Zenspace wrote:TedDahlberg wrote:ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:If I get angry it seldom lasts long enough to type and submit. Plus, I'm as boring as fuck and OK with it. Getting angry because someone on the internet doesn't see things the same way is not the path to a happy life.
I do try my best to be a good Stoic.
It's amazing how much happier you can be if you don't let the outside world dictate your feelings. But it's easier some days than others :violin:
This is the path to inner peace, or at least superficial happiness. :lol:
Seriously, though, it works. Stop making yourself a voluntary pin cushion for everyone else's little hurts and offenses and you will lead a much happier life. The human race is just a bunch of apes with bronze age minds and nuclear age weaponry. We will eventually fuck ourselves over terminally, and probably do it in a very spectacular way. Either that or it will just be a pathetic whimper. FftB/Skepchick/A+ et al are just a local symptom of a much, much larger problem inherent to the species. I would like to slow the descent as much as possible, but that is about all one can realistically hope for.
You know, I'm usually a grumpy bastard, but I do have a lot of hope in our little human race's future. We have been doing some awesome things and reaching some incredible advancement over the last hundred years or so, and I think it's a matter of time and opportunity for us to solve problems that today seems to doom us to a bleak future.
We're awesome, that's all I'm saying. Fuck Mother Nature and her stupid rules; one day, we'll send her ass to the kitchen and make her spend her entire miserable life making us sammiches while we clean Earth with nanobots, mine other planets for resources and make the best of our brains and our opposable thumbs. Of course, we have a loooong way to go on that, but I'm pretty optimistic.
(Does it help my case that I watched Avatar and thought that the Na'vi should be blasted from orbit with thermonuclear weaponry, just because they were irritating?)
