The Metaphysics of Money

So, are we spirit with a physical body or are we animated material bodies with a spirit?

The little voice inside my head is screaming “I am a spirit, you dummy!” but my lower back pain is killing me – old story – and it is damn hard to ignore the pain no matter how enlightened I think I am.

So I’ll have to leave the answer to you – other people he seems to know better who and what I am.

Either you are a spirit or not, you can’t ignore the things around you.

We depend on things, we need and buy things, we crave and desire things, things are a necessity, they are part of our life and like it or not, they define us as individuals and as species.

We are humans because we are the only animal that can make and use things. Right?

It is only when we started to build and use tools that the human civilization took off and brought us where we are now today.

Some will argue that is the brink of extinction but nobody will argue that the human success as a species on this planet is due to our ability to make things.

But what are things and why do we need them?

Things are “Enhancers” they amplify, magnify, expedite, intensify, speed up and multiply.

Cars, trains and airplanes are nothing but things that make us go faster.

A gun is nothing but a human killing amplifier.

Although cars in USA are killing more people than guns and that might put a hole in my theory – hey let's ban the use of cars! - just a brain fart :)

But you get the idea. Things are making our life easier in a way or another.

At least in theory.

What about money?

Money is a piece of paper to hard and too small to even wipe your ass.

Why and how is money so important and so good and evil at the same time?

Money is a thing that can be anything, therefore its “enhancing” power it is not limited to one thing; it could be speed if you buy a plane ticket or shelter if you buy a house, it can even be unconditional love. No not a hooker... I was thinking more like a puppy :)

Because of this potential money has, it makes it into an amplifier of your whole life, of who you are as a person.

Hence, a nice person will be 10 - 100 times nicer if he has money while an asshole will be 10 - 100 times a bigger asshole if he has money.

This little metaphysical trick was used by some charlatan guru – I don’t remember his name but I know he had one Rolls Royce car for every day of the year.

So this crook promised to make you happy if you renounce your money – and obviously give it to him.

The truth is that he did not make anybody happier but rather by removing the magnifying power of the money, his victims just felt less miserable.

You can see the reverse of this power on people that win millions of dollars on the lottery.

Within a year from the big win 99% of them are worse than before!

Money does not lift them up out of their misery it is the other way around, it makes their misery even bigger!

So now here is the answer many have asked since the invention of money:

Why doesn’t God help me with money when I am down, bitter, unhappy and miserable?

Because God loves you! That’s why.

And also:

Why does God suddenly blesses me with all this money when I am happy and content with what I have and my life?

Because God loves you! That’s why.

So before you ask God for money ask yourself.

Am I happy? Am I content and at peace within and without?

Because if your house is on fire you are just asking God to pour some gasoline on you!!!

Yep, be careful what you wish for:

– You might get it.