The first good thing to do is to prevent bad things from happening, and to recover well from the ones that could not be prevented.
As the first goal will probably never be finished, we can at the same time work on realizing good things.
Good things are the pleasant parts of life, which makes it impossible to define what good things are. The pleasant kind of emotions aren't caused by equal situations for everyone, and it can even change for one person from time to time.
Beauty
I wonder about if beauty can be described by one or a couple of numbers. The number Phi (not Pi), called the "golden ratio", would be the prime candidate: 1.618 (approximately). This ratio number can be found in nature very often.
When composing a drawing, music, a building, or even text or an event, it's always playing around with options until "it feels good". Especially when being completely free of realistic drag (what other want, budget, and such).
The repetition of patterns is one thing appearing frequently in beautiful things. Symmetry, a repetition with a twist. There are a lot of simple ratios that we consider to be "harmonious" in music as well as in colors and distances. 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and such.
Could somebody's character be described by a set of ratio numbers?
On the other hand, if for example a piece of music is totally made from repeating harmonics, that would be boring, not beautiful. For something to be alive and interesting, it needs to be a bit off-perfect. Imagine everybody having the exact same Phi face, that would be terrible!
But than again, if a face is too far off the ratios we like, we don't like that and call it ugly. If the ratios are even further away, we don't even recognize it as something.
What I consider to be good things
Being: fun, beautiful, interesting, important, cool, relaxing, exciting.
- Experimenting. Doing unusual things to see if it goes anywhere interesting.
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- Music
- Dance
- Visualisation
- Sport
- Gaming
- Sharing knowledge
- Developing new technologies
- Cleaning up the Earth
- Exploring the universe
- Grow our own food; small scale biological farming
- Advanced education
- Creating life
- Building impressive architecture, just to show of we can.
- Upgrade the way we live
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Giesbert Nijhuis
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