Words On Things · 3:51am Aug 19th, 2014
Yeah, yeah, I know about that sunscreen video. Just because it's been done once before, that doesn't mean I can't try something like it. 
Life never lasts as long as we want it to. We always have plans right up until we die. Don't waste your time being alive by being unhappy. There won't be enough time to be satisfied, but you may as well get as much satisfaction as you can out of it.
Everyone wants to be special, but no one is. No one wants to be normal, but everyone is. This is one of the great disappointments of life that we must come to accept if we're to grow and mature as people. Get used to disappointment; it happens a lot.
It doesn't matter if an exploding universe created us out of some freak accident of reality or if a maniacal deity created us as an experiment. We're all humans, and we all deserve to be loved and appreciated.
Being logical or reasonable isn't a bad thing. Use that instead of emotion when you don't like what someone else is saying. At worst, you'll be wrong. Most of the time, it's better than being right.
Attention is one of the greatest detriments to your health and mental well-being that you can possibly have because, just when you're coming to expect it, it disappears completely. We all want attention. Be happy when you have it, but find solace in being forgotten as well. You know who you are, and that should be enough to be happy.
It's okay to feel things. Just remember that others feel the same things, and never forget that they have felt or will feel exactly what you're feeling. Don't pretend that no one would understand or care, because many do. You need only share your feelings. They will come.
Accept facts and truths, but don't believe in anything that you don't know for yourself. Learn, listen, understand... but pay attention to you above all. Only you know what's true.
If someone says something you didn't think about, admit it. If someone proves you wrong, admit it. If someone agrees with you, humbly accept the compliment. No one will fault you for admitting you're human.
Change is good. Change often, whenever the opportunity presents itself. Fear of change is fear of growth, of learning, of maturity. You will always be you, no matter what. You shouldn't fear growing up.
It's okay to be alone.
I can't say I expect anyone to find any wisdom in these statements. I can say I hold these sentiments close to my heart. Perhaps you've learned a little more about me as a person. Perhaps, dare I hope, you've learned something new about yourselves as people. I still have a long way to go before I can consider myself wise, though. 
Words of wisdom, my friend. Difficult, but wise.
I go unnoticed through most of my days. It doesn't bother me. (But let me not show up one of those days, and oh, they'll notice all right.)
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At the end of the world, when there is nothing else, you will only have you. Nothing else matters at that point. All that matters is you, and what you think of you.
If you're afraid of being forgotten, you're afraid of dying. We all die. We're all forgotten. No one is part of some lofty, special, unique club that causes everyone to remember who they are. History books tell us of actions, of events... but nothing of who anyone was.
In the end, that's all that matters, anyway. No one else will remember me, even if I make it into a history book. At least I'll remember me.
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I don't think that being unnoticed should bother you. I think there's a certain beauty to be had in solitude, and that beauty is not altogether unpleasant. It's taken me 22 years to recognize it, and probably another 22 to learn to appreciate it.
A lot of this is bullshit this is bullshit that looks smart, but's actually bullshit. Then another good deal is bullshit depending on your opinion. Then a small amount is, admittably, intelligent, but it's difficult to sort out from the bullshit. Normally I'd point out all the bullshit, but there's just too much. I'll just show a small sample to prove that I'm not a raving lunatic. For example:
Yes, it does. It matters a ton. It matters because it determines whether or not we should spend all our lives enjoying our time on earth, knowing this is the only chance we get, or whether we should be good members of (insert religion hear) because instead of say a hundred years of earth, even optimally happy, we get eternity optimally happy. And I'd defintely choose a hundred years of misery and an eternity of happiness over a hundred years of happiness and an eternity of misery.
I agree with most of what you said, but there are a few things that I don't agree with. This one line particular is one of them:
It's funny how I used to believe that. I used to look at all the other teenagers who were either trying to act like they had problems so that they could look 'unique' so that they could hide the fact that, when you look past the personality they have built as a disguise or shield, they have no real identity for themselves. Then I'd look at the other group, the group I used to desperately try be a part of, where everyone would try to act as 'normal' as possible so that they wouldn't stand out and wouldn't get made fun of or noticed.
The facade for myself that I had maintained for seventeen years of my life failed me recently. I realized that, no matter how much I wished it was not true, I was a far cry from being like normal people. The closest I'll ever get to "my kind of people" will be in a mental institution, which is where I'm likely to be going anyway.
I hate being special. I hate it with every action I take and every decision I make. I think about how much I hate it every morning I get up and every night I lay down to go to bed. I hate it every time I speak, every time I breathe, and with every passing second of my mortal life.
None of this changes the undeniable fact that I am agonizingly unique. I am ridiculously far from normal, and I know I'm not the only one. I know there are others like me, cursed to be unique. Oh, we lie to ourselves and call it a blessing, but those few like me know that it isn't true.
Everyone wants to be special because they don't understand the pain and suffering of breaking normality. They have a horribly misguided view on how being unique and special can affect your life.
No one wants to be normal until they realize that they aren't normal. That's when the wall of lies we tell ourselves begin to collapse and the truth begins to burn our souls.
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Knowing who my father is doesn't cause me to want to gain his approval. I learned long ago that he will never be satisfied with who I become, so I decided to pursue my own happiness.
I feel similarly about any deity that may exist. However they may disapprove of my actions, the only person whose happiness matters is my own. If my creator wishes misery upon me for wishing happiness upon myself, I will enjoy what happiness I may have before he is allowed to curse me with misery for eternity. If I can be happy, even if only for the time I'm alive, I will forever remember the happiness I experienced in life.
Some enjoy obedience. I will never fault someone for enjoying serving a deity which may or may not exist. If it makes them happy, I wish that life upon them. It just doesn't make me happy, so I don't practice obedience to a deity.
If you do what makes you happy, rather than live in misery with the promise of future happiness, I think you will be much happier finding the self-wrought happiness and losing it later than never choosing to be happy and later being forced into a deity's idea of "happiness." If it's not chosen happiness, I don't consider it true happiness anyway. Free will is a wonderful thing.
Which wasn't, by the way, what I was meaning by the statement you quoted. I meant that you should be supportive of others and not treat them like dirt based on their religious choices. It doesn't matter if you believe in the same invisible man as they do or not; they're still a human being, and they deserve to be treated as such. I wasn't specifically saying that it doesn't matter why we're here; that's a whole 'nother can of worms. I was simply saying that why you think we're here shouldn't give you a reason to believe that someone else doesn't deserve equality because they don't think we're here for the same reason.
I never said it wasn't.
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In the words of Diamond Tiara:
Everyone has a different story as to why they're special. We're all individuals, but every single thing that has a bearing on any other life is a matter of circumstance and luck. No matter how greatly you feel you deserve to be somewhere or do something, if circumstance and luck don't favor you, you won't ever get it.
Exactly what you just told me is exactly what most people tell me. All throughout high school, I heard stories about why everyone else was special. Literally, every single other person. They all believed they were special. I thought I was special, too. I mean, everyone else was; why not me?
We fabricate silly stories about ourselves and pretend we're more fascinating than we really are. It's a way to tell ourselves that we matter, that we're important. Without that reassurance to keep us going, most of us would quit before we even began. I guess, in that sense, maintaining the illusion of uniqueness is an important mechanism for preservation of life. I can certainly understand the necessity to retain such sentiments.
Still, I've never heard anybody in the world ever say, "I'm normal." Simply put, there has to be a group of "normal" before there can be outliers, because a group of nothing but outliers makes the outliers normal.
People that aren't normal to me are serial killers, rapists, charismatic sociopaths. People that don't act under the standard expected behavior of society. Basically, the choices that you make bring you outside of the expected standard behavior of a human being and bring you to either polar opposite of the scale, where the outliers are located. Charismatic sociopaths (typically CEOs or fascist dictators) would be the positive outliers; serial killers and rapists would be the negative outliers.
And before you claim, "I think about killing people, that makes me an outlier," I have daily thoughts about causing bodily harm to other human beings. Shouting in their face, beating them until they die, poisoning their drink... the like. Everyone has those thoughts. Literally everyone. If they don't, they're a liar. It doesn't make you special. The fact that you don't act on those impulses, in fact, makes you normal.
Be glad you're normal. It means you're not behind bars or digging your own early grave.
2382373 I still disagree. If the omnipotent, always right, being declared one group of humans(let's call them group 1) less than another group of humans(let's call them group 2), then since the being is always right, they are lesser. However, should that omnipotent, always right being never existed in the first place and is a fabrication created by the human mind, then group 2 is most likely not lesser and group 1 was in the wrong the whole time.
And are you saying that you'd willfully subject yourself to an eternity of misery on the principle of the matter? Just so you can rest in peace(in an eternity of misery) knowing that you didn't submit to the unjust?
Also, how in the world do you think fascist dictators are positive outliers of humanity?
Curiosity has overcome me, and I must ask a question. What brought on this line of thought? Most of the people I hear talking this way are either depressed or going that way quickly. These kinds of questions are heard from people who usually have lost hope in life.
Maybe I'm reading too deep into this. Still, I am immensely curious as to what got you thinking this way.
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The omnipotent is certainly the judge in this case, yeah. If you follow an omnipotent being which states that black skin is inferior to white skin, it should not stop you from treating all equally, regardless of skin color. The omnipotent may discriminate based on infinite knowledge, but your duty as a follower does not include making judgments yourself. You would let the omnipotent handle such matters, not you yourself, since the omnipotent is the judge.
I'd rather be happy with a certainty now than hope to be happy later. I guess that would be following a principle, yeah.
A fascist dictator has the approval of the majority of the society they live in, hence a positive outlier. A rapist or serial killer has the disapproval of the majority, hence a negative outlier.
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I'm fairly open about me, heheh.
Um... thanks.
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I don't think myself depressed, but rather like to see positivity in everything. I try my best to face hard truths and find the good in such things. I'm happy simply being alive, so anything else I may learn is only reason to be happier. It's almost like celebrating my existence by learning and growing.
There is beauty to behold within the darkness. Light will waver or fade, but the dark needn't be a place of fear or hate. Embrace it as you do the light, and you'll find that all you may experience in life is cause for happiness.
That's how I feel about it, at least.
I'm happy just knowing. I want to live something real, something tangible... not a fake existence. I don't want to lie to myself, ever. If the truth is harsh, I still prefer it over fake consolation.
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Do you know the definition of dictator? I'll provide you with it.
A ruler who has total power over a country it likely to go corrupt and lose public favor. And typically, they never had it in the first place, hence the obtaining through force. I think you may be confusing dictator with 'president' or 'prime minister' or 'democratically elected leader' or 'literally any other title than dictator, because without getting into absurd titles like Lord of Poop, it's literally the worst title in the English language one can have'. And that's not even getting into fascist, which I'm almost certain you don't know the real definition of, unless you're referencing a lesser known, publicly okay version of it, in which case you should really have made that clear. I'll provide you with that one also.
Also, this goes in the face of what you said was your moral code, following what modern society tells you, since there are very few things modern society hates more than fascist dictators.
EDIT: I forgot to talk about how confusing what you said about the omnipotent was, also.
That statement is contradictory. Let's say your a business owner. You're looking into hiring an employee. One candidate is black, one is white. You should not give these two people an equal chance to prove themselves, as you know definitively, as told to you by the omnipotent, that the black is worse than the white. The black person may get lucky on the interview and perform better, but given what the omnipotent has told you, you will know that long term the white person will be better. The reason this does not apply in real life, non-hypothetical situations, is because there is not enough evidence an omnipotent, not a human, said this.
Honestly, at this point, you've been spouting so much contradictory and obviously wrong stuff that I'm beginning to suspect you of trolling.
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This is exactly correct. Nationalist ideology garners widespread support, which is why Hitler, Mussolini, and Juan Carlos were all successful rulers of their respective countries. Three times out of three, fascism had support from basically all peoples within its nation that were not those being oppressed. If you can be a likable enough guy to rule a country with an iron fist based on your own self-delusions, I'd say that you're pretty far on the positive scale.
I'm pretty sure you're still thinking of this as positive outliers and negative outliers. There is no "perfect person for society." That person is Average Joe. That's the definition of "normal." When you are looking at societal outliers, you look at ones that generate positive opinions. A fascist dictator, despite all odds, is beloved of the people... which is ridiculous, seeing as they are guilty of
This just puts more emphasis on the question: What the hell were Germany, Italy, and Spain doing? Well, they were doing exactly what you would do when faced with a positive outlier of society: worship and support, even when shown the negative.
Simply put, societal outliers are not good. There is no one who doesn't act like a member of society and have it not be a problem. If you don't follow societal rules, you cause problems. Hitler is just as much evidence of the symptoms of positive outliers of society as Timothy McVeigh is of the negative outliers.
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What I was trying to get at here is that society makes the rules, not an omnipotent. Regardless of what the omnipotent states, most people take the generally accepted belief of society that skin color has nothing to do with intelligence, performance, stature, skillsets, etc. Why? The majority of the United States is Christian, meaning they believe in large part what the Bible teaches. I have any number of passages that state to do things that people simply don't do anymore because they follow societal rules, not the teachings of an omnipotent, even one that they will readily and outspokenly state they believe in.
Simply put, racism isn't a belief of society, so a normal citizen is not a racist.
I do hope I'm being... black and white enough.
I don't troll. I can be sarcastic at times, or facetious, but I do not troll. Ever. I am being serious, and whether you're perceiving the points I'm trying to make or not, that doesn't mean I'm trying to piss you off. Please understand that I'm at least trying to reconcile an understanding here.
2389758 Hitler didn't have the absolute support of his nation. At no point did he get more than 42% of the vote. He got his power through underhanded political maneuvering and force, like I already said. And other fascist dictators, like
Mohamed Morsi of Egypt, were not popular either. Please, next time when dealing with facts and not opinions, leave sources.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Morsi
Also, could you provide for me a passage that states one group of people would be worse for a position than another? I am not asking for a passage that states a certain group of people, for example gay people, are committing a sin by being gay. I want a passage that actually says they are worse at a task(s).
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Granted, I don't have all of my facts straight. You're also focusing on exactly the points I'm not trying to make. If you're going to keep dodging around what the actual disagreements are, then there's nothing to discuss.
You're correct; the Nazi Party didn't have the majority of German votes. I based that assumption on something I'd watched in a World History class that documented the German peoples' reactions to what their party had been doing during World War II. They seemed absolutely shocked that the leader of their country could be performing such atrocities. My heart went out to them as I was watching, and I learned that day that, despite our most well-guided intentions, we can't account for every possibility. I apologize for listening to a small number of people and labeling a populace as such; had they known what their leader was doing, I'd imagine they'd have voiced their lack of support as well.
Or maybe they wouldn't have. Seems Hitler had a firm enough grip on his people to be able to massacre 6 million of them... with some completely unaware of what had happened.
On your other point, are you telling me that, although homosexuals are sinners that are going to burn in Hell and suffer for eternity, they're equal to straight people? Because that doesn't seem very evident in God's verbiage. If you want to make this specifically about the Bible, of course, which I wasn't aiming to do.
I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish here. Beat somebody down for developing self-guided opinions on certain matters? It seems like you have an agenda, and all of it involves making me feel stupid for having an opinion. Which you've done a fairly thorough job of doing, thanks for that.
Having intelligence doesn't mean you should use it as a bludgeoning weapon and humiliate others for attempting to have some of their own. Try to have the decency to be understanding of dissenting opinions next time, yeah? Not everyone is trying to attack you, so I don't see why you would want to attack me in the first place.
Seriously, you're being unnecessarily harsh in what you're saying; maybe you should work on that? 