Right Planet

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What is your opinion of what the right planet would be like?

I'd love to read what you all have to say. My friend, Dan, suggested asking.

What are your favorite things to do?

*play video games, draw, watch supernatural*

How does this relate to who you are?

*doesnt really, im aspergers, most things are figments of my imagination*

Anything you'd like to change but just can't, despite trying?

Not really, i am what i am, and thats all that i am,

For these questions, do you separate your True Self from anything else, or is there no difference?

I have no true self, im just me.

What are your favorite things to do?
I enjoy reading and bicycling. Drinking is always a good idea. The greatest thing in the world, however, will always be the feeling one gets after a ten hour shift and three beers when one lights his/her cigarette and plays some kickass music for themself.

How does this relate to who you are?
Reading allows me to gain knowledge on topics I can't stop thinking about. I'm an alcoholic so drinking just kind of falls in there. Not sure what biking says. I like working for the sake of work.

Anything you'd like to change but just can't, despite trying?
Maybe being able to enjoy the company of others.

For these questions, do you separate your True Self from anything else, or is there no difference?
How could there be a difference? All my priciples must be obeyed in every aspect of my life, otherwise they wouldn't be principles.

Education K-12, College - freely available, not compulsory beyond age 15 (nominal)
Work - everybody that can contributes to the work of their community
due recognition given to tasks such as raising children and ecological repair
Society - live in a community, not an economy
Culture - diverse
Government - nil, replace by a Council for the common good
who are not interested only in collecting taxes or getting re-elected
Social Services - unnecessary
Medicine - highly advanced
Religion - free choice without persecution
Cities - smaller than now
International Relations - unnecessary
War - none
Environment - highly protected
Crime - unnecessary
Marriage - partnerships by contract
Dating - honest, open and direct ... it has to be OK to say what you mean
Friends - as above
Race Relations - treat everyone as equal
Weather - whatever happens ... live with it
Sports - great, but could probably do with less fanatics and no commercialisation
Recreation - non destructive
Fashion - irrelevant
Technology - highly advanced
Food - ecologically sustainable
Entertainment - as now
Money - non-existent ... unnecessary
Occupation - same as now, but no need for finance related jobs
Wages - as for money

The betterment of humanity and the preservation of the planet need to become higher ideals than the accumulation of personal wealth.

I think this planet is quite okay. Quite right. It's entertaining for sure. Sometimes real hard and unfair and hopelessly cruel and at others times you can have the time of your life. I personally don't think these states can be compared and that one should out-weigh the other, though of course it would be comfortable to only ever have a good time in life. But I'm content with how things are.

That there's this illusion of these two opposite polar forces in our lives is normal to me, I wouldn't dream of changing it no matter how much I crave happiness and success. There are mere intellectual ideas and reasons for why things should be better, what better actually look like, how a perfect society for each of us including what people perceive as great people and utter evilness would have to offer. It's worth the strive for such improvement seeing people suffering and dying for idiotic and useless reasons.

But I have a heart, metaphorically speaking and I don't feel the desire to change the way of this planet. And that's putting it all into a different perspective. I wish for a lot of things and I think I wish for a lot more things than most people. But I don't feel despair by the idea of never being able to change this state of longing magically and mysteriously. I think having such longings are actually a part of feeling alive and human. They make me feel ambitious.

All the pain and hurt is just as much part of what life has to offer as are innocence and compassion to me. No I don't think I have to experience one to understand the others. The most important to me personally is just feeling alive and that can be either through dark times or through good times. And I'm just satisfied to be alive for the moment, being myself here, no matter what the future holds.

/\ You don't want Christmas to be everyday, unless you mean metaphorically, and even then excessive party like atmosphere is too much.

I hate to be a spineless troll but the following list by Shadow50 is the best list so far, but I do have my additions.

1.) Social conventions uncessary
2.) Social hiearchies also uncessary
3.) People are valued for who they are, rather then what kind of service they provide to an employer.

It doesn't even have to be a planet. Any simulation where I get my basic (Maslow-type hierarchical) needs met will do.

If everything could be in perfect balance.

What would that be?
Everything seems,
Contradictory.

People should be valued for their work and not their wealth.
All people should be treated with respect.
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try.

I have to go with a society where all physical (food, clothing, shelter) and psychological (relatedness, rootedness, transcendance, sense of orientation, and frame of reference) are met. Erich Fromm was right, this cannot come from a capitalist society. We need a Communitarian Socialist society to ensure everyone can live out their full human potential.

For me, it would be tolerance, and everyone doing what they want to do, rather than what MTV tells them they should do.

Harmony between self and mind.

Harmony with the world.

Purity within,

Without toxicity.

Going put a catalytic converter on truck (not legally required on vehicle its age)
guilt is ruining every drive in it, also I smoke, delivering the hourly fix, along with a heaping dose of guilt for its pollution of self and world.

I am not my creator so I haven't the right to destroy my self (mind or body).

Although passing the buck is weak by nature (God made me so I feel and react to his reasons), If I ever decide things are only four dimensional, i will stop searching for bigger questions.