Meh. I don't understand humans.

[Christian Hellhound]

I suppose you can call this another vent/rant-type thingy.

Lately, I've been feeling like I don't understand people as a whole more and more. It's seems like, everyone acts so opinonated these days. People no longer agree-to-disagree in arguments, instead it's "I MUST be correct or I'm a horrible person!" Another thing that pesters me is when people argue over the internet by constantly quoting famous dead people. If you don't believe me, check the awful Yahoo! comment sections. Seriously, I've watched freaking quote battles on that websites. People need to stop making dead dudes fight their battles for them so much.

And what is it with people and religion these days?! Both über-religious people and über athiests take it waaaay too seriously and both end up becoming hypocrites at some point. For example...

-Article about a discovery about an ancient biblical artifact or some shit-
The religious: Yes! This is proof our God exists! The athiests are wrong! *insert scripture*
The nonreligious: Why do you mentally-ill, delusional, brainwashed,morons deny the science articles but when these articles come out they're automatically true? *insert quote from famous person about how religion is poison*

-Article about some scientific discovery or some shit-
The nonreligious: Har har har! This is evidence you idiot religious people are all wrong! Soon religion will be dead and the world will automatically be perfect and problem-free forever and ever because religions are the only thing that cause problems.
The religious: Why must you devil-worshiping faithless people assume all these articles as fact right away? It's okay, our religious beliefs will prevail in the end. REPENT.

It's all so stupid. I don't understand what's so difficult about not visiting websites and articles that hold beliefs different from yours. People seem so gungho about their beliefs these days that I'm honestly unsure about what to think about things myself. I just wish we could all simply get the fucking along...

/end rant-thingy

Well, hope I made sense...

[Ky]

This isn't a result of human nature. This is a result of group culture.

Our society encourages people to put themselves into groups, which instills a fallacy within one's head that their group is superior to all others of that variety. And now it's completely whirlpooled.

[craxyguy562]

I can see your point hellhound.

[brainiac3397]

Society today.

Can you imagine that once upon a time in human history, certain concepts that exist today did not exist before(and vice-versa). Course there is generally the fallacy of "We have it now so we've always had it"...

[craxyguy562]

I dislike the idea of separating "races" and etc. Grouping people up just pushes people farther apart.

[brainiac3397]

Racism is destructive to national and imperial unity.

[James Comey]

Yeah, grouping people can be good at dividing people.

I think something that can help is empathy. I actually found this article.
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/...ic_people1

[Miab419]

I don't think division among politics is particularly good. It's great to identify with your fellows, but it gets carried too far when either party(ies) go for each other's necks frequently, when, in theory, grouping is supposed to be about fellowship (greetings from the US...).

[brainiac3397]

That's why benevolent machiavellianism is best. You do what's best for all so it's best for you so you can make it best for all to be best for you!

[Miab419]

Lol, SOCIALISM. BAAADDD.

[Potato]

it's human nature to pick a sports team and root for them, and you talk about them like they're your family, you get happy when "your" team wins, even though they have as much to do with you as all the other teams. humans are retarded, i'm an example, why do i argue with people on the internet who are wrong? it's all a fucking waste of time, i know this, but i still keep arguing and it makes me frustrated. and god isn't real, there's no afterlife, people who died are dead, life sucks, evolution is true, capitalism ftw