Why I Like People Even Though We All Suck
I've heard it said so many times in so many ways.
People suck. Humanity is a scourge to planet earth and the planet would be better off most or all of the people on it died.
When you look around at the wars, rapes, bombings, shootings, torture, hate, divorce, abuse, confusion, cruelty, abortion and all the horrendous things humans do to each other, rage at the evil is a normal reaction.
Why do I still like people even though we suck? We all pretty well suck. We are all selfish and capable of being quite nasty.
Psychological experiments showed that ordinary people readily inflict suffering on others when they are told to, as demonstrated in the Milgram Experiment in the 60's when people were instructed to give electric shocks to another human for answering questions incorrectly. The majority of participants continued to give shocks in spite of the other human screaming in pain because someone told them to.
We aren't who we were designed to be anymore. We are corrupted, broken, vile, and filthy versions of the beautiful beings God originally planned.
But at the same time, we are still beings created by God that God loves and wants to restore to perfection.
Looking at other human beings, if you see the work of God, that God made this person, God loves this person, and God wants you to love that person and want to help them, you can still see a lot of God-infused beauty in each person God made, whether it's a 100 year old or an unborn, no matter how the person looks on the outside. Each person has value to God, and God gave us the gift of being able to share thoughts and language with other humans. It's a beautiful thing that makes life happier and richer, to connect with other humans.
Whether it's a friendly chat with the checkout lady at the grocery store or maintaining a long-term friendship with a sister-in-law, or a high school kid whose parents kicked him out who has no place to stay in the bitter winter, sharing kindness and caring with other people is a huge source of joy.
If you're depressed, angry, feeling low, enraged, feel the world is unjust and an overall suckfest, go help someone. Find someone who is worse off than you, and give them your time, a listening ear, a kind word of encouragement, food, shelter, money, a ride, a friend, or your knowledge. It could be someone living in your own house, who is hungry for a little time with you. It could be a grandparent, a parent, a sibling, an old friend, or a perfect stranger.
Looking in, we'll see a pile of crap inside our own minds. We know humanity is corrupted, and we know it not only from what we observe around us, but from what we observe within us.
God loved us when we were like this.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
If the holy Almighty God, Creator of the universe, who should rightfully condemn and destroy us for our wicked rebellion in thoughts, words, and actions against him, loved us when we were gross, how can we, who are gross, consider ourselves above loving other gross humans?
Truth is, we can't love like God does in our fallen condition. We struggle to even love our own family and friends thoroughly and unselfishly - forget about enemies and people who want to hurt us!
Seeing and knowing God's love that put itself in harm's way to save us gives me the motivation to want to care about people, because it's what He wants.
There is also pretty amazing built-in awesomeness put by God into humans. It's corrupted, but we still have marvelous eyes that see, hands that can play instruments, type, sculpt, write, knit, paint, hang, and a ton of other things. We have these non-physical things we call thoughts and emotions that we can't examine under a microscope, but we know they are. We have language, laughter, music, learning, and love.
The notion that humans are worthless garbage that need to be exterminated is the fruit of the devil's lies and is perpetuated by the nonsensical teaching that the universe exploded into existence from nothingness to become a perfectly ordered, fine-tuned world with stars, planets, and galaxies, in which the simplest living cell is far more complex than a space shuttle and requires every intricate system to come into existence simultaneously for the cell to survive and reproduce. We are more than particles in motion obeying the laws of chemistry, and we all know it.
So yes, people suck. We're pretty rotten because of our sin.
But people are also absolutely amazing hand-crafted creations of the Almighty God.
The dichotomy makes perfect sense in the Biblical worldview, which gives us a reason to care about other human beings.
This is kind of unrelated, but it is very interesting to hear what 100+year-old humans have to say.
Also interesting, they are all very positive, smiley people who have fond, happy memories, who appear to be in good health, even though they are over 100.
You have to be a good, balanced and steady person and like yourself, when u want to live such long 🙂
I think the bad in the people helped us in the to evolve from animals to reasonable people, but every evolution on each planet should end up in an intelligent being, and there will come a day, when the inteligent race is on such level , that it wins over bad, otherwise the bad will destroy the whole race, it allready started in this planet
Lol. Who are you?
There is no evidence there has ever been life on any other planet besides earth.
There is no evidence that billions of years ago nothing exploded to become the universe. (Impossible, not science, goes against scientific laws like the 1st law of thermodynamics, also called the law of conservation of energy, which states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed). This scientific law actually REQUIRES a supernatural (unscientific) explanation for the origin of the universe.
There is no evidence that life originated from a chemical soup. (Impossible, not science, goes against scientific laws like the 2nd law of thermodynamics - entropy - that states everything tends toward chaos or disorder, not order, on its own).
There is no evidence that a single-celled organism has ever or could turn into a more complex multicellular organism, and over (inject fairy dust) time become frogs, elephants, horses, mosquitos, dinosaurs, birds, and humans.
None of this is science. There is no evidence that any of these ludicrous claims have ever happened, yet they are taught as "science" today in textbooks and from a young age, since kids need to be thoroughly brainwashed from childhood to believe such nonsense. People who aren't brainwashed like this naturally easily recognize the masterful DESIGN of life, that something that is intricately, magnificently designed does not magically pop into existence randomly.
Animals did not evolve into people, nor is there any evidence or even a valid, viable scientific explanation how this *could* happen.
The way DNA works and is replicated does not have a mechanism for new information to be added into the genome. Existing information can produce a great variety of offspring. This we observe. Dogs produce a variety of dogs, monkeys produce a variety of monkeys, roses produce a variety of roses, but every living thing in creation produces after its own kind. There has NEVER been a single example of NEW information added to the genetic code by random mutation, only damage, deletion, or scrambling of what is already there. The idea that new functioning body parts like wings or eyes or lungs or kidneys or hands could be added to DNA...RANDOMLY...is a fairy tale. It's wishful thinking, not founded even remotely in operational science, which is things that can be observed, tested, measured, repeated, or detected with the 5 senses.
eeeh honey, the evidence is in front of your eyes, we people created the dogs, even cats,and even more, we homo sapiens sapiens have neandertal genes... but i can really not 100percent exclude the possibility, that we are an "aquarium" or test laboratory of an other alien race, could be, but I think more probable is, that the life came here with an asteroid or something like that
I am really looking to find exactly who I am, but sometimes I feel like a BabyDolphin ?
and what exists can be created, do you really think it will be impossible for us people in the future to create genes? look how quickly goes the technology in the last 20 years, and what about in 100 years, or 1 000 years_ if we survive of course
the life itself as it is and exists has a purpose, we just do not know it yet
Quote from ilovebabyshark on January 30, 2019, 4:54 pmeeeh honey, the evidence is in front of your eyes, we people created the dogs, even cats,and even more
Whaaa-hut? Lol. We created dogs? Mmmm, nope.
To illustrate the limitations of humanity to create anything, picture a frog.
Then imagine the frog is mushed up in a blender, so you have ALL the parts, chemicals, everything needed to make a living frog.
How long do you think it will take the best scientists in the world to re-assemble the blended pieces into a living frog?
It remains impossible for human beings to create life from non-living material.
We barely even scratch the surface of understanding how the brain works, whether human or animal, and you want to believe we designed it? Created it? I don't think so.
Breeding animals selectively for desired traits is not even close to creating something from nothing, or even from non-living material.
Humans have butchered dogs. Take a look at this video "Pedigree Dogs Exposed" that shows just what humans have done to poor dogs in their efforts to cater to silly human whims like saggy faces prone to infection, long backs prone to damage, deformed skulls that make breathing difficult, and the like. Humans have taken the original design and for the most part, damaged it.
Wolves and dogs can still interbreed. Nothing new has been created. The variation available in the natural wolf genetic code has been maximally exploited to the detriment of the canine kind.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321094745.htm
Quote from ilovebabyshark on January 30, 2019, 4:54 pmwe homo sapiens sapiens have neandertal genes...
Neanderthals were fully human.
No other organisms, either living or fossil, made tools to make other complex tools, buried their dead, had controlled use of fire, practiced religious ceremonies, used complex syntax in their spoken grammar, and played musical instruments, yet we know from their fossils that Neanderthal engaged in all.
Deliberate burial of Neanderthal remains is well known from at least 36 sites with a geographical distribution over most of Eurasia (Gowlett, 1994), with at least 20 complete skeletons known (Lewin, 1998). Some graves have stone tools, animal bones, and flowers buried in the ground, along with the Neanderthal remains.
(from https://www.icr.org/article/neanderthals-are-still-human/)
The Neanderthals were humans. There is terrific variation in size and strength across humanity, and it's only wishful thinking by scientists desperately searching for non-existent "missing links" that morphs these humans into ape-like creatures.
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