Is This World Out Of Control?

[goodlife]

Stabbings, bombings, riots and even within governments we see nothing but turmoil.
Even in society there are disputes with gender. Are you a he, she or an it? What was normal is now in the minority.

[Old_Geezer]

I blame God. Look what a mess she's let it get into.

[jourdain2]

I'm just carrying on with being normal for me. Judging by the congratulations I've been give and the drinks I've been bought today (it's my birthday) this seems to be OK with other 'normal' people. :)

[tonyav]

Hey Happy Birthday, jourdain.

[DaisyNonna]

Whose control?

[goodlife]

This all indicates that man is just not equipped to govern himself. Ok? with that, all this gibberish too.

[Berniecuddles2]

i govern myself quite well thank you goodlife...its the idiots around me who are a total loss!!

[mikey4444]

goodlife....I suspect that English is not your first language.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh, we don't mind your gibberish. The world is a chaotic situation, and one can't expect such a situation to run smoothly. But chaos is both a strength and a weakness. But from it emerges opportunity and gradual improvement as superior ways to govern win out over inferior ways. Like a lot of situations in life, trial & error leads and flexibility leads to understanding and eventual success. One learns little from being equipped from the word, "Go".

[idiosyncrasy]

Quite possible. It seems that in recent months there is more and more mayhem whether it be about Brexit or Trump. Now we see that even the French are not happy with their choice. Who is next I wonder?

In Hungarian there is no word for he or she. The same word is used for all three. Hmm.

I read recently on Facebook that a woman gave birth to a baby but she would not say what it was. She put it on the birth certificate as an "it", so that sometime in the future the child could choose for itself whether to be a male or female (or both?)

As there is so much going now for the "gay" movement maybe us normal Heterosexuals will be the minority.

[Peter Pedant]

// brexit, the world is more dangerous since trump was elected, Isis are murdering on a weekly basis//

I agree thta the three are connected ( Brexit, Trump and terrorism) probably causally

anyway this is the lead up to armaggedon again isnt it - troubled times before the day of judgement

[wildwood]

"Stabbings, bombings, riots and even within governments" is nothing new. People have been ravaging others without good reason for ages. The vast majority of wars worldwide are caused through religious beliefs. Even before God was invented, whole portions of the world would try to devastate other parts.

The atrocities performed by ISIS are nothing new either, it is just that even last century, electronically distributed news was not so widespread so the world wasn't so aware.

If anything, the present world is in tighter control than before. It is not so long ago that a religious killing was always followed by a retribution killing etc. etc. Now, the 'developed' world has so many PC rules that we are mere puppets at the mercy of others.

[Truthteller88]

No. This world is under the control of the Fallen One.
Adam handed the keys over 6,000 years ago.
Christ took it back 4,000 years later.
But won't give the keys back to man until we repent.

[waterboatman]

Define 'Normal!'

[beso]

jno //dinosaurs were causing mayhem while mammals were still eating their eggs. Before that, plants were probably doing the same//

Exactly. The biggest mayhem ever was the evolution of photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria were the culprits. Their waste product, oxygen, initially precipitated most of the iron in the ocean then totally polluted the atmosphere, oxidising almost all the methane.

The loss of this greenhouse gas caused the planet to freeze for few hundred million years. Virtually all other species died out but for a few that evolved to handle free oxygen.

[beso]

goodlife //What was normal is now in the minority.//

Exactly. Society has moved on from the self righteous bigotry of arrogant archaic men who presumed their misogynistic prejudices were given to them by a supernatural deity.

Religion has long stood in the way of the moral progress of society and is still the biggest factor today.

[beso]

Truthteller88 //No. This world is under the control of the Fallen One.
Adam handed the keys over 6,000 years ago.
Christ took it back 4,000 years later.
But won't give the keys back to man until we repent.//

So Christ is actually in control then?

[Peter Pedant]

you get a time of tribulation before the end of th world
see here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/beliefs/endtimes_1.shtml

so what Goodlife says ( bless him!) is all troooooooooo !

[fender62]

i think goodlife wants us all to get on our knees and pray for forgiveness of ? as we are wicked and have turned our back on the lord
and it is mad at us for,,again for not kneeling as he is so mighty and needs constant observance, well strike me down lord as i do not believe in a book written by madmen for madmen...

[scooping]

No

[Togo]

//I agree thta the three are connected ( Brexit, Trump and terrorism) probably causally // sic

Of course terrorism was unheard of before Trump and Brexit.
Or as Dylan sang on Ring Them Bells "Breaking down the Distance between Right and Wrong"