood, or produce any nuclear waste that is not so much of our daily lives.
I point out, and no one listens, that Solar Panels reproduce themselves, in other words they generate enough power to pay for their own costs and at least one more, and that cost/benefit FACT is getting better not worse, so there is no reason, other that that Elephant in the room, for POWER to be scarce on Planet Earth.”
I know you have been hammering away at this for nearly a year now. Here we were talking about the fact that FRN’s do not belong in Equitable Commerce and now I must add to that there is no reason on earth for power to be scarce.
This is probably going to sound abit silly, but Josf, how in the world can you stand it? You see, you understand, you know how things could be and those things are kept out of reach because criminals keep victims powerless, or at just enough power for them to rake off the abundance leaving the victims, if they are lucky, with enough power to go make more power the next day so that that power can be raked away by the criminals again.
You talk to me about looking at the earth from mars and seeing. It is almost overwhelming to try to imagine. Free power, free money, abundance all available thru equitable competition. I am using the word free, not to mean cost-less, but free from unearned income, which in comparison would make it seem nearly free. Perhaps talking in 2 different places has brought this realization for me.
“Why, if you think with your prejudiced, infected, brain, do you think Alaska as a "government" pays people to be citizens? Do you think that all the other States in the Involuntary Union are subsidizing those payments? Is there nothing of value in Alaska that could possibly be the source of that POWER, such as all that Oil that is reported to be in Alaska, as reported by the person Lindsay Williams, and others?”
Sarah Palin talked about this. She told people to read the Alaska Constitution because the resources belong to the people of the state.at time 22:40: http://youtu.be/VkRw4EOwY2g (from http://www.dailypaul.com/278512/sarah-palin-rocks-cpac-mocks...).
“How do I know, that you still slip back into abject belief in falsehood without question?
You write this:
"Both “traders” win and pay. Both are gaining capital at an exchange agreed upon"
You can't even put period on the sentence as you stumble to find reason to confuse equity with that same stomping Elephant.
Why?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I think it is human nature to get as much as one can in business.
“Who wins? Who pays?”
Both “traders” win and pay. Both are gaining capital at an exchange agreed upon
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Who decides your pay scale, and are there any limits on what you will do to increase your pay scale?
What is the point of our discussion at this moment as you read this challenging question?”
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I equity is tied to the golden rule. So when a trade is made I have learned from you that both are traders. There is not a “buyer” or a “seller” but there are traders. So both traders trade what they will for what they want. If the perfect money is attached to the golden rule then the medium of exchange will be equal as both parties intend to do for the other party what they would have done for themselves.
But I am having a hard time with that concept now as I think of human nature. I have one son who will not pick the biggest piece so as to let the other have the biggest. I have another son who will pick the biggest piece so that he gets the largest portion. Needless to say, it is the skinny son who picks the biggest for himself…some people are more generous than others. So how can exchanges continue to be free as long as human nature is around? Is the answer competition? If the answer is competition, then will not the price be driven to equity, even when human nature abounds? So the price the market will bear is base within a market of competition and if my price is not following the golden rule and someone else’s is, then I will lose the ability to trade what I have for what I want until I self-regulate to operate within equity.
I think Warren’s answer to this was in keeping the books open to the public so that each individual could determine that equity was being followed. So even Warren understood human nature to either cheat or to question whether someone was cheating.
God says thumbs don’t belong on the scale too: http://www.biblestudytools.com/search/?q=weights&c=&t=kjv&ps...
“If you remove your too often resort to attaching emotion, long enough, you may find the disinterested viewpoint worth checking out, for fun, if for no other reason. Kurt Vonnegut is a fun read for many people. You may not like it, and Orson Scott Card is a treasure, to me, but you may not like his viewpoints either, but these are novels, these are forms of artwork, not the heavy reading that you are investing in heavily right now.”
Thank you for the book suggestions. I have saved them.
“ 1 John 4:18 KJV
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment . He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
I think that works as productive power when Love is placed into my formula.
Love produced into a state of oversupply reduces the price of love down to zero, while purchasing power increases, because Love reduces the cost of production.”
Very interesting take on Love and Joe’s Law! And hate entered into that equation produces the opposite of Joe’s Law.
“So many people in my life have told me that they were going to miss me at work, because I have this power to make work fun, they say that, and I know it is true, but not because I make it true, but because those special people are aware of these facts too. “
The Amish call their community work projects “frolics.” Their work is fun as they work together to accomplish what one could not accomplish alone. A frolic is something they look forward to. I got to see one in action as I picked up eggs Friday. The men were all out with their axes clearing some land and some lumber was present. I don’t know what is being built yet, but the land was cleared in a day. The ladies were inside visiting, caring for children and would be preparing the noon meal shortly.
The Amish have church over other weak. They take turns having in each other’s homes. The homes are built to accommodate the church gathering. Anyways, before they have church the do a good house cleaning. Relatives get together and help the host do a good cleaning for the upcoming church service. They help each other a lot and it makes their work fun.
The power to make work fun is something that money cannot buy. It is something that can be given and enjoyed. I am glad that you have people say those words to you.
“So many people, on the other hand, lie, cheat, and steal their way to some imaginary "top" of the heap, and there is no way, none whatsoever, not in all my experience, to speak accurately with such a person, unless you speak their language, which are lies, threats, and violence.”
Is that why you asked me about a stock split when you first began talking to me?
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"Who is confusing one with the other? I won't muddy these waters anymore, if I can help myself, so please show me where anyone, anywhere, has, in a demonstrable way, confused something that is not marriage with marriage?”
“http://praxeology.net/BT-SSA.htm
“SSA.32
Even in so delicate a matter as that of the relations of the sexes the Anarchists do not shrink from the application of their principle. They acknowledge and defend the right of any man and woman, or any men and women, to love each other for as long or as short a time as they can, will, or may. To them legal marriage and legal divorce are equal absurdities. They look forward to a time when every individual, whether man or woman, shall be self-supporting, and when each shall have an independent home of his or her own, whether it be a separate house or rooms in a house with others; when the love relations between these independent individuals shall be as varied as are individual inclinations and attractions; and when the children born of these relations shall belong exclusively to the mothers until old enough to belong to themselves.”
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“Even in so delicate a matter as that of the relations of the sexes the Anarchists do not shrink from the application of their principle. They acknowledge and defend the right of any man and woman, or any men and women, to love each other for as long or as short a time as they can, will, or may.”
What kind of security, what kind of trust, what kind of love is resident when one cannot depend on their partner? Why do Anarchists need to remove the family unit? Why is not love for life? And I am not talking about the opposite of love. I am not talking about men who beat and rape women and call that marriage. Those men deserve to go to jail or whatever the jury OF WOMEN decides lol :) It is hard for me to understand. You are married. You say you are faithful to your wife. Why bother if Anarchism says love who ever you want as long as you want? Did you not make a commitment to your wife to love her? Does love have an end? When I read Tucker’s words, I read words that say there is no need to make any commitments. Come and go as you will and leave the women burdened down with multiple children while you go make some more:
"...the children born of these relations shall belong exclusively to the mothers until old enough to belong to themselves." - Tucker
Children are supposed to belong to a father and a mother in a family unit. That is what bothers me. Why does he advocate people having multiple relationships and women bearing children from multiple fathers? Why is that important to anarchism?
“They look forward to a time when every individual, whether man or woman, shall be self-supporting, and when each shall have an independent home of his or her own, whether it be a separate house or rooms in a house with others; when the love relations between these independent individuals shall be as varied as are individual inclinations and attractions;”
They look forward to a time when a man and a women do not become one flesh? They look forward to a time when you are not a father to your 2 children? You should live in your own house and the person you made children with should live in her own house?
Jesus said in Mark 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said , Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together , let not man put asunder
Is that not a beautiful picture of 2 becoming 1? Granted it is not going to work out for everyone, so a divorce is in order in some cases. Why? Because some people are not equitable. Some people are selfish, some people are abusers. But that does not mean that everyone is supposed to be free from being a family unit.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. 11Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.
It seems to me that both you and I are fortunate to be part of 4-fold cords: our spouce and our 2 children. You have much more power as a 4-fold cord than as a single strand.
I can't speak for Warren, but I know, as his words report, that his efforts to speak to other people, were subject to liabilities in his day, and he knew this. I can get the quotes now.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/warren/...
"123. Now are heard the wails of distress from all quarters. The papers are filled with accounts of brutal violence on both sides -- villages burning -- men hanging -- ferocity let loose in every horrid shape and form. The heated passions on both sides become more and more ferocious, -- a curious way to promote "Union"! A frenzy of rage sweeps over the land while I write. The last step of despotism has been taken by both governments. Freedom of action and speech are annihilated in "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Even these written words may prove the death-warrant of the writer. Nothing but the clamor of war and the fear of prisons and violent deaths, smother, for the moment, the low moan from desolated hearths and broken hearts from the depths of the hell we are in!"
I had to speed read to find that here:
“http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/warren/...” A new resource? Oh my look how many pages it is? I have added it to my library doc. Which makes me wonder, do you have a library in your forum? Or maybe your whole forum is your library? :)
“So, back to my own story, these 5 people in this dastardly group of so called "anarchists" walk in on the "mother" tending to her "child" with a coat hanger, and we do what, exactly.
What do you do?”
Knowing me, I’d probably scream which is my first instinct. Not at the person but in horror. And then I would try to get some help for the woman.
I have relatives who lost everything in the civil war because they fought against slavery and their lands were confiscated in the south. At least my mom tells me some such story, but she also told me I have Indian blood in me which my aunt denies. So who knows. I am sure the relatives on the other side were those that were mean to slaves. They are in South Carolina. My grandfather was hateful towards women and black people.
“When you can demonstrate to me, specifically, where someone, somewhere, finds it "necessary to remove the family unit in anarchism", then we can look at that being demonstrated, and then we can start discussing that event in the past, in the present, or in the future case where that exact thing is demonstrated. “
The quote I gave you from Tucker is where I think the family unit is being removed from Anarchism. I am reading that People should be free to love whenever, however, as long as ever, whomever or how many ever they wish. That concept is completely outside of the Bible:
• 1 Corinthians 7:2 KJV
Nevertheless , to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
The way God made it you get your very own personal spouse to love and to care for and to share life.
The words of Mr. Tucker are anathema to me in respect to love. And the first time I read Warren and Andrews I read the same kind of thing which caused me to choke on the whole message of equity.
I have gotten past seeing red. This idea of unfettered "love" which is not love at all, causes me to see sin. IMO that is why women were in back allies with coat hangers. They had no one to love them or the child.
I didn't proof.
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Stand for something or fall for anything.
"This is probably going to sound abit silly, but Josf, how in the world can you stand it? You see, you understand, you know how things could be and those things are kept out of reach because criminals keep victims powerless, or at just enough power for them to rake off the abundance leaving the victims, if they are lucky, with enough power to go make more power the next day so that that power can be raked away by the criminals again."
I am speaking with my new friend in Russia again, it was me who had dropped the ball, not seeing his last reply in e-mail.
He offers very competitive viewpoints like you do, like my wife does, my son, my daughter, my brothers, friends, etc.
This is amazing, this capacity to Stand it, not alone.
More people standing for something, so as not to fall (scripture helps here again) for anything, is happening, and I've told you this before, and you may want to know this, borrow my viewpoint, as never before there are many people listening, many people finding each other, gaining power in many competitive ways, at least as far as I can see, based upon decades of looking carefully.
You can stand it, so can I, more or less, relatively speaking, and there is much power in numbers greater than 1.
"You talk to me about looking at the earth from mars and seeing. It is almost overwhelming to try to imagine. Free power, free money, abundance all available thru equitable competition. I am using the word free, not to mean cost-less, but free from unearned income, which in comparison would make it seem nearly free. Perhaps talking in 2 different places has brought this realization for me."
You have now a working concept of unearned income, and why not? What could be further from the truth to think that all income is earned? Charity does not work (in a true sense) in such a way as to reward those who find ways to get charity. A professional welfare collector like Ben Bernanke, receiving so much charity, is not a good case of earning charitable income. If words mean anything, then the charitable flow of income from those who produce it to Ben Bernanke, as welfare, is a crime, and a specific crime of fraud, easy to see, why not?
Ben Bernanke writes his own welfare check, as much money as everyone else has combined, and then Ben Bernanke buys things with that Charitable Donation hand delivered to Ben Bernanke by all these Charitable People in this place called America; flowing from their Good Faith and Credit, in the form of Charity.
No, that is not charity, and charity is a flow of unearned income from those who do earn income to those who can't, for reasons beyond the control of those who receive TRUE charity.
Unearned income brackets equity perfectly as Crime and Charity.
Unearned income is crime and charity.
Equity is in the middle as such:
1. Charity (power given, in a true sense, to needy people by people who earn something worth giving)
2. Equity (power traded equitably so as to move power more efficiently between traders who specialize in specific ways of earning income)
3. Crime (power stolen, in a true sense, from those who produce power to those who steal it, and then use the stolen power to steal more as the criminals grow stronger and their victims grow weaker, and the criminals grow more able to steal, and the victims grow less able to produce things worth stealing)
Charity is powerfully good, and crime is as powerfully destructive as if being exactly opposite of Charity?
Why not?
"I equity is tied to the golden rule. So when a trade is made I have learned from you that both are traders. There is not a “buyer” or a “seller” but there are traders. So both traders trade what they will for what they want. If the perfect money is attached to the golden rule then the medium of exchange will be equal as both parties intend to do for the other party what they would have done for themselves."
If not, then a honest person can demonstrate why not, and if there are only 2 people left on earth, no one else alive to help resolve a contentious estimate of equitable trading, then two honest people can find any cause of contentious trading, as time goes by, and who pays the cost of resolving future disputes when there are only 2 people left on earth?
Here is where "Lender" and "Borrower" become just traders too. Just Traders. Who pays the costs of a lender who moves POWER to a borrower whereby the borrower runs into hard times, and is not able to perform as expected? The lender is trading, not giving, no being charitable in a true sense of charity, so what is the lender trading, what does the lender want, get, and earn in any equitable case of trading in this way? What if the lender sells the loan without recording the sale in the way agreed upon by equitable traders, breaking the chain of title requirements written into the fine, and finer, and even finer print of documented laws governing lending in America?
One thing I was told during my lifetime was that in America there are no debtors prisons. Now I hear that Student loan borrowers are being offered a Tour of Duty in The Criminally Led U.S. Military, or a Tour of Duty in The Criminally Led U.S. Gulag that is so often fraudulently labeled with such False Front LIES as "Correctional Institution".
How far from equity can We The People get, when power is being made scarce for the fun and profit of a few at the expense of all those earners who can start the day with less power and end the day with more power?
How powerful is knowledge?
How powerful is accurate communication?
What is money?
"So how can exchanges continue to be free as long as human nature is around? Is the answer competition? If the answer is competition, then will not the price be driven to equity, even when human nature abounds? So the price the market will bear is base within a market of competition and if my price is not following the golden rule and someone else’s is, then I will lose the ability to trade what I have for what I want until I self-regulate to operate within equity."
Have you ever spoken with a criminal and realized how they think? I have. To a criminal, anyone infected with criminal thoughts, having criminal thoughts working in their minds, driving them to action, the concept of crime is a gift to the targeted victim. They say, they really do say, I've heard them say, that the victim deserves everything the victim gets, because the criminal is teaching the victim a lesson, giving a lesson to the targeted victim, to help the targeted victim be less of a victim.
Your work is the work of a non-criminal mind, despite all the forces that work on you to turn you into a fellow criminal, yet you persist in defending the most valuable power you have to keep you from ever being one of the criminals who think like criminals.
So you have been confused, and still are confused, and when you next encounter a criminal, you may have one of those light bulb moments, as you see past the False Front used by the criminal, so adeptly, as the criminal is convinced of his power to be charitable to you, by stealing from you.
Petty criminals are not as charitable as Ben Bernanke and the rest of the gang at Central Bank Center.
Central Bankers know how to raise the bar of counterfeit Charity to new heights of competitive excellence in Evil.
Which competition?
A. The greater of two evils contest
B. The greater of two goods contest
Which competition ends up with power in short supply where the best at this contest have power over that shrinking supply that they shrink on purpose, for their exclusive profit, because they are so charitable that way?
Which competition seeks more at the end of the day, arrives at more at the end of the day, than that which was available at the start of the day?
"I think Warren’s answer to this was in keeping the books open to the public so that each individual could determine that equity was being followed. So even Warren understood human nature to either cheat or to question whether someone was cheating."
Is the thought that enters a person's head a true thought of true charity if the person decides to withhold information from the potential traders that would be accurate information empowering the potential traders to know better as to the actual price of the thing being traded? I'm doing those fellow traders a service by avoiding full disclosure of the facts?
How many decades of wasted power is spent on printing and selling "deals" where the price of things are now "half price" and everyone now knows to wait for the "half price" "sale events"?
It is nonsense.
I have to go for now.
"Very interesting take on Love and Joe’s Law! And hate entered into that equation produces the opposite of Joe’s Law."
Here is where I test my understanding of new found viewpoints in scripture, keys if they are keys, and I am again taken back to Proverbs 8 with The fear of God being to hate evil, and to me it is the evil seen in the mirror.
You wrote:
1 John 4:18 KJV
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment . He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
I think that works as productive power when Love is placed into my formula.
Fear of God isn't a case of a powerless being, a human being, made even more powerless because God is so scary, no, not from my position of pretended understanding, the idea here is to know that fear is to be avoided like the plague, and therefore the human being aught to know what causes it, which is that Evil stuff, the cause of fear is the Evil stuff, and where is this plague, where is this fear, where is this Evil, where it can be known in such a way as to be rendered powerless?
I think each human being has to look in the mirror first.
"They help each other a lot and it makes their work fun."
I feel as if there is a good opportunity here to convey a resent discovery I found with the help of the Russian. I was explaining to him my idea of fun, as having no fun to me is like having no reason to go on living.
He says this:
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'Радость' reads like 'Radost' '. 'Ра' part comes from the very old form of language - runic one. ' Ра' as rune means 'light' and 'knowledge' together. 'Дость' part comes from verbe which in modern form looks like 'дать' and means 'give'. So together word means a state in which you recieve Ra. And such state is a pure joy, mirth.
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The Russian figures out something I did not figure out myself, and that is that what I mean when I say "fun" is to give knowledge while receiving knowledge, or to trade knowledge equitably, and this is current stuff, exemplary stuff of what I mean precisely when I say fun, as in "the pursuit of happiness" type fun.
What do I mean?
I mean that life without this equitable trading of knowledge would be meaningless and powerless to me.
How can I arrive at knowing better?
I need help, a demonstrable fact of life.
"The power to make work fun is something that money cannot buy. It is something that can be given and enjoyed. I am glad that you have people say those words to you."
Amazing?
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“So many people, on the other hand, lie, cheat, and steal their way to some imaginary "top" of the heap, and there is no way, none whatsoever, not in all my experience, to speak accurately with such a person, unless you speak their language, which are lies, threats, and violence.”
Is that why you asked me about a stock split when you first began talking to me?
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Not at all. I think a stock split is perfectly legitimate in a moral, psychological, and economic, physical sense, so long as those who are connected in that way are all up to speed as to what is being done, why, when, and how much.
A stock split is just a device that exemplifies how there can be a genuine equitable use of accounting/money/paper/deals/trades/power transfers and that can be compared competitively with Ben Bernanke doubling the money supply in such a way as to fail, deliberately, to fully disclose what that means, exactly, to everyone who will be victimized, on purpose, by those willful actions designed to accomplish exactly what those willful actions are designed to accomplish and the LIES that are told to cover that up are easier to see if you imagine having that power yourself.
I did not think, do not think, and will not think that you are a criminal until such time as you prove to me that you are a criminal, so I knew, know, and will know that I have to speak to you in non-criminal language, or, try to help you see that criminals do have their own language that may be understandable from their shoes.
Did I get the question confused?
"Is that why you asked me about a stock split when you first began talking to me?"
I think no.
"What kind of security, what kind of trust, what kind of love is resident when one cannot depend on their partner?"
Here is where you have a difficult time depending upon my translations of what Andrews means, with the words Andrews chooses, and I may fail miserably, and therefore you cannot know what Andrews means, when Andrews uses the word Love.
What I think Andrews means is such that an individual person is the source of the definition of the word love, according to that individual person, not a Lawyer.
If I am right, then that is what Andrews means. If you get some other idea out of what Andrews means, then I am powerless to alter your ideas of what Andrews means in any case. I can offer, repeated, and you can defend your viewpoint of what Andrews means repeatedly, and that can go on forever, and Andrews is not alive to defend against any misinterpretations that may occur in any case.
I wrote:
Who is confusing one with the other? I won't muddy these waters anymore, if I can help myself, so please show me where anyone, anywhere, has, in a demonstrable way, confused something that is not marriage with marriage?
You, apparently, bring up Andrews as an example of someone confusing marriage with something that is not marriage. I see no such thing. You do?
You decide what love means for someone other than you?
You decide what marriage means for someone other than you?
You, on the other hand, reserve the power to decide what love means, and what marriage means to you, with or without help given to you by God, through scripture?
So your viewpoint is more powerful than anyone else's viewpoint because you have been saved and someone else may not yet be saved, and so how is it that you can help Andrews, or me, or anyone else, know better as to what is truly love, or marriage?
Make a man-made law that punishes people who do not abide by God's law?
Andrews is not confusing the issue of personal, individual, power to know better with God's law, as his words, at least obvious to me, concern the personal, individual, power to know better compared to Man-Made-Law, or "legal" love and marriage.
If Andrews is confused, an example of someone confused, then where is such evidence of that confusion? I don't see it.
"What kind of security, what kind of trust, what kind of love is resident when one cannot depend on their partner?"
What does that question have to do with what Andrews wrote? Why put Andrews into the discussion as an example of something, and then ignore what Andrews wrote, and then, instead of listening to what Andrews wrote you start attaching these ideas to Andrews as if these ideas are from Andrews?
I don't get it.
"Why do Anarchists need to remove the family unit?"
Where is one? If you can find one, then you can ask one who removes the family unit, and then we can both know the answer.
Andrews points out the difference between an individual doing something based upon their individual power to do things and compares that individual power to do things with a power that is external to the individual, and the external power that is external to the individual is not vague, not misleading, not suggesting that the external power is God, or The Devil, rather specifically LEGAL power, as this LEGAL power is claiming to be better at deciding what the individual will do, or will not do, according to that individual power to do, or not do, so where does God find his way into Andrews viewpoint?
Individual is here.
Man made law authority over the individual person is here.
Individual finds what the individual considers to be love and marriage with another individual who considers love and marriage to be the same thing here.
What does that have to do with man-made law?
It has, in Andrews day, in Andrews experience, a power to dictate that those two people will be punished for failing to abide by man-made laws.
It is specific to actual people showing up at actual homes and these actual people have badges, and licenses, to force people to stay together or be punished for failing to do so, and that is the subject matter to be looked at, for the purpose of knowing better, and he offered examples.
Where is this person who is this anarchist where this anarchist is doing what you say this anarchist is doing?
"Why do Anarchists need to remove the family unit?"
Here is what Andrews used as an example:
"Now, the doctrine of free love is not even anti-marriage in the external or legal sense of the term, any more than the doctrine of free worship in our churches is anti-worship; certainly, therefore, it is not anti-marriage in respect to the spiritual conception of marriage entertained by Mr. James. It is simply opposed to the legal imposition of marriage as a uniform and compulsory mode of adjusting the sexual relations of society and may be said perhaps to be equally opposed to the dogmatic imposition, upon all of us, of precisely Mr. James’s idea, or anybody’s idea of spiritual marriage. It is simply and wholly the doctrine of “hands off,” or of remitting the jurisdiction of the subject to the parties concerned; of freedom to marry externally and by express contract for those for those who desire so to marry; of freedom to be married ever so closely and exclusively, in the spiritual sense, for those who believe in it and desire it; and of equal freedom for those who believe in neither to regulate their love relations in accordance with whatever ideas they do entertain. The doctrine pronounces absolutely nothing with regard to the truth or falsehood of any of those ulterior doctrines, but simply prohibits the interference of anybody with the affairs of others, in this respect, for the purpose of enforcing their own individual or collective beliefs. The whole doctrine of free love is, therefore, rigorously constrained in what Mr. James defines as the negative side of that doctrine. It has no other side whatever; and upon this side of the subject Mr. James affirms that he is infinitely in accord with us. The other side of the doctrine – what he calls the positive side, and attributes to us – is, as I have previously said, purely a figment of his own imagination, and would be as abhorrent to me, if I recognized it as really existing anywhere, as it is or can be to him."
http://praxeology.net/HJ-HG-SPA-LMD-19.htm
That was not what I set out to find. But it may help.
How about this:
"Had there existed a Public Opinion already formed, based on Freedom, the poor girl in New Hampshire, whose sad history we have read in a paragraph, would probably not have been deserted, or if she were, she would not have felt that “every eye was turned upon her in scorn, knowing her disgrace,” visiting upon her a worse torture than any ever invented by savages, because, forsooth, she had already been cruelly wronged! A Christian people, indeed! “Her heart” would not have “sunk within her day by day and week by week.” “Paleness” would not have “come upon her cheeks,” and “her frame” have “wasted away until she was almost a living skeleton.” She would not have become a raving maniac. “Her brothers and friends” would not have been “borne down with sorrow at her condition.” Public opinion would not have bene invoked “to hunt down” her betrayer, after first hunting down her; and, finally, her misfortune would not have been paraded and gloated over by a shameless public press, Mr. Greeley in the van, holding up the poor agonized, heart-riven, persecuted victim of the Infernalism of our Social Institutions, in warning to others against yielding to the purest, and holiest, and most powerful of the sentiments which God has implanted in the Human Heart – the joint force of the yearning after Freedom and after Love. "
http://praxeology.net/HJ-HG-SPA-LMD-13.htm
So...be specific and I can be specific too.
We might know better as a result.
Where is the anarchist who works to remove the family unit?
When you find one, then we can see how that anarchist is working to reach that goal. We may be able to find what power is commanded by that anarchist, how well or how poorly that anarchist is doing in that work where that power is being applied to reach that goal that you have placed in that anarchists mind.
We can ask that anarchist if that anarchist is working to remove the family unit, and we can ask if their goal is the same goal as you think is the goal they have, and we can all then agree that that anarchist is working to remove the family unit as you obviously think is what is being done by that anarchist, and at that point I can comment on what I think is, or is not, anarchistic, in my own viewpoint, or as I interpret what Andrews is saying with the words he published in the 19th century.
"Why does he advocate people having multiple relationships and women bearing children from multiple fathers? Why is that important to anarchism?"
If that is what you want to do with your time on earth, then that is what you want to do with your time in earth, were is it that any other person wants what you are claiming they want?
Where is this anarchist that represents this anarchism stuff the way you say that this anarchist represents anarchism in the way you claim they represent anarchism?
When you find one, because you have not found one in Andrews, unless you have some words that are written by Andrews where Andrews advocates people having multiple relationships and women bearing children from multiple fathers, specifically Andrews himself advocating such things, not Andrews saying that an individual is the power that decides those things compared to someone other than the individual deciding those things for that individual where that individual finds another individual agreeing to do those things, then having that, not adding your ideas in between the lines, we will have, at that time, an anarchist who advocates his self, or her self, finding another individual who also shares his self, or her self, advocating this or that, a confession if you will, doing the things you say they are advocating themselves to do their-selves, and not themselves advocating a nebulous State licensed person with a badge "advocating" their selves to do what that person with that badge "advocates" with that gun, and that whip, and that rope, and those stones, or those nails and that cross.
"They look forward to a time when a man and a women do not become one flesh?"
Who is they? They is not you. You do what you do, without a person with a badge making you do what you do, and that is the point offered by Andrews. Andrews does not claim the legal power to make you be one flesh with someone you would not be one flesh with without the gun, the mob, the stones, the nails, the cross, the lies, the threats, and the violence.
If you see people doing things that you think they aught not do, then perhaps you can help them see the error of your ways, and the point offered by Andrews, as I see it, is that if you resort to lies, threats, and violence as a means of making those people you think are not doing good, do good, you resort to crime to make them do good, if that is what you do, then you are the one doing that, and that is the point pointed out by Andrews according to my understanding of Andrews according to Andrews, not according to the words I imagine being written by Andrews.
"They look forward to a time when you are not a father to your 2 children?"
Who is "they"?
Where did "they" confess to not looking forward to being a father to 2 children?
"You should live in your own house and the person you made children with should live in her own house?"
The point was, as far as my reading of Andrews, that you should no more be tricked, threatened, or violently forced by other people to live in one house or not live in one house as you may decide on your own to do or to not do, and that is the point, not what you place as being the goal in their minds.
I have to go again.
" But that does not mean that everyone is supposed to be free from being a family unit."
And holding people to account for their own thoughts and actions, when they harm no one but themselves, being responsible for their own affairs (no pun intended), is whose job?
If you say it is God's job, to judge, then are you saying Andrews, according to your judgement, is advocating no families?
I saw no such thing attributable to Andrews.
"It seems to me that both you and I are fortunate to be part of 4-fold cords: our spouce and our 2 children. You have much more power as a 4-fold cord than as a single strand."
That is the essence of Equitable Commerce, to avoid placing road block in the way of people finding those other people who are best at helping one another.
"Which makes me wonder, do you have a library in your forum? Or maybe your whole forum is your library?"
If English means anything, a shared understanding of words, then yes, I store useful information to me, in my library which is my forum.
Public access?
"The quote I gave you from Tucker is where I think the family unit is being removed from Anarchism. I am reading that People should be free to love whenever, however, as long as ever, whomever or how many ever they wish. That concept is completely outside of the Bible:"
I thought you were quoting from Andrews, but Tucker is the same thing, to me, it is not a case of refutation of scripture, far from that, it is actually the opposite, as those who will find scripture aught not be kept from it because a false authority (a man or woman) keeps them from anything that they, as individuals, are inspired to find, and pay for, at their own cost.
You confuse a viewpoint that accurately points out that false authority is false authority with your inaccurate interpretation of that viewpoint with some nebulous claim that "they" are anti-God.
The subject of God is covered by Andrews in his replies to James in that link on Love and Marriage.
Here again:
http://praxeology.net/HJ-HG-SPA-LMD-19.htm
"Now, the doctrine of free love is not even anti-marriage in the external or legal sense of the term, any more than the doctrine of free worship in our churches is anti-worship; certainly, therefore, it is not anti-marriage in respect to the spiritual conception of marriage entertained by Mr. James. It is simply opposed to the legal imposition of marriage as a uniform and compulsory mode of adjusting the sexual relations of society and may be said perhaps to be equally opposed to the dogmatic imposition, upon all of us, of precisely Mr. James’s idea, or anybody’s idea of spiritual marriage. It is simply and wholly the doctrine of “hands off,” or of remitting the jurisdiction of the subject to the parties concerned; of freedom to marry externally and by express contract for those for those who desire so to marry; of freedom to be married ever so closely and exclusively, in the spiritual sense, for those who believe in it and desire it; and of equal freedom for those who believe in neither to regulate their love relations in accordance with whatever ideas they do entertain. The doctrine pronounces absolutely nothing with regard to the truth or falsehood of any of those ulterior doctrines, but simply prohibits the interference of anybody with the affairs of others, in this respect, for the purpose of enforcing their own individual or collective beliefs. The whole doctrine of free love is, therefore, rigorously constrained in what Mr. James defines as the negative side of that doctrine. It has no other side whatever; and upon this side of the subject Mr. James affirms that he is infinitely in accord with us. The other side of the doctrine – what he calls the positive side, and attributes to us – is, as I have previously said, purely a figment of his own imagination, and would be as abhorrent to me, if I recognized it as really existing anywhere, as it is or can be to him."
"The words of Mr. Tucker are anathema to me in respect to love. And the first time I read Warren and Andrews I read the same kind of thing which caused me to choke on the whole message of equity."
The words you place instead of their words, it seems to me, is what you have an issue with, and where is the source of those words since they did not write those words that you have an issue with in fact?
Advocates of sex with animals may be your next assumption of guilt placed upon Tucker, Andrews, and anyone else daring to point out the absurdity of man dictating to man what is right or wrong to be done at your own cost?
Tucker the goat fornicator?
"This idea of unfettered "love" which is not love at all, causes me to see sin."
Whatever it is you see, to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with what Warren, Andrews, and Tucker attempt to communicate, in fact the opposite appears to be the case.
The word "unfettered" means "shall make no law" as in "man-made" law abridging the rights to read scripture, or define the meaning of love, etc.
Where you get your definition, or ideas, of what is or is not "unfettered", to me, appears to be in your mind, not theirs.
"IMO that is why women were in back allies with coat hangers. They had no one to love them or the child."
Warren, Andrews, and Tucker, as far as I can see, are the one's who are suggesting the end of the transfers of power to those who make it "Legal" to profit on abortion markets. Even the word "subsidy" as in "subsidized abortions", are exactly the things that do happen, despite the false words covering up the crimes of baby murder for fun and profit, which are specifically not things "advocated" by Warren, Andrews, and Tucker, they say no, don't send "them" any power at all, and "they" won't abuse that "collective" power in that way, or any other way.
Here is where Warren, Andrews, and Tucker, and I part, because I think that "government" can be a collective power of defense, and they see no need for such things. I point to The Declaration of Independence, as does Warren and Tucker. I also point to Shays's Rebellion, Constitutionally limited States, Common Law, Trial by Jury (Spooner points to Trial by Jury), and The Articles of Confederation, they do not, so there are things to work on, in my opinion.
No editing here too.
Joe
Sorry, I missed this yesterday
“One thing I was told during my lifetime was that in America there are no debtors prisons. Now I hear that Student loan borrowers are being offered a Tour of Duty in The Criminally Led U.S. Military, or a Tour of Duty in The Criminally Led U.S. Gulag that is so often fraudulently labeled with such False Front LIES as "Correctional Institution".”
Contrast that to the GI Bill where soldiers had the benefit of paid college after service. The criminal reverse being student loans with interest, graduating at a time when America is being busted and one has the “opportunity” to work off their government debt by fighting government wars…or by sitting in privately funded prisons for profit.
“How far from equity can We The People get, when power is being made scarce for the fun and profit of a few at the expense of all those earners who can start the day with less power and end the day with more power?
How powerful is knowledge?
How powerful is accurate communication?
What is money?”
I posted a video to the Liberty Day Challenge comment titled “Elephants and Tape Worms.” The video is a very rationally speaking woman named Catherine Austin Fitts. I think she offers some steps to change things around abit, or at least reserve and conserve and grow power locally. If you have time, it is an hour long, I think it is well worth the listen. It is not hard listening, but I have listened 2 times and am getting Jeff to listen to it. We made it 25 minutes before he nodded off :) To me she presents:
Powerful knowledge, accurate communication, as well as a discussion on money economy. The only reason I listened to it was because it was on the top of the front page of the DP and I decided to click on it and I am glad I did. I think she hammers home a lot of what you have been saying to me. I actually think a plan of action would be to have a viewing of the interview in each town to wake people up. She does not have the entertainment value of Alex Jones or Gerald Celente or Jesse Ventura, but I found myself wanting to hear and understand every word. I think she is someone that would appeal to all audiences and could perhaps get the message to some that would not hear otherwise.
You ask:
“How powerful is knowledge?
How powerful is accurate communication?
What is money?”
Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulucJnxT7B4
I think perhaps they are all one in the same: currency or power
“Have you ever spoken with a criminal and realized how they think?”
I didn’t even fully understand criminals until dialoging with you. In my mind a criminals was the standard robber or sexual deviant. I was glad to never have run into any of them. Really though, I am pretty sheltered so I haven’t run into the criminal mind and realized it. However, now I see it evidenced around me with eyes wide open. I hear criminals speak all the time now. But so far, I don’t have the occasion to have a conversation with any. But now I think of my grandfather who forced my grandmother to cook his breakfast while she was in labor before he would take her to the doctor. And I think of him telling me about how when he owned a gas station and pulled people out of the snow and they wouldn’t pay up, he would push their car back into the snow, and he said it like it was an OK thing for him to have done. I remember being surprised when I heard him speak that way and it hurt inside to hear him say he treated people like that.
“Your work is the work of a non-criminal mind, despite all the forces that work on you to turn you into a fellow criminal, yet you persist in defending the most valuable power you have to keep you from ever being one of the criminals who think like criminals.”
I think of this passage and am quoting from memory: I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:1-2
Being conformed to this world has a greater meaning for me. As in do not have a criminal mind. But have a mind that causes you to do the right things.
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“I think each human being has to look in the mirror first.”
When a human looks in the mirror to find evil and hate it, are you saying that we need to self-evaluate and get rid of any evil we find?
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So you are learning the Russian language now? I hear it is very difficult.
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“Is that why you asked me about a stock split when you first began talking to me?”
Oh, I thought maybe it was to test to see if I had a criminal mind or if I would naturally present an equitable split. Lol Afterall it was one of the first things you asked me to work on. So now after all this time, I look back and wonder, maybe Josf was checking to see if he was speaking to someone infected with criminal thinking.
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I AM STICKING WITH TUCKER right now because I am trying to work thru the link you gave me:
Tucker says:
“Even in so delicate a matter as that of the relations of the sexes the Anarchists do not shrink from the application of their principle. They acknowledge and defend the right of any man and woman, or any men and women, to love each other for as long or as short a time as they can, will, or may.”
God says:
• Genesis 2:24 KJV
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Cleave http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/kjv/dabaq.html :
Definition
1. to cling, stick, stay close, cleave, keep close, stick to, stick with, follow closely, join to, overtake, catch
Cleave = one flesh
Tucker:
“They [anarchist] acknowledge and defend the right of any man and woman, or any men and women, to love each other for as long or as short a time as they can, will, or may.””
Yes, Joe, you and Tucker and every other anarchist are right that every man and woman can do whatever they want ,whenever they want, however they want.
People have every right to do that which is evil and people will do that which is evil. So it is every person’s right to do evil.
Why does God not want people to do what is evil? I think you answered that question already:
“Fear of God isn't a case of a powerless being, a human being, made even more powerless because God is so scary, no, not from my position of pretended understanding, the idea here is to know that fear is to be avoided like the plague, and therefore the human being aught to know what causes it, which is that Evil stuff, the cause of fear is the Evil stuff, and where is this plague, where is this fear, where is this Evil, where it can be known in such a way as to be rendered powerless?”
God created man and woman to become one flesh. God the Creator designed man and woman to cleave to one another and be one. Man and woman can do what ever they want, but wen they do opposite of their design
• 1 Corinthians 6:18 KJV
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
So instead of Tucker saying, you know guys, the Creator created you this certain way, Tucker says, if it feels good, do it.
I have heard that line before. Satan said it:
• Genesis 3:5 KJV
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened , and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
God said these words:
• Genesis 2:17 KJV
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die .
So sure everyone has the right to do what they want and pay their own costs:
• Proverbs 16:25 KJV
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Sin will be judged:
Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see , nor hear , nor walk : 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
If I know sin will be judged, why in the world would I not warn people? There was a day Joe, when the Bible was understood to be the Word of God. Today people cannot even recognize God’s Word. That does not change the fact that it is God’s Word and people who ignore it are in deep trouble. Trouble that will cost an eternity. So even though people have a right to cut their own arm off, I am not going to say that I look forward to the day when everyone does that. I am going to warn, hey, you cut your arm off and it will be gone. Oh, and by the way, those children that you and your arm made, your cost will spill over on them as well.
So, how about we promote love?
I Corinthians 13:4 (The Message) Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, 5 Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, 6 Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, 7 Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. 8 Love never dies.
• Ephesians 5:25 KJV
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
I look forward to the day when people know what love is and practice it. Love is not free. Love gives. When one does not give love they pass on the costs.
Or I could look forward to a day like Tucker when people don't understand love and pass on the costs instead.
Ephesians 5:6 KJV
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
II Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to cometo the knowledge of the truth.
I still had a couple of other issues with my Tucker reading that I wanted to go over...before moving onto the Andrews link.
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Not me
"Yes, Joe, you and Tucker and every other anarchist are right that every man and woman can do whatever they want ,whenever they want, however they want."
That is not me. I don't think that is Tucker either. In my case, I can tell you, it is not me. You can claim it is me, over, and over, and over, again, and again, and I can tell you over, and over, and over, again, and again, that is not me.
If you think someone is of that mind, then you have to look another place for that someone, it is not me.
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“I think each human being has to look in the mirror first.”
When a human looks in the mirror to find evil and hate it, are you saying that we need to self-evaluate and get rid of any evil we find?
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I think that Proverbs 8 is that message, and I see that message as being true.
"People have every right to do that which is evil and people will do that which is evil. So it is every person’s right to do evil."
I see no such thing.
"So instead of Tucker saying, you know guys, the Creator created you this certain way, Tucker says, if it feels good, do it."
You can pick a name out of the phone book and attribute those same words to that person. You can create a Man of Straw and attribute your words to that person. Where Tucker has published his thoughts are specific English words to be quoted, understood, or misunderstood as can be the case in any case.
I may be the one misunderstanding what Tucker writes. Your words, however, are yours, not his.
"So instead of Tucker saying, you know guys, the Creator created you this certain way, Tucker says, if it feels good, do it."
Those are your words.
"I have heard that line before. Satan said it:"
So now Tucker, with you speaking for him, is falsely associated with The Devil, and I'm wondering why you find the need to preform this hatchet job.
"So sure everyone has the right to do what they want and pay their own costs:"
Please do not associate me with those words, and I don't think those words apply to Warren, Andrews, Tucker, Spooner, or anyone other than you, since you wrote those words, and they didn't, and I didn't either.
"So even though people have a right to cut their own arm off, I am not going to say that I look forward to the day when everyone does that."
I don't know who you are addressing these words to, but these words have nothing to do with me, so maybe you are not on your soap box and you are speaking to anyone who may want to listen, and I can listen to, but your words have nothing to do with me. I don't know what this "have a right" stuff is, in that context, it is meaningless to me.
"So, how about we promote love?"
I don't think that it helps to attribute thoughts, or ideas, to people who do not earn those thoughts, or ideas, such as the case where you claim that Tucker says this or that, which is not what Tucker actually does write: in English.
Now Tucker is the Devil, or working devilishly, if I understand your words attributed to him.
I don't think that is a good way to live.
I can be wrong, of course.
"I look forward to the day when people know what love is and practice it. Love is not free. Love gives. When one does not give love they pass on the costs."
Here again, apparently, you have this idea of what "free love" means, and so you attach this meaning of your own construction to other people, and since you do it, that makes it right. Your version sticks to those people you target with your version of the meaning of "free love" and no amount of defense against your version of "free love" stuck on those people removes that mud placed upon them.
In the context of Warren, Andrews, and Tucker the word "free" is meant specifically, and unambiguously, free from Man-Made Law Enforcers Enforcing their Man-Made Laws upon individual people.
If you, or anyone, adds unspecified, and ambiguous additions to that definition of what free means, in that context, then that is what you, or anyone, does, and in fact your actions pass on the costs of your error onto those targeted victims who are innocent of these added ideas of what "free" means.
"Or I could look forward to a day like Tucker when people don't understand love and pass on the costs instead."
Tarred and Feathered, run out of town, stones thrown, nailed to the cross, The Devilish Tucker, the goat fornicator, is publicly punished for such evil deeds.
I get it?
Now I am better for knowing just how bad Tucker and his Free Love is, because you can't seem to read plain English?
"I still had a couple of other issues with my Tucker reading that I wanted to go over...before moving onto the Andrews link."
Sure, but you appear not to read a word I write on this subject, so why don't you just pick a name out of the phone book and target that person with your versions of what they don't write?
Joe