A Few Things On My Mind. What is the most valued thing that once taken can never be replaced, a life.
What is the point of amassing more than you can ever need (like money - Bill Gates would make a good example?)
What is the problem with just having enough for what you need.
Why do we make material goods such an important part of our lives, often putting more value on them than another’s life. I know many things are useful and increase the quality of life, but why should they have more value than another life.
Life should be the most sacred, valued and protected thing, I don’t think any one could argue with this statement.
I really do have a problem with being told I should want more. I have enough, I am happy (by choice), there are things I will change in time, but I don’t actually need or want more.
What is the point in having for example so many clothes; you can only wear one set at a time, yes 2 or 3 sets to always have clean stuff that makes sense. Why have more than enough, also I find it hard to understand people that will just discard a perfectly good garment just because it is out of date, what a waste of both resources and your valued hard earned money.
We have a finite amount of resources on the Earth, should we really be wasting them like this. Everyone likes to talk about rights, more often than not their lack of them, with good reason most of the time. What about the right to have a decent future, the more we waste now the less there will be in the future. Resources are already starting to run out, and yet we live in the most wasteful times ever.
www.guardian.co.ukIn time I will live a more natural life, I have made a small start by growing vegetables. It means a bit of effort but when I think how much is wasted on packaged products by doing this I am also helping save some waste, imagine how much could be saved if everyone who could, did this, and not just with growing some of your own food. There is a great feeling that goes with creating your own produce no matter what it maybe. There is just so much waste, we live in a world of things designed not to last too long. If things were made to last as long as possible, we could save so much, and have plenty to build with in the future. Due to the capitalist systems we live under the chances of this happening are real poor, I think we all can see why, because profits would be hit.
What a warped world we live in when more importance is put on profit than is put on the long term well being of us all, and the planet we live on. Common sense seems to have been lost somewhere, we are all letting a few people destroy our world, and for what, the love of money. Look at the big companies that take advantage of poor nations then rape their land of its resources, with no thought of damage to the environment.
You don’t need a God to live a decent peaceful life; the choice is yours how you live.
A God, do I need one or even want one. There are so many to choose from, and which one is real, if indeed any are. God is Love, I have seen this so many times along with many other wonderful things God is claimed to be. Yet these Gods seem to do a lot of nasty things to their creations, mass killings being a popular one amongst most Gods. Would a God (who is so understanding, wise, loving, and all the other things good that Gods are) really do something so horrible as to kill multitudes, for any reason.
I don’t think I want a God who could cause so much pain and suffering. It seems a bit like the guy who gets a dog, he in theory becomes the Dogs God (if the dog could understand the concept of a God). A dog will do what a dog does, and has every right to express its self as a dog in any way it feels. It barks a lot, but the guy decides this noise is not what he wants, so he forces the dog not to by training or punishment. Why not just not have a dog. How come these Gods cannot train us to do what they want instead of punishing us? You do not need to punish to teach a lesson, it can be just as well taught using love and understanding.
Gen 2 : 16-17
16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."
Gen 3 : 17 - 19
17 The LORD said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.
18 Your food will be plants, but the ground will produce thorns and thistles.
19 You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."
This strikes me as odd, why would any God not want his creations having knowledge.
God made them, and as God knows all then he must have known before hand what would happen. So why punish Adam and Eve for doing something that he was responsible for them doing in the first place.
Could this knowledge thing be some thing to do with control, after all most know how easy it is to gain and keep control over people with lesser knowledge.
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