Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!

[m8son666]

bu t i dont see how ppl being made aware of travesties like that is ever a bad thing

well if it's something people can't do anything about what's the point of making people aware? Surely that would just work to depress them?

'oh by the way guys thousands of brazilians are being thrown out their houses and living in horrible poverty'
'oh no thats horrible what can i do to help?'
'maybe donate some money to charity'
'i can't afford to though, oh no i am a terrible person, i am killing brazilians'

Nothing is achieved in that situation other than make someone feel bad

[Harkat]

Why don't we call 130 dubstep?

It is to me. The Wen & Parris stuff is just new, cool dubstep IMO.

[chekov]

bu t i dont see how ppl being made aware of travesties like that is ever a bad thing

well if it's something people can't do anything about what's the point of making people aware? Surely that would just work to depress them?

'oh by the way guys thousands of brazilians are being thrown out their houses and living in horrible poverty'
'oh no thats horrible what can i do to help?'
'maybe donate some money to charity'
'i can't afford to though, oh no i am a terrible person, i am killing brazilians'

Nothing is achieved in that situation other than make someone feel bad

it helps to create an awareness of things that are happening beyond your immediate (privileged) experience of the world

if you can't see why that's a positive thing it's not really worth the effort to try and explain

[hubb]

yeah i suppose any form of sympathy is pretty pointless, apart from from an ego stroking perspective.

You know yawning is contagious, right?

Same goes for empathy and it's hardly pointless. On a biological level it's probably the main trait that has evolved us as a group past....hmmm .. dunno badgers?

[m8son666]

it helps to create an awareness of things that are happening beyond your immediate (privileged) experience of the world

if you can't see why that's a positive thing it's not really worth the effort to try and explain

No, please explain.

In what way is it objectively a positive thing?

When i first read somewhere that all these people are being evicted, nothing positive happened, i just felt sad for these people. The situation has in no way improved for the Brazilians from my knowledge of their misfortune.

[m8son666]

yeah i suppose any form of sympathy is pretty pointless, apart from from an ego stroking perspective.

You know yawning is contagious, right?

Same goes for empathy and it's hardly pointless. On a biological level it's probably the main trait that has evolved us as a group past....hmmm .. dunno badgers?

lol yh that was a pretty ridiculous statement.

What i meant was in this specific example how does my sympathy for these people help their situation? They are ignorant of my sympathy and would be in exactly the same position whether i was sad for them or if i was cheering their eviction.

[hubb]

[hubb]

wait... the opposite of that ^

[m8son666]

i'm gonna go to brazil and tell all these paupers how sympathetic i am for them

[hubb]

Jesus 2.0

Turn all four cheeks

[m8son666]

it helps to create an awareness of things that are happening beyond your immediate (privileged) experience of the world

if you can't see why that's a positive thing it's not really worth the effort to try and explain

I see it as similar to if someone came to your house every day and told you about all the people that died in your local hospital that day.

That is creating awareness of things happening beyond your experience of the world, is that a positive thing?

[hifi]

i got my muscles from the military

[RKM]

m8son i really hope reincarnation exists and you're reborn as a female in a poverty stricken village in the yemen for perspectives sake


although on sharing facebook campaigns i do feel that they're bollocks

[rockonin]

i'm gonna go to brazil and tell all these paupers how sympathetic i am for them

Bring me back some shakers and marracas. I promise to share the samples with you when I record them.

[ehbes]

Avicii was in Boston and last night 30 people were hospitalized. Big ups

[m8son666]

m8son i really hope reincarnation exists and you're reborn as a female in a poverty stricken village in the yemen for perspectives sake

Lucky reincarnation doesn't exist then

although on sharing facebook campaigns i do feel that they're bollocks

yeah exactly, this is my point ffs.

[m8son666]

Imagine two people: one shares all these images on fb and thinks for hours each day about how bad life must be for these people, the other sees one of these images and laughs and says haa good these people deserve it.

They both have the same impact on the brazilian people, i.e none.

[Reese_Liar]

Avicii was in Boston and last night 30 people were hospitalized. Big ups

Ear drum related injuries I assume?

[ehbes]

Avicii was in Boston and last night 30 people were hospitalized. Big ups

Ear drum related injuries I assume?

No, retards thinking they can pound vodka and then take shit MD that's been loaded with pma

[Reese_Liar]

hahaha

natural selection at work