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What would make the world a better place?

What would make the world a better place?

More lovin. If one is busy doing that then there is no time for the bad things that happen. :fluffle:

Nonexistence.

What would make the world a better place?

For you and for me and the entire human race?

For you and for me and the entire human race?

precisely

Free fluffy kittens for everyone.

Seriously, who would want to wage a war or shoot someone when they have a perfectly nice fluffy kitten to tend to?

Polls options re: drugs are pretty ambiguous. Do you mean legal or illegal drugs? Illegal where? How hard? etc.

Free fluffy kittens for everyone.

Seriously, who would want to wage a war or shoot someone when they have a perfectly nice fluffy kitten to tend to?

Or weasels!!
http://theanimalstore.com/images/ferrets2.jpg

Polls options re: drugs are pretty ambiguous. Do you mean legal or illegal drugs? Illegal where? How hard? etc.

Soma?

Soma?

I think that definitely stretches the idea of making the world a better place...

Or weasels!!
http://theanimalstore.com/images/ferrets2.jpg

But... but those are ferrets!!

But... but those are ferrets!!

Yes, yes they are.
Mustela furota. :)

The bane of Rudy Giulani, i'm sure.

If people actually stopped thinking about themselves for a while.

If people actually stopped thinking about themselves for a while.

Yeah, yeah ... but what's in it for me?

Yeah, yeah ... but what's in it for me?

Nothing.

Some of us have virtue you know.

Fewer people. Follow China's one baby policy until the world population is cut in half. Then go to a two baby policy.

Free fluffy kittens for everyone.

Seriously, who would want to wage a war or shoot someone when they have a perfectly nice fluffy kitten to tend to?

I would. I mean, I like cats, but I'm allergic, and so anytime I wasn't tending to the cats I'd be really frustrated with my sinuses. And that frustration would make me KILL THINGS!!!


Well... maybe not...

the poll said click all that apply. well NONE of the options it gave apply, so i didn't click any. what would make this world a better place? a reversal of the erosion of diversity that has taken place, only partialy as a resault of improved communication tecnology, but even more as the resault of the dominance of a culture that romantacizes and rewards aggressiveness while demonizing everything that doesn't kiss the ass of doing so, or that of symbolic value ahead of any and all sorts of real value.

how does symbolic value generate real value out of thin air without connectedness to source real value resources and their means of self renewal?

quite simply, it doesn't. that's why i call it circular illogic.

what would make this world a better place? redeploying the sweat that all of us contribute to keeping it screwed up.

perhapse all of us being a little less gullable to idiological intrests which only serve economic intrests which serve no one and nothing, even in any other then symbolic way, themselves.

there are many common and erronious assumptions that add up to an underlying core of values that amount to a kind of collective suicide wish.

what would make this world a better place? little trains, solar power, and stop lying to ourselves.

an economic of potlatching driven by the natural gratification of creativity.

lowering human firtility accross the board without bias or exception would go a long way toward helping too.

making and keeping infrastructure environmentally harmonious and recognizing the real value of both. and keeping governments busy providing for the kind of physical infrastructure comfort zone depends upon harmonious with nature's cycles of renewal and of course, keeping people from freezing, starving, or beating each other over the head, really the two, only legitimate reasons for them to exist at all in the first place, to be able to start gratuitous wars and become repressive.

knocking down (by not continuing to support and subsidise) diseconomies of excessive scale. where each layer is controlled by the more local one, instead of the all too often other way arround, with all of them existing only to serve the most local one, the individual sentient awaireness.

fewer fences and more places where people can walk that are inviting to do so, and where anyone who feels like it can just lay down and go to sleep when they do without being in anyone else's way when they do.

more micro and ultra light public transportation of sorts that don't require or depend on pavement, and more of them more completely free or close to it. or some other arraingement in trade for helping to maintain them, that doesn't have to involve the movement of symbolic value.

also the ability to have a cat be willing to ride on your sholder as ticket to acceptance and access to decision making.

the most honorable and fully catted members of the local council.

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.../\...

No religion, minimal government and only natural, less-addictive and/or potentially deadly drugs.

Nothing.

Some of us have virtue you know.

You have virtue? News to me. :D

Getting rid of communists, fascists, religious extremists, corrupt politicians. That'll be a good start.

More beer. Beer=Peace. Why else would the Middle East be so fucked up, yet central Europe so peaceful?

Less stupid people.

Nothing.

Some of us have virtue you know.

On NSG?
HAahahahahaAHAHAHAHAAHAHA*snort*HHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA!
Ho!

Oh ... altruism?

j/k.
It'd be great if everyone really could get along.

More government, less religion, more education and especially a little more respect for each other.

Free fluffy kittens for everyone.

Seriously, who would want to wage a war or shoot someone when they have a perfectly nice fluffy kitten to tend to?

best
idea
ever

Fewer self-centered Europeans that hate everything and everyone that even has connections with America or Americans.

Free fluffy kittens for everyone.

Seriously, who would want to wage a war or shoot someone when they have a perfectly nice fluffy kitten to tend to?

Nice idea, won't work though...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/DanteCarberelo/1182977737915.jpg

You have virtue? News to me. :D

Getting rid of communists, fascists, religious extremists, corrupt politicians. That'll be a good start.

:(



But meh. Outside of that, smarter people, less intolerance, less greed and power-lust, less deceit, and less hate. Much less...

Nonexistence.

Cynical

A continent made completely of ice cream.:)

A continent made completely of ice cream.:)

it would have to chocolate and take the place of antarctica but yes it would be a very nice edition to the world.

little people sized trains would replace the automobile. in most places all, or nearly all pavement (other or wider then sidewalks) would be removed and replaced with parks and gardens. (ambulances and firetrucks would use anti-gravity, and police would individually teleport as needed).

it would be unconstitutional to forbid anyone to possess anything they made or grew themselves, but not to forbid the manufacture, sale, or wholesale importation of anything that served no useful purpose other then to be harmful.

needles to say, no military grade weaponry would be produced at all. anywhere.

certain otherwise utilitarian objects could be pressed into such service, should any REAL need to do so, ever actually arrise.

and computers and something like the internet, only a lot less rube goldberg, would completely replace both televison AND voice telephony.

there would be enough shelters and souplines to go arround that no one would ever have to worry about where they were going to sleep or get something to eat. but plenty of places where people could build FOR THEMSELVES whatever they wanted and the materials and toos to do so with.

of course there would be our much lauded craftufacturing centers and mathom houses to make all this possible. and institutes of impure science to explore ever newer ways and means of doing so.

and of course the institution of pujush, the two year sabatical between lower and upper school, would be considered sacred and honored everywhere.

two years, after the nine years of lower school begining at age three, before the begining of upper school, the equivelant of college and university, during which the individual explores life ON THEIR OWN, and makes up their own minds about what to do with the rest of it.

these are the more tecnical details to their more phylosopical foundations mentioned in my earlier post to this thread.

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Once a year, everyone on Earth orgasms simultaneously. *nod*

Free fluffy kittens for everyone.

Seriously, who would want to wage a war or shoot someone when they have a perfectly nice fluffy kitten to tend to?

Someone with horrible cat allergies, like me.

Free fluffy kittens for everyone.

Seriously, who would want to wage a war or shoot someone when they have a perfectly nice fluffy kitten to tend to?
Uhm... do you really want to know?

(Yes, I would. Now, had you said free pussy...)

Nice idea, won't work though...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/DanteCarberelo/1182977737915.jpg

Hehe, this deserves something special:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Pergament.jpg

Someone with horrible cat allergies, like me.

Puppies can be substituted for kittens, in that case. If you're also allergic to dogs, we give you...hmm, no one's allergic to birds. Maybe you can get a robot kitten or puppy.

One that latches onto your pant legs and won't let go if you do anything that's sick or disgusting.

Puppies can be substituted for kittens, in that case. If you're also allergic to dogs, we give you...hmm, no one's allergic to birds. Maybe you can get a robot kitten or puppy.

One that latches onto your pant legs and won't let go if you do anything that's sick or disgusting.

No, no they can't.

If all soldiers wore blindfolds over their eyes everywhere. War could be just like a party game.

What would make the world a better place?

Kill all the humans!

Less drugs, less government, ambivalent on the matter of religion.

More religion, but only so long as this "religion" is entirely composed of Fiddlebottoms Worship.
I also want less government, or (to be grammatically correct), fewer governments. As in, only one government: mine, the Reign of God-King Fiddlebottoms.
All shall gift me with their loyalty and worship, and in return I shall sponsor the development of new recreational drugs with which the population of Earth may ease the ceaseless agony of their miserable existence.

So, in short, the path to a better world is as follows:
1. More Religion (Worship of me)
2. Less Government (Only one)
3. More Drugs (Life is nasty, brutal and short anyway)
4. Everybody must worship me (See choice #1)

completely do away with religion and government. Drugs stay though.

Kill all the humans!

Yeah, more beer for the robots!

A continent made completely of ice cream.:)

That would be...AWESOME!!But it would melt which would make everyone sad and angry and kill each other.In a way it's counterproductive.Maybe if there was a machine that knew the food you wanted when your hungry but can't deccide what you want to eat.

Speaking of food on a serious note though how 'bout feeding poor villigers in Africa.Helping Darfur.Not dumping industrial waste in rivers and oceans,stop idiotic murders because someone's different then you,end gang and mafia crime,kick out corrupt politicians,stop drug trafficers,don't cut down the rainforest for no reason,find cures to diseases like AIDS and cancer.

That would be...AWESOME!!But it would melt which would make everyone sad and angry and kill each other.In a way it's counterproductive.Maybe if there was a machine that knew the food you wanted when your hungry but can't deccide what you want to eat.

I have no idea what you're talking about so here is a... oh, what was it again?

What would make the world a better place? About five billion fewer humans.