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[Tsukuyomi]

While I agree with you, the problem is that some people's lives are conductive to ONLY seeing the bad. Repeatedly. Retail workers, Tech-Support, almost anyone who sits or stands on the working end of a cash-register, I think you get the idea. I've argued with my girlfriend on this topic for YEARS now. She has no faith in humanity because all she sees at work is bad people, and others in her life aren't always stellar examples of humanity either. Admittedly the latter happens to us all, but still. To work eight hours with a bunch of adult babies and come home to three screaming siblings and two parents yelling as they try to handle that chaos? I can see where she gets the 'f*** the world'. Mentality.

The problem is that some of us just aren't all that unflappable. Sometimes you just get tired of trying to cling to the seemingly small amount of good things people do against the tsunami-sized tide of their screw-ups and indiscretions. and to be fair? The world doesn't make it very easy on us. Not because of the sheer amount of stupid or bad things that happen, but because nothing sells papers like a good train-wreck. Cracked actually put it pretty good:

When you're a kid, your parents shelter you from the worst of what's really going on in the world. As you get older, your worldview changes and expands. You start to think outside of your own town and social circle. You'll see a metric f***load of bad news. Violence, government scandals, wars over seemingly petty bullshit. At some point (maybe later in high school but most seem to save it for the college years) you'll get cynical. "Why should I live in this world when it's so shitty?" Or later, "How can I bring a child into this living hell?"

We forget that what is happening now is the opposite of what your parents did. They sheltered you from bad news, but the news media shelters you from good news. They literally filter it out; among all of this horrible information coming out of the nightly news, there is so much good that goes unreported because it doesn't get the same ratings.

The full article: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-life-actually-does-get-better/

*Shrugs* The world is full of bullshit and problems. Alot of them crush down on us with the weight of twelve enthusiastic pro-wrestlers. You feel it, I feel it, we all do. I speak from experience when I say that it's hard to keep your head up, and not nearly as easy as just doing it. But...you CAN make life better. Or at least you can make life not suck as bad. We just...have to try not to get too stuck on ideals. I think that's what most of us have problems with.

 

[Craig Cameron]

The last topic in the box says, "What gives you faith in humanity?" tbh that's not a downer topic, that's a "lets share nice stories" topic.

But it's the fact that people need something to give them faith in humanity in the first place, it should be a given considering the vast majority of people on this earth and slaughtering each other right now.

Have you just argued that people wanting to share nice stories during a recession is bad because it means people need nice stories?
I think you need specialist help man, I see your point but never look a gift horse in the mouth.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

The last topic in the box says, "What gives you faith in humanity?" tbh that's not a downer topic, that's a "lets share nice stories" topic.

But it's the fact that people need something to give them faith in humanity in the first place, it should be a given considering the vast majority of people on this earth and slaughtering each other right now.

Have you just argued that people wanting to share nice stories during a recession is bad because it means people need nice stories?
I think you need specialist help man, I see your point but never look a gift horse in the mouth.

What the hell.
How offensive is it during a discussion to tell me in need specialist help. What the fuck is that. What I meant was, why not just label it 'nice stories thread', that would be fine. A lot of us should not need something to boost our faith in humanity, it should be there, we should be proud to be human as it is.

It's so stereotypically american of you to assume somebody needs psychiatric help for no reason at all btw, way to go.

Also, we're hardly in an age of recession, it's again doom and gloom mongering of the media, we can all afford computers, ipods and xboxs, were hardly in hard financial times compared to real recessions weve had in the past.

 

[Baneat]

I noticed this as well, I think it's maybe one person who's really depressed that's bumped 4 or 5 of them into the same time-frame.

Midge, racism. Not cool.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

I noticed this as well, I think it's maybe one person who's really depressed that's bumped 4 or 5 of them into the same time-frame.

Midge, racism. Not cool.

What racism? D: I was pointing out that he was being silly for abiding to stereotypes, it doesn't help with the amount of threads of "what do you think about americans", or "do all americans really believe this?" threads going round right now for him to say something like that. One of the big noticeable cultural differences from a lot of european countries to america is that you have a lot of therapy and treatment compared to us, and a stereotype is that you diagnose a lot of children with ADHD etc. I don't know how much of this is true, again, its a stereotype.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I love this OP, go man go!
Unfortunately there is a large portion of this community that are the typically over-dramatic 'I hate everyone, everyone sucks' losers. They complain about life sucking yet refuse to acknowledge that maybe spending all day on The Escapist isn't the greatest cure.
Also, we're using the same theme on Chrome. Props.

 

[Baneat]

I noticed this as well, I think it's maybe one person who's really depressed that's bumped 4 or 5 of them into the same time-frame.

Midge, racism. Not cool.

What racism? D:

It's so stereotypically american of you to assume somebody needs psychiatric help for no reason at all btw, way to go.

It's so stereotypically jewish of you to not pay him.

It's so stereotypically black of you to steal like that.

Also: You've been trolled but responding isn't clever.

 

[manic_depressive13]

Lose your faith in bad people, not in humanity, there are millions of amazing people on this world, you just have to stop expecting to see shit, and you will stop seeing it.

There aren't millions of amazing people in the world. In fact, almost nobody is "amazing". In contrast, there are billions of horrid, disgusting fleshsacks to contrast, and I'm one of them. If it meant that the extermination of the human race was definite and scheduled within the next five years, I would give up my life right now with no qualms. Time to give another species the chance to fuck everything up.

Listen to yourself.
You're sat on two of humanities most amazing inventions, the computer and the internet, sat in a structurally secure house engineered to near perfection so that it will last over a century, if you were to fall ill you would get medical care nobody would have dreamed of 100 years ago, allowing us to extend our average life span by 50+ years. Right now we understand the inner networks of atoms and molecules, the billions of neutrinos and photons per cubic centimetre streaming to us from the sun. We can predict weather that early man used to think of acts of gods. Get the hell over yourself and think of what we have achieved in the last 100 years, be a part of it, stop putting us down.

It's true that these things are very nice. Sure, there are millions of people in the world who don't have a computer, internet, or medical care- let alone clean water to drink. But we don't give a shit about them, do we?

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Lose your faith in bad people, not in humanity, there are millions of amazing people on this world, you just have to stop expecting to see shit, and you will stop seeing it.

There aren't millions of amazing people in the world. In fact, almost nobody is "amazing". In contrast, there are billions of horrid, disgusting fleshsacks to contrast, and I'm one of them. If it meant that the extermination of the human race was definite and scheduled within the next five years, I would give up my life right now with no qualms. Time to give another species the chance to fuck everything up.

Listen to yourself.
You're sat on two of humanities most amazing inventions, the computer and the internet, sat in a structurally secure house engineered to near perfection so that it will last over a century, if you were to fall ill you would get medical care nobody would have dreamed of 100 years ago, allowing us to extend our average life span by 50+ years. Right now we understand the inner networks of atoms and molecules, the billions of neutrinos and photons per cubic centimetre streaming to us from the sun. We can predict weather that early man used to think of acts of gods. Get the hell over yourself and think of what we have achieved in the last 100 years, be a part of it, stop putting us down.

It's true that these things are very nice. Sure, there are millions of people in the world who don't have a computer, internet, or medical care- let alone clean water to drink. But we don't give a shit about them, do we?

Go fucking do something about it if you're that upset about it. Admittedly if you're the same age as me there isn't much you can right now, but when I'm older I've decided rather than spend my extra cash on loads of luxuries I'm going to give a large portion of my wages to charity, maybe even volunteer work out there. This attitude towards bad stuff doesn't make bad stuff any better, it just makes it seem worse. If everybody sits in their house moaning about how shit things are, how are they going to get better, get a positive outlook and help as one, it would get so much stuff fixed if suddenly everybody would decide to co-operate. But no, humanity is shit, you've already decided, co-operation will never happen.

 

[Baneat]

I noticed this as well, I think it's maybe one person who's really depressed that's bumped 4 or 5 of them into the same time-frame.

Midge, racism. Not cool.

What racism? D: I was pointing out that he was being silly for abiding to stereotypes, it doesn't help with the amount of threads of "what do you think about americans", or "do all americans really believe this?" threads going round right now for him to say something like that. One of the big noticeable cultural differences from a lot of european countries to america is that you have a lot of therapy and treatment compared to us, and a stereotype is that you diagnose a lot of children with ADHD etc. I don't know how much of this is true, again, its a stereotype.

Not so much that. You wrote an opinion off as him being from America than just being plain silly, which he was just that, silly. I just need to point out that there was no reason nor justification to bring race into this, at all. That's all, not specifically on topic but that looks as much trolling to me as telling someone they need psychiatric care for an opinion that's not that unreasonable. I wasn't even aware that this was a stereotype, but now you've perpetuated it.

It's so ironic, as well, given the points you made in the OP.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

I noticed this as well, I think it's maybe one person who's really depressed that's bumped 4 or 5 of them into the same time-frame.

Midge, racism. Not cool.

What racism? D: I was pointing out that he was being silly for abiding to stereotypes, it doesn't help with the amount of threads of "what do you think about americans", or "do all americans really believe this?" threads going round right now for him to say something like that. One of the big noticeable cultural differences from a lot of european countries to america is that you have a lot of therapy and treatment compared to us, and a stereotype is that you diagnose a lot of children with ADHD etc. I don't know how much of this is true, again, its a stereotype.

Not so much that. You wrote an opinion off as him being from America than just being plain silly, which he was just that, silly. I just need to point out that there was no reason nor justification to bring race into this, at all. That's all, not specifically on topic but that looks as much trolling to me as telling someone they need psychiatric care for an opinion that's not that unreasonable. I wasn't even aware that this was a stereotype, but now you've perpetuated it.

It's so ironic, as well, given the points you made in the OP.

Dude I didn't even mean anything by it, I literally said it out of spite because I was offended by it and there's nothing more to it, it was spare of the moment and silly, but it's nothing even serious.

I think it's a lot more insulting to personally say somebody has issues for no reason than it is to stereotype in a trollish manner.

 

[Craig Cameron]

What the hell.
How offensive is it during a discussion to tell me in need specialist help. What the fuck is that. What I meant was, why not just label it 'nice stories thread', that would be fine. A lot of us should not need something to boost our faith in humanity, it should be there, we should be proud to be human as it is.

It's so stereotypically american of you to assume somebody needs psychiatric help for no reason at all btw, way to go.

Also, we're hardly in an age of recession, it's again doom and gloom mongering of the media, we can all afford computers, ipods and xboxs, were hardly in hard financial times compared to real recessions weve had in the past.

Step 1. Learn to spot what might be banter.
Step 2. Don't overreact.
Step 3. Don't assume.

They could have noticed the "Why are YOU losing faith in humanity?" topic and decided to counter it. Also what should be and what is are often two very different things. We should be able to live in peaceful co-existence, yet we wage wars in the middle east to fight an invisible threat. We should be able to sleep at night with our doors unlocked and windows open if we want, yet if we do people would say it's our fault if are robbed and killed during the night.

Also, I'm not American.

 

[Mordwyl]

No offence, but all these whiners are what natural selection would refer to the weakest links. Losing faith in humanity is losing faith in yourself, already acknowledging that you have absolutely zero power to make good deeds.

Humanity isn't just everyone, it's also you. The other human beings that still and will always fight the good fight won't miss you.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

What the hell.
How offensive is it during a discussion to tell me in need specialist help. What the fuck is that. What I meant was, why not just label it 'nice stories thread', that would be fine. A lot of us should not need something to boost our faith in humanity, it should be there, we should be proud to be human as it is.

It's so stereotypically american of you to assume somebody needs psychiatric help for no reason at all btw, way to go.

Also, we're hardly in an age of recession, it's again doom and gloom mongering of the media, we can all afford computers, ipods and xboxs, were hardly in hard financial times compared to real recessions weve had in the past.

Step 1. Learn to spot what might be banter.
Step 2. Don't overreact.
Step 3. Don't assume.

They could have noticed the "Why are YOU losing faith in humanity?" topic and decided to counter it. Also what should be and what is are often two very different things. We should be able to live in peaceful co-existence, yet we wage wars in the middle east to fight an invisible threat. We should be able to sleep at night with our doors unlocked and windows open if we want, yet if we do people would say it's our fault if are robbed and killed during the night.

Also, I'm not American.

Sorry about that, I did misunderstand.
Just getting exasperated with people calling humanity "billions of fleshbags" etc. so i was too ready to assume bad shit being said. But to be fair the way you wrote it didn't look like banter

 

[Svenparty]

It seems if someone makes a popular thread a few clones emerge. Who would have guessed that a tool of virtually anonymous posting would lead to many threads about negativity!

Also: What is a middle aged shout out?"

 

[manic_depressive13]

Go fucking do something about it if you're that upset about it. Admittedly if you're the same age as me there isn't much you can right now, but when I'm older I've decided rather than spend my extra cash on loads of luxuries I'm going to give a large portion of my wages to charity, maybe even volunteer work out there. This attitude towards bad stuff doesn't make bad stuff any better, it just makes it seem worse. If everybody sits in their house moaning about how shit things are, how are they going to get better, get a positive outlook and help as one, it would get so much stuff fixed if suddenly everybody would decide to co-operate. But no, humanity is shit, you've already decided, co-operation will never happen.

But I'm not upset about it. I don't even give a shit. I was just pointing out the absurdity of referencing those inventions and discoveries as if they prove humanity's benevolence when in reality an appallingly large portion of humanity doesn't even have access to them.