The venting thread

[ArubaroBeefalo]

Just now, ALCRD said:

2. Your post right there sounds pretty much like a conspiracy post.

i know but is the sad reallity, is very known but the media dont share. I learned most of that by just studying in the high school. Companies eat the world by making deals with currupted politicians. Doesnt sound like a coincidence that the countries with a lot of resources are poor countries with corrupted gov?

5 minutes ago, ALCRD said:

1. I wasn't the one who started the talk about Earth destruction and Global Warming

i wasnt talking directly to you but in general which is ironic since im keeping the offtopic xD

[MondayNight]

2 hours ago, Shosuko said:

Except it isn't just perspective - the earth IS decaying.  What do you think Global Warming is?  Our very existence creates carbon pollution in the air, even if we immediately halted every coal burning plant the fact that we breath is killing our planet.  Not to mention at some point, no matter what we do, a stellar impact could annihilate all life on our planet.  The future is never guaranteed.

This is the basis of Buddhism with the 4 noble truths.  Life is suffering.  Its suffering when we gain because everything gained can be lost, when we lose because we must endure a lack, and when we want and we cannot have.  You can go the 8 fold route to remove desire and expectation from your life and reach a sort of peace with that fact, but that is not everyone's path.  Heaven, hell, justice and ethics are all illusions we create to try and delude ourselves into thinking we aren't animals.

Indeed is a perspective issue. You can see it as "everything is decaying" ..or as everything transforming. "Nothing lost, nothing gained, only transformations". Also Earth atm isn't "doomed", at most we - humans - are f#cking ourselves up by "cutting the branch under our feet". Yes, in the process we take out some other thousands of species that in "the grand scheme of the universe" means.. nothing as well. Likewise is not me or you, run-of-the-mill individuals f-ing things up - but governments and trans-national corporations. No matter what we do, "the little people", atm, what life we live, it doesn't matter. If you have real power (aka being part of the "1%" richest people) and live the life you're preaching (if you do, and not just not giving a flying F as vast majority of rich people do), then it matters. Lead by example, not solely through "flapping the gums" with "big ideas" over the social media/TV. Is pretty sadistically funny how filthy rich people go via planes on pompous conventions (environmental summits, Davos, etc) of hundreds of thousands dollars/euros in clothes and high-end goods to preach to the "poor unwashed masses" how they need to cut down on their (insignificant) carbon footprint when each of those rich f$cks pollutes more than a medium western town of "normies". And their solutions? More taxes and bigger government (Where do those taxes go? Who knows, Gov won't be transparent ever). Oh, and nowadays pseudo-neo-communism ("you will own nothing and be happy" - since clearly Commies were, oh, so successful in past in everything, especially exterminating own citizens, deeply dysfunctional economies, totalitarian regimes, abject censorship ... something red-and-squishy?). Where will that property and goods go? To BigGov TM of course. How could I forget the "...justice and ethics are all illusions..." moral ambiguity - the eternal relativity of post-modernism, the one giving birth to depressions and their immediate panacea: compulsive shopping. The whole complete "modern society" circus pirouetting on a tiny unicycle of consumerism. How's this for a big fat juicy venting, eh?

 

Oh, you mean related to DST? The fact that "???" Ping Issue (personal and dedicated servers) is still ignored by KLei, and a lot of past pubs I used to visit are now "ghost towns" because of it.

[HowlVoid]

Damn, since this became a vent about anything thread, can I vent about ice coffee?

Please, can we invent a coffee that doesn't make me fat and still tastes good? 

[ALCRD]

6 minutes ago, HowlVoid said:

Please, can we invent a coffee that doesn't make me fat and still tastes good? 

Or an Energy Drink that still works but doesn't annihilate my heart and liver.