I believe in good!

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One God



The great Unkown

Seems a single thing.

There could be millions of things

Beyond it.

But if we can’t discern

Even two or three of those things,

Why waste time thinking

On it?



Use your time instead

To see how the known

And the Unknown interacts.

Don’t clutter your existence

With a bunch of untrue “facts.”
 
wil said:
I believe the world is evolving to a more peaceful place...

Ever since Cain and Able...it's Biblical.

All recorded history we continue to be more compassionate, take care of more of us and kill less (percentage wise) of our fellow man.

This thread is for posting evidence or links which support my thesis, now we know there are negative Nellie's and they can't help themselves but disagree... misery desires company.

Evolution of dogs agrees...
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You have requested links verifying your thesis, and you have branded everyone who disagrees as "negative Nancies," which appears to me to be negative because you have cut yourself off to any alternative viewpoints or hypotheses.
Why don't you just terminate the conversation and give yourself a pat on the back? You can't be wrong.
When my parents were children, they had no idea what cocaine or heroin were, ice did not exist, and a murder was a big thing that lasted for days on the news.
I don't see where we're improving; perhaps I'll ask a Palestinian brother.
 
Guru said:
I don't see where we're improving; perhaps I'll ask a Palestinian brother.
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It is not hard in this world to find areas of strife, war, starvation, insolence...as you are well aware.

Yet we have less violence and war per capita than ever before....we are feeding more people than ever before.

You want proof? You want to hear from others? Can you write a Google query that does not provide a half dozen links indicating the world is constantly steadily moving to a better future?

Yeah, there were the dark ages...and maybe someday these will be the dark ages of a future time...

Tried your suggestion patting myself on the back...but now my elbow hurts...

But it ain't me that deserves the pat...it is the collective you...for raising up in consciousness, in integrity, in appreciation of what we have and in helping others...

Thanx!
 
wil said:
I believe the world is evolving to a more peaceful place...

Ever since Cain and Able...it's Biblical.

All recorded history we continue to be more compassionate, take care of more of us and kill less (percentage wise) of our fellow man.

This thread is for posting evidence or links which support my thesis, now we know there are negative Nellie's and they can't help themselves but disagree... misery desires company.

Evolution of dogs agrees...
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I think the bible describes us miraclesly good and so it is the same as the days of Kaïn and Able I think.
 
I think it depends on what stats one chooses to focus on ... and what to ignore.

Certainly statistically the world is a safer place than it was, but that's hardly good news for vast populations who are suffering hardship – the safety of women globally is still markedly disproportionate compared to men, and then the outlook for young black men in the US is really bleak.

Add forced migration as a rising trend, ecological and environmental instability is increasingly rendering areas inhospitable, and a continuing accrual of global wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer – 1% now possess in advance of 50% of total global wealth.

Throw in the recent measure of a decline in empathy is the 'advanced' nations (most recent reversals might well be just a blip).

And, of course, the emergence of radical and outspoken tribalism in right-wing politics is a clear indicator that we're nowhere near as evolved as people as our technologies lead us to believe.
 
wil said:
I believe the world is evolving to a more peaceful place...

Ever since Cain and Able...it's Biblical.

All recorded history we continue to be more compassionate, take care of more of us and kill less (percentage wise) of our fellow man.

This thread is for posting evidence or links which support my thesis, now we know there are negative Nellie's and they can't help themselves but disagree... misery desires company.

Evolution of dogs agrees...
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CHRISTIANITY beliefs in the truth. What is good is philosophy and questioning open for debate.
 
Thomas said:
Certainly statistically the world is a safer place than it was, but that's hardly good news for vast populations who are suffering hardship – the safety of women globally is still markedly disproportionate compared to men, and then the outlook for young black men in the US is really bleak.
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If those are the three stats you wanna check...I'm all for it.

So general human suffering....how many years we wanna talk about....the number of starving per capita over time?

Safety of women globally? Let's say over the past 2000 years...they,ve come a long way baby...

So young black men in the US...past 250 years...

If you can find any evidence that those three charts are not on a positive direction I would be surprised.
 
Then you need to look for more than self-affirming narratives.
 
wil said:
If those are the three stats you wanna check...I'm all for it.

So general human suffering....how many years we wanna talk about....the number of starving per capita over time?

Safety of women globally? Let's say over the past 2000 years...they,ve come a long way baby...

So young black men in the US...past 250 years...

If you can find any evidence that those three charts are not on a positive direction I would be surprised.
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It seems like the topic was merely meant as "I believe I can tread others do good" rather then "I believe in doing good".
Doing good means to abstain by oneself from taking life, taking of what's not given, wrongly fleshly behavior and sensual misbehavior, speaking what's not true, and abstaining from intoxication causing shamelessness, and right view.

So in how far has there been personal success so far, in how far does it move already in better direction?
 
wil said:
You're not my real mom.
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There is hardly any being found which wasn't one one's mother, father, sibling... in the long journey of wandering on. Good enough to simply believe in doing good, of which, that good doing, would then be the "real good mother" of futher good birth or even beyond. Being are heir of their actions, deeds are what establish being here or there, good householder.
 
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wil said:
Every stat I look at affirms that the world is ever improving...as are we humans as a collective...

I am looking for the proof the naysayers follow!
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Birth, aging, sickness and death increases constantly and increasing, along with destruction beside the human collective. Yet it doesn't require godd householder not to believe in doing good, but actually, if he's a little intelligent, causes him to even more urge to work his way out by good labor.
 
wil said:
I am looking for the proof the naysayers follow!
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So we feed more people now than ever before ... the question then, is why cannot these people feed themselves, and are we alleviating that problem?

I'm not so-much naysaying, as pointing out that celebration of the improving position (which shows recent signs of reversal, btw) is scant comfort to the 733,000,000 (1 in 11) who go hungry every day. I know that number was worse in recent history ... but there are alarming trends which suggest a backslide is immanent, if not now inevitable.

As the stats tell us – in Africa 1 in 5 go hungry each day.
2.8 billion people around the world cannot afford a healthy diet — 35% of the global population.
In low-income countries, 71.5% of people cannot afford a healthy diet.
 
Celebration? Hilarious...happy that we are continually improving during our lives and before?

Definitely!

Rates of hunger — defined as not having enough calories to sustain a healthy and productive life — were estimated to be as high as 1 in 3 people in developing countries in 1970. Since then, rates have fallen substantially

Only 12.9 percent of the population in developing regions are hungry today, compared to 23.3 percent a quarter century ago.

Celebrate...nah...happy ee are making progress yes...

Knowing the numbers is good to see where we have to improve.
 
Thomas said:
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World hunger facts: What you need to know in 2024 (and 2025)

Here's what you need to know about world hunger in 2024 and 2025, including facts, figures, and progress to Zero Hunger.
www.concern.net

So we feed more people now than ever before ... the question then, is why cannot these people feed themselves, and are we alleviating that problem?

I'm not so-much naysaying, as pointing out that celebration of the improving position (which shows recent signs of reversal, btw) is scant comfort to the 733,000,000 (1 in 11) who go hungry every day. I know that number was worse in recent history ... but there are alarming trends which suggest a backslide is immanent, if not now inevitable.

As the stats tell us – in Africa 1 in 5 go hungry each day.
2.8 billion people around the world cannot afford a healthy diet — 35% of the global population.
In low-income countries, 71.5% of people cannot afford a healthy diet.
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Poorness has reason, and it's not by feeding that poorness is overcome, yet by doing good. Missionaries are known to seek just places to make themselves merits instead of encouraging toward good labor, good householder.

The number of hungry, poor and disadvantaged will even more increase in the future. Yet it's total un-religious to try to solve issues and go for a better in disguise of religion while actually devoted to Marx ideas.

It would be wise to urge in doing good and sacrifices toward worthy to don't find one soon by oneself to just pray for manna.

It's more of concern if caught in areas where doing good can be afforded by most.
 
wil said:
Every stat I look at affirms that the world is ever improving...as are we humans as a collective...

I am looking for the proof the naysayers follow!
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Do you have these stats?
 
moralorel said:
Do you have these stats?
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Google is the world becoming a better place...

Or is the world good...theybhave all the.stats
...

I have none.

Just 200 years ago, around 90% of the population lived in extreme poverty. By 2018, it was around 10%. The reduction in global poverty has enabled all sorts of other positive changes. Life expectancy has shot up all over the world, more than doubling in Africa since 1900
 
wil said:
Google is the world becoming a better place...

Or is the world good...theybhave all the.stats
...

I have none.

Just 200 years ago, around 90% of the population lived in extreme poverty. By 2018, it was around 10%. The reduction in global poverty has enabled all sorts of other positive changes. Life expectancy has shot up all over the world, more than doubling in Africa since 1900
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So many things are better than they have ever been. Standard of living, rates of literacy and education, global awareness of -- everything really. Women's rights and the rights of oppressed minorities.... better, in many ways in many part of the world, but depending on where in the world you are, it can be -- ungood, or a mixed bag.
But it's always a mixed bag.

There is always good and bad, and there are always tradeoffs - every improvement, really every thing we do ever, has some kind of tradeoff.

Not that I altogether disagree, only that there is always nuance and mixed results.
 
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