05-12-2014, 12:03 AM
(05-11-2014, 11:38 PM)Adonai One Wrote: I never directly ask myself the question, "How do I get money?" I ask myself: "How do I become who I am? How do I fulfill my desires and the desires of those who I associate with?" I do not directly desire money. It is not directly valuable to me. It is a social construct that enables people to account for resources within the collective to prevent waste and abuse of goods and services. That is very cool. I wish the central banks and governments well with this task in their various distortions. It really intrigues me as a social system.
However, the question of "Do I need money?" comes in as well. Most will argue in their foundational ethics and philosophy that every man has a duty to himself to find a job, make a stable income and be able to always financially provide for himself and his family. I am sorry but I do not subscribe to this philosophy.
I feel that wherever this world takes me I can handle it with whatever is freely given to me. If that is the requirement of making money, I will surely take on that role. Right now, my role is supporting my wife through her career by providing social and loving support while I attempt to discover myself through various philosophical inquiry which I eventually hope to turn into a series of many well-informed books, that may or may not sustain an income.
If my wife happens to believe our relationship is no longer beneficial for us both, I will accept whatever comes. Right now, money is not a requirement for my life and I do not believe anybody, by any measure of philosophical inquiry, has to work for a living. They can believe in this requirement, the forces of nature can drive them towards this conforming to social norms. As for me, it is but a choice in an existence of infinite choices and potentials. Social norms have no intrinsic value as concepts to me whether they be money, employment, law or this mental concept of society. I love people; I love myself; I love existence and I work with what I have at hand and not always with the propositions of social law before me.
I subscribe only to this: And that is everything is true, available and ready for my inevitable acceptance through a infinite series of awareness. In other words, everything is one in its distortion towards acceptance as one being even in my life in this density. I apply The Law of One quite literally to my life.
Dude, I don't care about politics nor central banks, but society is as it is here, and we all work with what we have. As far as I know people in Canada still need to pay for the food on their tables and the roofs under their heads. So your wife pays for that. Good for you! But I wouldn't call not having a job or getting a higher education nor desiring it, but having your wife pay for everything, a balanced acceptance of a catalyst of authority which comes with mentioned occupations. A balanced acceptance is to be exposed to this catalyst, and then balance it within the self. Not being exposed to it, but choosing other means of avoiding this catalyst, is another thing, in my humble opinion of course.