Who believes in this man anymore, whom first we applauded for his dreams?
He took the world's money and promised us Mars, but he has turned out to be nothing but another tin duke.
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He took the world's money and promised us Mars, but he has turned out to be nothing but another tin duke.
Some people believe that the work of love is the most worthwhile work and that nothing else has any ultimate meaning. However, acting such a belief out in the world is considered unrealistic, insane.
Then how can the world become happy?
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People can only work together towards the same goals once they share the same values.
Some people sit on a beach with a friend. They gather simple food and make a fire, and that's all they want. "This is enough for me!" they say.
Some people feel that they need "things". Cars, drugs, hot life in the laser-bright light and more and more sensation. "I'll never have enough!" they say.
Some people love one another and love the Creator; some believe in the reality of life after death.
Until all people believe in the same good, how can they be on the same team?
Your business can be no better than your service, in the long run, and your service will only suit a very few people, so I think your opportunities to make money are likely to be few.
As far as I know, the value of a business is ultimately decided by the service which it gives to its customers. This suggests a long-term strategy of service before profit.
There have always been a few companies running the "service" strategy, not necessarily on the internet. Such a company that I knew of as a child was New Zealand's L.V. Martin, which promised complete satisfaction or the company would put everything right. This policy was implemented according to an almost fundamentalist interpretation; I never heard of even the most unreasonable person feeling that L V Martin had cheated them .. it was hard to believe that the company made money! Yet this company did make money.
I should think that the employment of a huge team of moderators (absolutely NOT an AI), to personally examine every post with a view to keeping things sane, might be a good way to provide a service that people would want. That sounds expensive but it's the only way to go, mister! Anything else is death!
I'm not seeing much in it for me... perhaps I'm missing something.
Wealth is sufficiency, plus some luxury. People have become used to the idea that tomorrow will always bring an incremental improvement or increase in that luxury. People now believe that a constantly improving "standard of living" will make them happy.
At school I was taught that people need food, water, shelter, clothing, and each other. All else is luxury. We're very good at the first 4 of these items, but it's the 5th item on the list of needs that gives us trouble.
The real needs we fail to address, which keep us from being a happy society, lie in the sphere of interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships.
The need for more is an illusion.
I take photos of my completed handwritten letters. I send the photos as email attachments, and keep copies too.
I can do much the same with forms, but I find I have to point out the existence of the attachments in the main body of the text.
Through reading novels I get to know the author. I hear their intimate thoughts and can try to place myself at their point-of-view. It's like talking with a clever conversationalist.
I can't see anything like that ever going on with games. Games work on actions, whose meanings are limited to the state space within which the game is conducted.
Writing is a form of human relationship, and relationships work on love. In writing - even this writing - I find myself always considering you, the reader. I try to become you, in a sense, so as to anticipate your responses. Therefore, writing develops my compassionate skills. Maybe that's what makes writing a more socially important thing.
Our childhood needs were not met, hence we lacked the common lovedness that draws social groups together. In later life we find it difficult to form good relationships and find it difficult to function as part of a team.
I believe that neglect is the single most important cause of health issues. Neglect is however almost impossible to diagnose, because it is a lack, and not a thing in itself.
I sometimes wonder why so many people have so much trouble with their bodies and diet. It's obviously a really big problem for a lot of people and it very much upsets me, actually, that I have no such problems. I wonder why it's so hard for you. I wonder what it would be like for me if you were my brother or sister, and you had this kind of trouble.
I want to point out that in New Zealand, where I grew up among quite unremarkable children in a small city, only perhaps 1 child in 1000 was obviously obese. We had heard of neither obesity nor anorexia. I'm in my mid 60's.
Nowadays I organise my life for minimal stress and get fresh air and eat fresh food from a tropical market. Maybe that helps
What changes would someone have to make in themselves in order to discover the real value of life? If they were to make those changes, would they be better off?
Doubtless it's all a matter of perspective, as to who's the idiot, but if you apply Twain's advice whenever you encounter unreasonable resistance you can nearly always save yourself a lot of energy.
We live in a world where change begets change; any engineer will see that this is an exponentiating process, capable of "runaway" change.
I think that the information world is very easily changed, compared to the physical world.
No structure can withstand exponentiating change - quod est demonstrandum.
Anyway for what it's worth I think memory is a faculty like an arm or leg, but creativity is quite different and pertains somehow to the person's "spirit".
This certainly doesn't seem at all like a scientist's work to me, and in fact is the kind of moralising that leads me to wonder - what can be the values of the person who wrote it?
A thing is something that can be thought about.
The description of something new causes the new thing to exist.
Happiness is good relationship with oneself.
Happiness is knowing that you are loved, and that your love is valued.
Happiness is like the sunshine...