Why are so many young people unhappy these days?
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YP1l39PjO8


Lack of human interaction. Lack of something to believe in.

I'm not sure I support all that. I'm 64 and I grew up in a family that was not religious at all, but it was still a healthy family group so I can attest to family being an important binder and source of strength. Perhaps not a moral compass but at least a bridge to establishing a base value system. And after saying that, my wife's family is religious and has had it's share of troubled offspring of which a couple are pretty troubled with troubled offspring of their own now. Religion is not the answer, but an answer among other answers.

To me it simply boils down to self respect. You will never find happiness if you don't respect yourself, nor will you respect others until you respect yourself. How you find that respect is where the rub is. You can't buy it and others can't give it to you. You have to find it within.

Video funded by a christian school says you need invisible sky man to be happy? Shocking!


PS. PragerU is a warm cup of piss.

:D

Deities are not needed to develope a social behavioral compass, values and ethics - any circumstance of living, any gang leader can do that, any isolated person for herself. Deities just give you all that under the premisses claimed by the priests playing with divine finger puppets. Its the all-inclusive holiday package deal to cut long voyages short.

However, man wants to see a meaning in it all, he craves for a "sense" to make sense of the chaos that cosmos is, he wants to have the illusion that he can have things "under his control", himself being safe that way. Corrupt deities that he can bribe ("I sent you a prayer and now you owe me fulfilling me my wish") is part of that. :)

This need imo indeed is essential in human existence, heck, after all I was a psychologist. However, it is the answers given to that need that make me frown my eyebrows or not. Personally, I do not need to beleive in supernatural divine entities like deities. To me that is like a little child playing with his imagined invisible animal friend that only itself can see. The believer however may gain comfort from the illusion. And usually I leave such people to themselves, if they think they are happier that way, why not. Its when they start to missionise that I go back into the house and see where my shield and sword and speers are.

I wish I had said that. :up:

How you find self respect is indeed the key. Mocking how others find it is a lack of respect in it self.

^ No room left there, I mounted a Roman scorpion there. The trigger I linked to the door bell.

I stick with the Scorpion. I love seeing them flying.


"I believe they can fly,

ring the bell, touch the sky..." :D

:yeah:

:har:

Because they're being spoon fed a load of liberal crap. :03:

I’m 20, and my view is that we see the world around us and see how destructive we are to ourselves, religious or not. All the shootings and violence,(note: Im not against guns) and all the tensions between government powers, its just with how we see society. Thats my view, at least.

You shouldn't need a God to be good

http://i.imgur.com/9Sxk6aT.jpg

"Pull my finger".

^ :rotfl2: