Day 259 - Money (&) Creation

Previous blog is in Slovene.

I am looking at how I have separated myself from value creation by giving it away to banks, bankers and those who control money. This is why we feel limited all the time by the lack of money, as if money is the only thing that represents real value, while all this time it was Life and thus us, the living, who are the real value. Everything else is an illusion of value. Life gives value to things. Those living do not have to work to have value. Those alive have value because they ARE Life and because Life is the most valuable possession of the living. Life has value because it exists and is here, not because the living have some potential to do work. What the living create has value as well. But nothing has more value than Life itself that all the living embody. Life in everyone is the same and equal, as we cannot say that one has more Life than another, thus we are all equal as Life.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not see the value of Life in me and so the value of Life in others.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not see that the most valuable thing of all is Life, more than anything that the living create.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to separate myself from value and to think, believe, perceive that things and/or others have more value than me, instead of realizing that nothing has more value than me as Life and so All of us as Life.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to separate myself from value creation through money and banks.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to give away my value and my power to create value - to money and banks,

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to create debt in order to take value away from others as Life and in this try to make myself superior.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to accept debt and within this the master and the slave relationship.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to become the slave of debt and within this diminish my value as Life and so the value of others as Life and become a dead man, a man in debt.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to give away my power to create value to money and the bankers and so allow myself to become the slave of the masters who determines my value.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to blame money, banks and my "masters" for the fact that I have diminished my Life through allowing debt and by giving away my power to create value and to value my Life and so All Life as infinitely valuable.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not see that I did not really in fact give away my power to have the most value as Life and to create value, as I realize that I only believed this, because I believed that money and bankers are something separate from me.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not see that I am the bank, I am the money.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to think, believe and perceive that I need the banker and the money to move, to work, to do things, instead of realizing that I am the bank and that what I do and create is my pay.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not see that every living being is the bank and that what we do together and share together is our pay and that money is just paper or not even that.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to work for money, instead of working to get things done.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to separate myself from Life through working for money and to distract myself from getting things done by making business, where I believed that the goal of working is to make money through making business, instead of realizing that the only common sense reason for working is to support and enhance All Life.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to expect to be payed with money when I get things done, instead of realizing that what I have done and created is my pay.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not realize and understand that in today's money system, Life is not valued, only money is valued, thus I must get money to survive and make sure that all get and have the money to live in dignity, while showing to all that money has no real value at all.

The fact that we use money means that we have accepted and allowed a system of scarcity and total control, where we disregard and abuse Life in the name of profit and exclusivity, which is not acceptable. Thus I commit myself to make sure that I become the bank and that I value the Life in me and the Life within others as infinitely valuable and all other things as finitely valuable.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not give as I would like to receive and to instead only take and demand what I think I deserve.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not realize and understand that in order to have I have to create and help to create.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not realize and understand that I cannot do everything alone and so I have to coordinate with others.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to think, believe, perceive that my work is more or less valuable than the work of others, instead of realizing and understanding that all work that supports and enhances Life is equal in value, because all such work makes Life worth living and because the real pay for the work we do is the effect it has on Life, where every hour of work is the same for everyone. And so my hour of work is the same as your hour of work, where we all do our best to support All Life and give as we would like to receive.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not see, realize and understand that although every hour of work is an hour of Life and thus equal in value, there is some work that has to be done before all other work: which is Life support work, that ensures the basic human rights for all, such as making sure that all have food, water, clothes, health, a home and free access to work and economy, where all can give as they would like to receive and take what they need to develop their full potential as Life. Thus I commit myself to make sure that before I work on anything else, I make sure that we all firstly work to ensure that all have the basic human rights, that are actually Life rights - the meaning of Life, because Life that is not worth living - Life that I would not want to live - has no meaning and is thus abused, which is not acceptable.

Day 141 - What is payment? We got it wrong this whole time!

My previous bog in Slovene.

We are raised up by the society to believe that we pay for things with money. You know: paper, coin, digits on the bank account. Whenever we want something that we don't have or is not ours, we pay for it in the store with money and then it's ours. Then we can do with it whatever we want, because WE payed for it with OUR MONEY. Then there is this division in our society where some believe that one should always work to earn one's money and that those who don't do 'real' work are bad people, lazy, selfish. Others like the capitalist idea where one invests one's money (earned, stolen, inherited or all of the above) so that the money 'works' for you and one just gets the benefits, the profits. But what all have in common is that all live in the illusion of money and payment, because everyone believes that we pay for things with money. I did too, but boy was I wrong.

We don't pay for things with money. Nothing is actually payed for with money. So, what is the real payment for a product or a service? Who does in fact, actually pay for it? If I walk into a store and buy some milk, who payed for it and with what? Me with my money? Nope, this is a complete illusion. Can you see it? Wake up - who really payed for the milk? The cow that produced it. The farmer who collected it, the people who packed it and moved it to the store. All these beings PAYED for it WITH their WORK. This is the only REAL payment that exists, ever. Everything is payed for with work, with effort, with movement. Giving some 'money' over the counter is not a payment, it is a joke. It is some 'kids' playing games, imagining things. This is what we are doing when we believe that we actually payed for something when we give our money or when we transfer some digits to another's bank account - we are imagining things. We aren't really doing a damn thing, we are only taking what is already there and shuffling some paper and digits around because we care so much about them - the digits and the paper we call money. But we only care about the amount of our digits and our paper, not about another's. Fuck no, we don't even dare to talk with anyone openly about our money, our digits and our paper, or their's, because it's a secret. If I have less money than you then I am ashamed and if I have more than you then fuck you, that's how life works. But it doesn't. This is how we created the system of money to work in our minds - big difference.

Money is just a tool, a mind tool in a game with rules that we create, and it can be very useful to help us disperse the goods in a more equal, reasonable, practical way. Money is not evil or bad. We are evil and bad, because of the way we use it to abuse each other - Life - with it. So, our society today does not use money to disperse goods in an equal, reasonable, practical way for all to live a Dignified Life. We use the money to enslave each other, we use the money to say who is worthy of life and who is not worthy of life. We use the money to define whose life is worth more and whose life is not worth a penny. And we take it dead serious. We do not give a shit when people suffer and die because we do not allow them to have enough money. We allow them to work to the bone though, of course, but we do not recognize the payment that they do, the REAL fucking PAYMENT, THE PAIN-MENT. All these abused workers do all the pain-ment for us while others mostly just shuffle the paper - 'money' - around and then we actually believe that the hardest PAIN-MENT that the 'lowest' workers do is worth the least amount of credit? We obviously do believe this, because we give the workers who work the most and the hardest, the least amount of credit for it. We came up with this rule that such people, who work the hardest and the longest, who do most of the ACTUAL HARD PAIN-MENT for all of us, should get the least amount of credit for it. Would we like to be in their shoes? Would we give ourselves the same amount of credit if we had to work in their shoes? No, be fucking serious and be self-honest. Oh fuck, did we get this whole payment thing wrong on all the fucking levels imaginable!

So, here we see that we have to redefine the word PAYMENT, which we dared to define and understand so selfishly and contrary to the actual reality of things, so that we can stop abusing and stop creating abuse of Life with it and actually come up with a definition that is supportive for all.

Current definition (from Wiki): A payment is the transfer of an item of value from one party (such as a person or company) to another in exchange for the provision of goods, services or both, or to fulfill a legal obligation.

Re-definition:
PAYMENT - the pain-ment of work, labor and effort that one gifts into an activity, product or service.

These people, who work to the bone in sweatshops all over the world and all people who work anywhere, are the ones who actually pay and make the PAIN-MENT for our shit that we then buy with money: our iPhoneys, our fancy plastic fantastic, our clothes etc. Workers are the ones who payed for it. So, the next time I see myself say or think: "Hey, I payed for that!", I'll stop, breathe and realize: Fuck, I did not really pay for that at all, I just gave my money for it, my credits, my imaginable value. And mostly not even to the being who ACTUALLY payed for it with their own physical labor. That being is probably suffering somewhere in a sweatshop, being abused by all who don't understand where the actual payment happens, who do not value the Life of all beings equally as their own and do not give all the equal credit for the work and the pain-ment they do. I will no longer allow the abuse of money and payment and I will speak up for all beings who do not get their equal credit in spite of all the PAIN-MENT they do. I will work to implement a new system, where Life, work and pain-ment of all the beings is valued equally and where all receive their equal credit for being alive and sharing their Life with me, so that we can all be alive together in a Life worth living.

So, taking this new definition of the word payment: how does it effect one's awareness of reality and how should the money system change according to it so that there is no more abuse?

Firstly, we become aware that no one is actually paying for anything with money, because the only form of real, actual payment is movement / labor / work / effort itself, towards a goal, product, service that is best for all, that supports all. When we are aware of this, we can see that we cannot really value work through money, because most of the work can be valuable and useful for the society in some way or another. Sure, some work is more urgent than another and so, some work must be done prior to some other work. For example; producing food for all is more urgent than painting a picture, but this does not change the value of work itself - it only changes the priority, the urgency of it, the order in which the work should be done. Very important to realize. So, what is the value of baking bread? What is the value of building houses, producing electricity, assembling iPhoneys, designing and planning new things? What is the value of singing, painting, making a sculpture? Can we really put a value in digits on any work? Sure, any random number will do... But it is still just and illusion of the mind, a thing that we made up. So, really, what is the real value of any work and effort that supports Life? It is the value of Life itself, because Life expresses self through work, effort, expression, art, movement... So, you see, the value of any work that supports Life equals to the value of Life itself, because Life does it. Can you see? Wake up - do you see it yet? So, in a system where this would be fully realized and implemented - like an Equal Money System - people would work firstly on things that are necessary to sustain a Dignified Life for all and then they would work on anything they like - and all would still get an equal amount of credit for it, based on the value of Life itself. So simple, yet so hard to grasp through a mind of selfishness.

So, back to where we are at the moment in our reality, of course we cannot just remove all money and say every work is priceless, because we have been living in the illusion of money and payment for so long. Thus we need to gradually realize the illusion, like I explained above, and step by step implement the necessary changes in the system that will - in the end - lead to a Dignified Life for All, where money as we know it today will no longer exist. We can start by implementing a solution that is described in the Living Income Guaranteed proposal. This proposal / goal is not an Utopian world. What I am talking about is a world of common sense, a world where Life is actually recognized and honored in all. What we have today and what we have been trying to live until now - this is the real Utopia, because we are trying to live according to illusions that we create in our minds. And whenever we try to live out illusions that are not in consideration with the actual reality - we create suffering. As long as we create suffering, we are doing it wrong and we are trying to live out the illusions of our minds that are not real, that are selfish. So simple, yet so hard to see through our minds, as long as we try so hard to avoid any self-responsibility.

I dare you to join me and see through the deception of money and payment that we have today.

The economic solution I suggest to read about: Living Income Guaranteed
Join us and work with the like minded people who can see through the deception of today's money abuse: Destonians