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    Default Making sense of the world

    This thread is dedicated to posts trying to make sense of the world. Hopefully this Off-Topic sub-forum, on this CFC Discussion Board, is filled with ways to try to make sense of the world, such as in my 'What's Hot in Real World News?' Threads, and in all the other (more specialized) threads that have been started largely by myself to date. Fwiw, here's a link to one other person's 12 tips on how to make sense of the world (not sure I agree with everything written):

    https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/t...d-43348077cf80
    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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    How to make sense of the world? It's tough to do so in a short post or two, without leaving out a tremendous amount of discussion about possibly relevant world history, culture and other factors. I'll try here to take a stab at doing so, though.

    I'll start by observing what in my view has worked to some extent for a long time, at least in any number of fairly developed democratic nations. Namely capitalism, that critically had been at many points been neither under- nor over-regulated (some amount of ever-changing [tightening/relaxing] regulation is always necessary, as there is an endless sort of arms race caused by basically selfish corporations attempting to get around such, and then act in endless nasty ways, as far as the interests of the public are concerned - yet at times industry must be less fettered in the interest of the economy). So, government cannot be too libertarian in this regard alone - never mind that there are other things government must be left to do, such as overseeing basic infrastructure like highways. This way of doing things might have worked out well for such nations indefinitely, were it not for the quality of politicians (and the wisdom of people who decide to vote for such) declining too much over time. That could bring me to the decline of morals in general, which is a root cause of our woes collectively, but I'll get to that later.

    A health care system provided by governments is one of the very few good ideas that has ever come out of socialism, which is otherwise just a rather less poisonous version of murderous communism (note also that I'm far from against having co-existing private health care options available to citizens). Rampant socialism is one huge reason why the world is currently awash in debt and has a large number of near-bankrupt nations (e.g. think Greece). 'Free' tuition for college students is one thing touted by socialists, which would be fine, except that NOTHING is free - someone has to pay for it (think: the taxpayer/citizen), so the question is, can it currently be afforded? The same would go for 'free' dental care. Another reason why any number of nations are in huge debt is due to lavish spending on military budgets, if not on outright wars as well. The great USA, not to mention China, has totally piddled away its future financially by more than one means, and now may resort to endless artificial means to try to delay indefinitely paying the piper (=bankruptcy).

    Now, back to the issue of the decline of morality, a root cause of our woes, as in the fall of the Roman Empire. Why have morals become so widely compromised that we get an endless bunch of sleazy politicians, scammers, hackers, porn stars, etc., not to mention our collectively condoning such horrible things as abortion on demand & widespread euthanasia? Well, at some point we collectively began fervently worshipping fallible science (and/or money) instead of God, at least in Western society. Indeed, science has arguably brought us at least as much grief as good (e.g. think the threat of nuclear weapons, fallible/stressful technologies, pollution). The bible makes little sense, and contradicts itself, you may say? I personally believe the bible is not quite in its proper form, due to mistranslation (intentionally or otherwise), such as may have happened with the Wycliffe Bible in the middle ages, a time when I have strong memories of being alive in a previous life.

    Luckily for me, I have that bird's eye view in terms of personal experience. If you believe me that the bible is not quite in its proper form, I'm happy to say that I think we're about to be spared (as in well before 2030) something even worse than the apocalypse (and likely that, too), and that we may live to see once again what the scriptures in their proper form do look like. Anyway, even if you're not Christian, there seems no denying that kids have been brought up less well collectively for a long time (e.g. think Dr. Spock, the 1960s decade), which is a big reason why some of such later became our crop of sleazy politicians, for example.

    Here's a link to a CFC Discussion Board blog entry of mine, re: my personal religious beliefs (and experiences):

    http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/en...s-experiences)
    Last edited by Kevin Pacey; 03-25-2020 at 02:58 PM. Reason: Adding content
    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
    Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.

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