Breaking the Bank-Credit Card Chains.

 

Recently we received a unexpected large (to us) charge via PayPal on a software service we had  canceled  several years ago. To make a long story short, we could not get our money back. 

At about the same time looking at crypto currency articles. Facebook flooded me with ads.

I had been wanting to get a prepaid Visa debit card. For use online at sites I did not trust. With today's level of big companies being hacked, that should be everybody.

Also had looked at getting an internet only bank a few years ago but could not find a match for me.

Well things all came together.

Coinbase.com was giving $5.00 in bitcoin to open a free Wallet/account. Well having no money to invest but wanting too and also learn, this was hit. Tbey in all gave me about $25.00 in different crypto tokens. They also got hacked.

While I did not have to give coinbase a bank accout or credit card to set my self up. Of course they keep pushing for one.

So here is the deal I wanted. A Debit Card that never had seen any link to our bank account or other credit cards. That I could add cash to locally and easily.  No fees,  money never expires if not used.

Along comes an ad for a phone app debit card, no fees, can ad cash to it at many name brand stores (stores to charge a fee when doing this. $4.95 at Wagreens today.

Card/app I picked was Passbook by Remeny. They are pushing this card for people without a US citizenship and SSN. And for overseas money transfers. After a lot of googling, I went for it.

Love it, you get message right away on any card activity,  customer service is very responsive and fast. You can disable and enable card by phone app at any time.

So I put $20.00 on it at Walgrees today. Yes it cost me $4.95 fee to Walgreens,  fee would have been the same had I put a few hundred dollars on it.  Which I did  not have.

Gave coinbase the Card, they put two charges on card and ask me to te them the amounts, to verify it as right account.

Passbook messaged me the charges in almost real time.

It took several hours for Coinbase to remove charges.  When that was done, I turned off card. And we leave it off till need it again.

The Chain is fully broken. 

Who is a Druid?

My position has always been its the right of every Order, Grove, Church, Temple,
or School to issue titles as they see fit. It is also the right of anyone to use wear what Titles, Robes, Chains and Badges of Rank or Honor, nor belonging to an Order, Grove, Church, Temple, or School as they see fit. It is my and anyone's rights to put a value or not on them, both in Public and Private.
You may notice, I will at times address someone as a Druii, Druid, or Druidess or other common ranks of Druidism, in Public, showing that I feel they deserve this Honor and respect from me.

Our Main Druidic group on Facebook:

Some thoughts of mine:

The Druid's Rede:

What is Techno-Druidism:

Techno-Druidism:

Am I Druid?

What is Druid Today?

What does it mean to you to be a Druid of today?

The ABC's of Druidism:

Druid's order of training:

Of Prophets and Druid's Robes:

Of Bells and Druids:

Your Druidic Vestments:

What is a Pagan? A Druid's View:

Our Sister  Groups Pages and Blogs: 

A Druid's Definition of Death

Dean's Garden Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland

Death: 

The point where the Mortal-Coil unwinds and the Soul-Coil rewinds.

Remember Always.

Life before Life, Life after Life.

Death only Hurts the Living.

A small Crain's Bag to help on the Hard Road.

TDK

R: Major Arts Studied by the Tuatha Dé Danann from Cath Maige Tuired (CMT):

By  Druii - Searles O'Dubhain

Even the gods studied to be Druids

Major Arts Studied by the Tuatha Dé Danann from Cath Maige Tuired (CMT):

Foglaim feasa – occult lore
Fithasachta – sorcery
Druidechtai – druidic arts
Amaidechtai – witchcraft
Amainsechtai – magical skill
Cerd ngenntlichtae – pagan arts

Major Arts Studied by the Tuatha Dé Danann from Lebor Gabála (LGE, Section VII):

Druidechta – Druidry
Fessa – knowledge
Fástini - prophecy
Amainsechtai – magic
Cerdaib Suithe Gentliuchta – arts of pagan cunning

These arts and skills are grouped as the major categories of Druidecht (druidry) and Diabal-dan (demonic arts) in poem LXII of Lebor Gabála. Keating calls these wizardry, Druid rites and Devilcraft in his History of Ireland.

The four teachers of the Tuatha Dé Danann are Morfesa, Esras, Uiscias and Semias. They are called wizards (druids) and poets (filid) in the text and are said to teach occult lore (fios) and secret knowledge (éolas). In Lebor Gabála (poem LXII) they are called Sages (sair-leasa) and Poets (filid).

There is much to learn from the little that has been presented here. I hope that those who are reading this discover that which is hidden within each person so that it can change the world.

The Three Sides of a Druid's Question.

It is well accepted that the Druids and Celts were all
for framing everything it sets of three.
So when a Druid ask a question, it should not be a surprise
 that they seek three different answers.


Side One:
The Common, Practical, Physical, Physiological, and Sociological side, the realm of the Brehon.  Where the answers may be weighted and tallied.  Yet it may also have a Religious aspect and or other Occultations.

Side Two:
The Philosophical side, realms of the Bard, Mind, and Awen. Yet it may also have a Religious aspect and or other Occultations.

Side Three:
The Metaphysical side, realms of the Vatis or Ovate, Seer, Psychic and Prophet.
 Here Summerlands, the Astral, Conjure and Draíocht, twist and bend the Natural Laws like Mist twisting in the Sunshine.
Yet it may also have a Religious aspect and or other Occultations.


Our Discussion Lexicon.


Biological:
Relating to biology or living organisms.

Conjure:
Call upon (a spirit or ghost) to appear, by means of a magic ritual.
Implore or without physical efforts force, someone to do something.

Draíocht:
One of the three primary arts, the word is used to refer to what we would now call "magick" (in both the simple and the ritual sense). It means "the use of powers to effect ends." Spell-casting, the use of evocations and invocations, the practice of chanting, circle dancing (intended to bring about a particular end) and other arts are all considered disciplines of draíocht.

Metaphysical:
Transcending physical matter or the laws of nature.
Synonyms: transcendental, spiritual, supernatural, paranormal

Occultation:
The state of being hidden from view or lost to notice.

Philosophical:
Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.

Physical:
Having material existence: perceptible especially through the senses and subject to the laws of nature.

Physiological:
Relating to the branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of living organisms and their parts.

Religious:
Relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate set of realities or deities.
A religious person religious attitudes or religious beliefs or observances of a chosen religious order.

Sociological:
Concerning the development, structure, and functioning of human society.

Conjure: "The Witches Flower" Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense)

From my yard.

I keep a small supply for various Conjure usages. Certain people (myself included)  are not allergic to its touch or scratches from its very sharp thorns and as all parts are Poisonous to Humans, I have Renamed it "The Witches Flower" And Like Witchcraft it is very hard to uproot and goes deep underground to survive.
TDK

>>Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense), a poisonous member of the nightshade family, is one of the most difficult weeds to eradicate since it resists most attempts at control. Tilling the soil only makes it worse because it brings seeds to the surface where they can germinate. Flame weeding doesn’t kill the weed either because the penetrating roots reach depths of 10 feet or more, where they survive after the tops are burned away.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/get-rid-of-horsenettle-weeds.htm

Is a poisonous member of the nightshade family, 

Read more at Gardening Know How: Horsenettle Control – How To Get Rid Of Horsenettle Weeds https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/get-rid-of-horsenettle-weeds.htm

Toxicity:

All parts of the plant, including its tomato-like fruit, are poisonous to varying degrees due to the presence of solanine glycoalkaloids which is a toxic alkaloid and one of the plant's natural defenses. While ingesting any part of the plant can cause fever, headache, scratchy throat, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, ingesting the fruit can cause abdominal pain, circulatory and respiratory depression, or even death.

Ref. Georgetown University Medical Center : Horse Nettle.
Retrieved 2013-JUN-25

The Three Levels of the Mind.

My own Model of the Brain/Mind Levels of Consciousness is a Three Level. Excluding the " limbic or Reptile" brain.

Conscious, Subconscious and Superconscious being an Ultra Wide Band Reciever/Transmitter that tunes across Space, Time, and the Dimensions, including Spirit, Summerlands or Astral Plains or Death/Birth Barriers. For most nonconsciously psychic humans there is little to no awareness of the Superconscious Mind and if there were it would completely overload them. Like being in the presence of an ultra bright and ultra loud wideband random noise source. So through Dreams, Intuition, Awen, Gut Feeling, etc. The Subconscious mind feeds data and desires back and forth via these difficult channels and highly filtered by our Consciousmind's belief systems.
While the good psychic can often get a much clearer channel to what is often called the Akashic Records or Astral Realms. TDK

Copyright George King June 16, 2017.

TDK