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Vatic Note: Some of you know about my time spent for 2 years in a survivalist situation, due to a spouse stealing my entire life savings and running off with his girl friend. Don't worry, he spent 5 years in jail for doing it, but she got all that was stolen and I didn't have the funds to legally retrieve it. However, that resulted in one of the most memorable experiences of my life and it changed me, my external life and my internal life forever. Its an experience of a life time and it also thoroughly convinced me that I could survive any situation that might arise and that confidence is worth more than money or gold.
I bring this up now, to share about this below, on a personal level and I did not know any of these things he talks about when I began that journey down that very deep rabbithole. I might add, that I was no spring chick either when it happened. I lost my property and my business at the time, so I had to move into a friends garage with no bathroom, no bedroom, no kitchen, no running water, no drainage anywhere, etc. I lived on a river and had to carry water everywhere. During the winter I had to carry snow and make it into water.... then I could use it.
I got fit, and healthy as a horse, but broke as heck and it took a long time to recover at my age at the time. What I learned is that I was living in accordance with the way we were built. My body responded almost immediately and my psyche was healed beyond belief. I also discovered some important things bout myself that I didn't know.... I won't go into it, but I discovered I was living my life in the past according to some doctrine that was totally alien to who I was. It has changed my life.
The good part was the reconnection to nature, the animals, clean air, wind, rain, snow, and other natural occurances that I was never exposed to on an intimate basis. Now I was and had some of the most incredible experiences of my life. If you want to know what they were, email me and I will tell you.
Calendar and Time Manipulation
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/atlantean_conspiracy/atlantean_conspiracy41.htm
Another subtle yet devastating aspect of the global conspiracy is their
manipulation of calendars, clocks, and our perception of time. We are being
enslaved by manmade mechanisms and systems for keeping time. Not only are we
wage-slaves to bankers, governments, bosses, and landowners, but we are also
time-slaves to our watches, clocks, and calendars. We slave to 95 school and
work days.
We slave to 5 day school and work weeks.
We are spiritual slaves
to Greenwich Mean Time, the Gregorian calendar, and an unnatural 7day week.
“Time is the primary socializing tool and the clock is the key machine of
industrial capitalism. The imperialism of space and material is everywhere
evident, but the imperialism of time is a shadowy beast. What is of direct
concern is how time is perceived, controlled, exploited, manipulated,
institutionalized, and internalized. If we do not understand time, we become
its victims.
One thing remains apparent: time politics are power politics.
Every sundial, water mill, calendar, week cycle, social policy, and temporal
monument has served a particular interest and ideology. The hallmark of
these, of course, has always been technological power and chauvinist
control. In the service of precision, the atomic second is now defined as
the duration of 9,192,631,770 particle oscillations within a cesium 133
atom.”
Buried Inside, Chronoclast (Introduction to Album)
If you follow the
sun and moon to keep track of time instead of clocks and watches, many
things change. If stores open at sunup and close at sundown managers cannot
anally enforce punching time cards. If you tell your friends to meet you at
the river when the sun touches the tree line, you naturally, patiently wait
for them while watching a beautiful sunset.
If you tell your friends to meet
you at the mall at 7:30pm, then you must constantly look at your wrist or
the wall watching a series of cumulatively frustrating numbers.
“That [people] can be characterized as wound up, run down, rusty, or going
like clockwork is essentially a product of seventeenth century thought. It
implies not only that their work may be accurately measured, but also that
their motions can be studied. Given proper incentives, they will follow
predetermined and appropriately mechanical patterns”
Samuel L. Macy, “The Dynamics of Progress: Time, Method, and Measure”
When indoctrinated into meaningless calendars (like the Gregorian and
Julian), wristwatches, 95 work days, and 5 day work weeks, people most
certainly do follow predetermined, mathematically calculable patterns and
tendencies.
We like to have a drink after work, we like to watch a movie at
the weekend, we like coffee in the mornings, we buy flowers on Valentine’s
and so on, our tendencies can be calculated and exploited by elites.
Those
who exist outside the constraints of time/wage slavery have all the time and
money they need perform studies, hire psychologists, lobbyists, and
advertisers to further their gains.
Time is money, so they say.
“In hierarchical time culture, status is often delineated in terms of how
valuable a person’s time is. The time poor are made to wait, while the
temporally privileged are waited upon.”
Jeremy Rifkin, “Time Wars”
“Gets us back to the theme of time is money. No wonder time is money is
ingrained into our consciousness and culture. And that seems to be the main
purpose of the calendar we use. To keep track of our accounts, pay our
bills, and set up our appointments. We might not think about it this way,
but the calendar we use programs us to use it the way we do. But are all
calendars like this one, nothing more than an arbitrary program to take care
of business? What about the sun, the moon and the stars? OK. Let’s keep this
one point in mind. A calendar is a programming device. It programs the
culture, the people, the society that uses it. It creates a feedback loop
between the mind of the user and its program. The nature of the calendar
determines the nature of the society.”
Jose Arguelles “Stopping Time” (15)
“Secured at birth and bred as fresh
livestock. To the power brokers of hypercapitalism, our lives are on the
auction block. Make way for the
experience economy, make way for the access economy, make way for the
new
time-currency, welcome it all like the coming of Rome.”
Buried Inside, Chronoclast (IX Time as Commodity)
Karl Marx wrote in “Das Kapital” that,
“To work at a machine, the workman
should be taught form childhood in order that he may learn to adapt his own
movements to the uniform and unceasing motion of an automaton.”
This
statement has been implemented into our government and corporate
institutions in many ways.
Students align themselves with the
(approximate)
95, 8 hour work day, 5 days a week. We take this coincidence for
granted or
explain it away by the convenience of aligning work and school
schedules for
daycare purposes. But in reality what it instills is this psychological
mechanism of slavishly submitting to the regulated schedules of
employers. Also the factory like seating and positioning of a boss at
the blackboard
giving out standardized directives is a product of the industrial age.
Without this long-term conditioning from a young age would we so willingly
sell our lives for minimum wage?
“We are making the transition into what economists call an experience
economy – a world in which each person’s own life becomes, in effect, a
commercial market. In business circles, the new operative term is the
lifetime value of the customer, the
theoretical measure of how much a human being is worth if every moment of
his or her life were to be commodified in one form or another in the
commercial sphere.” Jeremy Rifkin, “The Age of Access”
Time has been broken down for us in many ways, some of which make sense and
others which seem senseless. Many delineations of time have astronomical
significance which seems sensible. The Sun and Earth’s interaction gives us
a yearly cycle, the Moon’s lunation pattern give
us monthly cycle, the constant rising and falling of Sun and Moon gives us a
daily cycle, and the Moon’s affect on tides gives us a natural quarter day
cycle as the tides come in and out. All other delineations of time, however,
are arbitrary and manmade.
The fast-ticking “second” appears nowhere in
nature, except when people claim it resembles human heartbeat, but this too
is arbitrary because human heartbeat constantly changes pace. The “minute”
named after Min, the Moon is also an invented cycle with no actual parallel
in nature.
The “hour” named after Horus, the Egyptian Jesus, who divides the
days and nights into 12 equal parts, is an ancient myth, but not a cycle
found in nature. The worst and most spiritually enslaving of the created
cycles, however, is undoubtedly the “week.”
Because of this ludicrous
unnatural cycle, almost everyone in the world, no matter what their life was
like the past 7 days, ends up being almost exactly the same the next 7 days!
Every 7 times the Sun rises and falls most of the world’s population hits
the “replay” button on their life
and continues repeating the same pattern/schedule like a skipping record for
their entire existence.
The worst part is that we have been so indoctrinated
into the week (weak) system that every little facet of modern society from
schools, to paychecks, to TV programs, are irreversibly locked in.
“‘Blue Monday, how I hate blue Monday,’ is how the old Fats Domino song
began.
Why is that? Because, of course, that is the first day of the five
day work week. Fats Domino must have had some clue about time killing us,
otherwise it wouldn’t have to be blue Monday. So Monday through Friday, for
most employed people, as well as schools and public and government
institutions, is the work week. Then comes Saturday and Sunday, the week
end.
The work week is ruled by the clock, which is why it is also referred
to as 9 to 5. So Saturday and Sunday should be soul time. But is it? Well a
little bit. There is Sunday church, maybe an hour or so for the soul. Or
maybe Saturday synagogue. But what is it really about, these weekends? It’s
about killing more time. It’s sports and entertainment. It’s football, and
basketball and baseball. Big time. If you are in the rest of the world it’s
soccer. Very big time. If it weren’t for television, this stuff wouldn’t be
so big.
But it all goes hand in hand. Television, the week end, and big time
sports. It is all a part of the same thing. I know, maybe you don’t do that
. Maybe you do something else. You go skiing or windsurfing. Maybe you go to
the movies. Or you go dancing, or maybe gambling down at the casino. Or you
watch the Discovery channel. Or you take a self-help workshop. It doesn’t
matter, because, then it is going to be Monday again and the whole sequence
repeats.