LIFE SUCKS - GENERAL DISCUSSION

LIFE SUCKS

If you wish to discuss anything relevant to this broad topic, feel free.

I'm starting this thread with a quote from a previous thread that got off track, hence me attempting to continue those discussions here.

As for this quote, please remember that it is taken right from the end of the other thread, so dont jump to too many conclusions about ijffdrie's post as there is a context that is now absent.

And thank you ijffdrie for giving permission for me to do this.

I think its interesting whats been said here. The world is so full of issues many people simply dont care and shut it all out so that they can deal with their own lives. It's quite understandable too, yet at the same time there have been studies done which i unfortunatly dont recall the names of... that claimed people who know what is going on in the world are generally happier than those who dont. Im not saying thats true or not, but its something i read a while ago and i personally have been happier in general latley, and also ive been more aware of world issues. Though i dont think its the knowledge of world issues that has made me happy haha i think its more that my general well being has given me the ability to open up to world issues and not be brought down by them.

i dont know what to make of the children thing haha thats also pretty interesting and i find somewhat amusing too haha never know but, could work

should people be aware of world issues? is it understandable if people dont care and want to be just work on their own lives? do people need to be aware of world issues for better change?

 

Did they say why it makes you happier in this research? I'm no scientist, but I think it does because you can say 'There are billions of people who have it worse than me'. That way of thinking is just natural for humans in general, but I still think it isn't a good thing. Instead of envy people around you who have it better you just think that others have it worse 'haha sucks to be them'. It's no solution imo, but then again, humans ARE egoistic bastards so whatever works for 'em.
No offense to anyone in particular was intended

 

actually humans think more along the likes like: i have it better than billions of people, the human mind is very egocentric.

 

"I have it better than billions" is a quote from someone who doesn't have anything else to hold on to.

On an unrelated subject:

Huh?

 

"You can't help others if you can't help yourself." You can't bless others if you don't have any blessings to even take for yourself.

 

once there were two monks walking down the road when they crossed another road and stopped for a snail.
the younger picked up the snail and put him under a bush and thought: That was a good act of me, not crushing the snail by moving him.
but the older monk was furios: why did he interrupt the snail, maybe it is under that bush that there will be a bird in a minute

you may think of the moral of this story

 

in china you are only allowed one child in the cities, that's why india is going to take over as the most populous country in the next few decades or so

 

my soultion to all world problems: one child laws!

 

To add to that , they say that it's best luck iff it's a boy and first child is a boy and only one child! and some/alot of parent's in china kill their own daughter's because it's not a boy and I ain't trolling , just saying what was on the new's...it is sad...

 

coreyb it is definitely true, there is a gender crisis in china atm and it's going to get worse, the mele/female ratio is like 115/100. meaning every 13 men out of 100 are not going to be able to find a mate.

 

i hope that we wont fuck up this world :upset:

 

Lemme just add that some ppl talking about world solutions won't make a difference, as we probably don't even know what the real problems are. Have you guys ever lived in China or India? Or better yet, live there now? How can you propose a solution to someone else's matters, to which we know nothing of? And don't say the news provide many good information because it doesn't. The press is always biased. Thus, I'm justifying my non further participation in this subject.

 

i don't get my information off the press just to let you know... the press doesn't even report on that much such subjects it in the west.

"the have you been there?" argument doesn't amount to anything, knowledge does, sometimes people are more confused or have misconceptions about there own countries simply because they live it it and cannot see the big picture, take many american's for example, they don't have a clue what's happening in their country politically, all they know is their cars, fast food and celebrity.

 

the only good thing i can think of is one-child law:
as the number of people on this world decreases we need less room and less products.
that means we have more room for animal species and need less food for our populace, giving ground animals and fish more room on our planet, so that they can recover there numbers. if we'd centralize our civilization we wouldnt need that much roads and cars. because we would need less products we would have need for less productive capacabilities meaning far less polution.

 

but as you can see in china's example there are also many problems with it, when its government decided to enforce in one-child policy in late 70's they couldn't have foreseen the consequences to the gender ratio. even with strict control you cannot control the wish of the masses, even if 5 out of 100 families deceived they want a boy so desperately that they would kill their first born girl and 3 of them succeeds, the consequences to society is massive, that's were the problems are stemmed from.

 

Ok, population versus environment is something I can do. I know sometimes people have more misconceptions of their own country than outsiders, but I still don't feel comfortable about discussing other countries politics. Not condemning you guys for doing so either, just justifying MY non participation on this subject.

Environment is something that does affects us all, and concerns us all. Humanity has grown too big? Definitively! I support less children per couple, like 2 for each couple. Homosexuality and accidental deaths would do the rest.

 

Overling yeah ive often felt the same way. I usually just feel like i dont have enough well rounded knowledge to make any credible opinions on the issues of other countries, at the same time though, jumpin in the deep end of discussion helps me learn alot aye

complicated world we live in, i couldnt pretend to understand it all

 

What is the point of this thread? Is it so you can argue your point about how life sucks? Just argue to yourself and you'll feel better!

 

hahaha its not really to whinge about how life sucks haha it was intended so people can just dicuss world issues like poverty or marginalised youth or illness or any of those things not so uppy and cheery

doesnt mean we gotta be all down about it, but ya know, thought it might be nice to have it open to discuss

 

i think were f**king the world by being a freeloader, thus the world f**ks the hel out of us, (e.g. global warming, riots, tornadoes, pres. bush) so in turn, we say that life sucks bec of the events happening, but in reality, were screwing ourselves up.....