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Forum Post: Revert to Wampum as our National Currency!!

Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 1, 2011, 5:04 p.m. EST by unitedwe (78)
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Now! Who's with me????

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[-] 1 points by juco (77) 13 years ago

Wampum and peace pipes!!!!!!!

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[-] 1 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Trade all of your wampun on January 1st!!!!!!

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[-] 1 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Let's get this project going!!!!!!

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[-] 1 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Wampum ATMs all over the place!!!!

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[-] 1 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Let's at least practice what we preach or we run the risk of looking like fools!

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[-] 1 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Amalgamated is like all the rest!

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[-] 1 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Wampum NOW!! Then we don't need ANY bank! Don't you guys get it?? Some here do.

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[-] 1 points by tumbleweed (36) from Bayonne, NJ 13 years ago

Wampum we call "more than money". Historically, wampums are made from abalone shells and it takes hundreds of hours of work to cut them and drill them and shave them down to these tiny little cylindrical beads. And then they are assembled into belts that tell a specific story of a specific event in time. And this always involves a treaty or a promise. So the wampum is valuable in it's own right but when assembled it becomes "more than money". Some of the stories even describe supernatural beings like Spider Woman as trading in wampums so this is like a transcendental currency to us.

So we kind of like this idea.

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[-] 1 points by tumbleweed (36) from Bayonne, NJ 13 years ago

As a part-native i fully support this idea but this might be just because I happen to own some of our wampums so that basically means I'm rich in the new Wampum economy.

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[-] 0 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Look, Chief Troller, you leave here now...

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[-] 1 points by tumbleweed (36) from Bayonne, NJ 13 years ago

wanna fight?

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[-] 1 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Ha. No, thanks. I actually thought that you were joking about wampum. I had NO idea that it was still even in existence! But you subsequently posted the "more than money" info and I realized that you actually have experience with this and it is very cool. And you would definitely be the Bill Gates of the new economy if that became the currency.

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[-] 1 points by Redmist (212) from Yazd, Yazd 13 years ago

I have hundreds of old trade beads my GG granfather took off of dead injuns, I will be in the 1% if we use Wampum.

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[-] 2 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Die, Wampum Pig!!!

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[-] 1 points by ValerieSolanasAKAHippieChick (29) 13 years ago

S.C.U.M. approves this message.

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[-] 1 points by Redmist (212) from Yazd, Yazd 13 years ago

LoL Well I was rich for 7 minutes till that idea fucking died.

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[-] 1 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Never give up the fight!!!

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[-] 0 points by RichardGates (1529) 13 years ago

There Is a War Going On For Your Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP5yA3RwzOk

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[-] 1 points by unitedwe (78) 13 years ago

Wam-pum! Wam-pum! Wam-pum! Come on, people!!

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[-] 1 points by Someguyfromwis (41) 13 years ago

I couldn't help but laugh when I read this.

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[-] 1 points by juco (77) 13 years ago

Wampum, NOW!!!!

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[-] 1 points by bigbangbilly (594) 13 years ago

But first test it out in OWS to get the homeless to protest with us. Also a fail safe that destroy the value of it if it is being hoarded. The Wampum can be used to "buy" food @ OWS.

This should not cancel out all technological innovations.

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[-] 1 points by DouginJax (40) 13 years ago

Stupid opposition. Playing games.

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[-] 1 points by RichardGates (1529) 13 years ago

omg i almost fell out of my chair lmfao!

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