save the frogs

he looked like a beast in the photos when the murder took place. guy was massive.

tough economy. they're trying to cut corners. keep spices in your pocket with you at all times.

well, i guess i'll never know what you're referring to. one thing i noticed is that different people perceive the same human being very differently.

a more philosophical answer is money will become less important in society. star trek next generation. the acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. it's still 300 years off. so i'm jumping ahead.

good post, phoenix. yeah, essence. i like that.

i don't know. what?

yeah, good question. there may be a lot of resistance / pushback

we will still need to take pharmaceuticals i think.

are you married? how does anybody tolerate your cynicism and nihilism and bleak vision of the universe for more than 15 minutes?

Just watched a silicon valley guy talk about AI & future of Health Care. Here are some quotes: "We are heading toward a massive world of abundance where the best health care is provided by an AI effectively for the cost of electricity, so it's going towards zero." Then he says "will anybody go to medical school anymore?" In other words, AI Health Care will be extremely cheap since no highly paid human doctors will be needed. And all this expensive private health insurance may come to an end. Question is ... how long? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Will most of us be dead? He does say that in 5 years it will be malpractice for a doctor to diagnose a patient without an AI assistant, but doctors may still be doing most of the treatment in 5 years. So maybe it's not for another 10 years at least where doctors will be fully replaced by AI.

no sorry. this is a bit abstract and i don't agree. not sure what you mean by "ego is less than". if your ego is healthy, then the ego is part of who you are based on what you've accomplished in your life. if you raised good children, then you're a good father. that's a healthy ego. ego can degenerate into arrogance and often does in many people. that aspect of ego can be observed in yourself and others.

while your abstract theories may have some validity, not many people are going to pick up abstract information and sort out the ego this way. if your ego is out of balance, it will eventually clash with someone else's ego. it's through these clashes that people learn to manage their egos. or sometimes through setbacks your ego gets adjusted. you're a millionaire and then you go bankrupt ... now you need to redefine your ego based on other values etc ... complex issue, ego is.

there are unseen forces affecting things. some things are predetermined. it's hard to say to what extent we have free will. yeah sorry , i am a bit busy to answer all 25 questions right now.

it is possible that jesus never existed. but maybe his character was based on some previous mythology. and mythology often has something to teach us. and it doesn't mean you should just go back to sleep because you're too lazy to put any thought into anything.

anyway, the bible quote is 'money is the root of all evil'. but actually i think unhealthy egos are the root of all problems.

that drawing was interesting. most people are not deep enough to delve into the "real" them, so all that's left is money, status, possessions to define their ego.

it was a joke. bipolar, never. not even sure exactly what it means. it's not a good thing, right? one guy said i was like a dyslexic once.

ego is necessary for drive and ambition. maybe it becomes a problem when it causes you to act out in negative ways. like you want to get rich quick to bolster the ego and do stupid things. like you waste a lot of money trying to impress other people.

it's psychological marketing 101. you're totally cut off from the outside world with nothing but shops. places are built like mazes.

actually, maybe the fact that it appears on wikipedia makes it highly suspect.

coconut water is high in potassium and magnesium, which I believe are classified as electrolytes. I agree coconut water is healthy.

i thought i had heard of every illness out there. never heard of that one.

so what? why would you need to have the whole place to yourself? i get over-crowded, but under-crowded is bad too.

thx. who knows how much of it can be believed? even wikipedia is not necessarily factual.

that's one of the best quotes of the thread so far. to honor it, i've asked chatGPT to re-write it in the style of Yoda. Exist, God does not. Conscript of man, it is. Control the weak and gullible by fear, it aims to do.