Observations

[Finesse]

I have been making a ton of observations lately. Some of them relevent to PU some not..... but most are. I thought I would share. Some of these are extremly philosophical..... so I hope you like thinking.

1) Life will always shit on you. Whether its diareaha or solid is the real question. Some people have a constant stream of bad luck and others get it less, but on a bigger scale when it does happen.

2) How you handle the shit is ultimately up to you. A pig rolls in the mud because its fun, and keeps the flies off.

3) Being scared is the same as giving up.

4) Being social is really just perpetuating the cycle. Learn the system THEN be social and you control your world.

5) Being outside the box is great. You have the power to be inside it as well.

6) One that lives inside the box is destined to be led, then slaughtered.

7) Happiness is one decision away.

Hunting, Fishing, and Farming are all things that cradle the ability to provide food. And all are being controlled by the government using, "Liscenses".

9) The ability to live a life outside the relm of the mighty dollar is virtually un-thinkable, but possible.

10) Business is the practice of legalized fraud.

[Archaeopteryx]

1) Life will always shit on you. Whether its diareaha or solid is the real question. Some people have a constant stream of bad luck and others get it less, but on a bigger scale when it does happen.

--That's very pesimistic. Sometimes we all feel that way, but in reality I just think there are consequenses for actions. You have it a lot better than most people in this world, and also you have it much better than the richest man in the world 200 years ago. You are extremely fortunate, we all are here...though we may not feel that way at times.

3) Being scared is the same as giving up.

I've been scared several times and not given up. Which is why I have herpes. (kidding about the herpes)

8 ) Hunting, Fishing, and Farming are all things that cradle the ability to provide food. And all are being controlled by the government using, "Liscenses".

The government will continue to grow becoming more and more intrusive in our lives. My plan is to position myself to were I can leave if I choose to.

9) The ability to live a life outside the relm of the mighty dollar is virtually un-thinkable, but possible.

Why would you want to do this? They dollar is not a bad sign in itself, but rather a symbol of what can be created when we work together. Someone is paid a dollar when he or she creates a good or service that someone else desires. This represents an IOU you have earned that can be redeamed for anything you wish. Instead of focusing on how to live without the dollar, why not focus on how to aquire as many of them as possible.

10) Business is the practice of legalized fraud.

I disagree. Fraud is decieving someone for personal gain.

Let's say you are good at fishing, and I am good at building boats. Alone, I would starve and you would be extremely limited in to the fish you could catch on the beach. And you'd have to deal with crabs.

Business--the exchange of goods or services between willing parties, would allow me to build you a boat in exchange for a portion of your future fish catches. Now you hire a couple of people, go out to sea and pull in all the Tuna and Red Snapper you want, while avoiding the crabs, (this is a PUA forum and all). Now you provide enough fish not only for your family, but to pay for the boat, pay your crew and sell to the local village.

Business can be a wonderful enterprise.

[Finesse]

I guess I should change that to modern business. not just business, because youre right, it didnt use to be that way.

[Finesse]

The whole being scared thing was something I was thinking, and I had originally meant it to be phrase that orientated itself around goals, and aspirations. Being scared is NOT the same as giving up, in most cases.

also ..

The truth of what the dollar is worth though is this.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqgs.htm

The dollar is only worth as much as a sheet of paper, really. There was a time where currency was back by gold and silver, and the gold and silver was held in the treasury. Then the government, started taking the gold and silver, and issuing these promissary notes that stated they were backed by the gold and silver that they held in reserve, but as the country grew, the population boomed, and there is no longer enough gold and silver to supply the demand for these "notes." So what did the great and wise government do? They printed up monopoly money that looks exactly like the gold and silver backed notes, except these, werent actually backed by anything. These new notes were instead back by the government controlled floating rates. I should also note that it wasnt a sole move by the USA, but it was in fact a world change.

We have an economy, and it is AWESOME! Free trade!...... But we only except currency. Currency is the new currency. Business is no longer a thing that involves trading and bartering, but instead is something used, in which you haggle currency issues. How many dollars someone is willing to pay for a cow, steak, television, automobile, or shelter??

Why did a house used to only cost 20 bushels of corn, and now it costs $100+?, and why did it switch to a piece of paper? If I didnt know how to build a house, but I knew how to grow food, guess what I did. I gave the people who built my house food. Now in business principles, I could get away with giving them less food IF they didnt know how to farm.... but if they knew how farm then my payment would have to increase somehow because they had not a real need for what my goods had to offer especially if they farmed themselves.

Dont get me wrong. currency was, at one point, a good thing. Currency actually started WAY back in the crusader type days, where the soldiers would deposit their gold in a type of bank, they would then take a note, and when they got to where they were going they would then go to the bank, and trade the note back in. That way, they didnt have to worry about carrying their gold around, and the note was lighter. They then started using the notes as payments, kinda like a check.

Currency has fueled everything we know in this world today. Some good and some bad. To me, in this world, its mostly bad. Because it puts a wall between whats really going on and what peoples lives should be filled with. But, I live with it, and dont mind. I enjoy the AC I have at the house. I love the car I get to drive. I love the fact that I dont have to go tend to the cattle, or crops. Im lazy. But soemtimes you just have to ask yourself, why?

Really, though, money is as useful as toilet paper, if you subtract the fact that people still think it has value.

Why do we have so much debt in America?
My answer: Because the mighty dollar is the reigning thing for trade.

Why do we have an un-godly obesity rate?
My answer: Because we are "in a whole" a lazy bunch of fat asses.

Why do people think that bartering with a piece of paper, is better than bartering with a skill one has?
My answer: Because they don't know any other way.

Why do we have inflation?
My answer: Because people honestly think more money in their lives will solve everything.

So why would I want to live outside the relm of money?
My answer: because it turns people into greedy, self centered, lazy, monsters…. Most of the time.

For right now thats all I have to say about the money issue.

As far as the "Life/Shit" paradox, I only mentioned that life WILL shit on you... I never said anything about how one should handle it. I, for instance, take the shit baths as they come.

I get sick, well.... if I get better then its all gravy, no harm no foul.
I lose a loved one.... well... we all have to die sometime.
My car gets crushed.....I can buy another.

All of these have in fact happened to me. As I am certain that at least 2 of these has happened to about 99.9999% of the population. I do have it better than a lot of other people, especially the guy that just washed my windshield with some newspaper and a bottle of what I think was urine, but that still doesn’t mean that im not getting shat on. I don’t feel that the “Life/Shit” paradox is pessimistic because it’s just an observation and not how I actually deal with problems that arise, however I can see how you could think that it was.

I havent even started getting into my philosophies of WHY I think these things.