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Hashishin13

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Re: Is the world getting better or worse? [Re: weedist]
#14600381 - 06/12/11 11:35 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Be more specific?
-------------------- It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. -George Washington
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PrecariousCibarius
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Re: Is the world getting better or worse? [Re: Hashishin13]
#14600574 - 06/12/11 12:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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my main point since I started posting in this thread is that things are getting worse because as our species continues advancing technologically and consciously, there is a great divide growing between the fundamentals of sentience and the illusions (behavioral/social/ideological what-have-you) that we so readily subscribe to throughout our lives.
it's the whole ego/superego nature v.s. nurture dichotomy. We have (in most major metropolitan areas) really lost touch of the free spirit of existence and have converted ourselves to some form of slavery or indebtedness as a viable means of extracting some kind of intrinsic value from ourselves that doesn't actually exist. But psychologically it's pleasing.
for the common man, ailments like this are growing exponentially in this day and age. ("information" age) We're more concerned with our market value individually than the value of life in some kind of poignant, focused endeavor that our entire species is undertaking as a whole.
yes, humans are special - but we're not that special. mostly i think we're full of shit and confused.. like a smart-ass teenager. (on the large scale)
it's really not worth arguing about though.. just my $0.02. there are a lot of good thoughts in this thread - yours included
Edited by PrecariousCibarius (06/12/11 12:32 PM)
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Hashishin13

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I disagree, I see what your saying but I think that THANKS TO our new technology we have access to so much more then we would have otherwise. For instance my family 500+ years ago living in christian europe would have had precisely zero access to buddhism and the important knowledge I have extracted from it.
They lived in fear of a fictional deity constantly watching and judging them, ready to doom them to hell for all iternity for a slight lapse in judgement.
They lived their lives toiling away and putting up with governmental and religious abuse under the pretense that if they didn't they were doomed.
Your worried about how most people ignorantly live their lives like cogs in the machinery of society, well I'm telling you now that we are much more able to free ourselves from that fate today then we EVER have been in the past.
-------------------- It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. -George Washington
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PrecariousCibarius
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Re: Is the world getting better or worse? [Re: Hashishin13]
#14602378 - 06/12/11 06:23 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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eh - cool thought. spirituality was/is a pretty significant road to philosophical well-being. good points. i gotta go post up an ID request.
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