The Credit Crunch Bites ( Pt. 1 )
c. 2008 Michael St.Mark
( Click over the picture for the full crunch experience )
NB, note the date of this work, 26 March 2008, the date that the now universally used term ” The Credit Crunch Bites” was coined by MSt.M.
LONDON DADA 
Is that geezer trying to rob the girl or what? he looks a bit shifty to me.
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That was actually taken a second before he pulled out his Colt 45 water pistol, Bradders 🙂
The gist really is that the banks are now encouraging us all to save more, because they’re strapped for cash themselves.
And of course there’s no guarantee the HS banks wont go bust and our little personal piggy banks do a runner along with them.
(I don’t think the dodgy Darling / bent Brown ticket are telling us the full extent of the real long-term financial doo doo this country is in.)
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We definitely ain’t getting the truth, my guess is, is that the whole world is bankrupt and they ain’t telling us because it’ll hit the fat cats hardest, just imagine it nobody has any money, we’re all in the same boat, the Lord next to the scumbag, they just won’t let go until things let go for them, the stock markets around the world are coming to an end time, the planet will be brought to it’s knees and the HE will appear???????
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Who? That sadistic old bastard, God?
I don’t know why he bothers, personally, there’s obviously a major design flaw in the human make-up.
And I’m not talking Max Factor.
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We’re all gods Mike but what we need is a teacher to tell us that, he will come, when he arrives will you be expecting a white man with long hair a beard and a pair of Gucci sandals? what if he’s a black man in a very smart suit? or dare I suggest it, a woman? Jesus was crucified because people didn’t recognise him, everyone thought that the son of god would be smart handsome and intelligent not a virtual tramp so they nailed him up, who’s to say we won’t do the same when he turns up on our doorstep soon, look around you Mike what or whom do you see? do you ever see the face of god? I do, every time I look in the mirror, tee hee.
Well it is april the 1st
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God’s done that gig many times apparently, bradds – you know, the old evangelical inevitable crucifixion trip.
Sure I’d recognize God as a tramp, I’m always on the lookout for intense auras of spiritual bliss around people.
But there are virtually none in the west, almost everyone is depleted of energy and stagnant of thought and absorbed by this rotten culture with its obsession on pandering to the comforts of a live corpse.
Fact is, humanity is still vicious and devious beyond help in the conventional sense. Only one thing will work now and that’s a serious cosh over our collective heads.
If someone’s in a deep sleep, they need shaking or slapped hard to be woken, I’m surprised God didn’t latch onto that one a bit earlier… I thought he was supposed to be smart 😉
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In order to achieve perfection first you have to be rotten, if you’ve never been rotten you won’t understand what ripe is because you’ll have nothing to compare it against, we all have to learn, learn being the operative word, if we came here with all the answers we’d never quetion anything and that’s the key, we need to say why, and when you ask why you need a teacher to help you understand the answer, I don’t think for onr minute that god wants us to worship him/her all he/she wants is for us to learn, we only know what’s right because we know what’s wrong, there has to be light and dark, from what I’ve read of your work you are in the light so stop worrying about the dark side, people who live on the dark side will eventually come to the light it’s inevitable, then they will have learned right from wrong just as you seem to have done, my impression of you is that you are a wonderful soul so don’t ruin that personna with bitterness towards those whom are evolved to a different level to you, we are all different with different attitudes but we’ll all end up as gods.
I think?
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Well bradds lad, doesn’t to be more evolved also mean to have passed through more learning life experiences/lifetimes and therefore all good and bad also we have been – and is still there within us?
Thats why they say the saint can never condemn others totally, because he sees the faults of others also present in dormant form within himself.
And although this particular “saint” can certainly give others a good literary and verbal drubbing, I dont harbour bitterness for long, it just kinda washes over and it’s forgotten the next day..
Now. Maybe our real nature is already identical in quality to that of God?…and it’s only a (very painful) question of peeling away the layers/grinding up the obstacles that we have accumulated over time. Maybe our temporal life with all its false values must disappear for Real Existence to manifest/shine through,?.. therefore despair, disgust and disillusionment with the world may possibly be a great spiritual gift in disguise?
Bradds. I’m intrigued your saying we need a teacher, because as you also say most people wouldn’t recognize a real one until they’re ready (softened up inwardly). Until then, is life itself the hard taskmaster and “teacher”..
We can’t force the flower to open its petals before the sun rises ( old Tibetan saying:) )
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All you need for a flower to open it’s petals is a torch, after all cannabis will grow in the loft of a drug dealer and never see the sun, so shine your torch wherever you go and see those petals bloom.
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Ahh yes bradders, I shall procure a fresh sprinkling of faith and the magic torch will shine again! Thanking you for your elucidation in the matter, you are a gentleman and a scholar.
BTW. I would dearly like to wave my torch in the direction of Julia Bradbury, ;).. but the world being the wicked place it is, she would no doubt be the last person on the planet to manifest in need of spiritual refreshment.
” .. and, people only need me, when they’re down and gone to seed..” – The Fall ( Hip Priest )
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You’re too good for her any way, shine your light elsewhere you’ll have better fortune.
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