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Originally posted by gncnew
One last note, I just read that bizarre "Terra Papers" thing...
Again - I'm not judging, but if that's where your head is, it's no surprise that your entire family is thinking that you shouldn't have custody of your daughter.
#smh
Originally posted by Amaterasu
Do you know how long it takes to get into the Post Office? Years. I'm waiting and hoping, even still.
Originally posted by Unity_99
Hey, it has nothing to do with the Terra Papers. There are whole families generationally that are experiencers too, again, this is irrelevant.
But problem solving is important here. Now I've been thinking this through and though, without the kids, this is the key, having no children around, peace, quiet, the whole day to yourself. And a life partner at that.
What kind of relationship do you and your partner share? Are you open to ideas together and able to discuss anything? Is We more important than his job for example?
ie. the rent there is probably quite a lot, well it is most places even for an apartment. If I was in a situation like this, coming summer and all, would move into a tent and save the rent for two or three months, and buy a truck and a tent trailer or camper.
Then cherries, fruit, grapes in the fall. Oregan for pine mushrooms, they're worth a lot even the broken ones.
My grandparents camped alot, even honeymooned that way, and they also did a lot of grapes and fruit picking as partners (yes he helped her with ladders, he cared alot about her) and they both had spending money, in their retirement. She had arthritis, her hips would go out, and heart problems but was very active anyway. it really depends on health.
Pan for gold.
things in the woods and sell at a farmers market on the weekend, twig furniture, planters.
Silkscreens, make some awareness posters, cards.
My point is you guys can do things together.
Go door to door and hand out flyers for pet walking, and do by donation. Sure only get 2 dollars at times but $ 20 happens quite a bit too. Have a friend who did this and shoveling snow (which you wouldn't be able to do) and made alot of money, lots of people overpay. And also, don't do for long.
I don't know for sure if you mean you stiffen up if standing for 30 minutes or do you mean moving as well.
I know, I stiffen up too, and have problems with alot of things, but still keep forcing it. But I also recall a women who would never be able to do much, hers was severe, and she was on disability and then old age pension. She liked to play push rummy a lot, and enjoyed visits with people who stopped over, her hands were really crippled up.
It depends on so much I know.
But without kids, the dream would be scavage to get a truck and then an old rusty trailer and turn it into this:
tinyhomes
He designs these to fit in a parking lot, so you could park them at McDonalds without towing. Or camp here and there.
I'd also have stored on top a yurt for overflow creative space and do alot of art, homemade papers, looms and spinning wheels, all number of things. But again, those require non crippled limbs and being able to stand and move.
Tutoring your computer skills, ie. children photoshop or the free one, the Gimp, and making online scrapbooks and ecards for them, artskills.
Also, volunteering to do webpages for people. I'd make sure I got a laptop and wireless with that truck and trailer.
This is how I would go without the children, until I could get some land.
He spent 20 000 plus on those tiny homes. Whereas a whole earthship home with the electrical solar water systems which are around 8 000 of it, are only just over 40 000,so I scratched my head. Paper mache and canvas, recycle. Do it for way cheaper. Or just add this to an old camper/trailer.
I'd have this
stored on the top for overflow.
I know a woman who made over 1000 a month, and growing just sculpting little tiny fruit bowls and miniature still art and figurines from sculpey clay and painting them.
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by Amaterasu
Do you know how long it takes to get into the Post Office? Years. I'm waiting and hoping, even still.
Our post office only hires retired military. I tried for years to get a job there.
Of course they don't exactly tell you - you haven't got a chance unless you are retired military. I think that's actually illegal. The app just states military background has priority. I live in a military town - - they are never without retired military.
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by gncnew
One last note, I just read that bizarre "Terra Papers" thing...
Again - I'm not judging, but if that's where your head is, it's no surprise that your entire family is thinking that you shouldn't have custody of your daughter.
#smh
Not to derail the thread - - - but what is wrong with the Terra Papers?
It amazes me - - people can believe the Jesus story - - - but freak out at any other possible history.
Originally posted by Amaterasu
Not to mention a history that has support from Sumerian Tablets and many anomalous artifacts worldwide. And I'm guessing gnc did NOT read all of the Papers. I know I thought it was a bad space opera at first. It was not until things reached into our presently known history did things begin to click. And upon completion, the universe that made no logical sense to me made complete sense.
When that happens, when things that made no sense initially but then click into a frame that does, One has to think maybe there's something to it.
Originally posted by Amaterasu
I'm not trying to make money - trying to get rid of it.
Originally posted by Epiphron
Originally posted by Amaterasu
I'm not trying to make money - trying to get rid of it.
Well, there's your problem. Your beliefs are in direct conflict with your needs, and consequentially, with reality.
It's nice to think that our world would be better without money,
especially when considering all the problems it seems to cause.
It's just not realistic.
Money in itself is neither good or bad. It's simply an exchange of energy. If I built a house for you, would it be fair if I got nothing in return for my effort?
And since you might not have anything to trade in exchange for my effort such as food or other products, the only logical thing to do is to give me some sort of currency that I could in fact exchange for something that I need of equal value. Hence, money.
You mentioned something to the effect of infinite energy that is being kept from us... Again, wishful thinking. You've convinced yourself that this infinite energy exists, without proof, and you're convinced that the only reason we don't have it is because someone doesn't want you to have it. So again, you shift blame and responsibility to someone else.
Our world cannot exist without currency.
It's only lazy people who adopt these beliefs that we should get rid of money because they feel entitled to get everything without having to do anything themselves.
As long as people are able to do things that others cannot or will not do, then there will be a need for currency.
I suggest you drop these delusions and adapt your beliefs to reality. Otherwise, your situation can only get worse.
Something has got to give. You either stop trying to get a job, which is contradictory to your claim that you aren't trying to make money, and just live according to however you seem to think our world would work without money, or you change your beliefs and align them with the world that we live in, the world where money is necessary.
Originally posted by Unity_99
reply to post by Amaterasu
You should be on a disability and in most places, barring the US, you would be. When you physically work, and on a disability able to do stints of employment and go back easily without reapplying, but that gives a chance to try different things depending on the person's condition. And all disabilities should be at middle middle class on their income scales, as people should be qualitatively equal. They should also be taxing heavily those above the upper middle class scale and all corporations. However, like you, I don't believe in money, but not in a lone wolf style. A society based on US values, in a moneyless one wouldn't be a eutopia, it would still be haves and have nots.
However a college town might not be a good idea with computer skills, so maybe moving might help. But its a big risk since you do have a set up there, and there's no guarantee of one where you move.
Its a very heart breaking situation. And so many don't have a clue unless they personally walk it, that the world is about everyone, women, young mothers and their work being most essential, handicapped, elderly, everyone, not just this mobile, healthy, unencumbered group. And every single person in it counts more than the whole universe. A lot of people literally have to fall in a lake a start to drown to have compassion for those who have.
No matter what happens, keep working for your dream of a better world. Its really important.