would also make murder legal....

i live like 20 mins from the border, have frequently crossed the border, and i've never seen a hot canadian. canadian chicks are the ugliest!

yeah, zarf, #1 is the exceptions. but you cant love yourself without knowing yourself. and then without being comfortable with yourself, you're not going to expose your true self to strangers and develop true, deep relationships instead of pretending to be cool and hanging out with people that pretend to be cool. Once you develop important relationships, you're going to seek to protect them.

thats how everything goes backwards with the exception of #1. but #1 doesnt even belong on the list. when people loose #1, they're on their deathbed; but people on their deathbed dont all of a sudden hate their loved ones, they usually try to spend time with their loved ones, and still feel the need to protect them.

> xeno syndicated wrote:

> The classification of higher needs is rather dubious.  But self-actualization is one, esteem is another, belonging, and security.

so you think self-actualization, esteem, belonging, and security are needed inorder for an individual to be happy?

> [TI]  The_Unknown wrote:

> >I'm actually more selective than most guys

yeah, instead of the half your age plus 7 rule for minimum age; he uses the half his age, minus 7 rule for maximum age.

"The basic needs and higher needs are both needs, that is they are both needed, essential for human happiness, fulfillment, meaning. "

could you list off some higher needs? i know you probably said acouple awhile ago, but most of your posts are so drawn out, it would take me forever to find them.

"I didn't say we should return to anything, but more that to continue to focus only on yourself will lead to ruin... My prioity has always been that for humans to succeed we must balance the self with the all..."

thats a pretty basic idea. i dont see what part you would expect me to not get. ofcoarse i disagree with you, but thats very different from not getting it.

"They aren't, really.  Basically, people arrange them in a hierarchy to aid conceptualization."

so then, how is that an improvment?

you cant say it totally depends on how they're raised. theres other factors as well.

"But please, will you also tell me what the goal of the current global economic system is?"

our current global economic system isnt centralized, so there is no singular goal, each individual has their own goals that they attempt to achieve by using the current economic system.

"If you cannot find a stated goal of the current global economic system, don't you think it is therefore quite ironic (if not outright hypocritical) to ask me to explain what the end goal of the economic model I propose might be?"

no, i dont; i dont see how it would be. you want change and i want to know what you envision the end product of your change to be. like i've already stated, im not attacking your stance, i'm trying to understand it, that is all.

"(I doubt, of course, you will answer any of the questions I posed above.  Why is that?  Oh, wait, I don't suppose you'll answer that question either.  I think I'll just stop asking you questions.  I guess I'll just state things to you instead.)"

the questions i have answered far exceed the ones you have answered. i dont know why you think i wont answer your questions, the only answer i can come up with is you think i wont answer your questions because you're a moron.

"At this point, all conceivable economic activity surrounding basic human needs is simply taken care of for all people on Earth by automated technology.  Therefore, at this point, all remaining human energies are spent fulfilling higher needs: security, esteem, self-actualization, and also at this time, of course, automated technology is in the process of making those higher needs abundant to all rather than scarce at a sustainable and well-paced level."

im alittle confused here. basically you're saying jobs are eliminated so more people can work on "higher needs". what makes them higher?

exactly, its not like im complaining about it. its common sense. the guy your friends with is gonna do you favors. its part of life.

the only thing fps like is the view. if you have a low weapons skill, you can have the crosshair on the middle of the chest and the bullet will fly across the screen 75% of the time.