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21-09-2018, 01:11 AM
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New Beginnings

Not sure where to put this thread. No doubt several of you will have an appropriate acerbic suggestion

Anyway, here goes.... If you were to design an ideal model of the world, what would it look like?

As an opening gambit, the concept of money wouldn't exist. Nor would organised religious structures. Nor would there be any defined countries.

Over to you....
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21-09-2018, 02:51 AM
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You've said that is ideal. But it would go against human nature.

In societies without money you end up with barter which is pretty much the same as having money but less transparent and makes value impossible to measure.

Without countries humans would create their own opposing groups using different boundaries. This is what we do.

Without religion we would end up creating superstitions to replace it.

From our point of view our world is as ideal as it gets. We get to satisfy all our wants here. We also have to deal with the consequences of doing that.
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21-09-2018, 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by AnnieS ->
You've said that is ideal. But it would go against human nature.

In societies without money you end up with barter which is pretty much the same as having money but less transparent and makes value impossible to measure.

Without countries humans would create their own opposing groups using different boundaries. This is what we do.

Without religion we would end up creating superstitions to replace it.

From our point of view our world is as ideal as it gets. We get to satisfy all our wants here. We also have to deal with the consequences of doing that.
very 'on the ball' as usual - this is a game that should be left to kindergarten days!
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21-09-2018, 07:33 AM
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I used to think not having borders or flags religions or uniforms would solve many of the world's problems, thing is we are tribal creatures and if we didn't have rules and borders we would create them....just had a brainwave an independent Yorkshire....now there's a thought
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21-09-2018, 07:43 AM
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Everyone would talk yam yam, and have smurf ethics.
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21-09-2018, 08:25 AM
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remember the tower of babel - don't wanna go there again!
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21-09-2018, 09:55 AM
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So, basically, what you're saying is that humans would inexorably end up pretty much where we are now, based upon the fact that this is what we have "evolved" to anyway.

You're probably right. In a way, it seems a bit of a pity IMHO.
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21-09-2018, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by spitfire ->
Everyone would talk yam yam, and have smurf ethics.


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25-09-2018, 06:24 PM
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Making everyone the same colour would solve a lot of problems and ease the burden on advertising agencies having to put a black and white couple in every ad.
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We will all be coffee coloured one day LD.....
 
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