From: jarmo.manninen@gmail.com   
      
   I can live this life because my belief crystallized through my own thinking is   
   that all of us humans (and also animals) are important for the future. All of   
   us are constantly influencing the cause-and-effect networks of reality through   
   our choices and    
   what is shaping up in our future. Who will be born here in the future and so   
   on. Really, that way of thinking works as a good antidepressant for me.   
      
   I'm almost certain I'm not the first to come up with this way of thinking. It   
   must be that this has been invented many times before me, but I am grateful to   
   the 'higher' Powers that I mainly used my own thinking to get to this current   
   understanding of    
   mine.   
      
   This "everything affects the future" thinking is probably not for everyone. It   
   enables a very amoral view of our choices, when all our actions - no matter   
   how bad (or good) they are in terms of conventional morality - have a decisive   
   effect on the future    
   of all humanity. But on the other hand, this way of thinking can also lead to,   
   for example, "positive" experiences of oneness with the whole existence. If a   
   person is particularly troubled by great guilt and/or shame, this thinking can   
   be useful.   
      
   Other important things that bring meaning and content to my life are my   
   spiritual conviction, my relationships and the fact that there are no   
   unbearable physical pains.   
      
   2023  J. A. Manninen   
   iki.fi/manninen/   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)