Atheism is nihilistic. As an atheist, I believed in the Void. The Void was the thing that swallows all humans up when we die, erasing our sins and feeble triumphs. Atheism made it easy to see humanity as a failed and unworthy project. I viewed the Earth itself as horrible, brutal, and essentially dead. There is hardly a leap from not being able to see the good in human existence and not wanting humans to reproduce.

This has been promoted in the culture for some time now by certain higher interests for their own insidious ends. Perhaps you remember when YouTube was in its early days when a huge wave of atheistic thought spread out of nowhere; it came to be seen as trendy to hold such ideas about our world and to mock anyone who thought humanity was anything more than an ultimately meaningless cosmic accident. Everything is done for us to think negatively of things and of one another that we remain forever fearful, distrustful, divided and atomized.

I've been aware of the power of positive thinking for quite some time, and along with a few other things, it has what has got me through some really dark times in my life, and there have certainly been a lot, let me tell you. As you say, we're geared toward paying attention to negative phenomena for survival reasons, but our consciousness is so powerful that we can choose light over darkness, even if it's not so easy sometimes.

Thanks for the interesting post. I hope you have a great day.