This is perhaps an unusual article for The Bone, for the fact that one of its main features is a piece of work created other than by the person who wrote it. There is however a good reason - it concerns a subject so simple that almost nobody on the street understands it, yet the majority of such people worship it with no idea of what it’s about. Forget Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Paganism, Judaism, Hinduism or in fact any other “ism”, it’s the biggest God the world has ever known (albeit a false god in the view of most other religions), and it comes by many Names - Finance, Economics, Capital, Profit, … You probably know it best as “Money”.

You may well be thinking at this point that this may be some kind of rant against the greedy aquisition of material wealth, but you’d be mistaken. It’s not: It’s quite the opposite. You see, Money has no value, and that’s not about spiritual value or how our souls could be clouded in darkness by it’s worship. It’s about the fact that Money… Continue reading

Some brief and lighthearted humour here.

Not long ago, in a deep and philosophical moment, I decided that I might like to have a Tshirt printed that said “Could somebody please point to Abroad on a map for me?”. Well, I just stumbled across a lovely little edition of the webcomic at XKCD.com entitled “Terminology”, which makes the point nicely (Gawd bless you America!)…

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