Life and the world about us

[cookie]

something at the heart of it all..

Will you guide me now, for I can't see
A reason for the suffering and this long misery
What if every living soul could be upright and strong?
Well, then I do imagine...
There will be sorrow
Yeah there will be sorrow
And there will be sorrow, no more
When all soldiers lay their weapons down
Or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns
Or when the only true messiah rescues us from ourselves
It's easy to imagine...
There will be sorrow
Yeah there will be sorrow
And there will be sorrow, no more

and a simple question...
what is wrong with the world today? and if nothing.. why do we think the world is so terrible? just wondering, it's always nice to see how you all interpret things.

[alaric]

     There is nothing more wrong with the world today than there has ever been in the history of human civilization. It's just our self interest and self pity that makes us think things are worse now than they have ever been.
     Countries and cilvilizations rise and fall but the human condition remains the same. Somewhere people will be oppressed, somewhere there will be ignorance and happiness, somewhere there will be misery.
     With the rise of the globalization and the consequent shrinking of the world, the stakes rise as it becomes easier for one group to oppress and cause misery for a greater group of people. However, it becomes just as easy for a group acting in defense of human rights to reduce the overall suffering on this planet.
     Also with the recent proliferation of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) it becomes easier for a small group of people to cause world wide turmoil. But to counter that new technology makes it easier to track and terminate those who would do such despicable things.
     So, I guess it all balances out. Things are no better, no worse. But the effects of one group's bad decision is magnified.

[cookie]

somehow i beg to differ, despite agreeing with most of what you say.

i think that humanity while maintaining it's basic aspects is degenerating, each generation brings new corruption and more turmoil. I could hardly say, for instance, Native American life is comparable in its social problems to the world today.

bahhh im sleepy

[*NADS Capt. Anarchy]

Plenty is wrong, and plenty is right. The liberals wallow in misery, and the conservatives turn their collective head. Nobody really DOES anything about it except a rare few.

[Flame on GAY 7.5.5 COMP]

The only thing wrong with the world is that my 9.2 comp is broken AGAIN and I need it fixed, and that I am not rich and don't get everything I want. Actually, it depends on who you're talking to.

[tasty]

i will use some quotes from the movie "Waking Life" to illustrate my views:

"Which is the most universal human characteristic, fear or laziness?"

"There's no story. Its just people, gestures, moments, bits of rapture, fleeting emotions??in short the greatest story ever told"
 
"Whatever you do, don't be bored. This is the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive, and things are just starting"

the composition of these three quotes and the rest of the many quotes from my Waking Life poster don't really have a composite meaning, nor does life. all there is is you, your thoughts, the objects you perceive around you. so after socialogical, political, and anthropological perspectives from cookie and alaric, there is a philosophical one. just goes to prove what flame said: how you see the world and the conflict in it all depends on your point of view. the more i think about it the more overwhelming it becomes?

[(SiX)Ben]

I think what everyone here says is uber-bs...

Depression is in the eye of the beholder... So, nothing's wrong, just us. Certain readons to be wrong: Media and government help in the news (Watch Bowling for Columbine, the movie in theaters now, directed by Mike Meyers) bored or  nastolgia. Those are what make me depressed anyway. Oh, and other depressed people such as cookie .

Ben

[tasty]

(Watch Bowling for Columbine, the movie in theaters now, directed by Mike Meyers)

Mike Meyers? omfg he did austin powers, try Michael Moore Ben, director of the critically acclaimed "Roger and Me"

[*NADS Lo$eMoney]

Ben, bowling for columbine made me depressed...

[(SiX)Ben]

lol you sexy sob tasty... I wub you... (sorry, I had about 10 hours of sleep this weekend and was <and still am> dead tired.)

LM, at least the depression was about something. At least it talked about why we're depressed and what we can do about it rather then just be depressed.

Ben