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Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre  Your questions ask the same thing as your thread about a perfect world. So to make it something different we'd first need to establish that the world requires saving. How is it in danger? Society heading towards collapse? Global warming? Obliteration by asteroid impact? Undefined end-of-the-world in 2012? There's a lot of scope there, each enough to be the focus of its own forum, let alone thread.
So ultimately I think that in the general sense we're already doing what we can. As ZHereford said, we must start with ourselves. And that's why we're here, right?
The specifics of what we can do are mentioned in all these other threads. *makes a grand sweeping gesture*
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Yea, I know its pretty silly of me to brainstorm this in a thread, but I just want to see and find out what the whole point of personal development is.
You've got to have a reason to do anything or there is no need to improve, its just enough to be unconscious and let your habits to keep you living like a zombie.
Steve's purpose is to help people grow. Well grow to do what? To be more enlightened? To be happy?
I mean, I am a physicists, I consider everything just as running the laws of physics, including our society on earth. And if you think about it, that kinda makes you depressed right? I mean what's the point if we are just simulations with a random number generator?
Yea, maybe if we kill ourselves off like bacteria in a petri dish because we don't conserve our resources or cause there to be a tipping point in climate, and we all die, then well that's cool, because I believe that it wont hurt to be dead, because I'd be as unconscious as a rock. I believe my soul is how people remember me.
I honestly enjoy living and hanging with friends, figuring stuff out, meeting people so I'd like my children to have a shot at it too.
I mean yes, I love life right now, but the way we are doing it now, perhaps it wont be sustainable so that we wont be able to enjoy living any longer. Or maybe its coming to a point with all our gadgets and huge isolated houses, we are being stressed out zombies.
Or maybe we are more happy being that way. Or maybe its just me being delusional and thinking that other people are not being happy.
Well my conclusion is that I enjoy living. Its a fun thing to do. Even if it is just because life came up randomly, its still a fun thing to do. I just went bungy jumping. If you are not living to enjoy life then what's the point to living?
If I get out of debt from college loans, and then just work as little as possible to have basics of food, and have fun with friends, then I'd be just as happy if I were a billionaire.
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Society heading towards collapse? Global warming? Obliteration by asteroid impact? Undefined end-of-the-world in 2012?
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So that's were some research comes into play. How happy are people right now? I don't know if people are or not. How stressed out are people? Are the leaders heading us into the right direction? How can I know if they are or not? What would the collapse of society actually mean?
Perhaps the world is doing fine on its own, but since I'm human I can't help but be curious about this. I must ask these kinds of questions or I wont know what direction to apply myself and I will no longer be able to be happy because I'd feel like I wont know what to do next, and if I don't have some grand goal then I'll always be feeling and worrying if the thing that I'm currently doing is the right thing to be doing.
What's the fastest or near optimal way to get where we are going?
Hehe. I suppose I'm turning into a hippie.
