Ugh... While I appreciate the sentiment, if there was ever a modern live action version for Akira, these guys should not be the ones to make it.

Once again, your main argument seems to be "shit works okay, why should we bother trying to do better?" I cannot accept such a lazy attitude towards suffering that you and I help perpetrate. Yes, there is a lot less suffering, but when that is tied more to technology and healthcare and less to the actual way of life that we lead (amusing how somehow our fancy modern lives are incredibly stressful for anybody in the lower and lower-middle class; and even MORE stressful for those in the countries from whom we source our cheap goods and services), and not to actively reducing abuse against our fellow men, we're being complicit in the abuses.

You have to do more than just hope it'll fix itself. That has never done anything for us.

Although, on the other hand, with humans being how they are, YOU don't have to do anything. When you have seen enough information/had enough experiences to realize the injustice of our system for yourself, you won't really have a choice in the matter, because you will want of your own accord to see a better world. Just maybe try to take a closer look at things, you know?

Also, thanks for having a civil conversation about it despite our disagreements (and I apologize if I've been a bit over-the-top with my dickishness anywhere along the way so far). I think that so long as everyone in a discussion is willing to really listen to the points another is trying to make, we can all learn something (though I'm sure you and I have both heard variations of each others' arguments before, we've not seen it played out in quite this way, surely).

This whole video feels like a passive aggressive “it’s okay to conform to your shitty reality” message. Very well done production, sure, but something I fundamentally disagree with. Our modern lives aren’t solely issues of acceptance and perspective. They are an issue of acting, forming and changing our shared reality to the betterment of our shared, personal existence. The guy who wrote this clearly had good intentions, but conveys a fundamental roll-over, accept-things-as-the-are message.

We can change our reality, and this makes no suggestion of that. Sure, most young peoples “default” is to grow frustrated with the tedium they find in day-to-day existence, but the answer isn’t entirely one of personal judgment. We can change all of this in many, many ways.

It’s healthy to consider that everyone around you feels the same way. No one is the center of the world. Everyone in it is just as important as you, but no more, and no less. You should fight for everyone around you just as hard as you fight for yourself.

This video was irritating and manipulative on several different levels.
Don’t buy into this.
Be a good human.
Change your environment for the passive-betterment of everyone.
If you hit a wall, find another way.

And if I have any personal grudge to add it’s this: certainly don’t be the waste of space who accepts the status quo, and then ostracizes those who reject it just because you too weak to do so.

What I posted above is merely a possible interpretation one can possess in our modern lives about the existence of a God. But I have to ask...

If God is as you say he is: why does an all powerful, loving god, allow evil to occur in our lives?

And am not talking simply of evil that men commits in the form of murders and wars, even though many were carried out in the name of God - Spanish Inquisition, Salem Witch Trials, Crusades and so on covering other religious wars.

But events like famine, hurricanes, storms and other phenomenon that kills hundreds or thousands. Or what about disease? Cancer? Heart attacks? untimely deaths of young ones?

The answer of God works in mysterious ways is a cop out. Saying that all men are to blame because we are all sinners is also preposterous.

Furthermore alot of what you says is rooted in the Bible, but if it really was the word of God it should be infallible, but it's not because its not the word of God, it contains masses of contradictions and passages from the past. A mathematics book is infallible, you can't argue with the Pythagoras Theorem.

But because those are interpretations that Man has created for himself when thinking of his purpose on Earth, trying to relate to a being that has put him there. The thread runs clear from mystical pagan worship of Nature and the lands to symbolic worship of Sun Gods and finally to likeness worship in the shape of Jesus. We went slowly from worshiping unknowns into focusing worship into a shape of a man, something that is easy to relate to us. That's marketing PR 101.

To me man made Religion is a psychological need of a person to know that their existence stretches past and beyond death, that inherently there is a purpose to your life beyond biological need for procreation. It is also a powerful social aspect that unites many in our world. However as time has shown countless times Religions wane in and out of existence. In 2000 years perhaps Christianity will be looked upon like we look on Egyptian religion now, while embracing some new religion of I don't know... Star worship. There is a human psychological need to know that we FIGURED IT out, that we know what this all means.

For me at the end of the day man made Religion has achieved social and thought control with regards to many issues, but has failed to really hammer through the lessons that form the core of each - "Love your fellow man".

For America as a Christian nation with a Christian President still willingly took up the arms of war out of fear, yet all sat in the Church at one point or another. Those in the Middle East still practiced cheating their fellow man, abusing their fellow man and taking arms to secure control but each day went to the Mosque and prayed and proclaiming God's name as they detonated IEDs. In Africa I have seen religion come to substitute effort and thought to merely accepting what God has given, praying for a better tomorrow instead of working towards it. Even though this faith was brought by missionaries, their faith has adopted and changed it to fit their life styles. Wasn't God's basic plan is to make us get along?

Looking at all life with scientific, philosophical and historical awareness I have come to this conclusion. However I don't mind that people still seek out Faith and take up religion, I believe everyone has a right to a subjective view with regards to their existence and what it means to them. But pushing it on others cross the line, I don't mean moderate adherents of the Faith but those who abuse and take the Faith to assume a measure of Power. For example - Will it ever be possible to have a President in the US who doesn't possess a deep religious background? Why is that? Where does ones subjective faith stance factor into being a statesman? Bush is a perfect example for he said 'God told me to invade and free Iraq'. Would God talk to one singular man over others? To push forward inevitable war and suffering on so many others?

Then again only my view.

My goodness. Can't believe we actually have to DEFEND evolution...

By now (now as in modern living with heat-proof spatulas, extra absorbent paper towels, pools with chlorine, electric powered lawn-mowers etc etc) I would've thought scientific teachings would be a common knowledge.

But apparently we still live in 19th century and appalled by the idea that we're somehow related to apes. In fact, why don't we revert everything back to the 19th century?

Forget the sports bras, make women dress up in corsets and layers upon layers of clothing to hide all their skin except the hands and face! (European hijab!), throw away the modern medicine and surgical technology and go back to the good ol' leeches and skull-crackin' iron tools with questionable sanitation.

Ehbolooshun? Bahumbug! That Darwin boy sure is a tardy old fool!

Man related to Monkeys? The nerve! *scoffs*