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originally posted by: intrptr
Everything people do is dependent on the system. Big cities, food, transport, jobs, income, bills: all generated, absorbed and recycled.
If you throw the switch it all grinds to a halt. Can't have that, people will starve.
So like, they are holding everyone hostage.
originally posted by: CoBaZ
I have thought it before, What if there is no one at the wheel. It is a very dark place to think about, so I thank the Masters every day, and spit their names between my teeth every night. That is about right.
originally posted by: Anadandan
a reply to: intrptr
I don't think you quite grasp what I'm trying to say.
Exactly, you can't escape what is. You have to overcome it through imagining what could be. What could be will eventually replace what is but not without input from all of us. Its a transformation kind of process that can only be kick started through realization.
originally posted by: Anadandan
originally posted by: CoBaZ
I have thought it before, What if there is no one at the wheel. It is a very dark place to think about, so I thank the Masters every day, and spit their names between my teeth every night. That is about right.
But spitting their names between your teeth as you say is futile and thanking them is belittling, we owe them nothing.
originally posted by: Anadandan
But what could be?
Why did Jesus become violent and throw out the money changers instead of persuading them by making a reasoned argument?
The money changers already knew they were cheating people and had become "a den of robbers", they had been doing this long enough to have had the opportunity to realize the enormity of their endeavor but didn't care ...
The money changers were often from the families of the Priests and Pharisees, so those families made a lot of money from people wanting to worship.
Only "special" money "made" for use in the temple was allowed to pay the tax, so people first had to change their own gold coins for the "special" money. The money changers often gave very bad exchange rates and also charged you to have the money changed..
The money changers also sold special animals passed as "clean" -at very high prices- that were to be used as sacrifices within the Temple... And if you didn't pay, the Priest could arrange for your household property to be taken from you...
So the Jewish leaders decided that they would have to find a way to eliminate Jesus because he was popular and was undermining their authority...