When our needs are met, then we can be of service to others
We cannot legislate morality or ethics, but I do know that we all have the capacity to express great love and compassion for one another. Disasters usually bring out the best in people, but what happens after the disaster is over?
People must go back to their slave lives as their needs are not being met so they must work to provide for themselves. Over the decades, the amount of work that people have to do in order to purchase what they need continues to grow and for some, it is impossible to accomplish. As a result, we spend most of our time here on earth working just so that we can provide the basic necessities of life. The reason it takes so much time is because we choose to purchase it from middle men, who profit off our unwillingness or inability to provide for ourselves and the money changers who steal our energy and wealth.
However, when we take full responsibility and accountability for our own needs, a miraculous thing happens; we have free time. When we made the leap over ten years ago, we were busy building and figuring out how to make it all work together. It took several years, however now that most of the construction is done and the infrastructure is in place, we find time is something we have plenty to spend as we see fit. That is true luxury in my view and it is an astounding feeling to experience.
So what to do with all this time! For us, we choose to serve others. My wife and I spend hours each day helping other people now. Whether it is my wife helping people through her homeopathic practice, or mentoring budding spiritual beings, we spend hours each day on the phone, visiting with people or writing so that we can share our knowledge and experience.
There is a common belief that if people are left to their own, they would be selfish and only look after themselves. I don't believe that to be true and is yet another program that we must break free of. I've been off line for several days as I've been helping our neighbour with their deck build. I've also been on the phone as I have people contacting me daily for guidance along their own spiritual journey too.
I am grateful to be back and continue my service to others through this blog and the work I do here online! I find in my own life that we only need a few hours a day to provide for our needs. That leaves a lot of free time. Imagine if everyone had that kind of time! Contemplate how much help would be available for all. Can you imagine what type of world we would live in if we accomplished that?
This deck was something simple for me to do to help my neighbours who are well into their 60's and no longer able to do this type of work themselves. They appreciate it very much and I am more than happy to help them. It is no different than helping others with their physical, emotional, mental or even spiritual growth. That is what we are here for. Time to take responsibility for our lives and position ourselves so that we are not spinning the hamster wheel our entire life! We don't help anybody doing that.
The gift of time is priceless. To work at setting ourselves free so that we may have the time to do the things we wish to do. By taking responsibility for our own lives, we free our selves from the chains that tie us down to a live of enslavement.
A beautiful deck by the way.
The gift of time is the most valuable and precious thing we can give anybody else! I agree, even priceless! If only we viewed our time that way rather than trading it for a few measly dollars so that we can pay bills. My time is worth way more than that! Thank you! <3
Amazing job there! :) I think what is lacking in modern slave society, is purpose. we all need to feel like we have a purpose and to feel as though we have acomplished something. I think it is great how you guys chose to live your lives, if only the whole world was this way! We would all have so much more time to live and love, and help one and other! Great post, as always :)
Thank you! We are working on influencing others to do the same. :)
I was just thinking today that I hoped you'd show us that deck you've been working on, it's beautiful!! And looks sooooooo sturdy!!! :) :)
hahaha. Oh yes. It is not going anywhere. lol. The design is a hybrid between me and the owners. When they picked up the materials, the 4x4's were crap, so they picked up 6x6 instead. lol. It has been a fluid project, but they are very happy with the results.
Welcome back!
It's so true that you said,
After having supplied most of our daily food need from our own garden, we are suddenly free from frequent and not so enjoyable trips to grocery stores. Now we have more free time, which adds up to hundreds of hours a year!
Exactly! So now that begs the question: what do you do with all that free time? Use it to address the next dependency? Help others with similar projects? Oh, let us count the ways eh!
As a matter of fact, YES to both questions! With the extra free time, I am learning about home repair from a good friend. I also show others who are interested how to grow their own food so they can be off corporation food-grid.
Yaaaaaaaaa
I started to post techniques I use in my garden to grow food and being a good steward of the land and natural resources. Here is my first one: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@cheneats/my-banana-circle
Thats very kind of you. Its pretty easy to come around to your way of thinking. Thanks wwf
We all need love. Good work there. Welldone
This is the bias I fight every time people are against a universal basic income ...their argument is "people would be lazy." Really? Because I find there aren't enough hours in the day more often than not...
I would like for capitalism to be a moot point, but I think something like UBI is the step we need to transition away from it (and how you're going to get most folks off the hamster wheel). If others don't think it's the way, that's ok ...but I wish they'd argue actual points rather than some puritanical notion of busywork=holiness!
I'm not a fan of universal basic income either. Instead how about we remove the concept of title, bring people back to the land and provide them with training, tools, equipment and what ever else they need in order to provide for themselves. The more independence we can build the better. Instead, the universal basic income only build dependency as people are still maintaining a life style that supports dependency on corporate infrastructure. Land and the tools to get it done is what holds people back from doing the work. So let's find ways to make that happen. I know lots of people who want to do the work, but cannot due to resource and cash. They feel stuck and in a financial trap as a result of debt and other obligations associated with slave living. Debt forgiveness is also another big one that needs to be contemplated as well.
I agree that as much independence as possible is the goal, but let's be honest: we're never all going to be able to provide 100% of our needs by ourselves, and we're not going to be able to always direct trade for what we need, either. So we need SOME medium of exchange for those times where, say, someone wants my herbal salves and someone else wants that person's bacon and someone else wants that person's knitting and so on down the line until we get to the twentieth person who has A2 cow's milk that I need. I'm not saying it should be fiat, fiat is obviously corrupted and corruptible, but there does need to be something. A UBI would enable that.
Also, as I said, I see it as a stepping stone, not a final destination. ;)