Realizing that there really is no Yahweh deity and therefore no wonderful paradise in store for everyone, do you have faith in humanity?
Are humans going to hell in a handbasket? Usually I try to give them credit for trying, but then I realize that it seems to be relatively few people that seem to be trying to do anything to better themselves or the world in which they live. People as a whole these days are pretty selfish. Are they more selfish now than they have been in centuries past? I think so. I have no way to qualify that except for my own personal observations.
I see individual humans as becoming more instinctive and animalistic in nature, almost devolving in a way. This is especially bad and a shame because technoligically we have become so advanced. People seem to have concern for themselves and, by extension, their immediate familes. Concern for their fellow man is at an all time low.
Of course, this line of reasoning feeds right into the Watchtower's scribblings about the end of this system of things and such. While I don't think that the Sky God will have a hand in it.
People seem to act their best when everything is going in their favor and they don't have alot of unhappiness and stressors. When things start to go down the tubes, whether it is a personal issue or one that affects their community or even globally, people seem to resort to animal instinctiveness. We use human words to describe their behavior: rude, inconsiderate, selfish, mean, violent, apathetic, etc. But I wonder if these are just words we have created to define aspects about personalities that we don't like and thus we label them wrong. But if they are natural tendencies, survival tendencies, how can they be wrong?
When someone purposely cuts someone off on the freeway, it usually results in one or both people being angry. Maybe that's just survival. The cutter-offer doesn't care if the person he offended gets killed or wrecks. He's looking out for his own affairs.
I don't know why I'm rambling. I just woke up this morning disgusted at the world and seeing little hope in it or hope for it.
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