At first I was going to say 'I wish everyone could get along' but then I gave it some thought...
That's a bit vague, its a result not a thing in the world but rather the sum of many smaller things, if you were to remove some of these smaller things I don't think I would like living in this world...
For example, one of the main reasons we don't get along, is because we don't agree on something. In order to make it so that everyone got along, everyone would either have to agree with eachother or be incapable of disagreeing with someone.
Meaning someone says Yu gi oh is better than magic the gathering, in order to remove conflict from the result I would either have to be start liking Yu gi oh, be incapable of saying I prefer magic the gathering, or suddenly not care enough to fight back either way.
I think it's kind of a free will thing, conflict is the result of freedom, the less freedom we have the less conflict but then we don't have as much of a purpose to exist for in the first place... Also I guess it's a matter of perspective, like if I am vsing someone in league of legends, me and my opponent could both agree on the term "I want to win" but our perspective for 'I' is a bit different so sparks could fly. so in order for there to be no conflict, there would have to be no free will &/or sense of personal perspective, and no there wouldn't be a remove conflict without removing free will because in the end they are one and the same thing.
So I think the rule I would destroy is the whole deaths eternal thing. Well either the whole eternal death thing about the universe OR my need to hand in my 12th grade math homework because I really don't feel like doing homework right now...
Ugh edit so I can respond to this...
Tanksie said:
Robert Ewing said:
OlasDAlmighty said:
Robert Ewing said:
No religion or faiths.
Enjoy your love filled pan-dimensional civilizations my fellow humans. For there is enough star dust and happiness for everyone in my multiverse cruiser.
But seriously, that shits held us back. Maybe I'm exaggerating with how much. But screw you. And don't give me bull about how 'Weeeh, we'll loose all that culture and all the good things religion brought to the table.
Rubbish, religious culture would of not existed, what's to say that another, better one wouldn't take it's place. It seems more likely than a worse culture appearing. And all the good things? Same answer again, there would of been good things despite faith.
Come at me.
Why do you hate religion so much?
I'm religious, does that make me corrupt and evil and stuff?
No, i didn't say it was inherently evil. Although i'm sure that even you can't deny it probably does it's part to inspire evil. I'm saying it held us back considerably. And quite a lot of modern day prejudices and hatreds can be accurately marked as religion and faiths fault.
held us back from what? destroying the earth with our fucking sciences, pathetically scraping for longer more smug and pointless lives with not even the hope for any sort of fulfillment? fuck that the one thing i would change is that humanity would stay in the dark ages, then maybe mother earth might stand a fucking chance.
Science, is currently being used to help FIX the earth to quite a degree, it has been responsible for machines that help to clean the air, formulas that promote the growth of plants and maintain animals that would have other wise gone extinct long ago. All the while, it has developing in ways that will take a minimal toll on the planet via things like solar/hydro energy, hybrid cars, and recyclable materials but aside from that, it's done some things for you and me too which I don't believe you'd be to fond to be without. To name a few
That computer your using, the electricity your using to run it on, and the nice artificially crafted housing your using to run it all in. (Assuming you are amongst the ninteyish percent of us every day joes who aren't to broke to live in a house or so rich they can afford a mansion made entirely out all natural wood)
Getting rid of the plague that would make it so you would live your daily life in fear of the terrible 'demons' that lived inside people, I'm sure it would be real fun going to school everyday just to learn that five more of your friends just passed away last night.
Of course, you wouldn't be going to school, now would you? Nooo, chances are you wouldn't even know how to read or write, why? because aside from learning the faith and hymns of the bible you don't need any of that 'knowledge' stuff, might start getting to many ideas if that came about, I mean if you figured out there was a logical explanation that someone in town got sick Then you might be reluctant to believe that she was witch and her execution was really all that justified.
Of course, even if you figured out the reasoning behind that injustice, there wouldn't be a lot you could do on that empty stomache starved of our artificial mas stocked food science has brought us and without any true means to get your word out in a way that might bring justice to those who wish harm on others seeing as how your only form of communication would be word of mouth.
And in return for you life being a miserable dirt heap devoid of joy or entertainment amounting to you thanking your tormentors because at least your not COMPLETELY dead yet, you don't have to worry about how maybe in four thousand years the world will be to worn out for us to use anymore.
I don't have anything against the basic ideas of religion, but I do know it has been used to bring about a LOT more harm in this world than good while science has done all of the things mentioned above, and much, much more due to the fact that religion stopped being about 'you should do this because good will come from it' to 'Don't do that or we will tie you to a stick and catch you on fire while we turn you into a public event that promote peoples fears of us'
Religion, as we know it, is the product of a corrupt an and tyrannical empire focused around furthering the ends of its leading individuals under the guise of a few piece of good advice, and to this I thoroughly disagree.
Sorry that was a bit of a rant, I don't log on often so I'm afraid I won't see you response but I have a few predicted and some counter responses prepared for them.
If your response goes along the lines of:
I would rather still live in the world you explained
then my response is:
Your either, full of shit, or are suffering from the grass is always greener syndrome.
if your response is:
I would be one of the higher class people that didn't have to do deal with that:
I would believe that if you were currently within the class of millionaires maybe because it's as likely that you are a millionaire in this present day filled with science as it is likely you weren't destitute, starved, and over worked in that day and age. Basically this response is a bit narcissistic at best as it comes off as thinking your something special so all the shit people had to deal with back then wouldn't apply to you somehow.
