Have you lost your faith in humanity?

[Julianking93]

And before you ask, I did search...and all I found was a topic back from December. Which didn't relate.

OT: I did lose my remaining faith in humanity very recently. I was debating if I should go on homebound, my school's version of home schooling, cause I was having problems at home and school and was losing my temper and cool quicker than I ever had. When I broached the subject with my counselor, she recommended that I not do it, cause it would only harm my record. Apparently my school has to list why a student goes on homebound, and the reason I was going to list would raise a red flag. So, I stayed in school, but I wish I hadn't. It got out that I wanted to go on homebound and the rumor mole begin.

The rumors went from I was pregnant and my bf wasn't the father to I was a lesbian and my lover had broke up with me in front of the entire junior class at an assembly. I fished my way through the rumors and found out about one that near about killed me. One of the rumors was that my bf was secretly having an affair with my ex. I knew that this rumor wasn't complete bs, cause my ex had been acting jumpy around me lately. So, I went digging a little further. Found out that my bf had been up with my ex and that they had been seen going into a hotel room together...well, I went berserk. Then I had my friend Tyler walk up to me and tell me that he was sorry. My worst fear was that he was going to fess up to starting the rumor, cause Tyler is like a brother to me, come to find out that he was gay and it was HIM that went into the hotel room with my ex.

I lost my faith in humanity that day, cause they turned something innocent into something false and hurtful...I also tracked the rumor back to my cousin's bf...let's just say that they aren't dating anymore.

Thats why I'm homeschooled. If I had stayed in regular school, I would have killed myself. Everyday I was beaten up and humiliated in class. I went 2 years without a single friend. Thank whatever deity for homeschool. I soon met friends and have regained my faith in the human race.

Pretty much my story as well actually, albeit in my case I had teachers that for the majority treating you like a dog. Thus because I did not obey, the intentionally were failing me no matter what work I was turning in. I even tested the theory once, asking my mother to do my homework, which was considered a failure. I also went with the Internet and they failed that too. So yeah, that essentially proved it there.

I ditched after grade nine, rebuilt my entire personality and to this day could not be happier with the decision I made because that school was attempting to drag me down to hell and considering I received a failing overall thus would have had to repeat grade nine had I remained, that there was their final means of trying to humiliate myself.

Have to love Homeschooling not counting any of that school's nonsense and allowing me to begin from ten to twelve, finishing all three before I was sixteen.

On topic, I lost faith in humanity years ago. I sometimes wonder if I ever possessed any to begin with.

Teachers hated me to. 5 of them tried to fail me, and only one of them was cool, my Environmental Science teacher. I remember the day I left 9th grade for homeschool. We were getting all my grades from my teachers and my mom noticed that the classes with the lowest scores, had the meanest teachers and the ES teacher had given me a 98 for an all over grade.

When we got the the last class, she was really getting pissed off. The last one was Computer Tech and the teacher was this 6'5 500lb guy who hated me and would lose my work I had turned in. It wasn't just me either, tons of other people complained about that too.

When he started bitching at my mom about how it was [i/]her[/i] fault that my grades were slipping, she cussed him out and we were about to leave when the teacher got up and started shouting that she can't talk to him like that. My mom, being the buff personal trainer that she is, got really mad and decided to do the coolest thing ever.

She punched him out. Right there. One of the hardest punches I've ever seen and he dropped right to the floor. And my moms a short gal. At 5'4 and 130 pounds, she still kicked his ass.

 

[Julianking93]

Ok so high school sucks and your life just shifted from ONE best friend to the next. However i lost my faith in humanity once i saw the way religion had affected a friend of mine

Please elaborate, this sounds like a fun story

I hate how religion twists people.

SNIP

Z'at vas good!!

But this is really creepy. This happened to me a few weeks ago. A good friend of mine (not best friend but still a good friend) slept over at my house. Every thing went normally until breakfast. He was up much earlier than I or anyone else in my family was and was dressed up like he was going somewhere. I asked him, "Dude what the fuck are you doing?" He replied with, "Getting ready!" in an innocent tone as if this was normal and I was out of my mind to think otherwise.

Well after about an hour he complained to my mom. He said, and I quote, "Excuse me, Ms. Mercer, when will we be going to service?"

Well my mom didn't know what the fuck he was talking about, so she asked him. "I mean church. When will we be off for church?" Thinking he was joking, my mom laughed it off and walked away, setting out plates for breakfast.

Thats when the shit hit the fan.

He began, and I shit you not, crying. It started as just a few tears like he got something in his eye, but then he was on the floor bawling because we weren't going to fucking sunday service!

He then demanded a phone to call his parents.

When he left, and I will never forget this, he said, "I'm sorry, but I cannot be around someone who doesn't worship the lord. Don't ever speak to me again until you have accepted God in your life." then, he drove off with his parents.

I was dumb struck. I had just lost a friend over God?

That was really the breaking point for me. I was always an atheist but that really did it for me. I don't want to sound like an asshole but that was the day I declared all religions to be nothing but shit. All they do is control people and brainwash them into fearing their false prophets.

God that is sad I really feel sorry for you, I mean I'm a christian but my friends are my friends after all

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. If not than thank you and no not all Christians are bad and I thank you for being humble about it, but if you are being sarcastic then you should know I HAVE FEELINGS!!!

 

[sdafdfhrye3245]

pfff everyone at my school is either a wanna be gangster or a hick so I always have fun and laugh my ass of when ever i hear anything like that.

 

[Mantonio]

There are some things that make me lose faith. Like this for example:

I've got a million of these to show, if you want something to despair over.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

Well, I lost my faith in humanity after spending a week on /b/. Incidentally, I also lost my own humanity.

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

I have lost my faith in humanity, no doubt about that, but then i realised.....

The apocalypse doesn't come in the form of erupting volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, or satan coming from hell. It's happeing now. Its humanity, with their war, stupidity, and not to mention teengers doing drinks, drugs, and pre-marital sex. Ladies and gentlemen, the apocalypse has happened, albeit very subtly.

Okay I get the drink and drugs but what does the pre-marital sex have to do with the world ending?

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

yes i have lost faith

 

[Manji187]

Can't lose what you never had.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Fret098]

I would say yes but "lost" would imply that I had some faith to begin with.

 

[Wasurenagusa]

I woke up this morning wanting to start a thread exactly like this.
How lovely =D

But I lost my faith in humanity quite recently too. Though, it was not through something I experienced myself, but through a hell of a lot of thinking, reading into politics, psychology as well as general experience with the public (ie, seeing someone do something stupid, someone saying something stupid etc etc). What this loss in humanity stems from though is organised religion.

I'm not gonna start up a forum war between whoever is christian or muslim here, I don't mind those beliefs, but when people begin to use god as a weapon or a reason against other people's way of life, I firmly believe that this civilization would be better without it.

Not to mention, when people force religion upon others, or look down on other people because of this belief that their way of life is superior to other's. I just wanna state that this is my opinion here, and I'm not trying to 'offend' anyone (because it seems people love getting offended at insipid comments), but I firmly believe that without religion, we, as a species would advance so much faster.

 

[Jark212]

I've been to 4chan, there is no humanity...

 

[Crimsane]

I don't believe in having faith or a lack thereof in humanity as a single entity. It's a lot like generalizing entire nations for the actions of a few.

 

[teisjm]

The Nuke was not only invented, but used... on civilians... twice.

Thats what happens when you sneak up behind the biggest guy in your high school and kick him in the balls.

Yeah, I remember that from when i went to school. one dude did that to the big guy, and in response he killed several over 200.000 civillians, including children.
He didn't even get sent to see the principal or the school shrink.

 

[Triple AD]

Ok so high school sucks and your life just shifted from ONE best friend to the next. However i lost my faith in humanity once i saw the way religion had affected a friend of mine

Please elaborate, this sounds like a fun story

I hate how religion twists people.

SNIP

Z'at vas good!!

But this is really creepy. This happened to me a few weeks ago. A good friend of mine (not best friend but still a good friend) slept over at my house. Every thing went normally until breakfast. He was up much earlier than I or anyone else in my family was and was dressed up like he was going somewhere. I asked him, "Dude what the fuck are you doing?" He replied with, "Getting ready!" in an innocent tone as if this was normal and I was out of my mind to think otherwise.

Well after about an hour he complained to my mom. He said, and I quote, "Excuse me, Ms. Mercer, when will we be going to service?"

Well my mom didn't know what the fuck he was talking about, so she asked him. "I mean church. When will we be off for church?" Thinking he was joking, my mom laughed it off and walked away, setting out plates for breakfast.

Thats when the shit hit the fan.

He began, and I shit you not, crying. It started as just a few tears like he got something in his eye, but then he was on the floor bawling because we weren't going to fucking sunday service!

He then demanded a phone to call his parents.

When he left, and I will never forget this, he said, "I'm sorry, but I cannot be around someone who doesn't worship the lord. Don't ever speak to me again until you have accepted God in your life." then, he drove off with his parents.

I was dumb struck. I had just lost a friend over God?

That was really the breaking point for me. I was always an atheist but that really did it for me. I don't want to sound like an asshole but that was the day I declared all religions to be nothing but shit. All they do is control people and brainwash them into fearing their false prophets.

God that is sad I really feel sorry for you, I mean I'm a christian but my friends are my friends after all

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. If not than thank you and no not all Christians are bad and I thank you for being humble about it, but if you are being sarcastic then you should know I HAVE FEELINGS!!!

I'm not being sarcastic don't worry I'm not like that

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Other people suck and children are evil, but it's not everyone. I like my friends.

 

[Walker100]

I lost faith after the death of The Batman in Final Crisis.
Seriously, though, I wouldn't say I've lost faith in humanity, it's just I don't have much faith in it. I believ that most humans are either stupid, insane, pathetic, lazy or scum. However, I still believe that there are lots of good people out there and they're just hard to find in this world. There have been times that I have felt close to losing it, but I usualy feel better after I imagine torturing and/or slaughtering a few people (ranging from 1-a the entire population several universes).
I bet there were loads of people years ago who felt the same thing, but I also lots of them would be pleased at how far we've come in the last years, things like a black man becoming president, equal rites for women, democracy, anti-racism campaigns, freedom of speech. Sure, not everywhere has these things, and the places that do are still far from perfect, but if we came this far then who's to say we can't go even further?
On the other hand, I still wouldn't be surprised if I woke up to find out that the planet was engaged in a nucleur war .

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

No.

I always have at least the smallest sliver of hope for the human race. When worst comes to worse, we band together. There are people who will go out of their way to help others, those that give blood, donate to charity (and i don't mean just pennies, i mean donate their time).
I've seen and worked with some truly disadvantaged and horrendously disabled people; the one thing that binds them is their indomitable spirit. I'll never lose faith in that.

And for the record, i'm an atheist. just in case you thought my faith in humanity had anything to do with an imaginary friend.

 

[Wildrow12]

The thing is, I don't lose my faith in humanity because I try to see the good in it. Yeah, there will be the jack@$$es that will do cruel things, but it's highschool, life usually sucks there. I found that if I could at least find a friend or two to help me through the tough times, it becomes a lot better. Don't lose faith yet, there are a lot of good people in the world. ^_^

Methinks there is great wisdom is thy words, sirrah. A pint for ye!

Can I have a cookie instead? :-D

A biscuit for the paladin!

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Well, I never had any faith in humanity, so...