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[Vanguard_Ex]

I love this OP, go man go!
Unfortunately there is a large portion of this community that are the typically over-dramatic 'I hate everyone, everyone sucks' losers. They complain about life sucking yet refuse to acknowledge that maybe spending all day on The Escapist isn't the greatest cure.
Also, we're using the same theme on Chrome. Props.

 

[Baneat]

I noticed this as well, I think it's maybe one person who's really depressed that's bumped 4 or 5 of them into the same time-frame.

Midge, racism. Not cool.

What racism? D:

It's so stereotypically american of you to assume somebody needs psychiatric help for no reason at all btw, way to go.

It's so stereotypically jewish of you to not pay him.

It's so stereotypically black of you to steal like that.

Also: You've been trolled but responding isn't clever.

 

[manic_depressive13]

Lose your faith in bad people, not in humanity, there are millions of amazing people on this world, you just have to stop expecting to see shit, and you will stop seeing it.

There aren't millions of amazing people in the world. In fact, almost nobody is "amazing". In contrast, there are billions of horrid, disgusting fleshsacks to contrast, and I'm one of them. If it meant that the extermination of the human race was definite and scheduled within the next five years, I would give up my life right now with no qualms. Time to give another species the chance to fuck everything up.

Listen to yourself.
You're sat on two of humanities most amazing inventions, the computer and the internet, sat in a structurally secure house engineered to near perfection so that it will last over a century, if you were to fall ill you would get medical care nobody would have dreamed of 100 years ago, allowing us to extend our average life span by 50+ years. Right now we understand the inner networks of atoms and molecules, the billions of neutrinos and photons per cubic centimetre streaming to us from the sun. We can predict weather that early man used to think of acts of gods. Get the hell over yourself and think of what we have achieved in the last 100 years, be a part of it, stop putting us down.

It's true that these things are very nice. Sure, there are millions of people in the world who don't have a computer, internet, or medical care- let alone clean water to drink. But we don't give a shit about them, do we?

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Lose your faith in bad people, not in humanity, there are millions of amazing people on this world, you just have to stop expecting to see shit, and you will stop seeing it.

There aren't millions of amazing people in the world. In fact, almost nobody is "amazing". In contrast, there are billions of horrid, disgusting fleshsacks to contrast, and I'm one of them. If it meant that the extermination of the human race was definite and scheduled within the next five years, I would give up my life right now with no qualms. Time to give another species the chance to fuck everything up.

Listen to yourself.
You're sat on two of humanities most amazing inventions, the computer and the internet, sat in a structurally secure house engineered to near perfection so that it will last over a century, if you were to fall ill you would get medical care nobody would have dreamed of 100 years ago, allowing us to extend our average life span by 50+ years. Right now we understand the inner networks of atoms and molecules, the billions of neutrinos and photons per cubic centimetre streaming to us from the sun. We can predict weather that early man used to think of acts of gods. Get the hell over yourself and think of what we have achieved in the last 100 years, be a part of it, stop putting us down.

It's true that these things are very nice. Sure, there are millions of people in the world who don't have a computer, internet, or medical care- let alone clean water to drink. But we don't give a shit about them, do we?

Go fucking do something about it if you're that upset about it. Admittedly if you're the same age as me there isn't much you can right now, but when I'm older I've decided rather than spend my extra cash on loads of luxuries I'm going to give a large portion of my wages to charity, maybe even volunteer work out there. This attitude towards bad stuff doesn't make bad stuff any better, it just makes it seem worse. If everybody sits in their house moaning about how shit things are, how are they going to get better, get a positive outlook and help as one, it would get so much stuff fixed if suddenly everybody would decide to co-operate. But no, humanity is shit, you've already decided, co-operation will never happen.

 

[Baneat]

I noticed this as well, I think it's maybe one person who's really depressed that's bumped 4 or 5 of them into the same time-frame.

Midge, racism. Not cool.

What racism? D: I was pointing out that he was being silly for abiding to stereotypes, it doesn't help with the amount of threads of "what do you think about americans", or "do all americans really believe this?" threads going round right now for him to say something like that. One of the big noticeable cultural differences from a lot of european countries to america is that you have a lot of therapy and treatment compared to us, and a stereotype is that you diagnose a lot of children with ADHD etc. I don't know how much of this is true, again, its a stereotype.

Not so much that. You wrote an opinion off as him being from America than just being plain silly, which he was just that, silly. I just need to point out that there was no reason nor justification to bring race into this, at all. That's all, not specifically on topic but that looks as much trolling to me as telling someone they need psychiatric care for an opinion that's not that unreasonable. I wasn't even aware that this was a stereotype, but now you've perpetuated it.

It's so ironic, as well, given the points you made in the OP.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

I noticed this as well, I think it's maybe one person who's really depressed that's bumped 4 or 5 of them into the same time-frame.

Midge, racism. Not cool.

What racism? D: I was pointing out that he was being silly for abiding to stereotypes, it doesn't help with the amount of threads of "what do you think about americans", or "do all americans really believe this?" threads going round right now for him to say something like that. One of the big noticeable cultural differences from a lot of european countries to america is that you have a lot of therapy and treatment compared to us, and a stereotype is that you diagnose a lot of children with ADHD etc. I don't know how much of this is true, again, its a stereotype.

Not so much that. You wrote an opinion off as him being from America than just being plain silly, which he was just that, silly. I just need to point out that there was no reason nor justification to bring race into this, at all. That's all, not specifically on topic but that looks as much trolling to me as telling someone they need psychiatric care for an opinion that's not that unreasonable. I wasn't even aware that this was a stereotype, but now you've perpetuated it.

It's so ironic, as well, given the points you made in the OP.

Dude I didn't even mean anything by it, I literally said it out of spite because I was offended by it and there's nothing more to it, it was spare of the moment and silly, but it's nothing even serious.

I think it's a lot more insulting to personally say somebody has issues for no reason than it is to stereotype in a trollish manner.

 

[Craig Cameron]

What the hell.
How offensive is it during a discussion to tell me in need specialist help. What the fuck is that. What I meant was, why not just label it 'nice stories thread', that would be fine. A lot of us should not need something to boost our faith in humanity, it should be there, we should be proud to be human as it is.

It's so stereotypically american of you to assume somebody needs psychiatric help for no reason at all btw, way to go.

Also, we're hardly in an age of recession, it's again doom and gloom mongering of the media, we can all afford computers, ipods and xboxs, were hardly in hard financial times compared to real recessions weve had in the past.

Step 1. Learn to spot what might be banter.
Step 2. Don't overreact.
Step 3. Don't assume.

They could have noticed the "Why are YOU losing faith in humanity?" topic and decided to counter it. Also what should be and what is are often two very different things. We should be able to live in peaceful co-existence, yet we wage wars in the middle east to fight an invisible threat. We should be able to sleep at night with our doors unlocked and windows open if we want, yet if we do people would say it's our fault if are robbed and killed during the night.

Also, I'm not American.

 

[Mordwyl]

No offence, but all these whiners are what natural selection would refer to the weakest links. Losing faith in humanity is losing faith in yourself, already acknowledging that you have absolutely zero power to make good deeds.

Humanity isn't just everyone, it's also you. The other human beings that still and will always fight the good fight won't miss you.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

What the hell.
How offensive is it during a discussion to tell me in need specialist help. What the fuck is that. What I meant was, why not just label it 'nice stories thread', that would be fine. A lot of us should not need something to boost our faith in humanity, it should be there, we should be proud to be human as it is.

It's so stereotypically american of you to assume somebody needs psychiatric help for no reason at all btw, way to go.

Also, we're hardly in an age of recession, it's again doom and gloom mongering of the media, we can all afford computers, ipods and xboxs, were hardly in hard financial times compared to real recessions weve had in the past.

Step 1. Learn to spot what might be banter.
Step 2. Don't overreact.
Step 3. Don't assume.

They could have noticed the "Why are YOU losing faith in humanity?" topic and decided to counter it. Also what should be and what is are often two very different things. We should be able to live in peaceful co-existence, yet we wage wars in the middle east to fight an invisible threat. We should be able to sleep at night with our doors unlocked and windows open if we want, yet if we do people would say it's our fault if are robbed and killed during the night.

Also, I'm not American.

Sorry about that, I did misunderstand.
Just getting exasperated with people calling humanity "billions of fleshbags" etc. so i was too ready to assume bad shit being said. But to be fair the way you wrote it didn't look like banter

 

[Svenparty]

It seems if someone makes a popular thread a few clones emerge. Who would have guessed that a tool of virtually anonymous posting would lead to many threads about negativity!

Also: What is a middle aged shout out?"

 

[manic_depressive13]

Go fucking do something about it if you're that upset about it. Admittedly if you're the same age as me there isn't much you can right now, but when I'm older I've decided rather than spend my extra cash on loads of luxuries I'm going to give a large portion of my wages to charity, maybe even volunteer work out there. This attitude towards bad stuff doesn't make bad stuff any better, it just makes it seem worse. If everybody sits in their house moaning about how shit things are, how are they going to get better, get a positive outlook and help as one, it would get so much stuff fixed if suddenly everybody would decide to co-operate. But no, humanity is shit, you've already decided, co-operation will never happen.

But I'm not upset about it. I don't even give a shit. I was just pointing out the absurdity of referencing those inventions and discoveries as if they prove humanity's benevolence when in reality an appallingly large portion of humanity doesn't even have access to them.

 

[C95J]

Definitely agree with you OP. It is severe overreacting to some bad news, and people just don't seem to take a glance at all the positive things going on around them. They only concentrate on the small amount of bad things.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Lose your faith in bad people, not in humanity, there are millions of amazing people on this world, you just have to stop expecting to see shit, and you will stop seeing it.

There aren't millions of amazing people in the world. In fact, almost nobody is "amazing". In contrast, there are billions of horrid, disgusting fleshsacks to contrast, and I'm one of them. If it meant that the extermination of the human race was definite and scheduled within the next five years, I would give up my life right now with no qualms. Time to give another species the chance to fuck everything up.

What a great big load of shit, buddy. You need to get outside some more and interact with people. There are many decent human beings in this world. Sure, there are plenty of worthless shitheads, but there are more regular joes just trying to survive.

Those "regular joes" are the people I interact with at work, and I think of them as worthless shitheads as well. Their existence upsets me. These are not "decent" human beings - they are wastes of oxygen.

What's so bad about your life that you have this attitude, I'm intrigued.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Science and technology are two of the few things which have kept me going. The number of people who are intimate with the inner workings of the universe are an extremely small proportion of the population, and as I have proven myself a failure at science, I have little reason to continue much longer. All I see is darkness in the future, as media scaremongering and deliberate obfuscation of the facts keeps us from progression.

So you're saying the media scaremongering and deliberate obfuscation of the facts have caused you to see only darkness in the future?

Everything's normal, it seems.

OT: people on this forum are around their teenage years, known to many as "that time". Around that age, things start getting very serious and dramatic and you overreact to a lot of things. In other words, angst.

And some people never grow up. Therefore, that logically leads to 4 "I HAVE LOW OPINIONS OF HUMANITY AND WANT TO EXPRESS THEM ON THIS FORUM" threads on the first page.

I'm 17 and i feel silly being dramatic, just seems juvenile to think that you can do something on such a huge scale such as judging humanity as a whole when you've seen so little in life.

 

[Craig Cameron]

What the hell.
How offensive is it during a discussion to tell me in need specialist help. What the fuck is that. What I meant was, why not just label it 'nice stories thread', that would be fine. A lot of us should not need something to boost our faith in humanity, it should be there, we should be proud to be human as it is.

It's so stereotypically american of you to assume somebody needs psychiatric help for no reason at all btw, way to go.

Also, we're hardly in an age of recession, it's again doom and gloom mongering of the media, we can all afford computers, ipods and xboxs, were hardly in hard financial times compared to real recessions weve had in the past.

Step 1. Learn to spot what might be banter.
Step 2. Don't overreact.
Step 3. Don't assume.

They could have noticed the "Why are YOU losing faith in humanity?" topic and decided to counter it. Also what should be and what is are often two very different things. We should be able to live in peaceful co-existence, yet we wage wars in the middle east to fight an invisible threat. We should be able to sleep at night with our doors unlocked and windows open if we want, yet if we do people would say it's our fault if are robbed and killed during the night.

Also, I'm not American.

Sorry about that, I did misunderstand.
Just getting exasperated with people calling humanity "billions of fleshbags" etc. so i was too ready to assume bad shit being said. But to be fair the way you wrote it didn't look like banter

That's fair, I suppose I could have wrote it better but being heavily medicated from last night so I could work has left me at a mental disadvantage, and in a slightly bitter mood. So I apologise for any offence felt due to my post.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Some of those threads are pointing out how ridiculous other threads are.

Just FYI

 

[Antari]

Look what i saw just at a glance of the off-topic discussion.

Seriously, get over yourself people. I don't know how so many people are just getting all doom and gloomy on here but we definitely don't need more than 1 type of this thread, I think people are just being so pessimistic about other people and think that because bad things in the world are happening then every single inhabitant of this planet is evil. Same goes for the internet. Lose your faith in bad people, not in humanity, there are millions of amazing people on this world, you just have to stop expecting to see shit, and you will stop seeing it.

Didn't you know the world is going to end? .. People need to set up a president before that is possible. Once we've all lost faith in humanity it'll all go wrong instantly ... I guess. To be honest, I don't know I ignore those types of threads.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I just chalked those topics up to effective trolling for Hot Topic badges. Honest discussion seldom gets topics above 100 replies; but trolling and typical "hot button, go-nowhere" controversy does.

Do people really think they are hot shit just because they have one of those? Perhaps it's a matter of objectivity (or quality), but I respect deeper discussion of a subject more than who was able to get the most one-liners, "fuck its" and My Little Pony replies in their thread.

*shrugs*

OT: The world is full of differing opinions and "how things ought to be done.." blah blah blah...
Hyperbole and opinionated rants never fixed anything; actions did.

 

[Snoozer]

If People "lose" their faith in humanity they had it for false reasons before. I guess many of them are just in the phase of growing up in which you realize that things simply arent as good as you pictured them as a child. It's just a Phase get over it!
What no one of them understands is how much humanity has progressed in the last century despite being as stupid, greedy and easy to trick as they are! Furthermore is it a very bad idea to look at the internet. Five dumb idiots don't represent thousands of silent voices, just bebause they are louder.

 

[Craig Cameron]

Jesus H. Christ. Who took a shit in your Christmas pudding?

I'll be honest, I only really read this part because I read it in the voice of R. Lee Ermey.