Depressing Realizations

[Right Hook]

That my perception has almost always inevitably led me to realizations I'd have rather not had. I trust almost none of my friends and can site several examples of when they've done something two-faced, blatantly lied, did something that hurt myself or others exclusively for their benefit, etc.

It's always there, people almost seem to be completely motivated by self gain. I hate being this cynical, I hate even more that my cynicism appears to be completely grounded in reality. Oh and you totally asked for the angst by the way, because I rarely ***** about this sort of shit, since it is essentially a waste of breath.

 

[Oly J]

I have cerebal paulsey which has rendered me wheelchair-bound, so obviously a glaring constant would be the old "it's never going to go away" thing, you only get one life and I was screwed over from the start, that's pretty depressing, but once you get used to it being disabled isn't that bad, the money I get from the government simply for existing makes it more tolerable. and really I'm far too used to not being able to walk by now for it to really bother me beyond the odd bit of frustration now and then,

a more recent realization would be the one that I will probably have to die in a completely mundane and boring fashion, I can't die in battle because of my affirmities, and I probably won't die doing anything stupid/interesting enough to kill me for the same reasons

 

[Eddie the head]

I will never meat someone as awesome as me. And that's sad you all will never understand that but I am just that awesome. (not serious)

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I've recently come to terms with the fact that I'll probably never marry Beyonce.

Things are hard, but I'm staying strong.

I have come up with a plan, a secret plan that shall not only meet with the demise of a certain rapper but also make almost certain that Beyonce shall marry one of the people in the Beyonce club...well kinda

Go on......

 

[Edible Avatar]

There is no pattern or meaning to this universe save what we place upon it. There is no morality, no time, no god. Heck, even life itself is a wild aberration that will die out and come again. The past and the future are irrelevant

There is only us, and the present.

enjoy it.

 

[game-lover]

Not sure if this is entirely depressing even if it got me really moody before I realized...

Today I discovered that a part of me somehow refused to connect sexual pleasure with meaningless sex. At all. And it was such a shock. Because I always thought I'd come to terms with the whole casual, no meaning sex thing even if I didn't have what it takes.

But I realized that I was wrong. I never came to terms truly because I still don't understand and probably never will.

It all started with this book I was reading where these two people had sex just because the female was fertile and they both wanted a child to fill this void in their lives. The book did not describe the scene and as I was trying to picture it, I realized I couldn't.

For all intents and purposes, the mechanics of sex are obvious. So there's really only one thing they could have done but it was like... getting any details of the scene were impossible.

Was a rather strangely emotional moment for me and it's left me a little... thoughtful, I guess?

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

I like the Gibus's design, and am doomed to look like newb forever.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Me and boyfriend were up at silly'o'clock the other day watching some `50 Greatest Music Videos` show, and we knew from the start that the No.1 would be `Thriller`. One day it wont be Thriller. And I will be sad.

you're actually fine. For there to be a chance of it not being number one, there will have to be quality music and music videos produced in the future. With the way our media is going... yeah, Thriller's safe.

 

[TWRule]

All we've got waiting for us is the slow, but enetiveable heat death of the universe as it approaches maximum entropy, and the space of time life can reasonably exist in the universe is around 100 Trillion years.

100 billion years from now. the local group will destabilize, merging into one big galaxy, a trillion years after that galaxies will be red shifted far enough we wont be able to see them anymore (even the gamma rays they emit will have a wavelength longer then the observable universe.) 100 trillion years from now, the Stelliferous era will end, and no more stars will form. 10-20 trillion years after that the last stars (low mass red dwarfs.) will exaust the last of their fuel, cooling to white dwarfs, leaving the universe populated black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the absence of an energy source, these remnants will cool further, grow faint and except for rare events the last light in the universe will go out.

Over the next quadrillion years, the remaining orbits of the planets will decay, or be flung from the system, and over the next 100 Quintillion years the same will happen to the stellar remnants within the galaxies.

10 Decillion years later baryonic matter (Which includes protons and neutrons.) will begin to decay into photons and leptons, and by 10 Duodecillion years (10^40) this will have finished, leaving the universe to the black holes for the next 10^100 years as they slowly evaporate to nothing, leaving the universe effectively empty as it reaches true heat death.

Fuck me. Way to cause a huge downer. O.O

You certainly did your homework.

There is no evidence of proton decay and life still has a unbelievable amount of time left.

Be happy; that's an order.

Hey, things are bad, but we don't have to make them worse than they are guys.

Here's a pick me up: for those of you bemoaning the eventual destruction of Earth and/or the universe as a whole, that's all based solely on conjecture from current scientific theory, and there are good philosophical grounds upon which to avoid accepting that whole scientific worldview. So, there's still hope - we just have to figure out what we want to do with ourselves (and can't listen to science to figure it out obviously).

 

[Cobalt180]

I'd say that dwelling on the end of things will always get one depressed, certainly the prospect of ENDING or even THE END is a very monolithic subject. The way of life we're accustomed to, the plentiful food and water is starting to dwindle away, lack of cultivation and an unfriendly climate may mean that we won't have enough food for the population we have. If anything, the depressing realization is that the problems won't be solved until there's money to be made fixing those problems. And it won't take long, supposedly, in 10 years we'll start to feel the effects.

All in all, depressing realizations are just a little bump in the road, but, a way to think about ending is that were things never to end, there'd be nothing new, and eternal stagnation can be hellish when all the things you love get stale and samey. It'll break down, but, then something new will come up and you'll enjoy that, too.

 

[Zakarath]

Free will is an illusion, and all your choices and thoughts are mere products of your genes and your environment.

On the upside, nothing bad that happens is ever your fault.

 

[3aqua]

That I spend a sizable amount of my free-time thinking about someone who barely recognizes my existence.

 

[galaktar]

Heat death of the Universe: Eventually every source of energy everywhere will be expended into the infinite void. Leaving a legacy will not be possible even on a planetary scale.

Also, every single male on both sides of my family for at least four generations has gotten prostate cancer assuming they didn't get another type of cancer first. So I have a lot of time to think about cancer.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

There are more stupid people in the world than there are even moderately intelligent people. For every college graduate there are 100 people who couldn't find Iraq on a world map, and for every visionary inventor like Bill Gates there's a million people who don't even know or care to find out how a radio works. Now THAT is depressing.

 

[Vault101]

There are more stupid people in the world than there are even moderately intelligent people. For every college graduate there are 100 people who couldn't find Iraq on a world map, and for every visionary inventor like Bill Gates there's a million people who don't even know or care to find out how a radio works. Now THAT is depressing.

I have no Idea how a radio works....