Uh, yeah, I thought that was the point? There's nothing more maddening than looking at all the terrible things in the world and still deciding that living life is worth enduring.
You have to be divinely insane to accept all of the bad and all of the good that reality presents to us seemingly without any greater reason or purpose.
I've been working on converting my gaming PC to Linux for a few weeks, but everything is running, but it all is just a little jankier than I would like....
Can't blame you. I put a Windows PC together again just so I could play Helldivers 2 a bit more consistently. There's nothing wrong with wanting to enjoy your leisure time.
More accurately there is no reality where "everyone is rich". If everyone had equal wealth there would be no financial distinction that would allow you to classify "rich" or "poor".
I think the questions you're asking require the oversimplification of the real world to the point where even if someone gave you an "answer" it would be close to meaningless. Specifically, not everyones looks at changing geographic locations through a lens of pure economics.
You're all over the place, but I personally believe the biggest issue is people look at economic systems and ask things like "how can we maximize our production and consumption power?"
The "solution" is for everyone to come to an agreement on how much of something is "enough" and work forward from that baseline. This is incredibly difficult because people have different priorities, and getting people to agree on how much food, fuel, and infrastructure should be produced and consumed per capita would be a huge challenge. Capitalist economic systems allow people to more easily distance themselves from the moral problem of greed by saying things like "If I can make $5,000 that means I earned the right to consume $5,000 worth of goods." But the real world "value" of making $5,000 from construction work on housing is vastly different than the value produced from selling a $5,000 NFT.
So I thought about this in the shower amd it makes sense to me, like praying and stuff never worked for most people I know, so a direkt link to god gotta be unlikely. That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there's a god or not. Also people speaking to the same god being given a different set of rules...
I think if god exists it would design a system that would lead you to it if you wanted to find it. In which case religion wouldn't have to be the only way to find god.
But I suppose I should ask what do you mean by the "way to god"?
Ah... Yeah. Idk. If I was god I'd make it so anyone who wanted to find me could find me through any path regardless of where they started at. Assuming "god" exists and is at least that benevolent then there's nothing to worry about regardless of your religion.
I'd probably commission some art of Shadow the Hedgehog on a motorcycle holding a gun. The license plate on the motorcycle would say "ALL0FM3". I feel like he'd appreciate that.
Yeah. As someone who really likes thinking about metaphysics I'm really excited to die and see what it feels like. That being said I also really enjoy living and I'm not in a rush to die. It'll happen eventually and I want to try to do as much as I can while I can.
Everyone should be excited to die, not just religious people. Being excited to die means you lived a good life that you're satisfied with.
Not everyone can live a "good" life by your definition of good, but they can live a good life by their definition of good.
Current generations realize that what older people are trying to sell them is a scam, and they're working on building a new better reality based on their fresh perspective on what reality is.
You can look at religion through many lenses, but at the end of the day religion is just an unprovable fiction we choose to believe because it's how we want the world to work. My belief that if you want to live a good life you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you is religious. Game theory and my life experiences support my belief, but it is ultimately an unprovable belief because of Hume's Guillotine and the fact that my definition of "good life" is subjective.
It's 100% possible that I'm just tricking myself into thinking helping other people is good and makes me happy, but I will still choose to believe.
"...to learn how to love, and forget how to hate" ( lemmy.world )
Sorry I can't do it.
I've been working on converting my gaming PC to Linux for a few weeks, but everything is running, but it all is just a little jankier than I would like....
What would happen if everyone in your country became rich? Would inflation equalize it or would everyone just diaspora to maintain their buying power
Couldn't the collective threat that everyone just diasporas mitigate inflation if businesses tried to pull any funny business?...
This Robin Williams scene perfectly encapsulates why AI is fundamentally shitty ( www.youtube.com )
Even if god exists religion can't possibly be the way to god
So I thought about this in the shower amd it makes sense to me, like praying and stuff never worked for most people I know, so a direkt link to god gotta be unlikely. That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there's a god or not. Also people speaking to the same god being given a different set of rules...
Google ad on a magazine from 1999 ( i.redd.it )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/22055566...
If you were Jesus, what would you get God for Father's Day?
Shouldn't most religious people in theory be excited to die because then they get to experience the afterlife?
esp if you're one of the devout ones who think they've been really good