Re: American Marxism
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:59 am
Now you're just getting annoying. If you're happy, IC, then good for you. Just don't expect those of us with clinical depression to jump for joy. Must be nice to be neurotypical. I wouldn't know, myself.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:49 amWell, let's see...Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 3:55 am Frankly, I don't see what there is for anyone to be grateful for in this world.
You posted a picture of yourself on a court, playing tennis. You look like you've got all your limbs. You have eye glasses. Without insult, you look like you eat. You have shoes. You have clothes...even some just for sport. You are enjoying recreation, and are holding a tennis racquet in your hands that probably could be parlayed into a couple of corrugated roofs to shelter families in Colombia or enough medicine to cure a half dozen Africans of river blindness...
So what was your question, again?
I've tried for years to find happiness and am convinced it doesn't exist in this world.
Was there somebody who promised you you'd be happy in this world?
Well, I'm sure you know that happiness is not a thing one can "find". It's a byproduct. It comes when one is finding one's life significant and meaningful in some way, or when one feels loved and secure. When one is not finding happiness, it's invariably because something else is out-of-sorts in one's life. Being unhappy is then a symptom, but not a description of the root condition.
So, Gary, the real question is, what is missing from your life?
I don't recommend "religion" to anyone, for precisely that reason. Religion is man's attempt to engineer some sort of "deal" with God, on his own terms. That never works. At best, it anaesthetizes one to the lack of a real relationship with God. At worst, it makes one merely a zealot.I've tried embracing God but it hasn't solved anything either. I'm just as lonely and miserable now as I was before giving religion a try.
What one needs is an actual relationship with God -- something much more than "religion."
He didn't. We did.I think God created one screwed up world.
He gave us a sex drive, then told us we're sinners to appease it.
He invented marriage. It we who messed that up, too. And loneliness is the consequence.