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Sarah's avatar

What is the story you DO want to tell? You are telling theirs and while I appreciate knowing their playbook, what story WE want to create, since we are far more and more powerful than the puppeteer crew. I want to create gardens and kindness and joy and innocent wonder. I want to set an example of authenticity and freedom rooted in love and integrity. I want to aikido their moves into undoing dependence on Pharma and big agri and re-member wholeness with self, harmony with earth (the real deal, not the green deal) and my fellow living beings. How you show is what matters.

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Ron's avatar

Your post is quite uplifting. Thumbs up.

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Sarah's avatar

<3 The more we uplift one another, the more powerful, creative and unified we become as a force for LIFE and for Humanity Flourishing In Harmony, Sovereignty, Wonder and Love!

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

Keep our eyes on the light. There is too much darkness in the world. Too much blindness due to too much propaganda, creating desires that ruin people. So called indeginous people still live clean lives. People go there to 'educate' them, but they know what is necessary in a human's life. We have way too much!

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Sarah's avatar

Aho. Living in harmony with the earth is the opposite of the IOT, it's the true ecology beyond the Green Deal that's just wheelin and dealin, we come to the light within that is everywhere and we start the healin'

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Sarah's avatar

Thank you - smile on my face

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

What we want is not what the rich people want. The rich and the powerful rule the world now. All we can do is live our lives as you say, and hope the rest will follow. In my neighborhood we pretty much do that. I am the only one to raise some veggies, but we live our lives away from the maddening crowd.

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Sarah's avatar

It sounds like you are doing your little, part, which is wonderful! I believe our language is powerful and it's time to stop giving those who have held sway power by our words. So I call them false power that is leaving now. Because faith tells me this is true, regardless of appearances. Now may be messy. It may take a while. But I believe we are climbing into frequencies of divine light that cannot support darker consciousness. Have you ever brought some veggies over to a friend?

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

Yes. And I invite a few friends now and then and we eat my weeds LOL. They often make a joke about it. They also know that my veggies grew in my yard until an hour ago! Never fresher, even though not as nice as store bought. Taste great though. Sometimes a fight who will get up first, the rabbits and the birds, or me! (birds protesting right now because I got the mulberries early)

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alaskachick's avatar

While everyone is planting gardens, I am buying more ammunition and BIC lighters and medicines. But I appreciate the sentiment. We have to be fucking warriors. They want to KILL us and our babies.

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Sarah's avatar

Herbs ARE medicines. Love IS ammunition. Sometimes you can turn an enemy into a friend. For me personally, I'd rather than lay down my life than kill another person but I respect the right to bear arms. I once heard a defintion of a revolt versus a revolution: a revolt is essentially frustration that is doomed to fail and ultimately suicidal. A revolution has the ability effect authentic change. Yet a revolution is still RE - doing the same again. We need to take this game to a whole new playing field. And YES we have to be fucking warriors. Each of us has our own part to play!

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alaskachick's avatar

I would kill anyone, without hesitation, if they were threatening my family, or me.

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Sarah's avatar

I understand your perspective. I stood in it once. But it isn't true for me anymore. Maybe I'm just more comfortable with death/life after...like I said I judge not those who are of a different perspective, I get it.

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Rick Larson's avatar

You have to eat, if you depend on the people you are fighting for food then you've already lost.

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alaskachick's avatar

Did not mean to offend gardeners. Sorry.

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Sarah's avatar

I only started learning to connect with the earth and grow things a few years ago. I'm not expert but weeds are very edible and super easy! I eat dandelions, violets and sage for breakfast!

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Rick Larson's avatar

I'm not offended, I'm making a point. Gardens have an important role in being free (of this elite investor driven social/economic system).

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alaskachick's avatar

You are absolutely right.

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Sarah's avatar

People have been killed over fighting for food sovereignty - that's how you know it is important.

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SomeDude's avatar

eh, anyone offended by variant prepping needs to thicken their skins anyway.

besides, your focus items all become valuable for barter, and can be used to obtain food in a post-money situation.

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alaskachick's avatar

I could never grow anything! I envy people who can. So I am left with bartering.

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Sarah's avatar

Barter is cool but contribution/gratitude economies are even more joyous - the spirit of genuinely wanting to help one another with what we have that is complimentary. It's more natural. Trees breathe out what we need, we breathe out what they need. Rabbits poop great fertilizer, which makes up for them eating a bit of the lettuce ;)

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alaskachick's avatar

I have never heard of contribution/gratitude economies. I will look into it. I never really ascribed to the communal living and giving. But I really appreciate your perspective. I guess I feel that in the end we need to save ourselves and our own families. We cannot count on anyone. It's like when the Pilgrims arrived and they lived communally, it was a disaster. When they changed to giving everyone their own plot of land, most people flourished. But I will do my homework on these types of economies.

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Sarah's avatar

I think a true contribution/gratitude economy has to be completely free in terms of individuals/not obligation, just giving freely and receiving freely, guided from within and from Source. Caring for our families puts in position to give freely without depending on others, as well as to be open to receiving from others without demanding. So I think it's a both/and. We are designed for connection, not control/coercion. The indigenous people thrived in community before the pilgrims came - not perfect, but many superior examples. Often community entails obligation and I think its the merging of sovereignty with communion that leads to genuine symbioses. Symbioses is where organisms live in mutual benefit naturally, versus competitive or exploitive models. Both can be found in nature and I believe humans have a choice to a embody either way. Parasitic requires one to exploit and another to be a victim. Competition requires one to pit ones needs against the needs of others. Symbioses finds all way wins where it isn't us vs them. This is not something we are going to see on a large scale super soon but I think we can begin in little ways.

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