What do you think of "People"?
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People mostly mean well - you get selfish people, but unless they've got entitlement issues, they usually don't realize it. If you enlighten them gently, bearing in mind that they mean to do well as much as you want them too (basically, if you do it for their benefit more than for yours), they usually respond well.
I'm sick and tired of people saying "PEOPLE SUCK!" like that is a hard-and-fast fact that no one can change and therefore you have no responsibility to do anything at all. All you can do is watch yourself and try to understand other people's motives. You should do that, even if there will always be the stubborn types who don't listen.
The trouble with generalizing "people" is that any judgment you make about "people" is also made on yourself.
I'm sick and tired of people saying "PEOPLE SUCK!" like that is a hard-and-fast fact that no one can change and therefore you have no responsibility to do anything at all. All you can do is watch yourself and try to understand other people's motives. You should do that, even if there will always be the stubborn types who don't listen.
The trouble with generalizing "people" is that any judgment you make about "people" is also made on yourself.
People = The most horrible creatures in existence. They're the cause of every major war. They are bigots. People are terrible.
A person = varies between good and bad. Stands the chance to be great and kind hearted...or at least funny(I don't think I've ever found someone that's 100% broken that rule).
A person = varies between good and bad. Stands the chance to be great and kind hearted...or at least funny(I don't think I've ever found someone that's 100% broken that rule).
I tend to take most people with a good/bad approach. For everyone like Mother Teresa you're gonna have a few Adolf Hitlers. But I get on well with most people, I'm a good conversationalist and all that and most people I've met are intelligent and kind. I said most people, I've also had to endure alot of assholes in my time but I don't let those fuckers get the better of me.
To put it straight I tend to cringe whenever I see people on the escapist boldly say something along the lines of "People are shit" (With the exception of Yahtzees statement because he said everyone including himself is shit) with no real backup statement apart from they just are. And don't think of me as some kind of spoiled person living in a worry free environment completely isolated from any of the terrible things mankind is unfortunately responsible for because believe me when I say I've seen some of the worst of it. But like I said before I've also seen some of the best of what we as a race have done.
To put it straight I tend to cringe whenever I see people on the escapist boldly say something along the lines of "People are shit" (With the exception of Yahtzees statement because he said everyone including himself is shit) with no real backup statement apart from they just are. And don't think of me as some kind of spoiled person living in a worry free environment completely isolated from any of the terrible things mankind is unfortunately responsible for because believe me when I say I've seen some of the worst of it. But like I said before I've also seen some of the best of what we as a race have done.
I mostly hate them, most people are just complete morons, and to what Jon Etheridge said the main reason groups are usually inhabited by stupid people is because if everyone who shares a certain interest or belief is a group they are reassurred that that interest is awesome and right which unfortunatley most times, is not.
I believe it was put best in Men in Black:
"A person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it."
As a writer, I've spent a lot of time trying to understand people. In my research, I've learned this:
Regardless of what some might say, most people are essentially NPC's. Ask them the time, directions to a nice Italian place, then let them go wandering off to converse with other NPC's. It may sound cynical, and it is, but it's also essentially the truth.
Don't like it? Arguing that everyone has a life and that you're special? Just think back. Are you the one asking directions? Or the one giving them?
I can guarantee the one asking them has somewhere to be. They've a goal, a quest. They're a player.
The one giving them? They're mapquest with a heartbeat.
This isn't to say that some people are just NPC's. Everyone's a player sometimes, everyone's an NPC. Ever woken up, went through your daily routine of shower, work, and dinner, then went to sleep? No excitement whatsoever? Then you've been an NPC.
I'm rambling. I'll stop here with this: Most people are NPC's, because most people are routine. Find the players. Those are the ones to talk to.
...though they're probably off questing, so they probably don't have any time for your shit.
"A person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it."
As a writer, I've spent a lot of time trying to understand people. In my research, I've learned this:
Regardless of what some might say, most people are essentially NPC's. Ask them the time, directions to a nice Italian place, then let them go wandering off to converse with other NPC's. It may sound cynical, and it is, but it's also essentially the truth.
Don't like it? Arguing that everyone has a life and that you're special? Just think back. Are you the one asking directions? Or the one giving them?
I can guarantee the one asking them has somewhere to be. They've a goal, a quest. They're a player.
The one giving them? They're mapquest with a heartbeat.
This isn't to say that some people are just NPC's. Everyone's a player sometimes, everyone's an NPC. Ever woken up, went through your daily routine of shower, work, and dinner, then went to sleep? No excitement whatsoever? Then you've been an NPC.
I'm rambling. I'll stop here with this: Most people are NPC's, because most people are routine. Find the players. Those are the ones to talk to.
...though they're probably off questing, so they probably don't have any time for your shit.
Good people, bad people, you know I've had my share!
Sorry.
But seriously. I think people are OK. Actually, scratch that. They're fucking annoying and despicable. Most of them. Lots of people actually fit into this category. Like the "I'm better than you because my hair is gelled and I'm wearing a Dolce Gabana shirt.", the "Step aside buddy, I'm old and therefore worth more than you." Never mind the fact that I'm paying for your old age you fucker. (I live in Switzerland where we have taxes for the pensioners.) The "Look at me and I'll scratch your eyes out" Believe it or not I actually see more of these on a daily basis than normal people.
But hey, you can't judge a book by its cover. Well you can judge it if it gives you lip about a seat on the bus and is an asshole who needs his cojones kicked until they come out of his still-shit-spouting mouth.
But some are OK.
Sorry.
But seriously. I think people are OK. Actually, scratch that. They're fucking annoying and despicable. Most of them. Lots of people actually fit into this category. Like the "I'm better than you because my hair is gelled and I'm wearing a Dolce Gabana shirt.", the "Step aside buddy, I'm old and therefore worth more than you." Never mind the fact that I'm paying for your old age you fucker. (I live in Switzerland where we have taxes for the pensioners.) The "Look at me and I'll scratch your eyes out" Believe it or not I actually see more of these on a daily basis than normal people.
But hey, you can't judge a book by its cover. Well you can judge it if it gives you lip about a seat on the bus and is an asshole who needs his cojones kicked until they come out of his still-shit-spouting mouth.
But some are OK.
Yea, they're alright.
Well, actually, I was going to argue that everyone has a life so none of us are special. I mean your post comes off in a way that makes you sound like you think you're very special. No disrespect intended.
xXxTheBeastxXx said:
Well, actually, I was going to argue that everyone has a life so none of us are special. I mean your post comes off in a way that makes you sound like you think you're very special. No disrespect intended.
Hey people are fine, generally if I hear some particular piece of new retardation come out of some ones mouth, I watch cars driving along a freeway to instil me with a sense of the fact that they are actually all managing to control their individual conveyances in a form of harmony. Driving sedately about their own business.
To me just seeing traffic every day on the way to work is an amazing miracle of individual responsibility and people interacting mostly in an orderly compliant manner.
Yeah I'm kinda strange.
To me just seeing traffic every day on the way to work is an amazing miracle of individual responsibility and people interacting mostly in an orderly compliant manner.
Yeah I'm kinda strange.