Sometimes I have such anxiety like I don%26#039;t even want to bring kids into the world because of all the hurt, hatred and disease there is. People drive like animals and there is no common courtsey in public places anymore. Am I just seeing the world differently, or has it really changed?|||Maybe this will help:
%26quot; People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you%26#039;ve got anyway You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway %26quot;.
--Mother Teresa|||World is getting worse.
The Bible states near the times of the end of this system of things.
From 2 Timothy Chapter 3 from verses 1 But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.
2聽For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal,
3聽having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4聽betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God,
5聽having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.
6聽For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires,
7聽always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.|||in the bible in Matthew in the 24 chapter, Jesus is talking to the apostles and Jesus is telling the things that will happen in the world. Jesus says these horrible things will take place and then the end will come. It%26#039;s gonna get worse before it gets better.|||World hasn%26#039;t changed much. It%26#039;s partly your perception (it changes as you get older) and partly the expanded role of media. Media now has so much competition that shock value sells copy. Boys pets puppy may sound nice but boy decapitates dog and rapes corpse sells. The former happens far more than the latter but the latter has the shock that draws people to read further. And having seen it in print, we are led to believe that it is more common place than it really is.|||Without reading the text of your Q, and with no offense,,, ONE %26quot;Worse%26quot; would have been enough.
With regard to Perception... IT is EVERYTHING, and very narrowly, personally, individually defined.
Now on a more serious note. YES WE are in deep doo, but we do it to ourselves.
My best advise, and I do try to follow it; is be selfish about YOU, in what you can make of your OWN smallish kinda world, and as Aldara has reminded me the Universe will take care of the details.
Many evolutionary processes are less than pleasant, but most of the negatives are cyclical, and become extinct, although,,, as a Chryssalis, can evolve again.
Steven Wolf
(The Rev.)|||I agree with you. But I also think that the media has play a big part on our lives, all they show is the horrible things that happened in the world. 50 years ago they wouldn%26#039;t show have of the things they do now, and I think that is what have changed us. The world has always been in wars and horrible things happened all the time since the beginning of times. But still humanity survives and moves on to generation after generations. I sometimes think, %26quot;why would be the point of bringing a child into this cruel and horrible place?%26quot;, but I really don%26#039;t want to die not knowing what motherhood is and all the wonders, hope a purity that a child brings into the world. If we all give up now and stop having kids then who will keep searching for world peace. I know is along shot and I%26#039;m sure that in my lifetime it wont happen, but I can%26#039;t help to wish that one of my generations will. And with that I say to you, don%26#039;t give up an life, We are worth fighting for.|||People getting mature and wiser as they grow old and also in some cases grow meaner..... anyhow the world IS changing! Either its getting better with its technologies or with its morality you decide. Its not just the way you look at the world, everything change. Just hold on with the thruth you know...you%26#039;ll be okay.
Terrible things %26#039;might%26#039; happen in your way, but trust me, there%26#039;s always someone there to help you out.|||I don%26quot;t think the world has gotten any worse. I believe that it is only perception and how the media influences this perception. We improve in some areas and decline in others. As the races of the world move and mingle we become more tolerant to other ideas and races.
Is the world worse now than in the past? Perhaps the people who lived under Genghis Khan could answer that.|||Neither. That adjudicative element in your soul increases in sophistication just as the experiences subject to it accumulate. At a certain point you will hopefully realize that %26quot;the world%26quot; is a vague conception, not a perception. World history is misleading because we are aware of, but no longer familiar with, a pre-history. With our individual lives, the same: an increase in the ability to analyse accompanied by forgetfulness of our former innocence. And then the peripeteia may very well occur through parental awareness of the child%26#039;s innocence. An exhaustive cyclic pattern, in mind, soul, and body.|||The world is not getting %26quot;better%26quot; -- we have never lived in a world approaching 7 billion population.. with a nutcase like Bush in control of the most power ever accorded one person.. And yes.. crime %26amp; ignorance are spreading here in America.. so it is wise to keep on your toes.. And.. to highlight the danger:
On January 12, 2007, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in a press release noted that the Doomsday clock was to be moved forward to highlight the %26quot;Most Perilous Period Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.%26quot;
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) will move the minute hand of the %26quot;Doomsday Clock%26quot; on January 17, 2007, the first such change to the Clock since February 2002. The major new step reflects growing concerns about a %26quot;Second Nuclear Age%26quot; marked by grave threats, including: nuclear ambitions in Iran and North Korea, unsecured nuclear materials in Russia and elsewhere, the continuing %26quot;launch-ready%26quot; status of 2,000 of the 25,000 nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and Russia, escalating terrorism, and new pressure from climate change for expanded civilian nuclear power that could increase proliferation risks. [2]
The official announcement will take place on January 17th, 2007 at 14:30 hours GMT.[3]|||You%26#039;re seeing it differently. I%26#039;ve been through it too. If you%26#039;re really concerned about the whole world take a trip out to a country town. Every time I do I am amazed at how slow paced and set back life is there. It%26#039;s like a breath of fresh air. (from the Twin Cities)|||The world is fantastic, it is just your perception. The world has always had issues, this is nothing new.|||According to the geniuses behind the doomsday clock, it is apparently getting worse.... but I believe that it is merely perceptual. We have always had people killing one another. If you look at Cain and Able... what a story so long ago. Sex with your brother%26#039;s wife... and then murder.... But now, media plays the role of educating us as to how bad the world truly is... but we can be betrayed by our own family quite easily when money and sex are involved. We see this often today. Money, power, sex. I believe the world is no different today than it was thousands of years ago. There are more people, and the news travels faster, but it is all the same...|||I think most of the people living in the usa are living in a false sense of what really exists imo. The average person is totaly blind to all the bad things going on in this world and how they have a direct effect on how things happen. The belief that you dont have any effect on your own future is one of the most dangerous beliefs a person can have. It doesnt change the fact that you still have effect on your world but it does effect the way you view it and yourself. I think the perception of the world becoming worsee and worse is just a sign that you are starting to care more and more about all the bad that happens in the world. Just try not to get lost in your care for the world and people around you. If you lose control of self in the world you become a drownding man whos violently struggling that takes anyone who trys to save them with them...|||Oh, please do not be discouraged.
Neither the world is getting worse, nor your perception is %26#039;changed%26#039;.
It is just that your perception has deepened well, to be able to become more responsible and to consider before just begetting children like all animals do and even most people do !
Only a person who has this enhanced level of perception can do something with involvement and meaningfully about it.
And more importantly, such parents would be the best possible parents, and their children would become more capable with such caring guidance about doing something to better the situation.
In eastern philosophy, lotus is chosen as a symbol of a religion (rather a way of life, now more popular as a %26#039;religion) ! More the slush, better the lotus ! So, a lotus like flower can bloom with such caring parents, even with slush all around.
The question is indeed very pertinent, and thoughtful.|||Not getting worse, just more of us so it APPEARS worse.|||Yes 3D reality/delusion is configured to go from bad to worst then onward to good, better, best!
Life is but a %26#039;circle%26#039; until your %26#039;consciousness%26#039; raises then life becomes a spiral ever moving onward and upward to %26quot;Source%26quot; which is the Alpha and Omega!|||It is the result of your weak perceptions of the world. You need to know true version of this world. Filth is a compulsory part of this world. Filthy people will always be a big question mark for you. So, learn how to keep away from Filth. Your tummy carries at least two kg. filth inside your body, which you are always finding to get rid off.
Learn the way of good, how to be good and how to avoid/reject the bad. That%26#039;s the thumb rule, you have to follow for your survival.
Remember the jungle rule Survival of the Fittest also apply to our society.|||I don鈥檛 think the world is getting worse.
Imagine how our parents and grandparents must have felt as the air sirens warned of bomb threats and they dashed us into bomb shelters, or rationing out a meager wage to feed 5 children and sleeping in a single roomed home?
I think the way in which you view the world is an outward expression of how you see yourself. The good news being that the good times like the bad all come to an end and therein lies the balance we all seek.|||Its really changing.
I agree with you 100%.
So many who don%26#039;t take responsibility for there own actions
I have seen many changes, more bad than good.
Your OK.
Comes with age.|||I have read your words in many ancient writings.
They are born of a process of mental evolution, and nothing is complete until the end.
Thought is ever changing.
The world remains constant.
You are right and yet incomplete in the true wholeness of thought.
If we look in dark places we will surely find dark creatures.
