It's a sad world.

I'm trying to find peace in the idea that there is no meaning to life. We are meant to be here simply to be, and I think that is beautiful.
The unfortunately thing is that we are forced to live the way we do. Work to live, live to work. Work to die, die to work.
I'm not lazy, and I'm definitely not entitled. I will just never understand how people are okay with the world we have create. Selfishness has been so normalized. What happened to help thy neighbour? Love thy neighbour?
This world is corrupt, and so are the most influential people and politicians.
Anyways, going to shut up and play by the rules now.

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Carissimi · 70-79, F

Unfortunately, there is a cost to living, and that cost is work and effort that is supposed to give you something so you can continue living. Cavemen had to hunt for food (put in the work and effort) to eat. They had to work to make shelters and weapons to hunt.

Modern day has taken it to the extreme. Yes, we still need to work and make the effort just to have the basics of living like food, shelter, clothes etc, but we are taxed to the hilt, bombarded with ads to manipulate our choices, lied to and propagandized to so they can control our thinking and behavior (or that’s what they attempt to do), and basically work just to have a lot of our earnings go towards corrupt politicians pet projects and to make their corporate donors, more wealthy.

I can’t take a shower without paying the government. Everything I use has been taxed, including shampoo, soap, clothes, household goods, vehicle, home, apart from food (but only certain foods), I can’t do anything, not even clean myself or brush my teeth without paying the government for the privilege of a basic human need.

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Carissimi · 70-79, F

It is crazy that just to clean my body I have to pay the government a fee to keep clean. To use this device to interact with you, I pay the government a fee, as does everyone else. Everything we use or own, we pay/or have paid a fee to the government. I don’t know how we change it, but it is a form of enslavement. @Fairydust

Fairydust · F

@Carissimi they keep increasing it, because we allow them, I bet they sit in their meetings and laugh at us.
It’s more clear now than ever, they made climate change, wars up for us spend billions in it, laundering our money. We just go along with it, now they want us dead with our taxes paying for it.
🤡🌍

Carissimi · 70-79, F

That’s exactly what they are doing with our money, they are laundering it through scam wars and the climate change scam. @Fairydust

Fairydust · F

Yeah we are slaves to their system, the minute we are born we get our id number. the banking system, everything they created is to control us.
They want us to be miserable.
Imagine a life without it, how amazing it could be.
We just all put up with it. 🙄📺🗞️

Riverman2 · 56-60, M

@Fairydust That is why the concept of people being created equal and having unalienable rights STILL scares the shit out of them. They have to stamp that out.

Patientlywaiting · 46-50, FVIP

I do not believe that there is no meaning to life, the truth is that if that really was the case, nobody would have any recognition of the hurt or pain that we are capable of inflicting if we don't keep that in check, simple survival of the fittest would mean that selfishness would be the predominant character in everyone if all we were here for was to reproduce and die. We can be the light that breaks through in the darkness and the hands and feet of love, kindness and compassion instead.

BrokenAbyss

You don’t have to play by the rules. I found a way. It’s not as comfortable, but that’s the thing that drives us humans, comfort and style… we’ll waste our whole lives for cool stuff. And your neighbor doesn’t like you because you don’t wear the same cool stuff.

I have found other places, other people, other ways. It’s just not easy

robb65 · 56-60, M

@BrokenAbyss Exactly. I was reading all this and wondering where to jump into the conversation. There's ways around the "system" and some people are a lot better at finding them than others. A guy I once worked for owns property in two states and at one point owned a large boat in a third. Up until a couple of years ago he had a house here he was using for free during the winter. I'm not sure where he is or what he's doing right now, but before covid he traveled, not just the US but the world, and he did all this without having a "job".

If he wants to go skiing he knows someone who works at a resort. They'll hook him up with free ski lift tickets, a place to stay, and loan him their spare vehicle.

A trip to Germany? Old army buddy living there.
Philippines? He meets a woman on a ferry and by the time he gets where he's going she's offering him a place to stay.

Hawaii? He went a few years ago and by the time he left he had new friends who were willing to let him sleep on their couch, on their porch, or pitch a tent in their yard. Oh, and another friend worked for an airline and the flight only cost $100.

He's always looking for a deal and there's always someone willing to help him out. I won't say where, but he owns a cabin in one state that was built with lumber from the opposite corner of the US. It worked like this, a business owner had a bunch of scrappy lumber in a warehouse he needed cleaned out so he offered it dirt cheap to my friend, but he managed to negotiate an even better deal. Then he calls up a truck driver he's friends with and arranged shipping, no doubt at a really good price.

If he needs money someone will hire him, sometimes for a job he isn't qualified for. They most likely will pay him as much as or more than the going rate and put up with him taking a vacation right in the middle of the job. If he gets in over his head there's probably a number programmed into his phone for someone who knows something. I've gotten these calls, "Hey, have you ever......I've got a problem..." He once did some electrical work while traveling through Europe. I wouldn't have hired him to put a plug on a cord but he managed to pull it off.

People always look out for him and look the other way when he needs them to. Propane bottle 10 years out of date? No problem. Not only can he get it filled but the guy filling it will be so glad to get the it back out the gate he doesn't charge for the gas either.

Personally I don't live the kind of charmed life he apparently does, but at the same time I tend to play by my own rules and don't feel obligated to do things a certain way just because everyone else does. It's possible to live cheap as long as you can figure out how to get free from the system.

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

There have been improvements. Kings used to rule as absolute dictators. There used to be no civil rights or civil liberties. People protested and fought for change and change happened.
People used to work 12-14-hour days, 6 days a week with no paid sick leave or vacation, and no Social Security for their old age. There used to be cruel child labor. But people protested and those things changed.
We still have plenty of problems, but let's remember when We the People exercise our power, things change.

smallbees · 26-30

@badminton I think it's important to acknowledge the progress we have made as a society absolutely, but that doesn't take away how much farther we still have to go. These things should have never happened in the first place.

MrAboo · 36-40, M

I used to have a pinned post saying that I believed when we die that’s it. Everything is a chemical reaction or comes down to genes including the faith in any religion. At the time I was sheltered from the world and not living my life. I no longer believe what I wrote in that post, so I deleted it. I now believe in God.

I hold God in my heart for now, maybe in time I’ll follow Jesus. Just not ready now to commit my time to studying the Bible. I don’t consider myself Christian for now, but was raised with a strong Christianity background. My faith in God was started from looking at the evidence of biblical archeological digs and underwater finds. It flicked a switch in my head that said, “holy shit God’s real.”

LandOfOz · 61-69, M

I have discovered what is really happening . I believe the whole universe and everything in it is a creation of a universal concious energy. Yes nothing really exists its just like a dream. Its not a matter of saying this is your dream and this is my dream as that cannot happen. The universal conciousness just makes it appear that we are individuals.
Yes we do speak in the me and them but that is just for convenience for things to make sense.
After all dont dreams have other things and people in them.
Yes it is hard to understand but so is conciousness within the way mainstream science explains it.
For me it explains the law of attraction and all other psychic experiences.

MURD3RM0NK3Y · 26-30, M

It's not bad everywhere. There are still some decent people out there. Also I don't mind working because it provides an income and I can use that money to buy stuff I need

smallbees · 26-30

@MURD3RM0NK3Y absolutely! It just really feels like there's less and less goodness in the world.
I don't mind working either, and in the society that we have it is unfortunately essential for survival. What bothers be is that we are expecting to spend our whole lives working when there's just so much more out there. Many countries have decent laws that let people live their lives, but the USA and Canada are unfortunately not those places.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

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