It's a forum. You're going to get bad reviews. You can't screen compliments and arguments to your work. It's just not possible. Good luck getting nothing but compliments because your idea is the work of applying observation to everyday life for a brief lapse in time.
Wow, this is like 5 months old, lol. Either way, the reason he posted this i think is because of some of the unfavorable responses. It makes sense, but on the other side of the coin, don't dwell on whats bad, think of whats good
good read. i have a long thought about all this but il keep it short. most people in the world today are arogant, technology is quickly building the foundation of the world around us, and we are on a frenzy to cope with these new conditions, in this process we tend to forget some of the values of life. i mean noone really gave us a book on how to live your life or what is life in the first place. (please spare me the crap about religion, im a proud aethist.) people gotta lighten up, i myself have seen a recent revolution inside my inner space of reality, i have come to believe that the final frontier is not the dominion of space and time, but the recognition of one;s mind. il explain this in more detail, but what the origional poster outlines is all true to today's world. all these things are bad circumstances, and they continue to happen because the individuals who follow them or think them continue to. In my opinion, this is called the LAW OF ATTRACTION, what this law states is that like attracts like in the universe. no matter what you think of this, your opinion really doesnt change the idea, the universe will continue to be what it is whether a human mind thinks different of it. By using this law as the foundation for this debate, you can say that these people who are anxious in their step taking have the wrong mindset. they tend to think that these wrong actions are exactly them, its who they are, and they cant change that. so they continue to think or act that way. LIKE attracts LIKE, so if you continue to think in a negative fashion, you will slowly see that your mind will attract negative thinking patterns and your subconscience will set the stage for your surroundings to accomodate your negative thinking. this is why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. the rich man usualy finds a way to make profitable money, this wealth of knowlage is accesible to even the poorest of people, but those poor people tend to look at rich people as fakes, or filthy, so they tend to think that what they have in the world right now is what they were destined to have. so their thinking patterns blocks out any possible chance for them to get richer. its a long read, i have alot more insight to this, but the readers of this forum dont generaly have the patience or the time to read any further. enjoy
Actually i read it alot of times before and the last sentence is my favorite quote or sentence that is.
well, I was thinking that it was ok until I saw "compliments only please." it seems that even though you can post a grim viewpoint on the world, you can't seem to rise above it. if you're gonna ask for comments, you have to accept the good with the bad, or you're simply a hipocrite. today's society, at least in america, is one that rewards avarice over philanthropy. and to be honest, I can't think of a time where this wasn't the case. sure you hear about the people that are doing good occasionally, but you hear about the successful people that aren't so good a lot more often. a lot of business-people would tell you that avarice is a good characteristic. that you need a mentality like that to get ahead. and getting ahead is all that matters. there are people out there who enjoy the simple things in life. my girlfriend (I have one! oh noes! ) comes from a rural family that owns a farm. they don't have a huge house or fancy cars, but they live a life that to me seems ideal. they do honest work, with their hands, and their success or failure is, for the most part, their own. and that appeals to me greatly that being said, my gf also owns a t-shirt that says "screw a farmer. everyone else does." and sadly, its true. I wont go into that. my point is that there are people out there living moral, honest lives. and we never hear about that. except in the occasional sob-story or carefully portrayed set-piece in the nightly news broadcast or even on ESPN. also, these days, life is a LOT more complex than it used to be. if people ever lived up to those ideals (and I have a hard time believeing there was ever a time in human history like that), they have quite a bit more to worry about these days. life used to be more about survival than anything, and people seemed to get along more because it helped them not to die. now, thats not the case. people don't need to rely on their neighbors for protection, for services, for food, for anything, because those things can all be gotten somewhere else for the same price, if not cheaper, and if not cheaper, then easier. people did those things because they had to. and even then they had the same problems as we do now. greed. hate. treason. it's sad to admit, but the word has never lived up to that ideal. it's all well and good to post about it on a forum, but you need to be out there living that life, and positing that we need to return to some sort of ideal yester-year is just stupid. there was no yester-year. life has always been the struggle, and you're not the first person to point that out. even when all a person had to worry about was living until the next year, a good harvest, and maybe finding someone to live out their desperately short life with, things were as you describe. as technology advances, our woes multiply, but things stay the same. same s---, different century. same s--- different weapons. same s---, different people. I guess the most important thing in life is living a good life. and because that seems to be what you're telling us to do, I'll agree. but only because I'm nice
