Beware The Underlying Contract!

What is that?

For the benefit of a younger generation which grew up with copy machines and scanners, I'll explain a bit. In the old days they didn't have those modern machines to make copies. What they did have was something called "carbon paper" which when pressure was applied to it some of the coating on the paper applied to the surface below. So When signing a contract, a carbon paper was inserted between the contract and another copy of the contract. Thus when signing the contract, the signer also signed via carbon paper the other copy of the contract (which was also derived via carbon copy). Thus the term "carbon copy." The carbon copied carbon signed contract was the "underlying contract." A carbon copy of a contract was considered a legal copy.

A contract can also be described as an agreement. An agreed upon and signed compromise can also be a contract.

The problem was that in the old days, unscrupulous men would place an entirely different contract under the one you were signing with the signature space directly below the one you were signing. If you didn't actually read the underlying contract you would be signing your agreement to the underlying and different contract as well. Many people in the real old days lost their homes and lands by signing a contract for an easement through their property, etc that had an underlying contract giving the other person your property. That's all illegal now but in a modern sense the lawyer for the person you are dealing with today has likely written the 20-30 pages of a contract in his clients favor with a few tidbits for you in case you actually read the thing... How many people have actually read all their mortgage documents or their rental contract?

The reason most people fell for that type of scheme to swindle them was A: They were incapable of reading the contract. B: They were ignorant of the fact that someone was that unscrupulous or C: the other person managed to gain their trust enough that they didn't bother to check the underlying contract.

Here's another example of a type of a different kind of "underlying contract" placed under the one someone is in effect signing. A young chaste woman is asked by a handsome young man if she would like to go out to dinner on a date. He seems like a nice respectable young man so she says yes. In effect she is signing a contract to go to dinner on a date. Altogether too often, the young man has other ideas of where he would like to go with this "date." He has an underlying contract. All he needs is for the young lady to "sign" the obvious contract by saying yes and agreeing that he will pick her up in his car. (Thus giving him tremendous power over where they go after their dinner.) Being on his best behaviour thus obviously engaging in the original contract, he asks her if she would like to go to a place in his car to check out the city lights. He seems trustworthy. She can't imagine such a nice young gentleman would be anything but. So she says yes. When they get there the lights are beautiful but nothing else that happens that night after that is. The young man's "underlying contract" with her is fulfilled to his satisfaction...

So what am I getting at with all this? Well it's sort of a parable if you will. We live in a world full of agendas. Most of them present themselves to us as "respectable" causes that somehow we find ourselves trusting are right. Many of us are ultimately signing on to these agendas like we would sign onto a contract at it's face value. Most if not all of these agendas have underlying contracts that if we knew the real terms of what we are unknowingly agreeing to, we would never sign off on them.

We need to recognize this concept of "underlying contracts" and very carefully inspect the social engineering contracts, agreements and compromises we are signing onto in this day and age. What we think we are signing onto is NOT what we are going to get... In a way we are like a naive young lady agreeing to a nice respectable date with a guy who is an expert at manipulating someone naive into a position where he can rape her. If you think the symbology I used was harsh just hang around a while. You won't.

You cannot trust Deception no matter how seemingly respectable the cause he is hiding behind.

The only person I would ever trust in this day and age we live in is God. He lays it all out there in front of you. No hidden, underlying contracts. This is what He has done for us in Jesus. This is what we need to do. This is how we get there. This is where and how we will end up... And He is the best lawyer we will ever find to represent us in this maize of agendas, and underlying contracts...

Aloha!