To Those Who Love Their Life
If you are receiving this, it’s because I’ve been following you and your work for some time, enough time to see that you have a spark that is so often missing in this world, especially among the rich, content, and compliant. I’m sure this seems out of the blue. You strike me as someone who cares about their life and knows that’s it’s worth fighting for.
I’ve been there. I know that life. I grew up poor and with a life no one would envy. With a love for the truth and my life and with many stumbles and struggles, I climbed out of that life. I have made beautiful children. Last year I made a lot of money. I thought I had escaped the spirit of ugliness, neglect, and ignorance that had plagued my youth. The next year my life got harder. The government squeezed the money supply while inflation ate at purchasing power. It felt like a reset, like someone had the power and used it to bring me down to earth. Maybe you’ve experienced something like this too, where you abilities were claimed by someone else who didn’t deserve them and whose character you despised or dismissed at best.
I’ve known it for a long time, and I’m sure you’ve suspected it. It seems crystal clear to me that we are playing a rigged game, a game that cannot be won, and one where the closer we get to the finish line, the further it’s moved out of reach. There is no rest. There’s no lasting wealth. The money is eaten up by inflation and hunted by those who are empty inside. It’s hustle to the point of maddening exhaustion. Burnout has become a virtue among those most dedicated to winning.
The rats outrunning the flooding waters of the Titanic |
This is the truth I found; the logic of the debt based fiat dollar that we all work for, sell for, and sacrifice for is the source of an incessant, uncaring, and endless demand for growth, the hustle culture that is burning people out, and the ever disappearing wealth that seems like the goal of any honest form of work. In this system, some people may be on top of others for a time, making millions, even billions, but like the rats outrunning the flooding waters of a sinking Titanic, there’s no winning the dollar game. This ship will sink. Even the best rats will drown like the rest. The shadow of control and corruption will keep covering our companies, our families, and our lives in absurdity, stamping out creativity with compliance, snuffing out sparks like you with the cruel duel torture of duty and fear.
The Gates of Mordor from Lord of the Rings |
Just think for a moment how your life has already been claimed.
- If you don’t pay income taxes, your freedom is forfeit and you will be put behind bars
- If you don’t pay your property taxes, your shelter is forfeit and you’ll be put on the streets
- If you don’t pay for your vehicle tags, your transportation is forfeit and you’ll be thrown on your feet
- If you don’t pay sales tax, your desires are forfeit and you are not allowed to trade freely with your fellow man
- If you don’t pay your debts, your property is forfeit
All this combined creates and environment where, if you don’t value dollars, your life is forfeit…
And if you attempt to trade essential materials and life energies without dollars…well…
- 2001: Baghdad booms as Saddam turns sanctions into gold
- 2006: The Execution of Saddam Hussein
- March 2011: Qaddafi suspected of using gold to break free from fiat influences
- Oct 2011: The Killing of Muammar Gaddafi
- 1933: Executive Order 6102 - The Confiscation of American Gold
And here’s the pernicious and deceptive truth; the debt at the heart of the fiat dollar system cannot be satisfied. It never could be satisfied. The first dollar created was forged by debt, and the increased growth in interest rates can only be satisfied by more debt. There is more debt in our system than dollars. If everyone paid their debts, the system would collapse. This means those who control the system are not pursuing mere control. They are obeying an evil whisper from the dark, empty hole within their souls that says “Life is cruel. Life is not loving. Life is not worthwhile. Life is torture. Life is not pleasure and joy.” And the most contradictory of them all, “Life is death. Life is not worth living. You are…NOT worthy, loved, deserving, or enough…” It’s the “not” and the negation of life that is the source from which this cruel and tortuous voice derives its power and it’d psychologically, mentally, spiritually, and physically this voice and these words that you must fight for your life, your being, and your existence.
Mentally dead men don’t live. Spiritually worthless women don’t find value. Those who think they deserve to be fat don’t get thin. Those who believe they are supposed to get sick don’t get well. Those who think themselves slaves don’t pursue freedom. Those who believe they are not enough to live, die.
Before I continue, I wanted to acknowledge that I grew up as a Christian learning the scriptures of the Old and New Testament. You may not be familiar with the references I’ve made so far in this letter, but there is no denying the popularity and ubiquitous impact the message of the Bible has had throughout the world. I wonder if some will be more convinced of this message if I show that it is rooted in the scriptures, reflective of their power, and the fulfillment of its grand intention.
If you consider yourself a Christian, I want you to consider what I am saying here. In Exodus 3:14, God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” In the scriptures, God’s name is Yahweh, I AM, the Being Itself, Existence Itself. In Genesis 3, Satan says to Eve “You will be like God, knowing good and evil.” And in 2 Corinthians 5:21 it is said that “ God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” What I take this to mean is that the evil that came into the world in the Garden was the knowledge of the negation of Being, both Adam and Eve’s and God’s. It is said that God already knew evil but when Adam and Eve learned of it, they immediately regretted their being by covering their bodies in shame, believing the lie that they were NOT worthy of being naked. As a result, they caused suffering and suffered themselves, both immediately (animals died to clothe them), circumstantially (physical and child birth labor became difficult) and existentially (persistent believing and acting in the negation of being resulted in their death).
The deliverance from this negation of being was promised through Yahweh’s Suffering Servant. (Isaiah 53). Jesus, this suffering servant, was repeatedly and persistently tempted to curse his life, yet did not allow his Being to be negated. Hebrews 4:15 says, “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.” How do we know Jesus was tempted in every way and what does it mean that he did not sin?
- He suffered your poverty, rejection, and exposure as a baby yet did not wish that he had never been born (Luke 2:7, Matthew 2:16)
- He suffered your wearisome and toilsome labor yet did not curse the efforts of his hands (Matthew 13:55)
- He suffered your hunger and yet did not bow to the one who whispered “A life of hunger is not worth living,” “You are not enough to be king”, and “God is only worthy of trust if you test him” (Luke 4). He had the knowledge of evil and yet captured these thoughts with the positive affirmation, “My life and all my experiences are worthy, deserving, and enough just as they are. I radically accept them and remain connected with My Father, the Great I AM.”
- He suffered your rejection and yet continued on and did not think “The truth is only worth telling if other people are pleased by it” (Luke 4:24-30)
- He suffered your experience of disapproval and unbelief of even your FAMILY (John 7:5)
- He suffered your experience of greedy betrayal (John 12: 4-6, Luke 22: 1-6, John 18:2, Matthew 26:15, Matthew 26:48, Luke 22:48)
- He suffered your experience of people who use unquestioned falsehoods to pin false guilt onto you. “And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.” (Luke 22:2)
- He suffered your experience of envy and the blindness of those who would rather betray you and the truth than suffer the loss of their power (Matthew 27:18, Luke 23:1-2)
- He suffered your stress, your distress, your anxiety, and your anguish (Luke 22:39-44)
- He suffered your grief (John 11:32-36, Luke 19:41-44, Hebrews 5:7)
- He suffered your experience of being falsely accused (Mark 14: 55-61)
- He suffered your experience of abandonment (Mark 14:50-52), even by those who promised their undying loyalty (Luke 22:54-62), whether that be your brother, your spouse, or your best friend.
- He suffered your experience of mockery, cruelty, and torture (Matthew 27:29-31, Luke 22: 63-65, Luke 23:11, Luke 23:36-39)
- He suffered your experience of that twisting feeling of bringing enemies together in their equal hatred of you (Luke 23:12)
- He suffered your experience of the insanity of crowds who would rather pardon murder than recognize your innocence (Luke 23:13-25)
- He suffered the stain of your reputation, being lumped together with criminals Luke 23:32-33
- He suffered your death Luke 23:46
- “I am unloved, insufficient, unworthy, despised, hated and abandoned by God.”
- “My life sucks and is not worth living.”
- “I loath my life”
- “I cannot go on”
- “I despise this world”
- “I hate my friends”
- “I resent my enemies”
- “I wish I had never been born”
- “I curse Being for bringing me such hurt, pain, and suffering.”.
- Mark 16: 5-6 “As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed."Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He isn't here.”
- Acts 3:15 “You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.”
- John 11:25-36 “Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
Faith in Existence, belief in I AM, trust in the Truth, Love of God… is stronger than death (Song of Solomon 8:6)
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In Matthew 10, Jesus describes the life of those who have this faith, this belief, this truth, and this love.
It’s a life of action. It’s a life of loud truth telling. It’s a life of socializing, hospitality, gift and resource sharing. It’s a life of compassion and caring for people’s needs. It’s a life of staying positive in the face of betrayal, negative marketing, temptation, rejection, getting in trouble with the police, judges, and authorities. It’s a life of danger, especially from family members. Sisters will betray brothers to death. Mothers will betray sons. Wives will betray husbands. (Matthew 10:21-22). It’s a life of being HATED.
It’s a life of power and confidence, relying on the same Life Force that undid the death of Jesus. It’s a life of companionship with Being and with yourself. It’s a life of glorious battle and unnerving sorrow. And it is a life of GREAT REWARD!
It’s a life of speaking your being into existence and overcoming death, disease, and darkness using the power of words and affirmations, thought, spoken, and acted out in the flesh (John 1:1-5)
If you are a Christian and are still resistant to this message, life, and faith… if you have read these passages and are still unbelieving, then all I know that is left to say is what Jesus said about Jerusalem during his time on earth. (Luke 19:41-44)
As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”
Frodo carrying the burden of the Ring of Power in Lord of the Rings |
It is dangerous yet possible to resist the power of the dollar and the voice of unworthiness the gives it strength while using dollars or any other form of fiat. You must remember that the fiat dollar is destroying your world. It is leveling cities that were once centers of culture. It is destroying the planet in the form of endless growth beyond the carrying capacity of the land. It is causing the seas to rise and forests to burn. It is breaking up families. It is corrupting the hearts of men. You must be careful. Beware of over-concern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will realize how poor you are.
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It is also equally foolish to pretend this isn’t your battle, that you can remain neutral. It’s foolish to believe you can weather this storm. We are all swimming in the same pool and it’s a cesspool of urine and filth because people, myself included, have too long believed the lie that our actions only affect us.
Pippin Took:
Maybe Treebeard's right. We don't belong here, Merry. It's too big for us. What can we do in the end? We've got the Shire. Maybe we should go home.
Merry Brandybuck:
The fires of Isengard will spread. And the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. There won't be a Shire, Pippin.
Or if music is more your style, I present to you…
Bob Dylan:
Tom Petty:
Michael Jackson:
And finally, John Lennon
As for me, I will stay in my position, practicing gratitude and really learning how to let go of egoic cravings and live out of true aspiration which looks like a desire to know the truth and to encounter life with exquisite risk and being available for real change and connection with those around me. I will attempt to work with people through local book clubs and life coaching sessions, guiding them in person to know that their life is valuable, worthy of adventure, and deserving of respect, regardless of what any government or company or person says. My intention is that we will become a community that takes stock of our gifts, talents, resources, and abilities and exchanges them freely for the building of a better world.
The power of government corruption, manifested in people like this douche Bob Menedez and the thousands like him, is only possible because we are willing to let our life’s efforts and production be valued in dollars. It’s our compliance that give the dollar power over our lives. And the master of the printer enslaves those who value the product of the printer. And what have those fiat makers done to deserve that kind of power? Would you accept anyone coming up to you and just stealing everything you’ve worked for, including your energy and the energy of your kids? Yet this is exactly what we do every time we comply with the dual command to value the government’s efforts in fiat dollar based taxes (or else) and value the resources and talents the government may want to buy in fiat dollars (or else).
Government is where creativity, innovation, fun, play, and joy go to die, and yet they are the ones with an endless supply of dollars. Since we value dollars and are willing to be influenced and controlled by them, that means the government has an endless supply of value, influence, control, and POWER simply because of our willingness to trade in dollars. He or she who values dollars is the slave of the one who can create dollars. And unlike a commodity like gold or even Bitcoin which requires effort, skill, and competency in order to produce, dollars require the ability to manipulate, smear, assassinate, corrupt, and control through shame and humiliation those standing in their way to the source of this power. So being enslaved to a politician with desires for power is very different from being influenced by a miner with a work ethic. The world is mirroring the character of our money and our masters…
The person and company who isn’t addicted and isn’t willing to accept fiat for their gifts and resources is the person and company the government can’t corrupt with the printer. That’s the only way to starve the engine that is driving us to madding exhaustion and corrupting our souls. The spirit that birthed this country will rise again from the ashes, through the actions of free men and women, from tax revolts, active resistance to non-consensual “laws”, freely exchanging with each other outside the system, for “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” (Martin Luther King). To do this, we will know that we have joy and peace and worthiness regardless of circumstances, positive or adverse. We will know and be able to act on the truth of what Victor Frankl showed us. We will know that to know and not do is to not know and that faith without works is dead.
May you have eyes to see what cannot be easily seen, ears to hear what cannot be easily heard, a mind to grasp the wonders of your life and this world, and the spirit that connects us all.
Do not let your fire go out,
Spark by irreplaceable spark
In the hopeless swaps of
The not quite, the not-yet &
The not-at-all. Do not let
The hero in your soul perish
In lonely frustration for the
Life you deserved & have
Never been able to reach.
The world you deserve can be
Won. It exists, it is real, it is
Possible….it’s yours.
Note on Feedback:
- If you would like to let me know what you liked about this letter, what resonated with you, what you thought was missing, or any questions you may have, email me at zachtravismoore@gmail.com or join me at one of the Denver Authentic Living Meet-ups: https://www.meetup.com/denver-authentic-living-community-group/
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