On Ownership
I woke up many days ago and started to wonder, what would life be like if simple concepts that we take as laws never existed. One of these concepts was “ownership”.
The current human system of living is based on the concept of “ownership”.
Let’s just take a moment to examine what ownership can lead to:
Ownership of things ->
The concept of property ->
Exchange, barter and money ->
Concentrated abundance and lack ->
Wealth & security vs. lack & insecurity, rich and poor ->
Working hard, innovation, competition to own property ->
Greed, hording, over abundance ->
Living for money, in seek for security and living for money, in seek of power ->
Security & power = “more ownership” ->
Unfairness, un-equality, abuse, war, crime, injustice, lies, greed, selfishness & the control and “ownership” of the ultimate property, “people”.
In summary, the invention of the concept of “ownership” lead to the creation of the idea of “rich” and “poor”, amongst many other generally negative ideas (war, taking over property of others, greed, control).
In order for a few to become wealthy, rich, secure, powerful and owners of the most property, the concentration of property must be with the wealthy, it follows that many others must “lack” in “monetary wealth”, security, power, and ownership.
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Many native people lived in communities that shared things. They did not understand, respect or seek “profit”.
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Jesus once said:
- …I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. (Matthew 19:24)
The saying was a response to a young rich man who had asked Jesus what he needed to do in order to inherit eternal life.
Jesus replied that he should 1- keep the commandments, 2- sell all his possessions, 3- give the money to the poor, 4- and then follow Jesus. The young man was unwilling to do this. Jesus then spoke this response, leaving his disciples astonished.
I constantly find myself seeing things differently than people I am with. Cultural norms that people accept as divine laws to live by amaze me every single day. I remember asking “but why” as far back as my memory goes. I probably asked “why” as a baby before I could even talk.
It is worth remembering that our galaxy alone has billions of Earth-like planets, and these earths are “[not only] probably habitable but they probably are also going to be inhabited”
Here’s some food for though, did you know that all (I mean every single) healing that you experience is 100% your body healing itself? medicine, doctors even religious and energy healers, they do not heal you, they assist your body in healing itself.
NEWS:
A friend told me about this little mindfulness program and website that I have used for the last 5 hours and found very useful. Time to let you know about it.
As I was scanning my eyes over the buffet of bumper stickers plastered to the passenger side of a car, this one jumped out at me. I had never seen that before! Never heard that before, never thought of that before- “What does that mean to me?” I wondered, and toyed with the idea in my head. Immediately my mind showed me an image of a person, being bombarded with information and opinions, mainly mass media: magazines, television, newspapers, radio, advertisements, etc. Then i thought of a parent, pointing their finger at their child, telling them they are not enough of this, they are too much of that, etc. Then we can bring in religion. And societal ‘norms’. And culture. And the list goes on and on…
Greetings and salutations!
It is sad how people experience stress during the holidays, but things don’t have to be this way!
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