So what is it all about???.............

[james777]

I'm sitting here in my comfortable home, on my comfortable couch, in front of my 57 inch 1080i Panasonic TV, I have an XBOX 360 a PS2 more movies than I can watch a stereo, music, pictures on the wall, nice lamps, nice carpet a nice car outside to drive and I have total peace.

Now, if I go outside and drive 2 blocks down, I see people digging through the trash for food, living on the streets or make-shift homes, begging for money, starving, fighting, stealing and even killing.

This blows my mind, why am I privileged and others are not? Or maybe others are privileged and I am not. Who's living real life? Who's getting the most out of what they have? What is it all about?

[herebynightfall]

I'm sitting here in my comfortable home, on my comfortable couch, in front of my 57 inch 1080i Panasonic TV, I have an XBOX 360 a PS2 more movies than I can watch a stereo, music, pictures on the wall, nice lamps, nice carpet a nice car outside to drive and I have total peace.

total peace in what sense? in the fact that you are content with the 'life' that you were 'born' into.

i'm not exactly the 'wealthiest' person. and i am content with my setup at home as well. and have way way less material objects than you do.

so, what's it all about?

that is the part where you look deep inside yourself truly.

[james777]

total peace in what sense? in the fact that you are content with the 'life' that you were 'born' into.

i'm not exactly the 'wealthiest' person. and i am content with my setup at home as well. and have way way less material objects than you do.

so, what's it all about?

that is the part where you look deep inside yourself truly.

Peace as in total comfort in my surroundings. I'm proud of what I have and worked hard for all of it, but why? It doesn't make me any different than anyone else. Perhaps I'm too comfortable here and am missing out on the life that I'm supposed to have.

[baron von lotsov]

James

Having read a few of your posts you seem to be saying quite a bit of sense in my opinion about applying morals to everything you do and in that way you are able to prosper. In a perfect world this would work easily but as you are likely to be aware, in this day and age money has become more of of direct measure of how much you have personally contributed to doing the system's bidding. For example if you were a stockbroker you would likely be far richer than a nurse, who is in my opinion doing far more good, but almost without exception the very highly paid are because they are a part of this Babylon.

So how do you fit into that then? Do you do a job that is against your moral principles or were you in some way lucky? I mean going by my personal experiences I found that a change in attitude about money and the importance of it and also the realisation my previous job was not giving out any good to the world resulted in me becoming lucky a few years back. It was very much counter-intuitive really because giving up doing a job that was making me money but causing quite a lot of stress actually resulted in my personal predicament improving no end. Instead of living in a squalid flat in an inner city crime ridden area I now live in a house with a beautiful garden in a quiet spot in the country. I could have so easily have been homeless just before that, indeed about one month away from it.

[eternal_spirit]

Everyone should be paid the same wages, regardless of what job they do. This is the one way that everyone has the chance to be equal, it's never been tried in this society we live in. People wouldn't need to be as decietfull.

[Anders Lindman]

I'm sitting here in my comfortable home, on my comfortable couch, in front of my 57 inch 1080i Panasonic TV, I have an XBOX 360 a PS2 more movies than I can watch a stereo, music, pictures on the wall, nice lamps, nice carpet a nice car outside to drive and I have total peace.

Now, if I go outside and drive 2 blocks down, I see people digging through the trash for food, living on the streets or make-shift homes, begging for money, starving, fighting, stealing and even killing.

This blows my mind, why am I privileged and others are not? Or maybe others are privileged and I am not. Who's living real life? Who's getting the most out of what they have? What is it all about?

The trick is both to be able to own a Wii and to have people not having to starve. The idea that I can only be wealthy when others are starving to death is old-school thinking. A good economy would allow for people to have a lot of wealth AND make sure that people who are not super-wealthy at least have food and homes. Anything below that is a primitive society.

[Anders Lindman]

Everyone should be paid the same wages, regardless of what job they do. This is the one way that everyone has the chance to be equal, it's never been tried in this society we live in. People wouldn't need to be as decietfull.

I think it would be better to have a minimum income for people and still have a competitive market economy that allowed people to get rich. As it is today it is way too difficult for poor people to rise above that level and all too easy for those who are super rich to get even super richer, ridiculously rich. That's not a competitive market. That's a lopsided pyramid market.

[neutron flux]

I'm sitting here in my comfortable home, on my comfortable couch, in front of my 57 inch 1080i Panasonic TV, I have an XBOX 360 a PS2 more movies than I can watch a stereo, music, pictures on the wall, nice lamps, nice carpet a nice car outside to drive and I have total peace.


You have more tools of distraction and mind control than the next person - well done - your life seems to be one big bubble of entropy - what's the end result? I suppose you'll have to wait and see. Just remember it could all be gone in an instant - then what?

[cruise4]

Good Slave Bad Slave - thats what its currently all about. If you can be content whilst all about lose their heads, then thought and empathy may have gone walkabouts.

[graflok]

I'm sitting here in my comfortable home, on my comfortable couch, in front of my 57 inch 1080i Panasonic TV, I have an XBOX 360 a PS2 more movies than I can watch a stereo, music, pictures on the wall, nice lamps, nice carpet a nice car outside to drive and I have total peace.

Now, if I go outside and drive 2 blocks down, I see people digging through the trash for food, living on the streets or make-shift homes, begging for money, starving, fighting, stealing and even killing.

This blows my mind, why am I privileged and others are not? Or maybe others are privileged and I am not. Who's living real life? Who's getting the most out of what they have? What is it all about?

You live in a ghetto war-zone and you think you're privileged?