What has happened to us?!

[Hannah1234]

I found myself sitting on my balcony having a cigerette last night staring into the abiss and thinking....what on earth is wrong with the world? And the more i thought about it the more frustrated i got with people in general. From a scientific perspective people are the most complex virus on this earth and looking closely at our race we are possibly more hideously disgusting then the monster your scared of when your a kid. Not to say everyone is this way inclined but majority are. I then went inside and sat to watch the news something i never do (why would i purposely expose myself to such depressive things) but i felt the urge. Some one had been stabbed, another terrorist attack in some country and the politics of our society were jus not doing there job....wow welcome to our world! When was the last time you hear GOOD news on the news...im only 18 ive not read a single happy newspaper article or seen good news in ages! Good news to this country is someone won a gold medal which yes is good news but not for us...that means absolutly nothing for us but its nice to know someone has real talent and is doing something they enjoy. But watching the news made me ponder my thoughts even more and i started thinking about my friends those of which i fell out with a while back and those of which im still friends with....and i was truly truly disgusted with it. It made me realise that people are horrible, we are capable of destroying anything be it physical, mental, emotional, tangiable. we are truly the destroyers and creators of this ironic planet. I personally dont believe in God but im not saying he doesn't exist because everyone is entitled to their opinion, i just find the concept of an all powerful being very hard to accept though i wish i could accept him because it would give me answers to all the stupid questions i could come up with...or would it?

If someone dies and you ask why did they die.....a religious person will say somethign along the lines of it was her time to go, god has greater plans for her etc etc i know my grandmother is incredibly religious! Anyway..i challenged this and said what possible good can come of a 50 yr old woman with 3 sons and a husband, a family who loves her and whos job is actually to aid sick people. (my auntie died a few years ago from bowel cancer). and No one in the church could give me an answer that was acceptable because saying 'we don't know what gods plan is' doesnt give me satisifaction or peace of mind. Thats like someone stabbing ur husband or wife or parents n saying well you dont know what my greater plan is....would you accept that? No not even a religious person would! This whole thing is madness! When did we start accepting terrorism and stabbings and shooting for no reason...when did we let our youngest generation run around the streets at night with knives in their pockets and who taught them that killing is fun? What kind of people is our society producing?! Well its not necesarily societys fault everyone has freedom of choice no one forces a knife into your hand but someone has to teach a kid how to chose and frankly from the news ive heard and the people im meeting i dont think the majority of our people ont his planet actually have a heart. Its disgusting.

Why cant we go back to that childish frame of mind where you take time to sit and watch a sunset and not rush to work. Coz the world doesn't work like that? why doesn't it? Coz you said so? Sod it if you want to sit and watch a sunset why are you going to let some ponce in a suit tell you you cant? So what you if you lose your job or your friends or something its not the end of the world is it? You can get a nother job...you can get more friends. We're so programmed into thinking we must be a certain way that the world works a certain way but it only works that way because your making it! Who cares about other people you live for yourself. Why dont you take time to make a friend or love your partner properly or read to your kids? Why dont u actually decide to forgive that person you haven't spoken to in years and can't even membe why you fell out in the first place and learn to say 'im sorry' and actually mean it for once? Let the justice u find within you dictate your life as appose to the world surrounding you telling you how to be? Because one day you'll wake up and realise you've run out of time and when you do your going to feel nothing but regret and is that really how you want to be?

I'm 18 for god sake and you know people always say your so young you don't know how the world works you haven't lived your life...welll for all those people who have an answer for everything, i have lived life, i've been through more horrible things than most people will never even witness or hear about let alone go through. I work full time as an accountant so i know how the 'world works' supposedly and i pay my way so i know the worth of a job but im not going to be eaten up by the ridiculous politics of this world. Why should i let someone tell me how to be, dress and act? in the words of mr King. Why cant we all jus get along? why do we have such monsters living among us!?

The fair few people that actually will walk past a charity box and drop in a penny or two, those people who will ask a young girl crying whats wrong or help the boy fix his bike coz he's just fallen off...people like that should be running our country not these idiots who just want money. money is evil and it makes people equally evil.

Anyway i just for no apparent reason had to rant because its been driving me nuts! I am sorry if i have offended anybody and their opinions it isnt my intention to do so.

[Varzandeh]

Hi,

The world is as the same as it should be...
Only a few points you ignored :
Hud/
118. And if your Lord had pleased He would certainly have made people a single nation, and they shall continue to differ.

119. Except those on whom your Lord has mercy; and for this did He create ***them; and the word of your Lord is fulfilled: Certainly I will fill hell with the jinn and the men, all together.

Mulk/

2. Who created death and life that He may try you-- which of you is best in deeds; and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving,


Baqura/

74. Then your hearts hardened after that, so that they were like rocks, rather worse in hardness; and surely there are some rocks from which streams burst forth, and surely there are some of them which split asunder so water issues out of them, and surely there are some of them which fall down for fear of God, and God is not at all heedless of what you do.



155. And We will most certainly try you with somewhat of fear *and hunger *and loss of property* and lives and fruits ( children) *; and give good news to the patient,

156. Who, when a misfortune befalls them, say: Surely we are from God's and to Him we shall surely return.

157. Those are they on whom are blessings and mercy from their Lord, and those are the followers of the right course.


Etc...

So, it is said that this world is created to see who has the best manner and because it is in two part... the justice will be done partly here partly in the second part after life.
You see many people die in their youth in the wars or by accidents so their rewards will remain for the second part.
God has sent 124000 times messengers ,That I Do exist but not in a way that you can see or understand ...And has said every single things but we have authority to accept or not to accept... this small part of authority has worsen our situation as we think we know everything and can do everything...
For more info there are 6236 verses about everything in the holy book Quran.

[puppywhispers]

We are only one species, that no matter how hard science tries to "create" has yet to find all the secrets that make up the matter to make a human in whole.

With that said...there are 2 kinds of people on this earth...
First kind, finds that everything happens for a reason and that there are some unique reasons why we go through tribulations and trials to find peace at the end.

The other kind...believes that things happen are just made to be, that regardless if they were any kind of person the action towards them or the actions they take are just because.

As you see, the species of human have free will to choose what type of human they will allow themself to become.
Just decide with your free will what type of human you want to be.
I personally believe that if man was made from monkeys...then why are there still monkeys and they haven't all evolved? Also, there are many, many species of apes and monkeys, why is there only one species of human?!!!

I chose early on in life, when I was 5 what type of person I would be as I survived a near death experience, literally clinging on to life. I knew from that experience that us "humans" have a purpose and sometimes that purpose is greater than our own ability to understand that fact.
You are very young on this earth to go through life frustrated with peoples choices. However, please remember, it is their choice and you as your own person have the right to not carry their burdens. It is also your right to not allow them to make you feel they have done you or this world wrong by making bad choices.
If you miss the joy in simple things, then the greater joys in life will have no comparison and will not bring you the full potential of happiness that you deserve.

[Hannah1234]

Originally Posted by puppywhispers

We are only one species, that no matter how hard science tries to "create" has yet to find all the secrets that make up the matter to make a human in whole.

With that said...there are 2 kinds of people on this earth...
First kind, finds that everything happens for a reason and that there are some unique reasons why we go through tribulations and trials to find peace at the end.

The other kind...believes that things happen are just made to be, that regardless if they were any kind of person the action towards them or the actions they take are just because.

As you see, the species of human have free will to choose what type of human they will allow themself to become.
Just decide with your free will what type of human you want to be.
I personally believe that if man was made from monkeys...then why are there still monkeys and they haven't all evolved? Also, there are many, many species of apes and monkeys, why is there only one species of human?!!!

I chose early on in life, when I was 5 what type of person I would be as I survived a near death experience, literally clinging on to life. I knew from that experience that us "humans" have a purpose and sometimes that purpose is greater than our own ability to understand that fact.
You are very young on this earth to go through life frustrated with peoples choices. However, please remember, it is their choice and you as your own person have the right to not carry their burdens. It is also your right to not allow them to make you feel they have done you or this world wrong by making bad choices.
If you miss the joy in simple things, then the greater joys in life will have no comparison and will not bring you the full potential of happiness that you deserve.

i do agree, at the moment im so angry with things because a bunch of people two of which were my best friends for years and years im talking about 8/9 years and because they didnt want to admit that they were gossiping about my bf at the time they turned everyone including my bf against me said i was a liar that i was trying to get them out the group? Needless to say beyond all the logic behind what i would gain from actually lying they all beleived these 3 girls and my bf of 8 months even dumped me over it!! its ruined me, im finding it so hard to cope with not because i want to be freinds with them or want my x back but because im SO furious that people can be so malicious that they go out of their way to be so cowardly and cruel. In total they turned about 16 of my closest mates against me for the sake of gossip and the fact they believed it shows they arent mates but that doesnt really help. I said not a single nasty word about any of them as i didnt see the point yet a week later i hadnt even contactd any of them or even had their numbers any more and i got nasty messages and death threats from them and it just made me more furious. now i have people every day asking me what happened coz they want the gossip and that not only doesnt help me get over it but just makes me realise how cruel and nasty people can be. Im a very forgiving person and actually not very judgemental until now i jus have this feeling of absolute emptiness and ive really given up on people because im jus so disapointed in everyone i know and people i dont even knw who hate me because of stories? I dont know how to shake this feeling i wish i could its driving me nuts, its just not like me at all.

[puppywhispers]

Sounds like you have been a passive person, and as a passive person there are always times in our lives that we feel frustrated. Its taken me years to learn how to control my feelings with people who do harm. What I have learned to do is that you can not control what people say or do, but you can control how it makes you feel. This is in the work place, and home life.

This may seem silly, but I have given this example to my own children to give them a heads up on how to control pain.

I tell them that you have a bucket of marbles. (these are feelings and actions of your own and thoughts of your own)
Everytime you do something nice, or say something nice (loving actions) your given a marble, everytime you do something mean to someone, you owe them a marble of forgiveness.
Here comes the really important part that my children remember the most...
Everytime you allow someone to bring pain into your heart by either something they have done or said to you or about you (such as if a boy breaks up with you, or cheats on you and the "feeling of your heart breaking", then you have given that person a marble because you are allowing your feelings to be hurt by his action.
If you allow all your marbles to disappear, then your left with a feeling of emptiness.
This is to show how you can control your emotions in every aspect of your life. I myself have reminded myself to not become angry at a co worker due to something they did against me (I didn't let them have a marble).
Believe me, its easier said than done. My teenager had a boyfriend that cheated on her that she really cared about, and the first words out of her mouth wasn't hate, or sadness, it was..."mom, I didn't let him have any of my marbles!" This allowed her to have control in a situation that she would have normally felt that she did something wrong to cause this pain, or for this guy to hurt her even worse.
Infact, I have made a marble necklace for her (that is stylish ) to remind her not to give her marbles away. Her bucket of marbles runneth over. She is a very happy person with all the stresses that she has to "grow" through.
I hope this helps you in your situation where you are feeling pain and anger.
Please remember...feeling pain and anger is not either right or wrong...but how we handle those emotions is what sets us apart from others.

[resin8love]

Money is not evil. The love of money is, to lust after such things is. Wisdom is much more valuable than money nothing can compare to her.- Proverbs 3:13 happy are those findeth wisdom and getteth understanding. For the merchandice is better the merchandice of silver and the gain of fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days in her right hand and in her left riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay apon of her: and happy iseveryone that retaineth her.-Dr. King had wisdom he gave political speeches he also gave sermons. He also won the noble peace prize. He preached about peace and love. Sounds like he got it right. Evil will one day be dealt with, until then you can have the peace he preeched about and that comes through our LORD Jesus Christ. Jesus gives peace as a gift along with salvation. We can never earn it but we can receive it if we just beleive in him and make him LORD of our lifes.-John 14:27 Peace I leave unto you, my peace I give unto you;not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid.-------Now do you have this peace reader? GOD bless you with peace, hope and LOVE. Glory to GOD.

[Glorybound]

When I start to feel like that, I like to watch things like this:

YouTube - The End of the World

[Glorybound]

It's good that you're starting to think these kinds of thoughts to a certain extent, but you can't dwell on them. That will take you to a very miserable place that you don't want to be. We're here on this Earth only for a short time, and we have to accept that and make due with the things we have...
that actually reminds me of a really good song by the Flaming Lips watch the video link and really listen to the words.

YouTube - Do You Realize?? (Full Version Video)

When I first really started watching Youtube I got really big into the conspiracy theories (doesn't matter if they're the reasonable ones or not) I ate them all up and it was ridiculous! I was living life in darkness, I was miserable and I felt like some kind of a troll or like I lived in a cave or something. And half of the **** that was eating me up wasn't even real. But I look back at that as a valuable experience. I've sort of learned to syphon out the bullshit in the media. THE NEWS IS NOT A GOOD SOURCE OF NEWS. Just so you know that. Watch the O'reilly factor, and it will probably give you a headache, you'll know what I'm talking about.

But in all seriousness, it's a good thing that you're thinking these thoughts because you actually realize there's something wrong. Most people just put it in the back of their minds, or live in willful denial pretending (and believing) that the world is fine. You're starting to liberate yourself. If you want to, I can send you a few documentaries to watch. They might make you feel worse for a little while, but they have some important things to say for you to build on, and it sounds like you'd be interested in them anyways. Waddaya say?

-Stuart

[puppywhispers]

Originally Posted by resin8love

Money is not evil. The love of money is, to lust after such things is.

Your message confused me because the issue is not about "money". Unless you meant to start a new thread. This reply you wrote was weird. Besides, since there are so many religions of this whole world...not just the USA, and so many churches, to just quote out of the bible is redundant.
God has given us free will to interperet the verses ourselves. To not just "believe" but to "search for the truth". If we just believed...and didn't search withen ourselves for the only and real truth, then there would be only one religion. It's about what we find in our hearts, and faith...not just whats in book...or the good things we do.
From a believer in the one and only truth...not too mention, my dad and brother are pastors.

[resin8love]

Maybe you should let them read my post too, it wasnt meant for you then.