The Burning Question for September 3rd, 2025! Do You Have HOPE for the Future?
In service of stimulating activity here in our Hive community, I have decided to revive a regular "column" I had on one of my (pre-Hive) blogs, a couple of decades ago.
The idea was to stimulate engagement by asking a question for debate, and inviting people to share their perspectives.
Back then, I actually served up something daily, and there were no real "rewards," other than the discussion itself.
For now, I'm thinking twice a week...Wednesday and Saturday, we'll see if anyone cares.
Since we're on Hive, I'm going to "bribe" people into participating by setting 25% of the post rewards for distribution to commenters via the @commentrewarder service.
There are no formal "rules" other than a reminder that I am not asking these things because I don’t know, I am simply inviting discussion and engagement. And... perhaps... inviting people to take their brains out and play with them!
The Burning Question:
Without a doubt, we live in turbulent times. There are wars, civil unrest, economic uncertainty, threats of AI taking over the world, inflation, collapsing governments, infectious diseases, pollution and more.
Small wonder many people are worried!
Will there be a civil war in the USA? Will chemtrails be the end of us all? Will conspiracy theories be the end of us all? Will there be an alien invasion? Were there really any Epstein files? Doom and destruction?
It's all worrisome, no?
On the other hand, hasn't pretty much every generation since God-knows-when felt like the world is heading down the slippery slope to self-destruction? Maybe we're just in the middle of same-old, same-old, except with a new set of circumstances to frame the situation. Why is this any different, or more worrisome?
Think about these many things... and think about the good things happening in your life, as well.
Then answer this: All things considered, do you have hope for the future? If so, how and why? If no, how and why? I don't just mean hope that you'll be alive, upright and breathing on your own, but do you have hope that we will see a better future?
Thanks for participating, and till the next one!
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One would like to hope things will improve as humanity moves forward. But as things are now, it's really hard to see. On the other hand there are now an awful lot of gardeners, homesteaders, and homeschooling people now. Numbers are on the rise...
I get that.
One of my hopes is that enough people choose to simply step outside the ostensible "matrix," rather than either fighting against it, or allowing themselves to be absorbed by it.
Usually the best way to change something without violence and bloodhsed is to render it irrelevant, rather than try to kill it.
It's mixed. Politically, we're fucked. Inflation, taxation, police state expansion, military adventurism... fucked.
But on the other hand, opportunities exist to subvert this system and live outside its clutches, at least to one degree or another.
I'm pretty much right there, too.
The world (or at least the USA) is pretty much fucked beyond repair. I fear living has pretty much gotten to the point where the only prudent approach is to try to skatebelow the radar.
I feel mildly hopeful that we'll personally be able to do that and keep living and eating.
I question whether anything is going to get substantially better here on earth. Oh, we may see the occasional upswing, but overall I believe the world will just keep going downhill. But that doesn't really bother me, because, to quote a couple of my favorite gospel quartet songs, "This world is not my home, I'm only passing through," and "I've read the back of the book and we win." My hope is in God, and I look forward to an eternity spent with Him in heaven.