Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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There is a lot to be said about being an individual in this world and with that looking to one's own means to live life. Many privately and publicly seek the simpler life, the cabin in the mountains like Grizzly Adams, or a life as best they can nearer to civilisation, why do they seek this, what knowledge have they got to force a break from all that they have come to know. Stocks, shares and all that crap, we have been trained to accept as life, but what it is, is gambling on the iivelihoods of people, such gambling only exists to affect people like ourselves, we are to all intents and purposes fucking each other over, fucking ourselves, our own level of society over, for those at the top will always remain unaffected, yet they always make money on us. Sometimes, in fact much of the time I believe Pahunk and others like him to be correct in their approach, for they have seen the society we have become, they collect material wealth, not promissory notes or bits of paper, if anything the recent financial collapse should have educated the majority, but no, we are back at it assured it is all under control (like the last time), and we gulibly buy into the financial disaster that will come again, for greedy bastards will always remain greedy bastards and they will fuck us again and again and again, and why do they fuck us, because they can we are well trained. Paper finance, we should avoid it like the plague it is, deal with real terms, real materials that offer real reward. But of all the monetary systems we have world wide, is any of it worth it's face value, the answer to that is no, for all our coinage has now become yet more promissory notes. The old silver dollars Pahunk collects contain real silver, the earlier ones more silver than the later for even then, late sixties the scam had started the coinage was devalued. Here in the UK we lost the value of our coinage long ago for the silver coloured pieces, my last silver coin, a shilling being 1922, but we continued with copper that was until a few years ago, the mint started changing our copper coins into copper coloured, copper coloured coins that can be picked up with a magnet and they rust, and rust quickly, so hardly a move to make more resilient coinage, no, they are claiming back the copper, because copper is set to become a very expensive metal soon due to the world demand for copper, the Chinese being the biggest hunters of the metal. So, before I change up my accumulated mass of copper coinage, i run a magnet over it first, and they only get back what sticks to the magnet, but if one knows their metals, one can see the fake copper coins without the use of a magnet, rust is a dead giveaway. Way back, heard of Trade Silver, the stuff the mountain men used to use, well maybe we would be best going back to trading in real terms with real materials for real returns, not promissory notes and paper than can and will be dishonoured.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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