New Year's Resolutions Are Stupid Buuuutttt....

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New Year’s Resolutions Are Stupid Buuuutttt….

I’m pretty well convinced that New Year’s resolutions are a ridiculous waste of time and impose unnecessary moral rules on our lives already weighed down by moralism, but I am making a few little resolutions of my own this year. Here they are:

1) I will not ever bite when people troll. Ever. If someone refuses to engage or acknowledge something I or another says intellectually I will refuse to acknowledge that anything has been said by them. Hear well, you trolls, if you refuse to read linked content or deal with an idea I’m talking about on a level higher than the ad hominem, red-herring, emotional appeal, or scarecrow, I will not respond. At all. Not even a little bit. If you attempt to slap a pejorative on me (“hippie” “Anarchist” “Pacifist” etc…) and refuse to talk to me outside of “hippies are dumb so there” then I will not acknowledge your presence and may just delete any and everything you say. Get a mind and a get a dog in the fight, don’t just troll and grok around my various comment sections.

2) I will stop 90% of my dealings in the FRN within a year. It’s over. This system is crumbling. Capitalism is dead and the corpse is cooling off (good riddance.) The banking institutions are corrupt to their very core. Centralized systems continue to show me their true colors on a daily basis. Furthermore, I have a God to serve, He is YHWH, He is God, and I shall not blaspheme His name in the pursuit of mammon. This will be a year and, hopefully, a life of poverty by choice. I have no desire to have most of the things that people have or want.

This means I may well disappear from the internet until I can find a provider who will trade service for some good or another. Oh well. Thus shall the revolution occur.

3) I will continue to work within secular mutual aid groups and attempt to incorporate many principles of mutual aid into church life. The church, of all institutions, is called to unflinching, unquestioning, loving assistance of the involuntarily impoverished and otherwise needy. Furthermore, communal societies of mutual aid are something in which the early church consistently engaged. What happened? We get an F- on this part of our report card. Sure, we get an A+ in the preservation of orthodoxy, but we get a huge red-ink F- in helping others. Let’s face it, we suck at this. We wouldn’t even know where to begin. We wouldn’t know mutual aid if it jumped up and bit us on the a**.

So there they are. Those are my resolutions.