“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”

Who are we?

The road to prosperity is only paved through suffering that coincides with acceptance. This distinct idea involves persistence; an idea that requires an individual to press forward, no matter the weather. We are a society that thrives of destruction and that was built by chaos. One, who truly cares about changing the world, must wonder; ‘Are we always destined to be like this?’ We are nothing but rats scampering through the sewer trying to find our exit while stepping on as few toes as possible.

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks it should be.”

Faith in something is better than faith in nothing. Nothing more than just a motto of hope, a hope for change, an idea that these things should not only be better, but can be better, and must be better; or the cycle of death, sadness, and suffering will never end. A silent vice to ostentatious virtue; the very fabric of kings and rulers; does it truly matter which path you take if you reach the same outcome?

How can accept ‘truth’ through only words and not vision? Would you believe the Grand Canyon was as large as it is if you were told so and never saw it for yourself? Isn’t that the same as accepting the existence of the Lochness Monster simply because others tell you it is real? Both sides of this story are based on one solitary concept which I will sum up in one word; perception.

The entire world accepted the fact that the world was flat and monsters roamed the edges of the ocean; all accept a few. One would take this challenge. If not for his dream, his idea, his passion; where would this world be now? 500 billion plus people all smashed together one the very few continents that connected us; with a majority of our futures to be ended by starvation, poverty, and famine?

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

I love my country, but beyond that, I love our planet. I have met so many amazing people over the years who, in one way or another, have left an impact on my very soul; a footprint in the sand, if you will. This world is so wrapped up in its politics, stuck in its bitterness of pointless and useless grudges that we seem to be forgetting what everyone is truly fighting for; it’s a thing called life.

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

Tying everything together, I’ve found that we are wholly devoted to the subjects, topics, and materialistic things that, if life doesn’t alter its course, are heading for a result in which no one desires, but everyone will feel. We constantly blame each other, the government, or a foreign nation for our problems, issues, and the overall current state of the planet; when ultimately, we are all just hypocrites, including myself, that we don’t change the problem, we only change the question.

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men, moose, and the pine trees, and he who understands it alright will rather preserve its life rather than destroy it.”

“Every man dies, not every man really lives.”

In just seems like today, we all as individuals, make choices; better or worse, such is not my place to judge, but regardless, our choices our effecting our future. Not just our near future, and not just the future of humanity; but every other living thing that has no say, no control, and no way to prevent our destruction.

Whether you believe in science, or you believe in religion; one thing should still ring true. We were supposed to evolve from monkeys but we didn’t evolve; we became monsters. For those who believe in religion; if I was your God, I would’ve abandoned you years ago. Why? Just look at you, look what you’ve done to his creation(s). How would you feel if someone came to your house and just started destroying everything no matter how many times you replaced it, no matter how many times you rebuilt it? How long before you gave up and lived on the street?

“We must live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.”

My mom is so depressed when it comes to matters of the future; she is on the brink of paranoia. Is there any soul left in this forsaken world that can look to their child or loved one and honestly say, ‘Don’t worry, baby, everything’s going to be okay?’I’m only 30, and she just got me fitted for a coffin. A freaking coffin; who thinks of these things at 30?

This drove me into thinking; and I realized something. While it may not be old in the shadow of the mighty king known as time; it is in the sense of death. I openly, and honestly, fear for this corrupted and destructive future that my son will now be forced to be a part of. That plain and simple fact frightens and depresses me.

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“While there’s life, there’s hope.”

I don’t have the answers, like that little girl, and I don’t know what we can truly do to change our course. All I do know is that doing nothing, pretending there is no problem, isn’t going to solve but only add to it.

“You life is what your thoughts make it.”

When will accept the fact that there isn’t going to be a superhero to come down and save us? When will we realize the planet’s problems aren’t just going to heal like that of losing a boyfriend, girlfriend, or a material possession? We are all grown, we all know that once a life is lost, it cannot be brought back; and it is in this pain, this suffering, that I feel that all who’ve perished before me, we are letting them all down. We must do something… before there is nothing left to save.

Thank you for reading this…

Incredibly, I read this.

Its point is arguable.

You see, the destruction of the world, of humanity, of species of animals, are done by us, who have been on the planet for a mere 100,000 years.

Before that, there were five billion years of the planet's existence, and three billion years of life existing on the planet.

That's life lasting thirty million TIMES longer than man's presence on earth.

after man destroys himself and most other living creatures, it will start again.

Or it will not start again.

There is no reason for me to feel guilty about this. This has happened a hundred times already in the history of the globe, that 99.9 percent of species died out in a short period. Yet NOBODY was made to feel guilty those 100 thousand other times. Whether they were really to blame or not.

Why should that be different now? the only difference is that we KNOW we are doing it. the 100 thousand other times things did not know they were doing it.

So...?

I can see your point, but there are differences, and I agree to differ, but in my opinion you are moralizing over an issue which is not a topic for moral considerations. "It's just one of them mass extincitons", would a species say who will survive, and has survived countless other mass extinctions. Such survivalists include cockroaches, sharks, slugs, amoebas, and pine trees. Noble ones died out, by great numbers, like unicorns, the woolly mammouth, the dodo bird, and the Medina worm.

So who is to say that only the good die out? If and when WE die out, will that make us good? Or bad, because we caused our own dieing out?

Is a shark better as a moral animal, than a unicorn or a dinosaur? Is a cockroach worse than an angel fallen to earth, or better? What about fairies? or leprechauns? Are they good or bad? Or one-speciman species, like the loch ness monster, of which there is only one, and the Yeti and Elvis?

WHO IS IT who is the ultimate authority to say humans are monsters, or good, or bad? Or who is to say that by killing our own race we are not doing a favour to the world at large?

if we are bad, then killing ourselves makes us good.

But if we are good, then killing ourselves makes us evil.

So which is it? and how did you get to the point where you decided on this ad usque pro dip piro?

Basically, you are moral where you ought not to be.

For instance, why are cockroaches nasty? It is a totally unfounded statement. Unfounded because you humanize them, because you base your judgment on their looks.

Cockroaches are exactly like butterflies and unicorns: They eat, they have sex, they die.

Yet you called them freaking nasty.

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Sorry, I can't go on with this discussion. In my opinion, and with some evidence to suppor it, you want to make order in the world by calling some things guilty, some things nasty, humans not human. This is nothing. At least for me. It more angers me, this quagmire of fluid, limitless and amorphous moralizing, and on the other hand wrongful condemnation, than to wanna read any more of it and analyze it.

Basically, you are moral where you ought not to be.

For instance, why are cockroaches nasty? It is a totally unfounded statement. Unfounded because you humanize them, because you base your judgment on their looks.

Cockroaches are exactly like butterflies, unicorns, and soft, furry bunnies: They eat, they have sex, they die.

Yet you called them freaking nasty.

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Sorry, I can't go on with this discussion. In my opinion, and with some evidence to suppor it, you want to make order in the world by calling some things guilty, some things nasty, humans not human. This is nothing. At least for me. It more angers me, this quagmire of fluid, limitless and amorphous moralizing, and on the other hand wrongful condemnation, than to wanna read any more of it and analyze it.


You noticed well, by the way, I give it to you, that to feel guilt one must be able to comprehend sin. And you said that's why we, humans, who are smart enough to see what's happneing, should feel guilty, because stones and huge meteorite and many sun-protuberances can't feel guilty.

Well, because I can feel guilty, does not mean I should.

I am no different from 100 thousand things that did not feel guilty for the same thing I am doing, so why should I?

Because they were incapable of feeling guilt? Undoubtedly, but the fact remains that they did not feel guilt for "destroying" the world.

It is not my fault to be able to think. I did not ask to be able to think. Without thinking I could not feel guilty. So I refuse to feel guilty on the basis, sole or combined with other things, that I am able to think.

My and my rivals who also almost destroyed the world, had nothing different, but my ability to think.

Then if they are exempt of the demand from feeling guilt, then I rightfully claim an equal treatement.

Why I, alone among 100,000 should get punished with feelings of guilt, when nobody else of the lot does, or is forced to do?

There. You may feel guilty, but I won't.

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks it should be.”

How can accept ‘truth’ through only words and not vision? . . .
The entire world accepted the fact that the world was flat and monsters roamed the edges of the ocean; all accept a few.

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”