:+: My Philosophy on Life and What the Future Holds :+:
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My basic philosophy:
This can be summed up rather nicely by a couple of things I'm fond of saying:
If you learn, but do not teach, take, but do not give, you suck!
Hey, I have no problem with people who are disabled either physically or mentally who can't work getting what they need to survive. I just don't like people who are leeches who learn things, but don't try to do anything nice for others with that knowledge, or try to pass it on. Most people who learn things only see how they can use what they've learned to make money.
If life isn't any fun, then what's the fun of living?
One of my favorite Science Fiction writers named Robert A. Heinlien said in one of his books "Eat, drink, and be merry. Moderation is for monks" but while I like the idea of trying to get as much pleasure out of life as possible, taking those words to the extreme has consequences.
If you eat too much, you're going to end up at a very un-healthy weight.
If you get too drunk, you might drive over somebody when you're drunk and/or under the influence of drugs.
If you laugh too much, they'll probably haul you away. Crying is okay (in society's eyes, anyway. I'd rather see people happy, myself), but laughing for a long period of time makes people think that you're crazy. After all, there's not too many sane people that can laugh about life in this crappy world filled with people who screw you over every way they can. There's an old saying: "Cry for an hour in public and nobody will bother you. Laugh for 15 minutes and they'll come to take you away." Sad, but true.
There's a saying I'm fond of that goes like this:
An ye harm none, do what ye will.
That's closer to my own philosopy on life, but I like throwing the fun part in, too. :-)
In addition to this, I get upset at hearing about injustice, un-fairness and the mis-use of power, especially when innocents suffer. When I hear about it, I have a tendancy to want to do something about it, even if it's to complain on a Web page. Since I don't have any authority in the real world, maybe there's at least one authority figure or somebody with power who can make a difference, and, after reading what I wrote about, will do something.
But, I'm not holding my breath on this. Most humans are only motivated by greed, power, and lust. Doing what's right is far down on their list, if they can be bothered to think about it at all.
Time and life:
Going to get a little more serious, now...
What matters the passage of time? It is but a measurement of duration from one moment to another. Some live but a few years, others live well over a century, and there are rumors of those within your history of people who live far longer.
But, what truly matters is what you do with the time you have. You could live for thousands of years, watch empires rise and fall, see monuments built one day, and be slowly eroded by the weather over the passing of centuries. When you look to the skies at night, you notice that Luna, or "the moon" as some refer to it, now, is much smaller than it was quite some time ago, and the constellations you once beheld in their full glory and grew drunk on seeing their beauty away from the lights of the cities have slowly changed shape, and stars which formed parts of them have dimmed or vanished, while new ones have formed, where once there was only a dark patch of sky.
However, if you do nothing with the time you have, you are naught but a spectator, like the person who sees the world through his television set and thinks he's a part of the world, when in actuality, he is nothing but an ant watching time march by him.
In time, he too, will be naught but dust, and few will remember he even lived, drew breath, looked at the stars and dreamed but did absolutely nothing to make those dreams real, tried to help others, or to make the world a better place, and those who knew him quickly forget him, and in time, they too, die, and nothing, not even memories, are left of that person.
Please don't quibble with me about the passage of time. Yes, I do procrastinate, am easily distracted, and it sometimes takes me a while to get things done, but I usually do, eventually. The vast majority of you have no idea whatsoever who I am, or judge me solely on appearances when you meet me. Your mistake. ;-) I have experienced, seen, and learned a great many things in my life, and while most people seem interested solely in making as much money as possible, my interests are far more various, I learn things simply because I'm curious, and I spend a lot of my time and energy sharing some of what I've learned by making Web pages, hoping that if I teach enough people some of the things I know, it'll make the world a better place.
Yeah, I'm a dreamer. LOL
How do you know that what I'm saying is the truth? That I am not just another person only interested in making as much money as possible? For starters, I'm not trying to sell you something, and I even went so far as to buy my own domain name so I could have more control over what appears on the site. Put it this way: How many .com sites do you know that don't have ads on each and every one of their pages?
Think about that one for a while...
What the Future Holds:
Within 10 years, your world is going to drastically change. Technology is going to grow exponentially, people's lives will be more controlled as governments and corporations use technology like real ID chip implants to keep track of their comings and goings, what they buy and sell, and who they interact with, while putting fluoride into their water so they won't worry too much about it, their vanishing freedoms and liberty, or for that matter, what's in their water.
Many people drink the tap water, not realizing that there's things like feces, urine, sodium, nitrates, and fluoride in it, which the Nazis in World War II made the people in the death camps drink to make them more docile. But, of course, very few humans who know such things care, or wonder why the main responses others give anymore in regards to anything that isn't overly hyped is "whatever" and "who cares".
Natural resources are going to dry up, the air and water will become more polluted and in most cases, poisoned with chemicals, and a great many people will die from that, disease, and war, as governments, corporations, and people fight over what's left.
Feel free to enjoy these final fleeting moments of innocent apathy.
They won't last long.
People could change the world, if they wanted to, but they won't. Greed and power matter more to them.
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