On the contrary, the most pleasurable comes from doing what is Right, in Life.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:38 am80% of humans aren't out murdering each other. Nature, God, or whatever created the world, we humans didn't. I may hijack the sub and evacuate the seamen once in a while but I'm not the one who created the really good feeling that comes from it. Just about everything pleasurable in this world in terms of dopamine seems to involve doing something wrong or unhealthy.Atla wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:14 amNot only are humans evil but the entire world is. It takes a lot of talent and effort to go against that, only about 15-20% of people are capable of it.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 2:21 am
Are humans "evil" for being born and needing to eat, drink, and enjoy sex and thus producing the results on the planet that we are seeing? Or should the creator of all that is (including the Earth and humans) have made the Earth more able to accommodate us? If we're headed for the next 'great extinction', then I'd say we've been short-changed. But yes, we need to cut back on our environment-degrading activities. I just wouldn't call us all "evil" for what amounts to being born and doing what we like to do. Maybe we're gluttons or something, but "evil" sounds a little harsh for being a glutton.
Human beings, however and hitherto the days when this is being written, have just not evolved enough to experience this True bliss and serenity, yet. But it is surely coming.
Because of human beings Truly amazing ability to learn things, and learn very quickly, and because of their unfortunate experiences in early childhood, children have just learned to replace TRUE LOVE with the 'love' of something else, like doing things, for example.
Human beings, very quickly, learn to replace the 'love', or the 'buzz', that they are not getting, or not receiving, from others, with the 'buzz', the 'love', they get when doing other things, like drinking, drugging, gambling, having sex, partying, and even exercise and/or work and obtaining more and more money.
See all human beings are born 'needing' 'love', but when they are not getting this, then they replace this with 'the love of ...', [something else], which is commonly referred to as an 'addiction'. All children are born addicted to 'love' but replace this 'addiction to and for love', to 'the love of or for some other thing'.
In the process of missing out on TRUE LOVE, children are not learning how to give what is proper, and Truly wanted, that is; 'love' to others, and in turn actually learn how to justify/rationalize doing the Wrong things, in Life. But they are only able to justify/rationalize this to some alone.
Did/does your own mother not get pleasure out of 'mothering' you "gary childress"?Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:38 am
Noble deeds all seem to involve going against the more pleasurable.
Do you not know of any one who gets more pleasure out of helping others? I know of some who become 'addicted to' this putting others in front of themselves, or before themselves, because of the pleasurable feeling/s they get out of just helping others, even if it is to their own detriment.
I think you are only looking at one side of things here, once again.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:38 am
I mean, we're so used to it that many of us take it for granted and don't even dare say how fucked up that is.
Going by your own definition of 'evil' here "gary childress", which is; only the most ultimate wrong, like killing another against their will[,/b] then if you think the Creator of all must think it is great to tempt people, in other words you, to do evil, then how often, exactly, are you tempted to kill another, against their will?Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:38 am Whoever or whatever created the universe must think it's great to tempt people to do evil.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:38 am Of course, according to the Bible, God also told Abraham to sacrifice his son.
And what was, exactly, meant by this?
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:38 am I believe Kierkegaard made the comment somewhere about life beginning with tears and ending in death
Well for you human beings, (alone maybe?), of course you begin with tears.
Crying is the way to release stress and pain, as well as to express joy and happiness sometimes, well that is; before language and words come along.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:38 am indicating that the world wasn't created for pleasure.
Really?
So, what you take from the whole of one's own life experiences are a few very minute natural parts of the beginning of one's own life, and the very last split second of one's own life, and then based that the whole Universe and absolutely everything within It was not created for pleasure.
Have you ever considered that the tears of birth may well be 'tears of joy' of entering and coming into this One and ONLY Universe, and 'world', we know as Life, Itself?
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:38 am My reply would be why not? What kind of creator creates a world like this?
Are you still not yet aware "gary childress" that the way you look at, and see, things is not necessarily the one and only actual Truth of things?
Could it be a possibility that you have some sort of biased, twisted, distorted, and/or narrowed view and picture of 'the world', based solely upon your own personal life experiences, which does not align, absolutely, with the actual True and FULL BIG Picture of things?