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Capitalism and socialism both share a basis in the idea that economic growth and production are inherently desirable. For that reason, both have a tendency to f-ck everything up. Fuck what up? Which system do you think produces enough growth to permit you your leisure? Your lifestyle is made possib...

This ties back to your other post about rebellion and if, when and how the revolution will begin. Actually, even revolution leads to the same things over again, until another revolution. The system should be repaired within the current framework. Given the laws of nature (human and otherwise), aren...

Though capitalism may, on the surface, seem to be a perfect ideology, it is no different from socialism, which also seems a perfect ideology on the surface. Ultimately, the human element - our greed, our envy, our vanity and narrow-mindedness - leads to both these systems being rendered inefficient...

If you want to know the truth shut-up. I hear what you're getting at... especially in a buddhist meditation kind of way. In general, there is often too much talk and not enough thought. But this is a forum with an apparent focus on thinking and sharing thought, so you're advice might fall on deaf.....

David Quinn wrote:What about square circles?

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Giant dwarfs? That's just word games, but okay.... how about everything's possible *except the self contradictory. Or there might be a universe where up is down, black is white, tall is short and when you ask someone to draw 4 squares, they scribble O O O O

Under what circumstances could the restrictions time and space be completely removed? The question was "Is everything possible?" not "Is everything possible in Chicago at the corner of fifth and main at 4:22 pm? Imagining different forms never seen before does not create them, it onl...

Some might be skeptical that your first post is a question without much background detail, but what the hell? Anything is possible assuming the conditions that lead to it are possible, right? All conditions are not necessarily fixed or known however and any conditions are theoretically possible (ie....

As far as movies which meet the criteria inspirational or life changing, them's slim pickin's to be sure. Even the more cerebral and philosophical flics mentioned above hardly had me leaving the theatre invigorated with a new sense of passion and purpose. The ones that made any impression beyond mer...

There is nothing more disrespectful than lying to someone's face (and thus to yourself) to keep conflict at bay, or to grope for approval, or to escape fear of tension. Do you need people around you to be happy for you to be happy? Sometimes conflict is futile, at best you wont get anywhere, at wor...

Arek, have you read Animal Liberation by Peter Singer? He delves into these issues. Amongst other things, he points out that the difference between the most intelligent animals and the least intelligent humans is minimal (and the logical consequences of that). He also argues that while the senses of...

This is another great topic. How can our species advance until we can recognize that we are able to talk ourselves into believing certain things because we want to believe them? (Or worse yet, what if our species advanced because we were able to do this?) We obviously have a built in "safety sw...

Since no one seems motivated to tackle this, I'll bite. When you think of people who might be considered intellectually enlightened, do you you think of those people as highly motivated? Or do you think solely of people (like your example - Arnie) who are motivated to other achievements involving mo...

Ignius, is it possible people are getting frustrated by your rather abundant postings of late? I don't think your discovery is shit at all. I think it's a fox hole that leads to the other side of this illusion we call life. Everyone has their own entry point of discovery, and maybe this language thi...

Hello Volta. Welcome to Genius Forum. Thanks Another example is when I moved into a new house, and one of the first things the neighbor said to me was "let me know if my dog barking bothers you". This kind of thing has happened to me. It could be that the reason he asked you that question...

Been lurking here and decided to join in the conversation, so my first post is on this interesting subject. The older I get, the more I realize how much is being said with our words (never mind all the visual clues, and verbal tones etc... which others have mentioned). It took me until my late thirt...