I've noticed one thing religions have in common. They all seem to be somebody's ideas on how humanity can obtain utopia. But, what is utopia? Can you tell me in your opinion what would be utopia and how we can acheive it?

I believe what is described in the Tao Te Ching is as close as we're going to get to utopia.

http://resources.taopage.org/docs/taote_legge.pdf

For example it says the government should do as little as possible. It should be nonintrusive. I don't believe we really need a full time legislature passing new laws all the time. The government should mostly enforce existing laws. The government shouldn't interfere in the affairs of other countries either. Since the government wouldn't do much there wouldn't be many taxes.

It also says "Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves; not to prize articles which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves; not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds
from disorder." That's the total opposite of the way things are done today.

In my idea of utopia we would have only the knowledge and technology we need to survive. All the knowledge has turned the world into a rat race. Knowledge is increasing at an exponential rate. It takes too much education to find a decent job and you have to keep up with all the latest developments. It says in the Tao Te Ching that the more knowledge people have the stranger the things that appear. It's true. We have all sorts of strange things appearing that shouldn't be. I also believe technology has made people too materialistic.

Also everybody would work and earn enough so they have sufficient to live fairly comfortably. This one I have no idea how to acheive it. It may be necessary to come up with a better economic system. I have no idea what.

Well I could tell you, but then it would take all the fun out of living.

I agree with Turtle.

I don't see your point. I don't see how discussing what you think would make the world a better place would take all the fun out of life.

You asked if it could be acheived and how, and it was answered wasn't it?


but if that is not an option (dying), then I would have to say I couldn't imagine realistically how it could be achieved, but I see what it would be like if It was possible.. a paradise on earth...

I've always wondered about what it would be like to live as the "the wilderness family!" To achieve that would be to move to the rockys are somewhere like that.. To live like that would be an ideal for me as some utopia, or perfect world.


*edit*
Come to think of it, the wild animals would scare me to death! Maybe that wouldn't be so perfect afterall..