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Besides good health what is better than gold?
 
Doesn't exist. Therefore community is more valuable.
That can be a real problem for some of us who are not joiners. Why give up dependency of the government and then depend on another group?
 
That can be a real problem for some of us who are not joiners. Why give up dependency of the government and then depend on another group?
Haven't you heard? It takes a village. /ducks
 
That can be a real problem for some of us who are not joiners. Why give up dependency of the government and then depend on another group?
Self-sufficiency is impossible. Nobody I know has the ability to provide everything they need for themselves with cooperating with those around them.

In "The Fourth Turning" the authors make a strong argument that the real survivors will be those who are most valuable to their community. If your community depends upon you for their survival, then they will make sure you survive.
 
That can be a real problem for some of us who are not joiners. Why give up dependency of the government and then depend on another group?
My understanding of, "it takes a village" is seeing how everything is truly connected in one way or another. From the power company, your plumbing, "the garbage man" the postal carrier, the food providers etc. all have a roll in a humans upbringing.

Take a village in Africa as a more remote example...still there different people assume different jobs and together, there is a social environment like any other more modern examples. It's just very different in our modernized western world and appears less "village-y" and we may not even realize how influential different people in our day to day or not so day to day life.

An example looking at from an even more micro level, giving that warm, genuine smile and kind voice to the waitress or cashier may have been what they needed to overcome something that impacts their family.

The more one ponders these sorts of interpersonal relationships and intricate fabric like network of society, the more of ones compassion should emerge.

If everyone was selfless and altruistic towards other and we all thought about others before ourselves, what could/would our society envolve into?
 
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I get it... Ill do my job and they can do theirs. We can coordinate. I have just had my fill of human drama. Why are people incapable of having relationships and not having all that drama. Its exhausting.
 
I'm kind and can be selfless. Mostly people just take advantage of it. I just prefer small time periods of interactions with humans. If I have to come back next again I want a monastic life or living in the wild with animals.
 
I'm kind and can be selfless. Mostly people just take advantage of it.
And what happened to Jesus when he was kind and selfless?
Yeah, what you've experienced is in accordance with the nature of the characteristics of the Universe.
Anyone occupying a human skin has endure suffering.

The more one suffers the more karma is burned off & the more virtue one obtains. This is in accordance with yin and yang, a primary principal of the Universe. Mutual generation mutual inhibition. Formation, stasis degeneration, destruction. Birth old age illness and death. All exist to maintain the balance of the Universe.
 
I do understand that but enough is enough
 
I do understand that but enough is enough
The 40% rule...


"99% of people who start a marathon finish. It’s a surprising number, I know, but there’s a reason that it’s so high. It’s called the 40% Rule, a concept used by Navy SEALs to increase mental toughness"

“He would say that when your mind is telling you you’re done, you’re really only 40 percent done. And he had a motto: If it doesn’t suck we don’t do it. And that was his way of forcing us to get uncomfortable to figure out what our baseline was and what our comfort level was and just turning it upside-down.”

The 40% rule, the SEAL explained, is the reason why even though most people hit a wall at mile 16 during a marathon, they’re still able to finish.

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"When you pass the shady willow trees there will be bright flowers and another village ahead"
 
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