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For each of us eventually, whether we're ready or not, someday it will come to an end. This is part of one of the most inspirational thing I've ever. I first heard it from a documentary called "The Beautiful Truth".
We've pretty much heard it all, at least once. It goes something like, nobody knows when life ends and thus we should all be trying to make the best out of it, all the time.
What Truly Matters!
It then goes on to say: "What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice, that enriched, empowered, or encouraged others to emulate your example." (Source)
What I share on Steem is a big part of my legacy. If I'd die tomorrow, what's in this post and a couple others would probably be what I would love to be remembered for.
As an aside, Steemit is fast becoming the most popular social network there is and as I've said previously, it seems only a black swan event could reverse this trend.
Sooner or later, millions of people will be visiting Steemit and our actions here today will become a lot more influential which is something we should be all keeping in mind.
Let's try to acknowledge the plight of the most in need and work towards helping them, so that the universe's infinite beauty can be infinitely reflected wherever we look.
Maximizing One's Life Enjoyment!
Everyone should look toward maximizing one's life enjoyment while also working on making the initiation of violence obsolete, as abuse and initiation of violence lowers life enjoyment for everyone.
> "People don’t choose violence because they want the violent solution, the choose it because they don’t see any other way." @dantheman (Steem's main architect)
There might always be some people resorting to violence but this isn't a reason not to work to curtail its use and thus working toward making the initiation of violence obsolete.
Making the initiation of violence obsolete is the ultimate challenge humanity is faced with. There is no greater challenge and thus no greater reward, for if we can do away with the initiation of violence and abuse, an era of unprecedent cooperation awaits us.
Since its very beginning, life has evolve pressured by merciless competition. Maybe then, merciful social pressure could be one of our best tool to curtail violence and abuse.
Organizing Peaceful Cooperation!
To do away with the need of violence, we need to do away with the current form of governments. Doing away with current governments, without the use of violence, needs to be done with free market.
> I believe that properly organized social pressures can be far more powerful than any standing army or government bureaucrat. @dantheman
Trying to organize those positive social pressures or in other words, peaceful cooperation, is currently our most honorable option we have, working toward a better world.
Cryptocurrencies are better suitted than any other technology to enable us to organized peaceful cooperation on a scale we've never seen before.
Cryptocurrencies are a new type of technology which first emerge in January 2009 with Bitcoin.
In the following series of article I will demonstrate what are the many advantages and new features cryptocurrencies have over national currencies as well as how they are undermining the power of the different governments to the benefit of every Earthlings.
I'm organizing peaceful cooperation, leveraging social pressures to become a better person. Steem, cryptocurrencies and social pressures are only some tools part of a bigger whole which we should try never to lose sight of.
I aim at making this series a reference in term of helping people to live a more enjoyable life. This series will be part of a bigger series in which I will share what I learn about what is most important in life, from the alpha to the omega and everything in between.
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> We're creating systems that make governments irrelevant, taking dispute out of their jurisdiction to allow people to interact securely with each other. - Me paraphrasing @dantheman - (source)
Credit to @stellabelle for pointing me out Dan's first quote mentionned in this post.
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@jaynie | July 27, 2017, 4:43 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [
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oh man!!! You just gave me GOOSE BUMPS!!! No... REALLY! (or chicken skin... if goose bumps sounded like a foreign language.. haha - but that is the term we use here in South Africa) - in short... this post REALLY resonated with me!
I feel PRECISELY the same about what I write and share here on @steemit!
I have ALWAYS said I want to help make a difference in people's lives... help them find their passions, their enthusiams. Assist them in untying the many knots and challenges that we are all met with daily - yet I have no qualifications in this regard.
It is just something that I FEEL I need to do!
Since I have been here on Steemit, I feel like I am actually DOING IT!!!
Life is so fleeting and if I have learnt ONE thing in my 37 years of being alive, it is that helping others is more important than anything else! I love what you are doing here! it is selfless and so, SO powerful!
I will most DEFINITELY be following your series moving forward! - Hats off to you - REALLY!!!!
I wrote a post earlier today about my journey to where I am today and by comparison it pales GREATLY to the struggles that many are faced with. I would like to contribute to what you are doing!
I would GREATLY appreciate your input on it if you care to.
https://steemit.com/life/@jaynie/the-power-of-pitbull-persistence
and if there is ANYTHING I can do to assist, other than the obvious... just TAG ME! :)
I may only be one person, but many one's make many!!!
If not for the reference you made to this post, I would not have seen this beautiful masterpiece.
I will start by first of all appreciating you for this opportunity to air my view on this awesome write up.
it is pertinent and very fundamental that we understand the fact that, every seconds of our life here on earth counts and we are judged by how we lived our life, the good and the bad we did, the help rendered, the sacrifices we made towards the betterment of humanity and most importantly our contribution to the sustainnce of a peaceful human coexistence .
>Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."- Theodore Roosevelt
what we do and the positive difference we make around us matters a lot.
The world we only be a better place when we bgin to see each other as ourselves. When we see each other as ourselves, we wouldn't want to hurt, malign, hurt, kill or do anything that will in anyway affect us negatively.
>Life gives us time but only love gives us meaning.
Life is good and sweet when we realise that we are just mere mortals squatting in a world we don't own rather given to us by our creator. Life is sweet when we realise that we came into this world with nothing and we are definitely going to leave with nothing and we are going to be judged by what we have done. Peace is what everyone is preaching but have we sat down to ask ourselves how well have we lived up to what we say.
>When we were born, we cried and the world rejoiced. We have to Live our life so that when we die, the world cries and we rejoice.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Everyone is unique in his or her own way. The footprints we leave after we are far gone will stand the test of time as long as it is an emulable one.
> A man of integrity is a man of the principle. A man of peace is a man of the progress. A man of love is a man of compassion. A man of humour is a man of joy and a kind hearted man is a man of generosity.
you have been a source of inspiration to the newbies to this community, your commitment toward the positive growth of this community is an outstanding one. your good works will surely be spoken of when you are long gone, our generation will one-day fade and the new generation that will come up will look for the legacies laid by people like you to emulate.
Keep the good work up sir @teamsteem, I remain your ardent follower @cyprianj
To understand what really matters in life, we need to see from a higher level.
At the personal level, I should be kind. This is true, but not enough. There are limits on how many people I can reach and how long my contribution can last.
At a social level, I should teach others to be kind, support the kind acts of others and work to discourge cruelty. This is true, but still not enough. There are other forces at work, both random (chaos and change) and organized. How long can my social impact withstand these forces?
At a community level, I should work to build structures that outlast me, that support kindness and prevent or disrupt cruelty. Now we are getting much closer to a meaningful truth. The natural limits of my body and my own consciousness can be transcended by something that will sustain itself.
Even at this level, there will be disrupting change. Things eventually fall apart. Here is where life gets really fractal. The only way to transcend the decay of community and culture is to develop individuals who can change and grow, and rebuild a new and better culture from the best parts of the old one.
So the single actions of a single person are not enough to define life's meaning, and yet every action of every person matters at the highest level. Every action, not just the obvious ones like kindness.
The documentary you cite describes every act of "integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice" as meaningful. I agree, and also point out that all are necessary to overcome chaos, cruelty, and the natural decay of things. Without courage and sacrifice, the effects of integrity and compassion cannot last.
I didn't mention Joy, which I know is how you define life's meaning. I agree in that these meaningful acts create Joy. Joy is a useful indicator that you are doing something right, just as money is a useful indicator that a business is doing something right.
This leads me to one final point: just as a successful business has a more in-depth plan beyond "get money," a meaningful life needs a more defined philosophy than "seek joy." I appreciate that you can keep the moral compass aimed at Joy, while looking much deeper at the effects of your daily actions.
>Making the initiation of violence obsolete is the ultimate challenge humanity is faced with. There is no greater challenge and thus no greater reward, for if we can do away with the initiation of violence and abuse, an era of unprecedent cooperation awaits us
Indeed, it is a gratified challenge to humanity.
Out il-tolerance, some set of individuals abopts violence, which in the course and at the end of such violence, they have no share in the effects of the violence; what they know how to do is use their influence to cause violence that they have no share in, this is unfair.
some even deal in violence; some sets of individuals too see violence as a commercial tool/context/avenue for them to make their profit.
meanwhile, these aforementioned sets of people forget the natural protocol, reaping one's deeds either still on the surface of the earth or off to the world of no return (death).
>Trying to organize those positive social pressures or in other words, peaceful cooperation, is currently our most honorable option we have, working toward a better world.
No one lives forever, only impacts / legacies live on ; hence, individuals should imbibe 'violence free', 'absolute peacefulness' manners of approaches in their day in day out endeavors.
>m organizing peaceful cooperation, leveraging social pressures to become a better person. Steem, cryptocurrencies and social pressures are only some tools part of a bigger whole which we should try never to lose sight of.
This is a great idea which would let humanity get educated that life is 'doable'with peace and violence free approach!
I didn't know I would comment this long, perhaps, it is because of the 'peace-legacy' mindset embedded in this post. Also, I am overwhelmed and delighted with your peaceful idea!
please continue with it, gives my hope that peace will surely reign.
