You meant to say psychological desire for gratification, right? Physical needs are only those biological ones. |
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You meant to say psychological desire for gratification, right? Physical needs are only those biological ones. |
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Come on! What if Martin Luther King said: "I kinda have a dream... nah, I don't wanna talk about it."
I think it's a little of both. It would be nice to have nicer things than I do now, but I'd also like something to work for. |
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198.726% of people will not realize that this percentage is impossible given what we are measuring. If you enjoy eating Monterey Jack cheese, put this in your sig and add 3^4i to the percentage listed.
The story of stuff does a good job explaining how our present consumerism was designed, and forced on top of us without us knowing it |
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I second this, The Story of Stuff is great! |
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I very much do want to be rich when I'm older. Mainly because I won't have to worry about anything financial, I could help a lot of people and I could live out my fantasies(crazy massive house and flying car) |
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LD Goals:
Fly
Destroy a house without using superpowers
Learn to swim(I can't in real life)
Unicycle(I can in real life)
Visit A Fantasy Land
Become invisible
Art
The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
Dream Journal Shaman Apprentice Chronicles
The point was that through thought experiment we can deduce that the purpose of labour is not the result of labour but rather labour itself. |
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By the way, Carou, have you ever read about the Unabomber, or the Unabomber manifesto? |
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I understand your point, but I think Luanne's response was a rather simple way to make the point that there are plenty of people who don't need to do meaningless work for someone else in order to validate their own existence. Some people will always find something worthwhile to do, especially if they don't also have to do something meaningless in order to survive. I took you saying "what would you do if you could do anything" as a way to point out that most people given the opportunity wouldn't know what to do and would end up doing nothing, which I don't believe is the case. |
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Art
The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
Dream Journal Shaman Apprentice Chronicles
Thank you, Xaqaria. You got it. |
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Come on! What if Martin Luther King said: "I kinda have a dream... nah, I don't wanna talk about it."
Sorry, I didn't mean to trivialise it. I'll respond properly in a bit. I'd suggest though that this is exactly what the thread is about; my opinion on the answers to his questions, anyway. |
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Well our modern free-market based societies are all based on materialism. It forces us to become and stay materialistic. Surely our societies are modelled after our desires. |
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Luminous Spacious Dream Masters That Holographically Communicate
among other teachers taught me
not to overestimate the Value of our Concrete Knowledge;"Common sense"/Rationality,
for doing so would make us Blind for the unimaginable, unparalleled Capacity of and Wisdom contained within our Felt Knowledge;Subconscious Intuition.
What luanne said was missing the point that Xei was trying to get across to here. It wasn't relevant to what he was saying. In that sense she missed his point. |
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Wow... it's like a feeding frenzy in here!! |
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Yeah, that's exactly what I was saying (when I was evidently trying to impress the troll |
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Come on! What if Martin Luther King said: "I kinda have a dream... nah, I don't wanna talk about it."
To assume such a thing that would imply I have an interest in you. I assure you, that is not the case. But, to answer your question: |
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