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How to Serve Something Better than Money

posted July 6, 2007 - 2:26pm
How to Serve Something Better than Money

In my introduction on the InstantBuzz™ Message-Board, I sort of explained 'what I serve.' (You have to join InstantBuzz™ before you can read all the messages, but I repost mine here:)

People Bow Not to You, but to Work that You Do

That's what gets me about wanting an introduction: I suppose people want to know that the people they work with are 'real,' but I'm unbelievable.

Basically, I was given a choice: 'a struggle against paralysis' or 'death' ... and you wouldn't believe me if I told you my choice.

And for the choice I made, Earth owes me about 14 million dollars (plus 12 years' interest, at least)---but the way it looks now, I'm barely even getting 1/5th of that (and then only a little bit at a time, if I live to be 100).

But YOU DON'T CARE! And you shouldn't! I wouldn't, were it not a fact OF MY LIFE! You should only care about what I now help you do in the future (which--of course--I cannot do without sustanence supplied).

I offer not a hand-out, not a hand-up; but a hand-aside ... your goal may be slightly off (I can't say for sure, I don't know who I'm talking to), and I'll encourage you to steer yourself in the right direction.

The 'goal' that most people have here is "money." 'Money' may be a direct-translation of 'what you really want,' but money is not the surest language out there!

The surest language is ... well, I might call it 'love,' but the only love you feel on the Internet is your own (maybe inspired by me or -by one of the well-endowed women I sometimes speak of).

I suppose the surest language could be called Sophia ("Wisdom," if you're devoted to 'English'), and that is all you need to know about me: that I (on the Internet) serve Sophia.

What people do with their language (how they *demand* provisions with the words of dollar-bills) shows their 'service to Sophia.' The better they serve Her, the closer She can be to The One Truth.

But that's way beyond the Internet! The Internet's just a conglomeration of ideas--some good, some not-so-good (yes, even I need an occasional 'extended weekend)--and we all have to trust that the other humans will, more-and-more, find and keep the good ideas ... letting the other ones pass with the gas from that beef-and-bean-salad.

Not Sure if I Have a Signature Yet,
MythMan J
http://www.xomba.com/user/mythman
http://www.geocities.com/jmythh2k5/goodtrading.html

Let 'they who know how to listen' hear.



Comments

Enforcing Prostitution: All that Money's Good For

... Not long-run, of course. Long-run is the whole 'roof over your family's head, food on your family's table, reserves in your family's vault'-story, but using the money is basically forcing the assorted workers to direct their works into/toward your benefit for whatever brief period of time. And that's fine. My problem with it starts when people claim, "It takes money to make money." No, money--before it's 'made'--is a representation of the worth of your effort/time spent producing worth. Only AFTER it's made does it become a translation for what you want. Join Us

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My wife works in HR and...

My wife works in HR for the county here and she has told me many a story about asking new hires why they are working for the county, only to be told "for the money". Not quite the answer she was looking for. The correct approach, and you did a good job of illustrating it in your piece, is to work toward the greater good at different levels and the rest will fall into place. By placing money first, writing becomes a mercenary act and really no better than prostituting ones talents.

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