Life a steaming pile of shit?

Metaverseguy: Do you agree with this statement? With all the heartache, poverty, depression, and loneliness I can't imagine anyone ever having a positive outlook.

The truth of the matter, and this is a fact, is that life is a steaming pile of shit.

CoIin: I do think it's weird that a pessimistic outlook is often considered to be pathological. I mean if people are cheering while watching Hamlet, who's got the problem?

Hugo K.: Life is definitely a gradient. Tons of days are black, days where you question the purpose of existence and how easy it would be to end it. Full of pain, anger.. countless other things. Tons of days are grey, a dragged out pattern of boredom, dissatisfaction and searching. But some days are white. Beautiful, loving, delicate and pure. Theyre priceless, and for those days all the others are truly worth it.

Metaverseguy: Yea I just got out of the hospital when I wrote this so I was having a lousy day, but there are so many things about life, actual scientific facts, about life that make me wonder. I grow up learn that the shark eats the little fish. 99.9% of species have gone extinct. If you look at the news it is full of crime and horror stories. Just last week a gay New York teen committed suicide from bullying. I just don't believe that we are in a new millennium. We are supposed to be intelligent and be civil and get through this stuff. This is the type of stuff you read in history textbooks and say "damn I'm glad I don't live in those times."

I just have a hard time forgetting things like genocides. I can't look at a beautiful day and or a piece of artwork and say this is magnificent without forgetting all the thousands of years of torture and murder and death. Some days are peaceful though and there are some good people I don't deny that. It just would be nice if everyone was great instead of only a select few individuals. Perhaps less earthquakes or tornadoes? Can I request less floods?

CoIin: "Many and sharp the num'rous ills
Inwoven with our frame!
More pointed still we make ourselves,
Regret, remorse, and shame!
And man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, -
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!

- Robert Burns

AngelOfMusic: Humans make "life" a steaming pile of shit. Just ask other animal species (well if you could, they would DEFINITELY agree with me).

Metaverseguy: Ehh I think humans can be some of the tenderest species, yet with the right tools in the wrong hands we can be very dangerous, ruthless, and horrible. Some people abstain from even eating meat because of the welfare of our lower species and there are others that enjoy eating a friend for dinner after skinning them alive and raping them.

Such a frightening polarity in life.

lavendar_star: Gosh Casanova, I get down sometimes after watching the news or a documentary about one thing or another: mostly about all the suffering and inequality in the world and it is hard not to appreciate beauty without seeing the ugliness behind it , thats shows your humanity but its not healthy to take it too much to heart or to your consciousness as I try not to do and it is hard.

This is what philosophies and others have been wrestling with about the nature of humanity and the suffering people may endure for centuries. Furthermore, some seek religion to escape within i.e. they will go to heaven or find a way to explain it, others lose themselves with drugs, sex etc.

Either way help who you can and live your life day by day and try not to be so blue as life can be good or bad for good or bad people. I guess thats life in general. (as Frank Sinatra once sang music is good therapy lol)

Even if the world is fu@ked up, as a song in the Monty python film went. "Always look on the bright side of life dee dee dee dee" even if the dark clouds tries to overshadow them. I know thats bit simplistic and silly. lol Also have a laugh, humanity can be tragic but well there is always hope for humanity even though it may be false hope lol.

AngelOfMusic: Caramel, hate to burst your optimistic bubble, but humankind is a doomed species.

Oh and DMT, my screename I arrived at through no fault of my own. Just please keep that in perspective before you throw a rock right in my face.