The Emperors New Clothes

What if everything in reality was naturally see thru? What if you could look at the surface layer of anything instead of see thru it? What if like in the fable The Emperors new clothes no one told those looking at surfaces that in fact everything they see is really transparent, see thru? 

Imagine a see thru reality. A cosmos where every last piece of it was completely transparent. Clothes, walls, mountains, even one's body all see thru! Nothing hidden from sight. Only those looking at surfaces not seeing thru anything they gaze upon. What if looking at surfaces an apparently opaque world appeared to exist superimposed on the see thru reality? 

What if no one spoke of the see-thru nature of everything but kept quiet about it? What if around those looking at surfaces only, everyone acted like they too could only see the surface of anything? What if reality being see-thru naturally was the best-kept secret of life? What if those seeing surfaces only, were not told about all that can be seen viewing the see thru reality? What if one could see everywhere and everything all at once in the see-thru reality if one wanted to?

 Of course that could never happen. Or could it? 

Money

 

Money. That is the subject of this week's discussion. Money is an area (be it market or state) accepted check for the exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers. Money's value can be based on the value of the medium used be it gold, silver, diamonds, or checks redeemable for these valuable commodities. Money can be based on the value of labor where the checks are worth so much time be it at the cost of a living wage or cheap labor where a day of work does not buy a day's necessities. Money as well can be based on the value of the issuer, be it a mint, bank, or government entity.

Money that is commodity-based is usually a coin or jewel in form. The coin or jewel gets its value based on the difficulty there is in obtaining the commodity from the world around the buyer and sellers. This is a system of barter between buyers and sellers. The more difficult it is to obtain the commodity the greater its monetary value. Everything purchased is assigned a value relative to its difficulty in producing compared to the difficulty of obtaining the commodity. 

Money that is based on the value of a day or week's labor is worth the purchasing power given to the workers. Where the worker is given a cost of living wage, or paid enough to afford the necessities of life, the checks are worth their percentage of a day's needs. Where labor is treated cheaply because there are more workers than jobs, then the money is worth the percent of the market basket of necessities it provides. The market basket costs more than a daily minimum wage because many are willing to work for whatever they can buy. 

Money that is based on the credit of the issuer is a true checking account monetary system. The better credit the issuer of the checks has the more the money is worth. This is whether the credit is based on commodity reserves or a gross national product basis. The more "goods" of value the issuer possesses the greater the value of its checks.  

Money is used to speed up the barter process by making it easier to buy milk, eggs, and bread than having to exchange three different things with the seller of the eggs, the milk, and the baker of the bread. With money, an agreed-upon check in the marketplace will be enough to make all three purchases. Money simplifies the exchange of goods and services.                              

No Rule Of Thumb!

 

This week governments are our topic. Especially the laws they enact and enforce. Without any guide rule, whatever the people will bear doing without, can become against the law to possess or do. Any penalty can be imposed too that the people will allow those convicted to suffer. Entire businesses can become criminalized if the population ruled will condone it. 

Without a rule of thumb, what can a ruler decree as outlawed? What can become criminalized? What can be required by the people by penalty of law? Anything! A lawgiver has carte blanche when it comes to making rules where there is no guide rule. Even eating eggs can be criminalized. Selling eggs could be a major crime with a task force to look into it. Isn't that what happened during the prohibition of alcohol. An entire industry was outlawed to protect the people from the horrors of alcohol consumption. Public nudity, gambling, drugs, and sexual services are all likewise prohibited to protect the people, granting crime very profitable businesses to indulge in. 

What is the penalty for eating eggs in our hypothetical example? Anything the ruler thinks people will allow. If the king decrees execution shall be the penalty for selling eggs and 25 to life the sentence for eating eggs that would be similar to current thinking about the drug laws. People get locked up every day for choosing to get high instead of getting drunk. Drug dealers are treated like public enemies! In the name of God obey the king...

Is this too hard to see? Is it beyond understanding that the religions outlawed sex outside marriage, and nudity, and taught obedience to local rulers who then outlawed things as vice that they did not want the people free to indulge in? What is even harder to remember is the people were illiterate peasants when this was done. When will the people say enough is enough. Get the golden rule to be harmless as the guide in lawmaking. No more edicts, decrees, or simple majority rules!

Happy New Year!

 

Happy New Year! Today we shall contemplate in the name of god being played the ultimate Simon Says game. What has history bourne us in the name of god? What do the sacred texts say? A mating game forbidding carnal knowledge with family, friends, or even several acts with one's spouse. A legal game pronouncing the penalty of hell for several identified offenses. A lifestyle of labor if you want to be worthy to eat in community. Simon Says to stick to breeding with your spouse, obey or go to hell, and work until you are dead. In the name of God of course.

So mate with your spouse no more, no less. No knowledge. No family sex. Definitely no sex with friends. Family members should not even see each other naked! Why not? God says. That is what history reports. No exploring postures or sex acts with your spouse. Just breeding acts. No contraception either. Make babies. The goal of sex or marriage is to mate and make children. Why listen to this sex guide? The legal game.

The legal game in the name of god says violaters of god's law will be sent to hell. Disobey Simon in Simon Says and you are out of the game. Disobey god and you go to hell! No other purging of offenders will do. No wholesome penalty was presented. God created us so can do as he pleases with us. He can even send us to hell for not playing his game by his rules. Tyrant. Mean bastard. Self-appointed judge and jury. Call it what you would.

Work, work, work. That is our instruction for life besides mate and obey or else. No creating and enjoying sharing creations. No abundance of conjuring from one's mind's eye all one wants or needs. No miracle multiplying of loaves and fish to fill the world with food. Just go to work or you are unworthy to eat. Not working as long as you live means you are a no-good lazy bum. It is the curse of god on us for the first disobedient couple we are descendants of. The good book says so. 

That is the sacred texts report. Mating games, legal codes, and descriptions of hell may vary by the specific sacred text but that is the Simon Says games in the name of god played with gullible humanity. Whether played by god or priests serving themselves a religion to promote in god's name who knows? God of course is the creator who can do as he pleases with his creations all these religions teach.