[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by AntonioLao Since I am now applying for food stamps and other assistances from Texas Department of Human Services, I am at the bottom of Maslow's pyramid of needs.

There will always be a bowl of soup waiting
for you at my home Antonio!Get busy and perfect fusion,then you will be king
of the castle.

kindest regards michael.

[AntonioLao]

Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick There will always be a bowl of soup waiting

Thanks. I think I can survive without food for many a day but I cannot survive without generosity or kindness for a second. Without friendship, the will to live is destroyed.

[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by AntonioLao Thanks. I think I can survive without food for many a day but I cannot survive without generosity or kindness for a second. Without friendship, the will to live is destroyed.

You are so right Antonio,I work
with many who are mentally ill and all alone,some have been deserted by their
families,others have none,It is like an icy isolation that must be a nightmare
to live in day after day.

kind regards michael.

[AntonioLao]

Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick It is like an icy isolation that must be a nightmare to live in day after day.

Surely, you mean mental isolation. Physically, they are being well cared of as in a nursing home, etc. I suppose this mental isolation couldn't have been by choice but due to disconnected neurons. Medical science is still not advanced to be able to reconnect these neural deficiencies.

[HappytheStripper]

Originally Posted by AntonioLao However, if we consider the entire population of the world, there are more at the bottom layer than at the top layer. A perfect society would then be a population inversion to the top for coherence similar to laser light propagation.

You put that in a nutshell Antonia - Brilliant .. Have you also noticed how people waver between the bottom 3 levels .. I use level three for both the top and the bottom .. as Love Value Acceptance and Recognition are important for the pyramid as a whole ..

Maslows Heirachy of needs was an indication of .. humanistic need .. in order to survive .. in the first 7 years we gain our perception of needs according to our parents .. after the age of 7 we gain them also from influential people and peers ..

I've noticed in many people .. they waver between the levels in the pryramid .. Guille you have the bottom 3 pegged ..

Maslows Heirachy was more about the emotional needs that go hand in hand with his chart .. Psycho social needs .. as Maslow saw society was deficient in most of these areas ..

Guille I think you are now waver between the top 3 .. remember love value and acceptance have twice the value and are necessary for all levels to be acheived .. and therefore recognised ..

Self Actualisation happens when you have achevied your lifes work .. in philosohpy .. hahahahha

We love you Guille .. Nice post Antonio ..

Ashley

[Guille]

Ashley,

I agree in what you said to me. Now I see it all much different to what I saw it then. I don't have the love nor the acceptance. I haven't achieved a 'place' in philosophy, but I have achieved to philosophized, to be what is a philosopher, therefore I think I've got sort of some parts of the higher levels whiles I don't have other parts in the middle ones. I think Maslow was wrong in how he represented the levels. It shouldn't be a pyramid, it should be any sort of diagram or graph representation in which one can be shown partly in a different levels.

[HappytheStripper]

Yup .. I guess this thread was a few months ago .. lol .. also see Erik ERiksons Psychosocial Developmental stages .. these give a broader view ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson...al_development

Regards

Ashley

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by Guille ...although I say I have no ethics, it's not that: it's that I have no ethical theory, or doctrine, but I do have a lot of ethics and don't do what I think I shouldn't do...

If you don't have an ethical theory or doctrine, on what do you base your judgment of what you think you shouldn't do?

[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by Elizabeth If you don't have an ethical theory or doctrine, on what do you base your judgment of what you think you shouldn't do?

Elizabeth,welcome to the toequest community,I send you greetings from England,hope
you quickly settle in and start posting,you will find a warm and friendly bunch of people
here on this forum.

I will leave Guille to answer your question,as it is directed at him.


warm regards michael.

[Infinite Consciousness]

Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick There will always be a bowl of soup waiting for you at my home Antonio!Get busy and perfect fusion,then you will be king of the castle. kindest regards michael.

Fission = is the separation of ions (i.e. Light & Sound condensed) to particles and waves)through thinking - Fusion = is the fusing of ions by stopping thought.

Fission = Relativity - Fusion = Reality or the Tao