Need to vent

[Spiderman23]

What the FUCK is wrong with most of the human race? Seriously. We are on the brink of a huge disaster, and all the while we do next to nothing. BAU is so ingrained in everyone's consciousness that I really see no way of avoiding a dieoff.

I have re-read a book called A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Progress), and I am convinced that some (most?) of humanity are the descendants of murderous alpha males types that wiped out the Neanderthals, and that is why most of the time nobody can agree on shit and keep on fighting wars. Another recurring thought is that what we are going through now has happened before at Easter Island, and the misery that must have brought on that island is almost unimaginable.

There are some many pictures, videos and stories of real human suffering, and yet I am increasingly becoming numb to those stories because all the while I keep thinking about my OWN situation. I HATE the fact that I can't escape thinking about ME when all the while I just want to help people. The most gratifying moments of the week for me are when I volunteer at the foodbank, but sometimes I make myself sick to my stomach because I think about how long that food will last, I suspect there is only a few months left at that place.

Sorry guys but some days are worse than others. Today about the only thing I am truly grateful for is that the sun is shining and it's not me at the back of a bread line.

[john940]

you pretty much said what just may be on everyone's mind who is on this forum. for myself at least. the world is not the "coexist" kind of place those bumper sticker toting liberals are trying to promote. its a big farce.

all you can really do is guard you and your own now because in the end its everyone for themselves.

i would love to paint a pretty picture of a great planet for my baby daughter but its just not there and i am not going to lie to her either. sure we'll do all the fun stuff but i cant lie and say this earth is getting any better.

[Xenopus]

I LOVE A Short History of Progress. I think it is the best doomer book of all time.     Remember that a lot of people cannot face reality, even when it is not half as bad as what is coming down the pike now.

[mtlouie]

I agree with John.  You're speaking for just about everyone on the forum.

Ever read 'The Gods of Eden'?     Just a little tinfoil for ya.

[TLR1138]

This is the root problem of the human condition - every person is imprisoned in their own mind until they die, absorbed with their own "Self," worrying about themselves above all, competing with all the other "Selves," "What will happen to ME," "What about ME," etc...

Now, the mystics throughout history have tried to tell us that this is all a huge misunderstanding.

http://www.gameofgod.com/
The Game of God: Recovering Your True Identity

     What kind of universe is this anyway? Does life have any meaning or purpose? If there is a God, why did God create the universe? Whatever His-Her-Its motives (let us not sex-type the Creator) how could a loving God knowingly create a universe which is capable of the kind of cruelty we experience on this planet: death, concentration camps, slavery, child molesting, gossip, racism, illness, physical and mental disabilities, etc.?

     The Game of God makes the proposal that the universe is literally the game of God; that God created the universe in order to experience duality and limitation. The purpose of the universe is for God to enjoy the vast array of experiences that God, as an unlimited being, cannot experience: life and death, joy and pain, beginning and end, fear and hate, happiness and sorrow.

     In order to have a realistic experience of limitation, God must forget that She-He-It is God. The universe is, in fact, God in a self-induced state of amnesia.

     The universe is a game in which God forgets His-Her-Its identity and in the process of playing remembers who She-He-It is.

     Evolution is the process of God awakening from self-induced amnesia into the remembrance of His-Her-Its true identity.

     This book is about recovery in the ultimate sense of the word: universal recovery. The evolving universe could also be thought of as the recovering universe. What the universe is recovering is consciousness that was intentionally lost. What the universe is recovering from is the pain that is the intentional result of intentionally lost consciousness.

     The Game of God proposes that paradise was intentionally lost - for the pleasure of regaining it. The universe was created as a Game...for the experience of hell and for the experience of reovering heaven.

     We are not separate creatures who are "victims" of existence. We are expressions of God experiencing limitation and overcoming it. We are God in disguise.

     Human suffering comes from the mistaken belief that who we really are is our personality, or ego. When we identify as ego, we must survive as that ego, which in this universe means operating from flight/fight behavior. Our lives are a constant battle for the survival of a mistaken identity. We are always either fighting reality or flighting from it.

     Love and transcendence lie in the cessation of survival behavior, in the acceptance of reality. Love is the experience of unconditional acceptance of what is.