Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

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ownership

The concept of ownership arises from cultures that regard citizens as separate beings who must fight each other for a slice of the finite financial pie. Yet, in Reality, none of us is ever separate from the Divine for an instant.

So, if we are to share our skills and resources at these end times we live in, it is essential to abandon the idea that any of us can own anything, including property, ideas, and, of course, money.

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Etymology

1583, ‘state of being an owner; the right by which a thing belongs specifically to some person or body’, from owner ‘one who owns, one who has legal or rightful title’, from owener (1399), oghener (1340), from Old English agnere, from PIE base *aik- ‘to be master of, possess’.

Shakespeare used the verb own in 1607, formed in part from the adjective own ‘of or belonging to oneself or itself’ and in part as a back formation of owner. He thus reintroduced the verb, when the verb owe ‘have to pay’, in its original sense ‘possess’ became obsolete.

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