Bullets

• The fundamental force of all human behavior is the insatiable desire to be significant.

•  One half of all wars are a function of the frustrated attempts of one individual (king) or group to find personal significance by dominating other people.

• The other half of all wars are a function of the anger of people who have been dominated by others.

• All anger is rooted in the perception that our significance is being challenged by other people or objects.

• All anxiety disorders are based on the fear that we will loose our significance.  

• All depression (realizing too that brain structure from genetics can play a role in depression and anxiety as well) is based on a belief that we have lost our significance.

• All crime is based on feeble attempts to find significance or from the anger fueled by the perception that our significance has been challenged.

• We all build facades around our persona that portray us as better than we really are, in attempts to find significance.  Those of us who believe our own facades are narcissistic. 

• Most of us mistakenly fear that we, on the inside, are worse than we really are. That fear is based on thought that the "badness"within makes us less significant, especially if others ever see the real us.

• All religions are human attempts to build complex systems, when followed closely, will make us  more significant.

• We generally don't like people who are different from ourselves, because their difference challenges our sense of significance. If we are really significant, goes the thinking, then everyone should be exactly like us.

• Most ambitions are our feeble attempts to make us significant.

• Most heroic acts are frail attempts to achieve significance.

• Most of the draw of heroes is that we believe that being associated with them, some of their significance will fall on us.

• All draw to fame and fortune is the mistaken belief that when achieved, it will give us significance.  

• The suicidal rate is higher among those who have achieved fame and fortune because they realize that it did not accomplish significance after all.  

• Most of us, in our deep and hidden places, find pleasure when others preform worse than us, in talents, in skills, in spirituality or any other aspect of life, because when we compare ourselves to others and come out ahead, we mistakenly believe that it enhances our significance.

• Solomon was believed to be the smartest person who has every lived, yet it took his entire life to figure out the above.  He was also smart enough to know that you can still enjoy the simple pleasures of life when you have divorce them from the pursuit of significance. 

• The problem of significance has been solved forever, metaphysically, by the created act of God, who embedded significance within us through his creative act . . . so we are passively significant. It is also been solved, morally, by the work of Christ.  However, none of us really believe this . . . so we continue the pointless quest that is perpetually dissatisfying.