(October 17, 2014 at 10:44 am)MusicLovingAtheist Wrote: People often have this attitude where they encourage you not to be an optimist and make empty statements that life is meaningful. You might as well put a sock on your hand and call it mr.happy and just keep telling me that shit over and over. No matter how much you believe that life is meaningful, that doesn't make it true. "No amount of belief makes something a fact." James RandyThats the beautiful thing about life. I do not have some predeterimed purpose like I'm a fucking screw driver. I can be as misierable or as happy as I fucking want, and it's not like my life is a fable needs a meaning to be worthwhile'
Quote:This kind of optimism isn't logical. It's because our society values putting on a happy face. Anyone who isn't blind can see the way that when someone expresses hatred, discontent, hopelessness, people get intolerant and impatient.I'm actually inclined to somewhat agree. As hatred is neccessary, hopelessness is human, discontent is simply lust for a better world, intolerance is sometimes necessary, and impatience is why they invented the microwave.
Quote: People say you're immature or a loser.People are also fucking stupid
Quote: I know why. It's because that's how they're raised to think. Most people just copy what everyone else around them is doing. People value norms and values of society, usually no matter what they are. Everyone believes in god because other people tell them to and everyone else is doing it. It's seriously just a way of controlling people. So everyone acts in the image of those around them.
Not all of us, some of us have the gall to think for ourselves!
Quote: What do we have? A blindly optimistic society that ignores those with problems and is only concerned with continuing the charade.Again not true, there are too many of us weirdos (Or those that don't toe the line) to be discounted. And history shows we are not a force to be herded or taken lightly. Just happy workers are productive workers, and since we malcontents are not happy workers often the power that be like to pretend we aren't there
Quote:I wish i still had this video that they showed us in sociology class where they had a clown and a some unhappy people in the work place. It told about how people think that if you pretend to be happy that you will just become happy.Kinda reminds of what the communists used to feed people in Russia.
Quote: I really wish I could get more ideas from that video because I think it goes along the lines of what I am talking about here. Does anyone feel that keeping an optimistic attitude is every a good idea? I think optimism is just a way of trying to ignore the reality of a situation and hoping it will go away.Yes actually I think keeping a optimistic attitude is a good idea. You see even if you know its bullshit, it motivates others to do better, if applied properly.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
