A list of realities I feel people need to accept more often in this world: · 12:35am Oct 19th, 2014
1. Money makes the world go round. Everybody needs it, but not everybody is going to get it.
2. Most people are the cause of their own problems and blame others for their situation.
3. All of us have selfish and dark desires
4. If the choice you or others like you have made doesn’t work out, just remember you voted for it to happen. So part of the blame is on you.
5. A person of faith needs no proof while a person not of faith will always demand it.
6. There will always be some form of prejudice in the world.
7. The minority always have the loudest voices and make things seem worse than they are.
8. Corruption is in everything and It’s what keeps the world running.
9. You have to be dirty if you want to be in politics.
10. You will always die with at least one regret.
11. Nothing is impossible because everything that is possible now was impossible a thousand years ago.
12. Humanity will always put itself first. Survival and comfort are bred into us.
13. More than half of people will never get to see their dreams come true.
14. There is truth in profiling because various people do act similar in various ways.
15. People have power, the problem is they don’t use it and let others do it for them.
16. Nothing is ever easy, but you can make it less hard.
17. You will always carry traits of your parents, like it or not.
18. All beings are driven by desire.
19. All beings have faith in something. Some even have faith in a god, themselves ,or science, or others, or nothing.
20. All human beings have some measure of good in them no matter how evil. And all human beings have some measure of evil in them no matter how good.
21. We will always want to be right, no matter how wrong we are.
22. Nothing will last forever. Nothing.
Agree or Disagree?
How do you know that any of these are true?
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I don't, but I choose to believe they are
1. Agree
2. Agree
3. Agree
4. Agree, however small it may be.
5. Agree
6. Sadly, agree
7. Most times, but not all the time, eg net neutrality
8. I can't argue with that, but I feel like I should.
9. Sadly, agree
10. True
11. Agree
12. Agree, but that does not mean we won't put others before ourselves.
13. Again, sadly agree
14. Agree
15. Agree
16. Agree
17. Agree
18. Agree, but sometimes that desire is to better others.
19. Agree
20. Agree
21. Agree
22. Disagree. As a catholic, I believe that god lasts forever.
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I never said the desire had to be aimed at a person. Just desire itself. And as for the last one, Eternity is the opposite of Reality. And as Catholics we believe in the concept of Eternity, therefor Eternally triumphs over Nothing.
I think part of the reason that money causes people so much confusion and misery is because they don't understand what it is on a fundamental level.
Money, ultimately, is a measure of value; money is about facilitating the trade of value between people, and making it so that you don't have to provide something specific in return to anyone you want something from. As such, it is ultimately constrained by the limitations of reality - the amount of money is linked to the amount of value people produce which others are willing to pay for.
One of the keys to playing to win is understanding that ultimately, you need to blame yourself first for your failures. You are, after all, the only part of the system that you can force change in.
I dunno about that, really. Impulses, perhaps, but desires? I don't think I actually have any dark desires.
Selfishness isn't actually a bad thing anyway; what is bad is undue selfishness at the cost of others.
Depends, really. It is also worth noting that just because you made the right choice doesn't mean that it works out for you.
It should also be noted that inaction is itself action of a sort.
It would be more correct to say "loudness does not equate to prevalence".
Oh no, corruption doesn't keep the world running at all; it is more of a systemic issue. A system without corruption is, in fact, superior to one without it; the problem is that it is hard to run a large organization without some folks being corrupt.
That's simply untrue. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, "No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty."
Well, of course: that you died. Though I have no plans to do so, even if world mortality rate is holding steady at 100%.
As I like to say, "Impossible is just a word used by others to describe that which they do not want to admit that they themselves cannot do."
That being said, there are things which are literally impossible; that, however, involves physical limitations. If you're just talking about the merely improbable, it isn't the same thing.
First before what, exactly? I think humans are entirely capable of seeing other things as people, there just aren't any other people on the planet.
Yet.
Depends on how lame their dreams are.
It depends on the profiling; some is true, some is not.
I wouldn't even say that they let others use it for them; a lot of them don't self-actualize at all.
Lots of things are easy.
No. Faith in God and faith in yourself are entirely different things; they may appear to be the same word, but in reality they're two entirely different words (well, usually; some people do believe in themselves in the same sense that they believe in God. It tends to end poorly).
I want to be correct. Changing my point of view to the correct one is the only way to do that.
Depends on your definition of "thing", "last", and "forever".
Agree.
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I always like reading your comments. They are so interesting
8. Corruption is in everything and It’s what keeps the world running.
I don't think my dog is corrupted... so disagree?
Not necessarily so. Reagan and Gov LePage are a couple examples of clean, in my opinion.
That may be so, but I will NEVER give up on my dreams
Ehh, I think, besides the atoms that fall into a black hole (cause who knows what craziness happens in there) everything will exist for ever.
Just kind of cold and dead.
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Any bad habits your dog has?
2542203 No, because we trained her well.
1. Semi-agree? I find this one hard to answer because it isn't really money we need, it's the things money can buy.
2. ...Agree.
3. Agree.
4. Agree.
5. I feel like this one doesn't really say anything. It's just highlighting how some people value proof and observable evidence over just choosing to believe something because they can.
6. That's just human nature, isn't it :P
7. Jews in the early 1940s would like to have a word with you.
8. Disagree.
9. You don't have to be dirty to be a politician, you just (probably) have to be dirty to be a successful one.
10. Disagree on a technicality. I suppose if we're going with dying at age 20 or something then sure, I'll agree.
11. Highly disagree.
12. Agree.
13. Agree. However, dreams do change over time, so probably over 90% of people won't reach the dreams they had when they were 5, but as they grow, their dreams will become more and more attainable as they lower their standards to realistic proportions.
14. If you're talking about stereotyping, then yes, they are often based on fact and could be proven again to justify the existence of the stereotype.
15. So you're saying everyone has power but some people are lazy?
16. Agree, within reason.
17. I don't know if it's possible not to, since if you're born of human parents you're gonna have their genetics, so you will at LEAST have some of their physical features.
18. This is an interesting philosophical theory about how all living creatures are motivated solely by pleasure.
Here, hedonism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism
19. I guess?
20. If good and evil is somehow objective, this is correct, but if it's not, this is probably still true, but pretty debatable.
21. Disagree. I've desperately wanted to be wrong before in times I was right.
22. I don't know. Probably agree.
A lot of these are fairly vague. We could say there are exceptions to every rule, so I guess with regards to that, it's an alright list.
Bitter much?
2542205 A free canine spirit corrupted by human interference, being forced to do mundane and unnatural tasks like sitting when being told to sit.
OH, THE HORROR!
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If you're talking about Ronald Reagan, he was known as "the Teflon president" with pretty good reason - the Iran-Contra affair was arguably actually treasonous, the Housing and Urban Development scandal of rigged contracts granted to his campaign supporters was a big problem, there were all sorts of issues with the EPA, the Inslaw affair where members of his administration pirated a program, driving the company in question into bankruptcy and then his attorney generals refused to investigate, and the Savings & Loan crisis involved the government bailing fraudsters out to the tune of $125 billion.
Now, to be fair, the degree to which the S&L crisis was his fault is debatable, but the other ones directly involved him or members of his administration. The Iran-Contra thing in particular was really bad.
I'm actually going to disagree here, considering how many of those of faith pull out the book and stories whenever an argument over science starts... And the signs, intelligent design, and whatever else they choose to disprove the others. I don't mean to offend, but I find both sides of that argument to be silly, considering religion and science are opposites in application.
So yeah, people of faith tend to back up their book with proof if challenged. At least that's what experience has taught me.
2542141 LePage? Clean?
There's two words I never thought would be uttered together. He may be an okay governor, but the things he says sometimes...ugh.
2543454 He is BRUTALLY honest. He may have a foul mouth at times, but he is completely honest about what he says... remember the crap that went down with Bangor Daily News wanted ALL personal info on ALL concealed carry permit holders given to them to publish, and he went on TV, displayed his own CCW card, and said that was the ONLY one he would reveal to them?
THAT level of honesty...
2543469 there's a difference between brutally honest and shamefully rude.
But, I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
LOOK KIDS, WE JUST DID MORE THAN CONGRESS CAN DO! COMPROMISE!
Let me ask you something: Can sins never die?
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Yes, they can die
This list calls it Faith. Mage: The Ascension called it Paradigm. I call it World View.
The idea is the same, however. Everyone has ideas about how reality works, and those ideas color how they perceive and interact with the world. People act with their world view in mind, and their interpret events within the system they develop. This is true of everyone. No exceptions.
Yes, even me and even you.
11 directly contradicts 16 and 22 since logically it should be possible to eventually make something last forever. Also for 16 we already have plenty of things made easy. Usually by the work of others in some form, or even our own earlier work, but a microwave is one material example, and the dewey decimal system for the more esoteric finding a book.
7 should be the loudest voices on an issue are always a minority of those involved and/or concerned and make things seem worse than they are. I'd also add this is true for both/all sides of an issue.
19 should be and/or rather than or
14 it's still a bad idea to use it in a country where innocent until proven guilty is the law of the land. It tends to lead to really bad mistakes.
8 is a case of a does not lead to b. Even if we assume corruption is everywhere, which is arguable, that it keeps the world running is just silly. Just because the world works this way doesn't mean it has to. 11 applies to the second half here too, just because we haven't gotten rid of corruption yet doesn't mean it's impossible.
21 everyone who has ever thought, I'm about to die and not been proven wrong would disagree.
4 is true, but it varies a lot how much. Even though I don't agree with it your own 8 suggests one obvious reason why.
9 I just don't believe this is true even if it is really just me being too optimistic.
13 this is impossible to know for sure because you'd have to have a good sample of people that have been honest about all there dreams. Though it does to seem safe to say there are a lot of people who on some level still want to be a fireman/race car driver/policeman/astronaut but aren't.
5 there is such a thing as lazy atheists who don't care about proof.
and I agree with everything else.