An eternity of searching for the unattainable, the unimaginable, the unreal...
"If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it, I'll make it quick."
運命の果実を、一緒に食べよ
This world isn't as pretty as you think it is.
"If everyone were more selfish, the world would be a better place."
"Angel and ministers of grace defend us!"
The word "friend" is just a euphemism for "useful tool that costs me something every time I use it".
Life is similar to that of sitting at the bottom of a dried up well for days. Its dark and cold at the bottom of the well. But over head you can see a light, the exit from such a hell. And every once in a while the light will shine into the well. A very short time it will be when the light shines in. Then the light will disappear from within the well and again you only see the light from outside the dark hole. As the day passes by, there is no longer any light from the top of the well. Day becomes night. Its darker then before, yet there are small dots of light, you might reach for them, but its a useless gesture. Still in the depth of the dark, dry well, the cycle it repeats. The light comes back from overhead, it doesn't shine in but there is a light out there, an exit, salvation from this hell. Then for a small moment the light shines in again and then disappears. The light overhead soon disappears as well, all is left is darkness with small spots of light. And it repeats... Again and again the cycle of light outside the well. Similar to that of life. We are in darkness, we see an exit but can't reach it. Once in a while for a small moment, the light hits us, everything is clear, it has color, it is filled with light. But then it fades again, and you are left in greater darkness. and then it starts over.
About me:
- INTP (I was tested)
- Sadistic
- Pessimistic (I was tested)
- Narcissistic
- Sarcastic
- Philosophical
- Antisocial
- Logical
- Independent
- Introverted
- Intuitive
- Indecisive
- Insane (according to Einstein's definition of insanity)
- Hypocrite
- Opportunist
- Mean
- Evil
- Lone Wolf
- Alone
- Loveless
- Heartless
- Uncaring
- Untrusting
- Unmotivated
- Contradicting
- Manipulative
- Crazy
- Curious
- Sly
- Selfish
- Taciturn
- Lost
- Wise
- Depressing
- Boring
- Annoying
- Minor Stalker
- Novel Reader
- No past, no future
- I'm better off alone
Dislikes:
- Incompetence
- Humanity
- Irrationality
- Selflessness or Heroism
- Social Events
- Unsophistication
- Kids
- Emotional connection towards people
- Boredom
- Sunny days
Others:
- I was born in Hong Kong.
- Graduated: June 7th, 2012
- I can speak 3 languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English
- I can write in 2 languages: Chinese and English
- I can vaguely use 2 other languages: Spanish and Japanese
- I have shot a real gun before (semi-auto rifle and pistol)
Don't worry, I'll try not to bite... too hard...
If you have something to say, just say it. I don't need random friend requests from people I don't know. Just because I talked to you in a club or whatever doesn't mean we are friends.
"'Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago--centuries, ages, eons, ago!--for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities. Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane--like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who mouths justice and invented hell--mouths mercy and invented hell-- mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's act upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!...'" - Satan from The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
Life...
(Feel free to read and comment on my criticism of life if you are into philosophy and anything similar)
Oh life, thou art a heartless bitch.
(Currently have 6 "topics")
- Adaptation is selective, people adapt to happiness but can't adapt to sadness...
For example, Person A plays a game that is originally very fun and it makes him happy. As Person A continues playing the game, he starts to get less happy because he is getting used to it. The happiness has faded but the game stayed the same... What changed? Person A changed...
- When someone gains happiness, they can only retain it for a while...
For example, Person A buys a new car. Person B and person C are envious. Person A becomes happy. Then Person B buys the same car. Person A becomes less happy because he is now not as unique. Person B becomes happy but not as happy as Person A was before. Person C is still envious. Then Person C buys the same car. They are all the same. Person C return to his original state of neutrality. Person A and B lose their happiness and they also return to their original state of neutrality. The happiness of Person A faded, but he still had his new car. What changed? The situation changed...
Humanity's original state is sadness...
Hence...
Life is but the embodiment of pain and suffering...
- There is so much injustice and inhumanity in this world that its amazing people don't realize it. How can one speak of the evils of the world if they themselves don't realize they are part of the evil they speak of? How can people preach of morality and judge others when they themselves should be the ones being taught and being judged? How do people decide what is right and what is wrong if they are already so messed up? I guess in the end people are immoral creatures that fails to realize anything.
- How can people speak of heroism and selflessness when in they end, deep down, in their subconscious, they are only thinking about themselves? Everyone in this world no matter who do what they do because it pleases them to do so. There is no point in talking about selfish people at this point so I will talk of the people that claim to be selfless. People that help others. Heroes, saviors. They all do it for their own personal gain. Why does someone decide to help someone? Even though they say they want nothing in return. They still might get a thank you. perhaps they don't even get that. But those people are still happy. Are they not gaining something? Did they not gain happiness in helping? Their so called selfless act gained them happiness. How is that selfless? If people that decide to help others out of their own will and gain happiness can't you say that they decided to help because it makes them happy? Doesn't everything people do, they do because they want to be happy? Or at least better than the consequence? People that decide to follow the rules even though they don't like the rules. They follow because they don''t want the consequences. Hence they obeyed because to disobey would lead to suffering. Even people that save others for a living only think about themselves. Firefighters, they have to spend months in training so they can get rid of their survival instinct. Meaning they aren't so different from everyone else. Then we have something so called "friends". People who help you when you need help. people that are there for you in the good times and bad times. They too only think about themselves. Friends subconsciously expect the same in return when they do something good for you. "Friends" is an euphemism for "useful tool that I can use for my self gain but I have to repay". In the end people are just selfish creatures that can think of nothing but themselves.
- Why do we have places like "mental hospitals" for people that are different from those around them. Here we have a group of people that are fat. It is normal, natural, yet undesirable. Then on the other hand we have people that are geniuses like Einstein. It is abnormal, unnatural, yet highly desirable. Why would an abnormality like high intelligence be praised and sought after yet the normality be hated? How does one define normal and abnormal? A group of people that are crippled by birth is that normal or abnormal? Some say that it is abnormal. Why? Can't it also be seen that people that aren't crippled at birth be the abnormal ones? A group of patients that suffer from a disease that people consider not normal. But can't the patients come together and think that they are normal because they are together as a group? If normality was distinguished by the amount of people present that have similar features. Then what if we lived in a world where there were more people that were mentally ill and less people that were mentally sane and we did not knew of the world we lived now, who are the normal ones? Why are some abnormalities a good thing while others a bad thing? Aren't they all abnormalities in the end? Why are some normality hated while others are praised? Why do we have to categories people based on their normality and abnormality?
- Yes its true that when one questions reality like philosophers do, they find truth and can make life seem very negative. In a way I think its like a punishment. I'm christian so my views might not agree to yours depending on your religion. But to me, before Adam and Eve at the fruit of knowledge, they knew all the answers to the questions that philosophers struggle with. They however did not know the questions to those answers. But they were happy because the fruit of knowledge showed them misery. After Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they "lost" all the answers and was stuck with all the questions. And now when we question reality and come to an answer to what life really is about we are "punished" for finding an answer to those questions we gained from the fruit. Our punishment is the pessimism that follows with the realization of reality. But again this is only my interpretation of how knowledge is.
That is a delightful topic, usually—probably my fourth, behind existentialism, dualism, and transcendentalism. I shall open with my own argument, before providing any rebuttal’s to your original assertion.
I shall argue the fact that even though Justus and equality are somewhat juxtaposed to one another, it is necessary, to insure a stable social existence. I shall use your example, to outline why it is so. If person A was to commit say…murder—which, I will assume translates to prison time, no matter where you are in the world; but for Syria currently—and person B was to do the same, but in defense of person C, in which person C received no harm, person A and person B would receive the same amount of prison time. This is quite just, in either case—fore, no matter how you look at it, it is still against the law to kill an individual. If you remove the strictness of penalties for certain times, then it negates the concept of the law’s completely, instigating wide spread breaking, with people declaring that the motive was in self-defense or in the protection of another. Taking into consideration the idea of murder, and jail time for person A and person B, there is always an alternative. In self-defense, person B could have crippled or removed the threat, without killing the target in question.
That is my stance, on this concept.
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