Oh God! I want to Destroy Everyone!
POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 16:04
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Originally posted by kpo:
Hmm, what sets you apart from the rest of humanity that you get to survive and feel smug?
Not sure you're being fair if your button is a remote detonator.
Who said anything about surviving? You misunderstand. I get the honor of witnessing the destruction, and fall of human kind, and then, after the party is over I die also, but at least I get to die knowing I did something worthwhile with my time here on Earth unlike humanity, who gets to die (Collectively) in a state of fear, horror, shock, outrage and dispair. And the 3% survivors get to have all the fun, and adventure attempting to survive in a post- apocalyptic, nuclear, biologically and chemically infested, wasteland, where only cannibalism and rats are the only viable source of food, and that food source it only temporary. Such drama to be had, and fun by all, but in the end it will be futile. All of humanity would die in the end, and I would be the cause and that would be the most satisfying part.
And yes, my final thoughts on the whole subject of humanity when I die will be "smug" thoughts indeed, so you are right about that.
River
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Whether or not humanity is worth saving, I can't say. All I can offer is a perspective.
If the offer were made to me, I wouldn't take it. I hazard that my distaste for these arrogant apes is the equal of yours, River, but they, in their multitude, are not my enemies.
If given the chance, I would leave this world, and never look back. Even if I never find any of the million million races that I know are out there, calling to me, it would be enough to be able to seek them in peace.
For those behind me, I would wish them well. May they have the world they desire, and which they deserve.
And yet I am of them, much as I would deny it. My blood is human, as is my soul. Their corruption is mine, and my insight --the only part of me that I have ever been proud of, is theirs as well. If I can bear them no ill will, isn't that itself proof that they --that we are capable of better?
Quote:If we were, and had all died suddenly and simultaneously, would any of us know it? What is life, but a state of unfulfilled possibilities?
Originally posted by pdcharles:
Sorry to interrupt this long and hopefully therapeutic thread, but we’re not dead yet!
Are we?
Sorry, I'm feeling philosophical tonight. Must be the full moon.
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I think it's pretty obvious that there is no logical reason humanity should continue its meandering existence.(certainly not a moral one) However, as misanthropic as I may be, I would be among the idiots fighting for ridiculous survival, and I think that's cool too.
It's genes,peeps. Can't do nothin with em.(Or am I the only teenage boy who's looking forward with absurd "hope" to possible future children?
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Originally posted by cowofpain:
I think it's pretty obvious that there is no logical reason humanity should continue its meandering existence.(certainly not a moral one) However, as misanthropic as I may be, I would be among the idiots fighting for ridiculous survival, and I think that's cool too.
It's genes,peeps. Can't do nothin with em.(Or am I the only teenage boy who's looking forward with absurd "hope" to possible future children?
You are right. There is no logical reason why humanity still exists. This is an evil world...it should go.
River
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Gutterball Said:
*shrugs* We do it because that's what there is. What else is there? What SHOULD there be?
What right to we have to expect better?
Asarian's right -- don't get all chipper on me, A! -- in that the whole point is not goodness bringing persistence so much as persistence bringing goodness. So what if humanity at large sucks?
Not everyone does, and you try to surround yourself with as many people who DON'T suck as possible. To an extent, reality is what you make of it, no matter if you really have The Almighty Button or not.
Look at me: I'm an utter Ice Queen, but I got tickled to death when I got an e-mail back from a lady I've never physically met to whom I sent the Firefly box set. I didn't really have the money to buy it for her, but she needed it more than I needed gas money, so off it went. She cried, River. She was so happy.
So what if I'm an Ice Queen? I made one person smile...or cry...or whatever. Doesn't that lessen the world's karma, even an iota?
River6213
I guess I dont even know how to respond to that.
What you did for that lady was a good thing, and from the sounds of it, she appreciated it mightly, and it made her happy. You did a selfless act and it was nice, but it doesnt make up for all the evil in the world....its not enough.
She recieved a DVD Box Set of Firefly, and meanwhile, there are thousands of children dying of hunger each year on this planet. Right now someone is being raped as I type this. Right now someone just lost their life as I'm typing this posts. Right now someone is getting sent to prison for a crime they didnt commit.
This world is evil, but there is that 0.00001% of people on it that are good and mean well, but in my opinion its not enough, and its just too bad that these people have to die also when I push the pretty, red button, because the rest of humanity couldnt behave itself.
River
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Ok. I have determined we are not in fact dead.
Step 2
Find Button
U gonna be smart here Riva?!?
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I know this thread has gotten all serious and such... but River.. have you been watching too much BSG?
This destruction of the entire human race because it's evil sounds awful familiar.
I hesitate to get involved in this thread, as I'm usually not brave enough ( yea, I know) to get into this complicated stuff, but c'mon... destruction of it all?
Go eat some chocolate River and lighten up a little. I don't mean to belittle any depression you may have, but you insist you don't have a problem, so........
" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal
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Originally posted by FollowMal:
I know this thread has gotten all serious and such... but River.. have you been watching too much BSG?
This destruction of the entire human race because it's evil sounds awful familiar.
I hesitate to get involved in this thread, as I'm usually not brave enough ( yea, I know) to get into this complicated stuff, but c'mon... destruction of it all?
Go eat some chocolate River and lighten up a little. I don't mean to belittle any depression you may have, but you insist you don't have a problem, so........
" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal
Yes, I do watch BSG, but my hate for humanity has nothing to do with the show. Some of the characters have brought up the thought: "Why humanity should exist" but I was not even thinking of the show, when I opened this thread, and my own person thoughts on that particular subject are very much different than the show.
There IS one part of the show that ANGERS me everytime. Its Gias Baltar. When that Cylon woman told him that she used the information that he gave her to gain access to the colonial's defense computer mainframe, which allowed the Cylons to attack humanity and devastate all the colonial worlds, and Baltar's reaction of horror when she told him this....made me so angry!
If it had been I, I would have rejoiced, but Baltar acted like he had done something wrong...something unthinkable, and that made me so mad!
Anyway my own personal views of humanity have nothing to do, nor was inspired by BSG. One is a show, the other is real life and I am very much annoyed at real life.
Simply put, humanity has got to go, and so far, I STILL have not heard one voice who could effectivly argue on the behalf of humanities continual existences. If I really had an ultimate weapon of complete global destruction, and if this were all real, you guys wouldnt stand a chance, and Earth would be a smoking ruin right now.
River
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Ok River,
here ya go. I've seen people do a lot of horrible truely evil things. I, and more importantly, people I loved more than I could ever love myself, have been on the recieving end of that evil. I see stupid people everyday I leave the house, people that cause me to believe that if they lost one single more braincell, they'd forget how to breathe. I've wished they didn't exist, I've wished they'd lose that one more brain cell. I've entertained 'dark thoughts' and I've had a good laugh at them (the thoughts) and myself. Then I come home and I come here, and I see the smart and the funny people. I have a good laugh with them. I see that even if I don't think enough of myself, or the complete dolts I run into everyday, I think enough of the friends I have here to put the *figurative only* safety back on. If you don't see what I see here, I'm sorry for that. Maybe you can take a few steps away from "the Button" and have a look around for a while.
"If you take life too seriously, it ceases to be funny."
Relax. Breathe. Have a drink if you're not opposed.
Reasons to not blow up the world:
The fine people who provide me with laughs and keep me sane here.
people who make things like this: 
And Orgasms. those are good things. and worth putting up with some crap for. The world could use a few more of 'em. Honestly, if everyone had 1 or 2 of those a day, I think we'd all be better off.
I don't have all the answers, maybe not even one. but if ya even cracked a smile, there's your reason.
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It could be that humanity is the only way the Universe realizes that it exists.
Is that a good enough reason?
Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
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