Random Thought Thread

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by kien

Star Trek anyone?

Sign/beam me up!

[Seth81]

Originally Posted by kien

Unfortunately no one has the right answer. In fact, there probably isn't one. That is unless some miracle happens and we all wake up and collectively say, "Hey, you know what, I don't really want anything but I'm prefectly happy to go to work and do something for the good of all mankind." Star Trek anyone?

If I had to put up with nearly getting killed on a weekly basis, I better be getting paid!!

[kien]

Originally Posted by Seth81

If I had to put up with nearly getting killed on a weekly basis, I better be getting paid!!

part of the Star Trek utopian philosophy is that no one would need to get paid. We would all be provided with everything we desired so long as everyone was simply happy to do their part. This would include strapping on gravity boots and dangling from a half constructed spaceship as you welded in its panels while orbiting the planet.

[Seth81]

Originally Posted by kien

part of the Star Trek utopian philosophy is that no one would need to get paid. We would all be provided with everything we desired so long as everyone was simply happy to do their part. This would include strapping on gravity boots and dangling from a half constructed spaceship as you welded in its panels while orbiting the planet.

Yeah I know, I am a pretty big TNG fan, but if the reality was that we had replicators and seemlingy endless power, you think that the Enterprise would have a pretty high turn over...cause people would just be like "You want me to put on the red shirt and beam down to a hostile planet??? Naw screw this, I got a date with the Holodeck see you fools later!"

[kien]

Originally Posted by Seth81

Yeah I know, I am a pretty big TNG fan, but if the reality was that we had replicators and seemlingy endless power, you think that the Enterprise would have a pretty high turn over...cause people would just be like "You want me to put on the red shirt and beam down to a hostile planet??? Naw screw this, I got a date with the Holodeck see you fools later!"

You're right, it's very hard to imagine such a way of life existing. It really would require a HUGE paradigm shift on all levels of society. Stranger things have happened though. It may be hard for many of us to fathom today but there was a time when women could not vote. When slavery was normal and accepted. When it was Ok to eat gluten.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by kien

When it was Ok to eat gluten.

you're just making that one up!! Who would ever eat that stuff??

[daplatapus]

Originally Posted by kien

part of the Star Trek utopian philosophy is that no one would need to get paid. We would all be provided with everything we desired so long as everyone was simply happy to do their part. This would include strapping on gravity boots and dangling from a half constructed spaceship as you welded in its panels while orbiting the planet.

Isn't that kind of how communism started?

[Phil]

Originally Posted by daplatapus

Isn't that kind of how communism started?

Yes but there wasent enough stuff to go around so u ended up with the extremely poor

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by kien

If you focus on living with what you need, life isn't actually all that uncomfortable.

The Kien is a wise man,....not just a good reefer.

I read a book called "Your Money or Your Life" a number of years ago. It's about achieving financial independence and "fulfillment", and the path there is not just about making more money... Has a lot of great advice and perhaps may help some sharpen their focus on achieving their life goals.

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by kien

strapping on gravity boots and dangling from a half constructed spaceship as you welded in its panels while orbiting the planet.

Sign me up, size 9