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I feel that I won't be remembered for much. Maybe that is okay.

Maybe it is a more honest way to live and less pretentious. Accept the flaws and selfishness, but be part of improving community.

someone shouldn’t throw a stone to the market because you never can tell who got hit This is a interesting saying as it seems to Lao imply, that if you can target your abuse at an enemy, then it is okay

Is it subtle manipulation, or highly blatant? I think religions recognised how to leverage fear early, and doubled down. As yes, hell on earth is the issue and perhaps instead of dealing with it, we make

Exactly. We can believe what we want, but a universal truth cares nought for our beliefs.

I don't think I give that much on terms of things, but I do with my time and efforts. Like might attract like in some respects, but I am not sure the universe cares too much about what we think.

Imagine moving all the resources away from what we do that harms us, and toward what can help us.

Not just choosing sides, but actively working against others. Look at what happened with you the other day having your money stolen.

And those groups would eventually be swallowed up to the point they are meaningless - like now.

I think that it may already be too late. I think so too. We have accepted our fate as losers.

No idea

Hmm, it is our nature to always find something to do at our leisure time How much leisure time does it take before it becomes detrimental? It is in our nature to like sugar too.

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Sure it varies - but who would choose the lifegoal of consuming short-form content that is irrelevant to life? :D

I don't think so. But something will come, right? Maybe we are just the next dinosaurs.

I have to wonder who actually reads headlines from a newspaper (or news feeds as it may be now) and thinks they're "well-informed"? My dad would. He would hear one line from something and then

Trailer is on the list of things to get, as is a towball. We borrow our neighbour's.

They say that "necessity is the mother of invention" but being poor makes one more creative also :D

I guess it is back to doing the laundry :