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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2018 7:50:24 GMT
That schedule was mine for decades, with brief interludes of true love, deep sorrow, meaningful creative work, hideously miserable work, contentedness in nature... kind of like a long-running TV series, with multi-episode arcs. Now that I am retired, my goal is simple contentedness, the least amount of trouble, but that still remains elusive for a few reasons. Really? How does that prove god exists? And how does that make anything better? God has to exist because most people don't kill themselves. Life is terrible. The good moments of life barely make a dent in the bullshit. So why don't most people just kill themselves? The only reason most of us decide to keep living through the shit is because of a greater force compelling us to. Because of God we keep enduring and creating new life. Despite the fact that life is mostly terrible and our children will have to live through it. It's a strange theory that God must exist because people don't kill themselves. There are a number of reasons why humans have evolved to be averse to suicide. However many millions years of evolution have instilled in us a strong aversion to death, to the point where usually any alternative fate other than death would seem preferable. Usually, those survival instincts are too powerful for us to fight them, and I know this from first hand experience. We're evolved to keep on chasing the carrot dangling in front of our nose no matter what, because only the organisms that were fittest, from the evolutionary standpoint, were capable of surviving in order to pass on their genetic material and ensuring the continued survival of the species. Our instinctual aversion to suicide has also caused human societies to stigmatise suicide as being selfish, against God's will, cowardly, etc. If some sort of god does exist, then it isn't a benevolent god, it's an amoral or malevolent god. |
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