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Weddings - waste of money / just a big over-spend... compared to what's going on?... mis-education, misdirection, just plain forgetting?

Can seem unrelated how weddings compare to climate change or changing the world but basically shows a false sense of priority by individuals and overall a sign showing commonly people might not even think things through or even think it's ok and just want to blow money almost. To spend money more than make sense of the world better...

That's the main point above if ever it's not clear....

So while they think about marriage the climate and everything is / has gone so almost, so "what use is marriage" one might ask apart from literally tying a knot / making a promise and legal stuff and yes maybe a party... hard to stop that avalanche of thought... but what about others... (that's the summary)

Here's the quote to connect the common sense bit together...

"We certainly can’t count on individuals doing the right thing. Not when the average couple still believes a wedding is worth spending the equivalent of what could feed them for five years (or pay their mortgage for two). "

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I mean the writer Phil sounds a bit like me about weddings (the ease of falling into social norms when neither person might not be religious (at all) and not really together long either) so does put it into context the "caring for planet" side of things asking in the rest of this text (copy will be be further down) when do people actually start caring and acting if all they do is things like this?

Almost more than each other or at the same time it's about saying- "wait a minute honey this is kind big-money-spending but also what are we not doing with our life (as growing our own food, helping the next generation) and how about we putting more love around everywhere, etc and not just spending it in each other isolated?)...

I remember buying a ring or two and taking it back, and also glad not to have tied the knot then. It's just not a place and time for these things and love often doesn't last.

The quote is from overall newsletter style send out every month of two about really living himself, now in Scotland but was in Spain recently before, and revolved around conscious being and eco-logic living. Conditions for "small is beautiful" type ways...

The send out on different topics is generally anti-system topics, as it can't but not be, and in each one more of a point-by-point controlled speech / rant pointing to more exact things but I thought anyway this one could be as mini-example and weddings are uncommon for a subject + good point about spending crazy amounts (weddings, crazy spending, real meaning of life on dying planet or just not really thinking ahead)

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A Simpler Life (blog monthly)
by phil rooksby - February 11

End Time approaching.

And with it, lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Just because global warming doesn’t feature as the main story in the news any more doesn’t mean temperatures aren’t still rising. This summer there are going to be so many new forest fires and areas hit by drought that parts of British Columbia (Canada)/ Alberta (Canada)/ Saskatchewan (Canada)/ Manitoba (Canada)/ Ontario (Canada)/ and Minnesota (USA) will probably become permanently uninhabitable. Right now, in the middle of winter, Spain is experiencing drought.

Here in Shetland a 3C rise in sea temperature has killed off 75,000 tons of farmed salmon. Around the coast of the Scottish mainland the rise was even higher, 6C. This could mean the end of fish farms in the UK.

We have to wake up to the fact that this is our new future. Major crop failures will be next, which given the ridiculous number of people there are on the planet right now, means starvation. Especially in the UK. Not that long ago the UK was self-sufficient in food, but then there were just 4 million of us. Today it’s 68 million and rising.

Oddly enough there is not a single sign of concern, not in the news or from our political leaders. Indeed it’s been very much the opposite. Shetland Islands Council (SIC) just unilaterally decided (as is their way) to cut yet more of the most necessary services (even though it is still the second wealthiest council in the UK), to divert more money into the pockets of its political and business friends. This time a private company called EnQuest, who wants to start producing hydrogen fuel from seawater. What that has to do with the council's remit is anyone’s guess, but even the most stupid among us can see such a venture is pointless, if there’s not going to be anyone left to use it. Same goes for the millions they want to spend building a new school. What SIC and our MSP/ MPs need to be focussing on right now is how we are going to deal with this climate emergency, and food security comes at the top of my list. Being able to grow enough food in Shetland for when TESCO is no more.

We certainly can’t count on individuals doing the right thing. Not when the average couple still believes a wedding is worth spending the equivalent of what could feed them for five years (or pay their mortgage for two). Then topping that off by having children. They haven’t even begun to realise what is happening out there.

They’re still eating meat/ fish/ and dairy, for goodness sake. Despite a plethora of information about the health risks of industrially produced food, as well as the obvious toxicity of eating anything taken from of our polluted oceans. They certainly don’t care a jot for the suffering of those creatures either. Makes me weep.

We have to be the most mentally deranged species on the planet. To watch ourselves become extinct and do nothing, while buying yet another Lottery ticket and praying to a god.

The only question left then, is what will it take before we (in the UK) wake up to what’s really happening? This summer will certainly be a turning point. Then after that there’s no going back, next stop extinction.

http://a-simpler-life.co.uk/2024/02/11/end-time-approaching/

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█ Full post below (also good)...

"The problem is at the collective level. A world where a few corporations have so much influence over what everyone pays attention to is not a healthy society. It's bad for democracy.

Breaking this cycle is why the #fediverse matters. We decide here."

@libramoon k This is one of the good questions I can use to try and learn something...

And why people might not try is also reflected by the length of this post or generally how much of our life we need to invest (at the same time as other parts of life often based on the wrong time-pressured things)... but without digressing too much about time... back to your post...

Something I would ask you (even if it's the same as everyone else) but just if you have ideas what to do or not do - just saying more about this as what you said is good but very general or even people know it but lack their own direction to try or think of something to do)

and also add just for clarity:

Are you saying. we choose Government ourselves even though we are sort of paying others to mess it and giving freedoms away as a kind of contract / civil class thing?

And then even if somehow those people in Government can get it together and do for us, it will always be divided (like 65% say this, 25% that, 10% vote the other thin) - Do you think Government can 'work' since it seems to be so hell-bent on pressuring / pressing down on it's subjects for money matrix?

And most Governments seem to be working often against those that speak out - so it's not just us wanting or being human - it's our bad parents / bad suppliers / changing system contaminating everything that literally it's hard to change water back after it's been supplied badly...
It's often highly psychological but Government can be successful in making people not speak out and even shell-up (turtle style) to avoid any attention or be targetted (which is why numbers help and de-arrest people if attempted to single anyone out)

And as we are all being targetted we might think about 'attacking' smarter and in less extreme conditions or less obvious ways (to avoid being targetted)?

Again it's a psychological thing and I like you sentiment and we need people who believe ...

(Hard to write lots about it but imagine could still out in the future and start )

@libramoon
I made time points you can click to see my mini review here of:
🎵 Get Together by The Youngbloods
( nice lines and practical sentiments... )

@1m38s I really like this bit which is slow and nice at 1.38-
can click to jump there

https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=GdxUIZOzd5E&t=1m38s

and

@3.25 goes back to nice and slow + great lyrics

"if you hear the song I sing 🎶
you will understaaaand...
you hold the key 🔑 to love and fear,
all in your trembling hand" 👋

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FULL LYRICS BELOW:
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Love is but a song to sing
Fear's the way we die

You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry

Though the bird is on the wing And you may not know why

CHORUS:
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now

Some may come and some may go
We shall surely pass

When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last

We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass

CHORUS X2
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now

If you hear the song I sing
You will understand (listen!)

You hold the key to love and fear All in your trembling hand

Just one key unlocks them both
It's there at you command

CHORUS X2
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now

❤️ 💗 Love is a protocol! 💗 ❤️

Fediverse is networking our love and passion - mostly for peace work! People like me are woeking on it! 🚀 🎈

See Example: My definition of love using a vocabulary of other words for you / family / parter(s) to think about and work on!

https://qoto.org/@freeschool/110949550185613050

Can you imagine how powerful and even good it might feel to have so much power at your finger tips...

Like Icarus- are tech people trying to touch the clouds in the same way?.... to feel that warm glow?

Must be similar - having a mass of electrically-charged information-processing stuff at your finger-tips that can do almost anything - lights blinking like crazy... like an extension of your own being!

Touching and even Owning the clouds... Icarus style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

Obviously can be too much for one person to "fly too close to the sun", but perhaps many will try and industry knows it too.

In the right hands, it might just win it for us as a more responsible version of the status-quo... called Fediverse but ultimately something will cut somewhere...

So I wouldn't encourage anyone to try to touch the cloud or indeed think it can be all done remotely without A LOT of conscious humanity involved almost before or in between all that industrial BIGTech...

Something more like this for real happiness:
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😃 😃 🖥️☁️ 🖥️ 😃 😃
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P.S The image is a modification. It shows Icarus flying into a walled garden 😉

Image Credits (original) - George Tsiagalakis (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ikaria_and_Ikarus_graffiti_at_Evdilos,_Ikaria_island_-_Greece.jpg

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Comments from Video...
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Lf2nvSuqfyg

@rwess said:

Good one! The larger and longer (in time) you can make the moral scope the better.

Unfortunately I'm not sure we're up to it. 4 things:

█1) I hate guys like Stalin but he was right in this: “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic” - same goes for other immoral acts, like torture, or any abuses for economic reasons (e.g. various forms of slavery).
Similarly, Asimov's famous metaphor: "If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. Everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. The value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies." - Morality and dignity are intertwined, and fragile.

█2) Also, I think the S-risks in "the wild" are usually greatly overstated. If the ecosystem is healthy and balanced the number of survival niches for all kinds of sentients is immense and there is plenty of pleasure. If the ecosystem is "tight" and survival niches become squeezed (e.g. due to human incursion) then the S-risks increase greatly.

█3) I would pay the $5 in "Pascal's mugging". I'd maybe ask a few more questions though - and if the mugger answered that he was investing it in Bitcoin, for the long term, to save those masses of suffering beings in the future - I'd give him $10. 😁

█4) We humans are great exploiters and deniers. We will teach AI that behavior; we already have. AI will either replace us or fix us (if it deems it worth its while.) - or maybe it will just "fix" us like we "fix" cats and dogs, and we'll just naturally die out from lack of procreation... So it goes... (as Vonnegut would say).

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Nowhere is the study of consciousness...

(no wonder there is #war, or even in the less aggressive people perhaps they are also the same)

Consciousness is kind of important no? But it's not actually taught anywhere...

(pretty much true and measurable I think if it's not even mentioned even in physics etc or let's just say 99% never mentioned)

This would explain how things got to the stage we are in today but positively what we need and can put back in to everything...

What do you think?