(April 17, 2025 at 4:50 pm)paulpablo Wrote: There's maniacs, people who just don't agree with you and annoying people everywhere but surely you established that earlier on in life, you said you're old i don't know how old. I'm 40 and I'm pretty jaded.
I'm 69. While I have known about the problems with human nature for most of my adult life, until just a few years ago I still believed such problems could be transcended. Now I no longer believe that. I think at best we can only minimize our human nature, and it now seems that will not be enough to deal with climate change, Trump, or any of a range of pressing problems. After all, our human nature led to these problems.
However, as I mentioned I am unsure about this uncomfortable conclusion. It seems from what I have read that most atheists are also rather despairing.
