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Photo: Carolyn Cole 10 years ago, I recall working in a Kinko’s in Whitehall, Ohio when the war began with the news of rockets raining down in Iraq. I heard it first on the radio that we had turned on behind the counter. For months I felt uneasy about the prospect of war with ... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Would the Equal Money System confiscate personal wealth? If history shows anything, it is that there’s no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt – above all, because it immediately ... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Illustration: Darryl Thomas Did you know that there exists on the Internet people who are paid to invade social networking sites like Yahoo, Facebook and others, and try to influence others with premeditated trolling. I myself ran in dozens of trolls when I moderated the De... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
The Value of Inequality Equality is not truly understood because its meaning is caught up within destructive definitions which renders the definition of Equality incoherent. When people see the word, “Equality” – pictures of being corralled into internment camps, loss of indi... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
The Natural Law Argument Against Equality When we speak of the Fear of Equality, we notice that most opponents of Equality will use various arguments to contradict or invalidate the benefits and rewards of Equality. The most popular is the Natural Law argument, due to its cla... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
THE impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life. Thus begins Freud in his book, Civilization and its Disco... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
The United States is the Darwinist capital of the capitalist world. A head afraid is a head haunted. A head haunted is a head hunted. Run for your life. Run from the guillotine to a head hunter who saves your head and raises your salary—so you’ll be caught in the red of the fi... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
The Myth of Liberty Capitalism is not only an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, and it is not only a system based on private ownership and generating profits for the “free market” and “investors.... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Part 1. Why People Fear Equality I have just participated in an Internet dialogue on the PolicyMic site, where I occasionally leave comments that support ideas of equality and bullshit removal. I had quite an interesting exchange with a defender of Capitalism that was fascinat... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
John Mackey at a libertarian conference explained, “The recent recession was blamed on greedy financial corporations, deregulation, and capitalism, rather than on bad government." —policymic.com
John Mackey: Cheerleader of Conscious Consumptionism In an article by Joel Griffith which is smattered across the conservative-libertarian Internet ghettos, the founder of Whole Foods, John Mackey recently delivered the keynote address at the “International Students for Libert... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
With so much hand wringing and political brinkmanship in Washington about “going over the fiscal cliff,” it’s good to see some people with their heads on straight and attempting to get through to the media-brainwashed populace that they don’t understand how the US monetary sys... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
The end of the world looks like the nothing we thought it would. because IT’S STILL HERE! About these ads Share this:ShareGoogle +1StumbleUponDiggRedditFacebookTwitterEmailPrintTumblrPinterestLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Here’s an interesting story from the New Yawk Times. MOSCOW — There are scattered reports of unusual behavior from across Russia’s nine time zones. Inmates in a women’s prison near the Chinese border are said to have experienced a “collective mass psychosis” so intense that th... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
COUNTDOWN TO THE MAYAN 2012 END OF TIME HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN! 25 DAYS and COUNTING! Aren’t you excited. I’ve been waiting nearly a YEAR for this end-times prophecy to occur. When the space ships don’t arrive and the clock keeps ticking away, I will be on the Internet YEEHAW!... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Day 24 and counting. People all over the world are starting to feel a little more anxious as the greatest non-event of the 21st Century hurdles towards Ground Zero on December 21, 2012. The mocking of the Mayan Prophecy began on this blog on January 28, 2012. I haven’t seen m... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
The Mayan Code is a book by Barbara Hand Clow who is the leading propagandist for the Mayan 2012 end times prophecy that relies mostly on the “scholarship” of Carl Johan Calleman. What is so great about this book is that it is destined to be an occupant of the 2012 Failed P... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Day 22 until the end of the world. The 2o12 Mayan Endtimes Goodtimes Hour continues for 22 days! You excited? I know I am. I haven’t scoffed at such a colossal hoax since the Harold Camping Endtimes fiascos. The Raptures (which were predicted twice by Camping) failed to commen... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
3 weeks until the End of the World. Are you busy getting your affairs in order? Have you spent all your money or are you hoping that maybe, just maybe, the people who claimed that the Mayans foretold the end of the world on Dec. 12, 2012, were WRONG? We couldn’t be that lucky,... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Watch out for the walk back. Lee Carroll and Kryon There is a new world coming and this new world will be very, very different from what life is today. There are going to be very many changes in this life and there will be a reduction in the population; things will not be easy... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
I've had an interesting time as a US Citizen. I've seen a lot of Shenanigans, to put it ever so lightly, out of my fellow citizens. But let it be known, I was never a proper citizen to be sure. Almost all the training in citizenship is a single class on American Government in... —aformerseekersjourneytolife.blogspot.com
iPods are Good for Consumers. But Are They Good for the Third World? Neoliberals think so. For them, the sweatshop isn’t just a symbol of the ubiquitous and life-crushing aspects of capitalism, it’s also a triumphant example of its moral and rational superiority over all othe... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Voted for Obama. Not Really Happy About it. Obama has been reelected and the Triumph of American Neoliberalism marches on. I recall 4 years ago when we thought that this time, things would be different. We finally had someone who would bring change to America. Obama was the Je... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Obama is my mama and has been re-elected. “What kind of economic contribution can we expect from a generation of American minority workers whose social decline has made them more suited for entitlement dependency than executive management?”[1] This is a fair question – and I e... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
I was standing at the counter of my job when someone came up to me and asked how I was doing. "Surviving," I said. He responded, "Yeah. I know what you mean." We both knew. everybody knows that surviving through all the thousand natural shocks the flesh is destined to suffer... —aformerseekersjourneytolife.blogspot.com
I’m registered to vote in my state and it will be the first time I voted in a presidential election since 1988, 24 years ago. I wasn’t really enamored with the Democratic candidate and I remember voting more against Ronald Reagan and not voting for Michael Dukakis. Dukakis co... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
Wanna make a million? Write a self-Help book. The New Self-Help Gurus They’ve given seminars, been on television and made millions with their self-help books flooding the market. It is the Holy Trinity of Eckart Tolle, Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer. Their messages are essential... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
The “Secret” with dealing with Rhonda Byrne? Sign the contract. Human Potential Movement and the New Age At the beginning of the 20th Century, the followers of a Greek-Armenian mystic with a message of awakening to a “higher consciousness” promoted George I. Gurdjieff (1866?... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
The belief that human abilities are expandable is not a new idea. The Human Potential Movement as a systematic program may have first begun in the West with the Stoics, who were active at the beginning of the 3rd Century BCE. Stoicism claimed that the quality of life of the h... —darrylthomas.wordpress.com
