"Uh, money IS necessary to survive and thrive. Do you think the millions of homeless and poor would agree with you?"

when you were talking about catastrophic events... i had mentioned that money is a man made idea... meaning that it is made up by man and only necessary because men agree that it is... and women (politically correct there). the problem of homelessness and hunger is that this is not nor has ever been a "money problem" its a society selfishness problem.

a homeless person would have a hard time making a house out of actual dollar bills and he cannot fill his hunger by eating dollar bills either.

point is... money is only important because everyone agrees it is... and since people confuse money with actual wealth very few people will know how to make it in times of trouble or if the bank shuts down for more than a day lol

money is not necessary for survival in the sense that it is one of our human needs. we just think it is ;-)

there are always things to live for... i had a hard time coming to grips with spirituality, politics, and many things like that.

at a turning point in life it is good to look for things outside your realm and stretch your mind a little.

right now it seems you are looking at many things one sided... bad things bad things, bad people doing bad things, life bad.

when there is actually a lot of good out there... BE the change you want to see in the world.

the problem is - the good does not get news time... because the bad sells commercials.

is it possible that life is both good and bad at the same time... is it possible that your lens is just focused on the bad.

the best medicine is this... go help those less fortunate than you... and take a 1 week "computer fast" or vow not to look at end of the world stuff online.

here are some predictions that failed:

2012 Maya Apocalypse
y2k
May 21, 2011

there are tons of others... and according to my church i went to growing up... jesus already came like 40 times lol

there will be more with trump in office... people freak out over everything

to calm this down... read 1 hour of good stuff before bed every night... like stuff about people helping each other or philosophy... philosophy took my anxiety and stress from a level 100 to like 2 :-)

you will be ok... its all in your mind... and you have the rest of your life to worry... so today you don't have too.

my guess... you are probably a really intelligent person and you just need something to focus it on.