A dedicated follower of strife

[P3nT4gR4m]

Iptuous surprised me the other day. "I think that's the first optimistic thing I've seen you post!" he said. Caught me right out of leftfield, I'm optimistic to a fault. So I had a think about  how anyone could possibly draw that conclusion and, of course, the answer was staring me straight in the face - most people don't like strife. It's that simple. I talk about the prospect of society falling apart and devolving into a free-for-all carnage fest and, naturally, to most normal people this would be pessimism.

Not for me. I'm hoping and praying it actually happens and I'm too optimistic to allow myself to entertain the horrible notion that we, as a race, might pull ourselves back from the brink. The truth is that by most rational definitions I'm a very bad person because I like strife. Hell, I fucking worship it. Happy ever after isn't an ending in my book, it's an ideal place to hold a war. I can't look at a pastoral landscape without imagining how much of an improvement it would be if there was a mugging going on.

Without strife in the world I would run out of shit to hate. My middle finger would atrophy from lack of exercise. Don't get me wrong, I like being happy and contented as much as the next guy but only in moderation. Couple of days of peace and quiet is more than enough for me and then I gotta go find something to blow up or someone to set on fire. The human race is primarily composed of ignorant monkeys, who are hell bent on killing each other. I don't see this changing any time soon. In case you missed it, that was me being optimistic.

Srsly!

[Pope Lecherous]

Iptuous surprised me the other day. "I think that's the first optimistic thing I've seen you post!" he said. Caught me right out of leftfield, I'm optimistic to a fault. So I had a think about  how anyone could possibly draw that conclusion and, of course, the answer was staring me straight in the face - most people don't like strife. It's that simple. I talk about the prospect of society falling apart and devolving into a free-for-all carnage fest and, naturally, to most normal people this would be pessimism.

Not for me. I'm hoping and praying it actually happens and I'm too optimistic to allow myself to entertain the horrible notion that we, as a race, might pull ourselves back from the brink. The truth is that by most rational definitions I'm a very bad person because I like strife. Hell, I fucking worship it. Happy ever after isn't an ending in my book, it's an ideal place to hold a war. I can't look at a pastoral landscape without imagining how much of an improvement it would be if there was a mugging going on.

Without strife in the world I would run out of shit to hate. My middle finger would atrophy from lack of exercise. Don't get me wrong, I like being happy and contented as much as the next guy but only in moderation. Couple of days of peace and quiet is more than enough for me and then I gotta go find something to blow up or someone to set on fire. The human race is primarily composed of ignorant monkeys, who are hell bent on killing each other. I don't see this changing any time soon. In case you missed it, that was me being optimistic.

Srsly!

Sounds like you would be all shits and giggles then if someone came and strifed you out of a job, a place to live, then strifed all over your face. pls.  Little daily conflicts don't rate the term strife.  It's an easy enough habit to pick up.  Like G-Dub using the word 'terror.'  Terror at blockbuster when they don't have your favorite movie.  Terror when they don't have the 6XL MegaPopcorn bucket with lard fries at the movie theater.  Terror! AHHH!!! Strife yesssss

[Urraco]

It's like the episode of the twilight zone where this guy goes to heaven and realizes that it's really really boring. (Actually, it turns out to be hell. Do you believe that?)

People need shit to hit the fan, otherwise we'd all probably devolve into fungus.
S'what I'm sayin'.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Sounds like you would be all shits and giggles then if someone came and strifed you out of a job, a place to live, then strifed all over your face.

It's happened before and theres every chance it'll happen again. Shit fills me with the fear. Then it happens and I come alive or die trying. Losing all the bullshit you've convinced yourself you need is sometimes the only way to wake the fuck up.

[Pope Lecherous]

It's happened before and theres every chance it'll happen again. Shit fills me with the fear. Then it happens and I come alive or die trying. Losing all the bullshit you've convinced yourself you need is sometimes the only way to wake the fuck up.

i like you

It's like the episode of the twilight zone where this guy goes to heaven and realizes that it's really really boring. (Actually, it turns out to be hell. Do you believe that?)

People need shit to hit the fan, otherwise we'd all probably devolve into fungus.
S'what I'm sayin'.

Conflict does motivate.  I recall that episode vividly.  One of the things that pissed him off was when dude was playing pool. hahaha

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't find it especially amusing, invigorating, or positive when people are hungry or homeless or physically harmed, especially kids.

It's easy for people to have a smugly salacious view of social collapse and the ensuing mayhem when they're snug in their homes with enough to eat. Go hungry and cold for a few weeks and see if you have as much fun as you think you will. Maybe watch some of your loved ones die and see if it motivates you.

[Aufenthatt]

Its normaly the ones that don't know what its like to be hungry and scaired that leave the others in that state.

[Soylent Green]

I don't find it especially amusing, invigorating, or positive when people are hungry or homeless or physically harmed, especially kids.

It's easy for people to have a smugly salacious view of social collapse and the ensuing mayhem when they're snug in their homes with enough to eat. Go hungry and cold for a few weeks and see if you have as much fun as you think you will. Maybe watch some of your loved ones die and see if it motivates you.

Then congratulations, you aren't a sadist! A lot of people are though, and those people are the ones who get joy out of it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I don't find it especially amusing, invigorating, or positive when people are hungry or homeless or physically harmed, especially kids.

It's easy for people to have a smugly salacious view of social collapse and the ensuing mayhem when they're snug in their homes with enough to eat. Go hungry and cold for a few weeks and see if you have as much fun as you think you will. Maybe watch some of your loved ones die and see if it motivates you.

Then congratulations, you aren't a sadist! A lot of people are though, and those people are the ones who get joy out of it.

And misanthropes.  Sadism isn't required.

TGRR,
Alla youse monkeys, get the fuck off my planet.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I don't find it especially amusing, invigorating, or positive when people are hungry or homeless or physically harmed, especially kids.

It's easy for people to have a smugly salacious view of social collapse and the ensuing mayhem when they're snug in their homes with enough to eat. Go hungry and cold for a few weeks and see if you have as much fun as you think you will. Maybe watch some of your loved ones die and see if it motivates you.

It's more gallows humor than anything else.  Watching humans running off of cliffs in droves like lemmings (except that we don't have Marlin Perkins shoving us off with a bulldozer, which just goes to show that humans < lemmings) is the best definition of horrormirth I can come up with.

[Elder Iptuous]

Pent,
that was just a flip comment based upon your comments i have read that left an impression on me.  I had firmly tacked your avatar (with the little alien guy and hypnotic rainbow colors) to the abstraction of 'ennui' inside my careenium.  what you have presented as your outlook, i would have associated more with TGRR.
But my percecptions will be a little skewed in regards to that mindset anyways, because i am a relatively friendly and happy-go-lucky gloom n' doomer.  i love all the shit that you hate.  but we can still light it on fire together. 
Iptuous

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Pent,
that was just a flip comment based upon your comments i have read that left an impression on me.  I had firmly tacked your avatar (with the little alien guy and hypnotic rainbow colors) to the abstraction of 'ennui' inside my careenium.  what you have presented as your outlook, i would have associated more with TGRR.
But my percecptions will be a little skewed in regards to that mindset anyways, because i am a relatively friendly and happy-go-lucky gloom n' doomer.  i love all the shit that you hate.  but we can still light it on fire together. 
Iptuous

wut

[Urraco]

Pent,
that was just a flip comment based upon your comments i have read that left an impression on me.  I had firmly tacked your avatar (with the little alien guy and hypnotic rainbow colors) to the abstraction of 'ennui' inside my careenium.  what you have presented as your outlook, i would have associated more with TGRR.
But my percecptions will be a little skewed in regards to that mindset anyways, because i am a relatively friendly and happy-go-lucky gloom n' doomer.  i love all the shit that you hate.  but we can still light it on fire together. 
Iptuous

wut

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Pent,
that was just a flip comment based upon your comments i have read that left an impression on me.  I had firmly tacked your avatar (with the little alien guy and hypnotic rainbow colors) to the abstraction of 'ennui' inside my careenium.  what you have presented as your outlook, i would have associated more with TGRR.
But my percecptions will be a little skewed in regards to that mindset anyways, because i am a relatively friendly and happy-go-lucky gloom n' doomer.  i love all the shit that you hate.  but we can still light it on fire together. 
Iptuous

wut

I don't know why I have such a bad rap around here.  I try to help people.

[Urraco]

Pent,
that was just a flip comment based upon your comments i have read that left an impression on me.  I had firmly tacked your avatar (with the little alien guy and hypnotic rainbow colors) to the abstraction of 'ennui' inside my careenium.  what you have presented as your outlook, i would have associated more with TGRR.
But my percecptions will be a little skewed in regards to that mindset anyways, because i am a relatively friendly and happy-go-lucky gloom n' doomer.  i love all the shit that you hate.  but we can still light it on fire together. 
Iptuous

wut

I don't know why I have such a bad rap around here.  I try to help people.

I didn't know you did.
I actually think of you as one of the more likeable persons on here.
I think it's because you don't use words like ''ennui'' and ''careenium''.
There is no need for that kind of language when you're actually trying to communicate.