One last moan
My mood recently has been going up and down like a yo-yo. I think this has largely been triggered by the stresses caused by simultaneously looking for a flat and a job, and if I don't get some routine in my life soon I'll probably go mad!
It's strange because when I left home the first time, I genuinely felt that I was making progress in life, and it was easy to leave behind negative aspects of the past. However now I've been living at home again, it's almost as if that progress has been reversed and I'm almost back to where I was before. It's not a good feeling at all. I guess the reason I'm so desparate to get away and find my own place is that I want to once again leave the past behind and feel like I'm making progress. In short, I want a proper life (flat, job, girlfriend inclusive), like most people have.
Anyway, my posts recently have probably been depressing the readership of this blog so I vow not to post again until I've something positive to say!
3 Comments:
Hi Dunc,
I think I have to reply to your previous post. I sincerly hope that you are being tongue in cheek when you say that without "Lust, Anger and Greed" the human race wouldn't exist as we know it. You're right, it wouldn't. It would be a hell of a lot better! Besides being three of the seven deadly sins (don't really want to go down the whole religeous route), they are what cause probably about 90% of the conflict in the world. Probably Envy makes up for the remaining 10%.
Sorry if I sound a bit righteous, but I think you've kinda got it wrong there. Now if you had said "Sex, Drink (don't do drugs!) and Rock & Roll", it would have been a different matter!
Andy
I'm not a big fan of religious debate either, but I was kind of hoping someone would debate this. I did post it after only sort of half thinking about it, but I'd still like to argue my point. I suppose it's totally open to interpretation and depends how general you want to be, but I think I can attempt to justify it.
Without lust, where would babies come from?
Without greed, it's possible that there would be no such thing as big business or multinational corporations and the economic hierarchy that is in place today may not exist. Without greed, there may not be competition between companies to make better products and technology would not be what it is today (or may not even exist).
I think without this economic hierarchy and technological evolution, the world probably wouldn't be such a nice place to live for those of us privileged enough to live in a country not ravaged by war or poverty. Sadly I think the comfort of some comes at the price of the misery of others (i.e. those at the bottom of the heirarchy, getting paid 50p a month to make those trainers I got cheap from a sports shop.)
Assume that the theory of evolution is true, and consider the molucular level; if DNA wasn't greedy for improvement, we would still be bacteria in the sea or monkeys or whatever. How boring would it be then? No pubs, clubs, dvd, cd, holidays, fancy houses, music, sport etc.
Without anger, would there be such a thing as love, or just a blandness devoid of any feeling? Would it be a good thing if we were all like robots?
As for the sex, drink and rock 'n' roll, I'm all for that!
Oh I forgot to mention that i'm not necessarily endorsing the aforementioned sins, but I reckon that instead of being entirely without sin, it's good to have a certain amount of sin, to an acceptable level, given the particular context. This applies to all the "7 deadly sins".
The world would be a boring place without sins. Goodness and righteousness would lose all meaning. Too much sin can, of course, be bad too.
Ok enough of this religious shite...
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