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That moment when someone realizes your pain, and they try to fix it, but what's done is already done. // Blood and tears They were here first Oily marks appear on walls Where pleasure moments hung before The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this Still life http://www.thisismyjam.com/Sebastian1314
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:08:39 UTC from web-
@sebastian1314 Ah yes quite a good time to use an imogen heap hide and seek momment
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:09:57 UTC from web-
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:10:55 UTC from web
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@sebastian1314 Aww sad face, but why?
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:11:32 UTC from web-
@bronyalex Life in general. Nothing seems to go right, and everything that is good is destroyed or tainted. No one cares about anything important anymore; people are too busy with their own lives to care about anyone else. Time flies away, and in the end, all we do crumbles into dust. All our work, is in the end for naught. I wish I could just be free, and not have to worry about anything. It is amazing and horrifying, when you finally see the big picture of life, and see that in the end, there's no reason for it. The days will pass, the months will pass, the years will pass, people, plants, and animals will pass, but in the end nothing is different. In the end, anything we do will get washed away, forgotten and in ruin. So in the grand scheme of things, why do we run on a treadmill, rushing from kindergarden to school, to college, to work, to death? I don't think I'll ever understand it, and I can't do anything about it. It's just the way society works now. I know melancholy too well.
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:22:16 UTC from web-
@sebastian1314 There may well be nothing after life, but isn't that all the more reason to enjoy it while we have it? Make the most of the little things and live in the moment. Some people manage to make a mark on the world, and are remembered for centuries after they are gone. But even if you can't do that you can seek out a little enjoyment, and try to give enjoyment to others. We have positive emotions, why not seek to fell them as much as possible. If there is really nothing after death then there's nothing wasted by pursuing self happiness and the happiness of others.
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:25:38 UTC from web -
@sebastian1314 @ your melancholy post... I'm not sure which "big picture" you see, but worrying about life passing on is small imo. As long as people will survive, culture will survive, and as long as people are willing to die to preserve culture it'll thrive. Individuals may be forgotten, but what each person stands for will pass on and mature into a shape beyond the mere need for those ideas to be credited to a single person. When the time comes when life on Earth is threatened by people, there will be people to step in and do something; it's always happened that way and always will. We're not going to wipe ourselves out in other words. To me, the BIG picture is what our civilization is TRULY dependent on, which is that heavenly bodies behave so that we don't fall victim to the universe doing its thing, whether it's meteors/asteroids hitting us, or the Sun dying, etc. It's like how you can argue that quitting smoking doesn't guarantee longer life cuz you can get hit by a car.
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:40:18 UTC from web-
@crusader8 though beyond the existence of humans, when nothing remains of us except for the loneliest fossils, our lives will be insignificant, as well as our actions and creations. So in the grandest aspect of time, what we do will truly be insignificant. What we do today or for the rest of our lives will not change the path of the Universe.
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:45:38 UTC from web-
@the20percent though there is no way to be sure. We can't comprehend our effects on the universe in the future any more than a caveman could comprehend our modern journeys into space.
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:47:41 UTC from web -
@the20percent But that argument relies on us viewing that what we experience is less important than the universe's natural process. The reality is that eventually the Universe itself will die out and there will even be no more stars left at some point. But using that to argue the human race as insignificant is to the same scale as arguing my life is insignificant because we can choose an arbitrary amount of time after I die to prove I'm not remembered or my works no longer have an impact. Kind of flawed argument if you ask me, because the argument wants me to take certain views the other takes for granted but doesn't articulate or prove.
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:53:51 UTC from web-
@crusader8 'the argument wants me to take certain views the other takes for granted but doesn't articulate or prove.' I believed you have accurately summarised 'politics' in that sentence
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:55:46 UTC from web-
@trister More than just politics does it, but essentially to me I feel "hey it seems I need to be proven why I should have this personal belief or opinion before your argument you're trying to prove now even makes a lick of sense."
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 19:03:11 UTC from web-
@crusader8 I agree with you on that point, I was just making a cheap joke at the expense of politicians, like any good person should at every opportunity
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 19:04:14 UTC from web
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@bronyalex And I'm not talking about us, as I know everything I said is the opposite of us; I'm talking in the real world. We're a long way from Equestria...
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:22:54 UTC from web-
@sebastian1314 I too know melancholy all too well... I have come up upon this realization before I was a brony (in the NB4 times). Now, I have bronies, and I look at this equine society as Marx did at his theoretical world, with a longing. How I wish to frollick out in the breeze with them, not a care in the world. But, shamefully, I have to rush onwards towards death and the time I will be forgotten, living only a second life on the computer until then.
Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:27:58 UTC from web
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