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Originally Posted by JCF

I hope this is not too far off topic - or incoherent - or pitiful ( light the flamethrowers, I don't care)

I am so discouraged - It just seems like there is nowhere left to find the balance to all the negative things I see and hear about and read about....
It just looks like to me the dark side has won.
What has happened to all the good people ????
I know they are out there somewhere but they seem to no longer have the power or will to affect what appears to be a wholesale abdication of simple moral responsibility and justice...
I understand no one is all good ( least of all myself) or even that, outside the true psychopaths, the bad folk are not all bad....but I just don't see any balance anymore.
It just seems that every shiny red apple is rotten inside these days...and that suspect or clearly rotten apples are so often held up as shining examples of perfection....
Maybe it has always been this way ?
I am not saying I am right, only that I feel like the the line is crumbling and I am discouraged and I don't want to give up the fight but when I look for some sign that there is something left to fight for or someone to look up to for hope and encouragement all I see around me are bad examples.
I am not religious - though I was raised Catholic - but I have seen and read too much about the Catholic Church and it's abuses and hypocrisy to not cross that one out - At the same time I can see the beauty and truth in the writings...but really - now it just seems like a license to sin - "so I committed adultery sat. night - I'll just say a prayer on sunday"....
All the other religions also seem to me to have that same gulf between the beauty of the doctrine and the messy world of Humanity...
Art ( which was my great pursuit at one time ) also seems to me irrelevant in these times...

I won't add any insight into this specific thread though I think it is relevant to it. I'm fresh out answers.
I guess it shows how desperate I am that I am posting this here on PP Off Topic....

ha

Pardon the interruption.

John, Try to be less philosophical and more pragmatic...stay away from the sewers, hold your head high & live as you see fit. That's about all in this world we can really control...ourselves.