Anyone else ever feel this way?

[JaySherman]

Some days I just can't help but wonder, with the incredible cruelty we humans inflict upon each other and the destruction we wreak upon our planet, if mankind wouldn't better off joining the dinosaurs in extinction. Today happens to be one of those days. Watching the body count mount in Spain, the devastation in Haiti and Iraq, and the senseless vindictiveness of the 'save marriage' crowd I realize how tired I am of all the war, terrorism, death, and oppression. Yet there's seemingly no end in sight. When is mankind going to f'ing GROW UP?! What is it about this childish fixation we have with killing every living thing we come in contact with in the name of God, gold, government, or whatever. I almost feel like if a planet-sized comet were to strike the earth tomorrow it would be a painless and merciful end. Good riddance. I know this is the wrong attitude. Get a grip time. But sometimes I just can't help it. Anyone care to discuss?

Sorry to be such a downer, but I had to get this off my chest.

[wryter2000]

1. Perspective

Those things preoccupy us, as well they should. But actually, given the millions and millions of human encounters every day, few of them are violent or hateful.

[JaySherman]

3. Very true

Individually, we have many redeeming qualities. But collectively there's seemingly no respect for the sacred gift that is each of our lives. The eternal dilemma of humankind, I suppose.

[Skittles]

16. I disagree

hate, people ripping you off, crime, terror are everywhere. I see very little DO UNTO OTHERS.

[montanacowboy]

2. Don't feel alone

last night we were just talking about maybe a meteor should hit the earth and put us all out of our misery - we are destroying this planet, the animals, the air, the water, and each other - it seems as though real evil is walking the earth and it came in the form of Bushco.

[JaySherman]

6. For a period of time I was beginning to question

the existence of any form of absolute evil. Not anymore. There's so much evil in the world right now, it's sickening. I really hope there is a hell, because these people belong in the deepest, darkest, hottest circle of it. Bushco, the Repugs, the fundies, Al Qaeda, all of them.

[drthais]

4. I understand completely

but I am looking out the window
at my husband plowing the garden for spring
I';ve been spending a lot of time out there the past year

sometimes its the only thing that makes sense anymore


:kick:

don't worry
when we kick butt in November
you'll feel hopeful again
in the meantime
get out there and register some folks to vote

[GOPBasher]

5. I think you put my feelings into words better than I could.

I've felt like this a lot lately. I just don't understand humankind anymore. All we do is kill each other. :shrug:

[amazona]

7. I think everyone with a brain feels this way sometimes

Even the conservatives. (Not that there are many conservatives left with a brain, lol.) But there's the old saying about human life being nasty, brutish, and short, and for most of human history, that's what it is and probably what it still is for most.

[tigereye]

9. every time I see news of horrible violence to innocents

or anyone for that matter... it sickens me. I really do not understand the type of mind that believes that violence will change things. To me those folks have no hearts and no souls and violence has reached into the deepest part of them. :(

[Cleita]

8. Yes, but it doesn't have to be this way.

History's lessons teach us that most of these man made evils could have been prevented if the people who could have stopped them would have stopped them. In "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", author William L. Shirer details the opportunities that were missed by the allies to stop Hitler before he gained too much power and yet they not only did nothing, in many instances the British Prime Minister actually helped him thinking that if he gave him certain territories in Czechoslavakia and Poland, he would be happy and go away.

The same thing has happened here. If our own hadn't caved into Bush so readily, we wouldn't be sitting here wondering why. It's not our fault, we did our best at a grass roots level. We wrote letters and we protested, but those who could have stopped this did nothing but capitulate because they thought if they gave him what he wanted he would go away. Well, here we are.

[Jacobin]

10. Ever see: "The Day the Earth Stood Still?"

OLD black and white movie that has this theme which I highly recommend.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Yes, I have been feeling that way

a lot lately. Considering the issues of global warming, peak oil, terrorism, a potential nuclear holocaust, etc., I would say our days as a species look numbered.

[mdmc]

12. lol things are looking up after I read your handle and saw your avatar

good stuff! My favorite might be Mclargehugebig.

What is a hero? What is a Saint or an enlightened being?

Show me a person that has successfully liberated one negative emotion. That person is a hero.

We must work towards educating, healing, and resolving conflict. That is all that really matters.

[arcos]

13. Voluntary Human Extinction Movement...

http://www.vhemt.org/

VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It's a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We're not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.

We don't carry on about how the human race has shown itself to be a greedy, amoral parasite on the once-healthy face of this planet. That type of negativity offers no solution to the inexorable horrors which human activity is causing.

Rather, The Movement presents an encouraging alternative to the callous exploitation and wholesale destruction of the Earth's ecology.

As VHEMT Volunteers know, the hopeful alternative to the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals is the voluntary extinction of one species: Homo sapiens... us.

more...

[mdmc]

14. wild site

:kick:

[SarahB]

15. I don't understand it either

And it breaks my heart when I think about it.