On the subject of people...

Holidays are how people reconcile terrible events in history, until eventually it's forgotten in a morass of confetti, sprinkles, folk stories, macaroni pictures and sweet denial. Any holiday ever created was some unspoken agreement that bad shit happened today, or marked the beginning of some bad shit for someone else. But nah nah. Sit and be thankful. Family members are predetermined to be there by a parent so long ago modeled by that puritan rhetoric that said "The natives are a nuisance, let's civilize the shit out of them." Only now they are the adults cradling the same comforting truth "At least it's not me and i'm thankful for that."

I see 'informed' individuals parroting pundits, confident that their chosen ear piece has done all the hard research for them so that whatever they repeat, it is so. To me, it feels like confirmation bias on a massive scale. Inquisitive enough to dig into the greatest tool man has ever created, yet convinced enough in their convictions that said individuals never look outside their narrow scope of the internet, arguing to win instead of arguing because you have a valid point. Passion becomes the fact, and the worst part? Those people have friends with the same viewpoint, so now instead of monaural diarrhea you get it in surround.

It's the same thing since the television, since the book, since the first spoken word. "I either cannot or will not try to understand you, but you better understand me because I am right. Get in line or i'll punch you so people will agree with me because clearly I have more passion." It's the same reason why people hold their stupid book over volumes of study and work. Hell, it's even the reason behind kids shooting kids with 5.56 in an elementary school.

It's faster validation.

Any holy book, no matter the text always demands it's adherents to be enthusiastic. Enthusiasm activates reward stimuli in your brain. It's addictive and it hits much harder than study and research. People become attached to that feeling and thus, attached to their ideology/religion. Eventually (and this is all mostly conjecture, so you know) even an emotion as intense as anger can reward the person with mental release; that whole "righteous fury" thing. Study and research demand attention to detail. A demand that isn't as rewarding nor nearly as exciting as watching a sweat caked holy man speaking in tongues. So i've been led to understand.

We are infant children in the eternal cosmos, screaming for attention and for knowledge we lack the wisdom to understand. Our chubby fingers paw at the stars, seeking not to understand but to possess. We want for the key, but not the knowledge of how to make one.
In the end it's tears in rain, my thoughts washed away with the inexorable attrition of time. No matter how

I try to understand the human animal, it means little to anyone else (though i'm sure if I had a title slapped to my name deaf ears would gain sudden alacrity) and only serves to salt the earth of my heart.


People are circles, and that's the joke.

lol

One: Your first post should be in Noob introduction board

Two: You should be writing books instead of hanging out with us sickos anyway

I wish I had the attn span to read that.
What is it?
Humanity is a massive circlejerk.

One: My dick has been a part of æ longer than you, so I think I know what i'm doing.
Two: Good advice, but you're an ædiot so really you shouldn't be giving me life advice from your bedsit.

There's an emote for everything worth saying.

I like beer.

Stop thinking about cocks for a second and read. Yes, I understand that cocks are standard in the mind of any ædiot, but being a srslyfag for a minute won't kill you.

You sound like an emo fag...perhaps you can help cleanse the earth of the human beast by actually doing something about it?

I did read.
This
I see 'informed' individuals parroting pundits,

Paging @GSTalbert1

See, now i'm just going to keep living to spite you because fuck you in particular, faggot.

Well then, I suppose this isn't the thread for you. Oh well.

Lol, wow. I never said "go kill yourself", I just said "Why don't you do something about it?" Like...go out and change things?

You're very paranoid, and in need of a hug.

Well, now i'm telling you that you should kill yourself. "Change things." People are gonna do what they do because people need their emotions validated which in turn validates their lives, if only for the moment. People do what they do because humanity as a whole needs to struggle. Not for anything in particular, just struggling because people need to test their mettle. In that sense, humanity is a self-pruning tree. As it appears to me, we've made machines and gadgets that reduce the struggle of daily living. In light of that opinion, it follows that because of the relative ease of our bourgeois lifestyle that people invent reasons to struggle against something. Changing the scenery or being a Samaritan will do little to fix what is essentially un-fixable by anything except time.

"Change things." Scratch that 'should kill yourself' and make it 'you should definitely kill yourself.'

Is this a pseudo intellectual troll or just sad.

I need not the sight of oracles to see... that op is a faggot, liek totes ppl.

So..if humanity is a self-pruning tree...then why are you complaining about it?

You like to contradict yourself...here, have a e-hug.

And have a nice cup of Wilkins to warm your heart and soul!

Maybe ask a question and you'll get an answer instead of stating it like an autist.

Maybe it was rhetorical.
Reading what you've typed so far, I'm not really interested in getting any answers from you.

Keep up the fine work op.