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Something to make you think...

Click this link then watch the flash animation a little bit down the page.
http://www.guzer.com/animations/100_people.php
This really makes you think about the world we live in.

i'm not in a mood for thinking right now, but bump for the core to think about it

Wow... makes you grateful for what you have.

my sensei made us meditate on that for 1 hour on the international day of peace 3 years ago in the USA. my peers thought it was great. It made me kind of angry to see they liked it so much. One of them even stuck it to his wall. I guess the only message they got from it is to realize how lucky they are from the international stand point. For a day or two at least. Then the next week they were back again bitching about their girlfriends and theyre broken cars, or viruses in their computers. Unfortunately a man's own misfotune is the biggest misfortune in his mind. mankind is high-maintannce by nature.

i dunno if anyone else has problems loading theirs.. i have.. so ill just post teh direct link..

http://media3.guzer.com/animations/100_people.swf

Neat little flash.

However, it didn't really get its message across to me. I came from the poorest country in Europe so I know a bad situation (not the worst, of course). Maybe I've been desensitized too much? Or maybe I'm just indifferent?

same here

im from bolivia... i beat you in poverty hehehe... i win. j/k But we still have computers and we are able to read. my point... no matter who you are... there is always someone who has it worse and there is someone else who has it better. what matters is what is that you do with what you have.

What if you're Bill Gates?

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Originally posted by Yan What if you're Bill Gates?

He dont have it too good in the looks dept.

there you go. (bill gates) he even tried paying plastic surgeons but they thought the amount of surgery was to much of risk for his own life. They even said they would need to cut chunks of his brain to reshape his head. anywho... even so... you can find people perfectly happy with what they have already. even if they arent millionaires. I know a person i really envy. If you gave him a couple of billion dollars, he wouldnt really know what to do with it. not because he is stupid, but because he pretty much has everything he needs, and would probably end spending it on something that has nothing to do with him. That guy is one of the very few exceptions to my rule. But im sure that every now and then he wants something to. The other day he needed my car for instance to go pick his daughter from the hospital. If he had to walk to get her, he wouldn't have been so cheerful, and im sure someone would have been happier than him at that point. Sadness is part of life, and our endorphines eventually get depleted every now and then. At those lows everyone can find people "better" off.

Here is something more concerning: In every single person you now, you can always find something you love , and you would like to have as you r own (as a quality or personal value), and also find something you hate and wish you would have never seen.

Hobbies help you transform those lows in tasks and part of the routine. Such as trance making for instance. i get high just thinking about it.

Meh. I still say Bill Gates has it all.

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Originally posted by josh4 that anecdote has been around for a while. i remember one of my teachers in school telling it to the class

Arghhh... i hate when people have already mentioned what i have geniunely thought. It makes me so angryyyyy. I want to stop smarter people from thikning about things i might eventually think of myself in the future. who ever has a solution to that please let me know (dont mentione being a serial killer and kill as many as possible. i tried already and it didnt work)

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Originally posted by serginka I know a person i really envy. If you gave him a couple of billion dollars, he wouldnt really know what to do with it. not because he is stupid, but because he pretty much has everything he needs, and would probably end spending it on something that has nothing to do with him. That guy is one of the very few exceptions to my rule.

That is SO me! I would give my money away, honestly. I love my life, and appreciate every second. If you saw those people up close, you'd feel that way too. I'm so enriched inside

You guys are hippies.

Money = happiness.

Get over it.

Ex: Eat at McDonalds or Berns Steakhouse. Fly first class or coach. Drive a BMW or a Honda. All of these small things add up.

Before you say, what about things like love, family, etc. Every old rich white man buys love these days. And family is the best thing in the world, but you and your family will be happier w/ $$$.

Don't you think those poor people would agree? Money does buy them happiness. You should all be thankful you have enough money to survive, let alone chat on the internet in your air conditioned home.

All you can do at this point is admit it, and go out there and WORK HARD. MAKE MONEY. HAVE FUN. BE HAPPY. THE END.

honda? lol

lol ... hondas are cheap dude... lol. As long as you are happy, and arent screwing everybody else over in doing it, than thats what counts. But if you are really sure about money=happiness... explore less materialistic realms and youll be pleasantly surprised.

Yes, money does make people happy.

I love being a hippy. In faaaaact, I'm gonna go eat some Soy Crisps and order organice, fair trade clothes. That makes me damn happy.

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