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February 4, 2013

291. First Learn to Love thy Thyself

By Marlen

There’s one condition that we must learn in order to make an Equality System function, and that is learning to serve all, and this is not in a subservient position, but as an actual process of redefining the word we’ve worked with in the past blogs, learning how to understand that within a giving and receiving condition there will be no need to place particular different values onto people according to ‘what they do’ and create relationships of convenience, but instead learn how to appreciate everyone’s work in equality, because such equal appreciation and value toward everyone’s contribution is what makes a community/ society thrive. And what a better way to do this than establishing an economical system wherein no matter what work you do, you’ll get enough to live in dignity, because you’ll receive equal profit share, ensuring that we all get a piece of the cake and no one is left behind.

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For context on redefining capitalism, read: Day 180: The Word ‘Capitalism’ in ‘Equal Money Capitalism Redefined

If we take the example of ‘self-sufficient communities,’ even if they are living in a belief of ‘being outside of the system,’ they do have certain benefits that most of the people in our current contemporary ‘financial capitals’ lack, which is the sense of Neighborism and within this, the way we give and receive our own work means that there is no money-value factor determining ‘how I feel’ about my work, but instead it becomes the who I am as a living participant in a certain community/ environment, directing oneself to do the work one decides to do that is supportive and required to make this system sustainable, and be remunerated in equal manner. This is what determines the real value and outcome as a physical contribution to the sustainability and betterment of society. People will stop hating each other, but instead remove the barrier money has placed between each other and learn to value the reality of who we are and what we do in reciprocity.

For example, Love is an energetic experience in the mind, people say ‘Do things with love and love will come back to you tenfold’ but this is absolutely conditional in order to ‘make myself feel loved’ which is only at an individual level without considering how, if I have no money to do/contribute, if I have no opportunity to ‘give such love,’ then my feelings and mind experience will be futile. Hence, money is a realistic way to give such love through giving access to the means, the education, the tools, the time and the available space to develop ourselves as co-participants in society, and collaborating in that which we enjoy doing or would like to develop our skills further in. Currently, many people would not be washing cars, toilettes, working in jails, prostitution, McJobs, mobs, selling drugs, selling useless products on the streets and well, virtually any of our current fast-production of junk companies and job positions that do not dignify human life at all, but rather underestimate it, reducing it to the level of ‘cheap labor’ to produce the most profit for a few. We all realize how this single fact of ‘how things are’ affects our psychological experience on a day to day basis, which is why the rate of suicides is every increasing, the use of alcohol, drugs, and anything else that can be bought with Money that they hardly earn through hard work. What a perfect system it is for those that benefit the most from it, giving money and then getting it back through the consumption and purchasing of products that they also own.

If we want to end this dread-world, there is a definitive action that must take place. If we truly want to give love to others, we have to grant each other equal access to that which enables our well being, our means to be productive, secure and gentle with each other when there’s no more ‘fight for survival,’ and dogs stops eating the world, and that’s Money.

Maybe you have experienced yourself the same way I have, wherein I see people’s tedious, repetitive jobs and see how I am directly responsible for what they’re doing and experiencing. An example, there’s people in the corner shop that stand there from 9 am till 10 pm. For me to be able to go there at whatever time I want to get my stuff, they require to be there the whole time, sure they take shifts, but I can tell that it is a family business and these guys that are around my age are probably not going to any school/ education because of having to work, furthermore they can be using weed to be able to withstand spending their time behind the counter the whole time. This can even be considered a decent job, we can go further to people that have to work 12 hours a day to make little to nothing to live, and their work enables me to wear clothes, have my computer, my shoes and have a pile of stuff around me that I proudly bought with my money, having No idea whose life is involved in it.

The same with the people that takes care of harvesting and producing food – what or who decided that some would have to be Bound to such jobs with no other alternative and me having the ability to ‘freely choose what I want to do’? Within this premise, how can we deny the responsibility we hold toward every person’s condition in this world, even those that I am not ‘benefitting from’ obviously, like people that starve and have no chance to get ‘into the system,’ their direct exclusion has to do with having to shorten the possibilities of a ‘good life’ for only a minority of people.

No matter how much Love I could ‘feel’ for the people that suffer, I won’t manifest a steady job that enables them to live. Here we can see how it’s mostly self interest to FEEL Love myself as it is never even about ‘them’ but the idea that I create within me of ‘giving love’ and as such creating any form of difference for them, is it, really?

So, Loving Thy Neighbor as Thyself in an Equality System is giving to each other what we want for ourselves, and that’s linked to the quality of goods and services that we can create within the consideration that No One will be enslaved to produce heaven for us, we All will be contributing on equal manner doing what we are most glad and prone to do and develop our skills in. This is then a real process of learning how to Love thy Neighbor as Thyself and for that, we first have to Begin with ourselves and ponder: What’s best for me that can be applied to everyone equally? What kind of work/skill/occupation can I see that I would be most productive and supportive at? This is where we give ourselves a real carte blanche to Design and Create the way that we can practically envision ourselves in a future where everyone has equal real opportunity to live in dignity, and a future that begins with ourselves of course, redefining what we do currently, looking at Why we do it, what motivates us and what we could instead do if we all support a new system wherein the disposition of money is not only left in profitable businesses that have no human-dignity impressed on them and are only existent because of sheer quick profit. That will cease to exist, you might agree that we’re only allowing that because we’ve seen ourselves as separate from and not responsible for making the decision of what we eat, what we work on, the type of activities that we support and the type of products that we produce and consume.

Who else but ourselves can decide what’s best for all through a consensus of making an agreement to care for each other as equals, learn how to Self Forgive the lack of condescendence, the apathy, the negligence and deliberate ignorance to the current situation billions of people are going through around the world, as a result of a minority having the ‘great life’ without realizing that as long as there’s one single person without a job opportunity, without an activity that allows them to fend for themselves and their family, we are ostracizing them into oblivion, which means: misery , suffering and ultimately, death. We have the power to decide what’s best for all, and no this is not just ‘thinking positive,’ this is practically looking at recognizing that the unthinkable is possible if we place our hands at a political level to change the way things work around in this world.

This begins by letting go of the flimsy ideals that love and good will represent and actually come to embody such words in practical and tangible solutions, which implies supporting the implementation of the Equality system that will enable Life to be lived in equality. This begins by walking an individual process wherein we Learn how to Love ourselves first, how to become living beings that take self responsibility for our lives, our minds, our words, deeds and actions and as such, correct ourselves to be and become a living example of what it is to value Life in equality which means obviously redefining our participation and our starting point of living here, not to ‘be or become’ more than what we already are, but learning how to support, care and enjoy each other as equals, learning how to make of money a means/ a tool to establish a dignified living condition instead of making it a goal and an end in itself.

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