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If you let go of happiness, of ego, of everything, then you no longer desire achieving any particular physical state anymore. The people whom lecture never tell you things like this because they simply don't truly understand it or want to admit it to themselves. They want to believe they have...

According to what I've learned/experienced, our entire society seems to be built upon manipulation. Everything from the ground up. And when you exist on the fringes of society, whether you're put there of your own accord or not, manipulation just seems to become a fundamental part of survival...

Don't pay any attention to Sci-Fi, he's always like that. I thought about posting something last week, but I never really know what to say anymore. Sorry to disappoint you... ---

Setting your sights real high right there... Really, the guy you're talking about is actually probably just as miserable as you are. He just fills his life with more real-life porn than you do, and a lot of chatter and noise but still no real conversations. You need to have a vision of...

You can, though. There are numerous political ideologies that don't really involve democracy. In fact we all live in one right now. How else would our governments ever accomplish anything? Any of you actually believe your "votes" matter to national agencies? Sorry to tell you but that is a bit...

An apt analogy, I think. And I really have no choice but to agree with you. Humanity seems to have a morbid curiosity for their own death, to the point that they almost seek it out. A fetish for their own mortality. As if living in peace is somehow too foreign of an idea for them to even...

Tons of people are rather anti-social with their bosses, don't eat very healthy, don't go to the doctors much, and have generally contradictory/hypocritical beliefs. But that's only a small fraction of what makes up someone's personality. It doesn't mean you need to change everything. It just...

Change is difficult because most people refuse to change and don't even realize it. For everyone else, change is usually pretty easy if it is actually something that you want. ---

I'm not sure you'd understand my frustrations. But I'll try to put it into terms that won't get me moderated. Ignorance, close-mindedness, and apathy. These are the three most basic traits of society that I believe are destroying humanity. And I see these things everywhere I go and in...

I'm also +1 for the annoying ignore-list users bugs. I had to take a couple people off ignore to see their posts, which I don't really mind so long as it isn't a controversial topic. I only ignore them because of those topics. But without the 'show post' button it is meaningless to have anyone...

Because they're bored? Hmm, you really believe that?

Pretty much no matter how I answer this question it would be against the rules of the forum. So rather than answering the question I'm just going to tell you this.

You seem to be looking for religious or spiritual guidance? Well, I'm somewhat studied in Theology, so I guess I will give it a try... There are pretty easy answers to these questions. Why are you here? Because you were born. What is life? Well, did you not listen in biology class? I could...

As you can see from the people here who are responding, there is really nowhere else to go. I'm not sure where you are now but it's likely everything you face there you'll face the same or similar problems anywhere else in the world. Especially the problems that you have described. The sad...

Yeah, I would, too. I actually have worked for and with nonprofits before, including on administrative stuff, and they are quite notorious for doing stuff like this. They want their cake and they want to eat it, too. Unless people make a big fuss about a problem nothing is ever going to change...

Yes, having those things is a kind of love, but that kind of love also isn't exactly the same kind of love that you have for a partner. You can have acceptance, repect, honesty, and appreciation for basically anyone. Your parents, siblings, friends, coworkers, teachers, mentors, role-models...

But you were talking about idealism before and you are indeed arguing about semantics now. So I'm a little confused why you're saying this. And, no offense, but I don't think you really made that entirely clear. "Needs" and "ideals" are different things, and you only really used the word "need"...

Yes, the definition for 'settling' we use definitely matters, but I think maybe my point with your definition would be reflecting on whether or not our standards are reasonable or simply fantasy story-book-love kind of thing. In today's world we've got all these movies, TV shows, books, stories...

This isn't really true, though. No one is "ideal". Ideals as people are non-existent in reality. We can idealize people all we want but the people in the world, even if you looked at every single person one by one, you'd never find anyone who could match every one of your ideals. Human beings...

If that is being scolded then I guess I'm somewhat regularly taken out and flogged. Though, at this point it doesn't seem to bother me anymore. I think most people stop caring what others think when they've been told they are a useless human being for the hundredth or so time. I sure did.