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"stop the world. i want to get off"

vegan

vegan

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everywhere people try to control others' lives to give meaning to their own empty ones
they complain about things that don't matter but don't care about a dictatorship in another country
they choose to be sour all the time instead of simply looking for a positive side of things
they care about reality shows rather than marvel at the universe
they listen to what they're sold, watch what they're sold, read what they're sold
they kill each other over imaginary gods, property or just nothing at all
they elect halfwitted murderers and don't learn from their mistakes
they lie to gain power or get laid
they only care about me, myself and i
they like r&b
they think the logical way to bring peace is to kill people
they let others oppress as long as they're not the oppressed ones
they put their fucking tv at high volume any time of day and night
they'd tax the air if they could fit all of it in a locked warehouse
they don't wash their dishes after they've eaten or the landscape after they've extracted everything they could
they put on a facade and despise you for being your own self
they try to pass in front of you in the line although all they'll gain is 20 pathetic seconds
etc. etc. etc...


i'm so very tired of this world
who knows of a place where you can just live peacefully by eating fruits without having someone kick you out of his holy property?
the world took a wrong turn at some point
if it's not making a u-turn, i want to get off
who's joining my strike?
 
GenericMind said:
You could probably live off of fruit in some remote jungle peacefully.

Well, until you got eaten by a fucking leopard anyway.
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Or a cannibal. In Africa more people are killed by cannibals each year than by lions.
 
Vegan, I hate to say it, but you're giving me a massive craving for a big juicy (organic, grass fed and sustainably raised) burger.

Did you miss the memo that life's not fair?
 
vegan said:
they like r&b
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I was with you up until this point. Where the hell did this come from? Not all R+B is evil. Its just like every other type of music, it has its good and bads.
 
<<if it's not making a u-turn, i want to get off
who's joining my strike?>>

Taking other people with you defeats the purpose--solitary asceticism is where it's at, IMO.

I for one, would not mind a week-long sabbatical alone in the desert. I figure it could be a kind of enema for the soul.
 
enough rope?
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I can so relate to you on this. I try not to let it get me down too much but I look at this world and see how we have come so far away from nature, ourselves as humans within the universe and the natural world, and how people have become so separated from each other and the earth. It makes me sad because I don't think it will change back, it's gone too far.

I would love nothing more than to go into the forest with a group of close friends and family, live off the earth, truly go back to nature. There aren't really many places you can do this though. I feel so trapped, society is structured in ways that make it almost impossible to escape from all the "systems" like money and meaningless jobs and technology which I think are un-human in a lot of ways.

I guess what makes me the saddest is when I imagine what this world must have been like before we started building these giant structures and producing things like cars and when the earth was still unharmed by construction/production. It would have been paradise. I think humans were happier in general and more connected with each other. Now it seems like people are closed off, they're hurrying to work, hurrying home, avoiding eye contact, shutting out everything with headphones and sunglasses, they're hurrying so much just to do it all over again tomorrow.

Sometimes I feel so out of place in this earth- but then I have to remind myself, that I fit in perfectly here- it's just that the earth is out of balance, not what it once was, and what I believe it was meant to be. It's not me who's an alien, it's the world that's becoming alien, if that makes sense. I think that's why so many people are troubled nowadays. When you're born you are a regular human being, then you grow up in this world that is really foreign to our basic nature in a lot of ways. For example, imagine back to when people lived in nature in harmony with the earth, I mean before "civilization." Now imagine if all you knew your entire life was trees, nature, wilderness, etc. Then one day you saw these giant roofs towering over the treeline, you went out of the forest and there were these crazy machines with round legs that zoomed everywhere and imagine if all the things we take as "normal" in cities had never been seen before. It would scare the shit out of you! And so much importance is placed on these little scraps of green paper, lives, wars, society is structured around them- and all they are really is a dead plant. (I'm talking about $$ btw.)

At the same time though, I have to accept that the world is what it is and make the best of it. There is still so much beauty in people and the earth, it may not be as idyllic as it once was but I feel so lucky to live in a time when there are still trees, still large expanses of relatively untouched wilderness, etc. I think there will be a time in the future when we deplete the earth even more than we have now and something like a tree will be a rarity. If we keep treating the world as we have so far this is definitely not a far-fetched version of the future. So I am trying to enjoy it while we still can. They haven't fucked up the sky yet, so I still marvel at the clouds and I always marvel at nature when I see it- trees, grass, everything, it's so miraculous. Instead of letting myself mourn what's gone, I have to try to appreciate what's still here. If I start to think about it too much I get very, very down. It's so much worse when I'm living in the midst of the city.

Sometimes I try to talk about this kind of thing to my friends, and more often than not I'm called a hippie or ridiculed, which makes me even sadder because it just shows me how far we have departed from who we really are. Sometimes I look around, by a road for example, and I feel so misplaced- like what are all these square boxes, and machine-things, and these strange noises, I don't know how to explain it really but it scares me so much, maybe I'm just a freak. You know what a back-hoe looks like, those things bother me so much, I almost have a panic attack sometimes when I see them. Machines are monsters to me. Ya I'm weird ok

Sorry for the long ramble but it helps me to unload this from time to time. It bothers me more than it should I guess.
 
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Ok vegan, this is what i do when im feeling down. At work, there are lots of hot girls to look at and talk to. It always makes me feel better. If im at home, i will go walmart 8( and look at, possibliy talk to, girls/women at walmart.

In otherwords, girls make me happy. If your gay then do the same with guys.
 
just ignore them and get on with your life

this is what you have, make the most of it, complaining only wastes time and gets you down.

take more drugs
 
I was with you up until this point. Where the hell did this come from?
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that was an attempt at humour

Vegan, I hate to say it, but you're giving me a massive craving for a big juicy (organic, grass fed and sustainably raised) burger.
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???
what does that have to do with my post?

Did you miss the memo that life's not fair?
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from the big book of things to accept because you're told to?

to some extent, i try not to just be a victim of a life others decide for me but to choose my own path
so i'll never take "it's like this, accept it" as a valid point

Taking other people with you defeats the purpose
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other people feel the same, and don't necessarily want to be alone
 
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