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<blockquote data-quote="dugby" data-source="post: 2949009" data-attributes="member: 7393"><p>When we have air, we look for water, when we have water we look for food, when we have food we look for ?.</p><p></p><p>With automation comes Einsteins paradox of the perfection of means and confusion of goals. “We’re the only nation in the world where all our poor people are fat.” — Phil Gramm, 9/6/81.</p><p></p><p>The foundation for ? is the autonomy and self reliance that our founders had and we have since lost. That as we pursue whatever we define as our ?, we can do it on our own terms and in the context that most pleases us. This was the construct held in our declaration of independence as "The pursuit of happiness". We have traded our autonomy for dependence and allowed others to define our "Pursuit of happiness". When you must depend on those you cannot trust or those who simply define happiness in a different way, you are a slave.</p><p></p><p>When we get burned out on the toys and other materialistic crap that lured us into our present trap, we will again be able to focus on our autonomy and with that begin again our pursuits of what is meaningful.</p><p></p><p>Proverbs 23King James Version (KJV)</p><p>23 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:</p><p>2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.</p><p>3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.</p><p></p><p>This is why we are commanded in the bible to make no covenants. God freed his people not because they were starving, the Egytians had saved them from that, but because they could not progress in their pursuit of the meaningful from a position of bondage.</p><p></p><p>Rugged individualism and voluntarism offer the best vantage to liberate each of us into our own pursuit of what is joyful and meaningful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dugby, post: 2949009, member: 7393"] When we have air, we look for water, when we have water we look for food, when we have food we look for ?. With automation comes Einsteins paradox of the perfection of means and confusion of goals. “We’re the only nation in the world where all our poor people are fat.” — Phil Gramm, 9/6/81. The foundation for ? is the autonomy and self reliance that our founders had and we have since lost. That as we pursue whatever we define as our ?, we can do it on our own terms and in the context that most pleases us. This was the construct held in our declaration of independence as "The pursuit of happiness". We have traded our autonomy for dependence and allowed others to define our "Pursuit of happiness". When you must depend on those you cannot trust or those who simply define happiness in a different way, you are a slave. When we get burned out on the toys and other materialistic crap that lured us into our present trap, we will again be able to focus on our autonomy and with that begin again our pursuits of what is meaningful. Proverbs 23King James Version (KJV) 23 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. This is why we are commanded in the bible to make no covenants. God freed his people not because they were starving, the Egytians had saved them from that, but because they could not progress in their pursuit of the meaningful from a position of bondage. Rugged individualism and voluntarism offer the best vantage to liberate each of us into our own pursuit of what is joyful and meaningful. [/QUOTE]
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