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Have we lost our humanity? - Evangelist - 11-25-2013
I am appealing to your humanity, we have lost it. We are slaves; we focus our lives on getting money. When you are a teenager, all you want is to get your driving license because without it you are systematically crippled, you would depend on everybody to give you a “lift” and keep begging, with that license comes a car, a car is about 7k on average if it’s a used car, a new one is about 13k on average. With your car, comes responsibility, gas, and maintain it. For that you need money, so you get a job, and work all your life to maintain objects, without money you will die, is life really about living or working for a piece of paper? Is depressing how humanity has progressed, inventions, evolution and a piece of paper controls you.
We want so much; the commodity makes us want it. Technology has come a very long way, yes, but at the cost of our social skills. See the innuendo section, people are cripple, they can’t formulate a single and basic conversation with a girl, people depressed because their life revolves around the internet and they have no friends. That is all we do, we depend on it, and how boring life will be without the connectivity of the internet? People killing themselves metaphorically for the next generation console, upgrading the internet so it won’t be so damn slow and then comes money, nothing in life is free, not even food the essential things aren’t even free.
Friendship died, nobody is really your friend anymore, things change, people back stab you on facebook, and the hypocrisy is easier to do now. In a chat they are praising your friendship but, all they have to do is move their mouse and open another chat and kill you there. Trust also died, if you think about it, can you really trust a person behind a computer screen thousands of miles away? If you say yes then you could be scammed on the future. To be betrayed you have to trust.
People don’t care anymore, there was a time where the struggle of others was important to others, now you try and reach somebody with a positive intention and there is guaranteed the person that thinks he is Jesus and flames you for having intentions, we make fun and joke about the despair of others. I was talking to a guy online on facebook and I mentioned, “damn the 9-11 victims were repaid when United States invaded Iraq and killed millions of Muslims” this was his reply “HAHA! I know and I am glad that those fucking sand nig-gers got what they deserved” What was the problem? Behind that statement, there is, mothers crying, kids orphans, dismemberment, and countless atrocities that will quake even the hardest man. This goes for both sides, I am not defending Muslims.
Attention whoring seems to be a very big fad right now. We have seen it so many times, that we expect it when a person is reaching out for help. When you see a post about a member wanting to end his life for X reason, we don’t care if it’s true or not and we attack the person. Telling him to do it, to stop attention whoring, to get a hobby, or something. We are naturally skeptic because of fear we will be trolled, but, we troll him. What if the person was being serious and dies because of your stupid ass? Sure, you won’t care. I have seen this before. Do you know why people post stuff like that on the internet? Goes back to the problem I addressed earlier. The abusive use of the internet, kills your social skills, forcing you to set everybody aside and the only people you can try and get help from are people on the internet but, not even that people can do because as I mentioned, there is always some piece of shit that has a shit life and feels they need to take it out by bringing everybody else down.
There is no way to stop all the problems I addressed, but, you know? All my threads are designed with an embedded message to inspire somebody to make a difference, to have a little more confidence or to be themselves, the message this time is “WE ARE FUCKED” that is it. Even if hope was sparked on somebody to make a change, it will take years and we may die before seeing a change. Congratulations, we as humanity are completely fucked and we are to blame. No hope, no second chance. I am aware that there are people out there that dedicate their life to help others and what I said this doesn’t apply to them but, if you are reading this then most likely you are not one of those people. Maybe I am wrong by generalizing everybody on the internet, but am I really? Hard to think I am, maybe YOU as an individual don’t troll or laugh at other people’s misery but since I don’t know you then I will not exclude you.
“There’s consequences for enlightenment, but if I have to hide the truth to live then, I’mma die just like my idols did” – Hopsin
RE: Have we lost our humanity? - Hypothermia - 11-25-2013
I'm pretty much completely in agreement with you here. People are fucked up. Luckily, I have good social skills, for the most part, but really, I'm losing those to the internet and not being in school anymore.
RE: Have we lost our humanity? - Blur_HF - 11-25-2013
I agree with you completely. It's sad that our humanity is pretty much gone. It saddens me a lot. Lots of people are followers these days.
RE: Have we lost our humanity? - Fraser - 12-01-2013
Life is about working for things we get because you will not get anything without doing so
RE: Have we lost our humanity? - Alex - 12-02-2013
I agree with most of it, but has it always been on maintaining objects? Back than the goal was get a nice house with land.
I agree that most people that the internet a bit seriously, but if you enjoy something why not have fun with it.
RE: Have we lost our humanity? - WackMyBeaver - 12-08-2013
I agree as well. It is pretty scary how far our kind has come to for everyone else to ruin what we all have built up.
RE: Have we lost our humanity? - cr33pyguy - 01-09-2014
One of the most questionable things about life is - ironically - life itself
why do we live, and what do we live for. If you "meditate" on that, you'll end up coming to the conclusion that human life is worthless - your only chance is to be distracted and to distract others from the fact.
And people don't think that we should leave a positive impact from the one life that can be however meaningless. Just because it doesn't matter, doesn't mean it can't matter.
Even if it's all worthless, at least I can say I've tried.
RE: Have we lost our humanity? - Elmion - 01-14-2014
Humanity is what humans are. This socially-defunct internet sphere is humanity itself. Humanity cannot be lost, nor found. It simply is. Humanity is fucked up in the internet because we communicate with words and only words. We do not see faces and we do not hear voices. Empathy is hard, trust impossible. But at the cost of kindness we have gained honesty. We troll each other but many more times we say truths that we cannot speak in reality. We convey our inner apathy and callousness where it would be morally reprehensible in real life. This is freedom. It is bitter, bleak and unkind but this is part of humanity. It is neither the true face of it nor a facade of it. It is part of it. /rant
RE: Have we lost our humanity? - cr33pyguy - 01-14-2014
(01-14-2014, 08:44 AM)Elmion Wrote: Humanity is what humans are. This socially-defunct internet sphere is humanity itself. Humanity cannot be lost, nor found. It simply is. Humanity is fucked up in the internet because we communicate with words and only words. We do not see faces and we do not hear voices. Empathy is hard, trust impossible. But at the cost of kindness we have gained honesty. We troll each other but many more times we say truths that we cannot speak in reality. We convey our inner apathy and callousness where it would be morally reprehensible in real life. This is freedom. It is bitter, bleak and unkind but this is part of humanity. It is neither the true face of it nor a facade of it. It is part of it. /rant
Well now... that is interesting...
So, you're saying that humanity has merely changed?
RE: Have we lost our humanity? - Elmion - 01-14-2014
(01-14-2014, 09:01 AM)cr33pyguy Wrote: Well now... that is interesting...
So, you're saying that humanity has merely changed?
From others' point of view, that is maybe what I am saying. I always thought of humanity as fluid, undefinable, at times self-contradictory. I do not believe humanity should only be defined by its positives; rather, the negatives we are capable of are also part of our definition. Thus to me an apathetic, misanthropic person possesses no less 'humanity' than his more sympathetic, philanthropic brethren.
I do not believe in 'absolutes.' If technology is always-changing and technology is also an inseparable part of humanity, that means we will discover new facets of humanity in the near future. They are not added; they have always been there, waiting for us to gain the technology to discover them. /rant