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The simple, absolute and immutable mysteries of divine Truth are hidden in the super-luminous darkness of that silence which revealeth in secret. For this darkness, though of deepest obscurity, is yet radiantly clear; and, though beyond touch and sight, it more than fills our unseeing minds with splendours of transcendent beauty. . . . We long exceedingly to dwell in this translucent darkness and, through not seeing and not knowing, to see Him who is beyond both vision and knowledge-by the very fact of neither seeing Him nor knowing Him. For this is truly to see and to know and, through the abandonment of all things, to praise Him who is beyond and above all things. For this is not unlike the art of those who carve a life-like image from stone; removing from around it all that impedes clear vision of the latent form, revealing its hidden beauty solely by taking away. For it is, as I believe, more fitting to praise Him by taking away than by ascription; for we ascribe attributes to Him when we start from universals and come down through the intermediate to the particulars. But here we take away all things from Him going up from particulars to universals, that we may know openly the unknowable, which is hidden in and under all things that may be known. And we behold that darkness beyond being, concealed under all natural light.
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! • • • • ,

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I am reaching out to the community to collectively create neither a legitimate currency for OWS, nor simply a novelty item.

Basically, the stated objective is to print 800 billion "99sense" notes. It would be an opportunity to both present a guerilla solution to the problem of printing money, "Well, we'll just print our own.." but also a very effective method of teaching the lesson. It's not a threat to the 1%, or is it? You kind of don't really know...  We can jokingly exchange the money for otherwise free goods or services like the pizza, but we can also claim them to be legitimate historic documents. I am asking for people to submit designs to my email community@bustoshow.org , to kind of collectively choose one, and then print them on whatever paper is donated.

I collect money, both coins and currency. Maybe that got my head thinking, why not create a 99sense bill? It's ludicrous to think it would be official since it's a collective of ideas to begin with, but for some reason, I think that it could be a tremendous signal. The .pdf could be available for download, and people could print them for themselves and bring them to the occupations.

I came up with the phrase "Occupy the Money Supply." Although someone had thought of it before me, assuredly... but, I think it's a great phrase. The whole project is inherently humorous, but also remarkably strategic, and would seem to reinforce what the whole encampment is truly frustrated with. It's basically DIY dollars.

Occupy the Money Supply is printing "Sense" on behalf of the people who have been camped in our nation's parks for weeks!!
Not saying they're an effective median of exchange, but they would be effective in a lot of ways.

Think it's wise/unwise? I think it'd be fun. Even if it's ineffective, it's effective.
Sincerely, Brett
  • Listening to: Adele - To Make You Feel My Love
  • Reading: Grace and Grit - Ken Wilber

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Brett Banfe
Artist | Literature
United States
I'd like to know myself better, myself.

Current Residence: NJ
Favourite photographer: BohemianLibra, Integral Theory, Spectrum of Consciousness,
Operating System: All Stages, All States, All Quadrants, All Lines, All Types- "AQAL Matrix"
Personal Quote: I am a mix between being a mix between things and being a thing between mixes.
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:iconone-in-hell:
i'm back on.
kinda
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~justb Oct 22, 2011   Writer
so glad to hear that =)
what's been catching your fancy these days?

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:iconone-in-hell:
A hard question to answer. I'm working on a poem involving the idea of a namesake and how it affects you. Another to consider time, and how this human construction affects our perception of events. Mostly I'm trying to find passion again, Sine Qua Non, without which nothing. I'm looking for those things that without would leave me no reason for life.
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~justb Nov 3, 2011   Writer
well you are not without company!!

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:iconbeauvoirian:
Hello! You have been featured by #ProjectWalrus here: [link] :)

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~justb Jul 4, 2011   Writer
You are featured here and now. hello.

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:iconbeauvoirian:
Hello. :bucktooth:

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~justb Jul 5, 2011   Writer
Hey its been a he'll of a ride and getting community support totally brought me smiles!!! Cheers!!!

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Hmm. Been some time, now. Hope you've been better than well.
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Before an important decision someone clutches your hand--a glimpse of gold in the iron-gray, the proof of all you have never dared to believe.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
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~justb May 11, 2011   Writer
thanks very much for stopping over to say hello. i've been doing very well.

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