Thursday, March 1, 2012

[270] A Conversation Worth Having

Allysia Sims
tell me something that will blow my mind.

Nick P.
Seems like a lofty task
I'll tell you something, but it's your responsiblity to get your mind blown

Allysia Sims
ok
go!

Nick P.
I don't think what I'll spend my life working towards will be worth it.
I think my conception of people as tools and bags of meat will destroy any and all relationships I hold where that isn't assumed.
I think I hate more than any other feeling, this peculiar given how happy I can be and how often I laugh

Allysia Sims
why do you hate so much?

Nick P.
Because it's for things worth hating
I'm probably developing a psychological hold and pattern on a bastardized conception of honesty.

Allysia Sims
I don't think anything is worth hating.

Nick P.
I think that's retarded

Allysia Sims
Thats ok
I think it's retarded to consume yourself with hate

Nick P.
To experience and to consume are different
If I felt consumed, I'd think myself retarded as well

Allysia Sims
So, then, you having the feelings shouldn't be an issue

Nick P.
The feelings in and of themself, no
how they help me translate and justify my actions, potentially
I corner myself mentally, from that "desperate" position I get creative

Allysia Sims
shitty feelings create the most inspiration.
thats why I only paint when I'm depressed. lol

Nick P.
the cursed blessing

Allysia Sims
it's stupid
Everything is.

Nick P.
so it seems
I think I'd rather be honest than friendly
honesty does more for me psychologically than friendship
I don't think some of my friends would enjoy this disposition

Allysia Sims
me too, especially because most friendships are lies.
no, but if they are your true friends, they'll accept it.

Nick P.
The standard I certainly hold them to

Allysia Sims
as they should be

Nick P.
I hate people that want me dead

Allysia Sims
who wants you dead?

Nick P.
Those at the top of society
And the people who "don't care"
The question is the ratio of passive/active desire

Allysia Sims
I don't think not caring means they wish you were dead.

Nick P.
two different people, the top, and the not carers
and they certainly do
they're the extreme passives, but that must be what they want if they truly don't care
it's the people around them who's intent sparked their will to attack their own will

Nick P.
the thieves who rob them of an identity or purpose
to the point where the only reply, the only way to "fight" is to give in and say you don't care
but that's the disenfranchised base
the real problem are the ones who create the conditions under which that happens to people

Allysia Sims
Well, the person I love the most wishes I were dead, so those people who "dont care" are irrelevant to my emotions, I don't need to waste time hating them.

Nick P.
it's less about them and more the ideas they espouse and reinforce

Allysia Sims
So?

Nick P.
they make excuses, they give up
I think those are things worth hating

Allysia Sims
So?

Nick P.
they are antithetical to life
if you are genuinely that way, kill yourself and at least be consistent
don't drag people down and go nowhere
don't set a shit example

Allysia Sims
alright, well it sucks to have people like that, but I still believe it's a waste of time and effort to even put thought towards people like that. If you're so anti-attitude of theirs, then paying them any mind only fuels the fire.
for you and them.

Nick P.
you can't consider solutions to the problem without respecting and acknowledging that it exists
and if you don't understand the nature of it, you 'll be incapable of addressing it properly

Allysia Sims
You can do that without expressing hate.
expressing*

Nick P.
if you can't understand your own hatred and what it does to inhibit or motivate you, the message you have for others about their feelings will be incomplete
to be a proper teacher and example, you need to own the extremes

Allysia Sims
Yeah, I guess thats true. If you didn't have a passion against it, then you couldn't fight against it.
Eh, stop proving your point. I don't like it. lol

Nick P.
I appreciate you at least qualifying that I'm doing so

Allysia Sims
I'll always admit it, but you better believe I'll bitch about it. lol

Nick P.
hatred is merely a tool, all feelings are. how you express and empathize are what count

Allysia Sims
very true.

Nick P.
my issue isn't my feelings, it's the fact that I'm prone to action
that when I say something, I really mean I'll do it

Allysia Sims
thats not always a bad thing, as long as you can control your words and actions.

Nick P.
until you can't control your words or actions, or better, until you lose your conception of what you think is worth controlling

Allysia Sims
is that something you think you'll have to worry about?

Nick P.
when all you do is think and reevaluate, of course

Allysia Sims
isn't that all anyone does?

Nick P.
I run the risk of severely altering my perception every day
not at all
the "anyone" reaches a point where they become to mentally exhausted, afraid, or disinterested to keep pursuing the implications
and they'll tell you this outright
they meet your inquiry or personal exploration with a polite smile and glances around the room for a way out
they hear that you're upset, not that you're calling them to arms

Allysia Sims
So what are you saying?

Nick P.
they won't fix themselves
so does someone have to?
and then who among them is that person going to listen to? how can they be considered when they don't know or care enough?
how do you establish a survivable system that doesn't have mechanisms for self correction? That doesn't know how to weed out what doesn't help or actively harms?
you need to make people courageous enough to be scientists

Allysia Sims
It's simple, if you are aware of it's happenings, you pull yourself out of it. Stop doing what you've been doing that cause the feelings, and try something new.
^exactly

Nick P.
there's the rub, they're aware. They're just too stupid, and I don't mean academically
they live in a stupid society
they are born and raised with horrible conceptions of themselves and reality
and breaking those requires behavioral therapy

Allysia Sims
well if we didn't have the stupid, the smart wouldn't be so appreciated, nor would our intelligence even matter, because there would be nothing to fix.
I wonder how stupid females feel when you talk to them/

Nick P.
I don't think that follows. First, the smart aren't appreciated. I don't know if you've caught any Santorum speeches lately ridiculing the idea of going to college. Second, Intelligence, technically, only matters to the extent that it helps you produce offspring, so any appreciation for it needs to come from contrived but respected rules about it's utility beyond that. Third, as someone who considers himself intelligent, if only because I try to inform myself and people seem to be helped by my advice, I know there is no "peak" of things you can learn and that given the changing nature of everything, something you used to be smart about is almost certainly different now, always leaving a gap to fix

Allysia Sims
....again, I wonder how these girls feel.
But, I see what you're saying. But personally, I appreciate stupid.

Nick P.
appreciate stupid? expound on that

Allysia Sims
Because sometimes I feel like I'm too complex, the workings of my mind can drive me absolutely mad. Stupidity at its finest has the ability to remind me to stop taking life so seriously, as damaging as stupid can be, it's also a reality check in way, for me.

Nick P.
stupid as a measure of what it simply means to be human isn't the problem

Allysia Sims
touche', however, you can't fix stupid. But you can learn to deal with it better.

Nick P.
the "fix" for stupid is to change the culture around it
first getting people to recognize there's even a culture to begin with

Allysia Sims
No, it might improve the amount of stupid, but stupid will never go away.

Nick P.
the goal isn't to get stupid to go away
i'm not being clear

Allysia Sims
You, my dear, need your own blog or something

Nick P.
I have one...written some blogs or so

Allysia Sims
I believe that

Nick P.
we just did to stupid what society needs to do to it
we conceptualized it
as a human facet, who cares, everyone's going to do stupid things
as a societal womb, it's insanely dangerous and has far reaching implications
but in recognizing that it has two different meanings or can be implemented in different ways, we get to have a coherent discussion about it
I can in one hand "take it as given" and project the sort of ho-hum attitude most people take about it, while acknowledging what I'm actually fighting against and focusing on to change
there's a huge problem with language that speaks to why problems perpetuate...

Allysia Sims
well, as much as I'd love for you to expand on this, I'm having a hard time keeping my eyes open, therefore, I think it's time for bed.
So, I shall talk with you later. Goodnight. lol

Nick P.

kk sleep well, it's been a pleasure