Speaking to the fact on how hard this world can be and how much pain some people can cause to others, from others, and to ourselves. Do any y'all truly feel this way?
I feel this only applies if you view life as having a narrative. I’m not a nihilist but I feel we’re no different than any other animal that exists on this planet. There is no purpose, just reproduction and survival. We’ve adapted to ever evolving tools and technology. The many societies humanity has built define our success on acquiring new tools and technology. If you took everything away, success would be surviving the day. We’ve come so far that just waking up is taken for granted.
That being said some of us enter life at a disadvantage, in the past we may be on an more even playing field. No purpose, no nothing. Just finding that you exist and trying to keep it that way, busting a nut in the opposite sex (or whatever) when you can, because that’s what’s etched into our biology.
At our core our only function is reproduction and survival. Everything we do is driven by that biological need. It makes life seem less brutal and simple to see us as being part of an overarching story, having plans.
I respect the invention of spirituality because it’s truly the only thing from taking us back to the days where scavenging, raping, and beating each other to death with rocks were expected parts of everyday life.