(June 10, 2015 at 10:11 am)Tonus Wrote:(June 10, 2015 at 8:46 am)Little Rik Wrote: You of course are immune to attachment to material things therefore you are a superman.
Quote:This presumes a couple of things about materialism that seem incorrect.
1- If I replace a CRT with a flat screen because the flat screen is the better option, that doesn't make me immune to materialism. It just means that some of my decisions are based (in small part, most likely) on rational considerations. Since both items are material in nature, materialism factors in to some degree.
2- This seems to presume that materialism is bad. There are few things that are good or bad in and of themselves. A person can literally drink enough water to kill him. Does that make water bad? Is the person who only drinks as much as he needs "immune to an attachment to water"
We live in a world made among the other things of matter so we can't really avoid it.
We need to update old matter with new matter all the time in order to keep our head above the water.
Some people change old matter for new matter only when it is strictly necessary while most of the people make the change as soon as their eyes
are sort of hypnotized by the new, showing in this way how the materialism took control of their mind.
I just wanted to see your way of dealing with this issue.
When you say...........The flat screen was a better option......it doesn't really say anything whether you are controlling the matter or the matter control you.
I just hope that you control the matter that is why i said.......you are a superman.
Capish?
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