Here's some shit for you to analyze.
Now, I'm not discounting midwifery or housewifery or w/e it is anyone has chosen to do. I'm certainly positive that the holes in the knees of your jeans are equal pay for the work your husband does while he's on his knees as the breadwinner or however you two have come to some agreements. I am really not disputing that -- so hear me out before you decide you think I'm insulting you and trying to put you on the defensive.
If your life speaks to you saying you wouldn't rip off a WalMart for some media goods or whatever, that's your own decision based on what you want. Your husband would flip if he came home and you had stolen something; or maybe he wouldn't, I don't know. Not my business.
What Youth is saying is key to survival of the fittest. That is; big shark eats the smaller fish, smaller fish eats the little guppies: everytime.
If you have a deal worked out with your hubby where your 'karma' wouldn't allow you to play with receipts, then its your personal decision ...not some law of god or reciprocity. People make decisions all the time to enter into agreements based on what they think they want or need.
The law of reciprocity or karma is the exact same as what Youth is discussing when he's talking about the short con or a mark. The only difference is that with the karma factor in housewifery or other subjectives, you usually don't allow yourself a measure to gauge how succesful this is working for you.
In complete seriousness, tommorow your husband could come home and have filed for divorce and unless you got yourself a prenup you might be in trouble; that is to say that some women believe before their divorce that love/karma is all there is and that as a minority females are entitled to half of everything and its the law of love or court or something. I have yet to see that law in 100% effect. With the right lawyer, a husband can take you for all you are worth if you want to rely on karma alone. There is more going on in life than love. I've seen may couples get divorced after thirteen, twenty five 1/2, forty two years of marriage with all the trimmings and trappings with no arguing. One person can decide they don't want the relationship anymore.
Reagan Youth gave you a failsafe plan to get what you want for the short con, and it does not have to be applied simply to department stores. It was four easy steps. I liked the part especially about playing the role of whatever con you are deciding on.
How do you measure if what you are doing is working for you or not? Well. Plain and simple, down and dirty. You can tell what you want, by what you've got.
Reagan said be quick about it and don't fuck around when you're in ANY place running a scam or a deal. You fuck around and get caught after the deal goes down, you'll lose your mark and maybe more. So get in and do YOUR thing, get what YOU want and do it quickly and don't hang around with your job hangin out everywhere for the world to congratulate you, don't stop to smell the roses, get out. If you get what you want and decide you don't want it later, after you get it; throw it away. What's that old Gambler song by that drunk? How does it go? Good addages in that one.
Later on, you can apply this advice and formula to the long con. Dawning roles will need some practice.
As for what Youth was stating about these steps to think for YOURself and think Of yourself FIRST, these steps and statements of divine selfishness can very much be applied to the law of Karma and reciprocity. By thinking of Yourself First you truly put into play the manifestation of what comes around goes around back to you.
Hell yes, it makes me feel good when I rip off those corporate bastards. Yet likewise, when I am being greedy and someone takes shit from me or does something to trick me I don't always feel mean about it. I've found myself saying that I shouldn't have been a fuck sometimes and I deserved what I got (sometimes rarely).
Wherefore, in feeling 'good' or 'bad'; there is still a more subtle factor that most people miss when it comes to using measurements of karma, cons, and give/take relationships. Our two physical emotions are the best way to gauge these subtle factors. I'm not discussing poetic emotions here either, only physical emotions as a direct result of muscular and chemical use from our bodies. Humans possess only two physical emotions; if your gut or body is negative or in pain or sick somehow -- don't do it, don't do the mark. If it is positive or warm or w/e you feel as good to you -- it's good to go. Deniro , "When in doubt, there is no doubt". And whether you are into laws of psychology, human physiology, philosophy, these two subtleties are paramount everytime; there are really only two emotions when it comes to getting what you want and it's go/ no go or good/bad. Whatever you want to call polar opposites, I am only applying these to people, and the physical body, who are of generally sound mind and body for the most part & who want to figure out some formula for getting what you really want and letting go of bullshit. Formulas like this can be applied to getting money, jobs, credit, all of it here.
Here is a perfect example of measuring what you want, as well as what you got right now:
You could really just give ten dollars to a church, or some homeless junky beggin for his next fix, if you thought they would blow it into a fucking hole. The ten dollars you gave would be very charitable of you, but if it made you feel shitty about giving it then you haven't really applied the laws of karma as it applies directly to you. You HAVE applied the laws and definitions of karma where other people like church priests have given you their interpretation of a world outside yourself that does not exist. Or maybe you're just out of your mind and shouldn't read any further here.
I would not expect to give something to someone where it was ill placed. Fuck no; I'm taking my ten hardfucking earned dollars and putting it someplace that is going to make me HAPPIER and better off in some way or another. Fuck everyone else and what I think they should think or how they should feel if I'm telefuckingpathic. I, like you, want to create joy in MY life first.
So, the thing that you are missing or did not state, housewife, is that the law of karma must be done in a joyful capacity. What Reagan is suggesting is done out of love and thus future marks are more fun or can make way for bigger plans and joy. I, again, am not suggesting you are in any way wrong or anything like that in what you are stating about agreements; only that you hadn't broken down, perhaps, or explained yourself completely. Or maybe I just have time to kill here. So call the police on me, sue me or w/e.
Check it out:
If to give IS to receive, then what comes around really does go around. If this is not true, then it does not matter anyway. But. You can actually put this particular fucker of a formula to the test. Instead of giving -- out of the need to fulfill church dogmas about giving as holy sanctification or creating a loving home for your family because it's the right thing to do -- next time when you're sucking off your husband ...I'm not kidding here... if you don't want to do it ... DON'T DO IT because you are somehow obligated to do anything. Do something that brings you joy merely from the pleasure of you wanting to do it not because you have to. Karma can be a real fucker if you aren't having fun.
I rather enjoy and like getting my nut sucked, and personally I like women more who like to do that sort of thing. There are women who do exist who don't really like to give of their mouths (or they do until they get hitched), I mean ...they love men on a thoughtful level and will protect them, but they would never give a smoothie on the way home from a movie. Those kinds of women I would not personally marry. I sincerely hope you are that kind of woman of the smoothie variety, and I hope for your family & yours that your house you've created has smoothies abounding on this most joyous holiday season. Or maybe your husband doesn't like smoothies. None of my business. Either way, you'll find that giving to something that makes you feel only good or happy usually can reap better rewards -- than giving to something you feel obligated to give or where you really don't care so much about the goal or process and the ins and outs of what happens with what you gave.
Personally I like ripping off department stores and any sucker who wants his shit to get took. And that's how you have to look at the world. Oppurtunistically. Every person you meet is an oppurtunity for gain. You learn to keep your eyes, ears and senses for anything that can help you in gain! Is there any other way to be that does not cause pain in all its sickening capacities? You see them all the time, they wear their hearts on their sleeves; take 'em down. They like it and would do the same to you if given the oppurtunity make no mistake.
It is a metaphysical high and I'm not bucking any spiritual laws in the process of short cons. I set the goal first, I'm giving of my thought and time when I'm thinking up ways to get free DvD players to sell - or other kinds of shit, and I take my mark down with respect to caution. I got what I want, I got what I got. Can you get caught and do some time for the short con? Not typically. You'd have to be a really fucking retarded person for getting pinched as a result of receipt laundering, but I covered myself earlier by stating that these laws of give and take generally only apply to people with semi-sound mind and body. Then again, maybe your karma wants you to be in an institution.
Am I giving Reagan Youth more than credit for his survival tips? No, I'm not. Working the short con can be lucrative, get you organized, and out of your fucking self-mutilative pity. Do I have all this shit figured out myself? Fuck no. I wouldn't be here posting this shit if I did trying to reiterate and solidify my own shit right here.
What was suggested simply makes sense in a very subtle and practical manner if read from the housewife and the shortcon and seen with the formula in both manners of survival they are the same. The pattern is already recognized and shit once we organize it or vice versa; but sometimes outdated dogma must first be removed in order to recognize formulas. It's fact that females gernally tend to be more relinquishing and cautious, about taking risks with any capital, than males.
In America (I say America since this is where I am right now) these roles: housewife and breadwinner, survivalist and metaphysical philosophist, are no longer bound by any perceptions or barriers other than what is in our own minds to make up as we see fit and they don't apply to anything other than what you put them to. These names like Con Artist or Frigid Homemaker don't apply to any pre existing altruism except the one where you try to make people feel like they are not as good as you are or that what they do is not as equal to you. Other similar names are as follows: Jew, Nigger, Faggot, I am positive you know some other names to add to this list for people you want to put below you in your schemes. Yeah, my False Appeal to Nationalism and fallacies about America is one sorry method. But I can still use it to further get you to see that we actually do live in a capitalist 'winner takes all' society where the average (mean and median) independent business owner is of middle or higher income in the millions of dollars (fact) by knowing some simple plans they can follow continually.
These aren't skill sets you can find in a Twelve Step Program or from a church either. They come from a deeper desire to want to take care of the one thing and one person that has the most meaning forever in my life on the street, in the house, in the park, after dark, uptown, downtown, outta town, infinite.
ME, motherfucker. ME!
Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me.
All through the day: I, me, mine, I, me, mine, I, me, mine. - Beatles.
