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Nah, you miss the point. The point isn't to not work, the point is that western life is a vicious cycle sometimes. We work to make money and to support our family, and we need to of course, but some people take it too far. Some people will neglect their family to "help their family," sacrifice their health to make money, et cetera. It's more important to live a life well lived, with happiness and joy and people to support you the entire way, than to live a life where all you cared about was work, even though you say that work is just to help.

allright, point taken

But I agree with you completely, we need to make a living.

Obviously we still need to work, but we need to enjoy life too

maybe he even refers to the fact that if you spend your life doing what you enjoy with the ones you love, youll be happy. if you love your job, you will never work a day in your life.

*re-reads comment*
'claimed wrote some story'
... woops

If someone makes up a stupid-ass, soppy, sentimental christian speech, I don't look up each and every fucking quote. I just ignore it, as I do the rest of their stupid shit.
Note: 'your an idiot'
Well, look at the pot calling the kettle black.

Thumbed for the forgotten virtue of honesty.

You know its cause Avatar is heavily based off of Asian culture. The Dalai Lama is basically the real world avatar.

If I recall, earth kingdom is based on China, fire nation is based on Japan, the water tribe, the inuit peoples, and the air nomads, Tibetan monks.

Thats right. Thats how they got Monk Gyatso and Tenzin got their names in Avatar :D

That's fucking amazing. I love Avatar more now! Yet I have yet to watch LoK

Another cool thing. You know Mako from the show? he is named after the voice actor who played as Iroh.

I knew that one. Mako was a great voice actor of my childhood.

Yes he was. R.I.P.

I see your point here. In my country there's this idiom: if you're born, you will be useful. So instead of trying to improve what we're not good at and end up being average, we should do what we enjoy (most of the time being what we're good at) and be significant. There's always appropriate positions in the society for us. I think the reason why someone can't live with their dream has something to do with our education system, stereotypes and their parents wanting them to live the dreams they couldn't fulfill (high expectation Asian dads?) etc.

I'm going into radiology because I love to help people, It will require me to do 200+ volunteer work. I will be working with sick infants in the ICU and making sure they have someone to sing to them and rock them to sleep.

If I remember right that job is hard as fuck to land, so I'd have a back up plan for the time that you're waiting for an opening.

It's hard if you don't get your name out there, that's where the volunteer work comes in, people get to know you and will write letters of recommendation and you volunteer at the hospital you plan on working at so they know you.

If you've ever read Ayn Rands Fountain Head, You'd have never said that.

i love my job... i get paid to make a real difference. just like many others

You have no clue about him then. You are what we call uneducated.

Whose 'we'? You and your fellow MENSA comrades?

Sure why not. Bitch.

Llamas are far from peaceful monks.

Maybe llamas, like mankind, vary in ideas and cultures.
Maybe there are llamas who speak the word of peace, just as those who speak the word of malice. Llamas may, in their own regard, be able to withhold their own respective ideals, and as such, disagree on varying subjects.
Whose to say that llamas cannot love, that llamas don't know the meaning of peace, harmony, and the pursuit of happiness?
For all we know, they may be just as capable as you and I are of thinking, perceiving, and rationing ideas. I dream of a time, in the near future, when llamakind is respected for their beliefs, changing from our ways of discrimination against the llamas. Let this be a change from our erroneous ways of living, let us accept the llamas for what they represent: life.

What the fuck am I talking about. I need to sleep.

That was beautiful. If that's what you can put out with a lack of sleep, never go to sleep again.

I've actually heard of a few people who live without money, without a house, and without a job by choice.

One hat a friend of mine knew lived on the AT, doing odd jobs in a nearby town in exchange for supplies.

I've never had the pleasure of meeting this guy, but my friend says he's one of the happiest individuals you'll ever meet.

This is where stuff like this gets put to question.

It's forgetting the fact that we grew out of the need to survive indescribable threats that would push some species to the brink of extinction.

so what if I have to work a portion of each day? We're living for much longer, and much happier, then those that did centuries ago.

through the power of commerce and economic advancement, we work in much more comfortable and favorable conditions than ever before, sometimes we even enjoy that work.

and in the process, we are able to afford luxuries and the ability to enjoy ourselves.

Even the poorest of individuals in a city environment in the US wont go hungry, just something to think about how far we've come.

if you remove the desire for material items, you are released from the pain they cause, resulting in lasting joy.

Thing is though, without money you WILL die. You have to buy food, you have to buy shelter, you have to buy land. Its horrible, really

no, that's incorrect. if you don't own money, you aren't limited by not having enough, nor encumbered by its upkeep. if you have no limitations to your property because you don't own any, you will not be troubled by it. if you catch and cook your own food, and boil your own water to purify it, you don't need to buy any. it's called being self sustained. in a few years, i'm sure you will understand better.

In a few years I will understand better... Right.

To get that pot, to boil my water. Ill have to steal it. I don't have money after all.
Where am I going to live? The Subway? What about when it storms, rains, snows? How will I stay alive? How am I going to make a fire in the winter when all the sticks are wet and I have no MONEY to buy supplies. Catch my food? With what? The fishing pole that I BOUGHT?

Money is this world.

you dont need a pot, you find a round enough stone and carve it into a bowl. you don't live in an urban area, you go as far away from humanity as possible. as for shelter, you build it, or use a rocky outcropping for the basis of a lean-to shanty, which provides storage for fire construction matirials and food and more water, which you can make jars from sunbaked river clay pots. there are a multitude of traps you can utilize to catch small game ( ever hear of a deadfall trap? weighted pulley for a woven reed net and trigger system?). and it's not hard at all to make a simple fishing rod.
i believe you are mistaking homelessness in an urban enviroment for semi-nomadic buddhism, which is what i refer to. people did used to live unshackled by currency and the society that is is required for sustainability.

But that's when people knew how to do ALL of these things, because they had to. Those are all lost arts

it's not rocket science, its trial and error. if you cant do that then how do you even call yourself a member of the human species if you cannot perform basic functions nessisary for living on nothing, which people have lived in that manner for thousands of years? its basic survival skills, not some "lost art" or "ancient mystical way".

Im saying I doubt I could make a fishing pole from things JUST found in the woods... What would you use as string?

animal fibers from the lining of their stomach, or braided vines to make simple twine.

the only way to truly be happy i guess is to wipe out any form of currency idk it might work

Or you could be self-sufficient... just sayin'

Too bad that probably will be illegal in the not so distant future. Too much greed in this world.

its another option

your username....... do you play league?

yes check my avatar for more proof

He even included souce, Amazing!