Why are things the way they are?

Answer 1

Because if they weren't they would be different, and you'd be asking the same question about different things

Answer 2

The more basic question is "Why is there anything, rather than nothing...?"

The Bible is the only source that even tries to deal with the question of why things are as they are now.

It is the only sacred writing that admits that things are not now as they once were; that things were created to be different and have been spoiled so that the universe is not perfectly good and wholesome as it once was.

It is only through reading the Bble and comparing the universe which has been damaged and uglified by sin to what we inwardly expect, that I can make any sense out of the universe.

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Answer 3

Both our major political parties are anti-reality, anti-individual and anti-rights.

The Republicans' ideas are based on puritanism, individuals punishing themselves for living on Earth instead of "some heaven" by working themselves to death obeying orders for no reason, and on
super-developing the Earth--no matter what harm it does, so long as their infallible leaders get to keep giving orders that people have to obey as "public interest lawmaking".

The Democrats' ideas are based on worldly reformed Catholicism which also says that being alive on Earth is evil; but instead of working yourself to death, they believe the way to atone lies in caring for the Earth and in people punishing themselves by working hard--so that they can give everything first to the most needy, no matter how the needy got to be that way.

It's that simple. Puritanism versus Altruism. That's the so-called "mainstream" of thinking in this country.

No marketplaces of lives; nor of ideas, goods and services, hiring and attaining leadership, government service being gained through positions through appointment and election. No scientific definitions or "categories". Nothing.

No way for a court's judges to uphold any individual's selfish rights, because those rights--under public interest elected gangsters' four-year-plan lawmakings--have never even been defined.

And we're supposed to be the best country in the world? The model for everyone else to copy? I suggest we may not be all that worthy of imitation philosophically. Not since say 1902 when this whole insanity began.

Answer 4

Things are the way they are b'cas of the way we look at it!

Answer 5

A series of choices have created the present, a series of different choices creates the future. The types of choices determine whether the things are getting better or worse.

Answer 6

Because we have realised that these things are better in the "are" form than in the "aren't" form.

Therefore, we have strived over countless generations to set up the world as you see it today, just as you are doing on a daily basis for future generations.

Answer 7

They're the results of random chance, Murphy's Law, survival of the fittest, and the irreversible trend from order to disorder as mandated by the 2nd Law of thermodynamics (AKA: Entropy).

Answer 8

We are all protagonists and antagonists in our own life stories. The combination of everyone's irrational and rational choices shapes what has become our present existance.

Answer 9

Things couldn't be any way other than how they are; you could hardly say 'why are things like they aren't' could you?!

Answer 10

cause the world is out of controll and people are into looking out for no 1