What is the point of life (wages, Jesus, politicians, vs)
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When I was young I swore I'd never be like the opening poster when I got older, hanging on to the "things were better in the old days' mantra. And for the most part I have avoided it although when you see kids killing kids at school shootings and terrorists literally coming out of nowhere to do the same it is tough to maintain my pledge at times
I agree with you here I promised myself I wouldn't be like my parents. But things have got worse I'll have to admit & not just here in the U.S but the world. At some point I do blame the media for a lot of it tying to keep us scared & off the issues that should really matter to us. Yes, things were much simple when we were kids but the world has got a lot smaller due to cable, internet, etc. Yet, if you look at the history of the world it's never been at peace. I believe that we were better off before the industrial revolution sure it's made life easier in a lot of ways but it also complicated things to. At any rate I do the best I can with what I got. We don't have cable the internet is more then enough so unplugging from the TV is the start to living a better life. Not to mention getting outside more.
You just asked a question that has been pondered for thousands of years, by many people much smarter than most of us on this forum.
I'm not sure there is any "point." I believe life, as we know it, just "is."
What would be the "point" in a child being born and then dying a year or two later from cancer? Were the parents supposed to learn something from seeing their child die, and "grow" from that experience? What would be the "point" in that?
The best thing you can do? Turn off the news. The US is probably the safest it's ever been to live. Having a terrorist attack or a domestic shooting or anything like that isn't going to make anyone feel safe, but the death toll from murder and purposeful acts of killing are about as low as they've ever been here. That said, while perhaps a handful of people die from these sorts of deaths each year, start to compare to other forms of death.
Suicide is the 10th largest killer (41k/yr). If you're a man, the odds are much higher (roughly 3 out of every 4 suicides are by men).
Heart disease is number 1 (611k/yr). Cancer (585k) and respiratory disease (149k) take second and third. That grain filled diet is going to kill you long before ISIS can, odds given.
As far as all firearm deaths, including suicide, murder, and accident, 33k deaths come from that.
My point is that your chances of dying from these touted tragedies is relatively slim. And as far as politics, it's always been like this and always will be. There's generally two sides and for every person that thinks something is a good idea, another person is going to think that's completely nuts. Confirmation bias is a hell of a persuader too.
So relax. The world isn't ending. Imagine the fun of the cold war, where any slip up could turn every major US and Russian city into glass. Plenty of times where both sides almost unleashed all hell. All because of glitches and misunderstandings. Now that would have been a scary time to live through.
The future of this world seems horrendous. Every single day brings another tragedy and I lose faith in humanity just a little bit more. I wonder when we will get to the point where people will think twice before stepping out of their house . Little by little our freedoms and sense of safety are being eroded away.
I don't know what the answer is. This feeling of confusion, anger and hopelessness is killing me.
I am not a liberal or a conservative. I am and have always been on the side of common sense with basic human decency but I feel like my team is losing members everyday.
More and more the world is being organized into factions of " us vs them " and everytime this philosophy has been taken to it's extreme , the results have been a disaster.
Our political leaders have failed us miserably. People are getting fed up.
What is the end point of all this ..?
Ultimately, it's about reaching heaven and God, however, until that day, each human serves a purpose in life on earth. Think of life as a Back to the Future adventure. The fact that you were born, will trigger a bunch of other events that would not have happened, if you weren't born. Your birth triggered more events and those events will spawn other events that might or might not have happened if you weren't born. Kind of it, in a nutshell.
You are the culmination of 3+ billion years of evolution on earth. Molecules and organisms evolved to produce complex lifeforms of which you are the latest in your line. The whole process was delicate and the sum of very tiny changes over a long long time. Nature "wanted" you to exist. The point to life is to make it simple for nature to continue producing more complex and more beautiful lifeforms. That is what nature does and you are a part of it.
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