| John Lennon – Imagine Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Moulingalette:1727] Would you be OK with ridding yourself of all of your possessions, including clothing, your computer or smartphone you used to write this post, or any other thing you own? Also, nobody can prove that God doesn't exist, either. There is suffering in this world because there is free will; there will invariably be some people who choose to make life miserable for others, either inadvertently or purposefully for some underlying reason. We can't all be the same because we are human beings, not robots. There has always been a driving force in mankind, and that's to have as much as possible to support their society, which leads to resource and land conflicts with other groups of people who, for some reason or another, decide to not share what's theirs. Besides all that, Karl Marx (you should be acquainted with his writings if you support true communism) supported the gradual replacement of private property, which he referred to as means of production, such as businesses, farms, factories, etc. Anything that produces value should have control of ALL surplus value (such as profits) passed on to a centralised government which will then redistribute that as needed in the community, hence the term "communism". He made a sharp distinction between that and a person's personal property, such as keyboards, computers, books, clothing, food, etc. Nowhere did he advocate the idiocy of having "no possessions". Even Buddhist Monks have possessions; they just don't let their possessions possess them, if that makes any sense. Read, study, learn and grow in knowledge. We already are a brotherhood of mankind, and sisterhood, whatever the case may be we are all part of the human race. Anybody who has had siblings understand that they don't always get along, and sometimes beat the crap out of each other, similarly that happens in the greater scheme of things too. That's life. | |
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