angrycarpenter (754 posts) Mon Feb-11-08 10:40 PM
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Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
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I sit here in front of a screen trying to find some true knowledge of the world.What I find is war, genocide, hatred, Famine, pestilence, and disease. Am I glutton for punishment or what?
Not really. War, genocide, hatred, Famine, pestilence, and disease has always been a part of the human condition and it most likely always will be. You thinking it is something new and unique makes you kind of too stupid to be commenting.
Try being a realist for a while instead of being an ideologists. You will soon understand the world and not be mired in the ignorance that makes you so miserable. There really is more things beautiful about the world than ugly things. You need to pay attention to those things too. That will require you too look at individuals instead of groups, so I don't know if you can handle it, but try.
What is it that requires me to take on the burdens and horrors of the world in some small way. I should start playing video games and watching spongebob instead of sitting in despair over some obscure phrase in the latest bill before congress. Maybe I would not be a nervous wreck.
Don't bother. You wouldn't understand them either.
Perhaps I should start watching Nascar or follow a sports team. Maybe I should turn off c-span and turn on ET. If I worked as hard at being uninformed as I do to stay informed I could be blissful in ignorance.
If the conclusions you have arrived at are the product of you staying informed, I can't imagine what would happen to you if you decide to work at being ignorant. Your involuntary body functions may cease.
But something will not let me turn away from it no matter how horrible it gets. I want to see the body pile so that I cannot take it for granted. I want to know all about the tyrants so that I will know them when I see them. I want to see past the lies because I like to believe that I am nobody's fool.
That's because misery is the only emotion that lets you know you are alive. Happiness is so foreign to you, it would kill you.
I am a bleeding heart liberal. I cannot help it. The pain of the world is like a constant pressure on my skull. I have a hard time really enjoying myself because I feel guilty for it.
Being a liberal has nothing to do with "feeling" the pain of the world. Liberalism is about dishonesty. If you were an honest person you would admit that liberalism causes most of the suffering in the world.
Is it possible to care too much? How do people manage to shut it out and have a happy life?
No, it's not possible to "care too much". It is possible, inside your mentally ill mind, to fool yourself into believing your phonyass "caring" is what is creating your state of misery, which is really your euphoric state, and you wouldn't have it any other way.