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The fine line between needing to be social and needing solitude.

Goatworshiper

Does anyone else have problems with this balancing act? If not I'm just getting this off my chest.

I feel odd when I'm with people, without being insulting towards other humans I find they frustrate the life out of me. I find people just don't really have much valid to say. At the moment I'm sick of hearing people being demonised for claiming benifits, by people who claim working tax credits, child tax credits etc. I'm not in a position were I personally need to claim benifits, however I'm not into the demonisation of the ill and unemployed. It's not only this issue, people just being wide of the mark on lots of topics, science denialist's tend to be particulary frustrating.

I'd like to get on with people a lot more, I enjoy being social (within my small circle of friends). But I just find people stupid, ignorant and inhumane. I'm generally misanthropic and tend to upset people quite frequently by telling them that human life is cheap and explaining about a history of slave labour, concentration camps etc. Well I say upset, I think it just annoys people as It questions thier humanitarian ideals. I suppose thier lies my problem, hypocritical humanist whom don't see that they treat humans particulary badly. For instance they want to save the world and help African children, but have a poor attitude to work colleages.

I went to Auschwitz recently and people seem perplexed that I didn't get upset from the visit. I find it very odd: when I here people talking about how they think other people should be dealt with for not working (and not conforming to thier belief system), I can easily see how something as big as Nazi Germany could escalate. I find it so odd that people think that work is the only important thing in life. Surely there has to be more to life than self regulated slavery?

Today I cut my grass with mp3 player on and it was just bliss. Solitude and the world blanked out.

Wierdly, I still crave some social activities even tho people frustrate the life out of me. 

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  • Goatworshiper said:

    Me too. I think to be honest if I lost my job (and had to have one of those types) or had to survive without the help of my partner I'd be a regular in mental health services. I can cope with poverty to an extent, but poverty combined with annoying job and sensory overload + coping with people wouldnt be good.

    same here, I like to think I am quite independant but with certain things the support of a partner is invaluable. I have learnt to live on almost no money in the past so could happily do that again if it ment I didnt have to deal with all that. As we have said before, I am some what envious of people that can do that kind of work and be happy.

    Technically, I'm really laid back and respect people's right to believe whatever they want. I have a unsaid rule that: you believe in what you want, dont impose it on me. If you follow that I want challenge you. However if I get made to feel uncomfortable, Im going to challenge you. I do notice when people confess to their religous belief to me, all of there bigotry becomes understandable.

    For anything that has logic to it, I would agree with that. I was brought up in an athiest family, nearly all my relatives are athiests too. So religion has been a joke for as long as I can remember even my year 3 RE reports mention how I challenge everything and refuse to accept what they were telling me. Didnt go down well in a C of E primary!

    Everyone I know is slowly becoming more right wing too, and I'm becoming more and more left wing. I've become fascinated with the concept of the "Scapegoat" recently, so much so I want to get a tattoo (full arm sleeve) based on the concept. 

    In a bizarre way, I feel as though I'm carrying the worlds dogma on my shoulders.

    My parent's recently bought burial plot for  and asked if I wanted them to buy me a plot. My reply was: Don't impose your morality on me, Im going up in smoke. Similary they find it perplexing that I agree with Bertrand Russel "when I die I shall rot and none of my ego will remain". What I find odd is that they don;t believe this, they are not religous I must add, but they convieniently want to believe life is eternal.

    I think to be honest as I am getting older I am getting more right-wing. i think as youth wains, you become naturally more skeptical and that there is just a natural heirarchy. It is interesting to read that you feel you are going the other way!

    The idea of a tattoo based on the concept scapegoating is interesting concept. Do you have any idea how you could visualise the concept?

    I  too will be burnt, actually I have said if its possible by the time I die, I would like to be shot into space in some kind of pod. I think the idea of burial is stilll pretty important to a lot of people. The idea that there must be a soul or a second life of some sort helps people deal with the concept of death. I think for us, its hard to fathom the idea having such a different out look on life and death.

    PS twitching eye, must be very, very annoyed.

    haha thankfully I cant feel it. I am suprised no one else has ever told me about it. She knows when she has annoyed me and im lying saying she hasnt. I would like to start writing down what I am really thinking when people annoy me. Although I think I would end up spending most of my day writing things down.

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  • Goatworshiper said:

    Me too. I think to be honest if I lost my job (and had to have one of those types) or had to survive without the help of my partner I'd be a regular in mental health services. I can cope with poverty to an extent, but poverty combined with annoying job and sensory overload + coping with people wouldnt be good.

    same here, I like to think I am quite independant but with certain things the support of a partner is invaluable. I have learnt to live on almost no money in the past so could happily do that again if it ment I didnt have to deal with all that. As we have said before, I am some what envious of people that can do that kind of work and be happy.

    Technically, I'm really laid back and respect people's right to believe whatever they want. I have a unsaid rule that: you believe in what you want, dont impose it on me. If you follow that I want challenge you. However if I get made to feel uncomfortable, Im going to challenge you. I do notice when people confess to their religous belief to me, all of there bigotry becomes understandable.

    For anything that has logic to it, I would agree with that. I was brought up in an athiest family, nearly all my relatives are athiests too. So religion has been a joke for as long as I can remember even my year 3 RE reports mention how I challenge everything and refuse to accept what they were telling me. Didnt go down well in a C of E primary!

    Everyone I know is slowly becoming more right wing too, and I'm becoming more and more left wing. I've become fascinated with the concept of the "Scapegoat" recently, so much so I want to get a tattoo (full arm sleeve) based on the concept. 

    In a bizarre way, I feel as though I'm carrying the worlds dogma on my shoulders.

    My parent's recently bought burial plot for  and asked if I wanted them to buy me a plot. My reply was: Don't impose your morality on me, Im going up in smoke. Similary they find it perplexing that I agree with Bertrand Russel "when I die I shall rot and none of my ego will remain". What I find odd is that they don;t believe this, they are not religous I must add, but they convieniently want to believe life is eternal.

    I think to be honest as I am getting older I am getting more right-wing. i think as youth wains, you become naturally more skeptical and that there is just a natural heirarchy. It is interesting to read that you feel you are going the other way!

    The idea of a tattoo based on the concept scapegoating is interesting concept. Do you have any idea how you could visualise the concept?

    I  too will be burnt, actually I have said if its possible by the time I die, I would like to be shot into space in some kind of pod. I think the idea of burial is stilll pretty important to a lot of people. The idea that there must be a soul or a second life of some sort helps people deal with the concept of death. I think for us, its hard to fathom the idea having such a different out look on life and death.

    PS twitching eye, must be very, very annoyed.

    haha thankfully I cant feel it. I am suprised no one else has ever told me about it. She knows when she has annoyed me and im lying saying she hasnt. I would like to start writing down what I am really thinking when people annoy me. Although I think I would end up spending most of my day writing things down.

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