why is this world so hellish?

The world was much worse in the past. You can be sure you didn't want to live in the stone age or in medieval times.

Of course only from a human perspective.

@salmon_rushdie said in #12:

There's your problem! You're faithless and nihilistic!

Not believing in the invisible man in the sky is not equal to nihilism.

@Katzenschinken said in #41:

The world was much worse in the past. You can be sure you didn't want to live in the stone age or in medieval times.

Of course only from a human perspective.

Stone age was not that bad

@DogyBrown said in #43:

Stone age was not that bad

That's the romanticisation of an era from a long gone past and of which most modern humans don't know much about.

There were no supermarkets in that time, no washing machines, no heated homes, no wi-fi and certainly no medical services whatsoever. Instead you had to live through brutal winters in a cave if you were lucky enough to have found one that wasn't occupied by others or that others tried to kill you for. As a male you had a 20 - 30% chance to die a violent death before the age of 30. This is anything but "not that bad" in my book.

I recommend reading "The better angels of our nature" by Steven Pinker or Lawrence Keeley's "War Before Civilization".

@Katzenschinken said in #44:

That's the romanticisation of an era from a long gone past and of which most modern humans don't know much about.

There were no supermarkets in that time, no washing machines, no heated homes, no wi-fi and certainly no medical services whatsoever. Instead you had to live through brutal winters in a cave if you were lucky enough to have found one that wasn't occupied by others or that others tried to kill you for. As a male you had a 20 - 30% chance to die a violent death before the age of 30. This is anything but "not that bad" in my book.

I recommend reading "The better angels of our nature" by Steven Pinker or Lawrence Keeley's "War Before Civilization".

There weren't any dinosaurs though. Or people walking into you because they were staring at their mobile phone. So that's two good things, isn't it?

I am not saying that violence never occurred but I think it was quite rare because the population was so scattered. People lived in communal hunter-gatherer bands at subsistence level for thousands of years. There was no social stratification in the same way as we have now. I will look up the two book references you have given.

@mang0sunr1s3 said in #2:

i think the meaning of life is to find the meaning of life.
Completely agree (seriously think about it)

I AM THE BLIZZARD KING
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
TOSS ME A GREEN BEAN
Thanks

@DogyBrown said in #43:

Stone age was not that bad

Yeah! Stone age was just capital. Not bad at all. your forefathers loved it! – the ones who weren't chewed up crunchily by dinosaurs...well at least until they were devoured by giant reptiles...inevitably... tragically. otherwise what's NOT to love? well of course no toilet paper..ya know, you'd've loved it!

@igmo_fitzpatzer said in #47:

.. tragically. otherwise what's NOT to love? well of course no toilet paper..ya know, you'd've loved it!

You didnt need toilet paper. You washed your ass in the river

@DogyBrown 10 A+

Well done. That was a test and you have past with wet flying river butters!

well done

No one eat without hurt a vegetable or animal. The cruelty is part of life