It was not just the ban on usury that made this period so special. The high Middle Ages was an extraordinarily prosperous time for people, a time when the first universities were founded teaching abstract sciences such as mathematics. It was a time when the working class enjoyed favorable working conditions and a remarkable level of economic independence. it was a more egalitarian time when women enjoyed greater freedom and position in society and the people worshiped the divine feminine, the Great Mother archetype, represented by the Black Madonna. Innovations in agriculture allowed the small landowners as a group to be much more productive than the Seignorial holdings for the first time. It was a time when hydro-powered manufacturing took off and production skyrocketed. There were more than 200,000 hydro-powered mills at the beginning of the 12th century in France alone. It was a time when the average caloric intake was 3500-4000 per day, more than the average of 3000 in today's developed countries. Workers ate 3-4 meals per day with 3-4 courses and enjoyed 90-150 official holidays every year. The population of Europe doubled, and the average height was nearly 8 inches taller than today by the end of this 300-year period. Workers enjoyed 6-hour workdays and rebelled when the Dukes of Saxony tried to extend it to 8. It was a time when a thousand small towns across Europe built a thousand Great Cathedrals for themselves and their posterity, along with 300,000 churches, using the money issued to them by their feudal lords for an exchange medium which functioned as a demurrage currency, like the Wörgl currency during the Great Depression, due to its slow reduction in value that was restored annually. This all covered thoroughly in New Money for a New World by Bernhard Lietaer.
Yes, Usury, (Interest), is a bad thing. Martin Luther wrote a book. "The Jews and their lies". In it he condemned the Jews in his time in Germany for charging Usury and he went on that it ruined a nation.
As today, many say that we are in debt and that the debt is not just in America, but world-wide. But in all that I have read about the debt, no one mentions, who do we owe? The International Bankers, of course. When Colonel James Bo Gritz ran for United States President in 1992. He said that the debt to the Bankers is by farad, therefore we owe them nothing. He also said, that when he becomes President he will have a very large nickel made of wood and roll it up to the Federal Reserves door with a note. stating, Debt Paid.
Myself, I, as the Bible commands to owe no man anything. I have no credit because I have never used the credit system. When I shopped and found something I wanted or needed. I checked the price to see if I had enough, if I didn't, I went on my way. And the Bible commands not to charge or use Usury. Not many people especially Christians that should know, know that Usury is Interest.
I might as well go on about the Great American Dream. That keeps getting used a lot. But most of making America Great again are not going back far enough. It seems that they are looking to the 1970s. But there were greater times than that.
The reason there was so much migration from Europe to America is because of the American Dream. Farmer in Europe dreamed about owning their own land. In those nations, the Kings that were all related, By the way, own the land. Some that were elites, shall I say, managed the land in their fancy palaces, but the king still owned the land. And the poor tenet farmer worked the land and had to produce more than what they could eat themselves. If they couldn't grow large crops, they were kicked off the land and another took their place. So, when they found out that in America anyone could own land, it was a dream come true to tenet farmers.
So, here we are now in this land and due to Property Tax, if one can't pay the tax for 3 years, they are kicked off the land and another takes their place. Also, to make sure this happens, All the money printed is only the principle, nothing printed to be able to pay the interest. Unless you get yours before your brother gets his. Ah yes, "The land of the free and the brave". No more dreams, just nightmares.
Actually, we own nothing. How can a slave own anything. The master supplies all. No you don't even own your vehicles. The ownership papers that come with the vehicles and you buy the vehicle, the dealer sends the ownership paper from the manufactures to the State. Then the State sends you a title. Ah, a title. The title is a contract between the buyer and the State. In that contract The State is now the owner of the vehicle that you paid for, or are paying for with Usury, and the State is not responsible for any damages in the moving of the vehicle, but you are. And as the owner, they may take the vehicle away at anytime they choose.
As long as people do not obey GOD'S Laws, which are for our own good, then the people will live a life of lies and no liberty. The only freedom in this America is, You are allowed to do only what you are told.
If you understand the concept of how money is created, ANY interest, let alone USURY, is a criminal sleight of banking.
ALL FIAT CURRENCY is created out of DEBT. However, because interest is NOT DEBT, no money has ever been created to pay interest.
It is for this reason, Central Bankers manage "booms" and "busts." They do this by expanding and shrinking the money supply.
When they shrink the money supply by raising interest rates, and like a game of musical chairs when the music stops, some people simply have no money to pay interest on their loans. This is when the bankers step in and claim the collateral on unpaid loans.
When they expand the money supply, they're setting a trap knowing full well that by lowering interest rates, people will want to borrow money. As they take on more debt, their interest obligations increase. Every new debt is similar to removing chairs in the game of musical chairs. Someone is going to get burnt.
With this formula, there is a mathematical certainty the bankers, and the people that own the banks, will own everything. That is why you'll own nothing and be happy.
That is indeed how it works. Interest on any loan is an indirect tax on the entire community. The purpose is to create and sustain a monetary aristocracy. Today their focal point of power is the City of London. Their military arm is the US, paid for by dollar hegemony. Control of the US government is carried out by the ADL, the Neocons, and the Straussians. Trump is a puppet. Biden was a puppet. Democrats vs. Republicans is a puppet show.
Nail on the head. Anyone who thinks BRICS is an alignment opposed to One World Government is drinking more propaganda koolaid. The transition from nation states to regional alignments, like BRICS and the attempt to align the US, Canada, Mexico and Greenland, are nothing more than steps along the One World Government path, and the masses have been propagandized to believe that BRICS an effort to avoid OWG. That's the power of propaganda.
Thank you for addressing the damage that usury has caused. I would that more would write about it and/or do films about it. One of the best books I've read on the subject is by Michael Hoffman: Usury in Christendom. The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not.
It was not just the ban on usury that made this period so special. The high Middle Ages was an extraordinarily prosperous time for people, a time when the first universities were founded teaching abstract sciences such as mathematics. It was a time when the working class enjoyed favorable working conditions and a remarkable level of economic independence. it was a more egalitarian time when women enjoyed greater freedom and position in society and the people worshiped the divine feminine, the Great Mother archetype, represented by the Black Madonna. Innovations in agriculture allowed the small landowners as a group to be much more productive than the Seignorial holdings for the first time. It was a time when hydro-powered manufacturing took off and production skyrocketed. There were more than 200,000 hydro-powered mills at the beginning of the 12th century in France alone. It was a time when the average caloric intake was 3500-4000 per day, more than the average of 3000 in today's developed countries. Workers ate 3-4 meals per day with 3-4 courses and enjoyed 90-150 official holidays every year. The population of Europe doubled, and the average height was nearly 8 inches taller than today by the end of this 300-year period. Workers enjoyed 6-hour workdays and rebelled when the Dukes of Saxony tried to extend it to 8. It was a time when a thousand small towns across Europe built a thousand Great Cathedrals for themselves and their posterity, along with 300,000 churches, using the money issued to them by their feudal lords for an exchange medium which functioned as a demurrage currency, like the Wörgl currency during the Great Depression, due to its slow reduction in value that was restored annually. This all covered thoroughly in New Money for a New World by Bernhard Lietaer.
Yes, Usury, (Interest), is a bad thing. Martin Luther wrote a book. "The Jews and their lies". In it he condemned the Jews in his time in Germany for charging Usury and he went on that it ruined a nation.
As today, many say that we are in debt and that the debt is not just in America, but world-wide. But in all that I have read about the debt, no one mentions, who do we owe? The International Bankers, of course. When Colonel James Bo Gritz ran for United States President in 1992. He said that the debt to the Bankers is by farad, therefore we owe them nothing. He also said, that when he becomes President he will have a very large nickel made of wood and roll it up to the Federal Reserves door with a note. stating, Debt Paid.
Myself, I, as the Bible commands to owe no man anything. I have no credit because I have never used the credit system. When I shopped and found something I wanted or needed. I checked the price to see if I had enough, if I didn't, I went on my way. And the Bible commands not to charge or use Usury. Not many people especially Christians that should know, know that Usury is Interest.
I might as well go on about the Great American Dream. That keeps getting used a lot. But most of making America Great again are not going back far enough. It seems that they are looking to the 1970s. But there were greater times than that.
The reason there was so much migration from Europe to America is because of the American Dream. Farmer in Europe dreamed about owning their own land. In those nations, the Kings that were all related, By the way, own the land. Some that were elites, shall I say, managed the land in their fancy palaces, but the king still owned the land. And the poor tenet farmer worked the land and had to produce more than what they could eat themselves. If they couldn't grow large crops, they were kicked off the land and another took their place. So, when they found out that in America anyone could own land, it was a dream come true to tenet farmers.
So, here we are now in this land and due to Property Tax, if one can't pay the tax for 3 years, they are kicked off the land and another takes their place. Also, to make sure this happens, All the money printed is only the principle, nothing printed to be able to pay the interest. Unless you get yours before your brother gets his. Ah yes, "The land of the free and the brave". No more dreams, just nightmares.
Actually, we own nothing. How can a slave own anything. The master supplies all. No you don't even own your vehicles. The ownership papers that come with the vehicles and you buy the vehicle, the dealer sends the ownership paper from the manufactures to the State. Then the State sends you a title. Ah, a title. The title is a contract between the buyer and the State. In that contract The State is now the owner of the vehicle that you paid for, or are paying for with Usury, and the State is not responsible for any damages in the moving of the vehicle, but you are. And as the owner, they may take the vehicle away at anytime they choose.
As long as people do not obey GOD'S Laws, which are for our own good, then the people will live a life of lies and no liberty. The only freedom in this America is, You are allowed to do only what you are told.
Happy Days,
If you understand the concept of how money is created, ANY interest, let alone USURY, is a criminal sleight of banking.
ALL FIAT CURRENCY is created out of DEBT. However, because interest is NOT DEBT, no money has ever been created to pay interest.
It is for this reason, Central Bankers manage "booms" and "busts." They do this by expanding and shrinking the money supply.
When they shrink the money supply by raising interest rates, and like a game of musical chairs when the music stops, some people simply have no money to pay interest on their loans. This is when the bankers step in and claim the collateral on unpaid loans.
When they expand the money supply, they're setting a trap knowing full well that by lowering interest rates, people will want to borrow money. As they take on more debt, their interest obligations increase. Every new debt is similar to removing chairs in the game of musical chairs. Someone is going to get burnt.
With this formula, there is a mathematical certainty the bankers, and the people that own the banks, will own everything. That is why you'll own nothing and be happy.
That is indeed how it works. Interest on any loan is an indirect tax on the entire community. The purpose is to create and sustain a monetary aristocracy. Today their focal point of power is the City of London. Their military arm is the US, paid for by dollar hegemony. Control of the US government is carried out by the ADL, the Neocons, and the Straussians. Trump is a puppet. Biden was a puppet. Democrats vs. Republicans is a puppet show.
Imho, BRICS is just the 2nd. grindstone needed to turn sheeple into financial flour ...
Nail on the head. Anyone who thinks BRICS is an alignment opposed to One World Government is drinking more propaganda koolaid. The transition from nation states to regional alignments, like BRICS and the attempt to align the US, Canada, Mexico and Greenland, are nothing more than steps along the One World Government path, and the masses have been propagandized to believe that BRICS an effort to avoid OWG. That's the power of propaganda.
BINGO !!! 🔥🔥🔥 Many nails around these days ...
{...That's the power of propaganda...} You blame the back-stage criminals ??? 🤔🤔🤔
But I blame us, the people: It's the gullibility of totally unaware sheeple entirely oblivious of the real world. Panem et circensis at its best !!!
Have a nice time !!!! 👍👍👍
Thank you for addressing the damage that usury has caused. I would that more would write about it and/or do films about it. One of the best books I've read on the subject is by Michael Hoffman: Usury in Christendom. The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not.
Agreed. It's a great book.
Yes, Michael Hoffman is a fine writer. I have met him at shows in the '90s and sold his books. He is a truth seeker, as I am.
Larry Ellis
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