I'm with you, O_C. This does seem like the exception and not the rule. Maybe it's because of the experiences I had when I was working in the casino. Maybe it's because of other things I have seen since living outside of my little house in the country back in NJ. I don't think my view is cynical at all. It think it's very realistic.
Listen, Pollyanna, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Everybody's still stamping their feet for entitlement while the system drowns in debt. Maybe they're right, it does look like we passed the point of no return, so maybe it is best to grab what you can while the getting's good.
Heh, didn't he get the stuffing beat out of him with a lead pipe for his trouble? Kudos to him of course, but isn't the mayor supposed to have an entourage or something?
Got a broken arm since the other guy had a lead pipe. Besides, you know as well as I do that if he had an entourage that's all we would hear about come election time.
I'm not saying people can't have the odd or even regular spurt of do-gooding in them. What I said was that every single one of us is one really, really shitty day away from becoming a complete monster. Sort of a "there but for the grace of god go we all" type thing.Got a broken arm since the other guy had a lead pipe. Besides, you know as well as I do that if he had an entourage that's all we would hear about come election time.
Don't worry about me, Chicken Little. I was a Boy Scout for 14 years and already prepare for the worst. I just don't have to dismiss it when I see the best in people
I'll bet you I can find more examples of people doing horrible things than you can of people doing selfless/kind acts...
Maybe because the kind acts don't get reported as much as the other stuff? That doesn't prove anything.
Just as many small acts of selfishness and malice go unreported as kind acts. There's not a press conference every time a car gets keyed or a pocket gets picked.
Well ain't you cute. The world is not an after-school special, entropy guarantees we're all on a permanent downhill slope and the truth of the matter is horrible things happen to good people all the time for no reason. Or rather, there is a reason - it is because each and every one of us is a single human out of billions on a planet, which is one of billions in the galaxy, which is one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe - which means your misfortune is not only insignificant, but completely inconsequential. To the universe, the abject ruination and descent into insanity of a human, or indeed all humans, would be infantesimally less noticable than how noticable you found what any particular bacteria riding on an ant on your lawn had for breakfast this morning.
Hell no, 40k is too expensive for a guy on a fixed income! Have you seen the prices those robbers at games workshop charge?
This is the rant thread, not the "cheer you up" thread.
You and I would get along. I just explained entropy and the desolate meaninglessness of existence the other day. It was as well-received as it could be.
heat death?
I often fondly recall the words of my high school physics teacher in explaining the three laws of thermodynamics to the class all those years ago:
If only there WAS a filter... that you could perhaps attach to your face via some kind of apparatus, like a mask to keep it out?
Or you can take that frown and turn it upside down.
There you go. In one sentence Carl Sagan undermines everything you just said. The reality is that in this massive, massive universe, the only thing we have to make the emptiness at all bearable is each other. The thing is you do matter. Everyone matters. For all intents and purpose, WE - humanity- are what gives the universe its sentience and possibly some purpose to the enormous void. We are part of the same stuff that everything else is composed of. We essentially are all the same and different at the same time. Now isn't that an encouraging thought? Even death can't take that away from you or anyone. Hell, even the essence of that bacteria still remains after its replicated and dried up.
What the shit was this crap?
Pretty much this.
WHAT?!?!? Not only should you not feel guilty, but you should call the police on this loser for making threats! Jesus Christ why would you put up with this?
