Voluntary Communism and hoarding Green beans
February 22, 2005 18:50
Today in Mr. Mo's office during lunch, we had an interesting conversation. It was about the Law of Consecration. This states that one would give all worldly possessions and income to the Mormon church. In return you would be given only what you need to survive, and the Mormon Church would keep the rest for themselves. Well isn't that just like Communist Russia. The only difference here is that it is not forced upon you. Hence forth the Law of Consecration shall now be called Voluntary Communism. They said they did this because they wanted to abolish greed. Well wouldn't the Mormon Church Officials be getting more money than anyone else. Greed. Now this brings us to the Hoarding Green Beans part. Someone brought up that you could save your money in order to buy personal things, well wouldn't this be more greed. To solve this we said, "Maybe they would just give the supplies, rather than giving you the money." Well what now, we would have people saving a bit of their food for months and months just to have one big, nice dinner. Thus we have Hoarding Green Beans, and from henceforth we shall call all greed Hoarding Your Green Beans.
Today in Mr. Mo's office during lunch, we had an interesting conversation. It was about the Law of Consecration. This states that one would give all worldly possessions and income to the Mormon church. In return you would be given only what you need to survive, and the Mormon Church would keep the rest for themselves. Well isn't that just like Communist Russia. The only difference here is that it is not forced upon you. Hence forth the Law of Consecration shall now be called Voluntary Communism. They said they did this because they wanted to abolish greed. Well wouldn't the Mormon Church Officials be getting more money than anyone else. Greed. Now this brings us to the Hoarding Green Beans part. Someone brought up that you could save your money in order to buy personal things, well wouldn't this be more greed. To solve this we said, "Maybe they would just give the supplies, rather than giving you the money." Well what now, we would have people saving a bit of their food for months and months just to have one big, nice dinner. Thus we have Hoarding Green Beans, and from henceforth we shall call all greed Hoarding Your Green Beans.
posted by Monty at 18:50
4 Comments:
Band-lunchtime-phrases... the conversations just get weirder and weirder...
Curently im hoarding my green beans for a wah wah pedal.
~Joe, the musical green been grower
That's not communism -- it's some bizarre, twisted form of socialism. Communism cannot have a free market system, and it doesn't consist of giving all of your belongings to a greater entity. Communism is far more complicated than that -- and besides, it's not inherently bad, as you seem to imply. To demonize entire schools of thought isn't just silly, it's intellectually irresponsible.
http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/5o.htm#comm
http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1848-CM
Dude, the people would be delegated what there job is. "You make shoes, you name is now joe shoemaker" "you grow grean beans, you name is now joe farmer"
~Joe
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