What gave us the idea that there was something better?

Question

How does the concept, "something better", arise?

What does it look like, this "something better"?

Answer 1

As long as one believes in concept, saying nothing is the perfectly best...there will be always something better

Answer 2

Fear of nothing better made us create the idea of something better........... just to make us feel better.

:-)

Answer 3

...when you could improve on the old...

Answer 4

It arrises from either hope, intuition, or incentive

It looks like whatever you hope for, whatever you feel like, or whatever drives you

Answer 5

Even magic has diminishing returns.

Answer 6

It is because of the s*x urge that selfish man is lured into making something better than an animal out of himself. The self-regarding and self-gratifying s*x relationship entails the certain consequences of self-denial and insures the assumption of altruistic duties and numerous race-benefiting home responsibilities. Herein has s*x been the unrecognized and unsuspected civilizer of the savage; for this same s*x impulse automatically and unerringly compels man to think and eventually leads him to love.

Primitive forms of prayer were nothing more nor less than bargaining with the spirits, an argument with the gods. It was a kind of bartering in which pleading and persuasion were substituted for something more tangible and costly. The developing commerce of the ancients had pushed for the spirit of trade and had developed the shrewdness of barter; and now these traits began to appear in man's worship methods. And as some men were better traders than others, so some were regarded as better prayers than others. The prayer of a just man was held in high esteem. A just man was one who had paid all accounts to the spirits, had fully discharged every ritual obligation to the gods.

How about your wants, desires, and hopes?

Answer 7

nothing comes out of nothing and some thing comes out of better than some thing in any manner.un some thing better is not there it cannot make some thing to come out of it.hence the idea of -some thing better was...now when we r not satisfide in any manner with any thing we would satisfy our selves that there were better days are things etc..it sooths us.

Answer 8

Well, Doggies can do all wonders of miracle in life even free monies too just for u 2 spend it say renovation except me cos negative is all i have.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

It really depends what that "something" is. Suppose all you can find to eat is some moldy bread and sour milk. You would think to yourself that there must be something better to eat, but if you are trapped somewhere like in a deep hole, you may not have something else to eat. In that case you probably are saying there must be a better place to be, than in this hole. Sometimes there is something better and sometimes not. Have you ever ordered something in a restaurant and when it arrives at your table you notice that someone else has ordered something better, that you wish you had ordered?

You may want a better job or a better car or a better spouse, but if you change jobs or spouses, you may end up feeling that your old job and spouse were better. Sometimes you need to make the best of what you have. You don't know what you've got till it's gone.  

Answer 11

Some "thing" better is a consumerist expression. Bigger, better and more stuff. Out with the old and in with the next new thing.

Answer 12

Heres what happened- thousands of years ago, a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to find out a way to control people and keep them in line. They knew that people were generally very stupid, and would believe whatever they were told. They promised life after death because of course, noone can disprove it as they will be dead when they find out its a lie. Stupid much?

...it looks like... nothing. because it doesnt exist, never has, and never will.

Answer 13

Even with all the conditioning we've gotten on earth, we still remember Heaven.

We see pockets of peace in our lives.