in reply to OT: How to Spoil a nice place to live

< 2cents> Modern people (especially those who watch TV shows like Ophrah) come under the delusion that "it's their right to have a perfect life in modern society"). The truth is that this "wonderful world we have created" is full of "bad karma", some we inherit from our ancestors, some we have created ourselves.(Wars,killings,resource extraction,displacement of the poor off of their lands, etc) The karma comes back to "haunt" all of us, and we experience it in different ways. There is no way to avoid it...if it wasn't Nannette, it would be something else, to be a "thorn in your side".

The lesson is all of this, should be to ask yourself.."how did I get into this situation?" ..."what is the root cause of the bad karmic occurences"...and "how do I elevate myself above it?"

Have you ever thought about challenging the concept of "the ownership society?". The whole concept of renters and landlords is a bizarre,sick, master-slave relationship. Condos are not much different.

Humans were meant to live in inter-dependent tribes of around 100 people. We now are living in non-tribal camps of strangers, who share no interdependencies, and are over-crowded. They will fight like "rats in a cage". </2cents>

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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Re^2: OT: How to Spoil a nice place to live
by CountZero (Bishop) on Mar 04, 2005 at 16:11 UTC
    Interesting point of view.

    I would have thought the condo could be considered a "tribe" but it seems that not all living there share the same thought.

    May be it could change if all living in the same condo start wearing the same tattoo? That would really bring the tribe together (imagine all people living in the condo joining together to put a tattoo on Nanette)!

    CountZero

    "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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      I would have thought the condo could be considered a "tribe"

      It would probably be one, if everyone was employed by the same company, all their kids went to the same school, and they never wandered farther than they could walk. Then they would band together. See and talk to one another on the walking paths.

      But probably they don't even know each other's name's (except for Nanettes :-) ) And they all head off in different directions every morning in the cars. Not much of a community.

      Some Real Estate developers are setting up nice communities here and there. Most of them are built in a big circle, where you park your cars outside, and walk in. The schools,shopping and work are located in the center. That creates a "bonding effect" and a "sense of common purpose".

      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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Re^2: OT: How to Spoil a nice place to live
by Jenda (Abbot) on Mar 04, 2005 at 17:31 UTC

    Yeah karma, something bad's happening to me, I should contemplate what did I do bad to others. And I should contemplate long enough till I find something. And if I don't it must be something from my previous life. Or maybe a group karma, it's the centuries of slavery and wars of the white men hounting me. What a load of bullshit!

    Life ain't fair, bad things happen to good people just as (if not more) often as to the bad ones. Yeah I should attempt to be kind to others and hope they'll be the same to me, but contemplating what did I (or we) do wrong to deserve the problems is simply stupid.

    BTW if you are not a human you should not be telling us how should we live. Greetings to your kibuc, tribeman.

    Jenda
    We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
    Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
    Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home
       -- P. Simon in Mrs. Robinson

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      bad things happen to good people just as (if not more) often as to the bad ones.

      Whose is to say who is good or bad? You? Who defined "goodness" and "badness"? Some school teachers you had? The "TV"? The point is you need self-introspection, and that leads to the concept of karma. I don't care is you call it bullshit, thats were your "state of karma" is....denial. Thats about normal for modern people who deny their mortality.

      BTW if you are not a human you should not be telling us how should we live.

      I'm not telling you how to live, just pointing out that "an unexamined life is wasted". I'm no "christ figure", I'm not trying to save you. Someone posted an OT post about the "human condition", and I gave my view. I'm sorry if it offended your sensibilities.

      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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