Janic wrote:In my opinion religions are perversions of spirituality when they depart from their reason for existing: to make humans more humanistic towards themselves and the rest of creation.
This is by no means the goal of religions! It would rather impose rules and responses on men to avoid them suffering from too many cogitations, dictate their behavior and take control of the social system at the same time. Although they claim it religions work for their own benefit in the first place.
Lietseu wrote:A truly advanced civilization, in my opinion would be first of all from a purely philosophical point of view: a society in which the education of children would be of the utmost importance.
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in the society in which I think even the title "other" would not exist, I would therefore very gladly replace this rather barbaric term, by another which is "other". We would also teach them what place they occupy in nature and its sacredness, because a civilization that does not respect its planet is a stupid civilization !!!
From a societal point of view now, remove once and for all the unhealthy notions of competition, selfish profits, ego culture, desire for domination of whatever kind ...
Many cheers! This is indeed what I thought about when reading all the posts. What a joy if the notion of country did not exist, if everyone could be everywhere at home, if the notion of foreigner was replaced by that of neighbor. Sharing of space, resources and knowledge, etc.
It is a difficult question, however: should we keep a monetary system? How could we organize a "global" society without what is now a bloody wound?
In addition, it would take a sort of global council to make certain decisions on a planetary scale. How to organize its operation and the representation of everyone's voices? Impossible in my opinion! I had heard of the concept of "enlightened dictatorship" a few years ago to qualify a system which could "rule" the world in a way that will be described as "disinterested". Utopia?