If you look for bad things, you will find them!
And if you look for good things, then you will find them!
If you look for this to be a bad world, and you look for this hard enough, then that is what you will find!
And if you look for this to be a wonderful world, with Redwood forests and cute cats, nice people at Starbuck's and places like the Grand Canyon, if you look for this to be a wonderful world hard enough, than that is what you will find!
Because there are a lot of wonderful things out there!
And if you look for this to be a fantastic world with mysterious forests and a magical past filled with Dinosaurs, a wonderful fantastic world where men have flown to the Moon and the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet around another star, than that is what you will find!
That is why skepticism is so dangerous!
For if you look for things to mean nothing, and be empty, and you look for that hard enough, than that is what you will find!
And if you look to doubt things, look for things to not be true, and you look hard enough, than you will doubt things and you will find nothing to be true, and you will soon enough know nothing!
That's why we here in 'western civilization'- western Europe and its descendants- used to know the magic of Christmas and fairy tales and chivalry, back in the High Middle Ages, even if we knew it only through childlike faith and not through mature understanding, but now western civilization no longer knows those things! Because we looked to doubt, and so we doubted, and now we no longer know!
But if you look for there to be meaning in life, than you will find meaning!
And if you look for the world to be fantastic and beautiful, than you will find a fantastic beautiful world!
And isn't that better than a world of doubt where nothing means anything?
If you look for it hard enough, you will find it!
For the world is what you make of it!
God loves you! But it is up to you!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson