If you could remove just one evil from the world - what would it be?
I think that things like greed tend to be motivated by fear (a fear of not having enough or being enough to be loved, what have you). I was thinking that by removing the mind set that creates the financial system and specifically money, you could remove the fear of lack or want that motivates greed. Perhaps a simpler solution would be to remove unnecessary or unwarranted fear. Fear itself can serve a purpose, its good to fear say a hungry lion not in a cage so we can't eliminate that but maybe to make it so that it is proportional to the actual risks?
Either way, when EF is online again, we shall have to break out the claret, you can drink mine tho as I am preggars and baby wouldn't like it
Money creates greed, power and evil thoughts. Agree with kirstenblog, without money, you won't attract any 'evils' in life. Just be happy and contented, this is the basic teachings of the Buddhism
I would remove corruption of Leaders (politicians).
There shenanigans affect the whole country. They keep money in Swiss Accounts abroad and increase rates of oil etc as they please because they answer to no one. Even govt contracts are only awarded to their friends and family.
If corruption could be removed from the world - a lot of people will be able to live comfortably on their salary.
Nice Post.Have you ever seen any of these tribes where the people have never even seen money before let alone have to use it?
I wouldn't say that life is bliss for these people, illness and hunger can effect them just the same as it does the super rich in the developed world. The difference is, how their societies work, I wish I had had the tribal life that these people can have. When a child looses their parents, they aren't orphans left to make their own way in the world, the whole tribe becomes their family and everyone makes sure they learn the skills they need that they would have gotten from parents. It doesn't look like a very bad way of living at all to me, more of an all for one and one for all way to live and I think we are really missing out on something with our self centred monetary system. My only problem is my learned fear of spiders and other creepy crawlies!
If I could happily see them as food.... I could go tribal in an instant
Actually, I was advocating an ignorance free world. AND my original comment said nothing about a money free world. It was something to do with...If people can't buy food... sorry, geuss you can't read... so much for doing away with ignorance.
Oh man! I missed out on the chance to debate over some Claret! You would have had to drink mine tho as I am preggars
. Well maybe next time I wonder if there have ever been any non-tribal societies that didn't have money? I can't think of a single one, every other social construct seems to have a system of currency, be it beads or coins or paper money. This idea of something of realistically speaking no value representing something of actual value is an odd one to me.
Oh wait! Star Trek didn't have money! They look pretty good to me
(sadly they are totally fictional LOL)
I think you hit the nail on the head with the thought 'do the ends justify the means?'. As they say 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'. And for you my tribal dream is your hell so I guess you don't have to buy me a ticket to some remote region of the world where people have never seen money yet
I can think of a few posters here in the forums than must have had them!
There goes the money again!!!
Yes, I'm afraid once I get on my soapbox, I'm a rambler.
No, but lawyers, absolutely!
None taken. It really is and that's precisely why it would never work. In theory, it's perfect. But the reality is man is the key component.
Hi Castlepaloma,
I interpreted the OP literally. Not to remove one worldly evil, but to remove one evil from the world. The world. My world. Same thing, right?
Think globally, act locally.
With that evil eradicated I would work my way out in concentric rings of evil.
AE - everytime I see your avatar I thing I'm looking at a young Kirstie Alley. The one who played in Cheers.
- I knew someone would catch the meaning eventually.
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