the big lie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

I have never been much of an optimist myself but I think your shot glass is half empty.

Unfortunately you come to your determination based on what you hear about from day to day. What about the millions of people you don't hear about, who are living perfectly contented lives, never doing, or being a part of anything that would make them eligible to get into the news? You wont hear about them, because it's only the bad news that makes the news. Good news is bad news for the news business. But those people are out there, all over the world. Everything is relative, and everything is comparative. You might think the guy tending his rice fields in china has a miserable life because he doesn't have a t.v. or a computer, or any of the kind of "stuff" that we, in our world, have come to regards as essential to "good living". But the criterion is whether or not HE is content, and if that is all he has known all his life, and his parents before him, then by his evaluation he is content.

When we're born, we don't get an "owner's manual" that as we get old enough to read and learn we can refer to, to know how to deal with certain situations, certain emotions, and all of the vicissitudes of life that come our way. We get a certain amount of cultural indoctrination and we learn something from that, but basically, we are on our own, and we do the best we can with what we have. We're not perfect human beings, but as a species we are and have been learning from the year dot. We're getting better at it. It may not seem so to YOU, because one person's life span is but an eyeblink in cosmic terms. All you ever get to experience is your own little "blip" on the screen of life. But humans ARE learning how to do things better, and we will continue to make mistakes, and stumble, and get back up, and stagger on. Meanwhile what we should all try to understand, and to do, is concentrate on living our own lives with as much dignity and "rightness" as we can.

What I do NOT think serves any valuable purpose is to take the attitude that everything stinks and it's all useless. You radiate sourness outwards and you spread it around in a hurry. But when you radiate encouragement, understanding, and motivation, people pick up on that too, and you contribute your little bit to the gradual betterment of all of humanity. You will not live to see the end result, but some day, others who come after us, will be living in that "better world" that you, and I, and everybody who tries, today, will have helped to make.

Well as some things actually might be true others I can't agree on. Sure we all want happy lives but some people like the "prostitute" in your story started her unhappy life from her childhood where she was probably abused or something ismilar happened. All of life repeats itself at different times and a little bit different becuase of technology and everything else advancing.

Your not being optimistic enough, if you live your life in sorrow you will never find happiness.

I don't know if that's a big lie. It's an ok lie. Now, the butter/margarine debate is where the really big lies are being slung around.

Life is not the interconnected tapestry you believe it to be: life is too complicated and based on happenstance for that to be the truth. Although your little rant here sounds like it belongs in a Palahniuk novel. In fact, you just might hear from his lawyers.

This is so right and amazing.

Wow.

We're all connected and part of a big puzzle.

And you're right.

Anything that I do will somehow someday affect your life.

Any vise versa with any other person in this world.

Everything can be ****** up sometimes.

But I rely on my perspective to keep me positive.

Obama's Biggest Lie is when he says: " I am not a Muslim Sympathizer or a Muslim " Biden's Biggest Lie is when he said " It is a Patriotic Duty of Americans to pay more taxes "

The way we are living is sad, I totally agree with you and I am a pessimist as the others would say... But the real madness behind all this is that it is as mad as the solar system or the galaxies... It is just happening... Like gravity...

well according to philosophy, to be truly happy is to be

"good" and moral. But who defines good... its subjective to everybody, and in reality, who really is like Mr Flanders on the Simpson's? nobody I know. And really, not everybody will have that option.. sometimes its do something bad, or do something worse, and that's it.

I don't think we were "designed" to be messed up, I think its our society that taught us to be that way.

And while I agree with you on its better to understand, but understanding can also open up dark perceptions and be just plain depressing.. and sometimes ignorance is better and less painful.. ignorance is bliss right?

Agree.

Yeah the iLLUminati hidden agenda sucks.