Thread by @RobertPLewis

Thread: The Meaning of Life, and Why the Left is So Angry

1) “You’ve got to believe something, why not believe in me?”
-The Pointer Sisters, Carwash (movie) 1976

2) It’s funny sometimes the places where you find deep, insightful questions that lead you down a path of introspection & studies of the human condition.

3) There are many questions that humans have pondered for as long as we’ve been able to do so, but none greater than that which has become nearly synonymous with entry-level philosophy: what is the meaning of life?

4) I spent a great deal of time pondering the questions of meaning & where we came from in my earlier life, and then I had a major change that shifted my entire world view: I had kids.

5) Something that has become glaringly apparent to me over the past few years is that, despite all of the contrived differences in political opinion, class, race, religion or any other false-divides created to tear our society apart, people can be broken down...

6) into two basic groups, based on what you believe in.

There is one group who believes very strongly in the three F’s: Faith, Family & Freedoms. The people who believe in these things aren’t causing riots when something doesn’t go their way, they aren’t tearing down...

7) monuments of people they don’t agree with and they’re not shouting down speakers who have dissenting opinions like fascists.

They’re not doing that, because they’ve found the meaning of life.

8) If you doubt that family is the cornerstone of the human condition, just take a quick look at the life cycles of any living mammal on the planet: at birth they’re weak & unknowing as they grow, coming of sexual maturation age, choosing a mate, procreating, siring progeny...

9) and then taking a drastic turn once their offspring comes into the world, at relatively the same age for nearly all of their species.

For all mammals, procreation is meant to, and often does, happen at peak physical form, but not peak maturity...

10) And as you watch their life cycles from that point forward, something amazing happens: their life cycle is built entirely around protecting, raising, teaching and helping their offspring.

11) Once that offspring is old enough to protect itself and sire its own progeny, the parents begin to decline physically to make way for their offspring to take over as the physical protectors of the next generation. Because it’s literally what we’re built to do.

12) Is it any wonder, then, why those who are are the most rabidly pro-abortion, anti-family and scream about the “gender construct” are typically the most unhappy? They are unfulfilling their lives' purpose.

13) The next philosophical question regards our maker: where do we come from?

14) A large portion of the world believes in some form of higher power, believing that before there was time, there was our Creator, that which breathed life into the universe at the very beginning to start the chain of events which led to you and I being here.

15) There are arguments, and even wars, over His name, what He wants for us and any other number of topics, but that’s not the point here. It’s a basic human need to believe in something, whether consciously aware of it or not, that is responsible for that question which we...

16) can’t even contemplate how to answer.

17) For even if you believe in science rather than a Creator, and that the Big Bang is wholly responsible for our beginning, a glaring question remains unanswered: where did the gasses come from which led to the Big Bang? Where did the first molecules of the universe...

18) come from, if not from something Divine?

There are many who, despite that glaring & unanswerable question, will still tell you that they don’t believe in anything, and some will outright demand that your faith in a higher power not be on display anywhere that they can see it

19) It is interesting that those who so loudly proclaim they don’t believe in anything become so upset that others do, isn’t it? It’s almost as if they’re angry at their own emptiness.

20) But although they claim not to have faith, they have merely transferred their faith to another vehicle, this one man-made and by that nature, flawed.

21) These people fall into the camp I feel is well represented by, funny enough, this clip from the movie Carwash (1976).

22) It highlights not only that very important facet of human nature that we must have faith in something, but also that intelligent yet unscrupulous individuals have capitalized on that need and used it to their advantage.

23) Many have begun calling the Climate Change group a cult, because they’ve taken on a near-fanatical following of a movement that must be faith-based, as their constant predictions of doom for the past 50 years have never come to fruition, are often proven to be hoaxes-

24) and yet are revived under a new banner and with a new “prophet” the following decade.

santaclaritafree.com/gazette/opinio…

25) The most famous and prevalent groups requiring a man-made creation be used to replace religion, however, are authoritarians, who take full advantage of two of life’s meanings: faith and freedoms.

26) Whether it be communism, socialism or American-left authoritarianism (a combination of the two), it is an absolute requirement that authoritarian regimes replace the faith of their peasants in a higher power with faith in the state.

27) Karl Marx himself called religion the “opiate of the masses,” blaming religion and its promises of rewards in the afterlife for taking people’s attention away from social inequities here on earth & in this life.

28) But Marx’s theory, like many of his theories, doesn’t hold much water once you actually dig into it. If this were true & religion were to blame for people following the status quo, how does he explain the pre-written history ancients who worshiped the sun & constellations...

29) before any social construct really existed?

They needed to believe in something, and that was all they knew yet could not explain.

30) And how would he explain the USA, a nation founded on religion that is the last true nation on earth in which someone can come here with pennies in their pocket, a dream in their heads and become a billionaire? Funny that never happens in the authoritarian regimes...

31) which are built on his theories.

I’ve come to realize lately that progressives - every one of them - are frauds, and every one of their leaders are these very unscrupulous types who know what the human condition requires, understand the realities of our world, and use...

32) those conditions to their advantage to brainwash the easily swayed into doing their bidding.

33) And no matter what pretty name they put on it, no matter what they preach, no matter how much fear & anger they try to put into people’s minds & hearts, their bidding is always the same: a consolidation of power under them and massive amounts of money.

34) The American left are a unique group of authoritarians, because they take capitalistic authoritarianism to a new level. Lizzie Warren rails against corporations, yet made her millions by rewriting bankruptcy laws, consulting for them and taking large donations from their ...

35) Super PACs.

Bernie Sanders rails against capitalism, yet his entire stock portfolio is invested in Fortune 500 companies, he’s made millions through a political ad-buying scheme with his wife and her friends and the plethora of pictures of him flying either first class..

36) or on private jets show he’s not quite the pro-proletariat he makes himself out to be.

37) Cenk Uygur, former lawyer & creator of The Young Turks is a vocal progressive activist, one of the funders of the Justice Democrats (the group that had a casting call for congress which led to The Squad being in office), yet he became enraged when his own employees tried...

38) to unionize (which he tells every other US company they should do) and was recently filmed screaming at American Airlines employees because his flight was delayed a little bit.

reddit.com/r/PublicFreako…

39) Joe Biden...well you’d have to try not to discover the wealth of information recently made available showing what a fraud Joe Biden has been his entire life, willing to say or do anything to make money via his corrupticrat ways.

40) So what’s the moral of this story? It’s pretty simple, if you’re willing to sift through the noise.

41) Family is something that we’re built to have and cherish - and those who are the most rabid anti-family unit are also the most unhappy, because they’re violating their very reason for being.

42) Faith is something that is a requirement of human nature, as there are questions that nobody can answer - and if anyone tells you they “know” how we got here, immediately understand that person to be a fraud. If someone doesn’t place their faith in a higher power...

43) it doesn’t take much to find where they’ve placed that human need for faith - usually in the state or another, militant group with little-to-no facts requiring pure emotion to replace the lack of evidence.

44) Freedoms are the most tangible & fundamental desires of the human race, and are often taken away by unscrupulous, power-hungry people who use the first two F’s to convince you they should be taken away.

45) If what you believe makes you happy - truly happy - don’t ever let anyone convince you that it is wrong.

But be very wary of anyone trying to convince you that it is, especially of those who just happen to have another, man-made creation in which you should place your faith.