Something I Found On Bebo...

[jordanisonfire]

Read this book made on Bebo by someone. These are the chapters, basically:

Life sucks

We're all trapped.

Each of us is stuck being who we are. Sometimes we fight to change ourselves, but
ultimately this has little effect. We can change what we do, but we cannot change who we
are.

If you're a happy person, you don't feel trapped. If you're surrounded by people who you
love and who love you, if you can do what you want to do in life, if you are at peace with
who you are, why would you ever feel trapped? You wouldn't want to change yourself, you
wouldn't need to try.

If you're a happy person, hey, you got lucky! Go back to the previous page, you'll find
nothing of interest here.

I am not a happy person. Maybe you're not either. Maybe you're too fat, or too thin, too old,
or too young. Maybe you're ugly and nobody wants to sleep with you. Maybe everyone
wants to sleep with you, but nobody loves you and it's all meaningless. Maybe your body is
fucked up and you're in pain all the time. Maybe your mind is fucked up and you're in pain
all the time.

So you struggle with all these problems year after year, and you're getting nowhere, and
you wonder if anything will ever change. And the unavoidable reality of it all is that, for you,
life sucks.

But of course you're not going to give up so easily, you're going to keep struggling to
solve your problems, to change yourself, to find happiness, wherever it is, whatever it is.
But still, life sucks.

And you see all these people out there who are blissfully free of your problems, and if they
can do it, there must be some way for you to as well. But they aren't doing you any good at
all, they don't understand what it's like being you, and what good would it do you if they did
understand?

So, the forces which created you, random or otherwise, have spoken. And they've
determined that, for you, life sucks.

My God theory

Let's assume, for a moment, that there is a God. We may not know the nature of God, or
which religion comes closest to the truth, but we can be sure of one thing:

God does not love you.

Look at all the cruelty and misery in the world, which God does nothing to stop. Right now,
as you are reading this, there are children in various places around the world being raped
and tortured. Most of us would risk our lives, give up our lives, to save them if we could.
God stands by and does nothing. God has abandoned these children, and clearly does not
love them. God does not love you, either.

There are some religions which claim that "God's love is a different kind of love", which is
supposed to explain and justify what appears to be God's divine indifference. This is total
bullshit. If I claim that I love my neighbor, and then set his house on fire and shoot him in
the head, anyone can see that my "love" is not love at all.

Another fallacy along these lines is the statement that, "God doesn't give us more than we
can handle in life". This is a ridiculous statement. Go to a mental institution, go to the ward
for those who are seriously disturbed, and you'll see people who just sit and rock back and
forth all day, staring off into space, or screaming at nonexistant terrors. God has given
them more than they could handle, and now they're totally broken.

So you have no loving God watching over you, making sure you get what you need. You
don't get what you need in life, you don't get what you want, you don't get what you
deserve. You get what you get.

conclusion

Maybe life sucks because we're all really just big brained primates who were meant to
be living in small tribal groups hunting and gathering food, and our pain is the natural
result of our living in an unnatural environment.

Maybe life sucks because we haven't turned our lives over to Jesus or Allah or Yahweh
or whoever the One True God happens to be.

Maybe life sucks because we all have chemical imbalances in our brains.


The first proposition implies that the answer to life's problems is to abandon
technology. This was put forth recently by the Unabomber, and before that by the
Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.

The second is claimed by hundreds of different groups of religious fundamentalists, all
of which disagree on the identity and nature of this One True God.

The third is put forth by psychiatrists.

I'm not sure which of the above groups is worse, but given their accomplishments or
lack thereof, I highly doubt they have any answers for us.

So, I don't know the ultimate cause of, or the solution to, life's problems. I don't know
how to end this with any helpful advice or words of wisdom. If you think you do, email
me and let me know.

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Now, this is what I replied with:

Look, I will say this: Your book is absolute drivel! Your life is what YOU make it. The biggest problem is YOU and YOU'RE whining! So what if life sucks for you, you think by writing this that people should pat you on the back and say: "Oh, you poor soul, you have such an awful life." That will get you NOWHERE!

People change and they can change pretty fast and they can do it for the best or for the worst. You think that there are any nice or nasty people, lazy or active people, funny or strict people? Personality is a WORD! There is no such thing as personality, people change all the time.

As for your God Theory, do you think that one, insignificant piece of writing is ever going to change the fact that there are billions of people in this world and they all have different religions? If you do, you have to wake up and think things through.

Look, if you want to be unhappy, then be that way. But if you want to be happy, take this for advice: being happy isn't having everything perfect, it's seeing past the imperfections. Think about it. If you hate life, choose to end it. Another suicide for the thousands of others who believe this sorta crap that you're spouting and believe that life is one big thing that was created to piss us all off. It is not!

If you continue to believe what you have written after you have read these two posts, then I will say you are a fool and you don't deserve life if you think it is terrible. But, is it really terrible for you? As far as I can see, you have a computer. And guess what? About 1/10 people in the world have a computer. And having a computer means you have money. Think about that. There are people starving and dying in third-world countries that have much, much worse lives than you have, but all you'll do is piss and moan about your own life. Thank you for reading.

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Now, who do you agree with, or is there anything you'd like to add?

[Rafael Domination]

It asked me to log in...

Aw.

[jordanisonfire]

Damn! Ok, I'll have to post her "theories" on here.

[Rafael Domination]

Thanks...

Now...about my reply...

I think yours pretty much sums everything up. Yeesh, it is just me or do people tend to whine too much about things...

[Nyx]

Ehehe, now that I have stopped laughing at this, I will comment:D


Maybe you're ugly and nobody wants to sleep with you. Maybe everyone
wants to sleep with you, but nobody loves you and it's all meaningless.
Wow, it seems that getting f***ed is this guy's biggest concern.


So, the forces which created you, random or otherwise, have spoken. And they've
determined that, for you, life sucks.

How very dramatic and cliche. I think my two year-old could've said that better.

God does not love you.

How lovely.:rolleyes:

Most of us would risk our lives, give up our lives, to save them if we could.

Is he/she serious? Why he's wasting time writing crap about how life sucks, why isn't he there risking his damn life?

God does not love you, either.

I love how this point was established a couple of times:rolleyes:


If you think you do, email
me and let me know.


I wish I had his e-mail!


Alright, I think you gave him a great response, Jordan.

[Dr_House_4ever]

Wow, that was lovely.:glare:

[Alex]

Not just lovely this inspired me... it inspired me to go drown myself in a dirt grave

luckily I'm to lazy to do anything about this newfound inspiration but damn that was extremely great....

[Dr_House_4ever]

owwwww......

Sorry, it inspired me to smash my head through a wall and fortunately I wasn't too lazy.

[Nyx]

It inspired me to laugh, reading displays of stupidity does that to me...

[Alex]

I love hearing displays of stupidity much more, it makes the moment feel so much more personal

[jordanisonfire]

So, no objections for my reply? :angel:

[Rafael Domination]

Oh you guys! :D

It doesn't inspire me to end my life at all.

It inspires me to put whoever wrote that out of his/her friggin' misery. ^^

[jordanisonfire]

It was a her, I believe. And, just for the record, I think she was an emo or a goth, because she had a very bad picture of a goth girl with bat wings as a picture and her profile skin was very dark and gloomy.

[Nyx]

It was a her...?

I can't believe she actually considers that writing.