Can they not find their place in life?
2006-07-26 05:33:23 · 10 answers · asked by gotearz 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I am nearing 50 and I am not at all disillusioned about life because my experiences have taught me much about how to deal with it. I am very much looking forward to the rest of my life because I have found my place and my vocation and am very lucky to have the love, friendship and the material things I need.
I am, however, completely disillusioned with religion, mainly through life experiences in the nearly 50 years I've been on Earth. I was brought up in a religious household and taught to believe in things greater than myself and to blindly follow the tenets they call "faith." After many years, I've determined that those who preach the loudest are the biggest hypocrites. Religion has caused much greater suffering in this world than it has solved. It encourages bigotry, war, supression of human rights, castigation of women, and general inability to think for oneself. If you personally get satisfaction out of following any religion, then more power to you. I'm glad you're happy. But when people try to force their beliefs on me, particularly through government intervention, that brings on my cynicism.
2006-07-26 05:46:21 · answer #1 · answered by Mama Gretch 6 · 20⤊ 2⤋
I'm between those posts. I am still interested in life and as far as religion goes it's not my cup of tea. Well except the religion I started, but that's really just for my own amusement I'm not looking for converts. It's Pieganism, the worship of delicious baked goods. Anyway, it is worth noting that life can beat the crap out of the mightiest amongst us; you have to bend or you'll break. This can punch the happy out of just about everyone. Think about it, your folks die, good friends that never did a darn thing wrong drop dead from cancer or get killed in horrific ways; wives and husbands leave for no good reason; or worse stay and jerk you around. Disappointments are part of the process and it gets tiring, some folk just don't have the juice to stand the onslaughts. As far as finding the place in life goes your only a breath away from it all being taken from you at any time and at this age your more keenly aware that that moment is coming for you. Find your place, be joyful. It moves along pretty quickly when your looking back. I'm trying, and even with all that previously mentioned I still find the joy; but this old world plays for keeps and none of us get out alive. Have a good life eh, I hope you get all that you want from it and your heartaches are few and far between.
2006-07-26 05:59:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not quite understanding your question. I am 39 yrs old and have been on my spirtual path for 10 years, I suffer no illusions as to my religion or beliefs.
Most of the people in your mentioned age group seem to be set in their paths (the ones I know), are you in need of finding your place?
2006-07-26 05:39:45 · answer #3 · answered by Sheila 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life has not turned out the way they expected. Never reached their dreams or underachieved they feel in life. No hope on doing so. Blame God because they felt they have been cheated or short changed.
2006-07-26 05:41:09 · answer #4 · answered by klacman99 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's they don't find their place in life. I think maybe, some of them at least, got to this moment in life when they feel doors are pretty much closed for them and that there's nothing to do except for...let's say, wait for grandchildren to come and give them some occupation. I can't say if that's the case for all, maybe there are other reasons. Unfortunatelly, I know my mum is one of those cases who just feels there's nothing left for her, except for some satisfactions related to me. But nothing related to her.
2006-07-26 05:44:16 · answer #5 · answered by Laura 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when yo get to be in your 40's.. you have been through a lot and seen a lot. people like to talk about men especially like they cannot get it up anymore. but the fact of it is. after about 20 years of seeing naked womens bodies. the thrill is gone. if youve seenone boob you have seen them all. it gets a bit old. i mean you still like looking and all that. but we dont have the hormones racing in us to plug any hole that walks by. we are a lot more selective and can pick whom we want. .. plus after getting to your 40's,.. you have heard your share of lies and seen the deceipt of people and their ways and it gets very old. i can see on here all the young people defending the blacks in all sorts of stuff. but when you have lived throgh a life of the same kind of crap they dish out and all the poor poor me attitudes and stuff it just loses its affect and we no longer want to tolerate it. you actually get to see the world as it is now.... instead of the rose colored glasses things.
2006-07-26 06:15:27 · answer #6 · answered by Calvin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have lived long enough to know better and not so long as to be desperate and listen to doomsayers and false prophets!
2006-07-26 05:37:42 · answer #7 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect rather than those folks being confused it is probably you who are in a fog.
2006-07-26 05:36:51 · answer #8 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have but they have seen the dark side.
2006-07-26 05:36:50 · answer #9 · answered by helixburger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they know better.
2006-07-26 05:47:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋