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Are you satisfied with your life? Do you think its fair?
Simple question stated as above (ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THIS WORLD)
other question
if you are not, what aren't you satisfied with?
if you are, what ARE you satisfied with?
If anything could happen what would you like to happen?
If everything could be changed, what would you like to change?
thanks
Im on the point of deciding what to do with my life
Kate Blake 50+
If we see each situation that arises as a challenge we will grow and achieve quickly. If we see it as a chore we will sit back and feel overwhelmed, frozen we are unable to move forward and grow from all those opportunities that life offers us.
I have had some health challenges lately and about to undergo a huge change of lifestyle. I get excited about relaxing into the unknown. Whatever comes my way is the lesson I need right now so embrace it ....
'satisfaction' is merely a state of mind, if we feel satisfied people want to be around us, when we feel dissatisfied or disgruntled others move away, they don't want it to rub off. It's our choice and nobody else's.
Robert Winner 50+
If life was fair horses would ride half of the time.
Harsh Bardhan
Daniyar Zhakulinov
Lisannette Ruiz
I think I am satisfied with my life because I am very thankful for everything that I have, it may not be much but I am grateful none the less.
If I could change something, it would probably be what I am doing for work right now. I work at a law office as a legal assistant, and it's a job that I no longer find joy in doing. If I could do anything in the world for work, I'd travel and write about my experiences, or become a personal chef.
I've given myself to life; I try to make the best decisions at the time choices are presented and just go with the flow. Ever since I've let go, things have fallen into place. It's only in the last couple of months that I've tried to steer every single thing that stuff has been going off tracks. I have to get back to listening to my intuition. When at a crossroads the best thing to do is to see where you are naturally being pulled. Keep in mind: coincidences are not.
greg dahlen 20+
Elizabeth Gu 30+
My life is different from anybody else's, and so unique. And I suppose anyone can think of their lives as special like I do. It’s not just some kind of self hypnosis, but true, btw.
Life is not always fascinating, but I get to taste all of its peculiar flavors that others can't even experience.
Moreover, everyone’s life is unpredictable. No one can be sure about anything of my life.
Life is not unfair.
Thank God, I am neither smart nor wise enough not to make mistakes. I can always start over unless I'm pathologically obsessed with the past and my shortcomings.
We all have this ability to name our past mistakes "experiences" as if that's what we were meant to go through with. Anyway we can try to look on the bright side of our lives whenever we happen to envy some people’s so-called “fortunate” lives.
Colleen Steen 500+
Nobody ever told me life was going to be "fair", and what the heck does "fair" mean? I agree...life is unpredictable, and for me, it's often about going along with the flow. We can look at, and evaluate how our life is unfolding, and making little changes as we go is generally beneficial:>)
Elizabeth, in my humble opinion, you are both smart and wise:>)
Did you receive my replies to your e-mails?
Elizabeth Gu 30+
Oh, no..
I didn't receive your replies. I've been kinda waiting for your reply, btw lol
Then, could you send me your replies again?
I suppose some sort of error occured in the process of exchanging our emails through 'TEDcontact'
Regards~ :)
Colleen Steen 500+
I replied to your e-mails and sent them 5 days ago! So sorry you have not received them:>(
I just forwarded them again through the TED system, and also sent you an e-mail through "TED contact", with my personal e-mail address. Unfortunately, the TED e-mail system is challenging at times.
C
David Grammer
if you are not, what aren't you satisfied with? Things that if they were exactly as I envision them would most likely cause a new set of dis-satisfactions. The particulars are only important on an individual level. Pick something to be dissatisfied about and then change it. You can always change your mind and your goals.
if you are, what ARE you satisfied with? I am satisfied with my ability to change my point of view and the way I live my life. I am satisfied with the fact that it's not always easy. I am satisfied with the pride of accomplishment that I feel when making a difficult change.
If anything could happen what would you like to happen? Something love-inspiring and completely unexpected. Something that I could not imagine until it became happily indispensable.
If everything could be changed, what would you like to change? Everything (laws of physics permitting) can be changed and is being changed every day. I'm less attached to the results of change than to the process of change. Being mindful of he law of unintended consequences tends to instill a certain amount of humility in these things.
Happiness has been defined as the progressive accomplishment of a worthwhile goal. That's what change motivated by dis-satisfaction means to me. It's the process, not the particulars that matter.
W. Ying 10+
Thanks!
Fermi Fang
wait.. you published books?
ok that is really interesting read
about all that DNA stuff
yea.. I kind of agree to that.. well MOSTLY agree to the parts I actually understood
Yes, as from watching a couple Ted talks and studying
I believe we are born... with these innate personality that makes everyone different however we are also affected by past events (inherited dna information) as well as ON going ... (external influences) which chooses the path for our future development
so the equation is
BORN + PAST + ON GOING = Future
well, since its like this
wait I don't seem to see where I'm trying to take this or where YOU are trying to take this
I forgot what you previously said... like about my question
yes you are satisfied?!?!?!
or something..
but yea I dont think that this is a great support for the fact that you are trying to say that there is nothing wrong with our world because obviously if the only purpose is to keep our DNA alive...
(and from the video... forgot which one.. but apparently we all came from a genetic adam and eve..) everyone in this world is from the same pair of genes
anyone who lives would supposedly be able to pass our genetic info to the next generation
BUT .. what if what we are doing right now (the external ongoing influences) are harming us and
with our thousands of years of ... "Natural DNA" is getting disrupted and altered and.. maybe even going to become destroyed by our.. modern social thoughts.. etc
I SEE a problem with our world
are you saying that YOU DONT? and that all the things happening is.. normal? "necessary evil?"
If that is so... i guess I would have to try hard to convince that the "evils" right now is not necessary and that our enemy is not ourselves but is instead nature and how to keep our race from getting wiped out...
which we've done a "great job" at ...
funny... how people are always concerned about shootings and stuff while no one cares much about how many people are dieing from "revenge of nature"
Colleen Steen 500+
I am very satisfied with my life in each and every moment, and I do my best to face challenges as an individual, as well as a member of the local, regional and global community. I am clear with what I can and cannot change in each moment, I have contributed to change on several different levels, and will continue to do so until I take my last breath on this earth school. I believe the life adventure offers the opportunity to learn, grow and evolve as an individual, while contributing to the whole. I try my best to be the change I want to see in our world, and if I am not part of the solution, I am part of the problem.
That being said, I have the ability to change every single interaction I am involved with...I have the ability to change some things in a very small way in my little corner of the world. It may not seem like much when we look at the big picture, and when we consider the ripple effect, or the butterfly effect, many people, making small changes around our world cause a HUGE change.
You say you are on the point of deciding what to do with your life...
I suggest that you truly live with gusto, being mindful and aware in every moment....do what you love and/or love what you are doing:>)
Fermi Fang
thank you very much
I agree with the ripple effect, the butterfly effect, however, when you look at it this way, the butter fly is that "In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state."
however, human beings with their wonderful minds have made our world into a LINEAR system which the butterfly effect has NO effect upon.
what do i mean?
theres is an input and there is an output
it doesnt matter how you manipulate the input ... because there WILL be an output that is "linear.."
x+1=y
you keep changing x y will keep going up
how is this our world?
of course, HUMAN, animals, Biological world is SUPPOSED to be a NON linear system, but we have "mechanized ourselves"
we have transformed and made ourselves into this society where people are PART of the system..
since when? Not sure, but definitely before the "industrial revolution"
Maybe you can say ever since agricultural revolution? division of labor? or not? I am not sure where the "source" of the problem stands, but all I can say, is that
there is a big problem and we need to fix it
and what I am personally going to chase in my life is to FIND out the problem and PROMOTE people to believe in the fact that we CAN solve the PROBLEM and that there is hope in this world it isn't that bad after all
other than the fact that we might need to flip the world around to solve it
People are going to unhappy
people are going to be angry
people are going to fear
but...
you shouldnt be afraid
because... ok this sounds so.... pop culturized but
"im not afraid.. to take a step"
and therefore... if I can try,, you can try
i know your trying
but..
try harder
what ever doesnt kill you simply makes you stronger and i believe together we will all become more than what we are right now,
human beings strongest weapon... its not language.. its will.. our will
Colleen Steen 500+
I believe we have to depend on "initial conditions" in order to move from there into change. We are indeed living in certain conditions, and to recognize those conditions and how they are, or are not serving humanity, is the first step toward change.
People have ALWAYS been part of the system from the beginning of humankind, and I believe that to be part of the evolutionary process. Yes, we have "mechanized ourselves", and we can use that technology to benefit humankind...or not. We have choices regarding HOW we navigate the life experience.
I LOVE your idea and ambition to " personally... chase... FIND out the problem and PROMOTE people to believe in the fact that we CAN solve the PROBLEM and that there is hope in this world it isn't that bad after all"
It feels like you are determined to "BE" the change you want to "SEE" in the world, and you also create limitations for yourself. You don't need to convince me or others to "BE" all that we can "BE". A first step for you, may be to totally accept that concept in yourself? It feels like with your dialogue on this thread, you are trying to convince YOURSELF that it is possible.
Fermi Fang
Yes, I dont have much faith in myself, because I dont know what should I beleive in...
I grew up in a world that doesnt have much for me to believe in as since.. so far since I was a kid, everything I ever believed in seems to have fallen apart.. shattered
my "innocence" was shattered pretty long time ago, but i kept on with our system
i lived in the system
i chose to ignore rather than to think about our problems
i viewed the worlds problems as granted
the famous words.. "THERES NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT"
yea... i used to think that way as well, but... since a month ago, I completely changed my mind
I feel like we HAVE to do something about it
let me tell you a story
Last week was my miterms.. at 7pm
so at 6pm i went to buy dinner and... as usual.. i like to sit at an ourdoor seat... thats more "lonely" and quiet....
as i started to eat.. the "last table" filled with mainland students left... who were sitting at a table across from my table
shortly after they left... a girl walked over
then she sat down at the table the mainland students left
I was like HUH? WTF??????
first of all.. girls dont sit alone
secondly... the table is not cleared
at first I thought she was waiting for someone...
then she took a microwave box out from her backpack which held 2 steam buns..
then she took out a spoon and started to eat the left overs on the table... along with the steam buns
OH MY GOOODODDDDDDDD
OH MY GOD
WHY!>!?!?!??!?
I am studying in .. the second best college in HONG KONG... and
THIS IS WHAT I SEE?????
On one side. people never finish their food and stuff
AND ON THE OTHER SIDE.... someone is eating THIS??!??!? LEFT OVERS?!!!???!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR WORLD
she turned her head and saw me and quickly turned back
T.T
I almost cried ... (something i literally never do....)
Like seriously? How come? WHY? Why in .... the world... are people on one end not trying and having everything.. while people who try have NOTHING...
Colleen Steen 500+
I'm not sure what I am "convincing" you of..... is it to believe in yourself?
Your story says that you were shocked to see someone eating left over food? And you recently discovered that some people have more than enough food, and some people do not have enough?
That is a good discovery on your part. Now...what are you going to do about it?
Harsh Bardhan
You are hero of my life . I love your word every time . Explaining the life is not easy but above words which you say is complete example of what you are doing in your life . We do not change every moment but we will counter all the problems if we want to. Thank U from my heart. God bless U.
Colleen Steen 500+
Nice to connect with you again, and I appreciate you and your kind words:>) I continue to be encouraged by all the young people like you, who are insightful, and concerned about people and the life experience....it gives me much hope for our future as a global society. Thank U from my heart, for being you, and for being a wonderful part of our world:>)
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Fermi Fang
but could you expand on your thoughts please?
W. Ying 10+
Thanks!
Této Parvanov
It is little heart warming thoughts in life such as those uttered by great minds and those you have stumbled upon yourself that make you treasure this experience.
My only issues are with the publicity of Science and how it is portrayed in the media. I just can't swallow the possibility that the general masses find Science to be a boring and grey subject. Knowledge is the solution, we just have to find the way to bring Science in a fresh package and create a new and more positive outlook on it.
Fermi Fang
the reason that public isnt focusing much on the "IMPORTANT science and its discovery, research etc" is that THERE IS NO MONETARY INCENTIVE!!!!"
when you don't see worthy to invest in something... people don't want to do it.
The only reason you see these "major scientific discoveries" is that SOMEONE out there with money thinks that it is worth investing because "it sounds reasonable" and also that "the returns are high... under the circumstance of HIGH risk.. but not under [ABSOLUTE RISK]"
if you want to convince people to discover greater and deeper into the fields of science, then please, I ask you to support me and "fight" with me, against this world where
knowledge is unimportant if it does not generate $$$
you go to school and learn things to get $$$$
you get a job to $$$
you get $$$ to buy more "things" to make you look like you have a lot of $$$$
any thing that does not have to do with $$$ doesnt matter
when you see a person in need of help .... you give him/ her $$$$
because $$$ SOLVES EVERYTHING
well... obviously scientifically... $$$ is not a solution to anything at all, but apparently, our world right now is BRAINWASHED into thinking $$$ = solution
solve (X+Y+Z+O) = ABC^D for D
D = $$$
ok... yea.. maybe that doesnt make sense at all
but...
i respect you that you have found the mystical universe and discoveries amusing
I feel that way as well
just that ... we are unable to find things that EXPLAINS more of who we are what we are doing why we are doing what we are doing etc...
if we do not break this BARRIER
$$$ is a BARRIER TO OUR FRIGGIN evolution...
unless people $$$ is more evolved that those with less $$$
then wow
i am wordless
even if I am wordless
I would like to PROVE THAT $$$ IS NOT EVERYTHING
but i need to REINVENT THE SYSTEM and CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT THE NEW SYSTEM
BECAUSE IT WORKS AND I BELIEVE IT
I truly... WISH HOPE DREAM that YOU BELIEVE as well!
Fermi Fang
Yes I do understand that most of the topics that I am covering are rather popular aims
But as I see
Most of the so called popular aims are seperated and not exactly cooperating together as a whole
Think of this as a human being think of society as a living organism
It won't survive if you only take care of one organ system
A brain on its own is usesless a heart a lung an eye an arm is useless
But when acted together
They become a being
What I am trying to find our is how to unite these concepts
Pretty much like
I am trying to be the skin of a person
I want to wrap up every singe system and hold them together
As I see this is exactly the only way to lead out world out of the present problems
As I previously kept on mentioning
I can live the x number of years of my life and not need to give a damn about this world
But
I believe that "after a personal experience"
Life is not just about yourself
It's not about the individual
For example a person in Africa in Mexico in Canada in Chiba I. Tibet in Alaska
All have one thing in common which is to make the people their love happy by protection
But what these individuals don't seem tossed is our world is no longer a small society world
We are global used in a rather scary way
Every single action made influences the whole world
This is my idea of modern society evolution
If we do not act as a whole and keep on letting and following a small group of elites
We will soon be extinct
As individually all we can think about I'd to make money to get through the day
Think about tomorrow when it gets there
I think the main thing that separates us from animals is the ability to see in the past and predict the future
Which is also how we can "disrupts " natural selection
Because as I see
We are the only being capable of learning from the past and using the past to percent problems in the future
Humans now are educated through s flawed system theat focuses on the present
Which is not really what we need
Fermi Fang
Yes I do believe that most people out there are wanting to push for "reducing suffering" as I don't see why any one would purposefully want another person to suffer
Which Is also what I believe most If not all of the traditional religious beliefs are all talking about making and finding and teaching the ultimate happiness no matter if its heaven or nirvana or what ever it may be
But what I am truly getting to is
Something impossible impractical
I want yo turn our world over I want people to stop living in the past stop lining in their mistakes and suffering for the mistakes that other people made
I want our world to move on and everyone to give each other a second chance everyone to give themselv a second chance
I hope our world can destroy boundaries
National boundaries
Cultural boundaries
Racial boundaries
Gender boundaries
And cooperate to live in this country that I know as earth
I am setting this as my goal in life
I know it sound dumb and stupid impractical as it obviously looks
But I believe
I believe that you. Can believe
I believe that every single person in this community an believe
But first
I need to idemtify the source of problems and the things that people generally view as reasonable
To me it's not keeping good and kicking bad
That's too subjective
I'm looking for something objective
And in order to do so
We need to learn to control but not to remove our emotions
As to me emotions is a double edge blade
It can make impossible happen in both good and bad ways
So pretty much in total
I would like to seek advise or is it advice
I need help
I need support
Indeed criticism
I need evidence
I need everything I can fet my hands on but in the end
It's not about me but about you and the future of our humanity
Whether we could make it a better place
I could always choose to just live my own life and ignore this
But I care for crying out loud
I are
I believe
I trust in that human beings are capable of performing at their best if given a chance
Fritzie Reisner 100+
In terms of data with respect to poverty, hardship, infant mortality, illiteracy, and so forth, one place with great data available easily online that displays these measures for almost all countries is the World Bank.
Maybe I am thinking of the United Nations data base.
Have you visited those websites?
I do not know the best resource for data about environmental degradation.
If you are interested in starting to work on these issues other than by talking to peers and so forth about your emerging philosophy and goals, there are a few interesting websites that may allow you to start working collaboratively with others on concrete problems. I like OpenIDEO for the way they bring hundreds of people into generating options for making progress on real issues.
Another site, which is more oriented to sharing what people are doing and advising each other than to specific collaborative action is the Human Centered Design community.
There are many other options as well, but these might make a good entry point for you if you are interested in action.
Fermi Fang
Yes I understand my concept is a bit TOO ... "liquid, it has no substance as of yet, and I am trying to SEEK substance to apply to my concept"
What i mean is.. like a chinese proverb "you are curing the stem but not the root" for example you cut a grass... and it will grow back later
I understand the problems with poverty, hardship, infant mortality, illiterac
OK, let me give you an example...
Do you think it is true "charity" to be feeding the poor people in Africa?
I will leave this as an open ended question.. but let me address this point
If you keep feeding people, they will become dependent on you
Is... "trash recycling" a true "JOB?"
"WHY cant they grow their own food?"
"WHY is their country in such beat up shape? ... are they BORN to be like that?"
Other than this... I would like to share what I have concluded.. or not concluded but reached an analysis on...
a big problem with our world... once again "THE DOUBLE EDGE BLADE"
one word
DEBT
Though I'm not christian but if everyone in the world was in the same faith then
"What is prohibited in Deuteronomy 15:1-7 and Deuteronomy 23 is interest on any loan, in any form, that has been extended to a poor brother in the faith. It is perfectly all right to lend at interest to someone not in the faith."
"The Mosaic law prohibited interest on a narrow class of loans: charitable loans "
Ok, no more talking about the bible and for some modern day concepts,
PEOPLE LIVE ON DEBT and that is a fact, people depend on it, our world wouldn't work without it
But, as i read somewhere, the only place without interest payment loans is in native cultures?
Ok, if that is so.... just CONCEPTUALLY
is it possible to
1st UNITE OUR WORLD
2nd "REDISTRIBUTE LAND" (i will talk about this further in the future)
3rd MAKE "SMALL tribes... SOCIAL tribes..."
4th.. I DONT KNOW
THIS is where I am stuck at
of course i would like to support the "Green movement" I would like to go against "child labor"
MORE EDUCATION
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Grace Greene 10+
Why not? People are ignorant. They live in black and white worlds.
Why am I satisfied with MY life? Because I make it that way.
What would I like to happen? Political power returned to an educated population.
What would I like to change? Make the Abrahamic religions illegal.
Fermi Fang
though I am not sure where you are from and what religion you are
but yes, I understand... the freedom of women is shown and displayed clearly in the western world but is yet to be spread amongst many other parts of the world (addressing your last point)
think about this, do you believe that such change could happen? Do you think making something illegal is the best way to do it? People need time to adapt to the most minimal things, and here you talk about a deep rooted religion of an area. What if you could influence and change the religious views and rituals and practices instead of making it illegal? Why not persuade and let them willingly give up instead of enforcing law upon them?
addressing your political power to an educated population.
I would like to ask you, what if... we Don't need a political system that tells us what we are supposed to do? What if we live in a society where people know what should be done... because politics tend to be too extreme. Its either A or B, A or B, you either agree or disagree
You are satisfied with your life, and I believe that you should be and Im happy to hear that, however I do wonder, do you think other people are as lucky as you? Yes, you may say that they could make their life happy the way you did, but what if they cant? at least not quite possible without your support?
You are not satisfied with the world because people are ignorant... and thus, is there anyway to change that fact? through education? but maybe not the "popular education system" that we have right now which seems to train people to do things more than they think.
People are ignorant and live in black and white world because they are TOLD that the world is so,
I believe that we can change that fact, that we are able to make our world into something different, if we truly find out the problem and find a good solution that doesn't involve force but instead involves compromise, explanation, acceptance and true belief.
thank you~
Harsh Bardhan
You are satisfied with your life but not with world , this is little bit confusing. Why you not first try your life with this world in same platform? why you running from this world?? Last point i totally disagree with you ,religion is just binding people not divide and who divide the people by religion is not deserved to live in society.
Roy Bourque 20+
Population growth, food supply, and disease form an intricate balance. I feel that overpopulation is the leading cause of war, genocide, and social unrest. We need to understand it better.
All events are controlled by energy. Learning to identify and harness energy is a big field. Better have good math skills
People need food in sufficient supply. This is also a big field in farming, research and development, and food processing.
Human comfort is developed through engineering. It also requires good math skills.
Environmental issues and pollution control is a big field.
Aerospace and space exploration is a huge and growing field.
The medical profession and biotechnology is growing.
Mental health issues and therapy is in great demand.
Legal and law enforcement is a huge field.
The entertainment industry has many opportunities.
Sports, Sales and marketing, Construction, Manufacturing, Mining for resources...
Explore your options. There are many other fields worth pursuing.
As for you, seek out your latent abilities. What are your strengths and weaknesses? What interests you? What are your concerns? Are you a leader or follower? Do you have a vision? What are your current options? What skills do you possess? You haven't provided much to go on so I am providing food for thought. Let your intuition be your guide.
Fermi Fang
My strengths and weaknesses are not what matters really to me
what interests me? in helping other people achieve their goals and make our world a better place..."
sounds dumb but thats what Im interested in...
Am I a leader? Most of the time I prefer not to, but... there are other cases
Do I have a vision? YES... of course... i would like to make our world... UNITE ... in a strange sense but yes, break cultural barriers, break strereotypes, break every single social, man made rule that makes us unhappy in any way
what are my options?
anything is possible? haha... well im studying business... i have no financial concerns (and I appreciate that fact)
what skills do I possess?
no idea? I dream of something and I GET IT DONE... make it happen
I wanted to be a model... i went and competed and got into top 20 (im happy...)
I wanted to dance... I went and got a couple friends (who had NO interest much.. and got them to dance)
I wanted to be a chef... I managed to get an internship during summer to cook
I want to try out everything
I believe that anyone can achieve anything they truly want if they try hard,
I am young... and i have a long way to go
I think its better to try than to not try and just die
I want to change our world, the things they value, the pains they suffer,
I want our world to become a happier place with the only threat being nature instead of ourselves
I want our world to BELIEVE in each other...
we put our "believe" into our monetary goods...
let me ask
WHAT HAPPENS IF IT FAILS?
!?!?!!?!?!?!!??!!??!
Though I see you as Christian,
i would like to tell you this,
I want to make a new belief, a new religion, that tolerates EVERYONE and is / CAN BE ACCEPTED BY EVERYONE
a BELIEF
A RELIGION that doesn't concern what divine being you believe in because I personally dont see that as what matters,
what truly matters is everyone else
ITS not about me... its about YOU... EVERYONE
peace~
Roy Bourque 20+
You have a good outlook.
I mentioned strengths & weaknesses because it helps us determine what works and what doesn't in our own lives. Strengths is where we can take the lead and weaknesses is where we need help to overcome obstacles. If we understand those, we can chart a course and see it through.
What interests you doesn't sound dumb at all. When people work together, there is progress where all benefit.
You are testing out the waters as they say in trying different things. It will give you a broader outlook. At some point, you will need to determine where you want to plant your feet. That is where your intuition needs to be your guide. Find your niche. You can't save the world, but if you take the attitude that everyone you help is a step in the right direction, then you are planting seeds that may grow into good fruit. As opportunities arise, you may broaden your horizons. It's all good and it's all positive.
I am a Christian, but my views are radical to what most Christians believe. Jesus presented a parable where people were compared to sheep and goats. The sheep were those who helped each other out in time of need. The goats were those who refused to lend a helping hand. The sheep would go on to discover paradise. The goats would see a world in constant turmoil. It didn't matter what they believed. It only mattered whether they cared about each other or not.
As far as divinity is concerned, God is not male, nor female, nor any other form known. God is the life force of the cosmos. It is the source from which all things come and back to where they go. It is neither good nor evil, it is what is common to everything. There is nothing that exists that is not part of God. Break everything down in nature and it all becomes the same. Although religions continue to name it, it has no name. I wrote a book about it. You can find it in my profile.
Fermi Fang
Yes, I am trying hard well.. and will be for the next two years (until i graduate) to THINK of... to contact as many people as I can, to make a new concept.. of "utopia" just that its not as utopic as it seems... but never the less, a goal that we could look forward to
Presently, I find that people now a days are too concerned about their (AT THE MOMENT) things. Of course its important to get things done and look at the present, but I feel people are FORCED to look at the present and ignore the future, especially when their future is more or less LEAD by their "money".... its like the metaphor that life is like a river... it flows.. but now i think its more like life is a river of CASH FLOWS and you go where ever that paper goes... or coin..
It is not the "sheep" dont care anymore, I think its more like the "sheep" is being hypnotized by "magic mushroom pasture..." and that "the wolf is no longer eating the sheep but is instead farming the sheep so that they could sheer the fur for exchange of more food..."
"the sheep is the same sheep.." just that the "wolf has evolved" into something much nastier than the wolf... and yet.. "the evolved wolf is smarter and can abuse the sheep/ exploit it to its own good, it lost its ability to KILL the sheep by itself, so... the wolf is STUCK in the position of having to farm sheep for food... because it doesnt know how to kill"
Address the goat part.. I feel like they are just the "laggards in a movement"
and Yes, God has no gender, or any "physical form"... its a representation, an idea, a belief the divine being, and I believe that. Good and evil is DEFINED by humans, God is objective.. an ETERNAL UNIVERSAL truth
Humans always wanted to seek out the truth, but what they seek is mostly subjective and misunderstanding it until they found some objective "scientific truth" which they now believe as the divine truth... but before they can apply objective truth in another degree, they will never find it
Fermi Fang
Ok, as a Gen Y kid... 'm in my second year of college
all my life I've been doing pretty well... managed to graduate with a 4 in high school
studying in Hong Kong right now for hotel and tourism management
but somehow, I've always had a dream in my childhood which is to... bring change to this world, change that people think are impossible to change, ideas, things that just are Obviously Incorrect but are taken for granted and "silent majority" type of matters
I'm concerned about what exactly are people happy with or not happy with the world around them.
yes of course a simple answer is like
yes there's "t'hes women rights" - > but is our ENTIRE world sharing such benefit?
yes we have "child labor protection" -> look at all those developing countries
yes we are "more free than we ever were... GO DEMOCRACY" -> is this truly what people want?
yes we are extremely "globalized" -> yup, we're on the margin of having global economic crisis again...
yes we have "advanced technology" -> but compared to the amount of time and money and resource we are putting into all the other things... I think we could make/ put alot more use in developing these sophisticated technology
yes we have "great eduction" -> I think our education system is extremely flawed being at the point where it's as if you "HAVE TO get a higher education to pursue any decent job..."
why am i bringing up this topic in the first place?
I was on youtube... and other sites just looking at what people around my age are thinking, or just people a bit older than me and I realized that Gen Y people seem to be more hippie than the hippies.. like well.. extremely liberal is one thing and another is that they WANT change... they rather start their own company and work for themselves than to work for some random rich guy and get laid-off someday in the future..
so to speak, I want to see the problems that other people see and the "good side" so I can.. "formulate a new philosophy i guess?"
CIA
Fritzie Reisner 100+
I think many people, even possibly most, see things very much as you do in the sense of wanting to have a part in making things better, in part by standing for- and standing up for, learning, open-mindedness, and tolerance. The only relevance of age to this, is that some of us have more time left than others.
It is highly possible to live this way.
I think that, as you are a college student, you probably have a good idea of the things that upset people about the world. My guess is that as you gather further information you will find that most people value a reduction in suffering across the world alongside an acceptance that life must always have its challenges and hat we benefit in unexpected ways from those. People vary widely in their perspectives as to how to improve things, what the sequence of actions should be.
So I think many share the fundamentals of the philosophy you so far articulate.
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Fermi Fang
And I do believe that everything you said is possible to achieve
I know this may sound silly
But I hope that I am able to get as many "complaints" and "appraisals". On our modern society globally and formulate a new set of... Goals and how our world should operate
And make it happen "with any means necessary"
I sound like an anarchist hippie angry kid
But ... All I can say is
Dream big
If I believe our world can become a united country where we can get things done together instead of competing against one another pointlessly
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
If I could change things in the past I would say that I would have been closer to God earlier in life; some things have been unnecessary distractions that I would have avoided if I had been totally committed to God. But God knows how to fashion something beautiful out of every situation.
Mr Fermi Fang; your life is a gift from God, and whatever you are facing or would face, you are equipped to handle it and be victorious; so that you would have the privilege of sharing your success stories; and the best success stories are the ones of triumph despite the odds or against all odds.
You are a winner; keep winning.
Fermi Fang
but
Dear Feyisayo
I am not here to argue which God is... higher or anything related
first.. i am NOT an Atheist.. i believe in a divine being.. of which i have no idea
but what interests me more is the moral values of every single religion
i think they all tell you the same thing
that people now a days seem to not be understanding...
thank you
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Fermi Fang
i replied on top
not directly to your post~