Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

[capslockbroke]I wish I never had a Facebook in the first place.


When I didn't have one, I was like "OH MY GOD, I WISH I HAD A FACEBOOK."

Started stalking everyone I could remember, then realized they're just shit people, deleted people, then stopped going to "People you May Know" section a loooong time ago.

And now it's boring...I don't even talk to the people that are actually decent and competent beings.

So many girls posting booby pics for likes (I mean, it was cute at first, but when you do it every FUCKING TIME to get males who don't really care much about your face).

Then there's the "OH MY GOD, GUYS ONLY WANT ONE THING!" and then, "WHY DON'T GUYS LIKE ME?!?!" and then "I'M SO UGLY!!!! BUT DON'T TAKE THIS AS ME FISHING FOR COMPLIMENTS."

and then "OH MY GOD, I BROKE MY NAIL...HOLY SHIT SOMEONE CALL THE NEWS STATION AND POST THIS CLIMATIC AND HEARTBREAKING EVENT." and then they post "GIRLS THINK WITH THEIR HEARTS AND GUYS THINK WITH THEIR HEADS" and then someone finally makes a comment to just make them shut the fuck up and think on how they are contradicting their statements,

and the most annoying but so realisitic quote that keeps getting plastered that "TELL A GIRL SHE'S BEAUTIFUL, AND SHE'LL LIKE IT FOR A MOMENT, TELL HER SHE'S UGLY, AND SHE'LL HATE YOU FOREVER."

NO YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LIVE FOREVER!$!%!$ YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, AND NO ONE IS GOING TO GIVE A SHIT! I HATE THIS GENERATION!!!! NO MATTER HOW MUCH I TRY TO AVOID THIS BULLSHIT, I JUST CAN'T BECAUSE I'M FORCED TO SEE THESE PEOPLE EVERYTIME.

AND PEOPLE KEEP WANTING TO BE FRIENDLY WITH ME WHEN I DON'T LIKE THEM.[/capslockbroke]

#firstworldproblems.

I deleted my Facebook. Life got much better.

That's why I don't have a FB account.

Well, that's just one more reason. Never have, probably never will.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

I deleted my Facebook. Life got much better.

I only have it because it's the only way to know if my three half-sisters are still alive, and other family members too.

And with college, even our tutors use it to post worksheets to study, so if I can't make it to the review sessions, Facebook is pretty much my only option. And then there's the person who sends a request to you that you know you will come in contact in real life, and when you don't accept, they start playing mind games with why you didn't add them.

And even if you only added people that you actually need and what groups you need the most, you can't escape the fact that you'll meet people, and they will want to add you, and you're afraid to reject it because they'll just think you're a douche bag.

It's really hard to have a Facebook for just receiving information for events for practice exams, worksheets, etc. WITHOUT someone finding your name out. And PEOPLE WON'T GO ANYWHERE ELSE BUT FACEBOOK, so you really can't ask a person to make their own site or use blogs because people will just forget it because of inconvenience.

I don't know what's worse, jumping off a cliff or having a Facebook to keep in touch with family and getting information that is ACTUALLY useful, but at the same time, being forced to add people you don't even know but still will meet in real life????

And I hate it when a person adds me, and we never talk in real life. I blocked one girl, and whenever I meet her, she always looks at me as if she's afraid of me...GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



DIE DIE DIE DIE GFUCKIGN DIE DIE!!!!!!! dIEEE!!! WHY WOn't YOU DIE GOD DAMN IT!!!



OH YM GOd, MY LIFE IS sOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COMPLICATED....lmfao

Okay, rant over....I need some fucking sleep...

In all honesty, just tell them you don't use it. Say that you only have it for school. They'll get over it, it's really not that big of a deal. If someone cares that much about having you as a Facebook friend that when it comes to their relationship with you they can't be happy without it, then fuck 'em. And yes, get some sleep.

It's not that, it's just that if we're doing a group assignment in college, there's always that ass-fuck that says "OH MY GOD, I'll ADD YOU GUYS ON FACEBOOK AND WE'LL POST TIMES THAT WE CAN MEET TO WORK ON THEM."

So I HAVE TO GO ON OR else they will think I'm lazy or not being interested in getting a good grade. And they don't use phone texts at least because no one pays attention to them, but they DO pay attention to anything OTHER than college work.
It's that small message that branches into shit you can't escape.

EDIT:

And they don't use e-mail, because honestly, WHO IS GOING TO CHECK EVERY 5 MINUTES TO SEE IF A REVIEW SESSION IS GOING TO BE CANCELED ON E-MAIL!?!?!? USING E-MAIL is like trying to fuck a monkey....

BAH FUCK IT. DEAL WITH IT LINK.

I keep my email inbox open at all times. I still say fuck 'em. If they really cared, about you or the grade, they'd be willing to work around Facebook.

Yeah, plus most people have smart phones and it pops up whenever there is a new e-mail.
Actually MORE convenient than facebook, unless they're on there all the time....

I always just tell people I do have it but I never use it. And I've set it so only friends can search for me.
I will probably delete it soon, but it's just so much better than texting people coz it costs nothing.

laby + confusion = bed

facebook's a lot like american idol

no one likes it

everyone looks down on the people that tune in

but the owners are making millions and millions of dollars

Originally Posted by mooseantlers

Yes, I typed in the title of this thread and YOU are the thread starter, and the OP has nearly the exact same text -_-

If you're referring to B.Evo, I started this thread on here around the same time I started it there; I do that with a lot of my threads. That's not the forum I was referring to in the OP though.
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I thought my psychology exam was next week, but it turns out it's tomorrow. I haven't studied at all and I'll probably fail. Woo.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

facebook's a lot like american idol

no one likes it

everyone looks down on the people that tune in

but the owners are making millions and millions of dollars

Facebook makes billions and billions.

Facebook could be as free forum and meeting place as diaspora but people won't let it? Why is that? What's the paranoia and competiton there..

It sometimes reminds me of scifi books where people live in different planets, domes and living quarters and communicate on some ansibelnet. But there is a firm behind that somehow sensores, monitores and guides the appropriete topics. That nobody talks about, but there isn't.. facebook developers had a small dream that crew into bigger dream.. maybe someone profits on it, but i seriously doubt that its dreaming of noncommunication. It's our own fears and prejustices, fear for communication.. and jealousy of profit and hate for commercials.. but commercials change by use (the target market DMT and quantum jumping to me) so it's basicly up to what we do in net ourselves

I come home from work planning to pull an all-nighter to get my homework done and see that like 10 people have responded to me. It's taken half an hour just to read it all, now to respond.

Originally Posted by GavinGill

You're cutting yourself a little short, you're easily one of the more intelligent members of the community. =/

There's a difference between intelligence and knowledgeableness, but thank you.

Originally Posted by Linkzelda41

[long post]

Thanks for the post. My grandmother is pretty lively for a woman in her 70's. Her mind seems to work fine. With some old people, whose minds are going, I might attribute some thoughtless behavior to senility or whatever else, but not with her. Still, the knowledge of impending death might be an explanation. Also, about knowledge, I really am ignorant about a lot of the things that most people aren't ignorant of. I don't usually post in threads that I know nothing about, so that ignorance isn't apparent here.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

I have to agree with Gavin here, Dianeva, you don't come off as ignorant in the slightest. Just because you have a lot more that you want to learn doesn't mean you aren't a smart person, and you're clearly able to really think about things for yourself and use sense, otherwise you wouldn't be so annoyed by your family. Plus, you think about legitimately interesting topics (like animal consciousness) and strive to learn more. It sounds like you're doing pretty good to me. Unfortunately, there's probably not a lot you can do to change the way your parents and grandparents think at this point in their lives. My advice would be to just try to accept that they are the way they are, and maybe slowly try to nudge them in the right direction but don't be too upset if they don't follow, you can't fix everyone and sometimes if someone's happy with how they are you just have to let them be.

Thanks. I am happy with the way I think about things. I just don't know enough. And yeah, as you and others have said, it probably shouldn't bother me. Caring about truth is just a core value that I have and I don't understand why anyone wouldn't, but some people don't, and I have yet to come up with a reason for why truth should matter, so I don't have any real basis for my anger.

Originally Posted by labyrint

wrong facepalm for Picard has met conscious rocks

Nice point, thanks dark for pointing it out. I never saw the episode though.

Originally Posted by labyrint

[rest of post]

A confusing read you have offered, as ever. Yeah, they do all follow a type of spiritualism similar to Buddhism, and that's where most of hteir thoughts are coming from. And maybe my dad did try to ocmmunicate with a child that way, I don't know. He does a few things like that, and seesm to act more like a child while talking to his family who are all adults than when he's on the phone with work people talking about serious stuff, he's like a differnet person. I'm keeping ty pos in like you do, see that? And not thinking much. hehe. When I do talk to them alone about things they are very much more likel ime. They will talk about things I"m interesting in and understand reason. (I think I'm doing the talking like you wrong, but I'm trying for fun!) Whenever I have cornered their thought processes, my mother and brother end up admitting that they don't care about the truth, so that's why I know it comes down to not caring in the end. My parents are very rational, but they and other humans sem to not care about reason while talking about things like philosophy or other things that we can not ever know.

Originally Posted by Xei

I totally empathise, although you got off lightly; I spent this evening with somebody who tried to tell me I should believe in homoeopathy. The worst thing about it is that even after providing a perfect and attentive counter discussion in which I explained how you can't rely on personal experience of homoeopathic healing because you were going to heal at some point anyway, and you simply have to look at studies of many people to see if there is any appreciable difference or not, and how 'maybe it only works on believers' does not somehow nullify this, and how superficially stupid natural remedies like willow bark have actually been assimilated by medicine due to a demonstrable statistical effect, and hence how portraying science as 'closed minded' is ridiculously far of the mark and represents a totally backwards understanding of how to attain knowledge, and after she was compelled to accept every single thing I said; I still heard her a short while later telling somebody else about homoeopathy. No doubt tomorrow she will go back to calling scientists close minded just to protect her ridiculous dogmas. I too get really riled up by people who are such incorrigible cognitive carwrecks, such utterly hypocritical doublethinkers... I sometimes wish we could form a separate nation for rational people to live in. Unfortunately the aforementioned people will probably end up convincing themselves that it's morally legitimate to bomb us for some reason.

Your second sentence is very long. And yes, that sounds annoying, and the same mentally as the people I'm talking about who have a disregard for truth. That nation would be nice.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Tommo. Is he neutered? If not he might just be out "tomming" around.
I hope he comes home soon.

A while ago tommo went missing for a week, then I found out he'd just been tommoing around at the beach.
And I do hope you find the cat.

Originally Posted by Singularity125

I'm the sort that tries to be very open minded about things. Yes, even the sorts of things that you facepalm at. Then again, I'm also the sort that hangs around Deep Dreaming, and if I weren't so open minded, I would have to conclude that my best friend is completely insane. (Long story.) But, I just wanted to point out that some people genuinely believe these things and, well, they have the right. Still, I respect everything you said because of this:

The term open-mindedness can have many definitions. Of course it's okay to be willing to consider that any viewpoint might be true. But I think it helps to set a standard for determining likelihood. My problem is with people who ignore evidence and think that, just because everything is possible, means everything is equally likely.

Originally Posted by Singularity125

You were making it clear that it's what you think, and you said likely. Besides, you didn't actually laugh at your family, so, that's always good too. You don't think in absolutes, so we're completely cool. Plus, I wonder on the sorts of things you do, too, and they fascinate me. I am too lazy to go back and find it now, but earlier someone said (I think it was you... I hope it was you, or I'll feel dumb! But this is such a long thread...) that they wondered about why they are who they are, and not someone else. That's something I wonder about all the time! And, with all the esoteric stuff I look into, I still hope to find a way to prove or disprove it, scientifically. So, I think we share that interest in the truth.

I don't think in absolutes. Does anyone? I've had trouble for a while now deciding whether I should use terms like 'likely', 'somewhat', 'in my opinion', 'probably', etc. because those words should be implied anyway for anything that anyone says. But I usually use them anyway, because most people won't realise that. Maybe Alyzarin said what you're thinking, but I did recently start a thread on consciousness and what makes me me, so it could have been me you're thinking of too.

Originally Posted by Singularity125

And, as Gavin says, you are very intelligent indeed! As I'm going through a history of psychology class this semester, I've got to say that you sound like Socrates when you call yourself ignorant. (Long story short: The oracle said he was the wisest around, and he didn't believe it. Finally he realized it was only because he knew he was ignorant, and others didn't even know that much.)

Thanks. But I really am ignorant about a lot that I shouldn't be ignorant about. I know that I'll never know everything, but there are some basics about life that most people know which I for some reason don't. Most fall into the Political category.

Originally Posted by Singularity125

Short version of all this? I believe in some pretty crazy stuff and would probably make you facepalm if you heard half of it. But you're pretty smart and sensible, so it's all good.

Ha, well, I don't ever literally facepalm in real life. And that's the only time I've ever used the emoticon.

Originally Posted by melanieb

everyone (or everypony)

Keep it in the pony thread dude.
Thanks for the post. I just don't agree that there's a different truth for everyone and that they're all equally valid. There is an objective reality, and some beliefs are simply wrong.

[an hour later] Oh my *@(#$ (@^#&, WHY. FUUUUCK
*shoots self*

Nice free verse Aly
Link, Gavin, anyone else who needs one.

Rocky's doing well. He's going to limp for a while but the swelling has gone down, he's using his foot more AND he's finally eating

My rant is that I had bad dreams last night and I tossed around a lot. I took one Minipress at 1:30AM when I went to bed and another some time later after I woke from a dream. All in all, the meds have made it possible to get more restful sleep more often. I guess nothing is 100%, 100% of th etime

I love FB, but only for the games. I tell people to send me a PM on FB if they want to talk. I never have chat open and I have so many random "friends" for the games that my page is always flooded with game stuff, as is my wall.
The wife of my step-son has worked with FB since it was founded. He has an amazing job as well and is looking to buy a Porche. He's about 33 years old.

Originally Posted by Xei

Spoiler for Xei's post:

I totally empathise, although you got off lightly; I spent this evening with somebody who tried to tell me I should believe in homoeopathy. The worst thing about it is that even after providing a perfect and attentive counter discussion in which I explained how you can't rely on personal experience of homoeopathic healing because you were going to heal at some point anyway, and you simply have to look at studies of many people to see if there is any appreciable difference or not, and how 'maybe it only works on believers' does not somehow nullify this, and how superficially stupid natural remedies like willow bark have actually been assimilated by medicine due to a demonstrable statistical effect, and hence how portraying science as 'closed minded' is ridiculously far of the mark and represents a totally backwards understanding of how to attain knowledge, and after she was compelled to accept every single thing I said; I still heard her a short while later telling somebody else about homoeopathy. No doubt tomorrow she will go back to calling scientists close minded just to protect her ridiculous dogmas. I too get really riled up by people who are such incorrigible cognitive carwrecks, such utterly hypocritical doublethinkers... I sometimes wish we could form a separate nation for rational people to live in. Unfortunately the aforementioned people will probably end up convincing themselves that it's morally legitimate to bomb us for some reason.

So this is a response to Dianeva and Xei;

I just feel really sorry for people like that. It just seems like they are blind. Beyond deluded. And I just want to find some way to help them.

At the same time, it makes me terrified that I, and everyone else, may be just as much deluded, and the homeopaths think that their arguments are absolutely irrefutable. Obviously it's not true, but I worry about it.

Also Dianeva, don't bottle up your anger like that. Don't let it out either, but channel it to try and keep going with the discussion. When they started talking about rock consciousness, just be good humoured, maybe look a little patronising (this generally works in making people feel a bit self-conscious), and say "OK, so how exactly are rocks conscious? What makes you think that? What evidence do you have to support that?" and eventually they'll admit it's just intuition or they heard someone say it or something. That dead end should be enough for you to have the high ground in the argument and you hopefully wouldn't have that bottled up anger. They'll know you think they're a bit stupid for believing that and maybe that will turn them around a bit. I guess though you probably tried arguing with them about this sort of thing and they just got you more frustrated so you don't want to try again. In which case I guess their isn't anything to do.

Oh and sorry if I sound really patronising. I seriously can't help it. All my friends hate it.

And Xei, that sounds really sad. I guess she's just a lost cause. People like that seem to have some inner sanctum where their beliefs are totally impenetrable, surrounded by a force-field of circular arguments.

Nice point, thanks dark for pointing it out. I never saw the episode though.

Now I'm getting into doubt was it Kirk istead of Picard. Next Gen has so many seasons. In old Stark Trek there was at least one cilicoid based lifeform, that counts as concsious rock. Not sure about every Rock named human Though

A confusing read you have offered, as ever. Yeah, they do all follow a type of spiritualism similar to Buddhism, and that's where most of hteir thoughts are coming from. And maybe my dad did try to ocmmunicate with a child that way, I don't know. He does a few things like that, and seesm to act more like a child while talking to his family who are all adults than when he's on the phone with work people talking about serious stuff, he's like a differnet person. I'm keeping ty pos in like you do, see that? And not thinking much. hehe. When I do talk to them alone about things they are very much more likel ime. They will talk about things I"m interesting in and understand reason. (I think I'm doing the talking like you wrong, but I'm trying for fun!) Whenever I have cornered their thought processes, my mother and brother end up admitting that they don't care about the truth, so that's why I know it comes down to not caring in the end. My parents are very rational, but they and other humans sem to not care about reason while talking about things like philosophy or other things that we can not ever know.

I was really little bit afraid that my response would offend you for all nitpicking. Glad you took it in good way. It's nice to work within scientific paradigm and defend those things that are new waves of science. I really dig that. And in school it's hard to work outside intelligence and preassutions of others. It might even be hard to defend those points that new science supports for teachers sometimes aren't that updated or shouldn't teach it. Sometimes I wan't to blow up all the school [<- strong sarcasm here, so they don't prevent me coming to states at somepoint as potential 'terrorist'] for it's sometimes easier to study and cultivate theories outside the schoolconsensus.

I just realised I speak now more correctly, when you let loose .. Maybe what I was trying to point out that we all act more rationally and appreciate inteligence over other traits for school and science. It's fairly common in homecircles and among friends to try to detach from it. But it might be frustrating for if you're just getting a gling of how you're suppose to defend or recearch things that you've held true by your heart. Maybe also gotten somewhere with it.. then it's hard to divide yourself with something that now seems opposite or old-fasioned or dated data or downright dumb.

I have one beutifull memory of my dead grandma (while she was alive, offcourse) when we watch stars together and I was 'allready' an adult. I told her that stars are suns faraway which she to my suprise didn't know. She was overwhelmed by the thought which everybody should have known by that time. Her eyes went all dreamy, and I wondered how her unscientific mind would imagine the knowledge. I was little envious for her.

In nowdays world I back the Grant Morrisons thought that there aren't a single adult in this planet. There was when I was younger, but nowdays my senior seem quite lost in their worlds and childlike. After teenage many people play the I'm an adult game. Which can be fun for a while, but it's just a game you play to get yourself independent from them. It usually ends when you see that your parents have given up that game. My mum and her Husband are going through new 'negative age', but instead of "me, let me do it by myself, I can do it, go away, don't disturb, I'm not you" it's "us, let us do it by ourself, we can do it, go away, don't disturb us, we're independent". My sister pointed out the diffence. They're trying to adjust to new world by themself and don't want us to mess they're playng the house/family game

Fuck, I went downhill with my bicycle. I have a meal I bought from the Vietnamese Restaurant, normally when I take a right, there aren't cars around, but there's one coming my way, so that means I had to take a sharper turn. And the sand that was oddly placed in the corner of where I'm turning is not leveled right, so I fell to the side on the right and hit the lower right region of my back, and 3% of my meal is gone.

Now my back hurts like FUCK WHEN I STAND UP...FUCKK THIS MAN!! Even the cook who gave me the meal when he was done looked pissed overall, he just throws the utensils inside the bag. YOU FUCK ASS, IF YOU'RE PISSED, DON'T BE PISSED AT THE CUSTOMER....YOU FUCKING CRASKFJASDGSKHA...

OW my back! >.<!!!

I hate it when one bad event leads to another....it's usually an omen for tomorrow (Chemistry exam tomorrow and Biology the day after) ugh Lady luck, please don't leave me...owww

A flood occurred this morning in South Bulgaria and 3 people lost their lives. Those fools ( I mean the government, local authorities, what not) have known for weeks that heavy rainfalls are expected in that region, and they did nothing! And it was well known that the water level in that dam was very high. This tragedy could have been prevented. Fools! As if the general poverty in that region was not enough. people lost everything, everything. Damn! I know some of you would say that 3 victims is not that great loss, but believe me, it hurts. Especially when you know that those people are victims of someone's carelessness and irresponsibility. The dam is not that large, many things could have been done, fuck their stupid, empty heads!

It's times like these I take life for granted....I hate when that realization hits me in the face. It sucks that most people wouldn't really worry about that unless it were their own relatives, but it's hard to show sympathy to that sometimes because other people's deaths will not be recognized, it really sucks.


The government may be incompetents, but even the best cannot work miracles, even if they evacuated the citizens before the event occurred, people would probably go against leaving and just stay stubborn and let themselves get destroyed. It really sucks Sinoblak, but you can't stop it, it hurts, but it happens. I hope your day gets better later on though.



I really need to find a way to get things back to normal for me, this back pain shit just made me realize how easy it is to get into accidents. At least now I know not to go fast downhill and try to drift to corners >.<

I'm at home, sick ;_;

Originally Posted by Erii

I'm at home, sick ;_;

But, you have your laptop back now! So it's not all bad!

^ amen to that!

People were looking at me funny today on the treadmill at the rec center. What happened was they each have their own TV and I saw an preview for that movie that The Rock is in. It showed the scene where the Rock said something like "This is my peck punch of love" and flexed his pecks back and forth. And I loled on the treadmill in a public place.

It was embarrassing, I kinda wanted to say "WHAT?!" .. because they have TVs on their treadmills too. But it was a loud lol so maybe it just scared them or something hehe.