Rants: Everyday Venting

[saph the sergal]

i messed up and broke a rule never to read or watch spooky stuff and now i can sleep and i need to be in town in the morning

[Bricket]

Come on you two, what about me? I'm good aren't I? I'm human too. If what you say is true then you'll have to include me in your hatred. If that's what you believe, then there can be no exceptions.

that's what I am worried about, why do you form the exception?

[Cecilia Peromi]

I know I'm not perfect, I've done bad things before, I've made mistakes. But I'm not evil Bricket, no one is evil.

You should watch some happy stuff Saph, that'll make it easier.

[saph the sergal]

nah it wont help at all trust me im jumpy as heck the slightest movement makes me jump

also having a person across the the road that hates you and wants to damage property doesnt help

[BennyJackdaw]

Come on you two, what about me? I'm good aren't I? I'm human too. If what you say is true then you'll have to include me in your hatred. If that's what you believe, then there can be no exceptions.

Sometimes I don't even know WHO is good anymore. It feels like I'm LITERALLY the only person who wants to see nature flourish, who's sick of humans portraying themselves as the ultimate being, who has a strong love for animals and wants to help the planet. I feel like no one else wants these things, and that everyone wants humans to continue acting like they're perfect, destroy forests, wipe animals out to extinction and basically destroy the planet.

...

...Even fellow FURRIES. I used to have so much respect for people here, but even here, people just excuse the evils behind man. No one cares about animals, no one wants to see non-human goodguys in media, everyone's just succumbed to the iron fist of the human race.

[ST-84 Sahelanthropus]

Man, this U.S. election season sure messed everyone up.

[Trixsie Vixen]

If find talk of good people and bad people too simplistic.  If you create an idealised notion of what a good person is which is not based on reality you set yourself up for disappointment.  People do things for themselves and for their families and for their friends.  Sometimes the reasons are selfish and sometime altruistic. Sometimes the reasons don't even make sense.  And sometimes whether the outcomes are good or bad are an emergent property of the difference of peoples own priorities. People do things for strangers with no expectation of reward but also like to label groups to hate.  Human babies, more than any other primate, innately help others without reward. AND we make war.


Humans are simply a mixed bag.  Yes it's awful that we as a species do terrible things, but without us the world is indifferent.  Natural selection is a brutal mechanism of wasted life on an incomprehensible scale.  Without humans there would be no good or evil.  But suffering would remain.


The old graffito is trite but true, "there is no justice, just us".  Now if you want to be pessimistic about whether we as a species will do better and act as caretakers for all species rather than just gratuitously continue raping the planet like natural resource all-you-can-eat buffet, fine.  There is certainly reason to be pessimistic.  But any hope of doing better will not come from dumbing down the problems.

[The Past]

I had a big rant planned out, but Trixsie did great here, too. I have more to add, but I'll save it for another time.

That said, please drop the discussion and take it to PM or a new thread.

I suggest people who have massive rants like this make a thread for it, as this long tangent thing is happening in here quite a lot lately. It's fine to chime in on people's rants, but there's a point where it gets excessive. We have an entire rant board for this reason.

[Cecilia Peromi]

Hai Evna

[Grey]

I'm trying to get work done, but between constant interruptions from family asking if I really am working, excessive heat melting my brain and a rubbish internet connection I've barely got anything done.

[Midnight Madness]

People who are angry for the sake of being angry make me very, very sad. It's such a woefully stupid waste of energy to make excuses as to why one should be angry when they could, instead, have a little humility and stop being so **censor** full of themselves for a few seconds to realize their own failures. People like this bring their own suffering and blame others for it.

[Grovygrunge]

I'm so annoyed by how many people act so edgy and think they're cool because they don't care or hate the whole of humanity. Well done, you special snowflake. You realized the world isn't 100% perfect and great and that bad things happen a lot, then instead of realizing that it isn't all that bad or learning how to see the good side of it, you freaked out and had a mental breakdown and decided everything is awful and everyone is a piece of trash. It's just sad, grow up.

What I'm trying to say here is that this silly pessimism is for kids. It's alright for someone in their teens to think like that as they're growing and will grow out of it and realize they're wrong, like I did. There are far too many grown ass men and women acting like this. If it's due to depression or something, go see a professional, get help. If not, work on your world view for crying out loud. Maybe you're projecting or something, I dunno.

The fact of the matter is that there's a shit tonne of good in the world, a metric shit tonne of it and it out numbers the bad quite a bit as well. It's just you're making yourself blind to it.

[Alessia Starfurr]

I'm so annoyed by how many people act so edgy and think they're cool because they don't care or hate the whole of humanity. Well done, you special snowflake. You realized the world isn't 100% perfect and great and that bad things happen a lot, then instead of realizing that it isn't all that bad or learning how to see the good side of it, you freaked out and had a mental breakdown and decided everything is awful and everyone is a piece of trash. It's just sad, grow up.

What I'm trying to say here is that this silly pessimism is for kids. It's alright for someone in their teens to think like that as they're growing and will grow out of it and realize they're wrong, like I did. There are far too many grown ass men and women acting like this. If it's due to depression or something, go see a professional, get help. If not, work on your world view for crying out loud. Maybe you're projecting or something, I dunno.

The fact of the matter is that there's a shit tonne of good in the world, a metric shit tonne of it and it out numbers the bad quite a bit as well. It's just you're making yourself blind to it.

I do hope that's not pointed toward Romulan...

[Grovygrunge]

I do hope that's not pointed toward Romulan...

It's aimed at people who are like that. I at no point mentioned Romulan. Don't go around trying to cause arguments.

[Cecilia Peromi]

I'm sure that wasn't her intention.