Mike9699 wrote:See, there you go again. It doesn't have anything to do with me being a chauvinist. It's just that you aren't very good at arguing so he must let you win all the time. You and Philby couldn't dispute anything I said in my original post. You did focus on the La-La Land comment but were unable to tell me how you would achieve this Utopia except by saying you would inspire people to work which almost resulted in my soft drink exploding out through my nostrils from the laughter. I really don't see any argument here.
I did explain how the inspiration works; however, you're looking at it from taking a common man at their current rate of consciousness and sticking them in an enlightened way of life which would fail horribly. A paradigm shift is something that happens over time and it starts with already high conscious individuals, such as I explained in my second response to you. For instance, with so many people being out of work, losing their homes, you have groups of families who, instead of allowing themselves to consign themselves to the streets, decide to create co-ops where they all go in together and rent a large property, they pool their money on food, share equal work of upkeep, they pool a certain percentage of their wages to live together; therfore, having more money for themselves in savings, but they operate as one family. The current America thought is, "I like my privacy, I couldn't do that." However, there have been many people doing this in Hawaii for a long time, since it's so expensive to live there. Rich people have bought expensive properties and rented out the rooms for cheaper rent, allowing the inhabitants there to work the land and take care of the property for them. Being high conscious and spiritual individuals, they're not trying to sucker their way and take advantage because they understand the laws of the Universe will take care of them by way of good karma.
That's the inspiration, Mike. I don't need a religion or a church to teach me that there are planetary laws in effect!
So people start to do this and it catches on with others and slowly others start to do it. That's how paradigms shift. Look, for instance, at our generation where we got spanked in school, our parents thought nothing of swatting us out in public, even in television shows and it was laughed at. But then along comes the 80s and all of a sudden you get all these parents going "I don't believe in hitting my kids." Then those parents who smacked their kids out in public got the police called on them. Who would have thought in the 70s that would have ever happened not 10 years later?
So of course to the common man, who only thinks about politics and people sucking up money on welfare and how he doesn't want to be responsible for anyone but himself, look at my utopia and think it's a big joke. He doesn't know how to share and when anyone mentions sharing, the first thought he has is all the deadbeats taking advantage. That just shows where his line of thinking is. These are the people who wind up stuck and forgotten in nursing homes and whose kids no longer want to be bothered with him, because that's exactly what he's taught them to do, only care about themselves.
My ex-husband taught me a very valuable lesson. He owns a 6-unit apartment building in Australia. He busted his ass to keep it up with fresh paint, the repairs and maintenance upkept and even the grounds taken care of. He said, when you take care of your property, other people will be inspired to take care of it. Not once has he ever had any problem with any of his tenants. No one has damaged it, all the tenants took care of their units, and he never had any problems renting it out. In 1991, this building which everyone told his mother she should never waste her $18,000 AU on became worth over $1,000,000 AU. He believed that he was honoring his mother by keeping it looking nice.
And all America can think about are the welfare recipients and the illegal aliens. They are too stupid to think that if we were ever invaded that these welfare recipients and these illegal aliens will fight side by side with them to protect this place. That many of these welfare recipients and these illegal aliens make up a good portion of our current military. If I remember history well, we did the same thing with the Germans and the French in the Revolutionary War and the Irish in the Civil War and the Mexican Wars.
So really, it gets old hearing the lack of accountability spiel. You inspire people by giving them respect, you inspire people by giving them something and not give them a reason to take advantage.
I take care of a lot of people and in turn those people I've given to have come back to give back to me in ways you could never imagine. I know slackers when I see them, but I also know a lot of good people who are in pain and having a rough time, these are the people I concentrate on.
I'm freed up at the moment from what I was doing, so we can keep going back and forth with this. I argue quite well, just not when I'm distracted and my old man wants me to do stuff on the Internet for him. Well, I'm done now.
Chaeya
