Oh my god. I have been waiting for somebody to post something like this. I <3 you man. I say this at school and everybody says I'm retarded. But their is no such thing as a need and you never need anything.

Think of it like this

Jimmy needs shelter. It's one of the four things you need to survive.
So to get shelter Jimmy buys an apartment. To pay for the apartment he needs the monthly income.

See needs trigger other things to happen.

Like Tom wants to get an education so he can make money. No, Tom needs an education so he can earn money.
So he can pay for 3 of the 4 basic things in life. Food, water and shelter also you may not have learned this yet but sexual relations is a need.

So my point is some needs trigger other things you might see as a want, but we NEED those four certain things to survive.

Dinossaur wrote In a way I feel as if religion could play into this some how.

Say Jimmy says that he needs to survive simply because he believes that God or whoever says he has to spread the word of that religion?

It is the God who is wanting him to. Jimmy could be very deep into that religion and believe that completely and feel that he needs to for that reason. Not that he wants to. If that makes sense?

Not trying to start an argument or anything. Just thought of that and wondered how you would go about it.

First off, yes, let's not start a flame war on religion.

Even though I am aethist, I see were you are coming from.

What I think is that, well if he is Christian, let's say, that he only needs to spread religion and needs to survive and do good-doings, etc. only because he wants to go to Heaven.

But that's a thinker though. I don't really apply religion though. But if I did, I guess it all depends on what you believe in.

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Afrochubman wrote

5FDP wrote Let's say Jimmy needs water to survive, He only gets water because he NEEDS it to survive.

Jimmy is only getting water because he Needs it because he Wants to survive.
Jimmy, again like John, could just not want to survive and not Need to get water and die, only because he doesn't want to survive.

I hate to bring religion in to this, but Jimmy actually needs to survive. His job is to follow the way of the lord and praise him. That is from the religious side and I have no valid argument from a non-religious side.

*please no hate or arguments about religion, that isn't the topic*


EDIT: Didn't notice there was an extremely similar post already

dyllz wrote Oh my god. I have been waiting for somebody to post something like this. I <3 you man. I say this at school and everybody says I'm retarded. But their is no such thing as a need and you never need anything.

Thank you for your support. I have also been thinkIng about this for serval months.

you need plants, water, and animals

Afrochubman wrote

Dinossaur wrote In a way I feel as if religion could play into this some how.

Say Jimmy says that he needs to survive simply because he believes that God or whoever says he has to spread the word of that religion?

It is the God who is wanting him to. Jimmy could be very deep into that religion and believe that completely and feel that he needs to for that reason. Not that he wants to. If that makes sense?

Not trying to start an argument or anything. Just thought of that and wondered how you would go about it.

First off, yes, let's not start a flame war on religion.

Even though I am aethist, I see were you are coming from.

What I think is that, well if he is Christian, let's say, that he only needs to spread religion and needs to survive and do good-doings, etc. only because he wants to go to Heaven.

But that's a thinker though. I don't really apply religion though. But if I did, I guess it all depends on what you believe in.

So Dinossaur - 1 and Afrochubman - 0? Haha just kidding. But nice argument you made.

Afrochubman wrote

5FDP wrote Let's say Jimmy needs water to survive, He only gets water because he NEEDS it to survive.

Jimmy is only getting water because he Needs it because he Wants to survive.
Jimmy, again like John, could just not want to survive and not Need to get water and die, only because he doesn't want to survive.

Maybe you would like to know what it feels like to die of thirst... It's one of life's necessities...

McNuggets wrote We need food,water and air
thats it

we dont want it we need it or we would die.
well some people what that but most dont

You forgot about shelter.