In our world things are not fine

each generation gets worse and worse. and we have so many people out there in competition with each other instead of working together. there is also a lot of hate and jealousy & if you’re a Christian, we’re just living in the last days!

A) The problems of this world and its populace are a far sight better than, say, the Middle Ages, when the average income was a dollar a year and most people died at 35, starving in their unheated homes.

2. It often SEEMS like things are going from bad to worse simply because of the availability of information. In the 1980s, there were just as many people dying in wars and just as many people wasting away from disease, but with one newspaper a day and a half-hour news broadcast every night, no one ever heard about it.

3. If God is responsible for all the glory and beauty around us, he’s also responsible for the pain and misery. File your grievances away in the back of your mind, and should you ever meet him/them, demand some answers, because his word is seriously messed up.

I believe it comes down to population. Increasing population just increases disease, hunger, jealousy, hate, war… We can’t help anything about population, but the world has ways of fixing itself– I.E. the Bubonic Plague. Yes, it’s horrible that millions of people would have to die, but if you think about it, after the Plague everything was peachy– people has more job opportunities and the food was in abundance.

It sounds like a horrible thing to say, but it’s the truth. Our misery directly correlates to the amount of people around us.

Human nature includes bad as well as good. Uncontrolled, the bad can win.

unfortunaly war is in our nature. but who put it there?

We’re pack animals. In general, we view competing packs as a threat.

atthisvelocity, which outbreak of plague are you referring to? There have been many. And in terms of population decline, the flu pandemic of 1918 was far more costly in terms of lives lost, and I doubt anyone would say the world was better off for it.