Happy days for European authors

tsafi said
Lots of Italians complains ,i wonder why? …look like in Germany, England, France, Netherlands life is good …..

Well, our system is a bad joke at the moment

^ I was not long ago visiting my brother in Spain it’s not fun there also economic speaking.

As someone who look from the outside i think most countries in the Euro ‘are losing their identity and that what bothered people the most, i personally don’t think the Euro will hold on the long run.

I am sure on some point ill see the Italian Lira back to our world

doru said

Flay said
No. I just believe, that everyone is responsible for his own fate.

this is wrong on so many levels. You can’t be responsible for something that you can’t control.

One of the toughest job in life is finding who is responsible for what. The less confusing shortcut is taking it as own.

Personally I think that is the only way to progress or to be productive.

redfactory said

doru said
This is not the billionaire club to my knowledge.

Not yet

great one!

pezflash said

Flay said
Would it be fair to give money to the stupid people so they can have a chance to succeed?

We are already doing. It’s called “banks”.

+1.1(1)

pezflash said

Flay said
Would it be fair to give money to the stupid people so they can have a chance to succeed?

We are already doing. It’s called “banks”.

Good one

Coming from a country hated in Europe (if the Eurovision Song Contest is anything to go by), I have to say that I fought in elections pre-Euro saying that the promises are great, but if things start to go wrong, it would create a chain reaction that could be the downfall of the entire continent. I was told that I was anti-European and a Euro-Skeptic.

I’m not anti-European, I really like the original idea of the Common Market, where the idea was to make trade easier for member states. That has now become countries wanting to craete the United States of Europe, which I don’t like.

To be honest, the majority of people in the UK consider themselves as living off the coast of Europe, but not as European. If we do deals with another European country, it is called Anglo-European, which says it all.

*In regards to the Eurovision Song Contest this year, I know, our song was terrible.

I’m with doru’s open-minded view.

On a practical, physical level i see one Law of Nature, (call it God’s Law if you like) that is neither good nor evil, but just ‘what happens’. Ultimately all life as we know it works according to the input/output of individuals, and to stay alive one thing feeds off another. It’s not pretty, and ‘ceasing to be’, or death, is part of the scenario so that new life can emerge. No matter how many political or economic or social groups get together for ‘common purposes’, the individuals in those groups will compete or co-operate at different times according to their individual PERCEIVED requirements to keep the ‘body’ alive.

Unfortunately i believe that as human beings, our general sense of ‘what is NEEDED ’ is getting dangerously out of proportion in the modern developed world. I’d be the first to admit i am living with many things i don’t really NEED , but i like them, and they might be necessities to some others, but at the same time i know people who can’t believe i exist without a television set!

Competition/cooperation is the seesaw that keeps everything we are in life alive, from our physical bodies to our political and economic ‘bodies’. It works only until the individuals lose their view of the bigger picture and it becomes a self-destructive cancer. It happens.

joiaco said
Competition/cooperation is the seesaw that keeps everything we are in life alive, from our physical bodies to our political and economic ‘bodies’. It works only until the individuals lose their view of the bigger picture and it becomes a self-destructive cancer. It happens.

+1, The culprit here is the rate at which things are changing (socially we understand it as progress). If the progress is within the limit of human observation/control then negative effects (we believe) can be kept minimum. We can’t compare this with natural selection theories because nature takes very long time for significant changes and ends with stronger ones (that ‘time’ is the key) but our case is different.

Looking at the way we allow changes (technological / social / cultural) it seems we are in a train driven by dead person who can’t go less than full throttle but those sitting inside the train believes he is alive as long as train moves and there is no question about “control”.

Moving totally away from the European question now, but from the recent responses, I thought I’d give my theories on what life is all about – don’t worry, it’s not long

Always treat others in the way that you would want to be treated, as that will create a world where we are thinking about others, but also being treated well. If everybody did one nice thing for one person every day, even if it was to make them smile, then the world would be a much better place.

It seems that just because we are from different countries, different religions, creeds or races, it seems that we judge. A perfect example is that a Muslim will be treated differently just because they are Muslim, the English/French are always suspicious of each other and many people believe that all Americans are loud and brash, though from my experience, most Americans are among the nicest people I’ve met.

We need to start treating people as people, not labels.