the meaning of life .
what you HAVE to accept.
Life is harsh
MINE ISN'T I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA IT'S HARDLY HARSH COMPARED WITH THE PAST OR LIFE IN OTHER COUNTRIES NOW IS IT. HUBRIS DOESN'T CUT IT. TRY FACTS FOR A CHANGE.
Life is harsh as F*kk.
SEE ABOVE
Life is inherently unfair.
IT CAN BE BUT NOT NECESSARILY INHERENTLY SO.
The great religions and all the heroic mythology upon which the west is built point to these facts.
You are going to die
OH DEAR REALLY? I WAS EXPECTING TO LIVE FOREVER. HONESTLY EVERYTHING DIES. FACT OF LIFE.
There will be pain.
REALLY? PHYSICAL MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL NO DOUBT. COMES WITH LIVING. IT IS ALL PART OF LIFE.
It will be one problem after another.
REALLY? WHAT MINUTE AFTER MINUTE? DAY AFTER DAY? WEEK AFTER WEEK? MONTH AFTER MONTH? YEAR AFTER YEAR? A LITTLE LONGER PERHAPS... WHICH ONE OF THESE. MAN IS A PROBLEM SOLVER. A LACK OF PROBLEMS WOULD STARVE OUR MINDS OF THE ABILITY TO THINK AND ADAPT.
Christ and the buddha and the stoics and greek mythology all point to the neccessity of "accepting this" as you cannot transcend it if you wont accept it.
REALLY? YOU NEED TO READ MORE.
What happens if you wont accept it?
YOU MAY JUST CHANGE THINGS AND TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY.
What happens if you think you can create a "utopia " here on earth.
NOTHING. THINKING SELDOM DOES ANYTHING WITHOUT THE ASSOCIATED ACTIONS. A "UTOPIA" IS QUITE POSSIBLY A VERY FINE ASPIRATION. YET ONE MAN'S "UTOPIA" MAY WELL BE ANOTHER'S HELL.
This has been tried in the soviet, in maos china, in vietnam, in cambodia, in north korea.
I DON'T CALL DIFFERENT SOCIAL SYSTEM UTOPIAS SEE MY COMMENT ABOVE.
It doesnt work.
OBVIOUSLY THEY DO WORK. OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE NOT ALL TO EVERYONE'S TASTE... SEE MY COMMENT ABOVE.
If you dont accept it , heres what happens.
OH GOODY
Problems and pain and suffering will be delievered to your doorstep and because you didnt accept it, you will become resentful
you will become desperate
you will become angry
you will become bitter
you will become depressed
you will become nihilistic.
OH DEAR... SEE MY COMMENT RE CHANGE. HISTORY SHOWS THAT CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT.
The leftie socialist intellectuals BY NECCESSITY have to reject the ideas of christianity because the hero in the story carried a cross and then got nailed to it.
OH DEAR WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP. A TOTALLY ILLOGICAL CONFLATION.
and they cant accept that (and with good reason).
DO TELL
and in their non acceptance, they just dig for themselves a bigger hole.
DEPENDS ON THE SOCIETY THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN
because acceptance of pain is neccessary for growth.
RUBBISH...
if you cant accept that their is pain and malevolence in the world (and especially if you dont make your children aware of this) then you are naive and you are raising naive children.
MORE RUBBISH
and what happens when a naive person encounters pain or evil.
OOH... WHAT?
they get traumatised in direct proportion to their naivety .
AND MORE RUBBISH... HUMANS WOULD FIRST OF ALL RUN AWAY OR AVOID IT. CHANGE IT, OR TOLERATE IT, ETC... THERE IS NO PROPORTIONALITY
i dont know how many spartan boys got PTSD.
probably not that many.
DIFFERENT TIMES, DIFFERENT PEOPLE, YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR TIMES.
PTSD is now running at 50 % in our military.
because we arent teaching people the true nature of the world.
RUBBISH... SEE ABOVE.
anxiety and depression are running at record rates in young people.because we arent teaching people the true nature of the world.
PEOPLE THESE DAYS ARE MORE AWARE AND EDUCATED ON THE WORLD AND OTHER PEOPLE'S THAN THEY HAVE EVER BEEN BEFORE.
so make sure you embrace the fact that life is tragic and that you must never let this tragedy make you a victim.
SO YOU ARE A TOTAL PESSIMIST ARE YOU? IF THAT'S HOW YOU COPE, FINE. i CHOOSE TO BE A REALIST AND AN OPTIMIST.
the left, by rejecting this reality and encouraging victimhood are making people become weaker.
IT IS NOT STRICTLY A LEFT/RIGHT THING, THOUGH VICTIMHOOD IS A TOOL USED BY LW PC PROGRESSIVES TO FURTHER THEIR POLITICAL AGENDAS.
and this weakness is a step backwards from an evolutionary perspective.
for the first time in the long history of mankind, the species is not evolving but devolving.
nature will destroy a species which goes down that route.
the nuclear arms race is part of that idea that you can build a utopia where you are safe, but you just need one resentful and bitter person to trash that system
and no "belief system" is creating more resentful and bitter people then the current leftie socialist system.
RUBBISH... SEE MY COMMENT RE "UTOPIAS"
YOU SCOOT HAVE A WEIRD VIEW OF THE WORLD AND YOUR FELLOW MAN WERE YOU EVER INSTITUTIONALISED AND IF NOT WHY NOT?
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