What a depressing worldview you have.
The fact that you think it's all pointless is a shame. Striving for a better world might not be easy, but it's a genuinely uplifting way to live.
(BellaBella, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 14:19, 1 reply)

Can't argue there.
I do have certain misanthropic tendecies and honestly, I don't know where they come from which perhaps makes it even more depressing. I genuinely wish I was one of those people who try to make the world a better place, but I find it hard enough making it any better for just me, let alone the billions of other people I share this planet with.

Honestly if I had it my way, I'd move to a nice warm island somewhere in the middle of nowhere, build a nice house, get some animals and you'd never, ever hear from me again. I fucking hate this place and everything in it.
( PMGT -Bacon., Tue 16 Nov 2010, 20:51, closed)

Jeez, this may sound trite but try taking baby steps - hold doors open for old ladies, smile at strangers, try to do wee random acts of kindness. You might find you like it.
(BellaBella, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 1:28, closed)

I do all those things.
But they won't make the world a better place. Like I said, I do it to make my day to day existance a better place.

And thinking about it, that's probably what led me to the beliefs I hold. I know how little effort it takes to hold a door open for someone, to give up your seat to an old person on the bus and to smile at strangers. That's why I do it. What's the point in being an unpleasant twat for no reason? It's the fact I see so many people NOT doing those things that makes me hate them. And I work in the middle of Manchester, so I see things like that many, many times a day, every day. It sounds small and petty but you just get kind of sick of it after a while. If someone won't even hold a door open for you after they have walked through it, then why would they give a shit about anybody else on a larger scale, when they seem incapable of even the smallest acts of kindness? I just hate the species as a whole to be honest. When we're not too busy patting ourselves on the back for what amounts to an incredibly mediocre or worse existance for about 99% of the population, we're too busy killing each other in a variety of unpleasant ways.

It's like I said, more people voted for the winner of the X Factor than protested the war in Iraq. People just don't fucking care, so I just don't fucking care about people. And that makes me as bad as them I suppose.
( PMGT -Bacon., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 19:13, closed)