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State take Fingerprint; Is it right?
Topic Started: Jul 16 2008, 09:17 AM (763 Views)
Tristan da Cunha
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Jul 22 2008, 08:44 AM
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Modern man is obsessed with material plenty.


Only because he knows what it is, and knows he does not have it. Once men reach a certain level of wealth, material plenty seems to be the last thing on their minds - they become the Warren Buffets of the world.
That's not true. It's never a certain level of wealth that causes people to become indifferent to material plenty; it's a certain age. Warren Buffett is a very old man and his only conundrum is his mortality and how he will face it. If he can live thousands of years and remain forever youthful, he will never stop seeking ways to accumulate more and more wealth. But he isn't immortal and he realizes that all his billions will mean nothing to him, in the grand scheme of things; that's the only reason he appears to you to be "indifferent" about his wealth.

That is not to say physical immortality cannot be achieved, because recent scientific advances have certainly suggested to us that it can.

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Under a technocratic society, material plenty will be so pervasive, technology so overabundunt, that the process of acquiring more and more loses any meaning, and men return to a spiritual, philosphical, and artistic way of life.


A technocratic society assumes material plenty is a prerequisite for human contentment and spiritual progress. In reality material plenty is exactly the thing a human runs away from if he wants to seek true contentment and spiritual progress. In other words, material plenty corrupts and fatally weakens man. Spiritual, philosophical, and artistic speculation generated in a technocratic society of plenty are all based on naive assumptions. To break one's dependence on material plenty, to become indifferent to poverty and wealth, would be a true and formidable spiritual advancement. Only then in this spiritually enlightened state, and never in a technocratic society of plenty, does "the process of acquiring more" truly lose its meaning.
Edited by Tristan da Cunha, Jul 29 2008, 10:40 PM.
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Tristan da Cunha
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Jul 23 2008, 09:16 AM
And yet the cycle of boom-bust continues, limiting human potential in the longterm.

The worship and pursuit of the idol of "human potential" is as meaningless as the pursuit of many other idols in history. There really is no point to any of mankind's schemes - whether maximizing human potential, maximizing individual freedom, maximizing social equality, or any of the other "Schemes For Maximizing" we have designed in the recent past.
Edited by Tristan da Cunha, Jul 29 2008, 10:40 PM.
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East Anarx
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TC, your posts tend to alternately annoy, anger, and deeply depress me.
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Tristan da Cunha
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My living room is wafting with the pungent odor of burning incense if that's any consolation.
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Tristan da Cunha
Jul 29 2008, 10:37 PM
My living room is wafting with the pungent odor of burning incense if that's any consolation.
As is mine. ^^
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Tristan da Cunha
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Either I'm pursuing an arcane dimension of mysticality and anti-rationality or I'm trying to cover up the odor of despicable moldy and rotten food that my roommate allowed fester throughout the apartment.
Edited by Tristan da Cunha, Jul 30 2008, 04:22 PM.
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I don't think that is the odor E is covering up! :evil: Also, has anyone besidesd me noticed how upitty E has become since he's gotten laid??
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Jul 30 2008, 04:14 PM
I don't think that is the odor E is covering up! :evil: Also, has anyone besidesd me noticed how upitty E has become since he's gotten laid??
Uppity!? Me!? :o :whistling: :hypocrite:
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