work=life=death

Sometimes I feel like a corpse, a floating skin sack.

I am going back to work tomorrow from a week of holidays and one thing I learned is that as much as I love time off I am too depressed and messed up to truly enjoy it. It was a great opportunity to reflect on my dissatisfaction with life.

We live in a society where we are so accustomed to our creature comforts that we submit ourselves
to 40+ hours a week in order to fulfill this fantasy. I am as guilty of this too for
I was born in this, brainwashed in it, and learned too late to look behind the veil.

The only way I can be sucessful in this world is if I become independently wealthy or get paid for
my imagination. I have talent and I believe my ideas even strike a balance between mass appeal and
subversive, unabashed creativity. But alas, the system is designed for it to be as difficult as possible for one to become an independant success.

The fact that humans came up with the concept of slavery and the way we treat other species on this planet as nothing more than disposable garbage leaves me with 0% hope for this fuckup of a species we call human.

Media outlets should be used for education and awareness but instead it is only used as another extension for our consumerist, selfish, hopeless system. The education system should help individuals find "their" own paths instead of being used as slave training centers.

Work reviews and drug tests are only the beginning for we will soon all be begging for the privilege to bag groceries and dig ditches. Most of the time when I talk of these things people react with a quote similar to the following, "find another job if you don't like it and stop bitching". I look through the classifieds and more often than not this is what I find:
general labourer, sales clerk, sandwich artist, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...
and after reading all that I think to myself "My god, it's like the help wanted ads are a window into my soul's desire".

I envy people who go to bed to never wake up, their last earthly memory being nice and warm under a soft comfortable blanket. I am worried I will find enough time between work, errands, and my real work to do something not very nice to myself. Until then I will root against the human species and hope for human extinction ASAP.

Signing off,

Seeker of Truth

I feel you. I'm tryin to cut my life in the rat race short by makin an excape to the california lost coast haha. Sounds crazy, but that's my answer to all of this bullshit. I guess we all gotta find our own.

Peace

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Hey man. I know were your coming from, but check it out.

The human race, is DUMB. I could list the reasons but you probably just want me to get to the point.

We might not be perfect, but relative to our intelligence, we have the best "system" there can be. Civilization has evolved over thousands of years to get to this.

The modern system of barter, money, works. And to earn that money, you have to work. The whole process, it makes the world go round and gives us a high standard of modern living.

So really, when your putting in 40 hours a week at work, your not wasting your life, your bieng a human. Its a waste to do nothing but enjoy your hobbies, relax, watch tv, and drink beer everyday. If everyone did that, no one would have anything, and the world would fall apart. So your contributing to the world order by working.

lol...I'm not a big fan of people/society either. I try not to sweat it too much though. Problem is I don't like working too much (yea, work sux for the most part), so I have a bit of downtime, and that's when my mind goes off into all sorts of tangents. So I do try to keep busy wherever possible.

Having this negative view... I really don't want to contribute to the human race as a whole, I've given up on that so what I'm left with is to just make do with what I got and at least try to enjoy it.

Aha! I used to think this as outside the box intill I realised it was only because I did not see yet another box over it. That is to say, there is truth, there is reason, everything happens according to 'something'. I have and had lengthly times of such thinking, it ended adruptly with apathy, the general dislike even hate of humanity and it's so called civilization.

But then, I noticed it was not man I loathed but rather... their methods, the greed, the lies. If I was to wish for nothing (which I did for some time) I would of given up, to cease the heart from feeling good, happy. But this is blindness, and the same as any other lost soul thinking the world cannot be better.

Someone told me, the truth if you will. And for dramatic purposes I tell you this, It was no man! But even so, I am trapped by a prison while not made by me it was indeed chosen by me, this is of course the handicap of SA. Other than physically, I cannot be more free. So naturally I want to tell others of the truth that is honestly more simple than most things, it is of course the bible and Jehovah the creator and a certain son whom we all think we know.

I do not expect many to seek out what I imply, but I have said it and to my utmost belief it is the answer and hope that some will at least look into it. I was once a truth seeker, I suppose now im a truth speaker interestingly enough, and there is nothing I enjoy more than doing so.

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I'm tryin to cut my life in the rat race short by makin an excape to the california lost coast haha. Sounds crazy, but that's my answer to all of this bullshit.

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Sounds good to me!

The human race, is DUMB.

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It seems to me we either give ourselves too much credit as a species or too little, we are not dumb, we are just a little bit too smart, evil and selfish for our own good.

The modern system of barter, money, works. And to earn that money, you have to work.

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If you are familiar with how the fractional banking system works you would realize this is not the best we can do. It is the best way for the top 5% of the population to increase their family wealth for generations to come. We are cattle but our usefulness is our endurance instead of milk or meat.

I've only worked full time now for 5-6 years of my life and the thought of even another 5 is totally incomprehensible. I do not want a wife, kids, and a white picket fence...I see nothing of myself in the life we are TOLD to strive for.

I'm sure a lot of homeless people are just lazy but I'm even more sure that many of them just didn't fit into the picture.

people=shit

And where is there reason? The cause even? Today modern society is highly advanced in terms of population control, there is very little anyone no matter what they think can do. But there is one and only one hope, do you see world conditions and relations between nations improving?

It is in the bible, it is been prophesied and has been forseen and fortold. It has been said many will not listen (It was a case of seeing many things, but you did not keep watching. It was a case of opening the ears, but you did not keep listening. Isaiah 42:20).

Eh, anyway. You want the truth of things and know the reason why, if anyone wants to learn about the 'real' life, it's only a few pages away (or a bookstore).

Yeeeah anyway, unfortunately you need money to live in this system, so well, good luck on the job thing. :|

the title for this post reminded me of a t-shirt metallica used to sell, it had on it- BIRTH, SCHOOL, METALLICA, DEATH. I think that about sums it up, just replace the word metallica with your favourite band.

The world is fucked up in many ways. Just gotta find your own way to get some peace. Someway, somehow..

^ I love old metallica btw

I can't stand working for people, i just despise being told what to do ..it doesnt feel right to me ..even though im being paid ..i just feel like a puppet all the time ..ive lost sleep over being consumed by my job ..unless your happy with your career it can be a brainmasher

^^ lets face it, we spend most of our lives at this place. .you want it to be worthwhile and positive for your mind, not unhealthy ..and the catch-22 is once you become more powerful in your role in any company "it doesnt sit well with me to tell others what to do" ...

so the only alternative is too work for yourself with a small team or you rely on a creative path like design, art, music, engineering, science, maths, where at least your mind and skills are developing in an exciting enough way that working for "the man" who is in it for the money, most of the time people run businesses to make a profit and only for the money, that in the end overtakes the actual skill involved ..in terms of managers you come across

But then you have to earn a dollar, otherwise you cant live, so its a trap .. dont get me wrong certain companies and people will be in it for the right reasons and want to help people grow with their career ...so im not slating them just the overall concept of being a puppet and the rigid way that so many millions of people wake up too early in the morning and conform to fixed hours everyday and go to jobs they hate ...put so much pressure on themselves that they let their job become more important then their perception of themselves ...

its a system where if you turn up 5 minutes late more then once you can be disposed of because your not worthy of being known or kept because you didnt do what you were told, so your unworthy ..

everybody is confined to the 9-5 schedule like sheep ...

in away its like going to prison, your legs and arms are strapped in but your paid to do it, again unless youve found your dream job with alot of flexibility, thats a different story




We are shaped by our environment, and i wish i had of grown up around family and people that took risks and weren't so damn conservative and fearful all the time ..

The human race act like sheep ...and its always usually dependent on our environment we grow up in .. ...as we are all born clean slate ..(yes we do inheret certain genes ..this is true which can direct you, but ultimately your not your ancestors, you werent in their shoes, your unique to you)

you are not born with social anxiety, you develop it as a response to the way you react to a difficult world around you, had you been in a different world where you were lucky enough to find a break where you really enjoy yourself all the time with minor bouts of depression, you wouldnt have the same reaction and anxieties..as the other way around

A person that grows up in pakistan is going to be shocked once they enter a western society ..because the conditioned lifestyle is vastly different ...

so we react to certain environmental impulses from our conditioning

Lets say you grow up and your parents are in a band ...you travel around the world with them ..learn alot about life and them, they where their heart on their sleeve ..they are care free but still love you ..compared to living say in a more "darker" environment, where your parents are both a negative influence and dont teach you to take any risks but to be cautious all the time ..

you can react in many ways, you become more like their personality or you rebel against them and vouge to be not like them and live your way ..or a mixture of both ...

I have an issue with a number of cliched experiances that ive noticed screw many peoples minds up, that is getting married and having kids, being with one person every single day for the rest of their lives ..unless your head over heals in love with that person and you know they are the "one" ..then youve wasted your life right there ..some people handle it ok but those that don't it ruins their life completely, because as parents they expect their children to grow up a certain way, the stress and the tension can often outweigh the initial positive of bringing a child into the world ...i think it comes down to also earning enough to support having kids which can mess with peoples heads if they dont live up to their own ideal .. ..

that is why im not sure i can be content to have kids at this stage ..unless im 100% positive i can support them so they live well ..

i need to look after myself (a challenge in itself) first before having that responsibility of another human in my hands..

in many regions of the middle east marriages are arranged without any prior knowledge or friendship with that person, you are forced to conform to these conventions, then your expected to provide and live with your entire family in the same village, thats their normal way of life ...

if you resist that way of life then your discarded from the family, especially if the women resist ..

society, religions such as muslim and christianity for instance is the biggest con, everybody twists and distorts the bible so much that its almost been re-written to suit profitability and lifestyle of egotistical-pseudo-gods, and the evil its caused amongst people .. that i want nothing to do with it, i switch off to all of it .. ..

"god does not love you if you have sex before marriage" ..etc, all that rubbish

again people are like sheep ..

my religion is music and how many holy wars, murders has that caused? nil, its liberating and the complete opposite and independent ..

we can change and re-conditon ourselves, teach oursleves all over again and replace our past habits with new ways ...but its hard, i'm really struggling to fight fear ...and its a direct reaction to bullying i received throughout high school and at home by my dad in his attitudes and anger issues ...

Richey may be long-winded, but he's right. Agreed with everything he said.

Peace

Richey said:

everybody twists and distorts the bible

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You agree it is beneficial then? The bible itself actually describes what is happening right now, it is ironic to think that the perversion and lies of greedy men persuade others to view the bible and Jehovah in a different light, to turn away those with perception and yet still play them like a flute. Subtle, prehaps, it does not hold for long under the weight of knowledge however.

There is little wrong in hating religion that is hypocritical, but by hating religion (as we know it) generalised... it closes the heart to a thing buried under the dirt, the word itself.

Oh and there is such a thing as people who follow it who are truly not hypocritical. The few, who seek truth admist the confusion. Heh the ones willing to give witness to truth.

I agree with what everyone is saying.

I was recently thinking about how selfish and greedy people are (myself included). All everyone is trying to do is extract as much money as possible from others, while paying out as little as possible.

I've always been VERY materialistic, probably to make up for my social shortcomings. I recently bought a house which I now live in, but no matter what I buy, I still feel empty. If I get married, have some kids, I'm sure I would still feel the same.