LIVING Values, Not Just Talking About Them: Calling on the Steemit Community to Prove What Kind of World They Want to See

in #steemit8 years ago

We have mixed feelings about the reception of our last posts, as well as many of our other posts.

Because our resources are already dedicated to helping people, we will not take from them to finish our floor. We are running a specific campaign to finish our project. With what little funds we have raised from our posts on Steemit thus far, we're putting into feeding people every day. 

We created a sustainable masterpiece, and request upvotes from the Steemit community to help us finish our incredible floor. Each upvote generates resources that don't really cost any user anything, and with that we could transform the Steem raised into real, tangible, material goods to finish our project. 



We greatly appreciate the outpouring of support and encouragement in the comments of our post! Everyone is impressed with our project, and rightly so--EPIC is an understatement for what we've accomplished.

While we've gotten numerous upvotes (and we give thanks for each and every one!), we have not yet raised the funds we will need to purchase sealant. 

This is discouraging when we see people calling each other names, or taking photos of their sushi dinners at fancy restaurants and raising thousands of dollars for such triviality, yet we are a sustainable community that achieves tangible success feeding, clothing, housing, and sheltering tens of thousands of people a year and our values of creating a better world and BEING the change goes unjustly compensated.

We are extremely devoted to our standards. Not only do we not pay rent, not only did we not turn on the air conditioner once throughout the Texas summer, but we've lived without a floor for close to a year. We never once paid someone to fix it because we simply do not spend the funds we have already promised to help others, and we're not about to do that now. We realize that Steemit is paying $20-30,000 a day in post payouts--all we need is 1% of that. Steemit is supporting people fighting, and an individual spending more on one meal in a restaurant than we have spent as a community in an entire year.

Again, this is about values.

Never ones to complain, we focus on solutions!

We want to bring quality content to Steemit, and we have been dedicated and consistent in doing so. We want to participate only in mutually beneficial exchanges. 

We do not feel entitled to anything, nor do we need support to do what we do, but we also do not want to waste our time developing  information that is not useful and helpful to this community. 

If the Steemit curators value fluffy content of fancy dinners, we would like to prove that we regularly provide GREAT food at a higher standard than restaurants. What we share creates a better, more sustainable world for ALL! We genuinely improve more lives by living our values, and we will continue to do so.

Here's more about our unique relationship with food.

This is a series of mouthgasmic recipes we share (all the food is FREE!):
FRIED OKRA   /   VEGGIE FRITTATA   /   CUCUMBER PARTY HATS   /   DOCK AND CORN CAKE TOWERS   /   FRESH HERBED PIZZA ON A CRISPY CORNY CRUST   /   CHEEZY WHIPPED CAULIFLOWER   /   FIREMAN 3 LAYER CAKE   /   JALAPEÑO OKRA CORNBREAD

And you can read this post about the FREE 5 course meal we catered for 100 people.

With that being said, today instead of finishing our floors, we're going to focus on our foundation and do what we do so well: we're going to feed more people. We have lived without a floor for almost a year, we can do it longer if need be. We are aware and committed to what is truly important. 

We have resources in great abundance, and it is our honor and duty and right to support our fellow man. No none of us get paid anything for this, no we use no government funding and no we have no sponsorship. We just work hard EVERY DAY. 



We've got the rocket stoves fired up and are preparing a feast to pack up and deliver to people in need.


It is illegal to do this where we are without complying with a series of costly regulations and restrictions. We are not ones that bend to systems we find dishonorable, so our act of compassion will also be one of civil disobedience. With or without support, we are changing the world and living uncompromising to our values. 

We hope the Steemit community is inspired by the revolution we are LIVING.


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I know it's frustrating, but if you were to share the tutorial on how you made the floor so far I'm sure you would get a lot closer to, if not smash your target of $300.
Keep up the great work I would donate if I could.

Thank you! We believe it will be a fantastic "How To" as well. We still need sealant to finish the project!

I Think It Is wonderful what You All Are Doing!

We appreciate your support!

I really do support you, and I share your values to a large extent. I have very little funds, though. So I `m sending a very small donation.

@gardenofeden isn't asking you to donate funds. Just use UPvotes that cost you nothing!
If the accounts on Steemit with the most SP were to UPvote this post it would be worth over $1,000 without ANYONE having to donate anything. Its that simple.
So the questions is do the people that control/run Steemit want to see more humanitarian, sustainable, operations of benefit for all or more posts of people name calling and eating at fancy restaurants?
The Upvotes PROVE the truth. Its up to each individual.

We appreciate your generosity, and thank you for the donation! We are, as @quinneaker points out, requesting only upvotes which are totally free for all users! We would love to see an extended community that gets real, tangible results for free for ALL!

I think what you're doing is amazing and wonderful. There should be more communities like yours, with people helping people, and doing the right thing. I admire you guys so much. You've got my upvote, and I've been following you here for a while (and will continue to do so).

I know that you didn´t request donations. I belive in donations however, and chose to donate, because my upvote counts for almost nothing, and as is quite plain, the people voting for you are mostly poor. 56 votes with some whales in there would be hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. You do have some generous people among the whales and dolphins,but not too many I´m afraid. But as your reputation grows, and your following increases, you will earn more. And you will put the money to good use.

I thought this was an amazing project to rally the community behind. There is a huge influx of anarchists on Steemit right now - those who constantly promote the free market and believe in charity work instead of government handouts. What better way to show that than by helping a humanitarian project for free (just minute to read the post and upvote).
I also shared your post in the @robinhoodwhale chat :D

Thank you so much @mscleverclocks, that is exactly the spirit behind our post! This is an opportunity to come together totally for free and support something of real substance. We are so grateful for your support!

You all are holding a beautiful manifestation of the kind of evolution we need more of in the world! <3 Very inspired!! If I ever make my way to your area, I will come and visit and I'd love to volunteer my time and energy!

SO grateful to inspire you!! Thank you!

Living by values is the only true way of living a life of honor. We can play around with distractions, creating arguments and paying attention to realities that don't support thrival but actually support the status quo-------or, we can hold ourselves accountable to living at a higher standard and build a community based on honor.

When we go to feed the homeless, we meet some of the most grateful people we have ever encountered. I doubt they know we are breaking the law by giving them nourishment, but they do know the system has failed them. Looking in their eyes and giving them our gifts, we too receive a grateful blessing.

The Garden of Eden community exists to show there is a better way. Not a swat raid, unjust laws, or support for the existing system has or will deter us. Within the hour we will be feeding hundreds. With, or without a floor.

Good job. Keep the bar high and keep 'em coming.

You might contact Nicholas Burtner of the http://schoolofpermaculture.com and share with him what you're doing. He loves to help folks and might want to get involved.

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