Give-Get Nation: Born on the Fourth of July

By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner

"We the people..." who have the power, the genius and the vision to "ordain" a better world for all humanity and achieve what was once thought to be beyond humanity's grasp: "a world that works for everyone."

(Please read below, click on the links to watch the inspiring videos, and then visit Give-Get Nation)

Greetings from Carmel, California & New Haven, Connecticut--
If lately it seems our nation has lost its way with government policies of global hegemony and avarice, it's important to remember that 230 years ago a community of enlightened and incredibly brave people declared their independence from all forms of tyranny in the Declaration of Independence:

"...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..."

And so, it is appropriate that we, too, today, declare our independence from more modern forms of repression over our God-given freedoms and redouble our commitment to a vision for "life, liberty and happiness" for all people of the United States and the world.

But today requires a different kind of savvy. The unlimited, uncharted paradise of the colonial era has been mapped and the commons is now being rapidly privatized. While we can gather together to work to redirect ourselves and reclaim our heritage, there is an unbroken universe of love, harmony and sufficiency we can all experience that is just a thought away. Mahatma Gandhi said:

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."

As human beings with brains capable of more possible associations than the number of atoms in the universe, we can envision and manifest any kind of future we want. We can create a world of love or a world of fear. The choice is yours and mine. We can continue to exploit our resources and create scarcity through an unbridled greed and gluttony by a world-ego run amok, or we can achieve balance and sufficiency in a world of sharing our essence. We can invest in bombs or build the utopian dream. Whatever it is, we can create it. For in whose image does the Great Book say it was we are created?

We must never forget that it is "We the people..." who have the power, the genius and the vision to "ordain" a better world for all humanity and achieve what was once thought to be beyond humanity's grasp: "a world that works for everyone."

At GiveGet Nation, we hope you'll join us in a pioneering effort to begin to wright our course. We believe all people have gifts and wishes and genius to share, and we hope that we have provided an even playing field for the Infinite Game of Life.

To give you a sense of the possibilities we have in mind, we would like to tell you a story about the experience of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the Internet Age, Pierre Omidyar, inventor of eBay. His first posting for sale on his new service was a broken printer. He was astonished when some a man bought it. Curious, Pierre contacted the man and asked why he bought it. "Because I collect broken printers," came the reply!

And so it is with GiveGet Nation. With 6.5 billion people on Earth, there is a match for every gift and wish. We just need to connect with one another to discover that the impossible is possible, here and now. When our values match, that's when the magic--and some would say miracles--begin! So let's get connected. Just like Woody Allen said, "Ninety per cent of life is just showing up."

So we hope you'll show up and join us at GiveGet Nation starting on the Fourth of July. Beginning with this year's celebration, we're taking the liberty of modifying the appellation "Independence Day" to "Interdependence Day" so that we may recommit ourselves to our origins while at the same time distinguishing ourselves as pioneers of new dimensions of freedom by sharing our common ground as Earth Seeds.

We'd also like to take a moment to acknowledge the wit and wisdom of author and science editor Marilyn Ferguson who has been our Muse, contributed many of the stories and is also source of the blessed line:

"Give all you have to love and you will be all things."

Thank you, Marilyn, and thank you all of you for sharing your time with our message.

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For the third film in our series, we articulate some of GiveGet Nation's philosophy:
Born on the Fourth of July (03:30) Watch the film on YouTube

The film will also be available on Google Video. Just do a search for "Born on the Fourth of July." Human values reside in an unlimited domain that bridges subject and object.
"Values are the basis of all moral, political and economic behavior."
-- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance

GiveGet Nation is the human values economy where your gifts and wishes meet love and gratitude. GiveGet Nation is the only economy that includes both material & non-material and quantitative & qualitative values. It is the world's first free, post-scarcity, values-based, person-to-person economy and bank. We organize and put to work the world's unused product, labor, intelligence and spirit capacity and make it accessible to everyone for free. People can give, get and share goods, actions, knowing and spirit in an infinity of choices and combinations. Nothing is for sale, barter or trade. There are no middle men, fees or overhead charges of any kind. GiveGet Nation is an innovative social enterprise designed to improve the quality of life for everyone, set the world free from scarcity and save the Earth's ecology through synergy. Join the freedom movement by visiting us at GiveGet Nation on the Fourth of July. Help yourself. Save Mother Earth. "Give all you have to love and you will be all things."

www.givegetnation.net

In case you missed it, here's last week's film:
Earth Seeds (01:23)

Watch the film on Google Video

Watch the film on YouTube

Forces of attraction characterize our cosmos made of light and other star stuff. Science's strong and weak nuclear forces, electromagnetism and gravity hold the universe together in an exquisitely balanced dance of energy/matter. This "impossible" equilibrium of evanescent matter and anti-matter seems to know just what to do in creating harmonious bonds that manifest our world: atoms, molecules and all life. Beyond the reach of science is the fifth attractive force: love. Musing on the five forces, a poet might make a wild surmise and speculate that love is the path, élan vital and nature of All. "Become that which you already are," she advised, "for without love, our Source would not be and evolution could not fulfill its destiny: You. We are Earth Seeds created in love, born in love, we are love. Choose to evolve. 'Ride the horse in the direction it's going,' Earth Seeds. Give all you have to love and you will be all things."

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We hope to be celebrating Interdependence Day with you at www.givegetnation.net. God willing, we'll be ready, but please be patient with us and understand that we will be crawling before walking or running. We will be depending upon you, our citizens, to help build our new world along with us.

Invite your family, friends and networks to join with you birthing this innovative social enterprise. Simply envision a world that works for everyone and then choose the gifts and wishes you'd like to project into our net, focus your intent and then watch the miracles and magic happen.

So let the magic -- and the miracles -- begin!

God Bless America and God Bless Planet Earth!

Timothy Wilken, MD
William Shanley

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