Monetary system and Spirituality

[jilola]

Bomohwlk: You contradict yourself with regard to my post.
The thing about money and thelack of it is that it is only a tool. If you have it you can choose to use it either for the better or the worse. If you don't the lack of it has no bearing on who and what you are.
If money becomes a value unto itself one is way off the right path. It has value only as a means to reach a goal and the goal is what ultimately defines the value of the money spent or gathered.

2cents & L&L
jouni

[bomohwkl]

How often, when u examine yourself,you are trying to take advantage of people, in order to save or earn more money? How often, hatred, irration and anger have been provoked just becuase of time-money issue?

It is true that money can be used to do good things. People think that it is tool.For every tool, whether it is misused or not depends entirely on the person himself. I can say it is the most misused tool ever created by mankind.

How many people could imagine a world without money? Aren't we the puppet of the materialistic society? Allowing us to be exploited and controlled by the rich one in order to maximize profit? Aren't we allowing our enviroment to be damaged by them? But they are the person who create jobs for us so that we could pay the bills, mortages and etc. We couldn't go against them even they are killing the environment. If a law is passed to ban the use of petrol/diesel, surely a lots of people will lose the jobs. No politicians are dare to do that, as their money come from large co-operations. We all the puppet of money. What happen if you are so depending on certain tool? What happen if u so dependent on calculator? We couldn't think otherwise.

The whole society is based on money to measure personal/national progress. Can a nation capable to think otherwise?

At present, the whole 'system' is self-destructive. Are you able to see it? Probably, human needs to extensive suffering become he comes to realize that.

No matter how we relate the money,something is certain. In order to live in modern society we NEED money and we all DEPEND on it.

Our extreme dependency on money in every life has caused so much suffering in the world. That's the danger. Giving money to the unfortunate one doesn't help to reduce human dependency on money.
So few people realize it and therefore the misery of the world continues.

Our dependency of money is really a big issue!

[beavis]

To me, OBE, telekinesis, telepathy, etc are more important than money, but I need money so I'll have food and an apartment to do those things in. Since I cant do those things without money, money becomes more important.

[bomohwkl]

Any comment welcome.