books are much more extensive

That's why it's crumbling

Society is a pretty broad statement...

Despite economically improving suicide rates keep rising

That's what you get when you "kill" God

Like, are you talking about the entire world? a specific friend group? Lol.

GG @proportion, you just advanced to level 3!

You know what i’m talking about

this is only going to lead to a mass die off

Western society

one way or another

Well, I'm in the East...

https://youtu.be/Jvr6X054xLY

Well, Western can be a lot of different things..

Okay i’m done

Like, US? Gobal Western?

MOST society’s are materialistic

Wasn't always like that

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Hold on what time are you talking about?

Well, we advance, and become comfortable.

Prior to the nihilists, they started in mids 1800s

And grew from there on

Ehm

It wasn’t all that great before that

It was actually

For anyone but like 1% of people

It hasn't been a completely bad thing, but nor a completely a good thing, either. We would need to look deeper to find the pros and cons.

People were content with their religion

And suicide wasn't as bad as it is now

People actually found a purpose

They didn’t have time to think about that

Maybe that's our problem

Too much free time

Religion was made up to control the masses

Nonetheless it decreases our happiness

Free time does definitely not decrees my happiness

At all

Religion was created to instate virtous values that would most of the time lead to a fulfilling life

Talk to the catholic church boi

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