16/ But after all it is not only the tripod that adds a sacral element to this story. It’s the precious metals themselves.
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25/ I’d love to develop these thoughts further. What do you think:
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It's an interesting take, but the main useful observation seems to be the same as that of chartalism -- big creditors (even if what is "owed" is a moral rather than legal obligation) have a disproportionate say in what gets considered money.
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Because big creditors have a disproportionate say in what gets considered to be money, chartalist interpretations of money were considered rather fresh and sober by many scholars, back when George F. Knapp introduced the statist view. Even among people like Max Weber...
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As for sacral properties of silver & gold, because they had the best monetary properties (including minimized chemical degradation), they became, long predating coinage, the main media of wealth transfer. Among Greeks tripods of precious metal were donated by monarchs to temples.
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"Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests.. And I weighed out to them the silver & the gold & the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king [etc.] had offered; I weighed out into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver..." (Ezra 8:24–27)
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What we would consider secular contractual & legal obligations were also considered sacred in many ancient cultures. Unsurprising that gold & silver which were the best ways to satisfy these obligations would after centuries to millennia come to be imbued with sacred properties.
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An offering is always given with the understanding that the recipient is the ultimate arbiter of judgment regarding the value of the gift. This "imbalance" is the natural selection half of entropy/evolution, and it's what continuously moves reality forward in time.
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The only thing that's causing problems with the gifts that humans sometimes try to offer, is that we're not offering them out of love, or the need to get rid of them (freeing us up to be our more unburdened selves), but out of fear. And we all know what fear leads to!
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