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    A comment on Conversation: Is capitalism sustainable?

    Mar 13 2013: I think that capitalism is not sustainable because it is build on constant growt and creating debt ,and creating money out of nothing.
    We live in a overproduction environment wich brainwashes us sending us impulses through media wich products we have to buy in order to create a desire for it
    All over the world this system is collapsing Europe,USA,and soon we will find out that we depend on eachother because everything is connected .
    Humanity should strive to give every citizen of this planet their basic needs (food ,shelter,healthcare,education) all products that are not urgent we can do without.
    By doing this we create an environment where everybody cares for eachother and create other values then just money.
  • A reply on Conversation: What would your ideal government system look like?

    Dec 8 2012: As you know in this word perfect people dont excist, since we all are born with an egoistic nature.
    But WE see that we dont get to solutions when governments of all the countries just think about how their connections with other countries can benefit just their own people and maybe worse : just their own high society. Im not talking about anarchy but about changing our mindset in the first place.Like in whole of nature we can only survive if we garantee the wellbeing of the whole system.Whole of nature is altruistic although to us people it not seems like that.How we ever be happy if we just exploid others while they are suffering?
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    A comment on Conversation: What would your ideal government system look like?

    Nov 25 2012: I think an ideal gouvernement would be à goverment wich understands THE cause of THE curerent global crisis and works on connection beween all THE countries in THE word without taking advantage of eachothers situation.A goverment wich works for THE benefit of society and welbeing for all people by providing them all basic needs like food, shelter,éducation,healthprogram.Instead of power and money they could use their qualities in à very positieve way and help THE word towards peace and mutual garantee.
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    A comment on Conversation: Is fighting climate change a losing battle?

    Oct 3 2012: Fully agree with Chen Xin, that nature has itself adjusted system, the only disturbing factor is humanity with its destructive behaviour towards nature and humanity itself.
    Current crisis on every level are showing us that we have to change our ways, because we are totaly connected to eachother and every negative or positive action has an outcome in wich intention it was originally planned.

    If we stop our wasting ,over excessif, planet ruining way of life and begin to think about to obtain skills that help whole society instead value the money and material things as more important in life, Then all of humanity can grow and become a part of nature and live in harmony with it.
    Climate change will be reduced or be in balance ,and nature will recover.
    We are integral connected throughout the whole world only we dont know it yet.
    What can help us is global education wich teaches us the laws of nature.
    http://www.learnglobal.net/about/
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    A comment on Conversation: Is There a Future for Money?

    Sep 9 2012: IThink what the world needs at this moment is spiritual cash, that we make efforts that benefit whole society.
    I mean that we care about eachother, sometimes words have more value then money.
    Think this is possible with little effort to help eachother in life. People have to share what they feel,working together,concern about our environment,community etc.
    We only need the money for basic needs to live a normal life like food, a house,healthcare etc.
    At this time the world needs only love and this we cant buy,we just have to make a little effort to start with and will cost nothing.
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    A comment on Conversation: Why do people who have many advantages in life struggle with ongoing happiness whilst others with far less to be happy about are happier?

    Aug 11 2012: This is a difficult question to answer, but in fact we are only desire.
    Every second we recieve a desire and once the desire is filled,the happiness we felt in the beginning ,slowly flows away and what is left is a feeling of emptyness.

    So you could say that people who are succesfull in life have a stronger desire and struggle with ungoing unhappiness because they already achieved mostly every goal they set for themselves.
    They discovered that once they reached the goal,the fullfilling and happiness they recieved in the beginning is gone, because the desire is filled.
    Its like when we are hungry,in the beginning the food taste delicious,after a while its so,so once we are fullfilled we dont want it anymore. So we recieve a fullfilling of the desire.
    But there is a possibility to change this feeling of emptyness ,and this we can achieve by fullfilling other peoples desires, so through this different mindset to recieve the happiness from fullfilling your desire into give the happiness in fullfilling the desire of someone else. A person dont feel this ongoing unhappiness because from the start it was not his or her intention to fullfill the own desire,but the desire of someone else. This creates a great connection among people and could eventually change the world.
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    A reply on Conversation: We need more cooperation than competition.

    Jul 21 2012: Fully agree with your comment because as we can see when we are facing the world of today,that we are a bunch of individuals wich dont coorperate but rather prefer to stay in competition.
    In the meanwhile we brought this world in a deep global crisis by our individual actions and still all the nations dont feel the urge to unite and work together and coorperate.(Rio + 20)
    Nature is showing us that we have to become equal to it bacause we are the only disturbing facto, and nature is striking back through huricanes,floods,fire and so on.
    Think if we are willing to succeed in any area of our life we have to coorperate like cogwheels in a system so that every one (small or big cogwheel) will benefit from the force we will produce together.

    And as we know in a integral world wich is totaly connected we only need a mindchange to produce this integral force.
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    A comment on Conversation: What is the source of intuition?

    Jul 20 2012: Think that what we call intuition is the impression from something we recieve outside of us.
    These are forces that work on us and enter through our five ssences like : taste, smell, sight, touch,and hearing.
    So if we imagine these then we are living in a box wich has five openings where we recieve impressins,only these are corrupted because we are recievers and not the source.
    If we look at the Universe as the source where everything comes from we can consider this as perfect or the truth or the positive.
    We as recievers are the opposit to the Universe and we are corrupted or negative ,like in an electricity system where you have plus and minus.
    So I think that intuition is the connection between this 2 forces and it depends on how much we are equal to the source and for the time being this is our truth of the moment.
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    A reply on Conversation: How do you think we can motivate young people to perceived and purposeful studying?

    Jun 24 2012: I fully agree with you and think that the current crisis shows us that we have to change our educationsystem and that everything has become interconnected. We cant make a move in one country without effecting the results on the other side of this planet.
    So I think that education has to develop in a way that the children of today become global citizens that feel responsibilty for eachother.
    This will awaken them to the laws of interdependency and able them to achieve new skills to handle with the global problems we are facing today.

    We have to educate a desire to stop global injustice and take responcibility to create a harmonious,sustainble,and peacefull life.
    Essential is the dialog between the cultures and find out what connects us instead what seperates us.
    When we see eachother as a large family we will treat eachother in that way and correct others if they are making actions wich not contribute to the whole of society.
    Living together requires social skills and not only insert data and tools how to make a lot of money on behalf of other people and think we have to educate this.
    We have to look as well on the influence of the media and ask the children how they percieve the world and what their interests are.
    Think conversation should be the main tool to educate the children of tomorrow.
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    A reply on Conversation: Is Social Business the future of capitalism ?

    May 20 2012: I totaly agree with your comment,because you hit the point on the right spot.
    The world became global and we have to change our way of thinking in a concern for everyone on this planet and have to look what we really need instead a exploitative behavour.with all our desire for more and more luxury we destroy this planet from their sources and in about 30 years we are running out of clean water,oil,steel and so on.
    I think the current crisis shows us that we have to be aware that the world becomes every day more interconnected and that we have to become world citizens.
    A new kind of education is needed for our children.To foster understanding the integral system we live in, our role in this new global society of which we are all members and learn how to educate ourselves and our youth to better be in balance with our integral world.Think another mindset will change everything for the benefit of everyone......
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