I worked today on our Almanac. In particular, I went through a list of our current participants and some earlier participants who have shaped our lab. Since...
Greetings to all as the planet spins round again on this cosmic Magical Mystery Tour and we humans join it in figuring out the why, what and how of human...
... Hmmm ... ambitious. ... What is the meaning of "meaning" when in reference to our lives? ... I'm far from convinced that any of these will ever be...
... I believe that that might be premature (at the macroscopic end, anyway). If there are universally-applicable structures for CCs, we are not yet (as far as...
... be practicable?<... This what I understand as "cyber space knocking on reality's door." Ultimately, for centuries the market place has called that...
Thanks John for your thoughtful response. You are right about some of the 'real world' problems of establishing any kind of 'consensus' about 'best practice'...
... One of the exercise I promote to effectively remove oneself from the ambiguity of the words prayer and religion is called :"Healing the Meaning". It is a...
... Why? :-) ... We are all in the same "spaceship earth" (to use Buckminster Fuller's term) and have to find a way to keep it in flight. Unfortunately we...
I just found this brilliant quote from the Arctic explorer Ben Saunders: "Early in my 2004 expedition, ice and weather conditions were so bad that several...
... Good. As you know, I believe this is very important and I would like to assist with that if we can establish a suitable collaboration mechanism. I believe...
... Some people survive to write such things. For others the impossibility escapes their pen. Some trudge to triumph, some trudge to a grave and some die...
John I am a simple soul :-) who likes to tell stories. So I try to keep the CC 'story' as simple as possible (KISS Principle, Occam's Razor, Einstein's "keep...
On Designing a Community Currency Thomas L Wayburn, PhD This is a draft – nay, a draft of a draft. – Herman Melville, Moby Dick [quoted from memory] To...
John, Agreed in principle, but do you speak for TBWales or TBUK ? The question arises in view of "Doing it differently in Wales', where 'reciprocity' appears...
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Dear Jane/David (whoever you really are I don't know and it doesn't matter but you seem to have a slippery online identity...) I believe in talking, working...
I am not sure about some of Tom's abstractions, such as an assumption that everyone 'has been been assigned a portion of contiguous land of equal value'. When...
Hello John, Thanks for your encouraging comments. If one were setting up an intentional community, I am certain that no one in this group would be willing to...
Hi Tom Your interesting post has prompted me to inject a few thoughts, some of which I've written before (over the years, in various places) and one or two of...
John, ... How do we discern which is best for what? If and once decision is made to go with "differentials", is there not an obligation to eventually frame...
John (Waters), At this early hour, I will just thank you for your comments and say that I agree with what you say. In fact, I am delighted with the extent of...
Here we get into the interface between System Design and Psychology of Participation. As currency designers we can make a design choice to make an hour of...
To whom this may concern, I had come to view Community Currencies as THE PRACTICE to work from to defeat Mammon(God of money)and the hold he has over human...
Benoit, I can only speak for myself, but for the last twenty years I have been trying to defeat Mammon or, as I say, materialism. Perhaps, I do not speak in...
Dear Benoit Mystics from many paths have taught us from their experiential insights that what we call reality is ILLUSION. I am illusion, you are illusion,...
John (Rogers), I think I need to understand a little better how you intend for CCs to be used. It had not occurred to me that I would be purchasing a person's...
Dear, Tom, John and all who follow our links and posts... ...whilst I've not going to comment extensively today on the last several posts and threads of the...
The following are my thoughts and feelings and consultation of this issue of departure of, Benoit Couture from our forum... Dear Brother... ...we've never...
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