Emergent properties

Looking for the meaning of life among electrons and protons is hopeless. You won't find it there. It's like looking for gold in the potato field. Nor will you find it in chromosomes or among nerve cells. Physicists and biologists have looked deeply into this, and they see no evidence for meaning in nature. So they claim that there is no meaning in life, really, because, ultimately, the world is nothing but atoms and molecules.

However, meaning, right and wrong, justice and evil exist among human beings on the human level.

You are not just your atoms and molecules.

Armageddon

World defense spending exceeds more than $2 trillion annually. But that is not enough; now, it is an extensive military rearmament that has the highest priority. The whole world is gearing up. The United States and England are investing heavily in developing new nuclear weapons. Russia and China naturally do not want to be left behind. Germany has decided to invest 100 billion euros in addition to the previous defense budget. All countries feel threatened, and all have legitimate security interests. The situation is beginning to resemble the arms race before the WWI. The fight against climate change is a low priority.

Only the military and their aides can present their views in the established media. Journalists and politicians listen and nod to them in concern. Now it's serious; now we must stand united. Now, it is not appropriate to question and problematize. Diplomacy and negotiations are out of the question.

This is madness. We must create a worldwide peace movement that begins to fight for disarmament. We need new agreements that limit the number of nuclear weapons. This is currently more important than the fight against climate change. If we fail, we will soon have no planet to try to save.

Don't be an idiot.

You can be fooled by religious or political leaders, self-help gurus, con artists, romance scammers, crypto coin investors, and telemarketers. Many people try to trick you; you are not even safe in your own home, and you can not even trust yourself. This is ridiculous. One part of your mind deceives you, and another part warns you about self-deceptions.

The masters of duplicity must be the politicians. Look at how impeccable they are, how well-meaning and well-groomed. The brutal war against civilians in that other country is, in fact, self-defense and a fight for a noble cause.

Spin doctors spin stories. They know what they are doing; they have studied the subject for years at top universities. And there is no way to judge whether the information you receive is accurate or disinformation. Both mainstream media and alternative media produce tons of bullshit.

So, what can we do? My advice is: Stop trusting politicians and religious leaders; stop trusting information from all media outlets. Maybe they have it right; perhaps they are just spinning a story. You don't know. Don't trust anybody, not even yourself. And, of course, don't trust me. You may eventually find the truth about a particular event or a subject, but it can take many years.

If you are not able to question beliefs, ideas, opinions, and facts, your own or those of others, you are doomed to get fooled. Fooled by yourself or someone else.

Communism

No sane person can call himself a communist these days after all the horrors that have been committed in the name of communism, but how is it that Christians still can call themselves Christians without shame? Christianity also has a terrible history: the Crusades, the Inquisition courts and witch trials, the oppression of women and children, and the staunch support of war-crazed kings and presidents. Every Sunday, the slave drivers in the American South went to church and sang hymns. "Si-i-lent night, ho-o-ly night."

The true self

If you have lost touch with your conscience, you have lost touch with your true self.

Psychopaths are not troubled by conscience; they don't even know what it is. Narcissists don't care or explain it away. Neurotics feel remorse, guilt, and shame, even for negligible offenses.

Agnosticism

If you have a science education, you can explain biological evolution, but you have no idea how it started. How did life originate here on Earth? The religious fundamentalists can't present any evidence for their grandiose fantasies, but neither can you.

We don't know where we are coming from, we don't know why we are here, and we don't know where we are heading.