Why are so many young people unhappy these days?

Traveller · 03-07-20, 10:18 PM

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

Buddahaid · 03-07-20, 11:07 PM

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.

Dowly · 03-08-20, 03:36 AM

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

PS. PragerU is a warm cup of piss.

Skybird · 03-08-20, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Dowly

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

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.

u crank · 03-08-20, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid

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.

I wish I had said that.

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

Aktungbby · 03-08-20, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

that I go back into the house and see where my shield and sword and speers are.

If u had any self respect; they'd be right next to the door!

Skybird · 03-08-20, 11:00 AM

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

Aktungbby · 03-08-20, 11:50 AM

Well keep a short iklwa, (short thruster not the thrown asaagai), over the door frame; a short thrusting Zulu implement-better than the Roman pilum: useful in the tight confine of the doorway! A sturdy metal garbagecan lid is useful too in the off-hand!

Skybird · 03-08-20, 12:20 PM

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

"I believe they can fly,

ring the bell, touch the sky..."

Méo · 03-08-20, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Dowly

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly

PS. PragerU is a warm cup of piss.

em2nought · 03-08-20, 06:05 PM

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

captainadccdacaptain · 03-08-20, 06:42 PM

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.

Eichhörnchen · 03-14-20, 04:40 AM

You shouldn't need a God to be good

Eisenwurst · 03-14-20, 05:28 AM

"Pull my finger".

Catfish · 03-14-20, 05:33 AM

^

03-07-20, 10:18 PM	#1
Traveller Captain Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 513 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 0	Why are so many young people unhappy these days? Lack of human interaction. Lack of something to believe in.

03-07-20, 11:07 PM	#2
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,319 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	^ No room left there, I mounted a Roman scorpion there. The trigger I linked to the door bell. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,984 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Well keep a short iklwa, (short thruster not the thrown asaagai), over the door frame; a short thrusting Zulu implement-better than the Roman pilum: useful in the tight confine of the doorway! A sturdy metal garbagecan lid is useful too in the off-hand! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I stick with the Scorpion. I love seeing them flying. "I believe they can fly, ring the bell, touch the sky..." __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Video funded by a christian school says you need invisible sky man to be happy? Shocking! PS. PragerU is a warm cup of piss.

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em2nought Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,485 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Because they're being spoon fed a load of liberal crap. __________________ em2nought is ecstatic garbage!

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captainadccdacaptain Helmsman Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Deep southern part of US Posts: 102 Downloads: 49 Uploads: 0	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.

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Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,372 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	You shouldn't need a God to be good __________________

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Eisenwurst Silent Hunter Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 3,748 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 0	"Pull my finger". __________________

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