I think there is a difference between needing and wanting.
What is it that all human beings need, wonder if it the same for all humans?

Would you not agree that we all need water and food!
Life would eventually end if we didn't get sleep and sunlight!

Everything else might be considered just a means, a want?

What is it you need, you just can't get along without?

If we talk about the Pyramid of life absolutely

Are we talking of just living and not thriving.
Big difference here..

I personally am quite able to tell someone what I need to:
survive physically,
survive emotionally

and then what I want there is a huge difference in my mind
but I am a very literal person in my thinking process.

I need to live physically at the bottom of the pyramid

food, shelter, clothing..


What I believe I need to thrive is different as they will be for each person


Wants I will want til the day I die...

.. I'm not going to say when I need..
.. because really I can go without that longer than.... most..... ...

..... and what I need and really need..
.. is not available to me right now!..

My body needs water...but i want my coffee...

People need love...but most times, just want sex...

Good job in discovering that.


In order to maintain a relatively homeostatic existence to live out a natural lifespan until the brain and heart are no longer able to function on their own?
Whatever maintains and protects the body and organs, as well as emotional/mental stability.


To some degree yes, if you are talking about maintaining existence.
What provides for the same needs can be different between people. e.g. iron lungs.


IMO no.
As people handle stress differently, and people get stressed by different things, and different things reduce stress to different degrees in different people, and stress is a killer.


Less than some, more than others.
If I told you, made a list for you, that would potentially give you great power over me, wouldn't it?

Other than that, most things people "need" are simply taken for granted.
So even if I were to list things out, it wouldn't be a complete and absolute list.

Not to mention some things are more immediate than others and a lot of things interact in ways over the long term where one thing by itself may not be something I need, but in conjunction with some serendipity and other things it becomes an absolute need, especially if I then base my life around it to the extent that removing it would in practical terms kill me, whereas if I had not of adopted it in the first place then I would be just fine.

APPLIES TO ALL LIVING BEINGS/THINGS

You need: Food, water, shelter from severe weather/temperatures.

You want: ANYTHING else.

If I can't eat it, shoot it, wear it, or wipe my *** with it,
it isn't a need.

you mean Maslow's Hierachy of Needs? oooh man I swear I just sold that psych book back to the book store

Thank you Trish... for the life of me I couldn't remember that name.. With clients I have used the Pyramid of LIFE instead of maslow's... for some reason it came across so much easier for them to swallow..

well sometimes when you slap somebody's name on it and give it a fancy shmancy name..people tend to get turned off

She ^^^ needs coffee quietly in the morning

well now which she you referring to there mister
for it it be this she let me just say in reponse

" heeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllll yes I do!"

OH gawd me too Pancho is constantly teasing me here and in real world laughs very very hard over my am antics.. I don't have both eye open til first cup of over...then I can make sense til then it is mumbles.. rofl...
Must be the psyche thang..

hahahaha my boys know not to get in between their mama and the coffee pot first thing in morning

Wow i got. A twofer

Though it was directed at rains.
You type way faster than i can peck on this pgone trish

The NAVY taught me that all I need is three hots and a cot that I didn't always get to sleep in for very long (sometimes only two or three hours a day). Other than that you'd be surprised what you can live without.

hahahaha yes I am a fast typer when the mood suits me

nope don't need it at all...

yes I have been reading of this new leaf you have decided to turn over

Hmm... great just what I needed.. a gorgeous .. beautifully chested woman.. to come chat me u p..... Lord as I walk through the valley..
of temptation... deliver me from my wickedness..