Better life choices
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First email 14.10. 2024
Recently, my apartment expired and the good space was given to other students, so I fell into homelessness for a period of time, living in hotels or farm tents. Some brothers heard about my current situation and sent letters to I support it.
[09:31, 14/10/2024]
Dear Atom, it is so wonderful that you are in the church.
Of course you are new. You are doing so wonderful and have a wonderful radiation. Please be assured that we all have to learn. No matter how many decades people may be in the church - we all want to learn each day from God through Jesus and the Holy Ghost.
Regarding the apartment it would be very unusual to get the contact for the apartment ahead of time. Usually prospective tenants have a large competition here. For each apartment are usually more than 100 applications.
The landlord does not give out the contract for the apartment first. The landlord rather decides to which of the applicants he may rent the apartment. For their decisionmaking landlords usually require proofs like a "Creditreform" survey.
If you get the "yes" from the landlord, then you should be careful to still keep the landlord happy, because of the contract signing takes too long, the landlord may pick another applicant. If the landlord dem ands a security deposit of three months rent, this is normal.
If the landlord uses a lease agreement form such as , you can simply sign the contract, if the blanks are filled out correctly.
Regarding the apartment in Bergheim: I just thought it might be an opportunity for you.
Of course you have to decide by yourself. I have absolutely no interest in pushing you into this apartment.
I only wished that you have a solution for the cold season. If you find a better, maybe even a cheaper apartment, that's great. So please do not feel any obligation towards me regarding this apartment.
I don't even know the landlord and I have no influence on his decision making. I only wanted to increase your chances of getting an apartment. If you want further information, let me know.
As of now I wish you a wonderful start into the next week.
Take care and love, Brothers
[09:32, 14/10/2024]
Best regards, Brothers
This is my reply to my brother, systematically explaining my thoughts.
Hello Brother M,
Very few friends have ever sent me such a long text message. You are the first. I am very grateful for your concern.
I like to think deeply and write it on my blog and send it to some friends who are also willing to think deeply. Maybe I think about many things differently from most other people, so the solution is also extraordinary.
We join the church to find God and hope to be with Him without having to get involved in too many complicated social affairs.
The relationship with God is the most important thing in life, so many things can be simplified
Regarding the "housing subsidy" you mentioned, I have deep feelings.
I have always been in awe of the government bureaucracy, not just because they are inefficient and have complicated procedures. They may not be able to get a simple thing done well by spending a lot of time. Most European governments are relatively clean, so they are relatively okay;
If you are in China, things are more complicated. You have to establish personal relationships with officials, send gifts and money, and bribery is the only way to get things done;
Chinese hospitals and schools are also power departments under government control because they control the allocation of medical and educational resources.
Even if you want to find a better school for your children or a better hospital for your parents, you need social connections and bribes to do anything.
Therefore, I have a principle in life: try to deal with the government and other authorities as little as possible. It is more worthwhile to save time and go to church and library more, or spend more time working outdoors in farms and gardens.
Because this complex network of interests in human society has led to many unreasonable social phenomena and unfair distribution of resources, housing is a living space resource.
I have long seen clearly that no matter whether it is a democratic or authoritarian government, its essence and performance are almost the same. I will not participate in the unfair distribution rules set by political games.
If real estate resources are in short supply in certain areas and many people compete, I will definitely be the least competitive. This is related to my personality. I don’t like competition.
If I take away that hot house, it means that another person will lose it. If he/she is a very persistent person, they are obsessed with living in the best area in the center of the city and living in a certain type of house. For a house with a certain level of conditions, if their wishes fail, they will definitely feel very uncomfortable.
It doesn't matter to me, it doesn't feel like a problem at all, because I still have a lot of options.
If I go to see a house and the landlord doesn't give me a contract, or there are too many competitors, I will definitely choose to quit.
The worst option is to participate in an auction where many people are willing to spend more to gain a competitive advantage, causing prices to rise throughout the market.
Most people forget why humans live? Ask yourself this question a few times, maybe you will gain some insights. In order to obtain high-quality resources, many people regard the pursuit of money as their primary goal in life. They forget where we come from. This is the wrong direction of life goals.
I have read many contracts, including the landlord's rental agreement you provided, and there are too many information items to fill in.
The work efficiency in Europe is very low because people spend too much time thinking about it and always want to sign a contract once and for all to ensure that the project can continue to operate permanently and sustainably. This is lazy and unrealistic thinking.
Landlords spend a lot of time drafting rules and signing contracts, and fill in too many documents. In order to prevent the risk of business failure, they consider many details and cannot easily hand over the house to a stranger.
However, I found that even if very sophisticated rules are formulated, they still cannot prevent various loopholes and failures, because human beings are very flexible and will always exploit loopholes in all rules in order to survive or obtain benefits, so risks are always difficult to guard against.
The most fundamental solution is to "rebuild trust, credit, and honest relationships between people," so that risks can be controlled as much as possible.
Then the rules for better business or non-profit organizations in the future must be as simple as possible, in fact, just quote one rule.
Most of the norms and codes of human conduct have been laid down in the Church and scriptures over thousands of years, and can be achieved by simply adding a sentence to the contract, namely, "The parties agree to abide by the **Standards of Believers of the Christian Church as a rule of conduct."
This method of citation is just like when we are engaged in computer programming, you do not need to start from 0 to write a function for a specific purpose. The computer industry has developed for decades, and most of the functions that we humans think of for important computing purposes have already been written by previous generations. People have written it and stored it in function libraries of various programming languages. As long as you are familiar with the syntax of a certain programming language, when you need it, you can call those functions with a few simple statements.
The computer industry has achieved tremendous development because these function libraries and various large-scale programs have been open sourced and formed industry standards, allowing a new person to quickly learn and use them. Just like the Bible has long been open sourced, we can quote the principles taught by Christ to We can also be extremely efficient in our lives and work.
We have to admit that rules and protocols have contributed to the evolution of human society. Compared with humans in primitive societies, modern humans have become more and more advanced. Advanced species are more complex, unlike lower-level species like worms, which share food and excretion. a passage.
But at the same time, complex rules and protocols also hinder the development of human society and allow criminals to profit. That is, rules are always used for personal gain, leading to unfair and unreasonable resource distribution.
Most contracts in human society are designed based on economic interests, so almost most landlords only consider issues from the perspective of economic benefits.
If we want to create a more advanced form of social organization in the future, we must go beyond today's commonly used social rules and agreements, then we must go beyond the relationship of economic interests, and I get inspiration from the Bible.
If our major life decisions and daily activities were based on the core goal of a relationship with God, then many of our rules and protocols would no longer be designed based on financial considerations.
So the rules and protocols are simplified!
Furthermore, there is much to prove that today's common social rules and protocols will die out.
Many highly popular professions, including doctors and lawyers, are very expensive to train according to traditional higher education methods. A large number of these professional senior talents will be unemployed in the near future.
Because of the emergence of AGI strong artificial intelligence, many professional jobs requiring high IQ will soon be replaced by machines, while ordinary blue-collar jobs that deal with the physical world, such as plumbers, farmers and other occupations will not be easily replaced by AI.
What an irony! In the past few hundred years, important scientific inventions and creations replaced manual workers, but now they are replaced by intellectual workers.
This makes a lot of people sad. Everyone thinks that the work of doctors and lawyers is important, but if you look carefully at many of the problems that modern medicine has to solve, it may be in the wrong direction, such as genetic engineering. What about a lawyer's job? Is it necessary to be able to write such a complicated rental contract? From this, we have to ask, is the work of many doctors and lawyers valuable? This is questionable.
Now that AI is here, many doctors and lawyers will lose their jobs. How should we view this phenomenon? For me, it doesn't matter, because my above-mentioned point is to stay as far away from the lawyer's contract as possible and away from the hospital doctor, so their work is of little value to me.
Many people think this is a fantasy. You can stay away from lawyers, but how can you not get sick? In response to this, my survival strategy solution is explained below. Over the past 10 years, I am confident that I have stayed out of the hospital.
Therefore, we have to reflect on what the laws of the universe and society are. Why did the Creator arrange this?
Last week I went to see a large villa. The facilities were of course very good. Although it was in the mountains and a bit remote, the landlord and I had a great chat. He had a vacant room and multiple applicants. He offered to keep the house. Give it to me. The exchange is that I will help him start a business together. He is a physicist and electronic engineer. He has some inventions and creations, but they have not yet been commercialized. I don’t understand his technical field, so I have to agree to explore it. Research whether there is any possibility of commercialization.
But if anyone else wants his house, I also suggest that he prioritize others and if no one wants that house within a week, then it can be left to me.
I like this kind of relationship, where others take the initiative to negotiate with me instead of me begging others, but the other party ignores me.
That is to say, I am passive and others are active.
I often talk to many friends about my future ideals. I will go to a remote rural area and build a farm where the houses will be big and the land will be wide.
Perhaps there is a suitable place in a small European town, which is not particularly remote. There are not many people competing for a property there, and whether it is renting or buying, it is more cost-effective than in the city.
Of course, the housing issue is only one factor in making such a decision. More importantly, for the reasons mentioned above, I am unwilling to participate in competition for resources in the city, hate bureaucracy, and do not like complicated procedures.
Of course, because of my past experience in the field of organic agriculture, I participated in many well-known company projects in China and created many firsts in China. I am very interested in and have a sense of accomplishment in the fields of agriculture and rural areas.
Having talked about too many specific matters, we must return to the core principles and concepts taught in the Bible.
If you truly have faith in God, you also have faith in yourself.
Trusting God is not only a rich gift from the Creator’s nature to mankind, but also all human activities are based on our vitality after we have enough to eat and drink. Is there anything more important in life besides strengthening our connection with God and raising healthy and strong children? Then, life becomes simple, and being a farmer in the countryside can realize this vision.
In the city, when you are tired from working in the office, it is difficult for you to relax in other ways. Many people like to raise dogs, but raising dogs in the city is too complicated. It requires a lot of documents, rules and protocols.
It's much simpler in the countryside, although there are a lot of rules and protocols to follow, but at least when you relax, your dog relaxes too because the grass is big.
In the city, there are many people and it is crowded, because you have to pick up dog poop, and you also have to look at other people's faces. There are many neighbors and passers-by who don't like dogs. They carefully hold the dog leash and may accidentally get you into trouble. Your dog then has a hard time relaxing, and you may feel nervous.
No one denies that being closer to nature in rural areas is a healthier lifestyle. Then we can reduce the risk of disease and achieve the goal of staying away from hospitals to the greatest extent possible.
Of course, as someone who cares about world affairs and wants to assume social responsibility, I will never sit idly by and ignore social chaos.
In such a remote rural area, in addition to raising a family, there are still many tasks that can be completed through the Internet and computers.
Only working as a farmer can give me enough time to train artificial intelligence and programming languages. When I get tired from working on the computer, mainly because my brain is tired, I can go out to herd sheep and tidy up vegetables and fruit trees in the farm. Others think I am working, but in fact I am relaxing in the farm and meadows. This is a very healthy lifestyle. I switch between mental and physical work, walking back and forth between indoors and outdoors. The work efficiency of switching between the two modes is very high, I can work 16 hours a day.
We all know that agriculture may not make money. If many traditional industries want to make money, they must abide by the laws of the market, that is, the rules of the game of money. Then we must strike a balance between survival and ideals. We need money, but we cannot do too much. We hate conflict.
Therefore, I can only maintain a balance of income and expenses in rural life. Friends come to eat and live for free, which is simply impossible in the city.
My farm and house are designed to take care of people's normal lives without considering too many economic benefits.
People with social ideals must make enough money through other channels, that is, computers and the Internet. I may buy several more properties and farms in Europe, Asia, and North America, and operate them in the same way and philosophy. There's no way I'm going to pack up these assets and take them to my grave.
I am confident that the children are healthy and excellent, and they can create more wealth, so there is no need to leave any assets to them, as long as they can grow up healthy. Then I can make the decision when I buy the property and land and create the farm, and give all of these assets to a foundation affiliated with the church.
That is to say, all my assets are not owned by me, but are temporarily managed by me. Therefore, I communicate with brothers who value church organizations, and I am willing to share these resources with everyone. I want the house to be full of visitors, the children to have lots of friends and neighbors, and to live and work in the same way when they grow up.
Good morning Atom, did you know that depending on your income you can apply for ""? This might be a support for your rent.