Why Why?

[Mister Agenda]

Most people have little interest in a "friend" who can't think of any reason to see them.  Friendship implies attachment and a desire to be in another persons presence.  Someone should have explained this to you when you were a very small child.

A selfish and self centered person commenting on their complete lack of that while professing to have redeeming or endearing qualities can only be talking about how they feel endeared and redeemed...to themselves.  Others may not see you how you see yourself.  Add in the not trusting people kicker and you have a description of a friendless asshole who has no friends because they don;t know how to make friends.  Who can't connect with other people on shared apprehensions and experiences, like that desire for intimate connection...because they don't have any.

-but don't worry, a special friend in the sky loves you, sees your endearing and redeeming qualities, and thinks that everyone else is [insert a stream of invective here] - just like you.  Another poster suggested that you saw social value in this place, in your interaction here.  That's the sort of generous assumption a normal person who can't understand why you signed up would make, huh?

I could have used someone explaining attachment to me when I was a kid. By the time I graduated HS and joined the USAF, I had been moved 50 times. Military service continued that trend. When I got out I kept bouncing for about 10 more years. I was very shy and I was 36 before I broke my record of 5 years in the same State. When I applied to my current company, I needed extra pages to list all the jobs I'd had in the previous 5 years because I moved so much and couldn't list anyone not a relative I had known more than a year (as in still knew how to contact them). Because of that background I had no idea of how to maintain a long-term relationship and I was 53 before I was in a romantic relationship that lasted more than a year.

So I was handicapped in the attachment department, I saw friendships as temporary, easy come/easy go, and girlfriends as the same. Eventually I learned how to manage long-term relationships, but a therapist could probably have helped me shorten my learning curve a lot.

I hope Ahriman doesn't have to flounder with relationships for decades like I did

[Ahriman]

Most people have little interest in a "friend" who can't think of any reason to see them.  Friendship implies attachment and a desire to be in another persons presence.  Someone should have explained this to you when you were a very small child.

A selfish and self centered person commenting on their complete lack of that while professing to have redeeming or endearing qualities can only be talking about how they feel endeared and redeemed...to themselves.  Others may not see you how you see yourself.  Add in the not trusting people kicker and you have a description of a friendless asshole who has no friends because they don;t know how to make friends.  Who can't connect with other people on shared apprehensions and experiences, like that desire for intimate connection...because they don't have any.

-but don't worry, a special friend in the sky loves you, sees your endearing and redeeming qualities, and thinks that everyone else is [insert a stream of invective here] - just like you.  Another poster suggested that you saw social value in this place, in your interaction here.  That's the sort of generous assumption a normal person who can't understand why you signed up would make, huh?

Doesn't that just mean I'm a unique person? I think you're salty that you're some commoner normie pleb and I'm a truly exceptional individual. You don't understand me at all, for one thing.

[The Grand Nudger]

OFC you're unique, just like everyone else. Some people are unique in a way that negatively impacts themselves and the people around them. I assume that you think those qualities you just claimed for yourself are endearing, and redeeming...but to whom?

[Ahriman]

I had friends in Catholic school, so I would like to say those same traits that made me endearing back then still apply, but they don't. I was naive and shy back then, now I'm bolder and more egotistical. My current self is not as "magnetic" as my old self, in terms of attracting people. Probably because people thought they could take advantage of me back then, whereas now they can't.

[The Grand Nudger]

Yeah, that's probably it. Can't imagine what else it may be. I know that I assume that the only thing all of my interactions with every other person have in common is that they're assholes.

Still, I have to say, being a catholic does suggest that a person may be susceptible to being taken advantage of. It's their business model, after all. I suppose you could call it providing a Why? service, as long as you don't look too hard at it, too. Content creators with an aggressive monetization scheme.

[Ahriman]

I would love to do some content creating, but people would think I'm being too negative. Most people only want to hear the "sunshine and rainbows" version of reality, and I'm not willing to provide them with that.

[The Grand Nudger]

Or anything else, clearly?

What would you make this content about, being the opposite of sunshine and rainbows?

[Ahriman]

Intellectual musings. Controversial topics. Evil and darkness.

[The Grand Nudger]

Is this something that features heavily in your ideas about the answer to the question of Why?

[Ahriman]

If anything, it's the antithesis of "why"