In your darkest moments, what are the temporary ideas you entertain?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
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CHRISISALL

Monday, February 6, 2006 2:27 AM

I sometimes think the human race is destined to destroy itself. Animal passion and rage combined with the intellect to create atomic and biological weapons is a recipe for disaster. "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves", said the Terminator. Major drag. And when I read the posts that shovel kudos for Bush all over, I feel this thought re-inforced.

Then I wake up, see the sun, and my family, and it all goes away.

What dark ideas creep in to your thoughts sometimes, when when your life energy's low, or you're in emotional turmoil?

You can say it; we won't tell.

Daring Chrisisall

FLETCH2

Monday, February 6, 2006 6:59 AM

The absolute certainty of my own death and the horrific possibility that it may be extruciatingly painfull.

I'm a planner by nature, what psychologists call as systemiser, I analyse a situation, find the optimal path and take it, I attempt at all points to minimise unnescessary risk (except for recreation, I do dangerous things for fun but I still assess options.) Mortality is a bummer because no matter how you minimax things you can't avoid it. I can't compute a countermeasure and it vexes me.

PIRATEJENNY

Monday, February 6, 2006 10:08 AM

The BUSH-S Administrations,( Are a Frightmare come to life) the fact that these people are trying to take over the country, and that there is a whole host of sick freak pedophiles running the government, and the fact that nothing I ever thought was really true, The fact that in 2008 Jeb Bush is going to also cheat his way into office, or Bush jr, an co are going to create some kind of diseaster so they can stay in office.( who knows but something ugly is coming,), be it Jeb or a diseater ( its ugly) it already is ugly but its going to get even uglier!!

The fact that most Americans are to scared, lazy, stupid and, or all three rolled into one, to do anything to stop it.)

Then I wake up look at the sun, and I think what a pretty planet, to bad its wasted on us. and I think, beam me up scotty, theres got to me something better out there.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Monday, February 6, 2006 11:15 AM

My darkest thoughts are about me, the possibility that maybe I'm not a good person, that given the right opportunity I could become something worthy of hate, perhaps even fear.

Some people like to talk about the evil of human nature, others like to talk about the good, but the fact is we're all a little of both and when push comes to shove I'm not sure which way I'd go.

On the other hand a lot of people go their entire lives without push coming to shove in that way.

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As for humanity, everything is temporary, one day we will be gone, and nothing we did will have mattered. Here at least, if you believe in an afterlife, which I usually do, then you believe what we do ripples through all time. (Unless it's a temporary afterlife.)

I think you have to look at life in terms of starfish, if you don't know what I'm talking about there's a story that is told many different ways that goes something like this:

An adult saw a little girl (or boy) on a beach picking up starfish and throwing them back into the ocean because they would die if left out in the sun.

He (or she for it is told both ways) told the girl how futile it was, how many starfish and how little she could do. The adult ended by saying, "You can't possibly make a difference."

In defiance the girl picked up another starfish and threw it back in then either spat or explained, "I made a difference to that one."

I think you have to look at things in the here and now, there's a good Jesus line (from Matthew) "Do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Sure we could destroy ourselves via nuclear war next week, but today we have our own problems. (Just to show that the problems of today can effect tomorrow I would say that one of them is global warming.)

You can’t let the future bother you too much, you’re here now and you’ll be dead later make a difference now, because now is all you have. If you accept that than the total destruction of all people isn’t as bad. Eventually everyone you ever met will be dead, and later everyone they ever met, but the important thing is not that these people will die, but that they are alive.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Monday, February 6, 2006 11:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by piratejenny:
Then I wake up look at the sun, and I think what a pretty planet, to bad its wasted on us. and I think, beam me up scotty, theres got to me something better out there.

Hate to break it to you, but this is the something better. It's up to you whether you fixate on the hate, despair, suffering, and ignorance or on the love, hope, joy, and intelligence.

Also, let’s say you could leave, where would the world be if the good people started jumping ship? Would you really want to live with yourself every day knowing that you helped increase Bush’s (or perhaps someone worse‘s) approval percentage? Leave behind everyone who might need your help?

CITIZEN

Monday, February 6, 2006 11:56 AM

I'm just evil full stop...

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.

AURAPTOR

Monday, February 6, 2006 3:32 PM

When I see nonsensical post like PirateJenny's, I simply remind myself that in a few billion years, our sun will have spent its fuel, begun to die and eventually all that mankind has ever done, has ever seen, thought of, everyone who ever lived, will live ...all of it will be burned to ash, and all that will remain of our existence will be our signals which we beamed out into the 'verse, and a few wayward space probes.

All this bickering, backbiting, infighting is pointless. It will amount to nothing. You can delude yourself that you're " fighting for a better future" all you want. On a cosmic scale, humanity amounts to nothing more than a blink of time. Everything you hold dear, is meaningless.

Now, go take on the day!

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

SIGNYM

Monday, February 6, 2006 5:23 PM

That we're globally working ourselves towards the same fate as the Easter Islanders: No more resources and no way out. Collapse and cannibalism, followed by decades of staganation and poverty due to lack of ready resouces. That my daughter would never be able to survive that eventuality, and that I wouldn't be around to protect her.

I think more, but I won't say....

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Please don't think they give a shit.

CITIZEN

Monday, February 6, 2006 6:54 PM

Okay, sometimes I think there is no truth, no overarching reality. We all are right and we all are wrong, there's not just subjective truths and subjective opinions, there's actually subjective reality, that we all live in our own universes formed by our own minds, that we can infringe on each others reality but only within their rules.

If you're reality allowed people to fly unaided you could do it, but other people could only see you do it if they're reality allowed.

The only truth is that we are really all alone in our own world.

Well, you asked.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.

PIZMOBEACH

Monday, February 6, 2006 7:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I sometimes think the human race is destined to destroy itself. Animal passion and rage combined with the intellect to create atomic and biological weapons is a recipe for disaster. "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves", said the Terminator. Major drag. And when I read the posts that shovel kudos for Bush all over, I feel this thought re-inforced.

Then I wake up, see the sun, and my family, and it all goes away.

What dark ideas creep in to your thoughts sometimes, when when your life energy's low, or you're in emotional turmoil?

You can say it; we won't tell.

Daring Chrisisall

In my darkest moments I fear I will only have dark moments to contemplate. Honest.

How about posting a thread asking what people entertain in terms of their greatest dreams?

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