One of the disadvantages to being the reserve currency is that you have to run trade deficits so as to create enough dollars for the world to use. IOW...
That's very nice but nobody knows how thinking works. You have to go with what we know (which is zero) and speculate on the rest. Again, the idea is t...
Nobody knows how thinking works on any level so I would disagree with their speculation. The only thing we do know is that the amount of information t...
You should read up on how the international monetary system works. It is fascinating and absolutely essential to understand what's going on at the mom...
You are not understanding. You don't listen to other people (that's the last thing you want to do). By achieving some degree of clarity, you can make ...
Deflation is the natural order of things. Inflation is the anomaly. Here's why... If the amount of money being created in the system, Y, is equal to t...
The point of this thread was to introduce an alternative approach to intellectualization. As one who was seriously burned-out from a long and arduous ...
We have to learn how to do pretty much everything, BUT, once we learn the basics, then we can switch from our thinking mind into ?? (call in some sort...
Yes, within the context of any system, it is up to the individual to save themselves, but if you were designing a system, you want to avoid giving pow...
I believe the biggest change in Western countries since WWII has been the de-prioritization of children and their needs along with the prolongation of...
The way I look at it is that there are two basic categories that thinking falls into, the first being those things that people acknowledge they have n...
Marx was a brilliant economist, no doubt about that. Otherwise, he could have been any of us here pontificating about all kinds of non-sense. But...yo...
Actually, it's impossible to prove or disprove anything (in an absolute sense). In a relative sense, you can prove or disprove everything (as the woke...
It happens whenever we need to process a great deal of information in a very short period of time. Our brain go to another level where there is no tim...
It's one of the many benefits of meditation. It appears as if driving (and many other tasks) must be some form of meditative state in order to for our...
There is no question that there are many folks fixated on happiness, but life does not always present the conditions for happiness to arise. Let's say...
Perhaps you are neither mad nor foolish enough. Consider the following... What if there was no time as we conceive it, instead of this "movie-like" se...
Exactly. Nobody else does either. This is why you allow people to do what is in their interests. Revoke all corporate charters, cut the government bac...
That the way our thinking works. We start with perceptual reality and run with it until we make ourselves crazy with all kinds of fantasies. Once delu...
We are just simple, as simplicity is truth and Absolute simplicity is Absolute Truth. Increasing levels of complexity transports us further and furthe...
Although I do not consider myself a religious person, I have great respect for those who have committed themselves to such practices, and as a matter ...
Why 55? I am ten years north of that and have never felt better. There are many people who have taken really good care of themselves (or have genetic ...
There's all kinds of evidence for both atheism and theism. My problem is having a word for people who do not believe in something...seems kind of lame...
BIG government leads to BIG misery for the majority every time. People need to save themselves. The government is not going to do it for them. Governm...
I used to have a partner who would often say, "The best way to help the unfortunate is to not be one of them." He and I would get into to it occasiona...
Both. Happiness and sadness are normal parts of life. When either arises, you be with them fully, when they are done, you let them go fully (by moving...
Regardless of its cause, happiness comes and happiness goes. The key is in letting it go in its own time. If you attach to the feeling and morn its lo...
If you seek contentment, you can be 100% with happiness when it comes and 100% with sadness when it comes. The key is letting each go, otherwise you w...
That's a very nice opinion but happiness is a state-of mind. Since all things knowable arise and pass away, so must happiness. In it's place is left (...
Many see either happiness or sadness. There is also contentment which can involve neither. Nobody really knows what happiness is despite all the scien...
Increasing productivity is a wonderful thing, don't get me wrong. And if people don't wish to work very hard, so be it. They should have less. But to ...
Even though somebody ended up with the table and didn't pay for it, it was not free. Somebody else paid for it. This notion of 'free' is one that shou...
For all but the very, very few, the intellectual is a snare in many different ways. First, it warms you with wonderful thoughts of oneness with all Th...
It's hard to imagine anything more lonely or alienating than what goes on now. Obviously you cannot have a system where everybody is completely indepe...
I was saying that it seems like (most) people will do just about anything to obtain something for nothing (and the great majority of it is perfectly l...
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