Life, a great disappointment

[Fininho]

Yes, Will.
I understand your point.
Nevertheless, there are millions right now going without "bacon", or even a packet of popcorn.
A child is born blind; a mother dies giving birth to her fourth baby.
A man built a house, and a storm destroyed it.

[Fininho]

Two young friends went to fight a war they did not start.
One lost both legs on a landmine; the other was blinded in an explosion.
Life for both: better they never came.

[elliebean]

The two friends might disagree with you. You think there aren't amputees or blind  people who are happy or value their life?

You whine a lot.

Stop it, or I'll have to use the 'ignore' feature.

And get a new avatar.

[Ihateyoumike]

Yes, Will.
I understand your point.
Nevertheless, there are millions right now going without "bacon", or even a packet of popcorn.
A child is born blind; a mother dies giving birth to her fourth baby.
A man built a house, and a storm destroyed it.

Then I would suggest you go out and do something about it. Go out and help just one of those people. Or help as many as you can. Then maybe you'll be productive and get something useful out of your life.

Whining about things on a message board never truly helped anyone.

[Fininho]

People help each other all the time, but life keeps going to the dogs for many, many others.
We cross with hungry children on the street every day. What do we do?
Poverty is endemic across the world.
What do you do to alleviate this social evil?
Better that life never started for them.

[Ihateyoumike]

I might be with Ellie on this one. Ignore might be in order. This person clearly isn't looking for any type of actual discussion it seems.

[Fininho]

Take racial hatred.
Is it not reason enough to consider life a great regret for many?

[LARA]

Gotta be more to life than just being here too point out what's wrong with the world.

I actually really appreciate your spectacularly awful posts Fininho because I can veer towards the negative myself at times, and seeing such a blatantly negative perspective pushes me back towards what's really important and beautiful in life.

Life will be here with it's beauty and suffering as long as it's possible to be here, might as well find the good in it instead of picking out the small very nasty bits and complaining.

I'm with Will on the bacon thing.  I'd like to add charcoal grilled ribeyes to that list.  And laughter.  Laughing is awesome.  So are plants.  Nearly all forms of plant life are perfectly beautiful and innocent.  They provide life from light and kill nothing.  Trees are quiet, spectacular powerhouses.  Sight is another amazing feature of human life.  The visible spectrum and variety of forms to be enjoyed is amazing.  Human creativity is another.  Art, music, engineering.  These things are good.

So there is bad.  Bad things can be combatted.  Life succeeds, grows and evolves.  The evolutionary process has some ugliness and waste, it can go either direction towards pleasant or unpleasant in the human eye, but we have the ability to push for the positive, do good things, create, love and have good lives.

[TinkerBelle]

I might be with Ellie on this one. Ignore might be in order. This person clearly isn't looking for any type of actual discussion it seems.

I'm in agreement for sure. I have offered to lend an ear in PM. This person clearly needs professional help. Is there any way to shut this thread down? I hate to turn my back on someone in need, but he isn't here for any productive reason. Sorry. Just my opinion.

Holly

[elliebean]

I might be with Ellie on this one. Ignore might be in order. This person clearly isn't looking for any type of actual discussion it seems.

He made that clear in his last thread.

[Wilson]

Troll alert!

He's playing with your heads.

[Whitney]

Fininho, if all you are going to do is preach that "life is a great disappointment" then you're going to find yourself banned right along with all the religious fundies who come here just to preach.  So, it's your choice...i really don't care if you are being sincere or not; if you were harmed you need to find a way to overcome, if you are just pissed you need to get over it and if you are trolling you are one of life's disappointments.

[Recusant]

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

What to do?  Carry on, and make the best of it.  Or not.

[Fininho]

Carry on? Fine.
I knew a young guy who had some disenfranchising with his girlfriend.
Result: he went to the flat's balcony, and shot himself in the mouth.
I heard a loud bang followed by some heavy thing drop on the ground.
He was still alive when the paramedics arrived, but only for the next few minutes.
Life is not a disappointment in MANY similar cases?
Don't you think there is some disconnectivity in the social fabric we applaud?

[Recusant]

Don't you think there is some disconnectivity in the social fabric we applaud?

What's this "we" shit, Ke-mo sah-bee?  I deplore a great deal in the current social fabric, and applaud damn little.

You will note, I included the "or not" option.  The young man chose that, but honestly, I consider it quite selfish and only acceptable for those who do it to escape otherwise inescapable physical suffering; those who face what few days might remain filled with agony.  I sympathize with the young man, having been in a similar state of mind for the exact same reason, but consider his choice cowardly and unwarranted.  One can make an effort to improve the world, even if only minimally, and try to have a decent time while doing so, or one can embrace despair and maunder and moan, then step off the merry-go-round. Good people who succumb to despair are actually helping the cause of evil in this world. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." --Edmund Burke

Maybe you're going through a period of clinical depression, Fininho.  I strongly advise you to get some help, if you think that might be the case.  We can't afford to lose too many good people, so try to stick around and help out.