Wasting Time

It's something to do without getting anything accomplished.


Wasting time is what our life thrives on.


Examples:

• Playing virtual realities with avatars with virtual pets and crops and friends.

• Going to the gym and exercising until totally tired then having to do it the next day forever and only to look a tiny bit more healthy.

• Eating: Just eat the same thing every week and that’s variety enough but its an endless cycle with nothing ever coming of it except living to eat another day.

• Gambling: All you get is entertainment and lose some money at the same time. This is a complete waste of time.

• Movies: One of the go to things on a day off with friends or family although you accomplish nothing at all and now you just spent $10 doing nothing.

• Going to the beach: The most things you can do at the beach is play bocce ball or volley ball and fly a kite and swim and sunbathe and beach comb. All are complete wastes of time. The only thing that’s not a complete waste of time, that you can do at the beach is metal detecting.

• And finally sex: One of the least productive things you can do and then having kids only puts more of a burden on life and finances. But people seem to like it no matter how counterproductive it is.
  

Reasoning Good and Bad

There is no reason why anybody does anything. People only do things by feeling. Or you can make any reason fit the one feeling, but not the other way around.

I'm reminded of the old quote "what's good for an ass is bad for a man" Ass being a donkey, it goes gold is good for a man but bad for an ass but hay is bad for a man but good for an ass. Is it good to kill people, apparently "yes" for the right reasons at war. killing animals is good because we love to eat. We don't care just as long as it's not us. That's the way we feel. But in reality it doesn't matter. Is it bad that asteroids hit earth? For us yes but there was no reason for it, we just want there to be a reason. It's just chance, and nature. There is no good and bad in reality but only opinion of good and bad.

If you're in a mood one day and make bad choices, you will find that when you're out of that mood that you don't even know why you made those choices while in that mood. The fact is that there was no reason and that you were only acting by feeling and trying to explain the feelings with a reason and with some kind of rationality where there was none. Try taking a mood altering drug, like alcohol for example, and you'll see what I mean.

Some people choose to live in Alaska in a subsistence way. But other people will live in florida in the city. All because of how it makes them feel to live that way. The reason is pointless. When faced with a choice, one person will do something for one reason while another person will do something completely different for another perfectly logical reason. Like when you are at war and you alone can save many lives by just sacrificing your own life. Some people will think it is the right choice to make for a perfectly logical reason while others will make the opposite choice for another perfectly good reason. the good of the many out way the good of the few or the one. But self preservation is also logical. So there is no real reason. You can't explain feelings with a reason.

In the end a schizophrenic will have feelings that are so intense of how bad their life is that they make a choice, and try to make a reason for what they're about to do based on their emotions. But the reason has no basis, and they can't think of a good enough reason to not do it, and they finally choose to commit suicide. When in reality it was all feeling that made them do it and no reason in the world can be good enough to justify the waste of your own existence. It's only done to end the feeling.

Be Yourself

When you feel bad, one way to look at it is to stay positive, but instead of being perpetually positive, you may choose to just be yourself.
It's similar to the quotes:

"Honesty is the best policy" And "Honesty is the currency of love". And "You can't be everything to everybody", and "No one will punish you for doing your best, or being yourself".

Because you should at least be honest about how you feel and who you are and not be what other people want you to be or to feel. And if you can't be who you were born to be in this world then what kind of world is this.
Also live your own life instead of living other peoples lives.
It's all about selectively focusing on good things, and not focusing on other peoples problems. Instead focus on your own life(which is all you have time for anyway), and mentally block out other people who force their problems onto you. We do this naturally which is why we are able to do extreme sports like cliff diving. We focus on logic instead of fear.
So for now my current philosophy that I am testing is, "Be yourself, and live your own life."

Free Stuff

• Free rentals: Go to Gamestop and buy used games or DVD's and then return them within the 7 day return policy in order to have free DVD and game rental. In fact you can essentially rent portable games like DS, which may not be done at some video stores. This only works on used games though.
• When buying a car, if you pay in cash 600$ but you put on the title that it only cost 200$ then you only have to pay tax on the 200$.
• Having money in money market earns 6% a year of free money. If you have a million dollars then put it into municipal bonds for better and more secure interest, for free money. Also dollar cost averaging earns an extra few percentage points per year when buying shares of mutual funds on a monthly basis.
• Instead of buying a magazine of million dollar homes just to ogle the homes, you can get the same exact thing from free news stand luxury home ad magazines(at 7-11, or a store front), that have almost the same thing, and it comes out weekly.
• Youtube.
• Download an emulator of any video game system that you used to like to play, then download the ROM of any of the games that you used to like to play, all of this for free. See: my post done on this.
• Playing pranks on people.
• Sailing is free transportation, also the newly invented wave powered boat is, and eating fish that have caught is free food.
• Solar power is infinite energy. For free energy after initial investment.
• Camping at state and national parks is free. There are some rules though if they can enforce them.
• CLEP tests and final exams(If you're home taught), are a good way of earning credit for having learned a class without ever having to have taken the class at all, as long as you already know the subject or have at least taken 1 hour to skim through a book on the subject to get a passing grade. This is how Doogie Howser M.D. became a doctor without taking 8 years of college.
• One red paper clip. He used the principle of creating value where no extra value had previously existed. Are they willing to pay you more than what you paid for it. The value is in the mind of the buyer. Just like building devices out of raw materials that people are then willing to pay more than the value of the materials, after the device has already been made. This is just a fancy way of saying buy low, sell high. These are two ways of expressing the same thing, which is, how to get rich. His way was more deal making than buying and selling.(Later Added:) What creates value? Rarity, and work put into creation, unless it's an outdated/old item. So supposedly good items worth trading are 1 of a kind items, that people want because of the exclusivity, and fun factor. They could either be collectibles, or things to have fun with friends or by self with, that are one of a kind, are good to trade. Trading more and more exclusive items becomes easier as you have more valuable items, because rich people will easily make an uneven trade of one exclusive item for another that they really want more. The concept is that, they never price things when they buy them either. But this only works in cross category exclusive items because if you're trading an exclusive video game for another exclusive video game, then they may not want to part with what they already like collecting or make a bad trade and lessen their collection. So they have to be trading an exclusive item that they don't want anymore, to you, for a one of a kind item that they really do want. And if they don't want to trade for this exclusive item then find a more willing collector, or a more "fun factor" oriented person.
  
• Water is free, and it even falls out of the sky for you. But it just needs purifying. See my artificial aquifer. Or boil it with free wood.
  
• Free wood from fallen trees, either on your property or an adjacent forest next to your property. On a large scale though this leads to degradation of some species habitat.
• Low speed vehicles do not require very much insurance. And can get you to everywhere except out of town, for only pennies a day if it's an electric vehicle.

The ideals that we seek is shown in things like these. Free things and no more need for money would be ideal. If we had robots doing all work for us one day, that would also be ideal, from no more need to work. Also, having infinite energy in the future from fusion, if it works would be another ideal situation. As to whether we will every reach any ideal scenarios, and most importantly make them work(instead of having another "summer of love") is still up to debate.

Fuzzy Philosophical Equations

Are a new thing I just got into. The purpose is to make your life easier by using the equations as a way to calculate happiness or success. An example is: Fun = Time x Money. Which I am using to decide if I should work or instead have fun. Most people that work have no time and only 2 weeks of vacation determined by their boss and also it is very rare to make more money per month than you spend per month. Thus Jobs = (-)Time x (+/-) Money. Unless you're your own boss and rich. Which I myself may be, at the end of this year.

I also predict that one day certain psychology based versions of these insights into the human thought process that I call "Fuzzy philosophical equations" may one day be adapted to making artificial intelligence programming either possible, or just more compact and quantifiable.

Do Wild Animals Live A Better Life Than You?

Never allow the life you lead to be less enjoyable or trouble free than an animals life is. In other words always lead a better life than an animal leads.

• When it comes to food, animals always have food unless it's the dry season in Africa. As shown by the fact that they are alive.
  
• When it comes to water, animals always have some, as shown by the fact that they are alive. And that there is infinite, free, clean, water from the sky.
  
• When it comes to work, animals only have to feed themselves and there offspring and clean themselves. That's it.
  
• When it comes to shelter, animals have none, unless they live in caves, or other dry places. But I doubt that they mind the weather because their bodies have been adapted for rain protection and cold protection. And I guess since animals don't have clothes, that being in the rain for them, is like being in the shower for us. And it may even be fun to live out in the real world's weather instead of in the same old boring living room watching reruns every day. The house that we live in, which is only shelter, and warmth, and a place to hoard all of our worthless collectibles, and a place for indoor bathrooms, is one of the highest monthly costs that you will ever pay. Does it really make sense to pay this much, when you can meet all of these necessities on any piece of land with no investment capital all in 1 weeks worth of research and preparation and work. It's just the judgment of other people that we fear. Because if there are so many people living the way that modern society does, then they can't possibly all be wrong. But from a different point of view, there are just as many animals out there that don't live the same way that society does, and they seem to be happy, and doing just fine.
  
• When it comes to modern conveniences, ask yourself if they are actually conveniences. If this so called modern convenience requires a monthly bill, ask yourself if the inconvenience of a monthly bill outweighs the convenience of what you're paying the monthly bill for.
• For entertainment, the TV is always just reruns and fictional stories that have no meaning in reality. Cable has to be paid for every month. And to keep the company growing they plan on increasing the monthly bill, one way or another.
  
• As for clothes, animals have none but with modern technology clothes are cheap, so this isn't hard to acquire.

A good animal to try to beat when it comes to quality of lifestyle, is the giraffe. They live one of the calmest easiest and most rewarding lives. They get all the food that they want from the tops of trees, that no other animal can reach, and even eat prickly plants. They hardly ever need to worry about predators because they can run fast and can kill a lion with one swing of their hoof. They get most of the water that they need from the plant life that they eat, but have been known to drink water if they happen upon a water source. They don't require very much sleep at all, but do sleep standing up. And they live in a fun area where the rain is enjoyable to be in when it comes once a year in the rainy season. There is never war in their world, and one giraffe killing another is so rare that it would be like winning the lottery. And even if you want to let out some emotion there is no other people judging you, or doing things to you. Animal arguments never have any legal consequences afterwards. But mostly there is no reason to be angry or complain about anything when you're a giraffe. The only end to happiness is at the end of their life, but until then there is nothing to worry about and no obligations to speak of. Also there are no appointments to keep. So no need for a watch at all (What?!?!? Is that even possible?)(YES!)
If you can beat this carefree of a lifestyle, then you would now be one of the happiest people on earth.

Analysis paralysis

Don’t over analyze things, just do it.

Don’t do lots of calorie counting or other diet plan calculations unless you like calculating. All you really need to know is less calories absorbed and more calories expended = Weight loss. Just do it in a healthy way to avoid health problems later on. So again just do it, and think happy thoughts while exercising, or don’t even care if you feel pain. Ignore that feeling.
Another way to just do things is to set up fool proof systems. Such as just not buying bad food at the store forces out the thought process of deciding on whether to eat the leftover cake in the fridge or the healthy food right beside it. It's always hard to fight human urges. See also: Automatic Success Theory
When it comes to life, lots of avenues to success are to just try, try again. Which means that you actually have to fail as a means of learning to succeed. Also called the school of hard knocks. You don’t become a professional athlete by thinking it through and then automatically being the best in the world. The real world is the best teacher, because when you test it, it gives you absolute proof of how the world around you really works. This can also be seen as using the scientific method, of theorizing and properly actually testing those theories.
You can never convince yourself of all of the positive or negative consequences or out comes to a Project because of the Butterfly effect and the comedic rule of “Murphy’s law”. The universe is infinitely complex and infinitely detailed with infinite outcomes. Or in other words infinite causes and effects.
So in the end the best advice is still, just do it. As long as you don’t do anything foolish, or you are incompetent to perform the task. So for that reason, always prepare yourself for anything you do by doing proper research and preparation, and in the end you can have confidence in your own knowledge and experience. And also always have confidence in your ability to think on your feet and solve new problems as they arise.

Absolute Certainty

Is everything or is nothing absolute?

• If you go 30 miles in one hour you could have either gone 30mph the whole time or 60 miles per hour for 5 minute and 20 mph the rest of the way and still gone the 30 miles in the 1 hour.
• Good and bad are not absolute as the old saying goes that gold is good for a human but bad for an ass(donkey). But straw is good for an ass but bad for a human. And how we punish people for being bad varies from country to country also.
• One substance can have different properties at different energy levels even though it is still the same substance. And when combining different substances at different energy levels there are infinite possibilities as to the properties that are desired. Also different densities and amounts of imperfections can give these same substances radically different properties.
• With so much not being absolute does that mean that death is still absolute?
• And is the act of saying nothing is absolute, absolute in and of itself.
  

Anything involving humans is never absolute and is never a certainty.

The only absolutes in civilization are “death and taxes” as the saying goes.

On the other hand nature and physical law is always an absolute certainty

Just look at nuclear physics experiments and what is at stake if they don’t work exactly as predicted, and how many lives are at stake. That’s how I know that god and spirits don’t interfere with things, because sometimes there’s no margin for error. This is why we rely on the laws of the universe to not change erratically.

Gravity will never fail. The sun will always shine, a knife will always cut, energy will never be created or destroyed, there will always be entropy which means there are always new beginnings from the past being erased by time.

We make tools out of nature in order to make survival more of a certainty and easier.

But then humans monopolize or franchise or corner the market in new tools to have control over other humans, who are forced to do whatever the rich guy tells them. This is a form of control which makes the rich person's life more certain but it makes every other humans life less certain.

If it wasn’t for this monopolizing of new ideas then we would have had infra red cook tops 20 years ago. Because it was patented but never used by the owner of the patent until the patent ran out and the rest of the world jumped on the opportunity of using the idea then, 20 years later.

Control

People only yell or get angry or insult things when they have no control over those things.
But some things you aren’t supposed to have control over in the first place like other people.
That’s why you never see doctors or scientists ever get angry or yell at things, because they’re in the business of controlled experiments and being in control.
I personally get angry when other people are controlling my life and I can’t stop them from doing that.
All technology has been made to control the universe. And some people take it upon themselves to control other people with that technology or infrastructure. See: Absolute certainty for more on this.
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Society: Everybody wants to have total control over their own life. This is a problem in society. In society too much control over people is a totalitarian dictatorship, and too little control would supposedly look like the movie mad max in total anarchy.
Animals live in total anarchy, but if you are the animal at the top of the food chain then you have control over the other animals but they have no control over you.
This is the same in society when the rich guy has control over the poor people but the poor people have no control over the rich people.
This is the same as military, when the guys with the bigger guns have control over everybody else in the world but the small unarmed countries have no control over the bigger countries.
In other words,"It's good to be the king". And it sucks to be the little people with their lives under other peoples control.
So is it a balance between chaos and control that makes a good society? I say as long as you have complete control over your own life but you have absolutely no control over other peoples lives, then that would be the best society. This is actually the libertarian philosophy. But still even if a libertarian country was created it could possible still be corrupted some day.


But in the end the only way to have a perfect society is to have only good people in that society, which means having to cure the entire human race of all mental illness. In other words a perfect society is not possible.

Fun Thoughts To Stir The Imagination

Imagine a world where all of the drinking water that you need is absolutely free. And never having another water bill

Imagine never having an energy bill again.

Imagine a world where it is absolutely free to cook food. There is no energy bill from using a stove. And if you have wood scraps on your property, then there is no fuel cost. And the stove itself was free and easy to build.

Imagine never having to buy matches again, or lighter fluid, or coal brickets.

Imagine never having to buy alcohol or other chemicals again , and instead they just made themselves for free, on the same time scale as vegetable gardens grow.

And imagine that you could wash and dry your clothes instantly and that you didn’t need to fix the washing machine ever again, and that you never paid for detergent or water again, or even had to worry about your clothes shrinking anymore.

Imagine never having to buy gasoline again for your car, and also the car never having to be repaired again or needing oil, but still having the same performance and convenience as a normal car.

Imagine never needing tools, or needing to make complex machines work, or ever having to repair your house again, or mow the lawn.

Imagine never having to worry about crime ever again or being in an accident caused by someone else.

Imagine not having to move all the time and if you did move all the time the furniture never weighed more than 20 pounds, or being awkward to carry.

And imagine never needing to go to the store again, or needing to pay for things, constantly, or being in the crowded stores. But instead your store was the wide open wilderness that you got supplies and food and medical and materials from, and it never ran out of stock.

And finally what if you never had to see bad news on TV or argumentative people, and you didn’t have to worry about anything anymore, and you kept all human made good in your life and had already gotten rid of all human made bad in your life. And because you had a working system with no chance of system failure, that would mean no more worries to be kept in the back of your mind anymore, and you'd now finally be at a point that you can relax and don’t need to do anything anymore unless you want to, so you just decided to sit back and watch the tides come in and the sun set, in total silence, with no end point in site to the perfect life.

This is all possible with today’s technology by yourself or with other people, without having to sacrifice standard of living. And you still get to have the best of all of these ideas simultaneously, and the best of all worlds all at once.

People Tend To Forget....

It has never actually been a bad universe, we only tend to forget what a good universe we actually live in. Either by only focusing on bad parts of life or just not having good memory, or not being reminded regularly enough about good things. Because I was recently reminded what a good world it is.

I've had a bad allergic reaction lately, ever since I moved to Florida. And because it was most likely dust mites, and you can never get rid of dust mites completely, I was beginning to think that there was no cure. But then I started working out vigorously, for a solid hour, 3 times a week at a gym that I recently got a membership to. And the rashes from the allergic reaction disappeared shortly after that. Then I finally remembered something I learned a long time ago but had forgotten. Which was that strenuous exercise boosts your immune system. So I had found the cure for the ailment that was making me annoyed at the world. Which made me realize that I had forgotten how good of a world that this actually was.

So don't believe others when they say that life can't get any better than it already is. Because we live in a good universe that we can tailor to our wants and needs. And which will always provide everything that we want or need. And that people have to create bad in this world for it to exist in the first place. Case in point: Disasters such as the recent earth quake in china killing 50,000 people, are always easily preventable, with some knowledge that you live in an earthquake prone area before you decide to start building. So as humans we can always create either bad in this world or create good in this world. You can either create your own problems or create your own solutions.

Also always have reminders in your life of the good parts of life or the utopia that you will be able to make for yourself later on, and so by only thinking about good things all the time, you will only portray happiness to others, and yourself. Instead of getting caught up in others game of complaining about life or how bad the world is. Which is a false assumption. Like the old saying "Garbage in garbage out". Which can also be expressed as "Put good things into your head and only good things will come out".

Then again it's all in how you look at things. One person can look at auto mechanics and say "That work makes you get disgusting fluids all over you and something is gonna hurt you by burning or pinching or cutting you eventually, so I hate it". But another person could look at auto mechanics and say,"Cars are so cool, and even though working on cars is uncomfortable, it's mind over matter and the rewards far outweigh the risks, and it makes you feel alive, so I think it's fun". So in essence you can find anything fun if you're just looking at it in the right way. Which means some people actually like living in crowded cities while working at a job for most of the day, for their whole lives.

So if I ever do make my own version of utopia, I will never force anyone to "convert" to my way of living, even if it works perfectly. Because every body has their own version of a perfect world, and it's everybody's choice to fashion their own life to their own particular likes or dislikes.

So the universe is a good place. And everybody can tailor the universe to their own particular needs. And always remind yourself of your own personal utopia and how good the world really is and always will be. But don't force you own personal ideas upon others.

Utopia Now: Housing Project/Organization

I plan on putting this on a website that I will reveal later. LATER ADDED: The site never contacted me with registration confirmation.
Also Later Added: When there is ever a 2 or more sides to an argument/issue then there will be an argument between people and potentially even wars. The fact is that there is only ever 1 correct side to an argument, and that is the one based on fact, and all other sides of the argument are either based on feeling or lack of education. So to have a true utopia society there has to always only be only one sided arguments/issues so that there are never enough numbers on both sides of the issue to cause the argument to grow big enough to cause wars. This ideal situation is never possible in the real world, because there are always uneducated people and also human emotions that interfere with logical thinking. So the following "utopia now" post, is from now on, not intended for a whole society and can only ever be useful on a small scale personalized utopia, if you choose to live with these technologies. Because a true large scale society spanning utopia will never be possible in a universe that is naturally imperfect.

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• “Utopia” is defined by me as: When your lifestyle cannot meaningfully progress any further than it is at now, based on the laws of physics. This means acquiring only the best technologies with attributes that can no longer be improved upon based on physical law. Or sometimes you have to settle for current technology, which hasn't progressed to perfection yet.
  

• This is also based on the assumption that something close to heaven on earth is possible with modern technology, if we can only get around bad people. And it is an ongoing research and development program to create a better and better utopia. With better and better technologies. And the end goal is to have the best of all worlds, and to not sacrifice standard of living in any way. With all new ideas validated or not validated by the scientific method. Ideally no more need to work(let robots do the work), infinite free energy(to tailor the environment you live in to be perfection, using fusion or other energies, like antimatter), no more need for money(so that it doesn't get stolen), and to live forever(with the help of medical technology).
  

• None of these ideas are patentable inventions because they've all already been invented and I'm just using them as illustrations to make this new utopia realistic in the real world. And they are only suggested technologies to make this most preliminary of versions of utopia plausible by use of already existing technology. And all of these technologies suggested to make this utopia work, are all only suggestions. That can probably be improved upon in the future, with better technologies. Or the technologies noted can be replaced with different technologies based on your own personal preferences of what your utopia would include.

• First thing is to provide the housing for the people, which can be made as a totally adobe brick house that is connected within the bricks by wood or metal support structure. This type of structure is extremely easy to build and has extremely low materials costs. And adobe and metal are fire proof. And adobe has extremely good heat retention properties that make it warm at night and cool during the day, but for extremely cold climates you can add spray foam to the inside as extra insulation. But making the clay for the adobe is easy, it can be separated from any dirt anywhere by stirring any dirt in with water, very thoroughly, and letting the particles of dirt settle and then letting the water dry out. And what you are left with is the clay(the smallest particles if dirt) having settled to the top. Just building a good old fashioned adobe house of any kind is just as compatible with use in a utopia, and any information on how to build an adobe style house can be easily and quickly found on the internet. But remember to water proof the adobe with paint because adobe isn't waterproof. And also keep in mind other safety precautions when building and living in the house.
• Other types of houses use spray foam, or concrete, or a geodesic dome, and half of the house can be located below ground level for the good temperature moderation qualities.
  

• People living in these houses can learn to provide mostly for themselves, by learning to grow food, by gardening. Or learning to make, distilled alcohol, which is a good disinfectant and solvent; not to drink. Make your own drinking water with a solar still or artificial aquifer. Or you can disinfect large quantities of water with chlorine. But to get a water source where there previously was none, you could dig a pit, at a low low point on a property, which water naturally collects in. And also learn to repair things like clothes, mechanical devices, and your house.

• The vehicle of choice in utopia, which includes the best of all worlds, would be an all electric vehicle. Because with new battery technologies coming out, every day, and the old but perfect AC induction motors, it is now possible to make the lowest maintenance highest performance car ever out of all electric. And to power the car, you can just plug it into your solar panels at home, or have electric solar power stations by the road. Ultra capacitors are the enabling technology. You can buy solar panels with the money saved, from not buying gas.
  

• For plumbing, the human waste can either be chemically treated with chlorine and CLR septic. Or the human waste can just be burned in a high heat rocket stove, with a chimney for air flow to feed the fire, using Bernoulli's principle. Modern sewage treatment requires awesome mega structures that require lots of money to build and upkeep, but simple small scale solutions are possible, and just as effective. Even solar pasteurizers, if you can make one that works.
  

• The lighting for houses within 10 years(now it's 2008) will be OLED, or Organic Light Emitting Diodes, which can cover an entire ceiling as a sheet, and at very low cost when mass produced. This is all because LED's last indefinitely without replacement and are the most efficient artificial light source possible (90% efficient at converting electrons into photons). And it pays for itself in the long run. This technology is already in cell phone displays and in prototype televisions, that are battery powered, yet they still have the best picture quality ever created. But only rich people can buy them at the moment.
  

• You could learn to make your own furniture by yourself, out of wood, to furnish your own house. And the feeling of accomplishment from building your own furniture, could be a good enough reason to do it. Or another option is to have inflatable furniture, for less cleaning of dust, and less dust mites, and very easy to transport furniture if you happen to move.
  

• Communication would still be done with cell phones in utopia. But the reason for paying a phone bill is only a human construct, because it’s all automated now, with hardly any actual need to service telephone networks anymore. It’s mostly done by transistors and satellites and base stations and cell towers, with only very few maintenance crew, which are only needed during lightning strikes. But in a small town you can always use "walkie talkies" most of the time, unless it’s a long distance call of course. Which is perfect for a small scale utopia. Satellite phones and satellite internet are also available now, if you travel.
  

• Cooking could be done on a rocket stove, either made out of clay or tin cans. Or a wood burning oven with a thermometer. Or just a barbecue. But electric cooking is still good if you have a good power supply.
  

• There are many types of refrigerators, thermo-acoustic, solar powered ice box, vortex tubes(needs to be sound proof). But also you can smoke your meat, and grow fresh fruits and vegetables, year round, in a greenhouse, with florescent artificial sun lights. And up north, the outside or the permafrost can serve as a refrigerator.
  

• Trash is not a big problem if you don't buy things with packaging, and any organic trash can always just be composted.

• Personal hygiene is important in any civilized society. But there is always more than one way of doing the same thing. If you don't want to waste lots of water, and spend energy to heat it, and have nowhere to put the dirty water when done using it, then an alternative would be to use a rag soaked in some warm soapy water, which they do in log cabins in alaska. But also you can make your own “wet wipes” out of alcohol soaked rags. Alcohol is a solvent and disinfectant, and therefor also a self cleaning liquid. Include lemon scent into it to get rid of any odors. You can produce your own alcohol from any fermented fruit, which you later distill, because fruits naturally already have wild yeast in them. But the remaining things such as shampoo and deodorant are still the best at doing what they do. So they should be done the same way as they always have been. The benefits of these forms of personal hygiene are: (1) no plumbing needed,(2) no need for large quantities of clean water,(3) not as much need for waste treatment of shower water,(4) independence from utility prices.
  

• For cleaning clothes, there are now ionizing types of washing machines, that have already been made, that use no soap and that also reuse the water over and over again. which is an alternative to using a bucket of soapy water with a clean plunger to agitate the clothes.

• For no war, my theory is that all fights are started by someone liking something too much and the other person disliking that same thing too much. In other words “The clash of extreme likes and dislikes”. So if one person weren’t so adamant about disliking that thing so much, or the other person wasn’t so adamant about liking it so much, there would never have been an argument. Case in point: Cows don’t fight with us about having to live in a small field their whole lives because they don’t dislike it enough to fight about it. So the goal is to not have extreme likes and dislikes, and to sweat the small stuff. And also to stay away from controlling people that start arguments. But when there’s no more improvement possible, I.E. in a utopia, then there will finally be nothing left to fight about, because there will be no better life to have to fight for.

• The economy of utopia would be "macro scale tribal egalitarianism". Which is simply stated as: “If I help my friends out, then they will help me out”.

• In a new theoretical society, that wouldn't need money, you would instead have stockpiles of goods and services that everyone pooled, and was able to share as long as they kept doing there part of contributing to the world goods stockpile, by working the same amount of hours as everybody else. This is in a sense "job sharing", or distributing jobs throughout the population based on how many people are required for that job.
  

For education, you would go to school for free for whatever job you most wanted to perform. Otherwise it would be on the job training if you didn't get in the way of other people during critical tasks. You would learn 4 hours per day while the teachers taught for 4 hours per day. The incentive for getting good grades would be that you wanted to live in society, by working as much as others. Because if you didn't work then you'd be kicked out of society, so it might as well be doing what you enjoy doing. That's why you train to do what you want to do.

Some jobs require more manpower like the medical industry or house building construction, so more of a percentage of society would be allocated to those tasks than to other tasks, so that everyone still shared the same 4 hour or less work day.

Each person works a 4 hour day, or so, in society, and there are different percentages of society allocated to each job field of society. For medical there is a lot more of a percentage of the population than other job feilds have, because you need: researchers, physicians, teachers, medical technology manufacturers, and medical technology engineers. So for just a rough example, you'd have out of 100% of the population of earth, 25% would be medical, 20% would be food industry, 10% would be engineers, and maybe 1% would be garbage duty, with all other job categories filling the rest of the 100% of earth's population. But everyone still only works a 4 hour day.

Because of no more need for national defense, form no more wars, military and police would now merge into 1 job description.

Having luxury items(such as entertainment or toys) means that you need people to produce those luxury items, which means that everybody in society has to work more in order to support that new sector of the population that is now producing luxury items for everybody. So in utopia you may choose less work over more luxury items. Or the other way around is possible also.

Some jobs are intermittent in work requirements and you may be on call and have to report to work at irregular times. Also people make items, then they are stockpiled somewhere and supplied to everyone as they are needed as replacements (as in when the item breaks or is used up). And when they run out of that item in the stockpile, then you get a call to go into work again, to make some more of that item, after your break from working.

If someone won't cooperate by producing things or they are always starting pointless fights. Then you can kick them out because if they won't follow the rules then they don't get the benefits of organized society. This may be impossible to avoid with humans always having different opinions about what their utopia would be. So there may still be different nations for different versions of utopia. Which may mean that there would still be war also, if people still can't agree on things.

So a good way to visualize this society is: If you treated it in the same as you'd treat your own family. Like on old homesteads in the 1800’s you would stockpile food after growing it yourself, and parcel it out equally among the family. And you’d stockpile clothes, or supplies that you made and give them to the family or trade with your own family without money or paperwork involved. And the whole family had to do their part, or earn their keep, or else they’d be kicked out of the house. But everyone in the family still worked the same exact hours per day as everyone else, even if it was a lot of hours- Which all is done in the same way that the hypothetical utopia is done.

• The only reason that you don’t want to use money, is because it has value, and therefore it would get stolen eventually. So if nothing had value, or alternately could not be sold for money, then you would never have stealing. In reality all things don’t really have value, unless we as humans imagine a value. But you could just as easily give your spare things to others who are your friends, or spend your extra time helping friends for free, or spend your time teaching others to make their own stuff. This is essentially free trade without the need for money within your town. And for now this would only be one small scale town with this prototype society, as a test town, only to be able to validate this economic structure.

• And also you’d want people that would follow the main rule of: “Don’t try to control other people that didn’t agree to be controlled”. Or in other words, only have people that can get along with each other. And any other problems can be solved by the scientific method.

• But if this lifestyle isn’t your cup of tea, just remember that this way of living may be just as viable as any other way of living. And can always be altered to fit your own personal needs. Case in point: The cave men had just as viable a way of surviving as we do today, as shown by the fact that they survived and we’re sitting here right now. It's just a matter of how high of a standard of living you have, or even just what you personally consider a higher standard of living. And is it so great to have to work more than any other society in history just to keep up our standard of living? And is modern society the greatest standard of living in the end?
  

Also see: Utopia List

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New house design : 3/24/08 (UPDATED 9 TIMES)

Ignore all of the previous posts about "house designs", for now. Because I'm starting to rethink my design. And I found this professional adobe video

• Cold climate version:
• Materials: The only bad building material up north is adobe by itself. But log homes and spray foam or spray foam along with adobe together, should all work up north. As long as you include reinforcement to the spray foam so that a heavy snow fall doesn't collapse the roof. The material of spray foam is better than camp tents because of insulation qualities and also is 100% water proof and can be reinforced with a geodesic dome to make the sturdiest structure possible. Also it's easy to work with, and can be added onto late and easily cut for new doorways or new wiring, and it lasts forever.
  
• Heating: And to best heat a house up north is with a "rocket stove" inside the house with a duct going out the roof(Look at this picture of one). Because there isn't reliable solar power for electric heating. And I would add spray foam insulation in the interior for extreme cold.
  
• Shower: Use a rag and warm soapy water. Imagine not having any water bill from taking showers. And use dollar store shampoo and dollar store soap(Which are the exact same chemical formula as the name brands).
• Safety:If you make a spray foam house, have a smaller opening for a door, and a steep berm of dirt put over the dome of the house, to keep bears out. And always have an AR-15 or comparable gun. Pepper spray cannot stop an angry person so it definitely cannot stop an angry bear. Also you may incorporate extra reinforcement, of wood or metal, into the spray foam.
  
• Warm climate version:
• Materials: The same as the materials used up north, except there may not be any need for reinforcement because of no heavy snowfall or animals ever being on the roof.
• Heating and Cooling: Is all solar powered electric heating and air conditioning. I plan on making a solid state air conditioner some day.
  
• Foundation: For an adobe house, the perfect foundation or just floor would be soaked adobe bricks that then dries as the foundation. If a foundation is needed. Because you may only need retaining walls for the sides of the hole in the ground even when the dome is built. And the spray foam should act as retaining walls. And the spray foam doesn't weigh enough to need a foundation.
  
• Shape of structure: A perfect hemisphere shaped structure above ground and the other half of house being below ground is the best structure, because of there being even weight distribution along the dome, and the walls of the underground portion act as buttresses for the dome, as the weight is spread outward into the ground walls. Make spray foam dome form and spray from the inside of the structure to have a completely solid encapsulated spray foam structure.
  
• Insulation: This is the best house structure because of the extreme heat retention/ temperature moderation qualities of the below ground part of house. Both made out of spray foam and adobe. The spray foam may even perform better than carpeting as flooring. Otherwise just have a hard adobe and plaster floor, or wood floor over that.
  
• Material cost: The only costs incurred are buying the land(?$/acre), and metal rods(thrift store tent rods/50$), and spray foam(7$/can x 40= 280$/or x 1,000 cans=7,000$which is even then a very inexpensive house)and thrift store extension cords(5$/each) and garbage bags over the dome structure, as the form for the spray foam to go under, which are later removed(5$), and misc. chemicals for daily life(CLR=5$) (Bleach=5$)(Chlorine pool tablets=10$/mo) (Alcohol=3$/quarter gallon). The excavated ground is used for making adobe to put around the spray foam for extra heat retention. And you would just pile it around the outside of the hole as you dig it to make the house the high point on the property for water drainage purposes. And for less digging. from the excavated dirt becoming higher around sides to make a wall. Now just dig the size of hole you want.
• Making adobe: First you dig a hole, then you fill it with water, then you fill the hole back in with dirt, and then mix it up. What you will end up with once the hole dries up in 1 day, is clay that has settled at the top and sand that has settled at the bottom of the hole. Now you just skim the clay off of the top, and mix it with sand in the proper portions to make adobe. This is useful for a structural and heat retentive component of a house. You can also include hay mixed in with it, acting as a binding material, for structural adobe. Adobe is also useful when making a rocket stove.
  
• Safety: The low profile dome structure is a natural bomb shelter(if you have no certainty about future wars). And it cannot hurt you if it was even possible to cave in, because the only ceiling is composed of 1 ft. spray foam(which is also a structural component). And an inner layer of plaster and an outer thin layer of dirt.
  
• Skills needed: It requires no skill, other than proper research and preparation(which is written here) and common sense.
  
• Plumbing: This house design requires no plumbing, when you use a bucket with a seat over it, which has chlorine and CLR septic system and water in it, and the waste is dumped out in a safe place after the chlorine has evaporated. May not use the bucket inside of your house, because of chlorine off gassing, because it may give off toxic amounts chlorine gas; which by the way, may not be true because indoor pools do it all the time. So just have an outhouse where you keep the bucket of CLR and Chlorine for a toilet. To be later disposed of in a dug out, safe area. Also CLR septic system liquid which breaks up the solids, is neutralized upon contact with any water. And the chlorine always just eventually evaporates. But instead of bleach you may use chlorine pool tablets for constant chlorine saturation and not being able to waste unneeded chlorine. And just have a cover over the bucket if you need to transport it. And because all of the bacteria is now dead in the sewage, there is no bad smell being produced. And Chlorine may have to be added sometime after the CLR if the active ingredients in CLR are neutralized by the bleach.(This is easily tested by just seeing if the sewage solids are liquified fully when both the bleach and CLR are added at the same time).
  

  Frequently Asked Questions CLR® Septic System: (See: This link)

  WHAT IS A SEPTIC SYSTEM?
  A Septic System is a self contained Underground wastewater treatment system.The Septic System is composed of a septic tank and a leach/absorption area.

  WHAT IS A SEPTIC SYSTEM'S PURPOSE IN THE HOUSEHOLD?
  The purpose of the tank is to treat household wastes. The tank treats the waste by the water falling to the bottom, the solids that are lighter float to the top and the heavier waste/sludge goes to the bottom.The sludge/solids that fall to the bottom must be treated with a Septic System treatment to convert these materials into liquids which then will flow to the drain field.

• 2nd way of plumbing: Is to use an Ozone generator, that pumps waste water from a container, through an Ozone bubbling chamber, and then back into the waste water container. With an added filter to prevent the pump from getting clogged, and manual agitation of the sewage and extra water mixture to liquefy it for the pump. (This has since been revised, as there is no way to know for certain if the water is actually disinfected, because there is no detector for the saturation of ozone in the water, and the bigger the vat of water to be disinfected the more uncertain it becomes as to the % of water that has been disinfected by the ozone) A better way to disinfect water that Ozone, would be a section of pipe with UV bulb that shines through the pipe disinfecting any water that passes by that section of pipe. But the bulb does have a life expectancy, and will need to be replaced eventually, maybe someday a solid state UV bulb will be invented that won't break. And can be solar powered. We have infinite clean water that comes from the sky, and for the desert we have atmospheric condensers, or underground water. So there never was and never will be any shortage of water. Just a shortage of utilizing what we have.
• 3rd way of plumbing: Just have a garbage bag in a bucket for a toilet and take it out when full, and then put it into an incinerator oven that disintegrates the waste. But make sure that it's far away from the house or neighbors, to not smell the smoke.
  
• Dome shaped form: You may put arch shaped metal rods(camping tent poles attached together) along the inside of the hole, and a screen of some kind over that (Plastic garbage bags will work). And then put the spray foam insulation layer as a moisture barrier, and as a structural substrate, for putting dirt on top of. Which would then not even need water proofing on top of. Research : polyurethane foam properties(follow link) But if it turns out that the spray foam isn't 100% water proof like it should be, then just put a second waterproof paint coating over that.
  
• Need to test: So I need to test the strength of polyurethane spray foam with reinforcement incorporated into it. Also the moisture barrier qualities of the foam. And how big of a dome that has 12 inches thick of adobe, that the metal rods and foam would support. And how fire proof it actually is. LATER ADDED: I tested the structural integrity of spray foam and it has the same weight and strength of material as "styrofoam" or a really hard "nerf ball". It does rip and compresses when you stand on it. So don't stand on your house once it's built. LATER ADDED: I tested it's water proof qualities and it passed with flying colors. I made a bowl out of spray foam, and filled it with water, and the water just sat on top for hours and hours, and the bottom was completely dry afterward also. LATER ADDED: I also tested how fire retardant spray foam is by using a lighter on it. And it failed that test. So since spray foam is not fire proof, your best bet to fireproofing it is to put a thin layer of adobe or plaster on the inside of the house. And a thin layer of dirt on top of the outside dome of the house. This way the heat doesn't get through to the spray foam. And may need an emergency exit like a window if the door is blocked. And in case of a brush fire I would cut down all of the tall foliage that may be surrounding the house.
  
• Reinforcement: Is not needed if the dirt layer on top of the spray foam is thin enough. But if used, the reinforcement could be bent metal rods in the shape of the house. Made out of any metal that doesn't corrode(my choice is flexible tent poles). Or electrical conduit as structure. And encapsulate them in spray foam. Which also fills in the gaps between the metal rods. If you make the dome of the house into a metal geodesic dome then you have the strongest structure possible. See: This video on making geodesic domes. Another option is just have translucent (not transparent) tarps over the geodesic dome, shingled over the dome with "grip clips", that retain heat when the sun is out. Just like a green house, which would only be used in a temperate climate.
  
• Fire/Lightning/Flood/Tornado/Wind: The spray foam is not fire proof, so cover the inside of it with adobe, that is the consistancy of mayonaise, and then put paint over that. Then cover the outside with a layer of dirt. Lightning should be conducted away with a lightning rod. Flood? Don't live in a flood prone area. Tornadoes cannot even dent this house. Also don't live too close to a group of trees which may fall on the house during a storm. Or that can catch fire during a brush fire. And have an emergency exit also.
  
• Doorway/windows: Make sure to leave holes for a door and small south facing(in cold climate) windows. For air flow and accessability. Or have sections cut out of spray foam that take out or put back in as portholes, that can open or close depending on the weather, that also have a screen over to keep the bugs out.
• Airflow: You may need air flow that does not let light in, when the portholes are closed. Even though people do completely seal their houses anyway all over the place if the weather is too cold or too hot. You don't want the house to be so perfectly air tight and water tight and insulated, that it's like in the movies where you only have 2 hours worth of oxygen left inside the house every time that you close the door.
  
• Entryway: This has recently been revised to have a 1 hinge "basement door" attached at an angle over a ramp into going down into the house, instead of an arched entryway.
  
• Waterproofing: Make sure that the front of the entryway is above ground level in a way that will not let water down the ramp, into the house. And the spray foam provides water proofing.
  
• Lighting: Have LED replacement bulbs for florescent light fixtures. Or when it's available within the next 5 years get a sheet of flat white OLED's that you put on your ceiling. Ones that require only a battery and a solar panel and just the Led's without an added high voltage inverter, would be best.
  
• Electric: Have extension cords built into the walls coming from solar panels and new non- lead acid batteries or sealed lead acid batteries that are low maintenance, and an inverter just in case needed. And all of your devices then just need their own transformer to get the right amount of energy. But have a separate low power usage device system that is not reliant on an inverter. Because with the right technology high power may never be needed. The only power consumption is from a laptop computer, house lighting, and maybe a TV/DVD player depending on the need for one. Anything else is just extra depending on your personal tastes for the lifestyle you want. But remember, more complication means more things to hassle with when they break. Use this simple equation to figure out how much power you need. Watts= Amps(x) Volts (fill in the data to get the size of solar panels needed to power the sum of all devices, day and night. And the size of battery bank needed.). In a real utopia you would have super capacitors that stored the solar or wind energy that powered the home.
• Water: Have an artificial pond dug out nearby. That will gradually fill itself with water. Or all at once after a storm. Then filter and chlorinate some of it, when some is needed for use. For drinking water use "Chlor. floc.". Or boil it. Or distill the water with the simple distiller Shown here. Imagine never paying a water bill.
• Shower: Use alcohol soaked rags(Which is the same thing as "wet wipes"). Or warm soapy water, and rag. You make the same movements and exert the same energy by using a rag, as by taking a shower.
• Clothes Washing: Have non water absorbent materials such as 100% nylon or acrylic. And clean them on a frame with an alcohol soaked rag. Alcohol works as a solvent and is antibacterial, and with lemon extract added, it will smell good. Or for conventionally washed cotton, have a bucket of soapy water that you agitate with a clean plunger. But if you wash conventionally you have to pay for cleaning fluid.
  
• Alcohol: Make your own by fermenting any fruit. And then distilling it in one hot container, for the original alcohol to be in, and one cold container for the condensation, which are both connected and sealed by tubing. Or use the distiller shown here. Imagine never paying for cleaning chemicals. And you just leave it for a year and it makes itself.
• Furniture: Have inflatable bed and maybe even furniture, to keep down dust mites, and to produce less dust to clean. And make your own wood furniture, because it's simple enough. Carpet is the weirdest invention that humans have ever come up with. they need replacement frequently, cause dust, offgas fumes from the glues in them, and need a vacuum cleaner for the soul purpose of carpets. Just have solid floors with spray foam insulation under them and use a "swivel sweeper" to sweep them, or just a broom and dust pan.
  
• Vehicle: Use the same technology that everyone else does. I did some research on making biodiesel that you can see here. But I may make my own electric charging stations in the future, by buying small pieces of land all around the state and putting a solar panels on them to stop at with my electrical vehicle of choice. All with the money I save by not paying a mortgage each month. Electric will easily outsell internal combustion cars when the gas prices are 6$/gallon. So our society will never have to revert to living without vehicles.
  
• Heating: Use an electric heater, because solar power is reliable in temperate climates.
• Air conditioning: Some kind of solid state cooling that doesn't break and is energy efficient. There are "wick fans" that cool a water soaked wick by evaporation and are energy efficient, and don't break. But that produces humid air. A sterling engine is nice to have. Being in the below ground portion of house is cooler, if you don't let sunlight in. Just conventional air conditioners work fine but I thought of a solid state version that will work in the future see it here.
  
• Refrigerator: May not be needed if you smoke your hunted meat(See: This diagram of a smoker), and otherwise eat fruit and vegetables. See Smoked meat on Wiki. But if it's needed then just use the conventional fridge, or a new solid state energy efficient version, if there is one. As in sterling engine. But for infinite energy to power the fridge you should definitely invest in a solar panel and batteries to power it forever, without paying a monthly energy bill forever.
  
• Cooking: Is done on a "Rocket stove"(See: This picture of one), and if you need an oven then use a large box with a chimney as a wood burning oven, or just a dutch oven. Otherwise use a grill or a pan or a hand held flipping grill or a pot. Which all can be sanitized over the fire after rinsing and scraping the dirt off of.
  
• Dishes/Utensils: Wash by hand in warm soapy water.
• Fruit/Vegetables/Spices: Grow year round crops in cold and hot weather outside and in a greenhouse with growlights. Or freeze crop overruns if you live up north.
  
• Meat/Eggs: Catch it, or hunt it, or farm it. Then smoke it. Having chickens can be like having any other pet, if you only ate their eggs. Buy traps, or make one out if some cord. Go spear fishing with a homemade bow and arrow(See how to make them here)
  
• Sweets/Dairy/Baked Goods/Nuts/Oil/Specialty: Buy from store if needed.
  
• Entertainment: Is needed because going on nature walks can only entertain you for so long before you want to watch TV, but then again that's way more fun to some people. So may buy TV shows on DVD or watch TV shows on youtube, If you can find a way to get satellite internet on your property.