Jewelry is stupid. Metals are useful materials that we should make the most of. That's my view.

Enforced scarcity is what gives them value I think.

Which is why those that have them, tend to hoard them.

Supposedly, Indian households have 11% of the world's gold reserves tucked away, much of it as jewelry. I doubt we're ever going back to a gold standard, but I wonder what effect this gold hoarding would have should the global economy have some sort of a major shift.

See also: "Indian Women hold more gold than the US Government".

I love silver, Sterling. I wear a hand made sterling silver necklace from India, and a hand made sterling silver ring from Ireland. The only jewelry that I feel has "spoken" to me.

I find gold pretentious and gawdy as an ornament, I see it as it is meant to distract onlookers. Silver not so much.

I do not believe in precious stones as more than what they are, beautiful to look at with some more than others.

I do have quite a few stones from obsidion to tigers eye to turquoise, rose quartz and jade. And an amethyst geode. Shits pretty to look at.

I think I might turn the geode in to a paraphernalia apparatus. Now THAT would be beautiful.

I've been collecting rocks since I was a kid. I have a fuck ton, my fave being a small jade disc.

Same.

The first rock I found that interested me was a huge, at least softball size, Amber. Like straight out of Jurassic Park. I was mesmerized. I let it be known and it was "confiscated". I was crushed, but had an ever longing gaze for a beautiful stone. My favorite now is a blue agate; about a third of it quartz, deep blue ridging I found and had polished. When I used to play poker it was my card protector. No ones allowed to touch it.

Who took it? Also, they are bastards.

As soon as I could walk I would "Adopt" pretty stones. I found a huge amethyst in my back garden and my mind was blown. My mind was further blown when I discovered fossils and spent many hours with my geologists hammer.

Whoever stole your amber is a bastard.

Me, too! I collect all kinds, my mother just had a house built.. and in the granite fill, garnets. Not worth much... But they're everywhere. And pretty.

I wear an amethyst stone on a necklace since I'm woke AF. But really I think its just voodoo magic.

I wear a silicone wedding band. Wayyyyyyyy more confortable, hell of a lot cheaper too. $20

A mason once told me metal is toxic and real masons don't wear any or even have car keys

metal is toxic? Metal isn't even a thing, it's a (VERY large) group of elements.

I think there's something to it

Take a Kleenex and grab a quarter then smell ur finger then do it without a Kleenex and smell your finger

Now look at that same finger you just cleaned, that hard thing in the middle? Bones are metal

Lol

Gold enhances the functioning of the upper chakras (third eye, throat and heart) and silver activates the root chakra and possibly the other two lower chakras. The gold should be pure or 22k to be able to feel it. Only a gram or two is needed to feel the effects, but the more the merrier. Cannabis and yoga make the affects of gold of silver even stronger.

Do some yoga, smoke some pot, and put a small gold coin or gold bar (you can get 2.5 gram gold bars on eBay for about $125) and you should be able to feel it. Do it on a full moon and eat some strong edibles and you will really feel it. Meditate while lying down in the dark with gold on your third eye, throats chakra and heart chakra and you will be unfit a treat.

There is a reason why Indians horde gold in their temples and homes, and it's not because it's pretty to look at.

Gold captures the essence of stars when they die and explode into the universe. Silver has some connection to the moon, but I'm not sure of the mechanics of how it works.

Gold is pretty, but it has never agreed with my chakras.

Sadhguru discussed his wife's passing, and mentioned how the metal also holds your consiousness in place. It acts like a small anchor for the soul or something.

Gold and silver are more powerful than we realize. The Egyptians, I believe, had an understanding of how it works, so you might want to scan Egyptology books for some clues.

I doubt I would find the necessary information in books available to the public. Michael Tellinger will probably figure it out soon, actually. His work is all over this topic.

Google conflict minerals. Thats why i dont wear jewelery.

Do some research on diamonds, and how one family controls the world's supply and artificially inflates the price and you will know why I will have nothing to do with them.

I don't wear jewelry. Jewelry is for women.

Pfft

So many people would disagree with that.

So many people would disagree with that.

The programming runs deep. I had to see someone get degloved to break me out of the spell.

So... only women should risk accidents like that? I’m not sure what your reasoning is. Nobody should wear shit like that around stuff that could latch on.

Can't even reason with this guy. Oh my God we agree on something for once.

It’s always nice when that happens, isn’t it?

Absolutely.

I don't try to tell women what to do. But they probably should stop wearing jewelry as well.

I mean...

Why?

The whole aspect of materialism I can agree with but I just don’t see that being something that stops. You can be the most utilitarian person out there but you’ll still value some of your “stuff”, whatever it is.

I like my stuff. I just don't want that stuff attached to me. I am not my stuff and my stuff is not me. I don't think my stuff makes me a better person and I don't want to be identified by stuff either.

I mean, that’s fair, but I still don’t get why “jewelry is for women”.

You try telling a woman that jewelry is rip off and that she is wonderful without it. Results will vary, but I would bet that most would come down on the very pro-jewelry side.

So would a lot of men though.