The Devil In The Diamond

People will and have killed for diamonds, and I don’t know why. Sure they are valuable, and so are a lot of other things for which people will and have killed, but diamonds are in a special class, all by themselves, more so arguably even than gold. And far far too long diamond merchants in Europe have turned a blind eye to the lengths that some people will go to control areas that are noted reservoirs of diamonds. I understand their value as an investment, they retain their value regardless of the state of any economy of any part of the world, or the entirety of it. Or that’s the theory anyway. It sounds like a lot of hogwash to me, in a way, but in a way it makes sense. If the world economy collapsed tomorrow, then the more diamonds you have the more likely you are to be able to purchase the necessary means of survival. Everybody would accept your diamonds as payment, knowing they would be just as good once the economy was restored, or reestablished, as they were when they were first purchased. Of course, the downside that is rarely mentioned is that you are also a mark, and you might not really be able to trust your broker in such an unprecedented situation. So you may not be so much better off after all. Therefore, the security that diamonds supposedly bring might be as much of a myth as the permanance promised by the gift of a diamond to a bride to be in the form of a engagement ring. The devil is in the details, and it might well be in the diamon as well. They have a bloody history, a history of repession, murder, intrique, and wanton savagery. All based on greed. The romance attached to them is an irony, an insulting one to the people that have toiled in slavery due to the lust for them, to the peope that have been butchered for them.

Misery, murder,despair,greed, and mayhem are kinds of energies that,when sent out and absorbed can do little in the way of good, and remember, diamonds absorb energy, but very little of that energy escapes. So in a way, wearnig a diamond might well be tantamount to attracting into your life the energy of all the negativity diamonds have inspired. No wonder so many marriages are dismal failures. No wonder so many of those failures are due to lack of communication because of self-centeredness and ego-or from financial problems. At the very least, buying a diamond is contributing to the problems and sufferrings of untold numbers of innocent victims.

Personally, I prefer sapphies anyway,or rubies, or any number of other precous stones. They can be just as valuable as an investment, and for romance and marriage. They are tainted as well, in some respects, but their history is nowhere near as dismal as that of the diamond,regardless of the hype pushed by it’s self serving promotors.