Is there such a philosphy as this?

(there is a question at the end of this)

I was out and about in town running errands and I came to the realization that my government (I'm an American) started off with the emphasis of freedom above even our own safety. Now as I think about the American political system I see that we have changed directions from emphasizing the individual freedom into "you can't do that, that may offend someone and hurt their feelings". So I applied that idea to society and realized that America will never have this again as too many people are just plain stupid, uneducated and don't even care about their freedoms.

So my question: Is there a religion or philosophy that boils down to "The world is in an never ending spiral of decay" if so I think I'll subscribe to that one instead of Atheism.

You should join Fakkuism and worship the Goddess like me.

I've got a cult here...wait, never mind.

Uhmm...I dunno. Pick something ancient. I prefer Sumerian.

I figured someone here would at least know about a philosophy or religion that was close. After my failure to get the girl and the overall downward spiral my life has underwent the last...oh six-seven years. It hasn't been a plummeting death spiral but, still pretty shitty. Anyways, I figured that I would at least see if there was anything existing that is similar.

We just need to get everyone to buy into the "Get off your lazy ass and do something positive you shortsighted monkey" philosophy. Then maybe we could make some better progress.

There are philosophies that touch on similar notions, but I'm not too sure if any really take a concept such as that as the core belief. I mean I could be wrong. I'd say you'd get a good start by looking into postmodernism and other philosophies and movements related to people's dissatisfaction with the state of the world.

What I'd recommend for you to do is just collect your ideas and take it from there. You can probably find philosophies similar to what you believe, but subscribing to one set of beliefs is a bit one-dimensional for my taste. In all honesty, I could be content to subscribe to Stoicism. The problem with that is that its such an old theory that there are conflicts with a lot of the matters that have arisen out of the rapid advancement of society and development of new ideologies. I've just been piecing my own beliefs together as I go. If there's something I read that I can adapt to my personal philosophy, that's what I do, but I could never consider myself belonging to one specific group of beliefs.

I'm too lazy to piece my whole philosophy together since I would have to explain it every time I met someone. I just just say "My beliefs are similar to (insert name here) but, with a few differences on some things".

I just had another thought. I'm an Atheist that believes there is no point to life beyond procreation and the world is crumbling apart and there is no way to stop the downward spiral. I bet if some people from FAKKU ever met me they would say I'm one happy pessimist. I'm like a living paradox. Yay, Paradox..ies?

I get where you're coming from, but there's a simple resolution to that problem. Believing in anything is just like love. You don't love someone for the sake of loving them, just as you don't believe for the sake of having that belief. You do so because that is what you, it doesn't matter who criticizes or whatever, know it is true. When you know deep inside that you're beliefs are truthful, even if people expect a more lengthy explanation as to why, you could give the most half-assed explanation. Your own personal truth is exactly that, your own. The only rationalization, justification, or explanation that matters is the one that leads you, and only you, to be able to accept that as truth.

That's what's beautiful about being human. We celebrate our logic and ability to think freely for all the wrong reasons. The most rewarding thing about what we, as humans, possess that sets us apart from all other species, is our ability to search for the truth. Its disheartening at times, because truth is as dynamic as the reality we live in. Its in constant flux and as the world changes and grows and as we, as individuals grow, we find new truths or, at the very least, things that we can adapt to our own personal truths.



This is a perfect example of what the truth to an individual is. I took this quote from an anime a very long time ago. While I still have the direct quote, I copied it and as I've been growing and learning, I've modified it, and that is what you see now. If I were to post the original quote or even let you know where I took it from you could find meaning in it, but that wouldn't exactly serve my point. If you want a hint, it was directed at studying martial arts and becoming the strongest fighter possible. The point is that when I heard it, I was immediately able to adapt it to my path in life. One aspires to grow through personal experience. That growth is reflected in their expression of their beliefs. If you are confident in what you believe, that is all the justification you need.

Son of a bitch, I keep going on these long fucking rants... lol.

For most people its just they remember the negatives more than the positives so since they remember them more they feel that all their life has been negative.

Personally, I have a literal "Hard luck" story. Its because of that I turned my back on God and etc (karma) in general. I see it as God doesn't exist (or if he/she does then he/she never helps when really needed) and the people Karma really needs to punish always get ahead as if karma is just helping them get everything in life while the good guys just get trampled.

I continue the notion that life sucks because of the fading American dream. You have to work exponentially harder to gain a fraction of ground. Everyday the freedoms of our country are under siege from the freedom of speech to the right to bear arms. The freedoms are attack not only from the Left wing people trying to curb freedom of speech and take away our only means of defending ourselves. The religious zealots on the right attack the freedoms on us "heathens" taking away the options of abortions, preventing gay marriages because "its a sin" instead of an actual valid reason but, because some ancient book written by a bunch of goat sacrificing savages said its wrong. Even brainwashing their children into thinking that non-Christians especially Satanist & Atheists are subhuman people or at best second rate citizens. When I say Satanist I don't mean the guys who call themselves Satanist to piss of Christian I mean the guys who follow the Satanism of opposing anything the prevents them from doing what they want to themselves i.e. the real satanist.


I could go on a never ending tirade of why the world sucks but, thats a different story for another time.

hmm idk if its a religion but id just call that extreme pessimism. and kinda the way science explains it too i suppose. i mean most studies and what not are pretty much telling us we are on armagedons door step right now...of course if it were that simple we could just walk away....ok well anyway before i begin rambleing too much ill just submit this.

There was an Ancient Chinese system of beliefs, known as Legalism, that was similar to your idea. Legalists believe that the world was in essence evil, and would decay unless the people who could not think for themselves were controlled.

I just did a little research on that. Maybe Wikipedia isn't always in the ballpark on something
There was an Ancient Chinese system of beliefs, known as Legalism, that was similar to your idea. Legalists believe that the world was in essence evil, and would decay unless the people who could not think for themselves were controlled.[/quote

Nice

I find it absolutely hilarious that this happens to be one of the basis of Christianity. ie: God made the world perfect, then put mankind on it.

We've had enough anti religion tirades around her for now. So I'll just leave this one alone

It would be for the best.
But why don't you just ignore the world? It's what I try to do, so far, it's worked.

Well, I can't say anything about Legalism, but I'm all for thinking that the world is essentially evil and that unless the idiots are controlled, then it will decay further. If only we could find such a way...

And I think I've said this somewhere else and provided the quote, but imho Christianity appears to mean well, but doesn't do much. Well, how could they, fighting over what's right and wrong and splitting off into more denominations?