From relatives and friends, one is encouraged to live within one's means. Usually, this admonishment refers to financial means, that is, don't spend more than you make. But the maxim applies to other aspects of a person's actions including intellectual and emotional.
The following timistic analysis echos and explains the everyday unpleasantness
A person who is full of himself is living beyond his means of intellectual
humility. A person who is always responding with
illogical gut reactions
instead of logical emotions is living beyond his emotional
means.
Whether financial, intellectual or emotional means, timism shows how one's means management echos a ying-yang at all other levels. One's means management defines one's morality, that is, the creation of more time or the cancerizing of less time.
Throughout the table of existence, from the lowest to the highest, a number
of
basic processes
are common
at each level. One basic process is the creation of time. If the entity does
not create time then, at the minimum, it is losing time. Worse, the entity
may be living by losing the time of other entities which makes the entity
a
cancer
. One can be a
catalyst or
cheerloser
to
mean, cancerous beings.
The flow of time in or out of a person, family, community, nation or environment can be described in terms of means, mean, meaningless or meaningful.
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An entity that creates more time than it consumes lives within its means.
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An entity who lives beyond its means is a mean entity who wastes the time of other entities. This meanness is most obvious in those who intellectually and emotionally live beyond their means.
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A person who lives within its means is either meaningless or meaningful depending on their actions toward those who do not live within their means.
- If one does nothing to require mean people to start living within their means then one will have less means, that is, one is a meaningless person. One indirectly co-enables the cancers of life. As part of the problem not the solution, meaningless people are often mean when confronted with their sterility, ineffectiveness or hypocrisy. This is particularly true of people who say that prayer works: When you ask them for examples, they get mean. Do you address the issue of HOW to require a mean person to live within their means? (Perhaps I haven't gotten that far....)
- If one acts to help others help themselves to become self-sufficient then one will be a meaningful person with more means as one's means are not siphoned by hidden costs of mean and meaningless people: higher taxes, crime, inflation and insurance.
- One's production/consumption ratio defines one's morality, that is, the more or less of time: immoral, amoral and moral.
- The cost of humanity is higher because of mean and meaningless people living beyond their means. People who live beyond their means do so because of wants, waste and lies.
While some instances of mean people living beyond their means are very obvious,
the less obvious are meanest. The welfare recipient is living beyond their
means but not as much as the wealthfare recipient who benefits from politically
sanctioned economic privileges that allow a standard of living far beyond
the true existential means. A honest currency as part of
capitalism per capita
will tie the existential and symbolic value of one's worth to the same financial
instrument (lifehours) so people
cannot live beyond their means.
Rare is the person who is totally mean, meaningless or meaningful. An apt analogy with some overlap is the psychological classifications of personalities: normal, neurotic and psychotic. Everyone has instances in which a personal trait could be classified as one of the three. The personality key is that the majority of one's behavior is normal with the neurotic being rare and the psychotic rarer. Like with one's means, we all live beyond our means in some ways, are meaningless in others, and are hopefully, increasingly meaningful as we grow older.
For this writer, he lives beyond his emotional means each time he looks into the mirror and wonders how Brad Pitt bypassed the security system to get into the bathroom. Most of his jokes are meaningless with the criminal intent of stealing a smile. More meaningful is the elucidation of the morality of more time.
If one lives within one's means, one is fulfilling the meaning of life, that is, the creation of time. The meanies of life who live beyond their means don't understand the meaning of life.