tantric
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maya, in buddhism, refers to a certain kind of illusion, and i'll just refer you to wikipedia for that. it should be said that buddhism doesn't beat around the bush about maya - it is the tool of Lord Mara, the demon lord of lies. here i'm using it to identify idea constructs, made of many lesser ideas that reference each other, which are presented as real and concrete things in our society. with me? a basic list would start with intellectual property, race and....corporate personhood.
when you got into a forest and pick some berries, did you steal them from the forest? of course not, forests don't own things - because they are not people. you can't steal an apple from a tree, because trees can't own things.
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did you get that? i'm pretty gifted at understanding badthink. i got it, i just want to go beat a lawyer. if corporations really were people, we'd have shot most of them in the head by now.
start easy. go into mal-wart and get a fat bag of mangoes, which cost about a dollar a piece. get some other stuff, but no bananas,. when you get to the self check out, put the bag of mangoes on the scanner and hit 'enter code'. then type '4011'. watch as your mangoes are now about $0.80 per pound. do not attempt this twice in one checkout. think about you sheep, what are they going to do? make you pay for them?
on the way to your home, smile a trickster smile. you're the smart monkey, the one that gets to live. you got the bananas, haha. pretechnological peoples have developed some remarkably clever ways of harvesting honey - do you really think they think they are robbing the bees.
i had some mandatory therapy last week when my fondness for theft came up (i have ferret genes). the nurse asked, what are you stealing? i replied, stuff i have to have and can't buy with foodstamps, mostly medicines. in the ghetto, that's what we call 'affordable health care'.
when you got into a forest and pick some berries, did you steal them from the forest? of course not, forests don't own things - because they are not people. you can't steal an apple from a tree, because trees can't own things.
Corporate personhood is the legal notion that a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons (physical humans)
-wikipedia
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A recurring problem in this debate is the widespread misunderstanding of what the term "person" actually means in law, with both opponents and proponents of corporate rights and duties frequently conflating several meanings of the term. Underlying the idea that corporate personhood is a "legal fiction" is the view that only human beings are "persons." Indeed, it is precisely the treatment of "person" and "human being" as interchangeable, or co-extensive, that is behind the clamor that followed the Citizens United decision. Yet there is no compelling reason to assume, from the legal point of view, that "person" and "human being" are in fact one and the same. Legally speaking, a "person" is neither the flesh-and-blood human being, nor the responsible subject, but is merely, as Hans Kelsen argued, a "point of imputation" for rights and duties arising in legal relations
did you get that? i'm pretty gifted at understanding badthink. i got it, i just want to go beat a lawyer. if corporations really were people, we'd have shot most of them in the head by now.
start easy. go into mal-wart and get a fat bag of mangoes, which cost about a dollar a piece. get some other stuff, but no bananas,. when you get to the self check out, put the bag of mangoes on the scanner and hit 'enter code'. then type '4011'. watch as your mangoes are now about $0.80 per pound. do not attempt this twice in one checkout. think about you sheep, what are they going to do? make you pay for them?
on the way to your home, smile a trickster smile. you're the smart monkey, the one that gets to live. you got the bananas, haha. pretechnological peoples have developed some remarkably clever ways of harvesting honey - do you really think they think they are robbing the bees.
i had some mandatory therapy last week when my fondness for theft came up (i have ferret genes). the nurse asked, what are you stealing? i replied, stuff i have to have and can't buy with foodstamps, mostly medicines. in the ghetto, that's what we call 'affordable health care'.