Over at the Slave Ship (Quatloos) their reality is just as real to them as ours is to us.
Mostly attorneys Prof and Wserra, being in my mind representative. Well at least they tried to make sense of history instead of just attacking my character. For instance I think it was wserra who said, "Oh, you mean the
Whacko Thirteenth Amendment." In his reality the de jure Thirteenth Amendment was never even ratified! If that were the case how is it found in the Session Laws of the Colorado Territory in 1861 and 1864?
They do not even want to discuss War and Emergency Powers from 1933. That is a little too real for
them. With the Federal Reserve Bulletin, State Department Bulletin, Statutes at Large and
The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt etc. etc. Although I have to admit that by the time I brought up the subject of how the Bankers' Holiday effected the nature of money, in their Quatloser reality, they thought they had pretty well shredded my character and standing as a sane writer.
And you have to admit, they have a particularly simple clerical device for destroying any truth that threatens their reality. A forum called Ranting and Raving that automatically tosses any Topic if nobody writes for five days. But I believe two Topics in the Stupid Shams catagory were simply deleted without going through that process.
In high school I was honored, I later found out to have taken a small class about bisocioprolepsis. A word broken down to mean
two -
social factions - in
paralysis (with one another). The word applied here means that either we are crazy or they are crazy.
Finally one poster on Quatloos spoke up with something I have heard way too many times. That I need to slip in fecies while running for my life in a Third-World back alley town to understand it is time for me to get a life and start applying all this energy to making the world a better place. Maybe.
Another poster there pointed out that fractional banking has been going on for centuries; at least since Colonial times in early America. Very true. I quoted Proverbs 11:1 and heard nothing back. So bankers have been juggling false balances for a long time - still false balances. I attended a grand jury with a couple outstanding speakers, Wichita, Kansas.
An economist explained in simple terms why Roosevelt had to make it illegal for people to redeem their gold. There simply was not enough - too much had been stolen by the stellionation (selling something twice) of fractional reserve banking.
Therefore we have two very real realities competing. One thing in favor of the truth; any society that fractionalizes or converts to fiat currencies in history fails. Always. The risk management algorithms (Basel II; G-8 etc.) are being stretched beyond control compensation. It is like the light crude oil prices are being driven almost completely by teams of psychiatrists psychoanalyzing investment fear and greed habits - not the actual price of the product.
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Regards,
David Merrill.
P.S. I remember Mark Darling, the jurist for New York apologizing because he had no more of the final draft news releases. He was apologizing for giving me a marked up near-final draft. Get that! He was actually apologizing for giving me a unique momento of the event. It is now framed and on the wall.