dank, there is absolutely nothing original about your ideas - including your idea that a whole generation should turn on and drop out - they were common in young adults 40 years ago. Just because an idea, a realisation or an experience is new to you doesn't mean it's never been thought of, realised or experienced by others in the past - I belong to the Age of Aquarius generation and I can assure you that you're saying nothing which wasn't said by the hippies of the 1960s and 1970s.
So where did they go wrong? At what point did they stop dropping out? How can we learn from their experience to make it really work this time? It wasn't really where they went wrong, it was more of it wasn't time for that change to incur. Love did not reach far enough, but this was known to have happened, even in the 60's. Not an inch of earth can hide from love, this year. |
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Families are people who know each other. You don't know someone halfway across the world, or even many of the people in the same city. Therefore, you do not care about them. Or most people won't, anyway. People need an emotional connection to others in order to care about them. Sometimes, that emotional connection is brought about through successful marketing campaigns (i.e., showing hungry children on a commercial so you'll donate), but in general, people only have that connection with others that they know.
The reality is all humans are equal, if we weren't caught up by our differences, we could display empathy equally. I disagree with you regarding technology. I do not believe what we have today could have happened without the incentive of profit. If you want to prove your case, show me the BEST technology that has come of people living in communal settings such as the one you describe.
I agree, what we have today could not have happened without greed, because that was our fate, there's no changing that. We can, however, work without incentive of profit and become extremely more efficient. If you're paying somebody to do a job they don't like, they aren't going to put their heart into it. If everyone followed their heart and did something they love, we would all be doing our best in the most free way possible. Angel, did not see the link. Rep, the earth is becoming (re)awakened, as we once were. The hippy revolution was a push of love from society, followed by a correcting shove from ego. Now that we have global communication, our consciousness is realizing we only need love to be happy. |
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And what relevance does that have with my post?
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You tell a girl with an ego you love her and you'll scare her off.
Dank, no, that's now how it works. People get scared when you tell them you love them suddenly because it reeks of mental instability, depression and desperation. No, girls (not all) are scared to love because they're scared of the negative feelings associated with heart break. It's fear, doubt, ego. Even if she was in love with you as you were in love with her, and you're relationship was so breathtakingly intimate, if that doubt sparks up and gains control, ego kills love. I'm talking from experience here. |
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Pharmaceuticals are horrible excuses for drugs compared to Mother nature. Weed cures all.
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Yeah, what you described is pretty much a family. Whether you are actually relatives with those people or not, you are living together and providing for each other as a family would. It works well on a small scale, but it doesn't work at all on a large scale.
Humans are a family. There is no reason it wouldn't work if everybody was on the same page. It could NOT have happened without currency, and without people looking after their own self-interests.
This is correct. It could not have happened any differently, for that is fate, but it can happen differently. Money is not what created technology, will did. And we do use coil and oil to generate electricity. Unless you have a hemp generator in your backyard, and you never use more electricity than you create, then you are destroying the environment by using electricity produced, in part, by coal. Also, even if your hemp generator doesn't appear to be destroying the environment when you use it by yourself, figure out what would happen if EVERYONE in the world had a hemp generator and used as much electricity as you do. Well, the world would be covered in whatever plant produces hemp in order to satisfy that need. Forests would be destroyed to make room for hemp growth, because there is surely not enough current arable land to produce enough hemp to power the whole world. In other words, you're helping to destroy the environment no matter which way you look at it. Unless you are harvesting hemp where it naturally grows, and not to the extent that it cannot regrow or it causes other wildlife to have to search for food elsewhere, then you are aiding in destroying the environment.
As I stated earlier, we can use 6% of the continental United States and produce enough hemp to power our entire country. It produces a negative carbon footprint due to it's growing cycle. btcANGEL, of course, gender is a human attribute, souls do not have genders. Coming in touch with our consciousness is something humans drastically need. |
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I didn't mean your ego in particular. Ego and love destroy each other, it's the basis of duality. You tell someone with an ego some spiritual shit, even if it's true, ego will not understand and reject it. You tell a girl with an ego you love her and you'll scare her off. It's has been the basis of earth life.
We all have the same knowledge about the universe within our consciousness, I have explored my consciousness more than others and I feel that I understand the universe more than others, not necessarily everyone. Anybody can have this understanding of the universe.
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The thing is, we are all brothers and sisters, why do we need any possession to trade rather than sharing our possessions?
Firstly because people would abuse it and secondly because appearing to be a good prospect for mating turns out to be something that gets selected for. Wouldn't you appear bad to a potential mate if all you cared about were material possessions? Shouldn't loving and sharing be a more attractive quality to a relationship, since love is the main ingredient to a relationship? SgtSpike, that's simply not true, humans have existed for thousands of years by caring for their selves. Is there not enough food? Grow some yourself. These things called regulations prevent us from caring for ourselves. Who actually dreams to play video games 24/7? I loaded up counter strike source, the other day, and it just wasn't the same. Most people grow out of these phases and find something they enjoy that also contributes to others. Of course computers could have been created without currency, do you have to feed your computer dollar bills to turn on? It's all metal. It took the push of a little bit of greed to get technology as far as it is, in today's society, but it could have happened without. Regarding electricity, that in no way destroys the environment, unless of course, we use coal and oil to generate electricity rather than clean, renewable, hemp biodiesel. Technology is very much possible without money, if you enjoy technology, you can work on it to further develop it, with like minded humans. |
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People that enjoy building housing? If people weren't paid to do stuff they don't like, and had freedom to choose, they would be able to do what makes them happy. Everyone is a good person, deep down. Everyone wants to contribute to society, people just need to find their destiny. Edit: 1420th post.  The people that enjoyed building houses would live in palaces while many would live in mud shacks. Money allows for specialization which in turn leads to efficiency gains. The real tragedy of the modern system is that human productivity has increased by more than an order of magnitude with industrialization and computerization but we appear to be devoting a greater proportion of our lives to working than ever (those of us that work). I think you'll find that the people who lived in palaces used fear and force to make people build it for them. How many kings built their castle their self? Also, you can't go and build a mud shack yourself nowadays, in the US anyways. How many people that work are benefiting society, earth, by doing so? Most jobs consist of the destruction of our resources. |
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Nature is an equilibrium of everything. If people want new roads to drive on, they'll build them. Nothing about singing in a bar (unless it's a hookah bar!) or being a critic sounds appealing to me, for example.
I would further argue that "nature" has created money as part of the "equilibrium". If people want work to be traded between them fairly, they'll create currency. Well guess what, they did. Might as well say nature created factories, if you're going by that perspective. The thing is, we are all brothers and sisters, why do we need any possession to trade rather than sharing our possessions? And is it really fair if the top class prints the money their self? |
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I'm sure there would be a whole forum dedicated to infrastructure constriction.
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I've never taken pharmaceuticals and I don't intend to.
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Nature is an equilibrium of everything. If people want new roads to drive on, they'll build them. Nothing about singing in a bar (unless it's a hookah bar!) or being a critic sounds appealing to me, for example.
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 for someone who strives to spread love your not very good at it dank, thanks for the insightful answer wise one. annnnnd thought as much. You're asking for evidence for a spiritual concept. Again, not everything has evidence. Spirituality can only be learned by you, I can write a novel on the workings of the universe, your ego will block it out as 'strange logic' and you won't learn anything from it. You have to want to understand these concepts, and when you try to form a better understanding, you don't ask for evidence, you ask why? |
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The US grows enough food to feed the whole planet, starvation occurs when the price of food is artificially inflated by regulatory systems.
The US also has the capability of being independent from crude oil and relying solely on hemp based biodiesel fuel, if 6% of continental land was allocated to hemp farms.
Which is absolutely irrelevant to your assertion that people should do only the work they wish to do and which makes them happy. You're presuming that enough people will want to work in providing essential infrastructure to provide for the needs of those who want to work in other fields. You're completely overlooking the fact that many people who work at providing infrastructure do so only out of economic necessity, not because it makes them happy. Put more simply, if all of us choose to sit around indulging our creative side, who is going to provide us with housing and food in return for our artistic efforts? People that enjoy building housing? If people weren't paid to do stuff they don't like, and had freedom to choose, they would be able to do what makes them happy. Everyone is a good person, deep down. Everyone wants to contribute to society, people just need to find their destiny. Edit: 1420th post. |
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The US grows enough food to feed the whole planet, starvation occurs when the price of food is artificially inflated by regulatory systems.
The US also has the capability of being independent from crude oil and relying solely on hemp based biodiesel fuel, if 6% of continental land was allocated to hemp farms.
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No, money is possession, it is the opposite of sharing. People will learn that giving feels good and is part of being happy.
So if a woman has possession of her body and refuses to have sex with men constantly, she's being a selfish bitch? You still get to choose what you want to give. |
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The evidence is within your mind, it's up to you to find it like I have.
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No, money is possession, it is the opposite of sharing. People will learn that giving feels good and is part of being happy.
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