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08/12/07: "Freeconomy - the blessings of a world with out money"
Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 7 December, 2007 - 06:46.
Could the world work without money?
How about a world where we did everything just for the love of it? Where we do things simply because it is in our hearts to do so; where we all contribute to our community in a way that embraces our own skills and energy without the exchange of money. How about a society without money altogether? It may, to many sound somewhat far fetched right now, although it seems to me that at some point it may indeed become a necessity!...
When I sit down and contemplate our world today, I am stunned at how we have reached a point of such unrealistic dependency on things from the far reaches of the Earth. The grand illusion is that we have control of our materialistic and money dependent lives! We do (apparently) to a point... until the rug is pulled from under our hopeful feet and we find that the foundations upon which we have built our lives were in actual fact built upon sand.
A factor worth considering is that oil is responsible for bringing us virtually everything in the modern world (from transportation of goods and services, to food production, to heating, electricity). Should oil prices become unaffordable due to dwindling supplies (which seems highly likely) then the price of practically everything that modern society is dependent on would skyrocket, rendering money useless.
If this strikes a chord then you'll find the new "Freeconomy Community" movement of interest... Check out the web-site here:
http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/
and if you feel the pull... join!
Freeconomy is about sharing the skills you've learnt throughout your life and learning those you haven't...
It's about helping others and providing an opportunity for others to help you. Freeconomy allows people to make the transition from a money based community-less society to more of a community based moneyless society, and to share the land they don't need or can't use to facilitate a local food community. In essence, freeconomy is about making dinner for a friend who was yesterday a stranger.
Is the need for money an illusion?
by Saoirse
- "You better believe it. Birds don't have money, trees don't use money and as far as I know earthworms have never heard of such a ridiculous concept. Money, in any human language today, gets translated to mean security. It's insurance against the universe, nature and the rest of humanity letting us down and not providing for us. No money = No security.
So I posed the following question; what would happen if a post peak oil capitalist economy, quite literally, toppled from its speculative foundations in the next ten to twenty years, and money lost all value beyond kindling? What would be defined as true security in such a circumstance - lots of pieces of paper and metal in abandoned banks, or skills, and a very tightly knit community built on the foundations of mutual service?
If money evaporated today, would we all die? Of course not, but some would, simply because we have lost the art of helping each other just for the love of community."
With Love
Trin
Freeconomy...simply awesome
Submitted by Chris Bourne on 7 December, 2007 - 08:49.
I understand the guy who created Freeconomy (Mark whose now changed his name to Saoirse - which means "Freedom" in Gallic) has set out on a pilgrimage with no money - just what he's stood up in.
I find this absolutely awesome! That someone has the courage to stand up in the face of our controling, untrusting society (in my view!), trust in the infinite organising power of Benevolent Consciousness and follow his heart.
What an amazing and uplifting example to us all!
Carpediem!!!
Chris 
Freeconomy
Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 10 December, 2007 - 16:40.
He is very keen to bring forward his message as an example and walk his talk. His approach may seem radical, although in essence I am inclined to agree with what he is saying...
A world based on trust and harmony! Bring it on!
In this world there is nothing 'right' and nothing 'wrong'. Can you be awesomely okay with that?
If you have ever wondered how to give...
If we all felt as Khalil Gibran so eloquently expressed the world would be indeed a different place!
Then said a rich man, "Speak to us of Giving."
And he answered:
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?
And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the over prudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city?
And what is fear of need but need itself?
Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable?
There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
And there are those who have little and give it all.
These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.
And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;
They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.
Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth.
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding;
And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving
And is there aught you would withhold?
All you have shall some day be given;
Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors'.
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving."
The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights is worthy of all else from you.
And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.
And what desert greater shall there be than that which lies in the courage and the confidence, nay the charity, of receiving?
And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?
See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
For in truth it is life that gives unto life - while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives.
Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings;
For to be over mindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.