Ever lose faith... in humanity?

[wootsniper]

I lost my faith in humanity about a month ago when a girl in my class told me about a certain kind of rape, where the rapist kills an infant by raping it in the soft spot.

You just HAD to ruin my day didn't you?
you sick ************.... -.-

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

So in my opinion I think we're a fine race, In the grand scheme of things as much as we try to convince ourselves otherwise we're all just grains of sand floating on the winds of time, the sooner we realize that the sooner we can try to enjoy it all while it lasts.

Who says you can't enjoy living just because you hate mankind? Im having a blast living, in spite of my hatred towards my own miserable race. The only thing that really sucks about living is really the constant knowledge that I'll die someday.

As I've said in other posts, im the most cheerful misantrhope there is. I can hate mankind and still be happy about it instead of angry and constantly depressed.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

We landed on the moon.
I think that kind of is cool.
Thus until we un-land the moon, I will not lose my faith.
To the stars, brethren!

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Species are still disappearing.

They always have, so what's supposed to be new about that?

Species have died out in their thousands even long before man ever existed. In fact, organisations who actually strive to preserve different animal species from becoming extinct are engaging in some rather unnatural activities doing what they do.

So what's so special about species "still" disappearing? It's always been happening even before we existed...

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

We landed on the moon.
I think that kind of is cool.
Thus until we un-land the moon, I will not lose my faith.
To the stars, brethren!

The stars?

Sure, would have been nice and also increased my low opinion of mankind. But it's rather unlikely to happen. Mankind as a species seems more interested in bickering and killing itself over trivial principles and dirt on this planet than setting aside it's differences, cooperating and explore the stars together. In fact the only real reason why mankind actually bothered to go out into space in the first place was due to international competition and animosity. When that subsided and went out of style, space exploration just wasn't as interesting anymore.

 

[Super_Nintendo_Chalmers]

God yes, I'm pretty sure we're all fucked in the long run.
Not necessarily us, but maybe our children's children.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

If you really, really, really have no faith in humanity, then I prescribe Sleeping Pills. Take a handful and, if you can still see, take another handful or so until you can't. That'll take care of your problems nicely! If you aren't going to do that, shut the fuck up because you're now part of your own problem.

By that reasoning, alcoholics shouldn't talk about or acknowledge their problems. They should just shut the fuck up and stay miserable. But you didn't think that far did you?

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

I lost my faith in humanity about a month ago when a girl in my class told me about a certain kind of rape, where the rapist kills an infant by raping it in the soft spot.

I LOL'd XD

 

[MercenaryCanary]

We landed on the moon.
I think that kind of is cool.
Thus until we un-land the moon, I will not lose my faith.
To the stars, brethren!

The stars?

Sure, would have been nice and also increased my low opinion of mankind. But it's rather unlikely to happen. Mankind as a species seems more interested in bickering and killing itself over trivial principles and dirt on this planet than setting aside it's differences, cooperating and explore the stars together. In fact the only real reason why mankind actually bothered to go out into space in the first place was due to international competition and animosity. When that subsided and went out of style, space exploration just wasn't as interesting anymore.

True, but one can still find a tiny shred of hope amongst today's generation.
Although they just want to be Space Marines.

 

[chronobreak]

By that reasoning, alcoholics shouldn't talk about or acknowledge their problems. They should just shut the fuck up and stay miserable. But you didn't think that far did you?

I've never seen an alcoholic complain about other people drinking. If they were, it would be pretty hypocritical of them, and they would certainly be part of the problem.

 

[Sebenko]

Well, my faith in humanity has taken quite a pounding, but I think the final straw was the Ubisoft DRM.

How could they ever think it was a good idea?

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

I've never seen an alcoholic complain about other people drinking. If they were, it would be pretty hypocritical of them, and they would certainly be part of the problem.

So the concept of say, for example, a drug addict discouraging others from getting addicted to drugs seems completely foreign and more part of the problem to you?

 

[Shanecooper]

Every time I interact with the outside world.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Gotta have faith in the first place to lose it.

 

[chronobreak]

So the concept of say, for example, a drug addict discouraging others from getting addicted to drugs seems completely foreign and more part of the problem to you?

No, it isn't foreign. I remember going to the local jail for a field trip one time, and having convicted criminals tell me not to do what they did. I just don't see how anything applies to other people outside of one's own mind- if we are talking about someone throwing up their hands, saying "Oh, I have lost all my faith in humanity!" (which is usually over some trivial thing, as I have witnessed on this forum), that person certainly has the option of not being part of such a terrible experience that they make it out to be.

It isn't that someone out there might not get some sort of good out of being told something by someone doing the exact thing they are talking about, but in most cases it seems very futile for those that are so disenfranchised with society to go around lamenting it's death, when they could be contributing something positive instead of more negativity.

In certain cases, like the Holocaust for example, I could see how the brutality and terrible acts commited could make someone lose faith in their fellow man. Someone kicking a puppy, for example, is not worthy of the same lament. I guess I should have said that from the beginning.

 

[SageRuffin]

Every time I go out into a public place, yes.

 

[RicoADF]

My faith in humanity is almost non existant anymore, its being chipped away over time.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

No, it isn't foreign. I remember going to the local jail for a field trip one time, and having convicted criminals tell me not to do what they did. I just don't see how anything applies to other people outside of one's own mind- if we are talking about someone throwing up their hands, saying "Oh, I have lost all my faith in humanity!" (which is usually over some trivial thing, as I have witnessed on this forum), that person certainly has the option of not being part of such a terrible experience that they make it out to be.

It isn't that someone out there might not get some sort of good out of being told something by someone doing the exact thing they are talking about, but in most cases it seems very futile for those that are so disenfranchised with society to go around lamenting it's death, when they could be contributing something positive instead of more negativity.

In certain cases, like the Holocaust for example, I could see how the brutality and terrible acts commited could make someone lose faith in their fellow man. Someone kicking a puppy, for example, is not worthy of the same lament. I guess I should have said that from the beginning.

It's called acceptance.

Because ultimately, it doesn't matter how much you yourself try to "contribute". Your actions will never outweigh all the shit committed by others. The few good actions performed will always be outweighed by the enormous sea of shit. That's just the way it is and apparently nothing can change it.

But I don't really lamnet or grive it. As I said, im a pretty cheery misantrhope. Mainly because I happen to differentiate myself from the human aspects that I hate. But even if I might love and have "faith" in myself, and love and "faith" in those select few that are dear to me, there's no reason to kid myself that humanity as a whole will ever be able to do something similar.

So in the end I hope that we all get wiped out by some sort of disaster, even if it includes me and those I hold dear to get wiped out. Because as a whole mankind certainly deserves it...

 

[Zenacra]

i temporarily lost faith in humanity once. it was back before i had a 100% distinction between anime and reality, and i had just gotten to the part of FullMetal Alchemist where the ugly dude makes his daughter and pet dog into a chimera. that's right, he merged his only offspring with the family pet just to make a talking animal. that scarred me for about a month, but i got over it. if i hadn't, i wouldn't have any of these people i call "my friends" to hang out with and watch drink barbecue sauce straight from the effin' bottle.