saltyfever
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Their idea of pleasure might've been drastically different from what is being proposed here.
Are people fleeing churches or have they never been?
Sounds like an interesting book. Not sure if I agree with the first point though. If the task is smaller than the creator no potential is being explored, no boundary being tested, no growth attained. It is going to feel like an unsatisfying chore.
>There were corrupt officials, plagues, bad people.How is this rosy-eyed?
I think many people today use the idea that even though some things are miserable today it ok, because they've been miserable always. It's a sad, self-defeating coping mechanism, a lame justification for how things are.
It's possible for some things to have been better in the past, much like some other things may be better in the present. Progress like regress is unilateral.
Not all work is honest, and not all jobs that make money should be called work. Those are the ones that I'm discounting.
"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground"?
It was talking about honest, real work.
Gensis is talking about farmers working the land for food. Modern work is an invention of man built on top of it, it's a degenerate replica in terms of satisifcation, necessity, meaning etc.
It's not the same story.
Edit: I'd like to see the downvoters argue against the notion that some work is more essential than other work. Hasn't the COVID-19 crisis opened your eyes to this reality?
People must not want to hear the truth, hence your downvotes. Most forms of depression can be cured with self-care.
"In health care, self-care is any necessary human regulatory function which is under individual control, deliberate and self-initiated."
Clinton's people would've come out and said if any of the emails were forged. They didn't.