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Many items are far from saturated i.e. land, housing, energy and infrastructure and the maintenance of these things will continue into perpetuity.

https://fs.blog/2011/10/richard-feynman-on-beauty/ I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. ...

Once you understand the correlation between desires and suffering, you will want to reduce your desires. Not all desires are lost that easily. Some wi...

life: a replicating chemical reaction.

Truth is usefulness.

Once you truly realize the things you desire are causing your suffering you will lose your desire for these things.

Society is a hierarchical structure with the least powerful at the bottom and the most powerful at the top. Propaganda and censorship are tools to mai...

Do you know what relative means? A need is essential to survival.

The Op is belief in balance. That you wish to define a system is your prerogative and I was willing to humour you. I don't believe it is in any way re...

Worrying about Worrying does not bring about change. Reducing your fesires does.

The Universe is not filled with facts. Facts are constructs of the mind. And they can only be considered 'Facts" if they contain 'truths. And 'truths'...

The Big Bang start highly ordered with a high level of energy (low entropy). As the Universe cools down energy coagulates into matter: first pure ligh...

A proposition is true when it is able to solve a problem or answer a question. 1.3 Pragmatist theories A different perspective on truth was offered by...

Suffering has a strong linear relationship with unfulfilled desire. However this is merely mental suffering and is relatively harmless compared to oth...

A statement that does not answer a question or solve a problem is not a fact. It is just a string of words that has no meaning or value. It does not c...

I am very much a believer in using balance as a metaphor to understand 'reality' but fail to see why defining a 'system' is in any way enlightening.

I think you should read 'Atlas shrugged' by Ayn Rand. That was her 'bug bear'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged.

Wherever you experience censorship, you will find fascism.

Truth must be placed within a context. For example, if you are building something you may consider 'the earth is flat' as true if you only consider a ...

I don't know what you mean with that statement. But I do consider Fox News a fascist news organization. And no I would not censure it.

A fact that is not able to answer/solve a question/problem can never be a fact.

You mean like Fox News?

A balanced system is any system that persists in time to eternity. Because we live in an expanding Universe the sum total of everything is decay (i.e ...

Censorship never works in the long run. "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the...

As long as the majority of Chinese citizens believe their lives are improving they will accept the Party's censorship. As soon as they discover the on...

Can you give me an example of a regime that protects it's citizens from Fascism through censorship? I do agree with authorities that are trying to 'ce...

True. Self censorship is the price we already have to pay for being social animals.

The probability of getting cards that are completely useless or allow you to win the hand is improbable. You will probably get something in between. T...

To an extent yes. The authorities are trying to 'censure' stop 'foreign aggressors' (China and Russia) to place ads with Google and Facebook to influe...

Censorship is the tool used by Fascist regimes to subjugate their citizens. Yes. But also this is a war that is fought by propagation accurate informa...

Memory and desire gives us our sense of Time.

Only closed systems (objects) are internally balanced and motionless and only the input of energy causes imbalance (motion). Open systems leak energy ...

No I wouldn't argue with that. Using that analogy I would consider censorship to be a form of political (correctness) war perpetrated by the authoriti...

The ability for humans to freely express themselves (in so far it does not intentionally demean other person(s)) should be considered a human right. C...

This search for 'truth' as an abstract concept is illogical. Truth is only logical in relation to a question/problem. Truth is whatever 'solves' this ...

It is not a matter of 'choosing death', it is a matter of not desiring life at all cost. In seeking death (of desire ) I have found freedom from suffe...

To exclude or expect the improbable is irrational.

We suffer in many ways: illness, pain, fear, cold, hunger.... And then there is the suffering we cause ourselves: jealousy, envy, hatred, fear... How ...

I don't understand this search for 'truth' as an abstract concept. It is only logical to relate ' truth' to a question/problem. Truth is whatever 'sol...

Well it is indeed the 'death' of all suffering and as pain and pleasure are the yin/yang of life I suppose you would be correct. Christianity is very ...

You are confirming my point. You will not stop 'seeking things' if you do not 'desire' to stop that. You will merely continue with your 'desire' of 't...

If your desire/wish is to reduce your desire (to be rich, famous....etc) and you are indeed successful, then you ultimately end up with less desire no...

This would more fall under the 'pop' Buddhism you are referring to. This is Buddhism for people in the West who want to be happy without sacrificing t...

So there is no difference between the 'desire' to smoke and the 'desire' not to smoke? No difference between smoking and not smoking?

You must think in terms of human suffering. The 'desire' (in all religions) is to transcend human suffering (Being dead is the highest form of that). ...

Exactly. Your Eternal Consciousness (soul) is important not your body.

They eat to survive. The desire to survive even the Buddhist can't do much about.

Not explicitly. But effectively this is what happens when you refrain from following your desires.

Yes. The absence of suffering is the Utopia humanity is (sub)consciously striving for.

]What if those that were "sacrificed" were against creating the Utopia as imagined by Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc.? Well, it would have not been so bad i...