"Getting Ahead" aka "Divide and Conquer"

 

 

The belief that we need money in order to pay debts gets really shabby when we realize that we are operating from fear. Haven't we been promised that we will be ‘provided for? Yet we operate our entire lives from competing with one another. Does this suit the banksters, or what?! If they can keep us in a position of either envying or holding in disdain, another whose financial circumstances differ from our own, they have succeeded in upholding our belief that we are separate from one another. Divide and conquer. As long as we believe we are separate, we will continue to compete, and we will remain alone against those who wish to enslave us. It is happening.

For commerce to work there must be a debtor and a creditor. An account is created to keep track of the debts and credits. In commerce, the only way one can win is to have more debtors than creditors. This is done by starting a business. We then sell to others, our time and talent. The more people you find with needs the more debtors you have. The problem with this system is that we are forced to be in competition with others who are offering the same time and talent. In order for one to win, the other must lose. The more people I put out of business the better I can support my family. We make our brother a debtor to us by working for the ‘love of money' instead of the ‘love of service' and giving our time and talent in love.

When we keep accounts - who owes whom - we keep a record of wrongs. Also, to win in commerce we must destroy the competition. Nothing personal, it's just business. - Nicholas Grachanin

It is lose/lose because it is based upon the concept of separation. The Commerce Game is the epitome of the manifestation of our egoistic belief that we are separate from one another. Not only are we entertaining the elite, but also they live off our energy which is translated into the tax we pay for our licences which allow us to work - a vicious cycle which is a lose/lose for us, as our time, talent, energy, and spirituality is wasted and misdirected. Much better to receive everything you need by exchange and then give, whatever it is you do, from love.

Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past ~ Maurice Maeterlinck

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. - Samuel Adams

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - H.D. Thoreau

Commerce has to do with the buying and selling of goods having ‘profit as the chief aim' which means ‘gain'. ‘Gain/ profit' is not a matter of mere exchange but includes the idea of increase, usually at someone else's expense.

There is no ‘getting ahead' - getting ahead of what or of whom? Your present status? The other fellow?

The only way to get ahead of someone else is first to regard him as someone other than yourself. Those who get ahead by moving up in the world are not getting anything but ‘more world'. ‘Getting ahead' usually means getting better than ‘breaking even', i.e.: living paycheque to paycheque, but there's nothing wrong with that because clearly our needs are being met and we're breaking even - jumbo limbo. What ‘breaking even' does is simply instill us with fear ... ‘what if?' We all want a cushion. Those who believe they need cushions, generally create a need for a cushion - like those who spend a fortune on every type of insurance - medical, car, professional, etc. - at those prices I sure hope they get to use it. I spent my life trying to get ahead and realized I wouldn't be doing much else because my ego held no defining line on this. What is enough? As long as it keeps us wanting more, we'll never be at peace. To the question, "How much is enough?", Rockefeller responded, "Just a little more than I have." A friend is concerned that her taxes are going to fund this and that with which she doesn't agree. Taxes don't go anywhere - except to the IMF - to fund anything - except Communism and terror. Communism got a bad rap in the 50s when McCarthy went bonkers over the House Committee for un- American Activities, but let's face it, what is Communism but state-owned/ controlled everything. The state now owns the securities on your body, your house, your automobile, your marriage, your children, your property, so don't pretend we don't live under Communism - we do; we've just been tricked into thinking otherwise because it has been disguised precisely the way Kruschev declared - "We'll get you without bombs, in a way you'll never realize." They will destroy us from the inside - not a shot will be fired. Why do you think they came up with the ‘Hate Crime Bill"? To remind us to hate. Just like the feds' War On Everything - it reminds us where to put our attention and our energy. On what we put our attention increases. Energy flows where attention goes. These people aren't stupid; they are diabolical. How do you keep your children from doing something which doesn't work for them? Keep telling them not to do it? No, all that does is remind them to do it. (Don't think of a pink elephant) This is Psych 101. Doesn't anyone remember? If the feds can get you to hate another - done best by reminding you not to - then forcing you to hand over your $$$ to fund the needs of the ‘other', then they win. People aren't seeing the whole picture because they are seeing it from inside the frame. Our five-sense reality is unreliable. The feds keep our egos in survival mode and convince us that what is not true is true and vice versa.

Let me repeat that the ego's qualifications as a guide are singularly unfortunate. - ACIM

Remember an old Twilight Zone episode where a bunch of small town folks all gathered in the street in the middle of the night because something strange had happened and they were attempting to get to the bottom of it. I don't recall if it were a flying saucer or a loud noise or strange lights but they were frightened as they began to guess what happened. Because of their fear they began to accuse one another of previous suspicious behavior and therefore their possible connection with this. As each man or woman felt attacked, s/he became defensive and attacked someone else. This escalated into nonsense and then into viciousness. The camera panned farther and farther back until we saw two men in some sort of strange environment (like a spaceship) who have been watching all this. One said to the other, "See? We don't have to do anything - they'll destroy themselves." Rod Serling was ahead of his time. Although I knew for years that I had attached my own value to that of my economic assets the penny dropped only recently thereby allowing me to see all the times I had equated my value, as an extension of my Creator, with something which didn't even exist except in the ‘minds of men'. It was a rude awakening and very freeing. It allowed me to see others in the same light. I promptly forgave us all for not having ‘made it in the world'; I even forgave those who had, since, after all, we're all just doing the best we can. We've heard all our lives that we ought not to take life so seriously, that we must stop and smell the roses, that we need time for relaxation, that "upon our death beds we will not be wishing we'd spent more time at the office", etc. This is a classic example of something we know in our hearts is true and yet behave completely contrariwise. This is what causes our distress, commonly heard as "I'm under a lot of stress." If what we were doing - working too hard for too many hours a day away from our loved ones - were in keeping with our true natures we would not be feeling distress. It is the conflict which causes our angst. We have innate knowledge that our Creator did not intend for us to be anything but joyous or doing anything which does not bring us joy. I have a continual vision of my Creator slapping its forehead (if indeed Creators even have foreheads) wondering why we insist upon torturing ourselves.


Excerpt from:

HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are




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