What's the most important thing in the world?

[Kyriakos]

New car, caviar and all sounds good, but then... What shall we do now? Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car? Shall we work straight through the night? Shall we get into fights? Leave the lights on? Drop bombs? Do tours of the east? Contract diseases? Bury bones? Break up homes? Send flowers by phone? Take to drink? Go to shrinks? Give up meat? Rarely sleep? Keep people as pets? Train dogs? Race rats? Fill the attic with cash? Bury treasure? Store up leisure? But never relax at all with our backs to the wall?

Absolute rubbish, laddy.
Now get back to work.

 

[Daw]

Absolute rubbish, laddy.
Now get back to work.

The Monkey in the corner wrote the lesson in his book.

"God wants poverty
God wants wealth
God wants insurance
God wants to cover himself
What God wants God gets God help us all"

 

[Kyriakos]

English life presents numerous examples of that schoolmaster-y attitude

 

[Manfred Belheim]

If money were the most important thing in the world, then the person with the most money would be the most virtuous, for there would be no greater virtue. The fact that we don't consider that person the most virtuous means that we cannot, with logical consistency, consider money as the most important thing in the world.

You'll have to explain the fundamental link between virtue and importance.

 

[Daw]

English life presents numerous examples of that schoolmaster-y attitude

I guess "English" is the odd word there. Just "life", not necessarily "English", I imagine.

 

[Borachio]

"What's the most important thing in the world?"

Time.

Maybe?

Where would we all be without Time, eh?

Or should that be: "When would we all be without Time?" ?

 

[warpus]

Without time all we would have is space. So we wouldn't have movies, but instead only paintings. And you'd never get fired for showing up late to work, because that would be impossible. And you wouldn't be able to walk to the bathroom if you had to pee. But you would never end up peeing your pants either. And I guess Back to the Future would definitely not exist, for multiple reasons. So I see both ups and downs.

It might be worse if we had time, but no space, I think. Imagine being born and there's nothing to do, except talk to other people about how there's nothing to do.

 

[Kyriakos]

Without time all we would have is space. So we wouldn't have movies, but instead only paintings. And you'd never get fired for showing up late to work, because that would be impossible. And you wouldn't be able to walk to the bathroom if you had to pee. But you would never end up peeing your pants either. And I guess Back to the Future would definitely not exist, for multiple reasons. So I see both ups and downs.

It might be worse if we had time, but no space, I think. Imagine being born and there's nothing to do, except talk to other people about how there's nothing to do.

If there was only one frozen in time instance, then it likely would be a boot stamping on a human face- forever.

 

[Borachio]

I like that, Mr Raw Soup.

But again (similarly to gravity and momentum) are time and space separable?

 

[Kyriakos]

I like that, Mr Raw Soup.

But again (similarly to gravity and momentum) are time and space separable?

Not according to Aristotle, who presented both as continious (and endless) by using one to offset the other (eg he claimed that no matter what x space you have, if you can endlessly move in time intervals you will cover it as a continuum, as in point x1=1000 will be covered, and so will point x2=100000000000000 and so on.

Aristotle was never interested in what actually is real, though. He cared to set a stable basis for separate fields of thinking and science, and strived to move Physics away from dialectic philosophy (which he managed to do, btw).

And no, you meant Mr. Shock Aerych.

 

[Narz]

Who is this aimed at?

Anyone saying money is the most important thing. Posting on this forum is very unproductive money wise so obviously if you have thousands of posts here there is some incongruity with saying money is ones highest value.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Don't remind me.

 

[Narz]

You are wasting your life!!!

 

[gay_Aleks]

thanks for reminding me once more

 

[Hygro]

Anyone saying money is the most important thing. Posting on this forum is very unproductive money wise so obviously if you have thousands of posts here there is some incongruity with saying money is ones highest value.

True, this seems indisputable. Although some of the more moneyed folks on this forum have a lot of posts.

 

[gay_Aleks]

They bought their posts, obviously. It's all one giant conspiracy.

 

[warpus]

But again (similarly to gravity and momentum) are time and space separable?

Who knows, I guess.

True, this seems indisputable. Although some of the more moneyed folks on this forum have a lot of posts.

Time is important to people who manage their money well, but there's always time for downtime, otherwise you're just going to go crazy or turn into a turnip or trump.

In fact, I would say those who secure food & shelter and end up with the most free time at the end of the day are the people who are the most successful. That's right, if you don't have time for civfanatics, you are probably doing it wrong.

 

[civvver]

Well if you have kids like me it's probably them.

 

[warpus]

True, kids are the lifekillers. I mean the lifegivers.

 

[Ryika]

See, that's the reason I don't have kids. If I had kids the most important thing in the world for me would to get away from them as much as possible.