
Originally Posted by
Akzle
jeeeeeeeebus. well. guess it'd be rude not to show up. not like i feel i owe you anything. and you did a much better impression of spelling engrish this round.
Thanks for the response.
I don't give a fuck about spelling .. when I can be bothered I edit and correct - but spelling is just one of those rule things y'know ...
bullet points!:
- we are arguing from two different platforms. law, legal, legislation, boundaries, words, claims etc ARE ALL FICTION.
-a "society" is legally defined as: "A group of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal"
Yeah - I get all that ... legal fictions ... I'm not arguing legal fictions, which is an analytically correct position, but hardly a practical useful one ... I'm arguing from functional occurence with practical references points. Whe we say "our gold medalists" or "New ZEaland gold medalist" we are not talking about the legal fictionof a country - but the practical occurences of our actual lives. When New ZEaland beats Australia at Netball it is not the legal fiction that has played and won ..
i do not mutually consent, i do not believe in the goals of the NZ govt/society and if you can point to one (legally) "common" goal.. well, hats off.
Goals? I am unsure where that comes from - I never thought we had "common goals" ...
-who is defending the border? we got a stack of foreigners on this land...
Yes .. and some of us have been pissed off at that for 200 years - So - are you one of the immigrants? Ngā mihi ki a koe ...
-given that "New Zealand" is a fiction, (claimed) territory is a fiction, and generally everything else is a fiction, it actually has "no basis in reality"
Oh? It would seem that it is clearly defined by our coast line ... it's not as if it is some fictional line drawn on a map which apparently separates it from other countries, as occurs across Africa f'rinstance ... it's a clear defined boundary ... and it was first legally defined (Yes, I accept theat it is legally defined accurding to your rules) by us, the tangata whenua in 1835 in the Declaration of Independence, whose Māori authors called in New Zealand ... are you coming to OUR country to tel us OUR country does not exist ???
It may be a legal fiction in your western-derived worldview - and we bought into the wesdtern world's legal fiction to say "This is Ours" it is not a fiction in ours - but it is real, we stand on it, it has been handed down from mai rāno ...
this is your mao quote - the only people with "authority" nowadays, have to have the guns to enforce it. the current crowd claiming NZ have a gang in blue vests and holdens, enforcing their claim.
"natural authority" relies on the assent of the people/individual being "governed", there is no subjugation, no force required.
Yes - I agree. I have not consented, but neither have I rejected our "Government". I'm neutral on that one ...
everyone comes under one (much) higher authority than the small men in parliament, that'd be the creator, whatever you believe, you were created. (were you the proponent of evolution from pond scum?) personally, i'm with some kind of intelligent design/higher consciousness. everything stems from consciousness, as a human you cannot create consciousness, so there is a force higher than human.
There is not higher power or creator in my worldview - I am not subject to any authority- not even that fictional one ... but I would not say there is no force higher than human ... what privileges human beings over other life forms in the natural world?
-righto. i haven't quite got it down to not buying anything, i like stuff, modern commerce requires the "money"/debt to do so, so i do contribute GST.
you're welcome.
i do not pay rego, road user etc etc etc.
Good luck on the Gixxer with no rego ... you will eventually run into the enforcement agencies .. (unless you have it on display in the stting room) ... then you will see just how much you are not part of the system ...
i am not trying to live like a parasite, quite the opposite. i'm trying to go completely off grid.
Good luck with that ... I've come pretty close in the past ... still got stuck with paying rates - but I could have lived off my land .. food, water and energy were all avaliable ...
-if you were free, you wouldn't have to "fly under the radar" if you are doing no harm to anyone else, noone else should feel a social obligation to stop you from doing anything.
See we do agree on many things .. I do not harm others, I don't expect to stop other peopel doing what they want - and I expect other peopel to leave me anlone to do what I want as long as I don't harm others ... but the reality is that we are surrounded by law makers and law enforces .. so to avoid the unwanted consequences of my actions I fly under the radar ... it is more freeing to avoid being involved in the court processes than to take them on head on ... it's avoidance rather than acquiescence.
you rebel you, you choose not to follow laws. (me too)
you take responsibility for what you do (me too)
- i do quite a bit. beyond the scope of this thread, though. goes with that "trying to live off grid" above.
- i am solar powered. so no, i'm not "using the electricity of your society"
i'm using the energy of the cosmos, man!
- if you mean i live "economically" in monetary terms, yes, i generally live on the cheap.
Good luck - I have come close to that ideal ...
- prior right of occupation? dunno about you, i'm human. we've been on the planet for 10, 000 years or more. i have a lawful claim to 1/6 billionth of the planet.
See - that's where our worldviews separate. I am a part of this whenua ... this whenua feeds me, clothes me, provides me with shelter and water. Papatuanuku is here, in this motu. This is my link to here - the whenua - the placenta which is life ... the whenua - the land of which we are a part ... when I was born the whenua/placenta which linked me to my mother went back to the whenua - the land. WHen I die my tinana/body returns to Papatuanuku. My tinana, which was created from Papatuanku, returns to her ... my wairua and hinengakau move on ...
you're thinking small man. way too small. i am citizen earth.
You may be a citizen of the earth - I am a descendent of Rangi and Papa, of Tane, of Hine Titama, who became Hinenui Te Po ... I am a descendent of this whenua ...
- "the agreement of our elected representatives" - i did not agree to anyone to represent me, i'm capable of representing myself. i also never voted for anyone to make decisions/"represent" for me. thus i retain the right to do so myself.
By not voting you are giving up any power you have to influence decisions that affect you directly .. is this a good thing?
- again, would you prefer i drive a tank accross private land everywhere, or use a light vehicle on the roads?
if the roads are "public" ie, for EVERYONE, why should i not use them?
you could try driving across "private land" (as an anarchist I abhor the concept of "private land" ) but see how the land owners react ...
But mainly you should not use public roads which are for "everyone" because you claim you are not part of "everyone" ..
does that mean that people on holiday in the country can't use the roads, not being NZ citizens and thus contributing a lifetime of tax for them?
Yeah .. Naaa bro .. they are visitors - we treat manuhiri well in this country - and they bring money into our economy - we've been grabbing tourist dollars since Capt Cook came back and we sold him food ...
- again with the delusion/fictions. you're propping up more of them than me, and thus, from where i'm wanking, err... sitting, it's you that's deluded.
I agree that we disagree - I'm not deluded - I understand everything you say - I once thought very close to you - it was a long time ago .. then I changed - not because I accepted the hegemonic bullshit of a corrupt system - I accepted the practical realities of my life ..
And I also accepted that while it is satisfiying to be apart from a society which I thought at the tiem was a crock of shit - that pathway does not lead to change and improvement. My goal is to improvfe life for all human beings - and that is not possible from outside the system, where I was only throwing stones at glass houses, as it where. Now I am inside the house I can act more effectively for social change - we need the radicals outside, but we also need the agents inside ... (see below - your further comments and mine)
Too long a post - split in half ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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