Around 1,000,000,000 Korean Won or about 860,000 US Dollars.
Prices of apartments, or condominiums, in my neighborhood rose roughly fourfold in ten years, from what I recall.
Happened in a lot of cities around the world.
For homeowners, probably a good thing. For non-homeowners with low incomes? People should have the right to healthy food, health care and a clean residence at an affordable price that lets them save money for retirement and emergencies?
Some day?
Don't want to wear masks or get vaccinated. Believe outrageous lies.
Why? Cognitive Dissonance. Should consider it a pandemic. Probably be listed as a mental health problem in the future.
One is born "clean", but as one grows older and lies, one becomes stuck in a loop or circle that becomes harder to escape each time around.
Yet, some do escape. How? Through thought.
But most people don't like to reflect on things that are linked to their mistakes, reflect on life and death, how did this all come to be, and such?
Too busy chasing fun, entertainment and other egoistic pastimes?
I keep circling back to this topic every decade. Conclusion? One has to absorb the bad energy (vibes) of the cognitively dissonant and try to make a better world.
Easiest way to do that? Blog.
Hardest way? Directly meeting cognitively dissonant people. Like a black hole. Sucks all positive energy and leaves me feeling really unsettled.
Two people from the district office visited my home and told me I was eligible to recieve AstraZeneca's vaccine for the coronavirus. Didn't know that.
I signed up for the free vaccination at a clinic within a few minutes walk.
Think they are crosschecking eligible people with those who applied for a vaccination and vaccinated people. Very proactive.
I sometimes go through several weeks, sometimes months, without watching Korean news on TV or online. Most of the media is directly controlled by the right wing (ie. rich) and often have TV news shows with conservative guests as commentators criticizing the Moon administration and the ruling progressive party. Very depressing.
My children don't watch the news either. Wonder why? I never talked to them about my opinions on the media. They probably come down to the same conclusions.
Physically, life has limits.
Intellectually? Depends on whether knowledge is finite?
If humans "meet" other worldly "creatures", it will most likely be more an intellectual, rather than physical meeting?
What would a more advanced civilization, or intellectual "being", communicate to us? Avoid climate change, be truthful?
Such a being most likely would try to communicate with us through telepathy. But how would we understand that "being", if the "being" only planted seeds of thoughts in our consciousness, and left the decision up to us (as in Startrek - not interfering in "untouched" civilizations)?
Probably some instinct that evolved over time.
I play poker for virtual money. I am almost a billionaire. There are people with trillions, so I am sort of poor.
When I catch someone bluffing, or play slow and fool someone, it makes really my day! I laugh, smile, chuckle.
American football, soccer, basketball, other sports. People go crazy.
Seems like we should be evolving out of such behavior. From a certain perspective, it seems very mean.
Various theories in physics stipulate that an infinitely small string or point vibrates and creates all things physical.
In my mind, if you vibrate a point or string at certain frequencies, you get symmetrical patterns. In the physical world, not everything is symmetrical.
So the vibration must be asymmetrical and still impart constructive information. Sounds like we are in a simulation? Could be. I was undecided before.
Played a part in stopping Trump from almost certain reelection.
Would be looked upon as Divine Intervention by many, if it weren't for all the death and suffering.
Few probably think about what America and the World would be like with Trump in a second term as President.
The conservative party in Korea has been acting like Trump for decades and have become even more emboldened watching Trump spout lies. Pretty sure the situation is the same the world over.
Used to drink very weak coffee, but surprisingly found out it was causing ulcers.