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Hey everyone :)
I'm sorry if I offend you in any way in this question.
I started to think it would be amazingly problem solving if the world did end on December 21.
Now there's something you all need to know before you answer this, angrily.
I'm a very happy person, I love my family, I love everyone. I just see my life, & everyone's life, as pointless. Everything I care about, everyone I love, is not permanent. Everything dies, nothing lasts forever. So I don't see the point in caring so much about a life that is so unimportant as the ones we lead. This is something that really worries me at times. I feel like my thoughts are very negative, me being the happy, very grateful & thankful person that I am. My own thoughts confuse me sometimes, though.
I think that with all of these people I see on Facebook with completely naked pictures & people saying they hate their parents, bath salts, babies with iPhones, people who don't say I love you to their parents because its "embarrassing", crimes committed every day that involve deaths, people with no confidence, peer pressure, jealousy, addiction, teen pregnancy, rape, shooting in a theatre, shooting of children that could be the next president one day, & just
negativity in general.
I'll tell you one thing. When people commit suicide, I don't feel bad at all. In fact, I don't respect the idea of it at all. It's kind of even funny to me. The only people I would cry over taking their own life is a schizophrenic. They all have a good reason to want to die. They're trapped in their own brain. The brain is such an important thing to have control over. It literally summons up everything that ever happens for you (if you're confused, watch the movie "The Secret") and to not have control over it, you're basically as good as dead, anyway
People take things for granted. I would never take my family or my friends, or anyone who wants to be around me in general, AT ALL for granted. My life is too important to me for me to be spending it with hate.
Keep in mind, I want to live my life. I want to be happy as much as possible. But I can't just sit back & not say anything about the very sad & careless things that happen every day, & the crimes committed toward innocent people every day. This is my first attempt at saying something. Feel free to call me names, speak your mind. I want to know what people think.
Is it bad that I feel this way? Am I the only one? Am I wrong?
Any comments/opinions are appreciated.
If in any way, this upsets you, please let me know why.
Thank you for reading :) & have a nice day :D (link)
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Hi. You've got a lot of stuff going on in your mind at the moment. All bubbling away and possibly putting it down in a fairly structured way like this and posting the question was a very smart move. There seems to be a theme running through it, the one you more or less open with. The feeling that life, and the people and things you love are not permanent, fleeting almost. It will all pass, and what purpose will it have served? I think that maybe mankind has argued this many times. On a personal level (via the philosophers and great thinkers) and collectively (through religions and belief systems in general). At his (her!) core, I believe that man is probably not equipped to deal with the concepts of eternity and infinity. (Let me use 'man' to mean mankind, icluding women from here on...it's easier!) I would argue that as much as the greatest thinkers (formal, not hocus-pocus!)can explain and even quantify the infinite, even they cannot truly have an intuitive understanding of these concepts. They are beyond the probing of our minds. We are temporal creatures. We live out the span of our time on earth, and eternity rumbles on largely untroubled by us. We surround ourselves with other people, our own projects, ambitions, loves and hates. Most share the same span. A Newton might leave his laws of physics, an architect may leave a St. Pauls Cathedral, a Tolstoy or a Shakespeare may leave his body of work. But in the light of eternity, even the Great Pyramid is a fleeting, short-term structure. I can see also that you seem to be dwelling on the deplorable acts of man. The majority of them involve the conscious acts of individual people...murder, rape, mass-shootings are not random acts of 'evil'. Each is a deliberate act. The unwanted pregnancies and addictions likewise do not just spontaneously 'happen'. Each is a specific act of self-determination. We ponder here the 'dark acts' of individual men. Yet man is not, I believe collectively 'dark'. And YOU are not 'dark' for gazing into these waters. You have conscience, care and feel deeply about the world around you, the world you are a part of. You have 'humanity'....and it's a good thing. I believe tha all men do have to a lesser or greater extent, a shade of this 'darkness' in them. It exists as the counterpoint of 'light' (the happy, grateful and thankful 'you'). Bad things are of course 'not good'. But that doesn't mean that bad things aren't anything at all. The evil is as real as the good, the ugly is as real as the beautiful...and so on. It was Confucius I think who said 'A man is better employed lighting a single candle than he is in raging about the darkness'. Journey on....seeker. There's light in you!
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Thank you so much! This somewhat confirms my thoughts, and I like how you speak :)
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