There is no money

The concept of money is inevitably going to have to change. The reason for this is simple.  There is no money. And that’s a secret hidden in plain sight.

The “money” you have in your pocket is a token.  If you look at any notes you have, they say “I promise to pay the bearer…”, but what would happen if you turned up to collect your equivalent in sterling? Maybe you should try

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sale_of_UK_gold_reserves,_1999–2002 << Have a look at how the UK reserves were sold off. And that was just the start. Then came Quantitative Easing… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15198789 It’s worth having a look at the Beeb’s guide, especially how this is done not by “printing” notes, but by pressing a button to change their balance sheet, and how “theoretically” this imaginary cash is destroyed at some future date….

But this shouldn’t be any surprise.  If you get paid, you probably don’t get cash.  If you bought or sold a house or car, you probably never saw any cash, it was all done by someone pressing a button {I’ll expand on how the Banks etc. finance mortgages in another post}.

What we think of as money is actually confidence. We generally speaking have confidence that the notes in our pocket or balances in our accounts have a value that we can calculate – how many loves of bread in can buy. If we don’t have confidence that these tokens will buy roughly what we think they will, then we have a real problem. Whatever we use to get these tokens {usually our labour} is devalued. We might even conclude that we would require some other recompense than these tokens. That would be bartering.

So, like the Emperor's new clothes, we ignore this secret that is hidden in plain sight.

For the most part, if we all agree to accept this system of exchanging value {from labour, ideas, invention to somewhere to live and something to eat} then that is fine.

But what happens in a situation like Scotland is facing, with the prospect of Independence? Well, clearly, confidence is King. How confident not just Scots are in the “new” currency, but how confident every other Country will be in the “new” currency too. 

I reckon that’s well worth thinking about.

STRAW MEN ARE NOT WOOS.

Strawman theory holds that an individual has two personas. One of them is a physical, tangible human being, and the other as their legal person, personality or strawman, often referred to as a legal fiction. (The term "legal fiction" is used by woos as if it were synonymous with intangible rather than with its correct meaning.)

The main use of strawman theory is in escaping and denying debts, liabilities and legal responsibility. Tax protestors, "commercial redemption" and "get out of debt free" scams claim that one’s debts and taxes are the responsibility of the strawman and not of the real person, freeing the real person from the need to pay them.

Sovereign citizen's movements and freemen on the land also extend this concept to law and legal responsibilities by claiming that it is only their strawman that is required to adhere to statutory laws such as paying taxes, having licences and obeying traffic laws. They also claims that all legal proceedings in courts are taken against your strawman rather than you as a person and that when one appears in court they appear not as themselves but as representing their strawman. The justification for this being their false notion that governments cannot force anybody to do anything against their will. They therefore create a strawman which being their own creation they are free to boss about at will.

Woos believe that by separating oneself from their strawman or refusing to be identified as their strawman they can escape their various liabilities and responsibilities such as paying their debts or obeying laws they don't like. This is typically done by denying they are a person and the same thing as their strawman or by writing their name in various bizarre ways such as the following:
John of the family Smith
John of Smith
John:Smith
John (commonly known as)

By doing this they are refusing to represent the strawman. In addition to capitals, the use of titles such as Mr and Mrs are claimed to indicate a reference to a person’s strawman. Surnames are also typically referred to as part of the legal fiction and advocates will often insist that they don't have a surname but rather a family name.

Some woos believe that the strawman is created by the government when a birth certificate is filed. Woos sometimes then try and present their birth certificate when their strawman’s name is called for, such as in court.

Oh, if you don’t know what a “woo” is, you can always ask me!

STRAW MEN

This bit is from my Facebook page:

I had partial success in persuading people that there is no money. How about I suggest you don't really know who owns you?
You certainly owned yourself before your Birth was Registered. If you'd never been Registered you wouldn't be a Citizen of the Country you were Registered in and you'd be largely free to do whatever you wanted outside the system. You might have to trade off some benefits (like Benefits).
Once your Birth was Registered you were given a number and became a "legal person". Now the implications of that are huge, but too much for a Tuesday night. If you want to get ahead of the game, Google "STRAW MAN".
You'll thank me for all this stuff one day. Honest.

So why is this important? I’ll expand later on the sausage machine that is the Court system, but there’s one reason why it’s important. If you’re interested you can follow this.

If you’re not, you can have any of my graphics that I post here or at http://www.castle-douglas.com/html/status_messages.html

Ground Zero

It would be rude not to introduce myself. So here I am. Undeniably optimistic; pretty average parent; life has been “interesting”.

So what makes me think I should write a blog? The simple answer is I was told I should. So I did. But really it’s more about sharing the random thoughts that go through my brain, off the social networking platforms. Somewhere folk can meander through my ramblings and hopefully find something that resonates.

I’m going to start my blogging career by re-posting some stuff from my Facebook timeline. That’ll give me some categories to work with. You can follow these categories so you can just read what interests you.

 

Hopefully we’ll be like that graphic. Let’s see what light we can shine on this interesting world we live in.