What is the Human Condition? Why is it such a trap for us? The Human Condition is a psychological, emotional, social, moral, active condition. We have feelings and thoughts and
God created us as so. However, we have become so slipped up in sin and evil things that anything good seems to have gone right out the window. "So yes, what exactly is the human condition? As I summarised earlier, the human condition arises from the existence of so-called ‘good and evil’ in our make-up. We humans are capable of shocking acts of inhumanity like rape, murder and torture and our agonising predicament or ‘condition’ has been that we have never been able to explain and thus understand why. Even in our everyday behaviour, why are we competitive, aggressive …show more content…
Humans think that they have it all, but really, we are selfish, harmful, greedy, disgusting creatures. We have this so called 'human condition', because we are all of the above.
God created us, in the beginning, to be perfect. But because of man's human nature, we have sin in our lives, hearts, feelings, consciousness, and everything. We ruined it, because we wanted more. In the short story, "The Destructors" by Graham Greene, there is a group of boys who seem at first to be nothing but a harmless little gang causing a little trouble here and there. The story is set right after World War II when there were bombings that caused a lot of destruction and the families that suffered from that had mostly nothing. Then we read on to see how capable these little human beings are of disaster. Because of theis surroundings, and things that were currently happening in their lives, they wanted to express their feelings by destroying someone else's possessions. And that is what they did. They tore down the house of an elderly man, and everything he had to his name. It is most possible that their jealousy, or their "Human Condition" took over and gave them reason to destroy something that was perfectly good. Human Nature gives us the
God created us as so. However, we have become so slipped up in sin and evil things that anything good seems to have gone right out the window. "So yes, what exactly is the human condition? As I summarised earlier, the human condition arises from the existence of so-called ‘good and evil’ in our make-up. We humans are capable of shocking acts of inhumanity like rape, murder and torture and our agonising predicament or ‘condition’ has been that we have never been able to explain and thus understand why. Even in our everyday behaviour, why are we competitive, aggressive …show more content…
Humans think that they have it all, but really, we are selfish, harmful, greedy, disgusting creatures. We have this so called 'human condition', because we are all of the above.
God created us, in the beginning, to be perfect. But because of man's human nature, we have sin in our lives, hearts, feelings, consciousness, and everything. We ruined it, because we wanted more. In the short story, "The Destructors" by Graham Greene, there is a group of boys who seem at first to be nothing but a harmless little gang causing a little trouble here and there. The story is set right after World War II when there were bombings that caused a lot of destruction and the families that suffered from that had mostly nothing. Then we read on to see how capable these little human beings are of disaster. Because of theis surroundings, and things that were currently happening in their lives, they wanted to express their feelings by destroying someone else's possessions. And that is what they did. They tore down the house of an elderly man, and everything he had to his name. It is most possible that their jealousy, or their "Human Condition" took over and gave them reason to destroy something that was perfectly good. Human Nature gives us the