Spot the Illusions!

A list of life illusions below, will you manage to spot them all??? (I guess they are known by most, but it's always good to remind it to ourselves, keep the brain motor running properly!)

1. High prices of real estate -> Mortgages -> 25 years of work for the *bank* just to own a house.
2. Banks -> Does nothing besides transferring money, and gets billions of it for doing so.
3. Politicians (In influencing positions), mainstream media (CNN, SKY news, etc.) -> Owned by the elite, will always keep you in fear which can be easily controlled and manipulated.
4. Pharmacies -> Meant to make you healthier but it is actually an industry controlled by people with motivation to make profits FIRST, selling only products that they can profit from. Shouldn't it be an industry motivated to heal people??
5. Higher education system for an easier life -> Meant to provide you an easier way to survive in a harsh world, but unemployment rates keep on raising and raising, especially among the new graduates.
6. Living life with a main focus of surviving -> Living life with the head down, sleep-walking, thinking that life will take care of itself without us, the people, doing SOMETHING for a change to happen.

How many illusions have you spotted?♥

Originally posted by Shuye
A list of life illusions below, will you manage to spot them all??? (I guess they are known by most, but it's always good to remind it to ourselves, keep the brain motor running properly!)

1. High prices of real estate -> Mortgages -> 25 years of work for the *bank* just to own a house.

I would like to comment this one, as I recently bought a house and yes, I will pay for it the mayor part of my working life.

Problem is, that there is limited space in preferred locations, for example in the center of cities. Many people would like to live near their work, friends, kids schools and so on - so therefore there is more demand than offers. Do you resent someone profiting by this by selling his old house for the highest price possible? Even if those people have already paid their house and even if they would be rich (as my neighbors are), they still wouldn't give it away for nothing. Why should they?

So I bought a house and have to pay for it - if thats taking 20+ years, so be it, I didn't have the whole purchase price on my hand, I had to borrow it from someone. Who has this kind of money? Usually not the relatives, but a bank..

Originally posted by Shuye
A list of life illusions below, will you manage to spot them all??? (I guess they are known by most, but it's always good to remind it to ourselves, keep the brain motor running properly!)

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4. Pharmacies -> Meant to make you healthier but it is actually an industry controlled by people with motivation to make profits FIRST, selling only products that they can profit from. Shouldn't it be an industry motivated to heal people??
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Found this one. Seems to be a systemic error..
Edit: Look at the "linear scale".. Thats horrific, I think.

reply to post by ManFromEurope


It sounds like you may have the conventional view of real estate. The view that everyone needs to own a home.

There are two problems with that. One: you never really own the home. If you take 30 years to pay it off and for some reason the next two years you don't pay the taxes on it, they will come and take your home you worked so hard to pay for. Now knowing this, of course you're not going to let that happen as long as you have the means. However you are now a new kind of slave. You were already a slave to your job, the government, power company, and even the family system.

And two: The banks privately consider your home as their asset, not as yours. This is from Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. The illusion is that you think the house is an asset (and yours) when really what it does is suck a couple hundred thousand dollars out of you during this life, so it is an overall cost for you. For the bank it is nothing but profit.

This is how the banks make that money. It's not really theirs to start with, yet they are the most powerful loan vehicle in town. They didn't get that money from saving it, but from skimming off the top of the public and of course giving it ultimately to the privately owned Federal Reserve.

Originally posted by Shuye

4. Pharmacies -> Meant to make you healthier but it is actually an industry controlled by people with motivation to make profits FIRST, selling only products that they can profit from. Shouldn't it be an industry motivated to heal people??
♥

You know and I know that we might try to heal others, but you can't expect that it's just a rule that other people's motivation should be to help people.

This is so fundamental that we should have a separate forum on it.

I encourage you to examine yourself and find what motivates you to do something. Look at all your basic needs, because that's what ultimately drive you. Example: " I want more money. Why? Because I want a nice car. Why? because I want to be sexy. why? because I want the hot girl. why? because I want to increase my chances of survival through procreation." You'll find that a lot of your desires are because of this one factor.

So hence I support that these companies want to profit and want to do it the best way possible. Our problem is when we trust that what the doctor gives us is good for us and that's not always true. It requires for you to have your head on straight and vote with your wallet and I promise that will work. It's the rule of the land.

Originally posted by TheMatrixusesYou
reply to post by ManFromEurope

 

It sounds like you may have the conventional view of real estate. The view that everyone needs to own a home.

Yepp, and there is nothing wrong with this view, in my opinion.

There are two problems with that. One: you never really own the home. If you take 30 years to pay it off and for some reason the next two years you don't pay the taxes on it, they will come and take your home you worked so hard to pay for. Now knowing this, of course you're not going to let that happen as long as you have the means. However you are now a new kind of slave. You were already a slave to your job, the government, power company, and even the family system.

Or you could rent an appartment. Won't have a garden for the kids, can't do anything beyond exchanging a light bulb. And still, in the end you would have given nearly the same amount and still don't own that appartement.. Did that, didn't like it and bought a house.

And two: The banks privately consider your home as their asset, not as yours. This is from Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. The illusion is that you think the house is an asset (and yours) when really what it does is suck a couple hundred thousand dollars out of you during this life, so it is an overall cost for you. For the bank it is nothing but profit.

But I'm entitled to live in it, which is worth some money. How should someone live within a city for no costs in living? Should I live under a bridge? Honestly, there is no other way than buying something and that is under this circumstance a house. Or could you name a different livestyle for living in a city with kids?

This is how the banks make that money. It's not really theirs to start with, yet they are the most powerful loan vehicle in town. They didn't get that money from saving it, but from skimming off the top of the public and of course giving it ultimately to the privately owned Federal Reserve.

No way!?! Okay, I'm joking - where else should someone loan enough money to buy a house? Relatives - not so likely, they are paying for their homes, too. If you are part of the 1% then there is no problem, of course.. Besides the problem of becoming one of the one percent..

No, I don't think that you could own a home without paying a huge amount of cash - or live in a rather unpleasant and unwanted neighborhood, but then you would have spent money on a thing you actually don't want.

reply to post by ManFromEurope


All valid points. I've both rented and owned a home. Problem is I bought that home when I was 22 and going to college. The cost of owning a home can get pricey and stressful, especially when you don't make that much money. So you can enjoy home ownership and its privileges, I'm just aiming at the illusion people carry around thinking they are the ultimate owners of the property, that they actually pay less to live there and have more freedom. Well some actually do have more freedom. There's a tradeoff and I think it's pretty even. I'm sure you do know that in many places, home owners are tapped more than others for state tax as part of the state's revenue.

reply to post by Shuye


I have been aware of these illusions for most of my life.
When I was fifteen I decided I did not want to bring Children into this world.
I am a lot older than fifteen now and I have no regrets.
As a Teacher I have had Students of fifteen tell me they have no plans to have Children.

Life on planet Earth is a tough mission but if you are awake it becomes a challenge.
The illusions are everywhere and once you spot one - you spot another and another and another....

Great post - thank you - this was the lift to my sad spirit that I needed more than anything else!

Much Peace..

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reply to post by Shuye




Yep and most everyone is not rebelling, simply complying.

A slave that doesn't realize he/she is enslaved will never try to rebel.

A prisoner that doesn't realize he/she is imprisoned will never try to escape.

And the managing goons who over see the pions and report of infractions or rebellion don't realize that they are simply being played and are next.

It's like the Jewish Holocaust, people did what they did to survive. The guy that thought we would survive by shoveling the bodies in the furnaces was himself shoveled in by another goon thinking he would survive and on and on and on it goes.

United we stand - divided we fall.

Divide et impera

reply to post by TheMatrixusesYou

There are two problems with that. One: you never really own the home. If you take 30 years to pay it off and for some reason the next two years you don't pay the taxes on it, they will come and take your home you worked so hard to pay for. Now knowing this, of course you're not going to let that happen as long as you have the means. However you are now a new kind of slave. You were already a slave to your job, the government, power company, and even the family system.

true, but I think the owner gets the difference after the house is sold off.

problem could be that the selling price might be at fire sale level.

same works for a foreclosure.


if the balance is negative, you still owe the difference.

double edged sword, depending on values.

today's values are not good compared to 6 years ago.

Why does everyone act like the people who entered into these agreements with banks are victims? People who buy homes are not victims. They have made choices and those choices should be honored. I live on property that we bought and lived on for the past 18 years. We did not go through a bank, but did it contract for deed. Look, people make choices and they either benefit from their choices or not. What most people are afraid to do is to leave the pack. They can be like lemmings following everyone over the cliff. That doesn't make them victims but rodents...that are packing up. The trick is not to be a lemming and live differently. People thought we were crazy to live out in the woods without electricity and running water , now we have people coming from the city to see how it is done. Trust yourself and do what your heart tells you to do no matter what. There is always a different way to do things instead of just following the lemmings....

reply to post by xuenchen


Right. Real estate only works for you if you have money to buy in the good places or you are privy to knowledge that a certain area will rise in value in upcoming years. There are always places that rise in value and others that lower. Similar to the crony capitalism going on in the world, but only on a micro scale. And you really can't do it on your own. You have to have someone to teach you how things are done and most people these days don't have that.