Finding Materialism

One of the things that... ...well, it's actually two different things - that hold me up from posting here all the time all time all the time, firstly is the desire not to encourage the fetishizing of things. 

You know I could post on a whole bunch of things, and they would look so good when you see them or even hear about them (because some of them you will have heard about, literally for the first time), and then you would form a good feeling about them and wish to go out and buy them and then show them off eventually, and after a while you would be fetishizing them.

I have to have this thing, or that thing, before I can go to the opera. Because then all the people there would know I am someone special...

Douglas is not with us any more, but his
firm and his style and the quality
remains completely intact.

Oh yes do not think they won't notice you and that it's always just about them -, because yes that is true to a large extent but part of that whole thing is about how they compare others to their own power and status.

It feeds the ego when you show off to all and sundry. We do it naturally because we are, superficially, socially animals.

In reality however, we are social only with those of our own true kind. 

In terms of materialism, most of the human race among the standard middle classes is fixated upon the life purpose of owning property.

If you are spiritually dead, this has the ultimate effect of chasing a grave for yourself.

And regardless of that philosophical fact, the other truth is that what is of material substance is hardly ever of actual financial substance in liquid form; and then, it need not be of sufficient financial substance eventually as realized-upon capital either.

As interest rates move to their peak in the cycle, it becomes less and less possible to turn real estate into cash, and yet ever greater will be the need by government to re-float their currencies via the discounted bond sales.

Now you either think that governments are less permanent than real estate - or that in fact, it is governments that like all true parasites, are the most difficult to get rid of entirely, and that real estate goes first, long before you can get rid of any prevailing regime or overlord-ship system.

If that is true - and it is correct and true - then as an investor your are far better off at all times not owning property but having a means to buy discounted bonds!

Practically-speaking, one must be able to straddle the two things in such a way as to be more invested in the liquidity of pure currency as capital but also have a place to reside.

As good as RM Williams, Bill?
They're all firing along now that
Twiggy (Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest)
has spurred the thing.
 

Wars and large-scale catastrophes happen and they happen with far greater frequency than people suppose.

'Currency systems' are multi-located and can be moved out of a crack in the Earth caused by an earthquake - but your average building cannot be.

You can have exactly no money in your pocket but extensive knowledge about money and you will prevail in all kinds of circumstances, but if you are the fool with the ten million dollar penthouse drawing fifty thousand a year in fees and rates and general costs before any other thing, well...

The religious philosophical side to all of this specific thing about 'money' is that the Bible says to 'store up in heaven your treasures.' 

Well what does that actually mean? 

For a start we are all living down here on Earth.

And it is not acceptable to indulge in the foolish matter of 'pie in the sky when you die' stuff because that is no way dissimilar to the idiot hunting around for his own grave (aka a property investor).

Which means that you will have certain things with you, when you are able to acquire them.

And those things distinguish you from all others, or that is to say, far and away most others on the planet.

'Heaven' is here. Right here and right now because you are potentially, in it, at its edges.

You are quite materially distant from its central parts but nonetheless you are part of its reach and intrinsically a citizen of it.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you 
always.

You might not have a very good radio which can tune into the broadcasts from where things that count are going on, but then again, that's your own fault.

There is much evil in the world.

This is an existential fact.

There are some good people here too. And that is another existential fact.

Okay...

The second thing that holds me up is the sheer dearth of ideas and images that are novel, interesting, instructive, sufficiently potentially informative in significant ways, from outside. From the actual modern culture as it is exhibited around the place widely. We are dying as a civilization - this is clear.

Things are repetitive, superficial and banal if not entirely crass, and stilted because they are political in ways designed to advantage regimes that have control maliciously and parasitically.

And people, worse yet, believe these things and not other things.

People prefer to believe the mass social programming and not logic or sense or reason or evidence that substantiates strongly-held belief.

I believe that people memorized, word-for-word, the Quran as recited by the Messenger during his lifetime and that children widely dispersed around the globe today are able to recite the thing word-for-word, not one word or even a dot missing or out of place and hey that is evidence, right?

Not right.

'The Kingdom of Heaven is coming later' - because it is for sure not here now, right?

Not right.

Just don't fetishize it when you see it, or things from out of it.

Of course, well, to some extent you will do that naturally. That's okay.

I'm just trying to steer as far clear of showing too many of the wrong kinds of enticing things as possible. And hence I post a lot of ridiculous rubbish that is too out-of-reach to be genuinely enticing or realistic to seek to 'have.'

Secondly, whereas I do know of some things that are quite interesting, they are closely parallel to a certain commercial product (for example such as the CBD oil-infused - a very bad idea - thing) that is given out to First Class air passengers to help them sleep on the flights - and so I really am trying to stay away from discussing anything to do with it.

It seems like a very enticing, luxury thing (the way it is marketed). But it is not.

I mean you can try and convince yourself otherwise all you like but many products literally prescribed by doctors have known highly-dangerous side-effects such as thyroid-related issues and even pancreatic cancer, and many like the CBD oil that is being promoted everywhere now is a cumulative genetic toxin. Period.

That is what is known as the verbal anabasis - you go a long way to say how you are not going to say something and all the way along the line you are actually getting closer to it and then you say it anyway in the end.

LOL

Recently you will have noticed that the tone here is mostly all trying to be 'up-beat' and we have not spent too much time on all all of the bad things going on very evidently around us in the world today.

You simply must, engage in your own mind, those thoughts about good things, and maintain strong ideas of who you like to be around.

People for thousands of years have all thought that 'spiritual' means invisible or non-material or different to what we know about in the world around us.

It doesn't mean that. It means literally the thoughts; the thinking and the process of thinking itself.

A silly thing that you cannot have.

Because the 'Kingdom of Heaven' is a real place and a real thing. Yes there is a 'spiritual dimension' because there are a lot of thoughts entailed.

In the ancient Sanskrit Vedas, it is asked 'do we create thoughts, or is there something there intrinsically first and then we fabricate some dynamical structure using those things?'

An intelligent thought that creates substance in the material world, emerges from a panoply of sounds and Eternal forms or vibrations.

You cannot go further out into nothingness and the Void, without getting ever closer to yourself.

The mistake people make is in supposing that they cannot literally die in their 'spirit form' but they can for sure.

And that's because they get out further and further from the intrinsic thought forms.

This is what 'evil' is, and what it means and how it comes to be.

You will never get, for example, some evil person, or someone who is behaving wickedly or intent on doing harm unjustly, to mouth certain sounds...

Conversely, if you wish to preserve your own life and establish your wealth, you must harmonize with certain Eternal vibrational forms.

You must conform to something which is very real indeed.