Humpty Dumpty talks prosperity

Double-Talk

“There’s glory for you!”
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said.
“I meant, there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”
‘But‘glory’ doesn’t mean‘there’s a nice knock-down argument”, Alice objected.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

So, while at the Spiritual Rights Foundation my world went upside down. And by upside down, I do not mean a knock-down argument. I mean the familiar words and phrases I and likely you grew up with were re-defined, their old meaning washed away.

Prosperity is a word thrown around a lot at the Spiritual Rights Foundation. Everyone there desires it, as we all do. Everyone there strives for it, as we all do. But SRF's definition of prosperity is unlike anything I had heard of before.

Has anyone heard that the definition of prosperity is "getting what you need when you need it"? I haven't either. At least, not until I got hooked up with SRF.

I grew up in an upper-middle class family in an upper-middle class suburban neighborhood. Over the years, my parents accumulated two nice homes, a substantial investment portfolio, luxury cars, and an interest in a commercial property leased by FedEx. Vacations were taken at least twice a year to places like Europe, Asia, Las Vegas, the Gulf of Mexico for Marlin fishing, Victoria Canada for tea at the Empress Hotel. Not too bad for a couple of kids who lost everything after WWII.

I had a hard time reconciling my knowledge of prosperity with the new definition.

But that was Bill's definition.

None of the things I was familiar with meant anything when it came to prosperity. In fact, Bill frequently said I grew up as a "yuppie puppy" and that my knowledge of prosperity was zero. That my experience with prosperity was exactly none. That I needed him to find the way to real prosperity. And of course, that the only definition of prosperity that really mattered was "you get what you need when you need it".

So, Bill Gates got all that money exactly at the time he needed to drop 20 billlion or so to get those things out of layaway at K-Mart? Or maybe he hocked his watch and needed a couple billion so he can turn in the ticket.

Looking back, that was an absurd definition of prosperity. That I accepted it was even more absurd given my background.

Were there any other absurdities at SRF? If you know of any others, please leave a comment. It can be a huge page.