Well, I've had a very powerful bowl of hash after 2 weeks abstinence, and some other things going, and I thought I'd get these off my chest. :stoned:

- First of all, why don't we ever see wild vegetables? I mean think about it; you never go walking around in the wild, and suddenly "hey! There's a patch of carrots/potatoes/beans/peas/radishes/beats/etc" Conspiracies are afoot people. :wtf:

- Secondly, is it just me or is the world getting stupider? Or has it always been this stupid? It frustrates me to no end. Most people don't even want to analyze the logic of various claims, they just get easily impressed and instantly believing by phrases like "studies show". Never mind looking at the methodology, the criteria, the logic of the analysis; instead some article will say "studies show a link between marijuana and violence", or something like that, and they think "Well, it's been scientifically proven!"
And that's another one I hate, people saying things have been "scientifically proven". They so harshly lack any understanding of the scientific method that they think once a "study shows", that means it's been "scientifically proven"; which is infallable, of course.

Furthermore, another jewel of human idiocy is the way people choose a side (politics, religion, whatever), and just interpret everything to coincide with that presupposition. Or even worse, they only listen to/consider arguments that support what they've already decided. It's like "I've chosen what I believe, and I'm going to fight to make sure nobody changes that!" You can't claim your decision is a logical one if you're not willing to change that belief in the face of new and better evidence.

It's like when President Ahmadinejad (Iran) came to Columbia University, and everybody was just outraged that they would let him speak and debate his side. If you're so certain of all your beliefs regarding the guy, then you have nothing to fear by engaging him in logical debate. Nobody has ever been able to explain to me what terrible consequence will happen by letting people hear him, despite my asking for said explanation. But the "don't let him/her speak!" mentallity is everywhere, and I think it's because deep down people don't want anything to threaten their presuppositions.
Just look at how many people pick a political party to hate, one to support, and then their's never, or almost never, does anything wrong, while the opposition is always wrong, of course. They always have criticisms galor for the other sides; the other religion, philosophies, parties, liberals, conservatives, but never or seldom a one for their own; as if a perfect (or even near-perfect) entity actually exists.


- Chronic pain sufferers are not treated as well, by the medical system or just people, as you might think. Stigmas abound, completely contrived and uninformed in their nature. I've done my research, and we (folk in harsh chronic pain) all face the same roadblocks and predudices. That being:

1. Friends (which I'm now almost out of) and people in general think that after years of it every day, you should just be getting used to it by now. BULLSHIT. If anything it just wears you down and wrecks your mental condition the longer it lasts. It makes you way more resistant to acute pain, like stubbing your toe, but the persistant, deep down pain, just sucks you for all you're worth. So please, don't think that about people living with it!

2. Every doctor visit (and there are many), you have to contend with this prevalent attitude that you're just trying to score painkillers to get high. Roughly 80% of doctors have this attitude.

3. Even worse with the doctors, many of them have an attitude that you should just learn to deal with it; I get it all the time. They don't understand at all that intense pain for years is a much harder thing to have than the same intense pain for a matter of minutes or hours. When they picture how you feel with the pain, they picture how they would feel with the pain right now, at this moment - not after years of it beating you down.

4. People who see you take painkillers (even tylenol or whatever) think you're just casually popping one out of shere laziness, like you could deal with it and it's not that bad, but you just can't be bothered.

and 5. This one possibly irks me the most. When somebody asks me to help with something or go somewhere, I say I'm in too much pain, and they act like I'm just using it as a canned excuse to get out of doing something I don't feel like.


Anywhoo, we've got an ignorance pandemic on this planet!


- Is it really such an outrageous notion that we stop pumping all our food with monosodium glutamate and corn syrup? We could incure massive health care savings just by phasing these two things out; but ohhhh no, gotta keep feeding the North American obesity addiction.

- No presidential contender with a chance of winning; not Obama, Hillary, Edwards, McCain, Romney, or the rest, have even talked about putting the Federal Reserve back fully into government/public hands, and out of corporate ownership. That's just a disgrace, and grossly economically irresponsible. It should at least be discussed and brought fully to public attention.

- You know why we have such an epidemic of depression and anxiety? Because we live in a hedonistic, selfish, consumer-driven, instant-gratification society where we try to buy our hapiness, smother it in useless crap and food, and judge each other through narrow views of acceptability. This is an unhealthy society, and it's only gonna get worse.

- People's understanding of spelling, grammar, and punctuation these days is just atrotious. Just read the comments on youtube, you can barely understand what these nitwits are trying to write. And they just keep getting dummer...

- On that note, I have no friends spare one that lives very far away. Know why? Because all anybody wants to talk about is mindless dribble, chit-chat about nothing - just whats goin' on today, who's doing what social thing with who, and that wretched media media culture that gets everybody obsessed with mindless dribble like American Idle and what celebrity's cheating on who. And so here I remain alone still, because I can't find anybody who doesn't give me a blank look and slink away as soon as I say something that might present the threat of having to work a neuron or two.
I don't even try hot-button topics like politics or religion either, they really do just hate having to work their brains at all. I blame television, all the crap in our food, and a growing society where people think there's nothing wrong with the government mandating personal morality. Well, partially anyway.



And then they wonder why, in a world like this, we want to get high. These "high on life" people are actually content with this screwed-up world, blissfully unaware of the real reasons why we have all these problems.


Yep, I'm thoroughly dissolutioned with life at this point; quite miserable with it in fact. Nothing ever works out, no hope for humanity, and good things happening are just those rare little moments that give you a quick breath before holding your head under water again. "Life is suffering": Buddha was right.
Gandalf_The_Grey Reviewed by Gandalf_The_Grey on . There's a few things about the world that are bugging to me... Well, I've had a very powerful bowl of hash after 2 weeks abstinence, and some other things going, and I thought I'd get these off my chest. :stoned: - First of all, why don't we ever see wild vegetables? I mean think about it; you never go walking around in the wild, and suddenly "hey! There's a patch of carrots/potatoes/beans/peas/radishes/beats/etc" Conspiracies are afoot people. :wtf: - Secondly, is it just me or is the world getting stupider? Or has it always been this stupid? It Rating: 5