Foxy,
You always make perfect sense!

Dear Psychophant,

Welcome back!

remember..bankers arnt a friend
http://www.poketheeye.org/?p=210

Germany was..hopelessly..broke..Private currency speculators caused the German mark to plummet,precipitating one of the worst runaway inflations in modern times.

A wheelbarrow full of 100 billion-mark banknotes could not buy a loaf of bread.The national treasury was empty.Countless homes and farms were lost to speculators and to private banks.Germans lived in hovels.They were starving.

the total destruction of the national currency,plus the wiping out of people’s savings and businesses...On top of this came a global depression.Germany had no choice but to succumb to debt slavery under international bankers

At that point the German government thwarted the international banking cartels by issuing its own money.

World..declaring a global boycott against Germany.Hitler began a national credit program by devising a plan of public works that included flood control,repair of public buildings and private residences,and construction of new roads,bridges,canals,and port facilities. All these were paid for with money that no longer came from the private international bankers.

The projected cost of these various programs was fixed at one billion units of the national currency.To pay for this, the German government (not the international bankers) issued bills of exchange,called Labor Treasury Certificates.

In this way the National Socialists put millions of people to work,and paid them with Treasury Certificates.

Under the National Socialists,Germany’s money wasn’t backed by gold (which was owned by the international bankers).It was essentially a receipt for labor and materials delivered to the government.

H“For every mark issued,we required the equivalent of a mark’s worth of work done,or goods produced.”The government paid workers in Certificates.Workers spent those Certificates on other goods and services,thus creating more jobs for more people.

In this way the German people climbed out of the crushing debt imposed on them by the international bankers.

Within two years, the unemployment problem had been solved,and Germany was back on its feet.It had a solid,stable currency,with no debt,and no inflation,

at a time when millions of people in the United States and other Western countries(controlled by international bankers)were still out of work.

Within five years,Germany went from the poorest nation in Europe to the richest.

Interesting topic examinator but a difficult one - maybe mine is more of a wishlist or my version of utopia.

A world where we see human activity as part of the earth/environment not separate from it.

A world where we treat each other with respect, accepting our differences. In fact our differences would be irrelevant merely what makes us individuals and creative beings.

A world where practicising random acts of kindness is not a bumper sticker but the norm.

A world without greed or at least the regulatory reform to prohibit those who exploit unfairly for personal gain, where there is a balance of the rights of all members in a community.

Starry eyes maybe but while we are not perfect by any means if we at least strive for the best we might not fall too far short.

From a personal point of view, we cannot always make the world changes we want but we can live our lives to our ideals as best we can. We can choose to think of others before ourselves, we can choose to get out of the rat race and become more thoughtful consumers.

The big picture is being mindful of some of those things we dislike about the global world but in the face of it all to stay positive.

examinator!
My big picture consists of millions of small, removable, changable pictures with millions questions on their sides!
For me left could means an honest man who moves arount the party but he is not member, or a beaurocrat who losts in his fight for his salary or a position-chair hunder who can do everything for the chair-position, or a good paid writer who act as mersinary and istead of guns he uses his pensil.
For me the big picture is very dark and very light, very complex and very simple, very good and very dangerous!
These litle pictures which create the big picture could change very fast, from one moment to other moment, for one millions of reasons KEEP THE BANANA ON ONE HAND AND THE STICK IN THE OTHER HAND!
This world is good when it is not bad and it could not be good if we are bad!
DO NOT WORRY FROM THE TROJAN HORSES THESE HORSES DO NOT EXIST, THEY HAVE CREATED TO DIVIDE US, TO CONFUSE US, TO MAKE EASIER THEIR GOALS.
Fight dishonests and hypocrities and worry from the smiles and nice words.
PREPARE FOR WAR IF WANT PEACE AND ALWAYS TRY TO KEEP THE BASTARDS HONESTS!
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Foxy,

Yeah, thanks for elucidating. See, I had got the part about you realising the big picture wasn't about changing other but changing oneself.

But that 'h' word seemed to be such a jarring note - especially from someone who does, otherwise, write with optimism and tolerance.

I wasn't being picky: I was genuinely puzzled. Hate is such a destructive emotion that I couldn't reconcile a world-view that could be optimistic with the belief that hatred was the norm ("Who amongst us doesn't hate?").

As others have pointed out: on this forum we only have other people's words to go on - these appear without the usual frameworks of actions, lifestyle etc. etc. that we usually use to get to "know" someone. So when, sometimes, those words seem to be at odds with what we think we know about a poster, it can present a conundrum which, in RL wouldn't be noticeable.

So yes, indeed, substituting the emotion of anger for hate does make a difference.

Personally I now find that anger, for me, is such a fleeting emotion it passes almost instantaneously which amuses me greatly. You see, one of the things that really used to anger me about my own mother was exactly that! I used to get really infuriated that she couldn't be "serious" enough about life to work up a sustained fury about its injustices.

Now, when its too late to tell her so, I finally realise where she was coming from