in spending time just

thinking, I have often wondered about what it means
to be human…I am born… I live and I die… that is the short
version of human existence… but in between birth and death,
if we are lucky, lies the human experience… of suffering,
of hate, of sports, of watching the sunset, of falling in love,
of falling out of love, of learning, of the drudgery of work,
of much of life being flat out boring, and the short moments
of glory that can change a life in a minute… I have gone
through all of these and more…

people have often said to me, life is harsh, life is brutal…
the world is tough, it cold hearted… but think about that for
a moment… what exactly are they describing? Are they describing
life, the world, human beings? when people say, the world is a tough place,
what exactly are they describing?

do they mean people? do they mean the world of nature? do they
mean the sun, the stars, the planets? the world is a cold place…
not where I live in California… it is quite warm here, so they can’t mean
the literal temperature? what are they referring to when one says,
the world is a cold place?

the next step is to understand what people need? we have basic needs,
like food, water, shelter, education, health care… we have basic biological
needs that all, that ALL living beings have… but because we are human,
we have psychological needs as well… Maslow hierarchy of needs in
which human psychological needs are engaged with…
among those psychological needs are the need for love,
the need for safety/security, the need to be esteemed…
these are all psychological needs that every human being has…

now I have two distinct and separate parts of the world,
the world that is a “cold place” and the human world of needs,
both physical and psychological needs…

now if the world is a “cold” place could that be because the
world takes no notice of our basic needs? the world being the
planet earth, the tree’s, the grasses, the sun, the solar system…
do any of these aspects of nature pay any attention at all to
the needs of human beings? no, the answer is an absolute no…
so is the world a “cold” place because our basic and primary
needs of existence are not being met by nature, the sun,
the solar system?

and if one says, the world is a “cold” place due to human
actions and interactions…that is something we can change…
if the world is a “cold” place due to human engagement,
then we can change that because we are all in search
of having our needs met and in that quest of having our
needs met, we can work together to met our individuals
needs… If you need safety/security needs, I can help you met
that psychological need through my actions, and in return,
you help me met my bodily needs of food and water and
shelter… we can help each other met our physical and
psychological needs… thus we can make the world,
a “less colder place” and therein lies the message we
can impart to the next generation… instead of “competing”
for needs/resources, we work together to meet our needs…
the failure of our time has been in thinking that it is only
by the competition of existence can we met our needs,
but in fact, competition can provide us with a “cold world”
and as far as “Nature” is concern" nature, the animals, the sun,
the earth, the rain, the inanimate objects within this world,
rocks and boulders, don’t give shit about us…
that is the secret of existence… the nature world, we see as
animals and rocks and waterfalls, they don’t know we exists
and they don’t care… if the world is “cold, harsh place”
it is because we have made it so… we human beings in our
own blind search for our needs to be met, we have made it
a “cold, harsh world”…

now one might say, but Kropotkin, that is the nature order of things,
for each of us to pursue our own individual goals and needs by ourselves…
but that false premise ignores the fact that we can meet both our
physical and psychological needs through the cooperation of
each other… that is the entire basis of the family… a man and
another, male or female, two separate entities unite to engage
in a common quest to meet our needs, both physical and psychological
needs… and we see this in friends… the basis of friendship is
the meeting of two people in order to help them get their needs met,
but not all needs are physical… we have friends to meet many of our
psychological needs…

and now think of the city… we unite to meet our many diverse
needs… we can find love, security, friendship, our need for
adventure and knowledge and entertainment in the city…
if the city didn’t meet certain needs, then why have cities?

we can and do work together to meet both our individual
and collective needs…in the collective action of the
individual, we have roads and schools and sewage plants
and airports… and did we achieve this gaining of needs through
violence and being “cold” to each other? No, we achieve these
needs by collective actions… the creation and continuation of
the city…think about the creation of society as being one
way to achieve our needs, both individually and collectively

to say to your child, it is “a cold and harsh world” is to
ignore the reality of human existence… which is the basic
fact is that we need each other… we cannot meet our needs
by ourselves… for if we could, we would… I have, as you have
the human need for other human beings… human beings
are social creatures… we must interact with other human beings
to remain sane… it is that simple…the worse action we can
force on people is isolation and solitary confinement…

we ourselves, by our own actions, create a “cold, harsh world”
and that means by our own actions we can do the opposite,
we can create a warm, loving world where everyone is loved
and accepted…to hate those who own validation is different
than your is wrong…for example, to achieve your own
needs, perhaps you need to love someone from the same sex,
but for me to achieve my own validation, I need someone from
the other sex… and what is the important thing here?

the attempt to fulfill our physical and psychological needs…

if the point of existence is to meet our needs, physical and
psychological needs, then why hate and stigmatize those seeking
the exact same thing as we are but loving differently?

my own needs are meet by my marriage to my wife,
and why is that any different than a woman who marries
another woman? Isn’t the point to meet and attain our
own needs? if that is the point of existence, then we cannot
hate or be angry about someone who is doing the same thing as we
are, but not with the exact same choices that we made…
I cannot expect the needs we have to be met by the exact
same choices as I did…a different person has different needs,
and my own solution to meeting my own needs are not
right for another person…different strokes for different folks…
but the point is finding a way to meeting our needs without
taking away people right to find and met their needs…

how do we justify my needs as being greater than another person’s needs?

we can’t…if you want to make a kinder, warming world, the answer is
clear, make those choices… that is the answer to the question,
how do we make a better world?.. we choose it…
and how do we do that? we create the conditions for others
and ourselves to meet our own physical and psychological
needs…

and as Iam will point out, how do we resolve the issue of
our meeting our needs that clash, or are in conflict with
each other?

hence we have social theories, psychological theories,
political theories, religious theories, philosophical theories…
the world is full of theories how we resolve the conflict
between two people, or two nations as to how they are to
meet their needs…

and how do we work out these needs? we can, in many instances,
see how one needs harm and damage one individual
or a society…

we can see quite clearly, that someone driven to drugs, to have
a need for, can damage and hurt innocent people…
people are quite often wrong about what their needs are…
I have seen this time and time again… people seeking to fulfill
needs that they believed in but were clearly wrong for them…

for example, for ego purposes, pursuing a certain person,
and that is quite clearly, for any number of reasons, the
wrong person to pursue…I have seen this time and time
and time again, and in myself too… I too have engaged in
pursuing the wrong person based on my own ego…

I was seduced into thinking my needs could be met if I only could
meet this person or got this job or slept with this person…
and I was usually wrong… my real needs were hidden from me
by ego and lack of knowledge of who I really was…

had I follow Socrates motto, “to know thyself”
I would have saved myself a whole lot of trouble
and time and effort over many, many years…

I would have pursued my real needs, both physical
and mental and emotional… if I had only known
myself better…the fact is we are lead astray by our own
feelings and beliefs… and we need to examine our needs,
both physical and psychologically… I was lead astray into
thinking my needs could be met by sex with a certain person,
when in fact, that was not true at all… but I wasn’t fully aware
of who I really was…and what I really needed…what my real
needs were…I was blind to that… and it cost me, plenty…

what are you pursuing and why that need? what makes that need
worth pursuing? we can only answer that by a real examination of
who we are and what we need…

much of the world’s troubles come when we pursue the wrong needs,
both individually and collectively…America pursue, for decades,
an empire and that was the wrong pursuit of the wrong needs…
we need to pause and think about what it is we really need,
not just by our ego, but by our true and honest needs, both
individually and collectively…

to seek wealth, and fame and titles fill a need, but are those
goals really the needs we must fulfill?

I would say no… but we can only answer that in a collective
process of thinking about what is, truly is, our needs and how we must
individually and collectively must meet those needs…

Kropotkin

One possible way to think of existence is the pursuit of
needs by people… and animals… we have needs and
we, in order to survive, must fulfill these needs…
and that can be thought of as being the meaning or
point of existence as a way of obtaining our needs…

you want the meaning of life, that’s it… the pursuit of
needs… and our ‘‘happiness’’ is the obtaining of those
needs…so all of existence is the seeking
of needs…so it seems to me that if existence is about
our seeking our needs, we should be crystal clear on
what exactly those needs are…

Kropotkin

and if the meaning of existence is to
fulfill our needs, then what need does the
seeking of the spiritual, the religious, of seeking
of god, what need does that fulfill?

I would hold that particular need is the need of security/safety…
It sooths the soul to think that some all powerful “god” is
watching over us and guiding our lives… but frankly,
that is seriously egotistical to think of a all powerful
god whose only purpose is to watch over us…
as my own ego isn’t that big, I reject god…

so the ism’s and ideologies of our existence can be
linked to our needs and the seeking/ fulfillment of
those needs… think about an ism, let us say,
communism… it has some comfort level to think
that we have a small role in an a universal system
that will guide us to the promised land… communism,
as has been noticed before, is a religious system without
a god… leading one to a ‘‘heaven’’ a secular heaven,
where we all live happily ever after…and I reject
communism on this very point…

there is no heaven, there is only us seeking, striving
to fulfill our daily needs…

Kropotkin

in a very real way, Christianity is the attempt to
remove doubt… to gain certainty by “existing” within
the Christian religion… and if we believe “hard” enough,
we shall be rewarded with everlasting life…

as for me, I like doubt… doubt, uncertainty, ambiguity,
are, for me anyway, a closer understanding of existence…
doubt, uncertainty, ambiguity are closer to the
reality then certainty or inevitability…
I hold that there are no absolutes, nothing is for certain
in this life… and those who seek certainty are doomed to
failure… and tell me, what is certain in life? one might argue
death, but that is an assumption… as with all assumptions,
due to our ignorance as to the “real” nature of the universe…

there is simple too much we don’t know to say for
sure, that something is “certain”… that something is
absolute…we just can’t know at this point in time…

so give me doubt and uncertainty every single time…

Kropotkin

one of the modern questions, a question that lies at the heart of
Freud, how are we to cure ourselves? to be blunt, modern
man is, well fucked up… and the reasons for that comes
from the history of the last 200 years… we have lost our
bearings in what it means to be human… each of these
has played a role in our losing our bearings, the scientific
revolution that began, for argument sake, around 1500,
to the political revolutions of the American and French
revolution to the Russian Revolution, to the economic
revolution of the Industrial began in England by 1750
and spread to Europe over the next century…
to the philosophical revolution of Kant and Hegel around 1780 to 1820,
to the rise of mass media of books, newspapers, pamphlets, created
by the printing press created around 1480 and the rise
of the masses being educated thus being able to read the massive
onslaught of printed media, these various revolutions causing the
loss of another marker or bearing, that of religion…

notice the dates, many of the forces causing the loss of bearings
happened around the same time…roughly around 1800…
we traveled in vast ways in the one hundred years from 1800 to
1900, to the point where we made more progress in those 100
years then we did in the 2,000 years previously…

the revolution of the years from 1800 to now isn’t just a technical or a
political one or a scientific revolution, it was a mental revolution…
the loss of bearings was also the loss of two thousand years of
ism’s, ideologies and beliefs that provided the basis of people’s
‘‘faith’’ or values for centuries…

the question becomes do we try to recapture those values that
was the basis of our value systems for thousands of years
or do we find the courage to create new values and beliefs
that will carry us into the future?

we are at a new age and that requires us to pour new wine
into new bottles…

Kropotkin

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Tell us something(s) we don’t know, apart from this standard School/College curriculum hypobolic teachings.

You seem to have become urwrong, because that is what he talked about… does this now make you right?

K: seeing the point and yet, still missing the point.

we have such facts as the declaration of independence was
signed in 1776… and you see said fact, but you fail to explore
what exactly does that mean? you see the shallow understanding
of 1776 and miss the bigger picture of the “meaning” of
1776… to those who seek deeper can fathom what 1776 actually
means while those who are shallow can only picture men signing
a piece of paper… while if you look deeper, you can see a
people determined to forsake tradition and make walk
away from the traditional methods of the political…
to determine their fact by their own acts, not be told
what to do by monarchs…a new form of government…
the far deeper meaning of 1776… and not a shallow
understanding of 1776…

dig deeper and see what you missed the first time?

I pointed out what we have lost, the bearings that come
from the traditional values, beliefs, ideas that have defined
what a human being is… we have lost those, but the conservatives
keep trying to pour old wine into new bottles…
replace those old values/bearings into the new bottles of
our modern environment… can we move into the future by
upholding old values, old wine, when the environment now
requires us to change our values, our beliefs, our idea’s…

Darwin says it best, when he said that animals that adapt to
changing conditions, have a better chance of survival…
and those animals that fail to adapt, die…are you going to
adapt and change or are you going to remain in the past with
old values, old beliefs, old wines?

the current battle over Roe V Wade is really a battle over
which wine we are going to use, which beliefs and values
are we going to use in the modern age…

the conservative wants a return to the old values and beliefs, the old wines,
and we cannot do that… for we are in a new environment, a new reality
which requires us, no, demands us to change our values, our beliefs,
our old wines…

you saw what I wrote but you didn’t engage in it in a very deep way…
to understand one must go deep into what is being said…

we must pour new wine into new bottles… if we are to survive…
and what values, beliefs, ideas will allow us to do that?

that is the question of this post…will you drink the old wine,
or will you drink/create the new wine? dig deeper next time…

and as far as calling me UR… that is the worst insult anyone
has ever called me… I am beyond insulted…no, seriously…
that the worst thing anyone as ever said to me…

Kropotkin

it seems quite clear, at least to me, that
private wealth such as bill Gates or Bezo’s is not only
without value, but in fact quite dangerous…

watch a basketball game, like the one tonight where
the Warriors are playing Memphis, GO WARRIORS…
anyway, watch it… and notice something… basketball is
a team sport, as is baseball as it football, both the American
game and the worldwide game…it doesn’t matter how successful
one player might be playing, it takes a team to win…
one player cannot win a game, but one player can lose a game…

or to say it another way, life is a team sport, not an individual sport
where we compete alone and separate, apart from each other…
and yet the conservative stills hold to an individual player
can and must play to win… whereas the fact is, it is a team
game…the lesson of the family and the city and the state/
civilization is a simple lesson… an individual player can have great
stats but unless it improves the team game, it is worthless…
for all of Bill gates wealth, unless it improves the team,
in this case, America, it is useless…and when he donates
money to improve some aspect of the world, for example
better education for the poor, that improves America…
and that has value…

the old wine, the old ideas of progress coming at the hands of
a single person is the old idea/value… and it is no longer
a value/ idea we can hold…truth be told, we can only succeed
together, as one…that is why capitalism is a failure…
it is the story of the one… and we can only venture into
the future as part of a group… think about it…
think about the most successful organization in history…
the family…the family success can only come if all parties
work together toward a common goal…

if the father succeeds and the family fails, does the father get
any praise for his success? nope, it becomes about his family
failure…as it should be…success or failure is about us,
not about ‘‘I’’…we are about the society, the state, the
civilization and not about personal success because personal
success means nothing at all unless a group, team or state
succeeds…

success is about the group, it is not about individual success…
thus the future lies with communism, not capitalism…

Kropotkin

to continue my observation of pouring new wine
into new bottles…

what are some of the great problems facing us in our
modern age?

we see population growth, pollution, the lack of
resources, climate change… to name a few…
is there one solution to this problems?
yes, there is one solution, but it requires us
to take a bold new look at where we are today…

and the path into tomorrow requires us to pour the new wine,
which is we must consider the need, the necessity to stabilize
or reduce our current population…if we are to survive, we
must take actions and take those actions today…the path
into survival is by making abortions legal and very available…
in fact, I would go so far as to suggest we reward abortions…
as a means of beginning the reduction of population that
we must engage with if we are to survive…

now, am I talking about any sort of genocide of people
to reduce the population, NO, not at all…
but we have to begin somewhere and increasing
birth control and greater number of abortions will
start the process of both saving the human race
and saving the planet earth…

we can be insane enough to hope some of widespread
disease like the plague can reduce the population,
but, I don’t see that as a desirable goal…
no, the best way to regain control of
coming world is to slowly reduce the population of
the world… and Abortions and birth control are one
of the best ways we can begin this process…

Many here will not be able to get past their “old wine”
and fail to see what the benefits of this course of action
will mean, but I don’t suppose that most people will/or can
see far enough to see the value of this proposal…

the problem facing us comes from overpopulation,
and thus, that is the problem we must solve…
I don’t see any other possibility as of right now that can
solve this problem sort of widespread genocide and I refuse
to take this road because there is no coming back from it…

so, in the face of our future survival, we must not only encourage
birth control but we must allow abortions to any and all who want it…

the only other option left to us is not a happy one,
the Chinese solution of the “one birth per family” solution
and that is not a happy solution to anyone, but
we may be forced into that “solution” if we don’t get a handle
on our severe overpopulation problem…

as for me, I shall not be answering any other question or points
raised about this particular post… other points, sure,
but on the need for abortions and birth control to save the human race
and the planet Earth, no, I shall not be answering any queries regarding
this particular post… let the hate begin… which is why I will not answer
any post regarding this particular post…

Kropotkin

we in America are in trouble because we have
the “force of tradition” which has prevented us from seeing
our reality… we are blind to the issues and problems
that threaten us… from within and from the outside…
the primary issues threating us within is income inequality,
and population growth and the primary issue threating us from the outside
is climate change and population growth…

we are blind because we are unable to see past the fog of
deception that is placed before us by forces unwilling to
cede power to anyone else…deception based on
such games as “Whataboutism” and culture wars and outright lies…

the forces of deception never ask, what is next?
what is the next step? the forces of deception need you to be
blinded by the culture wars and lies…
it doesn’t even matter if the pretend culture wars are
right, because the culture wars are meant to keep you
from looking at what is really happening…

the vast series of problem that we face, as a country,
as a people as a society and as a species… is not
about the gay people or the trans people or even
their allege agenda… those are fake problems designed to
have you focus on other things besides the real issues…
the culture wars are nothing more than a magician trick designed
to prevent you from see the real action…
and what might that be?

I will pause here and let you think about it…

Kropotkin