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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

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Nobody survives life. Think about it, you will die one day, no matter how much money you make and how much health care you can afford... none of it will prevent you from dying.

Why spend so much time and effort just on survival (working for money, etc) when you're not going to survive anyway? Could at least some of that time and effort be better spent elsewhere perhaps?

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Quite motivating, and maybe even inspring.
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I already wrote stuff like that in my post at least twice at it's minimum, but I guess it was easy as a depressed person.Razz

Congratulations humanity,because you refuse to let go of the old and evolve you actually make people believe in 2012. Not only that, but you're the only species on Earth that were able to make it possible, now we get to sit until we die because we couldn't get to Mars. We have failed as a society and don't deserve our gifts to survive for this long. Maybe this is why dinosaurs are extinct, we sure aren't any better than the dirt you say we're created from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...DvwSOFto#! Noo

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Have you ever felt depressed from school? Like seriously depressed?
I've felt sad and down often, but never depressed, so I just wonder?
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I'm depressed over life in general, no longer just school at this point. I hate how life works and how human beings react.

Congratulations humanity,because you refuse to let go of the old and evolve you actually make people believe in 2012. Not only that, but you're the only species on Earth that were able to make it possible, now we get to sit until we die because we couldn't get to Mars. We have failed as a society and don't deserve our gifts to survive for this long. Maybe this is why dinosaurs are extinct, we sure aren't any better than the dirt you say we're created from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...DvwSOFto#! Noo

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I know EXACTLY what you mean! EXACTLY!!! I'll be damned if you and I are brothers or something! Biggrin
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Let me give you an example if I know what you mean.
A friend starts talking to you, he says "hi, how it's going?"
You Answer: Great, yesterday I tested out my new Bike, it was epic!"
You look at you friend again: He's looking around and not paying attention and not bothering about you.

Example 2.
You tell someone something which is really important to you, he instantly trivializes and doesn't care.

Tell me if I'm somewhat correct?
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Kind of 1 and 2 is more often. I usually don't bother to talk to people anyway so maybe it would be more likely if I actually did.

Congratulations humanity,because you refuse to let go of the old and evolve you actually make people believe in 2012. Not only that, but you're the only species on Earth that were able to make it possible, now we get to sit until we die because we couldn't get to Mars. We have failed as a society and don't deserve our gifts to survive for this long. Maybe this is why dinosaurs are extinct, we sure aren't any better than the dirt you say we're created from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...DvwSOFto#! Noo

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I have actually solved many of that kind of problems, so I' willing to give any tips if you want any? Smile
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(11-03-2012 11:16 PM)AtheistLGBTQAnarchist Wrote:  I'm depressed over life in general, no longer just school at this point. I hate how life works and how human beings react.

I feel that the human race is a lost cause. It will end up destroying itself.

Just my opinion.

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We feel dat way about humanity every decade.

We probably, as a species, even though we'd go extinct now at some historic disaster.

Nah. By some interesting occurence, nature is not so great a match against the resilience of human survival. Note that hollywood is bad source. My understanding is that during great disasters, psychotic chaos and uncontrolled panic doesnt ensue. More often, the disaster strengthens human bonds and forms a protective collective.

I mean humans are adept at killing humans, but almost every human suffers when murdering one of their own regardless of reason or justification. Our human mentality is far more malleable than the "appeared" power of an ideology or belief. Only when you cease to exist as a human being, and consider yourself an embodiment of an idea do you lose your humanity. Or your actually mentally troubled. Otherwise humans are actually more connected to each other than you think, despite how disconnected we appear (which is iro ic because this disconnection is actually a sign of extensive connection. The ease of which humans can group together via technology obviously will pull em to what connects them to more than they could do physically themselves)

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(11-03-2012 11:16 PM)AtheistLGBTQAnarchist Wrote:  I'm depressed over life in general, no longer just school at this point. I hate how life works and how human beings react.

That's part of school. Converting people to fit in society is the point of it.
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Think of school as a small world. Perhaps a video game MMORPG.

Unfortunately, unlike reality which is basically unbound in regard to limiting actions taken by humans beyond that of natural cause-effect, schools/mmorpg are inherently controlled not by a naturally reactive form of law and order, but that of an active interference by "superior" powers(see Admins & Mods for more details). In such a case, what needs to done to correct a problem is not being done because it can't be done due to the superiors that prevent the doer. As such, the playing field is not a field, but a field of icebergs or a jigsaw puzzle.

Cliques are practically tribes. Adolescent upbringing in a closed environment literally causes the formation of tribalism that human once practiced. However, there isn't the same degree of progress out of said form of tribalism because there exists people who control and judge your actions who aren't subject to the same rules as the tribal societies.

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Although Brainiac there seems to be some for of tribalism that exists within schools that allows for rather large tribes to form. Although at that point they form their own forms of ruling, such as a monarchy/dual monarchy.

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With enough numbers they might progress to the next stage of "form" but even then this authority functions more outside of school itself. My opinion is that kids tend to naturally form their own "tribes"

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Although when they have their own form of ruling that is explicitly known it becomes more of a 'state' than a tribe IMO....

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(11-03-2012 10:18 PM)LiptomaticMate Wrote:  Nobody survives life. Think about it, you will die one day, no matter how much money you make and how much health care you can afford... none of it will prevent you from dying.

Why spend so much time and effort just on survival (working for money, etc) when you're not going to survive anyway? Could at least some of that time and effort be better spent elsewhere perhaps?

SoulRiser ahem ahem.. ArghPirateBanana

Quite motivating, and maybe even inspring.

Hey LiptomaticMate, haven't seen you in a while.

This is quite the nihilistic, if not, slightly apathetic point of view. Your logic is that "we all day, so why should I care".

While health care may eventually not prevent me from dying, it definitely keeps me alive for a lot longer. Not to mention that modern medicine helps to cure ailments that nonetheless ironically might stop us from simply "enjoying life" as you say. While I can understand the simplicity, it's not without fallacy; I would rather spend money and live a relatively healthy life, rather than live a shorter life where I'm constantly plagued by medical issues because of it.

But, that's not the entire argument you're presenting... to disregard this would be a gigantic fallacy in itself. Really, I understand. Here are 2 things that I've picked up in this interesting thing called "life".

One thing that I've said before is that fear is often the greatest obstacle that we have to get through, rather than the obstacles that actually do come towards us. We're scared of trying new things, and we're scared to step outside our normal boundaries, and therefore keeps us within our already existing walls of intelligence (Nasir Jones, 1994). Think of going to a restaurant; how many times have you ordered the same thing over again? How many times have you stayed away from other items, because you feared you wouldn't like it?

A second thing I've learned is one thing you bring up: the concept of death itself. Here's an interesting article written by the BBC about Bhutanese views of mortality, and how it differs quite a bit from American views of mortality. In Bhutan, mortality is just seen, quite literally, as every day as bread and water. No one really cares too much about it, because they know it'll happen. In fact, they believe in thinking about death as a normal thing, every day. Surprisingly, there's science behind this: those that thought of death were actually able to think of more happier thoughts. Perhaps we need to remember that Bhutan is still a pretty isolated civilization, and the high rugged terrain probably had a lot of accidents, not to mention the chance for diseases and other ways to die; whereas in America, we pretty much always attempt to shield ourselves from it.

Interesting, eh? Those Bhutanese and their death morality!

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