No.
Is the meaning of life to buy, sell, eat, shit, and then repeat until you die?
Are you and I on this Earth to find out which one of us can acquire the most material wealth?
Should your success be dependent on the failure of others to achieve success?
Is success even something that can be measured on an individual rather than a community level?
Should we give up on those who have let the rest of us down?
Are the mistakes in their lives and the lessons they would have to share upon recognizing them as mistakes worthless to the rest of us?
Is there a single person living on this Earth whose problems are too large for the rest of us to help with if we cared enough about one another to do so?
Is there a single thing we could not achieve for our species if our species cared about our species rather than our individuals selves?
Should we allow our environment to dictate the people we become?
Should we give up on trying to change our environment once we realise how difficult it will be?
Is there anything that cannot be accomplished through self-belief and perseverance?
Is the comfort of the lives of our descendants and the world they shall live in their own responsibility?
Should we do nothing to build a better world for those who will come after us?
Is there any excuse good enough for not doing everything within our power to make a better world for them?
Should we respect our elders simply because they are older than us?
Did our elders do enough to leave us a world where children could grow up safely?
Should we allow ourselves to believe they did what they could so that we can feel better about doing too little?
Should we continue to seek out reasons to see ourselves as different from one another rather than the same?
Is it healthy for our species to be adopting divisive labels in an effort to convince ourselves who we are?
Is who we are something that exists beyond the present tense?
If who we are exists only in the present, should we be trying so hard to convince others that we're someone we won't be tomorrow?
Is there a single weapon in this world more powerful than love?
If we truly loved our neighbours, would we ever allow bullies to impoverish them or punish them for non-violent crimes?
Would said bullies even have the balls to come knocking on a door in a neighborhood ruled by love for one another alone?
If many other people are doing something you know to be wrong, should that make it alright for you to do it?
Is committing an immoral act against another excusable if you were operating under the authority of another?
Is there anyone other than you that can be held accountable for decisions you have made?
Does blaming a system for our actions when those actions help to give power to that system make sense?
Is the meaning of life to buy, sell, eat, shit, and then repeat until you die?
If I decided that my purpose in life was to make yours and your descendant's lives more comfortable, and if you decided that yours was to do the same for me and mine, could anyone stop us from building a better world for our species?
There are many problems with many of these questions asked.
Yes, there are. How many scientists could help Einstein?
From my experience, there are few who could even listen to the questions Einstein was working on.
This is a very dangerous question.
If you seek for the highest joy in YOUR life, you will produce the most joy in the world.
If you try to seek for the highest joy in the collective life, then you will fail, and fail miserably, usually creating much more pain and sorrow.
It is by universal laws that this is so. It is not a lack of comprehension.
So, the best for the world is us doing the best to fulfil our own hopes and desires.
An enlightened moral person fulfilling their hopes and desires serves humanity, but what you've said is more dangerous than anything in the article if not understood within that context. Every zombified cretin running the rat race is trying to achieve his own hopes and desires, and is supporting the slavery of himself and everyone else, and creating a prison planet via that effort.
Morality - the only solution that actually solves. Put that on a T-shirt and make your millions.
You are correct. A person has to know themselves in order to seek their highest joy. Without self introspection many equate hedonism with joy.
Ah, that's a great way of saying it - Hedonism is not true joy. Thanks for your posts and enjoy the day!
Knowledge can be false or simply not scrutinized and accepted, and that isn't correct knowledge, and without correct self-introspection what can result?
You're just being too literal in your perception of my questions. That, or I failed to communicate clearly enough.
Someone can live their life just fine without knowing if e=mc squared. It is merely desire, not necessity that drives one to such curiosities. When I say one person's problems, I meant the necessities in life. The things they do not have that they do need to live a comfortable life, at which point they can then have the freedom to chase philosophical questions that only desires needs answers to.
I don't think it is, though any given persons interpretation of it may perhaps be.
And if what brings me joy is others having easy access to joy of their own?
One day, my friend, I hope you will learn to deliver an opinion as an opinion instead of presenting it as Holy Scripture. No one living has the authority to make this claim, because not every method has been tried and therefore we cannot know that every method will fail.
A lot of people talk about natural and universal laws. But, they're just something we made up to interpret the universe. A law - at least the type of law you refer to - is only considered as such because we have not yet found a way to break it. But no one can know that we never will, and therefore the very concept of natural law means nothing to me.
Again, if my hopes and desires are for collective well-being, then by your own rules, that is something I can strive for.
This is the problem between yours and my communication.
There are universal laws. They are not something you can break, they are the way the universe is put together. The way the universe works.
Things like "the speed of light", "the laws of thermodynamics" are not universal laws. They are a bunch of layers / dimensions down from the Causal Plane, and they are only really in effect in a limited sense, in a limited area, in a limited time that we currently occupy.
I probably should begin by describing the Causal Plane. The first layer of this universe. The thing that makes cause and effect work. But, i am having trouble describing easier things here on steemit, so i have been putting it to the back burner.
So, when i say universal law, only your and my understanding of it will change. We can more fully understand how it works. There is no getting around it. There is no subverting it.
I do realize that i am not always clear about my meanings. Especially since i take for granted many things that most people do not know.
You know, like discussing anarchy with someone who believes the word means bomb wielding maniac, without first defining anarchy.
What you view as the universal law can simply be your impaired and incomplete understanding as well, which is why you cannot contend this successfully no matter how you seek to express yourself:
Especially true if your greatest highest joy is scamming people, or worse, tormenting people, or worse, torturing people or worse raping and torturing people, or even more true if you were a tormenting torturing raping murdering savant?
Tell that to all the small groups of people that sought to establish exactly that for everyone else as well, not only for themselves.
That's why the psychopaths run the world, because you think you're alone in your hopes and desires.
This never happens when pursuing your highest joy.
This happens as a result of traumas.
This happens as a result of limiting your joys.
You have to be down in the bottom of the emotional scale, in anger and revenge for the things you said to be "joyful". But, if you are really seeking your highest joy, you will soon get out of these low emotions.
However, telling someone to seek their highest joy, straight away, is probably not the best plan of action. To seek your highest joy requires knowing yourself. And that requires a lot of introspection tools and techniques.
That indeed happens when those high joys are of scamming, or manipulating or lying and every other wrong thing that people can be overjoyed with.
Greed will overjoy many, not only anger and revenge.
How do you lose anything seeking to overjoy the many though, it seems that it's a catch-all especially since you'll paradoxically condemn the overjoyed Self Righteous who believe that the means justify the ends, or will you tell me that that is exactly what you're talking about when you say that there's no joy in serving the community because every time by universal law you will fail because you're so Self Righteous and Overjoyed, cautioning us on what not to be overjoyed by, under any circumstances?
The means NEVER justifies the ends.
So, to start with the premise "the means justifies the ends" automatically means you are not following your highest joy.
"overjoy" - i do not know how you mean this word. It is not my word.
Highest joy - as opposed to lower joys. It is joyful to sleep in. It is more joyful to complete life goals that are exciting to you.
Indeed you'd say that as I pointed out, the Self-Righteous will justify it as that and they will certainly be overjoyed with it, and you were saying that bringing joy to others is a folly and universally so.
Overjoy is higher than the highest joy.
That's a lot of questions.
And only one answer..
Whoo doggy... The Lost Word... hard-hitting stuff...
That's right - go there! I tell my daughter that there's a huge difference between a nice person, and a good person. Past generations failed miserably, despite baking cookies, tossing the ball around in the yard, and kissing you goodnight.
Way t' be, my friend, never let up!
True story. Though I will concede that they had an excuse to be ignorant. We do not while the internet still has useful information on it.. and I am not sure how long we have before the internet is fully controlled - perhaps even by AI. Either way, it looks like we have a very short window to make this shit happen, so we really need to make sure we do not miss it, or those who come next may be without the resources to do it for the ones after.
Absolutely. The truth is revealed to the masses - the choice before them is whether or not to take it. Once we're locked down in global AI control, the required effort to turn it around will be unthinkably difficult and costly.
I thoroughly admire your optimism, for I see the same future, but never considered even for a moment that there'd be a way back for us once we reach that point.
Hahahaha Oh man, it's brutal... When a near-impossible feat of species-jeopardizing conflict is described as optimism you know you're in trouble. I just find it hard to believe that the spirit of truth could be eternally subdued. Freedom is man's inherent nature... I can't imagine that it could be utterly squelched. But, that's just my own speculation... there's still a fractional percentage of a chance that we can turn this around before it comes to John Connor on ham radio.
Don't call me Howie, lol, borrowing his account since it's conveniently on his phone. Can't get my own cell worked out...maybe I'm not meant to have one...anyway, I don't know why my vote isn't on this. I'll have to check my voter when I get to the hotel. And remember to vote on Tony's drawings-
What are you up to today? We're driving through the very boring state if Oklahoma. Scenery wise, though than to give them points for humor, passed a highway sign that said "don't fancy dance to the pow wow, drive slow and stay safe" lol! The funniest thing is what we were listening to as we passed:
I just pressed play on this expecting something like mumford and sons, forgetting also that I had been listening to loud music earlier with the bass up while making Vito's dinner. So, the whole room just vibrated there and it made Vito jump out of his sleep. He looks grumpy now. Lol.
I have been taking far too long to write all day and so only managed two posts. I suspect you will be glad to know of what slowed me down though. For it was my realisation that the project I have been working on accompanies BOO with a peculiar harmony. It is as if I was always working on BOO, unconscious to the fact of it. That or I've developed a knack for bringing things together. Either way, it means you will likely be hearing from Joma, Sun, Alek, Yessinya and David again.
Is it the grand canyon you are off to next?
Definitely glad to hear that 😁
Not quite yet, first the Aztec ruins, we just crossed the border into new Mexico..this landscape is alien to me, I will send pics when I get a chance