https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book
This tries to flesh out the problem I see with ET existence (now) or our own (in the future). Do you spend all day lying about? Playing video games? Does your life lose meaning? Do you sit in a recliner in retirement and expire once your job no longer needs you? ( a statistical mortality problem).
He mentions religious rituals but I'm not sure that's gonna work out if most religions fade away. I'd tack this on to an existing thread but can't remember which thread it was wherein it came up.
It's like an old joke: "what do dogs do on their day off?" Or ETs. Or us, someday......
Quote from: Eighthman on May 08, 2017, 08:51:19 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book
This tries to flesh out the problem I see with ET existence (now) or our own (in the future). Do you spend all day lying about? Playing video games? Does your life lose meaning? Do you sit in a recliner in retirement and expire once your job no longer needs you? ( a statistical mortality problem).
He mentions religious rituals but I'm not sure that's gonna work out if most religions fade away. I'd tack this on to an existing thread but can't remember which thread it was wherein it came up.
It's like an old joke: "what do dogs do on their day off?" Or ETs. Or us, someday......
That's why some of us 'eathens think the abundance paradigm won't work
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Seeker
We'll get into too much trouble...Idle hands are the devil's advocates.
Quote from: Eighthman on May 08, 2017, 08:51:19 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book
This tries to flesh out the problem I see with ET existence (now) or our own (in the future). Do you spend all day lying about? Playing video games? Does your life lose meaning? Do you sit in a recliner in retirement and expire once your job no longer needs you? ( a statistical mortality problem).
He mentions religious rituals but I'm not sure that's gonna work out if most religions fade away. I'd tack this on to an existing thread but can't remember which thread it was wherein it came up.
It's like an old joke: "what do dogs do on their day off?" Or ETs. Or us, someday......
The meaningful question is... Do You sit around doing nothing productive because You can't afford to do what You really want to do? I have asked MANY People, who say that if We didn't HAVE to slave to survive on Our planet We would ALL become couch potatoes, if They would choose to do that. If They could do what They really WANT to do. 100% have responded with, "Not ME! I would (fill in the blank with something They can't now afford to do)." It is propaganda by the useless eliters that We would couch potato. Sure, some Few might make that choice - for a while - but MOST of Us would go off doing things We now only WISH We could do.
Quote from: Amaterasu on May 09, 2017, 03:24:23 PM
The meaningful question is... Do You sit around doing nothing productive because You can't afford to do what You really want to do? I have asked MANY People, who say that if We didn't HAVE to slave to survive on Our planet We would ALL become couch potatoes, if They would choose to do that. If They could do what They really WANT to do. 100% have responded with, "Not ME! I would (fill in the blank with something They can't now afford to do)." It is propaganda by the useless eliters that We would couch potato. Sure, some Few might make that choice - for a while - but MOST of Us would go off doing things We now only WISH We could do.
In Ancient Rome, the peeps that didn't have to work hard to survive became couch potatoes; in modern era, there are too many electronic distractions to keep people's butts glued in one spot.
I just do not see being free to do whatever you want being a good thing for the majority of the people.
8)
Seeker
Quote from: the seeker on May 09, 2017, 07:21:39 PM
In Ancient Rome, the peeps that didn't have to work hard to survive became couch potatoes; in modern era, there are too many electronic distractions to keep people's butts glued in one spot.
I just do not see being free to do whatever you want being a good thing for the majority of the people.
8)
Seeker
In ancient Rome They were still under a system run by psychopaths, and did not promote the Betterment Ethic. That Ethic is a key piece in the education of Humanity in TAP. [smile]
I vaguely recall an op-ed piece in the NY Times many years ago that lamented that many rich people didn't know what to do with themselves upon gaining wealth. They mostly ended up doing drugs, in that writer's experience.
I suppose you could consider how pop music culture ends up culling the herd. Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison gone....Santana got into meditation and is still with us. How Keith Richards survived, I have no idea.
Quote from: Eighthman on May 09, 2017, 09:35:31 PM
I vaguely recall an op-ed piece in the NY Times many years ago that lamented that many rich people didn't know what to do with themselves upon gaining wealth. They mostly ended up doing drugs, in that writer's experience.
I suppose you could consider how pop music culture ends up culling the herd. Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison gone....Santana got into meditation and is still with us. How Keith Richards survived, I have no idea.
Indeed, They were not instilled with the Betterment Ethic. Imagine what They might choose if so instilled... Likely not drugs. But Humans today are indoctrinated with the slave's creed, the work "ethic," and the "I got Mine" attitude.