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An interesting phenomenon has been wrestling my sanity and it is clearly spiritual, due to the fact, it can infect materially, without touching anyone at all, nor being directly attributed to any deed, people were responsible for, knowingly. That is, within the general class of citizenry.
Money can be someone else's responsibility, from your perspective and quite literally have nothing to do with your daily life, yet knowing your honor has some connection to it, being your heritage, you just must respond, as if something had cut you and you have no comprehension of where your bleeding from. So you collect it, as an enduring emotional helplessness, that clearly, we all suffer from (the load we carry). Getting through it, one day at a time, looking always for a fix.
INTERNAL BLEEDING
When the agents in our trust, play with our honor and moral stature, they infect our soul. Something untrue to our being, our understanding. This can cause your threshold of pain to become very intolerant. It is human nature to have limits, regarding how many troubles (immoral issues) we can stand, surrounding our intellect, inhibiting our "spirit of understanding life".
I doubt many people perceive this perspective of our environment. But believe me, there is merit in considering it, because it is infecting the soul of our humanity. People are prone to live with this disease, just as they are prone to live with addictions - but I want to kick the habit, in its ass and put a new police force out there, to take our life back - we missed - because of those sick rich bastards. It's not enough people can manipulate the markets, they have to destroy lives and even kill people, with their lies. We couldn't be sure when it began, but evidence keeps being reported 911 was the most profitable second wave excuse. And it was never even a war. It's been sickening. An addiction to advantage. Blind justice is at the helm. The goddess without a heart - an ideology as old as most other religious creations of man. But this one places the power into the hands of man. I see her as the perfect immorality of man's kind, for she is born and evolving sin free, even her agents get to be that way! Why? Advantage. But this need not be moral - in the moment (nor even some day). Who is her creator? All whom place their faith in what she represents i.e. a better future (that's when?) For whom? Where this is happening is all around the world, where her ideology is practiced.
Life is not a practice nor should law - be done that way - this isn't a game for us - but it is for them.
People are taught to split their personalities into many belief systems (placing our faith) so we can count on (trust) one of them, when the others fail. Even if it is just a fantasy - a little morality a good story or so, about justice by an agent of power and the healing seems sufficient, until the true burdens get refreshed by the next wave of injustice. That, always has a new twist, totally distracting you, from the last.
This is the clinical definition of insanity - on a social level.
Being exposed to an unreasonable, unaccountable master, has its detriments. Add fear and it is difficult to cope with. How much treason is an acceptable limit for a nations people to endure? I say [none] and will stand in your face or theirs with my truth, aided by proof in my hand, my mind and my arms of why? = our future and thats the children!
OR LETS BE GREEDY
Given more credit, add housing profits and the race for advantage creates a frenzy of morons whom shall keep everyone quiet with the traditional phrase; "be lucky you live in the land of the free"! Or just have faith...How? all these agencies are religions in concept and you must give your faith away providing them jurisdiction over your life - by way of your mind.
Adding that we are all children, until we realize - then, we treason ourselves by acceptance of what we have the power to correct, but are afraid to stand up for - because we have learned to believe something in common.
It's not our job!
This is not supposed to be a job we can allocate. That's just the point of democracy, we heal our immorality in the moment - we do the boss work, out of our minds eye.
I have learned no evil can beat the moral truth unless you use it unwisely or ignore it completely!
Yes money is invariably linked to depression, It starts at the bottom with the people whom know not what the big boys do with their faith in them and the last one to be deprived of their morality, their humanity is the last honorable person with standing. That is sanity in my minds eye. An honorable part of a healthy mind, soul and spiritual well being. The body responds, rewarding as far as it can endure, but the treasure of moral truth is so hard to spend in a sickened society!
Clearly we are being controlled mentally, turned away from the problem and against ourselves. Our relationships fail - confusion blinds justice at all levels mentally, socially in legal matters, politically, militarily and that includes the police, at higher levels. I would say most lower level officers haven't seen the light, long enough to be part of the game - entirely.
THE POT IS DEEP AND WE ARE ALL IN IT
The American way is becoming seen, much clearer, to be a creation that evolves out of the greedy hands, that seek our taxation, to become of themselves their own [money].
Our mental health is a repercussion, we must be aware of, for we [all] do - pay that way!
I have a dream that I am awake in, that at times seems wonderful, this is when something arranges itself to be morally true, in my minds eye. It makes me feel so heavenly! My duty to life is to show others the truth about that - for once they see what makes us high (spiritual health), we can all be moral to each other - and be that way "naturally". It is human nature.
Making money and being successful, even love, comes so easy, when your environment is clean.
This is not an easy task. But we can do this - knowing where to start!
I write a lot about justice, its failure ideology 'the idol of injustice' for that purpose...
It is clear to me nothing dead is coming to save us and nothing good comes from men, whom see a better future and hold the power, to force us to get it for them!
Blind ethics are immoral and anything immoral is seriously depressing when it effects our honor as a people.
Clearly money is the root of it all!
Protect the roots or this tree shall fall sadly into a greater addiction (dominion) that will feed upon us!
I will add here "truth and justice is the American way" would be an interesting contemplation. Remember the title - think about the difference?
TRUTH, JUSTICE: and....."THE AMERICAN WAY"
The truth is often so obscure you can't see - it may not be moral at all.
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Is money (or the lack of it) invariably linked with depression? Well, although money issues can certainly be a factor when a person becomes depressed, I would argue that this is not always the case, and that depression can often have little or nothing to do with money - or its absence.
First, there's a strong link between major or clinical depression and heredity. Depression runs in families, as does bipolar disorder, so if your parents had a history of clinical depression, chances are that you (whether you are a princess or a pauper) will have inherited a vulnerability to that condition. It's simply a possibility, not a certainty, and it's to do with your genes and not the condition of your wallet.
This leaves the range of mild to acute depression that most people experience from time to time but is not devastating enough, normally, to warrant medical attention. You probably know what I'm talking about, feelings ranging from a mild case of the "blues" right up to persistent sadness, muffled anger or a pervasive sense that life has no meaning.
It's true that difficulties with money can lead to depression. A survey in the UK by
the National Depression Campaign found that 88% of people rated money problems as a likely cause, 1% more than the number of people that linked depression to a death or illness in the family. And that was back in 1999. With the credit crunch and spiralling personal debt often in the news in recent times, I would not be surprised to find this percentage even higher now. It's no wonder that for many people finances seem to be inextricably linked to anxiety and gloom.
And yet... Even without studies and surveys, common sense tells us that money troubles are not the only reason why people get depressed. Despondency often sets in when we feel helpless and unable to avoid the setbacks life sends us. Thus a bullied schoolchild, a harassed employee, a convict in an overcrowded gaol, a bereaved husband or wife and a long-term invalid all may well suffer depression as a result of adverse life conditions.
Each of them might succumb to despair and helplessness, but it would have little or nothing to do with the state of his or her bank balance, and a lot more to do with relationships and physical circumstances.
So much, then, for depression caused by not having enough money. Could it be that having too much of it is also a problem?
The Happy Planet Index, introduced in 2006 by the New Economics Foundation, makes for some interesting (if controversial) reading. Basically, it is a ranking of the world's nations, based on happiness rather than GDP, and, for what it's worth, some of the world's poorer countries have high scores the top three are Vanuatu, Columbia and Costa Rica - while the wealthiest nations such as Japan and the US come in at 95 and 150, respectively. While these scores are not purely measurements of people's levels of happiness, as they are partly based on environmentalists' ideas of sustainability, they are nevertheless intriguing.
Is it possible, then, that being rich, or indeed living in a rich country, can tend to make you depressed?
There is some truth in that. Economist Richard Easterlin proposed in 1974 that once people have attained a certain level of financial security, their happiness does not grow in proportion to any future increases in wealth. In other words, if I have one loaf of bread I am a lot happier than if I had none at all, but if I become richer and can afford to buy two, three or four loaves, there is no great gain in happiness with each addition.
The pleasures of the consumer society also seem to be fleeting. "Hedonic adaptation" sets in, which means that the thrill of acquiring a new widescreen TV, iPod or Mercedes-Benz diminishes swiftly, as the object of desire becomes merely another thing to be stored, insured and worried about. It can make us happy only for a brief moment, and after that, we always need to strive for the next acquisition, the next temporary pleasure.
This might be why "retail therapy" only works for a while. The excitement of buying something new gives way to the muted pleasure of ownership, then perhaps to ennui and depression once more, paving the way for another repeat of the cycle.
But is the root cause of this problem money, or is it the absence of something else?
It seems to me that we are happiest when we have a purpose in life, and there are quite a few attributes and activities that can help us keep us engaged and have a meaningful existence. Positive psychologist Martin Seligman has broadly identified some of these, including being sociable, married, self-disciplined and having religious convictions. From personal experience, I have also found that creative tasks, and any absorbing activity be it gardening, writing, playing tennis, doing volunteer work - that generates what is now called "flow", can add meaning and purpose to my life.
I suggest that it is not so much that affluence is the cause of depression, but that we have a need for meaning in our lives that money simply cannot, by its very nature, fulfil entirely. Like the man in the story, who searched for his keys under the bright streetlamp, rather than in his dark house where he had lost them, we are simply looking in the wrong place.
(I would add that being an entrepreneur and building a business are meaningful activities in themselves, which can bestow an authentic sense of purpose. The hunger to fill an inner void by acquiring money and material possessions is not the same thing, in my opinion.)
So, back to the question as to whether money and depression are invariably linked, I would answer that they are not. Our genes may give us (just) a tendency to clinical depression, no matter if we are rich or poor. Lack of money might help to make us depressed, but then so might a lot of other things, such as bad relationships or failing health.
Lastly, those of us who live in affluent societies have a choice, either to remain on the hedonic treadmill and become disappointed and depressed when money and consumer goods do not deliver all they promised or to look within ourselves, find out what fires us up and fills us with purpose, and forge a meaningful life for ourselves.
That's the thought I would like to leave you with. When we are depressed, life seems hopeless and without meaning, but once we make a decision to find a purpose, a reason to go on living, things change. Something shifts within us, and the grey hand of depression begins to loosen its hold.
And that would seem to be true, whether we are rich, poor, or somewhere in between.
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