For example. Deposit $100 into Golden Palace and they will give you $300 extra as long as you wager $8000. Their edge on Blackjack is about 0.5%. So for every $8000 you wager, you'll get back $8000 x 99.5% = $7960. So you'll lose $40. However you'll also gain $300 for the bonus. So you'd be $260 richer. The 0.5% edge is assuming that you play perfect BlackJack, which can be done using a chart such as this one: http://www.casinobonuswhores.com/surrender-strategy.jpg

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It's important that you wager only small amounts so that the variance is not too large. So if you deposit $100, bet $1 per bet 8000 times rather than $100 80 times.

Also, it's mind numbing playing so many hands of BlackJack, but if you're unemployed and haven't got anything better to do, this could be useful.

Happy gambling.

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For the sake of discussion I'm sort of assuming no major Earth Changes will cause a jarring collapse or rearrangement.  That could still happen and if it does any of this could still apply, but as far as my focus is concerned it's on a continued steady deterioration toward a bona-fide dystopia and how to prevent it.  I'm operating under the vague aspiration that between now and the end of 2012 or whatever there may be enough of a mass consciousness awakening that positive directed human change could very well be possible.

What does everyone think of money?  I mean as an abstract idea of an officially sanctioned medium of energy exchange?  Some say it's neutral, some say it's inherently corruptive/corrosive and should be done away with in an ideal state of being, but it's pretty safe to say that what we have now has a severely unhealthy amount of leeches attached to it and they're sucking away energy to grow tumors to house SUVs and factory farms and everything else that exists in excess if money wasn't allocated so poorly.

I've recently had a revelation about money.  I already knew about the World Banking System and how it was a central part of the STS operational dominion or something equally yucky, and how it made me angry to have to continue to be a part of it just to continue a semblance of a barely even remotely "normal" life without trying to completely drop off the grid.  I thought the problem was somehow related to the machinations used to trick the lamentably ignorant public into thinking that handy paper was somehow better or more useful than commodity-value coins, and the acquiescence and abdication of people in authority who just let the bankers have it all and kepk giving it away; each time they took another slice of what the average person had available to have control over the way they lived their life.  But throughout history it did go back and forth and the balance of power would shift.  Unfortunately over the last 100 year or so it seems to have been a steady decline toward Centralbankopoly.

Realizing "fiat" money is intrinsically worthless and that historically it has always crashed is part of the picture, as is knowing that the supposedly "metal backed" money systems of the past are almost equally as controlling and convoluted.  As many people here might agree, it doesn't really matter what we use for money as long as we agree on it and it works fairly.  It can be electronic, it can involve symbols, it can be anything we imagine.  But taking what we have now and transitioning it toward something just is a specific and complex problem.  It would need to be done with full awareness by organized forces able to demand political as well as humanitarian respect.  And to try and do it all at once in the case of some Dark Horse getting elected president or something would be, as I heard a progressive political analyst put it once "like taking the teeth out of a tiger one at a time".

Of course there are loads of resources on the 'net and here are a few I've come across recently:

"The Money Masters" movie and site with copies of things such as their "Monetary Reform Act" and links to other material:
http://www.themoneymasters.com
The movie is available in various forms on google video and youtube if you just do a search.  So is one called "Money as Debt" that contains similar information.  Since those venues are currently pretty sketch I have to wonder if linking directly will just get those particular copies taken down faster.

a Money as Debt site linked from the above:
http://landru.myhome.net/monques/
It seems to have a lot of good articles, and a bit of a derisive political slant on it all that's common to the subject matter.  Here's a good one on why going back to a precious metal standard isn't a good answer:
http://landru.myhome.net/monques/goldx2.html

The American Monetary Institute, linked from there
http://www.monetary.org/
This page has a big powerpoint presentation that explains a lot of the same stuff, and the link on the front is broken right now so it's kind of secret! :
http://www.monetary.org/greenpartytalk.html

I know this is pretty wonky stuff and it doesn't necessarily seem interesting or useful at first.  But I'm becoming convinced that this is one of THE main linchpin issues holding the slavery matrix et al together and it's being done right in front of everyone's eyes, simply because most people will never take the time to understand it and the ones who do usually get depressed about the hopelessness of it all.  Familiar story, I know.   But we seem to be in a period of change and entering into an ever greater one, right? Probably?  And to get to what's next involves us all envisioning it and working toward it, right?

Does anyone know what we should try to do, just working on the assumption that it might actually work if we tried?  It sure would be fun to just dismantle the whole think like it deserves, maybe we should just tell our friends and neighbors to vote for people who want that in the 2008 election!!!!!  Seriously, having the United States and other countries just print their own money for things they would have to tax for otherwise seems like a sensible start.  Of course it would undoubtedly bring on a massive attach from the Albino Shapeshifting Lizard Bitches and we'd have to be ready for it as a nation/planet/people.  Any thoughts? Thanks for reading this far!

Lot of chaos in the world markets at the moment.  Is this just a short bit of instability - or is the economy finally entering that long predicted crash?

I want to understand this whole money-economy thing as I feel it is something very important to understand.

Thanks guys for any help proffered.

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I'm guessing there's more than a few Noble Realms members with a whole lot of useful skills and perhaps there are also people here that could use those skills (or knows someone that does).

We spend almost all our time here discussing metaphysical subjects, but I have little idea about what anyone does and if they could be of help to me in other ways (Or I be of help to them).

There's a holistic networking event that happens once a year, here in the UK, where you usually write on a card what you need (if anything), and more importantly - how you can be of service.

So if people are interested, I'd like to start a similar thing in this thread. I'll go first.

How I can be of service:

I know quite a bit about creating and promoting websites and I'm happy to give free consultations (time permitting) to any Noble Realms member who needs advice on the following things:

- web design
- internet marketing
- Content management solutions
- Blogging
- Web 2.0 and social networking
- Search Engine Optimisation (ie. how to achieve higher search engine rankings)
- General business marketing

Also, even though I'm not a holistic therapist myself, I know a great deal about how therapists can improve their marketing, so I can also advice on that. If you're a therapist and need more clients, I can probably help you a bit.

Finally, I might also be able to find work for other people in areas relating to web and graphic design (Perhaps we should start a Noble Realms design agency or something!).

How you can help me:

I'm quite busy right now so I'm not really looking for any extra paid work at the moment, although that could change in the future. If I was looking for work then it would be internet related, particularly consulting.

Probably the most useful thing that anyone could do to help me right now would be to help me promote my main website Holistic Local (www.holisticlocal.com). If you or anyone you know is in a good position to promote HL to people that are either therapists, or just interested in Holistic and spiritual living then I would love to speak to you.

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So there you go. If you're intersted in taking part then just list what you can offer (whether for love or for money -  it doesn't matter) and what skills you're looking for (if anything).

And please remember that no skill is too insignificant. What you know could be exactly what someone else here could use help with.

Thanks

Andy

I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of the open-ended pursuit of wealth, but never been able to articulate or understand why, so I often assumed it was do to immaturity or an incomplete perspective. Lately I’ve come to the opinion that my original instincts were correct, I just lacked the framework to explain or understand them. I’ve often heard the expression (I’ve almost certainly used it myself) “money is just a form of energy” or something to that effect, and there is obviously nothing wrong with seeking self-empowerment right? While energy can and often is used in negative ways, if you are careful and conscious, you can make sure your manifestation of energy is completely positive.

This line of thinking is seductive because it is almost true. The key is that money is not energy, rather it is symbolic of energy. This isn’t necessarily bad either. The problem is that it is a symbol which only has meaning within a system of domination and power-over, and is completely worthless in any other context. As Stan Goff said, “money is the entitlement to someone else’s labor,” although that definition is a little incomplete in our modern economy, what with the vast infusion of fossil fuel energy. It might be better (but less eloquently) said that money is the entitlement to the exploitation of other people and/or the environment. This is what our entire civilization (actually, all civilization) is based on, the creation of local good at the expense of distant harm. The more advanced the civilization, the more cleverly and distantly that harm is exported, making it all the easier to ignore and/or rationalize it. To deny this is to be completely out of touch with the basis of our economy and the reality of our relationship to the environment and life in the Third World (including, to a lesser extent, our domestic third world). This is not a superficial problem either, it is pervasive and systemic, and as such, cannot possibly be fixed within the system.  Trying to heal our planet by working within the system is a bit like a crack addict thinking to solve his addiction by getting a better pipe (an imperfect analogy, but the best I could think of at the moment).

A quote from Frank Herbert (author of Dune) really crystallized all this for me:

I can’t say it and clearer (and certainly not any better) than that. This is why movies and books like “The Secret” are especially scary. They are basically unmitigated, careless selfishness packaged as spirituality. It is especially frightening because it is 99% true. But, like the rat poison that is 99% sweet cookie, that other one percent is nasty stuff. The Law of Attraction is undeniable and powerful, but why does the movie focus exclusively on material wealth? Why not manifest a world where money is useless because everyone is so happy to give (i.e. a classic “gift economy,” which was the worldwide standard for the first 2 million years of human history)? Well, one big reason is that the vast majority of luxury goods, in fact the entire luxury lifestyle is predicated upon hordes of slave laborer in the third world and wholesale destruction of the environment. If you aren’t seeking luxury goods, there is absolutely no need for large amounts of money.

Followers of Steve Pavlina and the like will retort “but I say ‘for the good of all and harm none’ when I manifest money” or something like that. The problem is, that is a bit like saying “I’m only going to eat food that didn’t get it’s energy from the sun.” Even if you avoid all plants, every bit of energy you consume came from the sun at some point, however indirect its path to you. When there is an obvious conflict like this, don’t you think your subconscious (which is the pathway to the subtle realms where these effects take place) opts for the stronger desire, especially when you don’t even realize there is a conflict?

For these reasons I can’t see money as anything but a necessary evil (and only necessary in a very limited and temporary sense). I need money to eat and stay sheltered right now, and I need a fairly large amount of money in the mid to near future (to buy a small plot of land), but the purpose of that is to free me from the need for money in the future. It sucks that I even need to do that, but I can’t think of any other way to free myself from imperial bondage without abandoning my responsibilities to my daughter. The key is that there is a finite goal in mind (and a fairly modest one at that). Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell, as someone smart once said. It is precisely this sort of metaphysical cancer which is destroying our home (Earth) as we speak.

Another popular line of thought is that you can use large amounts of money to do good things. For instance building schools in Zimbabwe or buying a huge plot of land to start some kind of eco-plantation. I have problems with this on a couple levels. First of all, it is like making a deal with the devil, and the devil always gets his due. Like any Faustian deal, it is necessarily based on some ego-aggrandizement too, though cleverly disguised and concealed with altruism.

Actually though, the school is very hard to argue with as a good use for lots of money, but I have yet to hear of anyone doing that for whom the amount of money involved is anything but trivial (like Oprah, for instance). The more common idea is something like the eco-plantation, or really any operation with employees, but I’ll stick with the farm cause I’m more comfortable there. If you want more land than you can actually work yourself, ask yourself why. If you need employees to work it for you, you are necessarily stealing from them unless they are partners. Almost nobody thinks of it this way (especially since the “Red” scare) but how can it be anything but? If you think that you are entitled to more simply because you already have more (it’s “my land” so I get a bigger share) than you are an are simply serving to perpetuate the class divisions that have been plaguing humanity since the dawn of agriculture. If you don’t seek this, then why bother with a big chunk of land at all. Why not manifest a good plot for your family, and use to extra energy to help others do the same. If you’re trying to get way more than you need so you can be in a position to supply others, than it seems like you are setting yourself up to be some kind of savior (which usually devolves into “ruler”) rather than a leader. Why hand out fish all day when you can build a community of fishermen?

Besides that, I’m not really comfortable with the concept of property anyway, at least not as it is currently understood. Most traditional cultures had nothing like ownership except for things you made yourself (or someone made and gave to you). How can we “own” something we had no part in creating. I can understand stewardship of the land you and your family work, and the privileges and responsibilities that come with that, but that is different than ownership and conveys a completely different attitude towards the land.  Having more land than that is just feudalism no matter how you paint it.

So it all comes down to this: why should we try to manifest money when we should be manifesting a society where money is obsolete?

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DEAR SIR/MADAM,

I AM A PRIVATE INVESTOR BASED IN EUROPE (UTRECHT). A GROUP OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FROM SOUTH AFRICA CONTACTED ME WITH AN OFFER.  I AM TO SOLICIT AND STATE THEIR OFFER, IF YOUR INTEREST IS GENUINE, YOU CAN CONTACT ME FOR FURTHER BRIEFING.

YOU WILL BE MADE A BENEFICIARY OF A VERY HUGE SUM OF MONEY ($27.4MD) AND IT WILL BE TRANSFERRD TO YOU. A HIGH COMPENSATION OF 20% AWAITS YOU, THE   REMAINING BALANCE (MINUS THE INTEREST, HANDLING AND TAX CLEARANCE CHARGES, WHICH WILL BE OFFSET BY US AND DEDUCTED FROM THE TRANSFER SUM) TO A NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT IN YOUR COUNTRY OR EUROPE.

I DO N'T THINK I NEED TO SPELL OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SECRECY IN THIS MATTER CONSIDERING WHAT IS INVOLVED. LET ME STATE CLEARLY HERE THAT THE ACCOUNT YOU WILL BE PROVIDING DOES NOT NEED TO HAVE FUNDS IN IT, IT IS ONLY NEEDED TO BE ACTIVE AND BE ABLE TO RECEIVE THE FUNDS IN QUESTION.  I NEED YOUR QUICK RESPONSE TO THIS MAIL TO INDICATE YOUR INTENT, BY FORWARDING YOUR DETAILS TO ME.

THIS IS IMPORTANT AS WE WOULD NEED TO TALK AND HAVE A MEETING TO DISCUSS THE MODALITIES OF THIS OFFER, PRESENTLY AM IN SOUTH AFRICA.  FOR FURTHER CLARIFICATION PLEASE CONTACT ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE NUMBER (+27-79-213-0374) OR BETTER STILL THROUGH MY EMAIL ADDRESS.

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