🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 06 Jan 2013, Lord Valve <detritus@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>chatnoir wrote:
>
>> http://occupydenver.org/119-explore-the-alternative-economy/
>>
>> When: Saturday, January 19th @ 9am
>> Where: Kirk of Bonnie Brae, 1201 S. Steele Street, Denver, CO 80210
>>
>> The purpose of Social Forum is to organize, educate and empower people
>> on critical issues; sharing knowledge; and teaching skills to build
>> alternative and sustainable systems that better meet our human needs.
>> Through the Social Forum model, individuals reflect on their own
>> purpose and how to make a difference, and hopefully we can create the
>> consciousness that we have the knowledge and skills and the power to
>> create the change we desire.
>>
>> Workshops: 9am to 12:30pm
>> Worker Cooperatives � This workshop will discuss the Worker
>> Cooperatives (employee-ownership model) which are business entities
>> that are owned and operated by their employees. It creates a
>> sustainable economy, stable, and non-competitive jobs that can�t be
>> sold out, and that build community. Bill Kirton & Dick Peterson
>> http://www.rmeoc.org/
>>
>> Alternative Currency � In this workshop, we will explore Denver�s
>> brand new local currency.  This becomes a self-financing revolution to
>> create a bottom-up economy with self-sufficiency, and self-government.
>> No waiting, voting, or asking permission from the corrupt.  You can
>> learn how you can benefit from Hours as an individual, or business. We
>> have set up 5 local, currency systems in 8 months. Each can trade with
>> one another, and none support big-box stores. �The People are the
>> gold, and can create a more abundant future immediately!� Wayne
>> Walton  http://www.milehighhours.com/
>>
>> Money, Public Banking, and Global Transformation �
>> In this workshop, we will examine the following: Money is ubiquitous,
>> but few people understand what it really is and how control over its
>> creation and availability affects global, local, and individual
>> conditions. Clarity, regarding what money is, enables us to transform
>> the monetary system so that it serves people, rather than the other
>> way around, which is currently the case. The transformation process
>> requires, at a minimum, three initiatives: public banking; verifiable
>> voting and public-only campaign financing; and decentralized media
>> ownership. Robert Bows  http://publicbankinginstitute.org/
>>
>> Open Forum: 12:30pm
>> Time to brainstorm and choose the next step for our community.
>>
>> Please bring a healthy dish to share, if unable, please come anyway
>
>"We ask that the government undertake the obligation
>above all of providing citizens with adequate
>opportunity for employment and earning a living.
>The activities of the individual must not be allowed
>to clash with the interests of the community, but must
>take place within its confines and be for the good of
>all. Therefore, we demand: an end to the power of the
>financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big
>business. We demand a broad extension of care for the
>aged. We demand... the greatest possible consideration
>of small business in the purchases of national, state,
>and municipal governments. In order to make possible
>to every capable and industrious citizen the attainment
>of higher education and thus the achievement of a post
>of leadership, the government must provide an all-
>around enlargement of our entire system of public
>education... We demand the education at government
>expense of gifted children of poor parents... The
>government must undertake the improvement of public
>health by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting
>child labor... by the greatest possible support for
>all clubs concerned with the physical education of
>youth. We combat the... materialistic spirit within
>and without us, and are convinced that a permanent
>recovery of our people can only proceed from within
>on the foundation of the common good before the
>individual good."
>
Nothing changes.  So no matter what they do, no matter what they say,
no matter what they think, evil shall always prevail over this world.
Criminals shall always rule in this world.  Corruption shall always
defeat and kill incorruption, and lies shall always overwhelm truth.

Turns out it's due to the nature of the human race.  Individually
or in small numbers, humans can, on most occassions, do some good or
even a lot of good.  But as their numbers get larger in any common
pursuit, be it government, religion, money, or anything related to
the material world, evil quickly takes possession of it, chasing away
and outlawing whatever good might've instigated it.

Like OWS and other powerless protest groups, these "social forum"
people have no chance in hell of ever changing anything.  Evil lives
forever, and good is always punished for the evil that evildoers do,
and thus the good eventually dies never knowing any victory over the
evil which destroyed it.  It is only the naive and inexperienced, the
young and hopeful, that don't know that about this world -- yet.

-- 
Bub