If you had one year to live what would you do ??

[jamahir]

True masculine music is military music (whether chants, traditional instruments, etc...).

That seems like how you want others to perceive you as a man.

What is your real taste in music ??

 

[Desert Fox]

That seems like how you want others to perceive you as a man.

What is your real taste in music ??

Not true. I like military music.

But I do have other tastes too, but none of them are mainstream categories.

I do like classical Urdu songs as well, songs from the 50's, 60's and 70's and some recent ones here and there although I can't remember names off the top of my head.

I also love folk music because it is real music that embodies the soul of a people, unlike so called "modern" mainstream music.

@jamahir

Military music is also folk music because it is sung about the hardships soldiers experience in war, or a song about victory, love for ones country, etc.

 

[jamahir]

Not true. I like military music.

But I do have other tastes too, but none of them are mainstream categories.

I do like classical Urdu songs as well, songs from the 50's, 60's and 70's and some recent ones here and there although I can't remember names off the top of my head.

I also love folk music because it is real music that embodies the soul of a people, unlike so called "modern" mainstream music.

I also like folk music from various lands. It is also called "World Music".

For example, the Uzbek singer, Sevara Nazarkhan and her song Adolat Tanovari. I don't understand what the lyrics mean but it is damn good song to listen to.

 

[Desert Fox]

I also like folk music from various lands. It is also called "World Music".

For example, the Uzbek singer, Sevara Nazarkhan and her song Adolat Tanovari. I don't understand what the lyrics mean but it is damn good song to listen to.

Interesting. The name sounds like Farsi but the song itself sounds like Chinese or some kind of East Asian language.

It is also called "World Music".

See, I hate labels like this because they take away from the songs native origins.

It is Uzbek folk music. Peruvians don't sing this kind of music, neither do Somalis. Every culture and people have their own folk music and I think it should be recognized as such rather than placed into categories that deprive the particular song of its roots/origins.

 

[jamahir]

Interesting. The name sounds like Farsi but the song itself sounds like Chinese or some kind of East Asian language.

Yes.

See, I hate labels like this because they take away from the songs native origins.

It is Uzbek folk music. Peruvians don't sing this kind of music, neither do Somalis. Every culture and people have their own folk music and I think it should be recognized as such rather than placed into categories that deprive the particular song of its roots/origins.

I agree.

i used that phrase because I used to listen to such music on Radio Netherlands and BBC Worldservice Radio ( until 2010 ) and there folk music was described as such. To describe music from other lands - in my case different to South Asian music, in their case different to British music and Dutch music.

@jamahir

Military music is also folk music because it is sung about the hardships soldiers experience in war, or a song about victory, love for ones country, etc.

Agreed.

That song reminds me of "Hoke majboor mujhe" from the old Hindi film Haqeeqat which was based on tehe 1962 Indo-Chinese war.

Also, watch this German song from the old film Battle of the Bulge. I don't understand the lyrics but I can understand the general sentiment in the context of that film's section.

 

[Levina]

My inspiration for this thread came from this post by @django in the "Whatever" thread.

If I had one year to live I would convince the government to sponsor a trip to the International Space Station. What better to see Nature's glory than from space and then die in peace !!

Post your choices.

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No man!
I’m not dying so early.
I love my life. And i love pestering others.
So even if I had just one more year I would do just that— pester my people, whom i love.

 

[thesolar65]

When you have one year mean, you are ill and dying slowly and you atleast know the disease. So last three or two months in Bed. Some days in hospital to take medication. For a businessman like me I will not know when time will flyby(so engrossed in my business) until oneday I cannot get out of my bed.

Then only I will be able to think what to do.
1. Find a right man to lead the business.
2. Tell my legal heirs as to what properties I have and where(hidden) and divide those.
3. Tell my friends to come to me every day to share their non-veg jokes with me along with drinks (they will drink).
4. I will ask one of my friends to write for me in PDF as my hands will be weak. I will ask him to write in every Pak-India thread that we will nuke them and to Chinese that certain megatons(he can write whatever numbers) will be dropped on them.
5. On the day I will die, he will write that "the solar65" will now hunt you as a ghost and then log out....

@jamahir

 

[jamahir]

I love my life.

So do I.

I am my favorite.

Okay, I borrowed that line from "Jab we met".

When you have one year mean, you are ill and dying slowly and you atleast know the disease. So last three or two months in Bed. Some days in hospital to take medication. For a businessman like me I will not know when time will flyby(so engrossed in my business) until oneday I cannot get out of my bed.

Then only I will be able to think what to do.
1. Find a right man to lead the business.
2. Tell my legal heirs as to what properties I have and where(hidden) and divide those.
3. Tell my friends to come to me every day to share their non-veg jokes with me along with drinks (they will drink).
4. I will ask one of my friends to write for me in PDF as my hands will be weak. I will ask him to write in every Pak-India thread that we will nuke them and to Chinese that certain megatons(he can write whatever numbers) will be dropped on them.
5. On the day I will die, he will write that "the solar65" will now hunt you as a ghost and then log out....

@jamahir

Hmm, that's quite a well thought out plan.

Especially point# 2.

 

[Deliorman]

What would you do if you had one year left to live?

I would try some drugs I find interesting while on a big Armin van Buuren or Tiesto concert or while jumping with a parachute.
Will try all the kinky sex stuff I ever dreamed off.
I will try to travel and be in nature for as long as I can.
I will try to help people and the planet with whatever and with as much as I can.

When I die I will donate my organs so they can be used to save someone’s life.

 

[Mage]

@jamahir

I suppose you are active in some socialist movement in India. Can you tell me what sort of society you are working towards? Or what is the most ideal society achievable in your opinion?

 

[jamahir]

@jamahir

I suppose you are active in some socialist movement in India.

Well, in the beginning of 2016 I was intending to join one of the Communist Parties of India ( unfortunately there are three or four ) so I got in touch with one of them over phone and the gentleman asked me to call up the state secretary of the party.

Maybe the party people wanted to be sure about my credentials/commitment or maybe it was a novelty for them that a young Muslim man of today, or even a young man of today generally, wanting to join a communist movement.

The state secretary and myself had some four meetings. And then he suggested that I get in touch with the district secretary of my city district. But then things didn't go according to plan and so I am not in any party. But I intend to be in one in one year or so.

Though I must add that in 2011 and 2012 I was part of the South Asia branch of the World Jamahiriya Movement which was a loosely arranged movement of people supporting ( anywhere ) of the Jamahiriya system that was of course the governing system in Libya until 2011.

Can you tell me what sort of society you are working towards? Or what is the most ideal society achievable in your opinion?

My vision for a scientific society goes like this :

1. Jamahiriya direct democracy as the guiding political system. Elon Musk too speaks of direct democracy generally for Mars colonies.

2a. Abolishment of conventional money system. All immediately necessary things ( medical system, education, transport, housing etc ) to be free.

2b. A "Social Credits" system like the one that has been initiated in China recently.

3. Neighborhood-level agriculture via Vertical Farms and Urban Farms generally. The farms will be a collectively owned effort to which every citizen must give time a fixed number of days per week.

4. Neighborhood-level 3D Printing shops.

5. Eateries that will produce artificial meat ( as the only meat source ).

6. Since the governance will be mostly done by citizens ( direct democracy ) and all issues debated and resolved by them there will be less necessity of experts and thus less red tape.

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At the moment these are what come mind. I will add any more later.

@Desert Fox , as an indirect reply to your tagging me in the other thread, do go through the above for a scientific socialist society.

 

[Desert Fox]

Well, in the beginning of 2016 I was intending to join one of the Communist Parties of India ( unfortunately there are three or four ) so I got in touch with one of them over phone and the gentleman asked me to call up the state secretary of the party.

Maybe the party people wanted to be sure about my credentials/commitment or maybe it was a novelty for them that a young Muslim man of today, or even a young man of today generally, wanting to join a communist movement.

The state secretary and myself had some four meetings. And then he suggested that I get in touch with the district secretary of my city district. But then things didn't go according to plan and so I am not in any party. But I intend to be in one in one year or so.

Though I must add that in 2011 and 2012 I was part of the South Asia branch of the World Jamahiriya Movement which was a loosely arranged movement of people supporting ( anywhere ) of the Jamahiriya system that was of course the governing system in Libya until 2011.



My vision for a scientific society goes like this :

1. Jamahiriya direct democracy as the guiding political system. Elon Musk too speaks of direct democracy generally for Mars colonies.

2a. Abolishment of conventional money system. All immediately necessary things ( medical system, education, transport, housing etc ) to be free.

2b. A "Social Credits" system like the one that has been initiated in China recently.

3. Neighborhood-level agriculture via Vertical Farms and Urban Farms generally. The farms will be a collectively owned effort to which every citizen must give time a fixed number of days per week.

4. Neighborhood-level 3D Printing shops.

5. Eateries that will produce artificial meat ( as the only meat source ).

6. Since the governance will be mostly done by citizens ( direct democracy ) and all issues debated and resolved by them there will be less necessity of experts and thus less red tape.

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At the moment these are what come mind. I will add any more later.

@Desert Fox , as an indirect reply to your tagging me in the other thread, do go through the above for a scientific socialist society.

Sounds like an interesting concept, though I would contend some of the points made. But hey, anything is possible. So if you ever get a chance to implement this system let me know.

 

[Mage]

2a. Abolishment of conventional money system. All immediately necessary things ( medical system, education, transport, housing etc ) to be free.

Who is going to fund them? Doctors are not going to work free, you know. Same with teachers and transport workers and civil engineers. Besides, it takes money to buy medical equipment, vehicles or to build house, schools or train doctors or teachers. In your system from where this money shall come from?

3. Neighborhood-level agriculture via Vertical Farms and Urban Farms generally. The farms will be a collectively owned effort to which every citizen must give time a fixed number of days per week.

Why? Not everyone is good at farming...sounds a bit like Mao's policies @Nilgiri
I sometimes think If I ever become the highest authority in Bangladesh, I will make a law that every building must have a rooftop garden.

4. Neighborhood-level 3D Printing shops.

5. Eateries that will produce artificial meat ( as the only meat source ).

Where will you get the money for all these? #5 will cause severe malnutrition if not famine.

6. Since the governance will be mostly done by citizens ( direct democracy ) and all issues debated and resolved by them there will be less necessity of experts and thus less red tape.

There won't be a specific laws?
Like in place A, citizens decided to hang people guilty of homosexual intercourse. While in Place B citizens decided to make homosexuality legal. Will it be like that? Or do you engage everyone in the society in debate for every small thing?

 

[Nilgiri]

Who is going to fund them? Doctors are not going to work free, you know. Same with teachers and transport workers and civil engineers. Besides, it takes money to buy medical equipment, vehicles or to build house, schools or train doctors or teachers. In your system from where this money shall come from?

Why? Not everyone is good at farming...sounds a bit like Mao's policies @Nilgiri
I sometimes think If I ever become the highest authority in Bangladesh, I will make a law that every building must have a rooftop garden.

Where will you get the money for all these? #5 will cause severe malnutrition if not famine.

There won't be a specific laws?
Like in place A, citizens decided to hang people guilty of homosexual intercourse. While in Place B citizens decided to make homosexuality legal. Will it be like that? Or do you engage everyone in the society in debate for every small thing?

Yes Jamahir is very pro-communist. A major flaw, but I count him as friend regardless

In your system from where this money shall come from?

Its where the whole thing essentially collapses....the time may vary.

 

[jamahir]

Who is going to fund them? Doctors are not going to work free, you know. Same with teachers and transport workers and civil engineers. Besides, it takes money to buy medical equipment, vehicles or to build house, schools or train doctors or teachers. In your system from where this money shall come from?

1. Teachers, Drivers, Engineers, Doctors etc need some means of sustaining themselves and that is ensured by making most things free. Actually all essential things free.

2. And where does the money come from to buy and maintain equipment ?? Well, either the equipment and be built and maintain within the country or in the current scenario there will be something that a specific society can offer to the outside world in exchange for globally fixed currency ( like US Dollar ). For example, in the case of India, what can be offered is food crops, tourism and mineral ores among other things. The funds thus obtained will be used to buy equipment from other countries.

3. Within a country, there will be some things that are not so essential but occasional and not regularly available. For example, Chocolate cake. Such a thing is obtained via three considerations :

3a. How necessary it is. For example, to celebrate someone's birthday.

3b. Additional will be the "Social Credit" points system where points are decided by how many "good" deeds one has done in the last week or whatever. If the points are in the negative, then a decision is taken by checking how much one has moved up towards zero. Of course, severe criminal activity will be separately penalized.

4. Land will be owned by the system and not by any individual. This itself removes lot of headache from the courts. In India presently there are 30+ million court cases pending. Some from decades and many of them about land disputes. Think of how much less strain will be on the courts.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...60mph-2-8-seconds-just-approved-EU-roads.html

Why? Not everyone is good at farming...sounds a bit like Mao's policies @Nilgiri

Farming will be one of the basic subjects in the education system.

Below is one nice modelling of a Vertical Farm :

I sometimes think If I ever become the highest authority in Bangladesh, I will make a law that every building must have a rooftop garden.

#5 will cause severe malnutrition if not famine.

Why will artificial meat cause malnutrition ??

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2018/j...at-in-your-favorite-restaurant-in-three-years

There won't be a specific laws?
Like in place A, citizens decided to hang people guilty of homosexual intercourse. While in Place B citizens decided to make homosexuality legal. Will it be like that? Or do you engage everyone in the society in debate for every small thing?

Well, in the former Libyan Jamahiriya there were about 1000+ Basic People's Congresses ( BPCs ) which comprised the neighborhood-level decision-making bodies. The decision in a BPC was made by the people of a neighborhood and conveyed through a secretariat to a higher-level body ( Municipal People's Congress or Regional People's Congress, as per implementation ). The decisions about the country were discussed in the BPCs and transferred up to the country-level General People's Congress ( GPC ). In Libya, some ideas by Gaddafi himself were cancelled by the people.

I hope that answers your point.

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