Comments on: What’s Wrong With the World? Not a Damn Thing http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/ Simple Productivity Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:06:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Frank Mitchell http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/#comment-71685 Frank Mitchell Mon, 25 May 2009 23:15:26 +0000 http://zenhabits.net/?p=806#comment-71685 I agree that people are flawed with selfishness and greed. But, no amount of the right environment, wealth, or right habits will change people's attitudes. God gave us a consciousness of himself. It could be associated with a conscious of right and wrong. What is wrong? It is the transgression of God's word, the Bible! Simply put. It is the transgression of the Ten Commandments. What is right? Since we are prone to do wrong we can not make ourselves perfect! A simple truth of what is right in this world is found in the Bible. It is John 3 :16. Check it out, if you dare! I agree that people are flawed with selfishness and greed. But, no amount of the right environment, wealth, or right habits will change people’s attitudes. God gave us a consciousness of himself. It could be associated with a conscious of right and wrong. What is wrong? It is the transgression of God’s word, the Bible! Simply put. It is the transgression of the Ten Commandments. What is right? Since we are prone to do wrong we can not make ourselves perfect! A simple truth of what is right in this world is found in the Bible. It is John 3 :16.
Check it out, if you dare!

]]> By: B Peters http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/#comment-61056 B Peters Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:10:21 +0000 http://zenhabits.net/?p=806#comment-61056 The world should be better and we should strive for change. If you can honestly look at the world around you and accept it as it is then you are a moron. The world should be better and we should strive for change.

If you can honestly look at the world around you and accept it as it is then you are a moron.

]]> By: C Mckay http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/#comment-53295 C Mckay Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:10:16 +0000 http://zenhabits.net/?p=806#comment-53295 I apologize for being brash but I dislike the Matthew Mcconaughey way of life. I apologize for being brash but I dislike the Matthew Mcconaughey way of life.

]]> By: C Mckay http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/#comment-53294 C Mckay Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:08:11 +0000 http://zenhabits.net/?p=806#comment-53294 I don't really agree you with here, in most part because you can can quote Buddha all you want about acceptance and be happy with what you have and live your life, but how do you accept the fact that people will spend over a billion dollars to build a new sport stadium when there are families living in there cars. i don't want to accept that and I would hope as people you would not either and do what you could to say... help the people who need it other than go on living your life of yoga classes and Chi soy mocha coffee drinks and making philosophy quotes I don’t really agree you with here, in most part because you can can quote Buddha all you want about acceptance and be happy with what you have and live your life, but how do you accept the fact that people will spend over a billion dollars to build a new sport stadium when there are families living in there cars. i don’t want to accept that and I would hope as people you would not either and do what you could to say… help the people who need it other than go on living your life of yoga classes and Chi soy mocha coffee drinks and making philosophy quotes

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]]> By: Concerned Earthling http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/#comment-46799 Concerned Earthling Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:42:12 +0000 http://zenhabits.net/?p=806#comment-46799 THE FATAL FLAWS OF HUMANITY (And what we can do to combat it) For some time now I have had a deep unexplained feeling within me that something wasn't right with the world. I see so many terrible things happening and I look around and it appears that nobody cares. So why is this so? Due to the rapid advances in technology over the past 30 years, we are connected closer than ever before. I can pick up my phone and speak to someone on the other side of the world instantly. With information so freely available, transportable and publishable - why does nobody know about what is happening right in front of their eyes? Why does no-one know about the atrocities committed in third world countries every day? More importantly, why doesn't anyone care? These issues deeply concern me. After thinking on this every night when I couln't get to sleep, I realised that the fundamental flaws of humanity are selfishness & greed. Whether this is a greed for money, power, sex, control (the list goes on) it is the cause of all the failings of humanity. Maybe if, as humans, we stopped our greedy conquest for power we might already have a cure for cancer. Imagine if cancer research wasn't limited by funding. Imagine if all those naturally gifted people who didn't go to university because they couldn't afford it were all working on a cure. A natural park land gets destroyed to make way for a shopping mall. Animals are forced out of their habitats. We have enough shops don't we?, why do we need more all the time? The answer is Greed. Humans are also inherently selfish. People work their jobs, live in their homes with their plasma TVs and their pet dog and do not care about what is happening outside. People do not care about what doesn't affect them. They do not care about genocide on ther other side of the world because it does not change their perfect world they have tried to mould. Violence, rape and murder have been a part of mankind since the beginning - It is unfortunately a part of us. The first step is acknowledging the darkness that is in our nature. The real challenge is taking the next step to fight the greed and selfishness that is within us. Why do people keep driving when they see someone that needs help on the side of the road? It might be because they are late for work, it might be because its raining and they don't want to get your new nike shoes dirty... PEOPLE DO NOT HELP OTHERS BECAUSE THEY ARE ONLY CONCERNED WITH THEMSELVES. You can fight this flaw that is inherently within you. These things cannot happen because of the abundance of greed in our society... because of people putting their own selfish ideals first. I challenge you to acknowledge the selfishness within humans. There is much darkness in the world, a change is needed to combat this. To quote Edmund Burke - "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing". So lets fight evil by doing something! The world needs a wake up call... one good selfless deed at a time. Please do NOT sit back and accept the world for what it is. The more voices there are, the louder the message. Lead by example and help the world get back on track. - Concerned Earthling THE FATAL FLAWS OF HUMANITY
(And what we can do to combat it)

For some time now I have had a deep unexplained feeling within me that something wasn’t right with the world. I see so many terrible things happening and I look around and it appears that nobody cares. So why is this so?

Due to the rapid advances in technology over the past 30 years, we are connected closer than ever before. I can pick up my phone and speak to someone on the other side of the world instantly. With information so freely available, transportable and publishable – why does nobody know about what is happening right in front of their eyes? Why does no-one know about the atrocities committed in third world countries every day? More importantly, why doesn’t anyone care?

These issues deeply concern me. After thinking on this every night when I couln’t get to sleep, I realised that the fundamental flaws of humanity are selfishness & greed. Whether this is a greed for money, power, sex, control (the list goes on) it is the cause of all the failings of humanity.

Maybe if, as humans, we stopped our greedy conquest for power we might already have a cure for cancer. Imagine if cancer research wasn’t limited by funding. Imagine if all those naturally gifted people who didn’t go to university because they couldn’t afford it were all working on a cure.

A natural park land gets destroyed to make way for a shopping mall. Animals are forced out of their habitats. We have enough shops don’t we?, why do we need more all the time? The answer is Greed.

Humans are also inherently selfish. People work their jobs, live in their homes with their plasma TVs and their pet dog and do not care about what is happening outside. People do not care about what doesn’t affect them. They do not care about genocide on ther other side of the world because it does not change their perfect world they have tried to mould.

Violence, rape and murder have been a part of mankind since the beginning – It is unfortunately a part of us. The first step is acknowledging the darkness that is in our nature. The real challenge is taking the next step to fight the greed and selfishness that is within us. Why do people keep driving when they see someone that needs help on the side of the road? It might be because they are late for work, it might be because its raining and they don’t want to get your new nike shoes dirty… PEOPLE DO NOT HELP OTHERS BECAUSE THEY ARE ONLY CONCERNED WITH THEMSELVES.
You can fight this flaw that is inherently within you.

These things cannot happen because of the abundance of greed in our society… because of people putting their own selfish ideals first. I challenge you to acknowledge the selfishness within humans. There is much darkness in the world, a change is needed to combat this. To quote Edmund Burke – “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”. So lets fight evil by doing something!

The world needs a wake up call… one good selfless deed at a time. Please do NOT sit back and accept the world for what it is. The more voices there are, the louder the message. Lead by example and help the world get back on track.

- Concerned Earthling

]]> By: If you are not happy with your relationship, here’s why (plus 4 steps to fix it) - Save Your Relationship http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/#comment-46612 If you are not happy with your relationship, here’s why (plus 4 steps to fix it) - Save Your Relationship Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:15:02 +0000 http://zenhabits.net/?p=806#comment-46612 [...] efforts. You cannot just wait for things to be perfect as if you are waiting for the bus. Also, there is nothing wrong with the world. You just have to fix it within yourself and things will get better eventually. The world will not [...] [...] efforts. You cannot just wait for things to be perfect as if you are waiting for the bus. Also, there is nothing wrong with the world. You just have to fix it within yourself and things will get better eventually. The world will not [...]

]]> By: What’s Wrong With the World? Not a Damn Thing… « Violet Cottage http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/#comment-45956 What’s Wrong With the World? Not a Damn Thing… « Violet Cottage Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:10:06 +0000 http://zenhabits.net/?p=806#comment-45956 [...] found the following, from zenhabits, a very interesting and thought-provoking [...] [...] found the following, from zenhabits, a very interesting and thought-provoking [...]

]]> By: D http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/#comment-45802 D Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:08:05 +0000 http://zenhabits.net/?p=806#comment-45802 Thank you for your words. I feel this world is what it is by every meaning.But, can we make it better? Not that everything is so horrible all the time. If that is how you are categorizing me. Are we so involved in our own awareness of being above everything and ignoring what is right in our faces at those moments? Please don't misunderstand what I was saying. I have,” began to see the good in the world.” years and years ago. I put my heart, love and energy into everything I do. Being fortunate is one of my life's largest understatements along with many others and my view is not what you think. I wonder, in your way of seeing and being alive is there pain, are there feelings at all besides everything is wonderful? Can there be a way to shut off the ones that affect you in a not so good moment, at that very second? Is living being accepting and numb during moment's that are unmistakably wrong? Please help me out. I am open and full of anxt... Oh I don't do the media thing, at all....Please don’t belittle me…Live to love…. Life is not taken, it is given...and it is good!... Sometimes your the grass and sometimes your the grasshopper.... Thank you for your words. I feel this world is what it is by every meaning.But, can we make it better? Not that everything is so horrible all the time. If that is how you are categorizing me. Are we so involved in our own awareness of being above everything and ignoring what is right in our faces at those moments? Please don’t misunderstand what I was saying. I have,” began to see the good in the world.” years and years ago. I put my heart, love and energy into everything I do. Being fortunate is one of my life’s largest understatements along with many others and my view is not what you think. I wonder, in your way of seeing and being alive is there pain, are there feelings at all besides everything is wonderful? Can there be a way to shut off the ones that affect you in a not so good moment, at that very second? Is living being accepting and numb during moment’s that are unmistakably wrong? Please help me out. I am open and full of anxt…
Oh I don’t do the media thing, at all….Please don’t belittle me…Live to love….
Life is not taken, it is given…and it is good!…
Sometimes your the grass and sometimes your the grasshopper….

]]> By: Thor http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world-not-a-damn-thing/#comment-45772 Thor Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:48:56 +0000 http://zenhabits.net/?p=806#comment-45772 "What would be the result of this alternative world-view? Well, I think you’d be happier, if only because you didn’t see the world as a fundamentally flawed or evil place, and began to see the good in the world." Well, aha, THEY got a counter to when you finally get over the feeling of the world being distant to your own idea of how it should be, you start fearing it is all dying, not only the starving and infected people but the very core of your life on this planet, Nature. they lead you to believe that all those unique animals are going extinct, that poison is destroying whole breeds of unique life form on this planet at a frightfully rapid pace. They are I guess, the media? Myself? Who else could have put that type of anxt there. This will never be read by nobody except perhaps the original thinker. “What would be the result of this alternative world-view? Well, I think you’d be happier, if only because you didn’t see the world as a fundamentally flawed or evil place, and began to see the good in the world.”

Well, aha, THEY got a counter to when you finally get over the feeling of the world being distant to your own idea of how it should be, you start fearing it is all dying, not only the starving and infected people but the very core of your life on this planet, Nature. they lead you to believe that all those unique animals are going extinct, that poison is destroying whole breeds of unique life form on this planet at a frightfully rapid pace.
They are I guess, the media? Myself? Who else could have put that type of anxt there. This will never be read by nobody except perhaps the original thinker.

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