Slavery (on Thursdays)

[Huggy Bear]

Hi Huggy74, given your responses in this thread I have a couple of questions that I hope you'll answer. If we take the scenario that the biblical laws (with the associated legislative & social processes) for 'servitude' are in effect, would you:

1. hold someone in such servitude?

As I said earlier, we are not talking about a currency based system here. wealth = land, crops and livestock. If you were poor and owned no land, you would need to find a "landlord" and "trade" your labor in exchange for a place to live and a small percentage of the crops, which in turn you would trade for whatever else you needed.

I've shown where it was illegal to kidnap people and force them to be slaves, If you wanted to be a servant you chose so of your own free will.

Anyone that can say it is an "immoral" system, is being disingenuous. If we were to go back to a "trade" based system today, people that contributed to society (ie. farmers and tradesmen) would go back to being important and everyone in the entertainment industry would go back to being poor.

2. submit to being held in such servitude?

I already do. I have a mortage ("dead pledge"), which means I do not own my home, but instead have agreed to give a portion of my labor for 30 years. And to bring it back around to my first post, we all are already slaves, it's just that you guys don't realize it.

The American Dollar is "Fiat currency"

Definition of 'Fiat Money' Currency

currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, but is not backed by a physical commodity. The value of fiat money is derived from the relationship between supply and demand rather than the value of the material that the money is made of.

so ask yourself, what makes a $1 bill worth more that a $100? The dollar is no different than monopoly money other than our faith in it.

so if you work for something that has no value, how are you not a slave?

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