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Who will make you a fine chest , table or chair ?  This question is sadly unanswered our society can no longer make such things. More importantly it no longer cares nor know the value of such things.  When we look into the lives of the Greeks and think fo potters making pots or sculptors sculpting we can ge some glimpse at what we have lost in todays way of life.
 
 

Se also determinism, and   free will

You were only mentioned to me in passing. Yet, It has been in the back of my mind.  I understand we physically resemble each other and I too did not believe in God.
I began today trying to understand determinism, coincidences, and the Biblical understanding of it, and ended writing to someone I don’t know at all.

From... http://www.pbs.org/now/society/happiness.html
On the Pursuit of Happiness

Take the announcement made by Samuel Johnson, echoing Ecclesiastes, that no one could surely wish to be born, who had a chance to contemplate beforehand all the miseries that would await him in life. Today, in many societies, such a claim would be met with uncomprehending stares. People might disagree as fiercely as ever about what happiness is and about what factors make it more or less likely, but far fewer disagree about whether it is at least possible. — Sissela Bok

We think we are more than animals, and have let the instincts of the jackal  drive our history.  Just like animals we compete for mates, we have built the fundamentals of economics, society and war on this basis.

Reason and rational thought is what separates us from animals, yet for most of our history we have not used these skills other than to take advantage of the other.  We have distorted our history in order to dominate over a servant class, to promote slavery.  

We act and live out our lives according to what we believe. Since our beliefs are based on false premises, we produce a dysfunctional society. If we correct this problem, all other problems will go away.