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Assuming humanity will manage to exist that long. On the topic: how do you keep yourself positive? How do you keep your hope for the humanity? I have lost mine

Assuming humanity will manage to exist that long. On the topic: how do you keep yourself positive? How do you keep your hope for the humanity? I have lost mine and find it hard to keep going, since lots of things become pointless

christkv 5y ago
Enjoy the little things in life. The breeze, a cup of coffee/tea. Read The Tao of Pooh. There is certain comfort in knowing that you can't control everything so try to enjoy whats infront of you today. And turn off the news and social networks.
- rbanffy 5y ago
  > And turn off the news and social networks. Surprisingly enough, this social network is quite inhabitable. Even when we disagree, we do so in civilised ways.
unicornmama 5y ago
The world has always always been a scary and uncertain place. Dealing with that is part of adulthood.
- rbanffy 5y ago
  Learning not to need or want what you don’t need is liberating.
pure_simplicity 5y ago
Jesus. It is easy to dismiss religion as pre-scientific superstition or opiate for the people, but hear me out for a second. I find that Jesus gets two things fundamentally right: - humanity's brokenness - the moral values that underpin human flourishing It may seem counterintuitive, but recognizing humanity's brokenness as a whole and on an individual level is actually necessary to have hope. You can't fix a problem you don't see. Seeing the problem is not enough, though. You also need to avail yourself of a solution. Jesus is that solution. He has transformed the lives of people, but it is a deeply personal experience that you have to choose for yourself (if you want it). I think humanity needs religion (without a religious worldview your cognitive framework is incomplete), and i think Christianity is the most rational, most plausibly effective, and most likely to be true religion we have. Having said that, i'm not here to argue, though there are myriads of arguments to be had. This is just an invitation in response to a question. To anyone reading this who has been burnt by Christians who may feel the need to vent their frustration: I am sorry for your negative experiences. There is no perfect system in this world. Even among so called humanitarian aid workers there are rapists who go to foreign lands and leave struggling females pregnant and alone. Yet we all recognize the tremendous good done by charities despite the despicable evil. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
- rbanffy 5y ago
  You don’t need Jesus to become a better person. We are flawed, and we evolved to be aggressive apes, but we also evolved big brains and we can now decide we don’t want to behave the way our ancestors did. One day at a time, all we need to do is to decide not to be that murderous ape.
foxyv 5y ago
I've found secular Buddhism to be one of the few philosophies that accurately reflects reality. In life there will be suffering. But there is an end to suffering. Finding the joy of humanity through the suffering of/by humanity is a hard but worthy goal.

christkv 5y ago

Enjoy the little things in life. The breeze, a cup of coffee/tea. Read The Tao of Pooh. There is certain comfort in knowing that you can't control everything so try to enjoy whats infront of you today. And turn off the news and social networks.

rbanffy 5y ago
> And turn off the news and social networks. Surprisingly enough, this social network is quite inhabitable. Even when we disagree, we do so in civilised ways.

unicornmama 5y ago

The world has always always been a scary and uncertain place. Dealing with that is part of adulthood.

rbanffy 5y ago
Learning not to need or want what you don’t need is liberating.

pure_simplicity 5y ago

Jesus. It is easy to dismiss religion as pre-scientific superstition or opiate for the people, but hear me out for a second. I find that Jesus gets two things fundamentally right: - humanity's brokenness - the moral values that underpin human flourishing It may seem counterintuitive, but recognizing humanity's brokenness as a whole and on an individual level is actually necessary to have hope. You can't fix a problem you don't see. Seeing the problem is not enough, though. You also need to avail yourself of a solution. Jesus is that solution. He has transformed the lives of people, but it is a deeply personal experience that you have to choose for yourself (if you want it). I think humanity needs religion (without a religious worldview your cognitive framework is incomplete), and i think Christianity is the most rational, most plausibly effective, and most likely to be true religion we have. Having said that, i'm not here to argue, though there are myriads of arguments to be had. This is just an invitation in response to a question. To anyone reading this who has been burnt by Christians who may feel the need to vent their frustration: I am sorry for your negative experiences. There is no perfect system in this world. Even among so called humanitarian aid workers there are rapists who go to foreign lands and leave struggling females pregnant and alone. Yet we all recognize the tremendous good done by charities despite the despicable evil. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

rbanffy 5y ago
You don’t need Jesus to become a better person. We are flawed, and we evolved to be aggressive apes, but we also evolved big brains and we can now decide we don’t want to behave the way our ancestors did. One day at a time, all we need to do is to decide not to be that murderous ape.

foxyv 5y ago

I've found secular Buddhism to be one of the few philosophies that accurately reflects reality. In life there will be suffering. But there is an end to suffering. Finding the joy of humanity through the suffering of/by humanity is a hard but worthy goal.