"From the last three lines of your post, I'm assuming you are applying the "better safe than sorry" mentality to life-rights over all of time. This addresses points 3) and 5) of my post on Wed 5/15, but does not address points 1),…"
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A thought provoking thought exercise.
Just for the sake of fun and to get myself used to writing for an audience again. I thought I'd make up a little experiment for everyone to participate in.
What exactly I'm trying to show everyone with this is.... going to have to remain a secret for right now. I kind of don't want to run the chance of people realizing what it is I'm up to and messing it up for the sole sake of messing it up. If this actually gets any participants I'll clue you in at the end of the week
And on to the fun part!
First person to post a reply gets the honor of getting the ball rolling by answering the question.
What is the perfect Utopia society?
Now the kicker to this is, you have to get your point across in 80 words or less.
From that point on everyone else who posts is free to either.
1. Agree with the previously designed Utopia and make a defense of it.
or.
2. Criticize it and present your own idea Utopia.
However, same with the first poster, You are limited to making your point in 80 words or less.
When the thread has either died down, or a week has passed, I will reveal the goal of this little experiment.
Edit: Noticed a good number of the replies going over the word count. as it's essential to the experiment, http://www.wordcounttool.com/ is a good way to measure how many words you're using.
More than 80 and you need to shorten it.
Also, I hadn't thought about it before, but no outside links. Stick purely to your own words for this one.
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Permalink Reply by Merity Z on -
A Utopian society by definition is already perfect and can't exist, but assuming you meant a society striving for perfection (while still existing), I would have to quote a great philosopher of our time...
"The perfect Utopian society is one where humans don't exist." -Lore
The next step in primate evolutionary will have better luck.
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Permalink Reply by steven.a.a.bauer on -
"The perfect Utopian society is one where humans don't exist"
You guys are such pessimists. If a dystopia is one in which we are either ruled or replaced by machines...then Utopia is where we make machines our bitches.
I have a picture of our governmental structure too :)
http://ipowerproject.com/photo/world-governments?context=user
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Permalink Reply by Bruno Lavos on -
Resource Based Economy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KphWsnhZ4Ag
THE VENUS PROJECT
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
Period!
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Permalink Reply by Lore on -
Resource based economy. So instead of competing with each other for money, it will be resources instead.
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Permalink Reply by Bruno Lavos on
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Question Everything!
First read the whole story... then you ask questions...
Facebook: Bruno Lavos
add me, maybe? ;)
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Permalink Reply by steven.a.a.bauer on
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I don't think it's impossible to obtain an "unselfish" group mentality. First we have to ask what it means to work in a group. When I work in a group, it is beneficial to my own survival (the only thing I really care about) because others can do what I cannot...and if we automate everything, then I am left with the choice of getting along with others or face the wrath of the group. This is seen much more in smaller groups like families. I'm waiting and hoping for the world to become a family. Americans may have a difficult time pulling it together, but I doubt the rest of the world will have so much trouble. I have heard it said many times that you do not have to convince the weak to join together against the strong. You do have to convince the strong to combine to join against the weak. If nothing else, ego will destroy itself because it too is unsustainable.
The real question isn't who is going to win out: group or individual. The real question is how can we balance the 2 so that neither are sacrificed. And while daunting, it is not impossible. It takes responsibility from both the group and the individual. Nature has its ways of working things out and if it doesn't...I won't be around to care.
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Permalink Reply by The Shiznit on -
In the beginning, the Great Monkey in the sky created monkeys in his own image; but there weren't enough bananas to go around, so all the monkeys were constantly fighting each other for them. But then a really smart monkey invented banana farming and there were lots of bananas for everybody and no need to fight for them anymore. So all the monkeys were very happy because they had created their own paradise, and they spent their time playing monkey games with each other and creating monkey art. Some thanked the Great Monkey in the sky for everything; and some decided that there never really was a Great Monkey after all; but everybody agreed that that wasn't important anyway, because they still had enough bananas to eat.
The end. :-)
{128 words... oops!}
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Permalink Reply by Marko Bilić on -
The perfect society is one in which your question does not exist ;)
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Permalink Reply by Lore on
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@ Marko, I see what you did there!
@ Shiz. Praise be to the Great Monkey!
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Permalink Reply by The Shiznit on
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Hallelujah brother! lol
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