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originally posted by: Shoshanna
Have you guys ever wondered what specifically is the point? I mean like even if you have kids that are supposed to give meaning to your life dont they just end up doing the same thing as you working for 30 or 40 or more years have more kids usually all just to work their prime years away etc. The small pleasures in life scheduled around the looming spectre of yet more work. Everything is centered around making money to survive. Money is key. I wonder if it was quite like that for my grampa on the farm. Makes you wonder. What happened to this farm self reliance mentality.
If I had a farm, I would be set up. Because what do you need when you have a farm. Nothing. Farms require a lot of real estate. Space. Acres and acres. Why aren't family farms really a thing anymore? The subdivisions. All around convenience. I dont need to grow green beans I can just grab some at the store. But then the store turned into not really a store, now it is a huge corporation with shareholders to answer to.
I think the only thing to do at this point is simplify. When did everybody become a candy ass. When did everybody just decide. No we don't want to rely on ourselves and our families and our small communities. We want to rely on the corporate master because it is easier. Its faster. I can spend more time indulging my own pleasures. Because working for the corporations to make money to buy the convenient things from the corporations takes up all your time. So you need convenience. You feel greed. You want what you think the other guy has. Even hospitals are becoming corporate. Doctors are saddled with hundreds of thousands in loans just to be able to help people. What??
What happened why is it like this? Simulation or something I have missed. Were we created to serve God but then what are we doing I have no idea. No idea which God either. Are we really just here to serve the corporations, enrich the shareholders and die?
Is that the purpose. What is the purpose? Was this what it was like in the 1400s when Columbus was sailing the high seas. I'm so confused.
What happened why is it like this? Simulation or something I have missed.
If I had a farm, I would be set up. Because what do you need when you have a farm. Nothing. Farms require a lot of real estate. Space. Acres and acres. Why aren't family farms really a thing anymore?