Do you live your life by your principles?

Or do you ideally put your head in the sand and ignore that inner voice?

I have of late been listening to the latter, and I'm already I feel liberated.

• I am in the process of selling and giving away pretty much everything I own that I don't strictly need.
  
• I am going to stop eating all battery produced food.
  
• I am trying to always think positively about myself, and of those who I meet. My first thought when someone is rude is to wonder what has happened in their life/day that is bad that has caused them to act like that. etc etc
  
• In short, I am trying to stop thinking about myself. Not what can this do for me, but what good can this bring about? To care less about the self brings so much joy.
  
  
  

In time, when I can, I am going to do a job not for the money but because it is a thing I believe in. This I believe is the highest expression of commitment.

Has anyone else attempted to live their live vertically? In the now, deep within themselves and their principles, as opposed to thinking about the horizontal, and what else is out there? I am startin to learn that the verticial is a abyss of unimagainble joy.

And I must get rid of this mac and go open source also.

I also want to buy as much as I can from charity shops. Eg. Christmas cards and other commoditsed items - clinton cards etc should not exist.

Nope. Sorry. Capitalist pig here.

Shouldn't you switch off to conserve power?

IT equipment emits more CO2 than the airline industry in UK.

IT equipment emits more CO2 than the airline industry in UK.

No doubt a big problem. I comes down to a matter of balance. And we are becoming too reliant on data and the internet more generally. I have certainly reduced my usage to a negligiable amount.

The gratutiousness of facebook and in particular twitter is absurd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_alTkMQ

Submission and acceptance is freedom.

I have certainly reduced my usage to a negligiable amount.

Nope. Sorry. Capitalist pig here.

Shouldn't you switch off to conserve power?

If your principles are capitalist principles then surely you're living your life in accordance with them?

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Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious > Sid Vicious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCMv5rtjbw8

Or do you ideally put your head in the sand and ignore that inner voice?

I have of late been listening to the latter, and I'm already I feel liberated.......

In time, when I can, I am going to do a job not for the money but because it is a thing I believe in. This I believe is the highest expression of commitment.

Has anyone else attempted to live their live vertically? In the now, deep within themselves and their principles, as opposed to thinking about the horizontal, and what else is out there? I am startin to learn that the verticial is a abyss of unimagainble joy.

I am trying to imagine that you are serious. If you lived in New York, they'd soon have you off to Bellevue though.

Its not even worthwhile trying to discuss the merits of if everyone did just the job that they wanted to do.

That age has passed, and was called Flower Power. It won't return I'm afraid.

Nope. Sorry. Capitalist pig here.

Shouldn't you switch off to conserve power?

If your principles are capitalist principles then surely you're living your life in accordance with them?

pwned !

I can't live by any principles , I'm too hypercritical.

Everyone can make excuses. Realistically, if you are without children, you can live on very little. A matter of pounds per week in living expenses. Rent is the only big expense.

I dont want to appear preachy, because half the point of this thread as pointed by out Sharkster is not living according to someone else principles or agenda, but your own. I just feel that a lot of people make decisions based on fear, on what others think etc, and so such thought precludes happiness.

However, the fact of the matter is that we will all probably have to reduce our consumption so that the rest of the world can have a modicum of the comfort we have. What disturbs me is that many of us start to see many luxuries as necessities, like a mobile phone, which is just ridiclous and quite pathetic.

And the point is, to take a step back and say, this is absurd and I dont want to be part of it, is very satisfying, even if it is in vain.

Glad your feeling better about yourself.

Now stop posting about it and get off your fat arse.

Is this another parody thread?

I live my life by tv schedules and ad breaks.

In time, when I can, I am going to do a job not for the money but because it is a thing I believe in. This I believe is the highest expression of commitment.

sounds like an opportunity to be taken advantage of and walked over by those paying your wages. if you can be exploited because of your principles you will be.

If you assume negative things, Mrsmyth, it will become a self fulfilling prophecy. And what I descirbe anyhow may entail becoming an entreprenuer.

What is exploitation anyway? In the context of an education, high earning person switching to a lower paying job? Even if I am paid too little for my experience/job, it doesnt matter.

Exploitation is what exists at the low level, still prevelent here but distrubingly so in China etc today

Exploitation is what exists at the low level, still prevelent here but distrubingly so in China etc today

'At the low level'? You mean, amongst people who can't spell and stuff?

No doubt a big problem. I comes down to a matter of balance. And we are becoming too reliant on data and the internet more generally. I have certainly reduced my usage to a negligiable amount.

http://www.londonfgss.com/search.php?searchid=4051240

You're idea of negligible is, er, not negligible.
Before you start recycling toilet paper so that the world won't end maybe you should deal with the compulsive need for attention that you have which is, sadly, obvious to everyone on here except you. You're trying to think about yourself less? Really?

If your principles are capitalist principles then surely you're living your life in accordance with them?

My principles were blokes that ran schools.