Could neglect lead to destruction?

[Pokerman]

So this morning, I was getting ready to go to school and I was deciding what I would wear. Upon moving to the right side of my closet, I noticed a whole bunch of long-sleeved shirts that I haven't even looked at in years. Every day, even through the winter, I wear a short-sleeved shirt with a sweatshirt jacket. Obviously, this choice of clothes isn't the smartest choice health-wise. However I do it anyway because it is the fashion that I have chose and the style that I like. I could get easily get sick from not wearing proper clothing in the winter.

Here is another example. Recently I had a girlfriend and I was having relationship problems. I was getting jealous too easily and it was just causing many unnecessary overall problems. It was literally making me insane to the point where I couldn't even relax. I was sacrificing my mental health and mental stability just to maintain a relationship.

Now my question is:

Could this same thing be happening to everyone in other aspects of our lives? And do we not even realize it sometimes? And could this ultimately lead man-kind down a path of destruction some day?

[Mark]

Getting jealous over a girlfriend isn't unnatural. Religion is what will ultimately destroy man kind. Let your imaginary friends go, and we'll all be happier.

[KajitiSouls]

I wear shorts and T-shirts all the time so my body can get dat Vitamin D!

And girlfriends... I opted not to have one since elementary school.

And Opeth speaks the words of truth. Fking Middle East extremists...

[Derimed]

Most people are not unique little snowflakes, but even so there is enough variance and timing, (different problems and combinations of problems occur for different people,) that you can rest assured this is not a problem for everyone. There's about a million ways to go nutty in this world, you're just talkinga bout one.

[Nikkey]

Getting jealous over a girlfriend isn't unnatural. Religion is what will ultimately destroy man kind. Let your imaginary friends go, and we'll all be happier.

It's not religion itself, more like the variance. Noone would have any issues with Muslims if everyone were one.

[Corn]

It's not religion itself, more like the variance. Noone would have any issues with Muslims if everyone were one.

And that mindset caused all of these religious wars that happened so far...

[VladTheLvr]

Getting jealous over a girlfriend isn't unnatural. Religion is what will ultimately destroy man kind. Let your imaginary friends go, and we'll all be happier.

Eh, destruction of man can also happen by natural means such as alien invasion or collusion with a meteor that would spew lava across of all of the earth. But you are right, either way this stuff will be blamed on by religion.

[Pokerman]

I know, I know. But what I'm trying to get at is that sometimes we neglect things in order to get something that, at first, seems more beneficial but in the long run, it really is not. Humans tend to look for immediate gratification from things, which, in my first example, would be fashion or style. The consequences, however, would be illnesses and such. Humans tend to neglect things in order to get what they want at that moment, without looking at the consequences.

My question is, do we do this in many other aspects of our lives without realizing it?

[Derimed]

It's not religion itself, more like the variance. Noone would have any issues with Muslims if everyone were one.

That's not true at all. The chief reason Middle Eastern Muslims haven't done a lot more damage to the civilized world is because they're too busy killing each other to properly turn on their "real enemies." Think about it, the Iraq war is only on the surface between "America and the terrorists." The real issue is Iran funding terrorists to murder Iraqi civilians to cause a civil war and create a pro-Iran regime. It's a Shiite/Sunni thing more than an Arab-America thing. Many more Iraqis -- Muslims -- have been killed than American soldiers, and that is precisely what Iran intended. And look at the Palestinians. Fatah and Hamas have turned on each other, and they're too busy plotting against each other to kill Israel. The whole Middle East is like this; they go to summits and shake each other's hands knowing they have tried to assassinate each other in the past. In the end, democracy will survive because the Arab terrorists are like rabid dogs, so bent on slaughter that they don't give a shit who they kill.

A Muslim person is not inherently worse than any other person, but the CULTURE they have is medieval -- backward, violent, narrow-minded. It's survived this long becuase the oil money props it up. Think of Christianity in the Middle Ages, of the Inquisitions and Crusades and pogroms. Same as that, the "Religion of Peace and Tolerance" causes massive riots or death threats if any public criticism of their prophet is made, and they produce a lot more terrorists than any other group of people. Nobody whitewashes the crimes of medieval Christianity, the only reason people whitewash the crimes of modern-medieval Arabs is because the Arabs have billions in filthy oil blood money, so they use liberal-sounding propaganda to make themselves sound nice and peachy while they plot murder.

[kleptophobia]

I'll summarize the religious argument: Bullshit. Religion is the adherence to traditions (religion is derived from Latin "religare" meaning “to bind”). Organized religion is the manipulation of people's adherence and their beliefs. There is nothing wrong with being a traditionalist... but if people are being manipulated by misguided and intolerant ignoramuses there will be destruction.

Anyways, I think you're somewhat correct. Neglect leads to destructive behavior in humans. When a person feels that no-one pays attention to them they act out in (usually) harmful ways - like drugs, drinking, suicidal tendencies. This is when an invisible pink unicorns come in handy, imaginary friends are very good at destroying any sense of neglect.

[Pokerman]

Anyways, I think you're somewhat correct. Neglect leads to destructive behavior in humans. When a person feels that no-one pays attention to them they act out in (usually) harmful ways - like drugs, drinking, suicidal tendencies. This is when an invisible pink unicorns come in handy, imaginary friends are very good at destroying any sense of neglect.

I agree. And you see signs of this neglect anywhere you look. Like in my example, I was simply picking out clothes and it dawned on me that I've been neglecting health and such for so long. Is it possible that we are doing this in many different aspects of our lives? If so, will we only find out when it's too late?