Should We Protect Our Creative Stuff?Written by Susan James
The Questions are getting louder and possible solutions are many and some solutions are filled with venom.The Question being asked? How do we protect our creative rights from things such as piracy, and copyright infringements appearing in many creative forms? This question keeps popping up in regard to more simple things as writing books to more technological factors of entertainment and like. Consider this: A. As long as assumption is made, that we must *protect* ourselves from others, then we will continue to attract situations where we need to protect ourselves from others. B. Basically, this is about about money and fear in general. C. Therefore assumption is then also made, that we can not make money if people steal our stuff. Therefore......it makes it a truth. The *truth* being now, we can not make money & more money, if people steal our stuff. D. That therefore makes assumption that Universe is limited in its delivery of things that makes us happy, and brings us success and wonderful lifestyles and livelihoods, while we are doing/being what we are passionate about and love. E. The crux appears to be from creative side, projecting intellectual property vs technological side and all of its innovations. These technological innovations seem to be where *bad guys* show up, leaving attorneys to try and figure it out and pass more laws protecting *us* from one another. F. As long as we continue with perspective that we must protect ourselves from one another, then it will remain circle of protection. We are assuming that *bad guys* are going to take our money and our ideas, which then equate to money. This therefore stifles our creativity and line of limitation becomes a Wall, protecting us from more, creativity. It's about *fear*. Fear of loss of something; fear of losing money, fear of *not getting proper credit for an idea* (sorry but I'm not running my life based on so labeled *bad guys*) G. As we as a humanity teach ourselves to honor one another, without judging behaviors....which also constricts flow of good stuff coming to us........and to...... honor that invisible space in front of our face and how it really works, and how we can mold it to design our lives..... THEN....we won't care anymore about protecting ourselves. We would have moved our *energy* higher, to where anything that dis-honors another person, won't show up. There will no longer be dense energy to hold it, it will fall away of its own weight.
| | Do You Pine For Your Own Tattoo Kit? Story of an Ebay WinnerWritten by John Lundgren
Recently I went hunting for odds and ends that I could re- sell at a garage sale or on E-bay. Not being that knowledgeable on collectibles, I go by intuition and luck in making my choices. Most of items I buy for re-sale cost me less than $10.00. If you are familiar with term "economies of scale," you can see why I will never get rich with this approach. Anyway, how does a tattoo kit enter this scenario?As I pawed through one antique shop, an attractive wooden box with with a tiny brass latch caught my eye. Maybe it was words on top of box that caught my attention. They stated, "Cow Tattoo Kit." It was priced $25.00. Now I knew that cows kept up with latest trends and fashions, but a cow tattoo kit? I was mesmerized. I opened box and there was neatest ear tattoo kit a cow ever saw. No, I didn't know that cows had their ears tattooed for identification purposes but years ago it was thing to do. The complete contents of box included a bottle of ink, two small containers filled with letters and numbers, and a pliers- like hand tool for tattooing cows ear. So here I was infatuated with a $25.00 dollar item which was considerably over budget of a junk buyer like me. With trepidation, I made an offer of $20.00 for kit which was promptly accepted, and I took my trophy home. As I drove by area dairy farms on my way, I gazed at barns and envisioned a cow tattoo expert at work. Infinite designs danced through my head: EAT MORE PORK was one I imagined a a cow might request. My kit, however, was not to be used in any tattoo parlor; it was destined for E-bay.
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