Comments by "AWResistance" (@AlanWattResistance) on "Bite-sized Philosophy" channel.

  1. Well said comrade Peterson.
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  2. It's amazing how he has to explain what was obvious to previous generations, it's just shows how far we've fallen.
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  3. Perterson is spot on. I'm now in my 30s and it's amazing how differently people treat you compared to when you were in your 20s. It's like Peterson says, when you're young you have the excuse of being young and stupid, but when you hit 30 people judge you more harshly, like they now expect you to have all the necessary tools to become successful, and if your not, then you're just a loser by choice.
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  4. It's OK to be white.
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  5. I'm going to become a monk.
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  6. "The disposition of a liar is dishonourable, and his shame is ever with him." - Ecclesiasticus, 20:26
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  7. "marriage isn't for the people who are married, it's for the children" Thankyou! Saint Augustine said this back in the fifth century and it's always been viewed this way in western society, until very recently. It's also one of the reason why gay marriage is so absurd.
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  8. Money smells good to any woman.
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  9. These people honestly believe themselves to be doing something good and virtuous, that's the scary part. Yuri Bezmenov said that we can't rewire these people, we can only educate a new generation of sane people, this is our mission today.
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  10. lol
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  11. Let's be honest, the world and the system we live in only really favours extroverts and ruthless psychopaths, everyone else just to has suffer, and i mean really suffer. Children should only be brought into the world if they can be made into a super-confident and ruthless personality.
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  12. Young people are stupid and gay.
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  13. It was too deep for her.
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  14. It makes the giving up seem like a noble venture.
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  15. I once had an atheist arguing with me on facebook about how dumb religion was, whilst displaying an icon picture of a Cathedral built by Catholics in the middle ages, lol, even atheists can't resist the beauty.
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  16. Most atheists will be disappointed when they finally achieve a godless utopia.
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  17. He's right that we have to live up to the greatest of our ancestors, but why can't we take at least some pride in ourselves as Europeans?
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  18. "Try to bear patiently with the defects and infirmities of others, whatever they may be, because you also have many a fault which others must endure. If you cannot make yourself what you would wish to be, how can you bend others to your will? We want them to be perfect, yet we do not correct our own faults. We wish them to be severely corrected, yet we will not correct ourselves. Their great liberty displeases us, yet we would not be denied what we ask. We would have them bound by laws, yet we will allow ourselves to be restrained in nothing. Hence, it is clear how seldom we think of others as we do of ourselves." - Thomas à Kempis
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  19. [comment removed for thought crime]
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  20. Become a drug dealer.
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  21. joe rogan, lol, he's more like an annoying older brother.
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  22. "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." - Matthew 10:34-37
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  23. WWG - Wrestling With God
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  24. JBP fanboys are cringey.
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  25. They took everything for granted and let their guard down, then the left successfully took over society with their 'equality' narrative.
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  26. Women shouldn't be in politics. Talk about 'equality of opportunity' all you like, but men MUST run society. Patriarchy is actually a good thing.
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  27. I always thank my past self for making sacrifices and changes that make me what i am today. What we do in the present matters.
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  28. "A madman is not someone who has lost his reason, but someone who has lost everything but his reason" - G. K. Chesterton "A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion" - Francis Bacon
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  29. He really likes pinocchio.
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  30. Why do people have to clap at every point? It's cringey.
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  31. I think it's a form of child abuse to deliberately deprive a child of knowing it's biological mother. It also indirectly says that a mother can simply be replaced with another man, meaning that a mother doesn't offer anything unique or exclusive to the child. Gays are naturally excluded from child-rearing, so they shouldn't have anything to do with raising children. As for the marriage, this is why civil partnerships were created, but it wasn't enough for them, simply because it made them distinct from the rest of us. It's equality madness.
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  32. What if i'm a racist and would be disappointed if my children were not racist?
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  33. It's called thinking aloud.
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  34. “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” G. K. Chesterton
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  35. Exactly, they never really think about the child. A thing that pisses me off is the way we lie to children about the society and world we live in; how we have to spend most of our life working like slaves just to survive and pay our tax masters their cut, or that there's no real justice in the world. If we were honest with them it would be fine, but instead we let them learn the hard way.
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  36. Liberals and atheists have left behind them a trail of destruction. They tried ceaselessly to create a utopia in the image of man, but only ever managed to produce chaos and disfunction (what a surprise!). I guess some people just have to the learn the hard way.
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  37. atheists are always upset anyway.
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  38. When Jesus says "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me", he's speaking on behalf of the inner-self in everyone. So what he's really saying is, that if you place more importance upon tradition and family loyalty more than your own true potential, then you're doing yourself a disservice.
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  39. The message is more important than the man, or should be.
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  40. ok
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  41. NO
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  42. dat intro
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  43. Just leave me alone please, thanks.
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  44. Upsides: No one cares if your politically incorrect, you gain a better understanding of the world, you grow up fast, you understand responsibility, you lack entitlement, you gain character, you become physically fit, but the downsides are also true.
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  45. Everyone wastes half their life. All is futile.
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  46. I read in Augustine's Confession earlier today that the past doesn't really exist anymore, it only exists as imprints within the memory. Got me thinking that things which are past have no real hold over us, we only allow it to.
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  47. You just wasted my time.
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  48. Jesus went up against much worse.
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  49. Camila, You're part of the problem. Men preserve civilisation, women capitulate to new ideas. The ancients warned against this and now we're learning the hard way.
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  50. 'love your neighbour as yourself', this is what stopped me from becoming resentful and envious of others.
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  51. I'm not saying they don't suffer, only that they don't suffer in the same way.
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  52. He's not a Christian but nor is he an atheist. He's culturally Christian but he seems more like a neoplatonist than an othordox believer.
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  53. Only within Christianity will you find ultimate meaning. Read Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton.
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  54. Why are you acting like a Leftist? Disagreement does not equal racism.
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  55. +s wal, "would extend this to say that single parenting" No, because it's not deliberate, it's an unfortunate outcome of a broken relationship or death of a partner. "do you think that homosexuality is always wrong" Yes, i believe it's wrong, it's a deviation from the intended purpose of all people. Not that i hate people who are gay, but it's simply wrong in regards to teleology.
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  56. I have a theory: All women are gay, that must be it.
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  57. +Critic (al), It's not an either-or scenario, but nice try.
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  58. The problem with identity politics is that instead of working on yourself as an individual and molding your identity around truth as you walk along the 'straight and narrow', you simply inject youself into a pre-packaged mold, which requires little effort and can easily be exploited by nefarious individuals. Just observe the slogans these people use on both sides, they just repeat the same things over and over again, they have no original thoughts of their own. If you dare question them or are not as extreme as them, then you become an enemy to them, even if you agree with much of what they say.
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  59. True, i view Peterson as ally for cultural Christianity and western civilisation, but i certainly don't watch Peterson for mystic insight.
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  60. Maintain your room and clean your car instead, pure rebellion.
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  61. This is exactly what i've been doing in recent years. If you want to be something more in the future, you have to put in the effort now.
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  62. So if i can't have pride in being born English, then why should i oppose the neo-marxist or Islamic takeover of my society? afterall, i didn't create it and i shouldn't be proud of it, so why should i care if it's taken over by a new system? Thank God our Catholic ancestors didn't think like you people, we would all be reciting the Koran right now otherwise.
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  63. The Iliad shows just how much war is a part of human nature.
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  64. +Nick Williams, "Homosexuals can never have children, even if they tried." You know what i meant, of course an individual homosexual can have a child (with a woman), but they cannot procreate together, therefore making marriage absurd for them. "Surrogacy, artificial insemination, adoption, and having a kid before coming out." Prove to me that it's beneficial to do these things. "Don't use his honesty as a cloak for your anti-gay agenda." Observable facts are anti-gay, it's not my opinion. You may find the truth uncomfortable, but that's not my problem.
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  65. +M3ATL0V3R, Then explain cannibal tribes.
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  66. +M3ATL0V3R, They had no biological disgust for murder and cannibalism, and they survived until very recently.
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  67. Where did you get your morality from?
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  68. He took the long and narrow way which leads to eternal life, not the easy way of drug-induced experience which lasts only temporarily..
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  69. Must become a biker.
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  70. I was raised a Catholic and can think of numerous times my faith helped me in life. So don't try and speak for every religious believer, some of us are thankful for being raised around good people with good morals and traditional values.
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  71. @Pseudonymous Being, They were the good old days, afterall, women created children and raised good strong men. Today, women are not having children or are raising perpetual soy boys. Bring back the good old days!
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  72. In your dreams.
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  73. Savage!
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  74. Is this a 'Just for Men' ad?
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  75. Ironic. Your mentality led to this SJW madness.
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  76. I'm just stating an observation. Does any action really matter when the ultimate conclusion is death? If you do something great then your name may live on forever, but what does that matter if you're dead? You may have many children but once your dead you don't get to live through your children, only your impersonal DNA does. What does it matter if the entire world will one day explode and cease to exist? Now don't get me wrong, i don't actually believe that everything is futile, because i'm a Christian. I'm simply stating this to make people think more deeply about their futile love of this temporary world and their lack of concern for the spiritual realm (the real world).
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  77. +Dylan Stream, A normal family environment should be preferable over any other, but i've known of many cases where a normal couple waiting to adopt have been bypassed in favour of a homosexual couple. If it's a temporary situation, then fine, but children should always be placed within a normal family enviroment as soon as one opens up, but this doesn't happen. We're now starting to see children deliberately placed in homosexual homes, just to be politically correct and prove a point.
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  78. The daughters of Eve are a strange bunch.
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  79. Female privilage.
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  80. +borabosna, His following is quite embarrassing for a philosopher and psychologist.
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  81. I doubt that sjw's would come to the aid of a white man being racially abused in china. It's more of an anti-white and anti-male movement than about oppression itself; that's just the lie they tell themselves.
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  82. No, the dislikes are because he wrongly equates European pride solely with skin colour, this is a strawman. There is far more to being European than just the colour of skin. Peterson is cucked on this issue, he won't even explore it because it makes him uncomfortable.
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  83. Also, why aren't other races deemed 'far-right' for having pride in their heritage? Why only the white man?
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  84. No, Christ was an ascetic, reaching spiritual perfection through abstinence and self-mastery.
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  85. @NZH, Who gets to determine if they are terrible ideologies? And why is it my concern when i'm just an individual with no ties to this place i just happened to be born in? I'll just move away and let other people deal with it, not my problem.
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  86. It's misplaced Christian virtue.
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  87. @A M, The problem is that when people reject Christianity, they still keep the values, but those values are no longer placed within a boundary of a well thought out philosophical or thoelogical framework.
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  88. Start by deprogramming your scapegoat.
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  89. We are image-bearers of God.
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  90. Impressive.
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  91. Genesis.
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  92. +s wal, Homosexuality occures in nature, yes, but it's not intended to occure in nature, it's a deviation. I agree that homosexuals should be able to fulfill their telos, but only within a heterosexual relationship. I don't believe it's an affront to individual rights to not allow homosexuals to make designer babies and play-act at being a normal family; the right of child outweighs the right of the homosexual in this case.
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  93. +Nick Williams, Infertility can be temporary, 'little miracles' are known to occure from time to time. Also, infertile heterosexual couples can and should adopt, homosexuals couples shouldn't. But if an infertile heterosexual couple doesn't adopt, then in a way yes, it is a bit absurd to marry. "Obviates every single problem Peterson was talking about." Apart from a child knowing it's biological mother or having a mother figure.
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  94. +elgatochurro, Marriage is not a requirement, you make it sound like you have to get married.
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  95. My goal is to have no goals.
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  96. @Autumn Portrait, So if i determine that my ancestors beliefs and my heritage are of greater worth than Marxism and Islam, then my group pride is justified, right? Why should i not be proud of being part of a people that i am part of? Not all of us are globe-trotters, city-dwellers or mongrels. And i can take pride in my heritage and be responsible for it's continuation, it's not an either-or scenario.
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  97. But if we shouldn't have pride in being European, then why should we have any pride in Western civilisation? Why defend it? Obviously some people take ethnic or racial pride too seriously and make it political, but it's a part of Western civilisation, you can't just ignore it. And it isn't really 'pride', it's simply a recognition and reverence for who we are as a people; this is perfectly normal and natural, and not something to be ashamed of.
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  98. "I believe in order that I may understand." - Anselm of Canterbury
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  99. 2:15 This is exactly what Boethius concludes in his book The Consolation of Philosophy. Wicked people only seem to get away wickedness.
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  100. Agreed. Peterson is good at articulating the truth, but he's not the truth incarnate.
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  101. +Rhys Oliver, "I'd say gay parents adopting a child is only a good thing" It may not be as bad as some situations, but that doesn't neccessarily make it a good thing. It's like saying it good that i only cut off a finger instead of an arm, no one can dispute that cutting off a finger is preferable to a whole arm, but neither should be preferable. So, a normal family environment should always be preferable to any other when possible, but deliberately putting children into abnormal situations when there are better options, can only be called social engineering and child abuse.
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  102. Explain Cannibal tribes?
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  103. MGTOW may be good and noble for you personally, but it's certainly not good and noble for all men and society. If you're MGTOW for political reasons rather than it simply being for your own self improvement, then you're not 'going your own way' for the right reasons.
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  104. First to not give a shit.
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  105. Ariana Grande's song 'side to side' (which is about being f*cked so hard for so long that you can't walk properly the next day) has almst a billion views. Just think about that for a moment.
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  106. Happy day of birth.
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  107. Yep, just observe 'civilised western man' when the shelves are empty of food. And lets be honest, does anyone really care about people that aren't in their close circle of family and friends? People feign caring because they believe it's how they're suppose to feel, but in reality we know that the world is full of too many people to actually give a damn about, and if it comes down to it, you'd smash their heads in if it meant your own survival. Even today people won't even ackowledge your existence when you walk past them, so what will it like when society collapses? I know in previous times people banded together, but that was because they all had a unified culture and religion, but not anymore, now it's utterly ruthless.
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  108. @Connor Monday, I've heard this exact same argument from Marxists over the years.
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  109. The Left said the statues would be placed in museums as historical artifacts, but the other day they aggressively destroyed one. Is that how you treat historical artifacts in museums? Should be burn down museums containing Nazi memorabilia? This just goes to show that the Left are fighting a culture war, they want to destroy the past so that they can control the narrative.
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  110. The answer is God.
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  111. I agree with Plato; that a society should be ruled by Philosophers. Not everyone has the time to become enlightened by the logos; it takes a great amount of dedication and sacrifice to reach that higher level of understanding.
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  112. +Brandon Schleifer, So a woman can simply be replaced by another man? Then why not artificial wombs and test-tube babies? Why not promote adoption for single men? Who needs women anyway?
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  113. +Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith "Sure biologically you can't sexually reproduce but that's not a barrier in the 21st century." And that's the problem with the 21st century.
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  114. caniaccombo, Asceticism is the only intended way, drugs are like cheating on a test.
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  115. Very interesting, most anti-theists i come across tend to be former-theists who are driven largely by an emotional reaction against their former faith, whereas children raised without any religion tend not to have that emotional opposition towards religion, as it's never been seen as a barrier to personal growth, therefore religion is able to be seen in a clearer light. So athiests are actually raisng a generation who will be more open to the idea of religion, ironically.
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  116. lol
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  117. +Legion1132, Witch hunts were sporadic. The English witch trials occured during and shortly after the devastating English civil war, and are quite frankly tame compared to what we read about in the Soviet union and other Communist hellholes. Also, many Christian leaders at the time were opposed to the witch-trials, questioning severly the methods used by the 'witchfinder general' in ascertaining a witch. At their worst, a religion society is better than a secular society.
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  118. I always remember a song with the lyrics "Am i evil? Yes i am", some heavy metal band.
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  119.  @MrGohanUchiha  It was ok to white in white countries? shocking.
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  120.  @MrGohanUchiha  Look at how whites are treated in South Africa. Black racism exists. And i too will judge you based upon your character. This is what i've always tried to do in life.
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  121. Because 'naming the Jew' doesn't solve the problem, it just makes you look like a Nazi to wider society. Whoever is behind the problems we face is irrelevant, we only need to make the problem go away, or make it so that it becomes impossible for the problem to ever rise again.
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  122. And yet no one cared about him or his message until it became popular.
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  123. fan boi
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  124. RAYCIST
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  125. haitch two oh
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  126. Try conversion therapy.
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  127. +A Person, I appreciate the advice, thanks.
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  128. +jelkel25, You can deviate as much as you like within a relationship (behind closed doors), just don't bring your deviations into the public sphere. I'm not saying what you can and can't do in private, i'm merely stating what is and is not intended by nature, and how it should or should not be incorporated into society. "a biological response to overpopulation" And how would that work exactly? Are you saying that nature is opposed to large groups of people? The opposite seems to be true, that nature rather likes large groups of people, afterall, almost everyone has desire for sex, even homosexuals, they're just not using their sexual tools properly because their mind is working contray to the body. Even homosexuals produce semen, so nature seems to have wanted them to procreate. And women can have many more children beyond what is currently deemed acceptable. But if you are right, then nature must be telling homosexuals not have children, which actually supports my argument, so i'm right either way. Also, how would nature determine whether our world is overpopulated? Is homosexuality the result of large cities and big populations? If so, then we wouldn't expect to find any evidence of homosexuality in the ancient world, where there we're fewer big cities and lower population levels, and yet we do. And there have always been a number of people in society who have forgone having children, for example the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of monks in the past few thousand years, which would certainly negate the need for homosexuals to decrease the population.
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  129. Just say it goes against your religious beliefs.
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  130. Religion and now science both agree that the Pill is bad, but the truth will still be ignored.
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  131. Alan Watt pointed this out a few years ago in one his broadcasts.
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  132. +Brian A, Wherever there is suffering and death, there will always be religion. Wherever there is human nature and it's flaws, there will always be religion. And wherever there is an inquiring mind asking questions, there will always be religion. Religion will outlive all of us, because human nature doesn't change.
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  133. +Borbali, +Iceman0509, It's baffling to me also. The whole purpose of his lectures seem to be lost of many people.
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  134. He's not Christian. I say this as a Christian.
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  135. What does Lobster taste like?
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  136. +Manu Leach, My faith in God and the afterlife does not prevent me from thinking critically about the natural world.
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  137. True, it's just a cry for help/attention.
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  138. Saint Augustine was from Algeria.
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  139. Luminous Darkness.
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  140. We're all sinner and fall short of what is expected of us. We should feel shame and only then can we feel good.
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  141. Two of the best movies that deal with suicide are: Surviving (TV Movie, 1985) and Permanent Record (1988).
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  142. @Lorem Ipsum, Nice.
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  143. @MrSkinnyWhale, I agree, but those women are a rarity.
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  144. Has Peterson spoken out against the absurdity of 'gay marriage' yet?
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  145. +James B, It's absurd because marriage is about the procreation of children and providing stability for children. As gay people cannot have children together, or even consummate a marriage, it's make a mockery of the institution.
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  146. 1. Yes it is. 2. They shouldn't be able to adopt. 3. Gay people perform sodomy. 4. I know. 5. Thanks.
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  147. You a fan boi?
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  148. don't kill me bro
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  149. Egalitarianism needs to go.
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  150. +Mutoh, "You know that heterosexual couples also have taken a liking to marrying "for themselves", right (the voluntarily childless ones)? Why aren't you dissing them?" First of all, i'm not 'dissing' anyone, i'm just stating the facts. The reason i don't 'diss' people who marry and don't have children is because they can have children, they can easily change their mind or have a little 'accident'. Their marriage is therefore valid. Homosexuals can never have children, even if they tried.
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  151. +Nick Williams, "Why not?" Why should they?
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  152. +A Person, I don't need to answer the question, because this isn't my opinion, it's observable fact. I'm not the one asking to deviate from natural law, you are. I'm simply advocating for that which already exists and is intended, but you're asking to deviate from it, so the only real question here is, why should we deviate from natural law? and, can you prove it's beneficial to do so? Thus far none of you have proven that it is, all that you've given me is 'they should do it because they can do it' and 'feelings'.
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  153. +Laura S., I've already addressed this, please read through my previous comments.
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  154. +A Person, I already answered the question in another comment, and i'm still waiting for a reply on how it's beneficial to deny children a mother figure. I'm still waiting to hear how women are not important in the lives of children. I apologize for assuming your position, the comment thread got quite crowded.
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  155. +Ezeckel Reichert, Intended by nature or God, or instituted within nature by God, however you wish to look at it.
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  156. +Phil C, Well, i'm not coming at this from an atheistic perspective, so i'm not cynical about the course of nature.
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  157. +OwO wat r thos, But they shouldn't. Deliberately denying a child a mother or mother-figure is social-engineering and child abuse.
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  158. Good stuff.
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  159. Maybe it isn't rooted in human nature. Cannibal tribes don't give a second thought to killing and eating you, they even eat their own people.
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  160. bollocks
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  161. yes
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  162. LOL
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  163. Because you were raised with Christian values via your parents and culture. When a person or society rejects religion they don't reject the presuppositions, they just reject the context. Basically, you're moral because you have subconsciously absorbed Christian values as a child. If you were raised by a cannibal tribe, you wouldn't think twice about killing and eating someone.
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  164. The traditional view of womanhood is not flawed or damaging, you're just the exception to the rule, and just because you are an exception that doesn't mean that the rule is inherently bad, it just means you're not the norm, which is fine. And it's a good thing that his lectures are targeted to men, because young men have been completely let down by society, and women, in recent decades.
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  165. What about them?
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  166. We pay our taxes because if we don't, the full force of the state comes to pay us a visit.
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  167. +ryan owesney, The Catholic church built it, and more specifically it was a Bishop who use to be a monk.
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  168. Murder is only wrong if life is sacred, and you believe life is sacred, therefore you're religious, without even knowing it.
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  169. @Dr. Shroomy, Extremists directly contradict their own ideals. Extremists are only culturally religious for the sake of preserving group tribalism. Why do cannibal tribes kill and eat their own people then?
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  170. There's nothing wrong with patriarchy though.
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  171. lol
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  172. Transphobia is a good thing.
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  173. Sounds tasty.
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  174. "Nor does that change fact they were quite widespread phenomenon" Incorrect. Before and after the Hopkins/Stearne trials on the 1640's (which were a reaction to the instabilty brought in by the English civil war), trials of witches were usually done on a case by case basis, not en masse. Of course the trial of witches is wrong, but the idea that they were a widespread phenomenon throughtout all Christian/English history is just false. "if something they were much more ruthless all i need to do is point out to witch hunts" You tried to claim that religious societies were more ruthless due to witch trials, but i've proven that witch trials were not a 'widespread phenomenon' (in England), and that not all Christians during the sporadic trials even agreed with those trials, some even refuse to hang accused witches in their jurisdiction.
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  175. I think it was Diamondhead yes, lol, a blast from my past metal days.
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  176. Eve represents the body and Adam represents the soul. Re-read the allegory knowing this and your mind will be blown.
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  177. I'm King.
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  178. Saint Augustine gives a good theological argument against suicide in his City of God. Whether you accept it or not is up to you.
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  179. +Manu Leach, Religious believers tend to adhere more closely to their own moral conscience than regular lay folk. Of course this isn't always the case, but generally true. And i would say that being logical about morality is the fastest way to immorality, afterall it's very easy to justify wrong-doing when it's of benefit to yourself. So you actually have it backwards.
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  180. +Manu Leach, Biblical morality is based upon natural law. The Bible doesn't tell people what their opinions should be, it simply asks people to adhere to natural law, which was instituted by God. It's your morality that is out of line with natural law.
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  181. +Manu Leach, I don't think it limits me. Like Christian theologians and philosophers of the past, i believe the universe and ourselves were created by God, therefore nothing is off limits to study and explore. By exploring the world, the universe and mankind, we can known something about it's Creator, so i don't see my worldview limiting my experience of life. And i'm not a Gnostic either, so i don't see the world as entirely at war with the spirit.
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  182. Why, Is he in need of cash?
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  183. Man breathes confusion.
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  184. You may be right. I'm also a little older than most, i sometimes forget that. I came to the truth a long time ago through other good sources. But the fanboys need to learn that the master simply shows the way, he isn't suppose to hold your hand. Take his advice and live it.
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  185. Couldn't agree more. It is exciting to see what may come of all this.
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  186. While things are subject to change, they will always be futile. A happy family will one day be an unhappy family due to the inevitibility and certainty of change, change which inevitably leads to death. "There is nothing more certain than death, but there is nothing more uncertain than the hour of death." Placing your hope in this world therefore, is foolish. Eternal life on the other hand is not subject to change. Heaven being eternal means absolute security against the process of change, because change occures only in time; where the present moment of immediate awareness is continuously experiencing new events. We are endulging the senses until the senses can no longer sense. All is leading up to inevitable death, therefore the only conclusion is to prepare for the afterlife. "Our reward in heaven is to see God, to live with God, and to live with the very life of God. It is to be with God, and to be in God, Who will be all in all. We shall possess God, the highest good. Where the highest good is, there is the highest joy, the supremest happiness, the truest liberty, the most perfect charity. There we shall find eternal security, fullest knowledge, and all that is blissful and beautiful.....O heavenly city, O blessed citizens! What glorious things are said of you! All are rejoicing there at the sight and sound of God's beauty. He is delightful to see and sweet to possess. He is all our reward, and beyond Him there is nothing further to desire. He is the whole of man's good, in this life and the next, for to know and love God is the highest good we may ever attain."
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  187. P.s: All those things you stated are good things, but just remember to keep in mind your eternal home.
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  188. The journey is mostly internal, but i understand what you mean. I'm not saying the good things in life are bad because of their inevitable end, only that people need to remember that there is an end and to not leave off preparing for it, which many do and it ended before they even begun the journey.
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  189. I choose the word futile to make a point, i will admit that's it's a little dramatic. And i agree that it's very nihilistic, i was also trying to represent the position of the non-believer. I was simply using an extreme to make a point.
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