Attachments To Material Possessions?

I don't care about material things. If you can't take it with you it's of no real value.

 

Yes, things can do that.....have special meanings and memories.....
I have heard theories that material objects can eminate energy, as well......

 

Bad joke, man... I lost most of my animals in that fire.

 

You can take it with you!

It's a common trope in Eastern philosophy that material attachment is bad for you.But often that is just something fake gurus will tell you - like "Give me your money,I can handle it,you can't." But there is some truth in this.I ultimately believe in goods being held for the common good.So I try to see my possessions as just being there for my use,for the time I have to use them,whilst cultivating a certain degree of detachment.A lot of people won't like me for saying this,but I believe in a kind of green communism that has never truly been practiced,but has been theorized.I am not talking Stalinist Russia here,but true freedom and egalitarian equality.

 

My guitars. Then, those things kinda become an extension of the musician's soul, so, no surprise there. Other than that... nothing, really, other than a couple books

 

You cannot take anything with you except yourself in the end.

 

Yeah, fires are not a joke here, either......
If ever a fire here, I would lose animals, too, I am sure....
I do not like uncontrolled fires.....

 

Not unless I have the guitars cremated with me

 

My guitars, several handmade ones, were already cremated.... I can't replace those.

 

...that sucks

 

i could leaving everything in my house behind but my 4unner filled with my goods and the passenger seat and one in the back open.

 

i can't think of anything. i get pretty pissy if i lose access to my computer or my vehicle, but it's not like i'm particularly attached to any specific computer or vehicle, just that i need to have one that i can use.

kind of the same. i'm still a bit of a packrat, but it's not about attachment; it's about not wanting to get rid of anything that i may be able to make use of at some point in the future. either way, i've gotten a lot better about tossing junk than i used to be.

 

I guess we all probably have a few things we like. Pictures the kids drew when they were little or that kind of thing would maybe be something I couldn't replace. I really love my guitars too. But something my dad told me a few years before he died changed my view on this topic. He told me that when he died he wanted to be cremated and not have a grave. I asked him why and he said it was because a grave does him no good and only leaves the rest of us an obligation. He didn't want the last thing he gave us to be an obligation....a place we feel like we have to go visit even though he isn't there to meet us. I thought about that for a while and started noticing how the things we have can become obligations we never really wanted. We'll leave here the same way we came here....possession-less and minus one body.

 

I had to sell a few items to the exchange store today to tide me over till I get paid 2moro.Boom stand,small microphone tripod,Bongos and Sony disc walkman.I got 20 quid for the lot.I have no remorse from selling this junk,it's just product that can be replaced at a future time.It's just in the system.I was just glad to get the money.

 

I guess it is so then. Sorry for your offense.

 

You have gravity? I bet you're a little attached to that

 

I think I might somewhat miss this world once I leave.

 

Me too. It doesn't get much better than this.

 

Oh I am sure it does.

 

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