The Gratitude Society

The various aspects of grace applied to society, the economy and the ecology so as to best self actualize gratitude and empathy for life and everything in it.

Opt-In Requirements: The 50% Discount/Rebate Policies at regular consumer retail sale and also the retail point of finance which is one’s mortgage, insurance, automobile or other big ticket item’s monthly payment…and the rest of the aligned policies of Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

Absolute, permanent nutritional, chemical and ecological paradigmatic change in the food industry. Committment to whole foods, perma-culture and soil regeneration.

Absolute Educational Consideration and Integration of Latest Regenerative Medicine Insights into Present Medical and Pharmaceutical Systems.

Finding and applying temporal universe ways to insitutionalize a non-sectarian yet integratable philosophy of Gracientialism into the world’s major wisdom traditions.

SteveHummel 06/09/2026

Answer: The present wielder of the anomalous paradigm, because it resolves the anomalies and so enables that wielder like everyone else not only to better temporally thrive, but it also enables them to put their ethics in regarding the system(s) that change.

For instance, The Reformation enabled the Roman Church to both less controversially survive, but also to address/redress the 1400+ year accumulation of corrupt practices Luther’s 99 theses pointed out, meaning it insured its very survival because if the corruption had continued unabated it would have undoubtedly become out competed.

This last fact applies today to both capitalism and to the American Empire.

Just another benefit of keeping one’s ethics IN.

Steve Hummel 06/09/2026

Also the beginning of the only two human phenomenon greater than a paradigm change which are 1) a mega-paradigm change where the new realization and temporal universe reality is universally experienced, continuously experienced and its benefits serendipitously spill over into additional systems, bodies of knowledge and areas of human endeavor and 2) a new zietgiest/ethic of the age.

We have been stuck in the struggle of the present zeitgiest of Power, Profit and Control ever since the human species became self aware and hence aware of the reality of ethics. Ethics are the rational consideration of mere black/white morals. The new zietgiest follows the rule that the beneficial effects of paradigm changes have historically always been an aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace which means amongst other aspects of grace the new zietgiest is Redeemed/Redemptive Power, Profit and Control.

Steve Hummel 06/08/2026

Its actually a trinity activity of 1) equal Debits and 2) Credits…that 3) sum to Zero. Now consider that virtually all new money is created only as debt, but if congress were to implement a policy where the central bank is mandated to create and distribute the monies to fulfill the rebate aspect of a 50% Discount-Credit/Rebate-Debit at the point of retail sale, that would mean that you would be able to purchase $100 worth of groceries or other goods and services…for only $50. You could also purchase a $60k EV for only $30k and a $500k house for only $250k. But wait, it gets even better. When you go to borrow the money for the EV or the house the 50% Discount/Rebate is again applied (the retail point of finance is your mortgage, automobile, insurance or other big ticket item’s monthly payment) so the central bank then pays 50% of your monthly payment to the bank. So you get that EV for the payment equivalent of a loan of only $15k and the $500k house for the payment equivalent of only a $125k loan.

Duality is the signature of unresolving problems, trinity/the integration of dualities to the point of thirdness greater oneness of the aspects of such duality…is the signature of solutions.

Steve Hummel 06/07/2026

get graciousness/spirituality first. The former sets one up for conflict, the latter is the experience and action that resolves conflicts of all kinds. So please, whether you believe in Jesus, Yahweh, Buddha or the great god migeldy-pigedly that lives up the yap-yap river…that is fine…so long as your purpose is graciousness and your actions/reactions are gracious.

Can’t believe I wrote these posts over 10 years ago.

…how astute someone is, only whether or not they are interested in solutions as opposed to wallowing in problems/dualities which is just another way of defending orthodoxies that will not resolve…without integrating the key factor(s) in such conceptual opposites.

Steve Hummel 06/04/2026

Because only ever increasing consumption on a finite planet is not only flawed thinking, its non-looking, and honest looking leads to rational acting on possible solutions to this problem.

Another excellent exegesis. I suggest two watch words may be 1) trinity as in an integrative inclusional thirdness greater oneness of seeming unresolvable opposites IOW all realities are real but syntheses are more real because they include the apparent opposites, and 2) Wisdom because Wisdom is the very intellectual process of integrating opposites.

Also, why not make CONSCIOUSLY self actualizing probably the greatest personal experience of Wisdom, gratitude, by making something everyone must and does participate in like retail sale, by implementing a policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale? That way we can transform being disgusted by saying: Damn! Oreos just went up 10% into Thank you Mr. and Ms. merchant and Mr and Ms. politician for finally integrating monetary gifting into the monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money which is Debt Only?

All completely true, and thats why a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at regular consumer retail sale and also at the retail point of Finance, namely one’s mortgage, insurance, automobile or other big ticket item’s monthly payment is the solution to dispelling the delusion regarding the “national debt” et all. Why? Because if you can buy $100 worth of groceries or other goods and services for only $50 you’ve transformed chronic erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation which also means it accomplishes one of the two supposed mandates for the central bank, i.e. controlling inflation. It also accomplishes its second mandate which is to encourage full employment as lots of money/purchasing power in the hands of the individual and simultaneous price and asset deflation (although the merchant gets their full price with the rebate aspect of the policy) is the textbook definition of good economic times. It makes the central bank the BFF of the individual and the commercial agent instead of the docile deceived slave of the civilization-long monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money which is the applied concept known as Debt Only. A central bank is necessary, but the FED was created to be the hand maiden of the banks in “normal” economic times and its bail bondsman when their monopoly paradigm of Debt Only destabilizes the economy by overloading it with PERSONAL debt not the “national” debt.

Roger we should get together and become the two old coots who pulled back the curtain on The Great Oz, and also ushered us all happily into a Copernican level change in the monetary and economic systems.