Originally posted by arpgme
Death is stronger than life. The moment life exists it is already being broke down. It takes so much energy to produce something but easier to destroy it. Death is also change as one thing dies its resources are used for something else (manipulation/taking) such as an animal eating another and absorbing its energy.
True. However, for social animals (such as humans, even particularly so) cooperation is also necessary for survival. It is part of our natural tendencies as well. There is a push-pull between the two biological imperatives.
Originally posted by arpgme
Selfishness also seems to be natural, it seems like the poor people are almost never selfish and the rich people almost always are (studies show they also have less empathy).
Those that are poor have more need for cooperation for survival. Those that are wealthy have less need for support from the larger human group and so can indulge the selfish imperative, and therefore have far less need to develop or maintain empathy.
Originally posted by arpgme
Accepting what is does NOT seem natural. I tried to do it but even when I accept what is the body doesn't. It still desires to eat if it is hungry. It still desires to sleep if it is tired. It is selfishly trying to survive.
Law of Attraction - focusing on what you want and going after it - being selfish - taking seems natural and it seems to agree with the law of nature that things are always changing.
Please see above. It is also your specifically human nature to be generous and cooperate to facilitate your own survival. Both impulses exist in the same being; albeit to varying degrees dependent upon environmental pressures, and the intrinsic nature of the individual. Both impulses do conflict from time to time.
While it is true that the primary law of nature on this planet is that all living things must consume energy to survive, and even further that (nearly) all living things must consume other living things to survive (which is inherently selfish). It is also true for us that we must avoid conflict to survive. In humans this manifests (in part) in ways that encompass more than our own species.


