You're going to remain quite lonely then. People are always wildcards. We always have been, and that fact has not changed in the last several thousand years. Why do you think God gave us the ten commandments over two thousand years ago? Has much changed in the time since those rules were dictated? They're all still pretty damn relevant as far as I can tell.
Perhaps, in this regard, optimism is that what should be there is there. I still don't feel like that is optimism. If you feel like you live in a prison, then you can expect four walls, a roof, and some meals. And, if that is optimism to you, maybe you've built yourself a prison.
Why do you think God gave us the ten commandments over two thousand years ago
My main suspicion is that the 'God' who created this world, the 'God' of the Old Testament, the 'God' of the Israelite is almost certainly a devil.
Without evil there can't be good. You can choose which, and people are inherently evil. Being good takes effort.
Without evil there can't be good. You can choose which, and people are inherently evil.
I can't adequately express how much I disagree with this statement, because it ignores the obvious third option.
Any 'God' that created Good must surely have also created, or at least allowed to exist, Evil as well, if for not other purpose than to contrast the Good he created.
But surely he had another option, a much more boring but benevolent one, which would have been to create Nothing at all, so we wouldn't have to suffer through the act of creation, wouldn't have to trouble our imperfect minds over silly questions of Good and Evil.
Any creator who allows for Good and Evil, and the vile burden of Free Will, is certainly a bored creator who is not in it for the betterment of ourselves, but wants to watch us and our imperfections interacting together as a form of despicable entertainment.
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