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On the contrary. The less you have, the more you stand to benefit from appreciating other things than possessions.
by banach 9y ago
On the contrary. The less you have, the more you stand to benefit from appreciating other things than possessions.
- KekDemaga 9y agoThat can be obtained in a much more cost effective manner.
- bpodgursky 9y agoYes, I'm sure a generation trying to save for a house under burden of student loans appreciates your sage bullshit advice. Must really appreciate the lack of affordable health care and never being able to afford a family. But at least you can appreciate it!
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- banach 9y agoPhilosophies of life like Buddhism and Stoicism came about in times that were much less comfy than even the sad reality we have to endure. I am not saying people shouldn't demand things of society (quite the opposite, I think the level of organizing among the poor is the root of many of the issues we are seeing today), but I am saying that they can benefit from separating their happiness from the fulfillment of those demands.
- gnaritas 9y agoNo one said anything about possessions, you're projecting. We're talking about survival here, not consumerism.
- jstewartmobile 9y agoThat's probably a little over-dramatic. In the west, survival is a pretty low bar. That, and "human development" in terms of an actual broad education will probably get you further in the long run than circling up around the latest job credential. I remember reading somewhere about how learning certain instruments makes changes to the brain's surface that are large enough to see with the naked eye. From many accounts, playing the violin was no small part of Einstein's life and research. Who knows if he'd have been as productive if he'd just been all-physics-all-the-time? It could have served as a sort of "backpropagation" to his theoretical work. From my own experience, many of these seemingly unrelated intellectual pursuits open so many doors, and from this article it isn't just my own experience: https://medium.com/personal-growth/einsteins-violin-the-hidden-connections-between-scientific-breakthroughs-and-art-f67a67ce8240 https://medium.com/personal-growth/einsteins-violin-the-hidd...
- gnaritas 9y ago> In the west, survival is a pretty low bar. You've never been poor I see, or really truly known anyone who was. Poverty is a real problem, here, in the good old USA still. Survival is all many people worry about. I'm relaying a reality to you that you clearly have no concept of. I didn't have indoor plumbing until I was a teenager. We lived off government handouts and what we could kill and bathed outdoors in rainwater we had to strain the misquote larvae out of with a towel. Don't tell me I'm being overly dramatic, you don't know what you're talking about. Yea, music is good, but when you're worried about how you're going to eat today you don't think about such things, you don't plan long term, you live day by day.
- jstewartmobile 9y agoMy family was on public assistance when I was younger, and I went to public schools where over half the students families were on some form of public assistance. None of us had to bathe in stagnant water...
- gnaritas 9y agoThen count yourself lucky but don't presume to know what it is to be actually poor nor pretend it doesn't exist in the west; it does.
- jstewartmobile 9y agoI presumed nothing about being "actually poor". I wrote that "survival is a pretty low bar" in the west. Despite whatever hardships you have endured, here you are.
- adrianN 9y agoat least you can ponder the mysteries of existence while working your two mcjobs to pay rent.
- cookiecaper 9y agoDo you really need a certificate from the Board of Regents to "appreciate things other than possessions", especially when said certificate incurs an immediate cost of tens of thousands of dollars, which most students have to finance and service for decades (thereby depriving them of at least the time, if not the financial freedom, to truly enjoy their appreciation of non-possessions)? Come off it.