Does anybody else feel the human race is worthless?

[jon1jt]

How old did you say you were? 18? You probably won't like to hear this, but most people feel the way you do when they're 18. It's called adolescence. I felt this way when I was 18 and I didn't like it. I didn't even like myself for feeling this way. I'm glad I've grown up, even though at that time I was positive that I'd always feel this way and there was no alternative.
Maybe even old jon and Uncle Virgil felt depressed, alienated, cynical, doomed, whatever when they were 18?
Anyways, feeling that the human race is worthless does NOT make you special. So you might as well cut the cr@p

I never felt cynical about life the way the OP did until I graduated college and there were no more parties, then I had to go out and get a real job.

[weltanschauung]

I'm not cutting anything. Perhaps you should be the one doing the cutting. I am simply speaking my mind. It was almost like a journal entry I simply submitted it to the public. I just keep learning new negative things everyday. And I am poor and tired and I keep getting average grades and it makes me feel average and I hate feeling average. Its a horrible feeling. Writing a paper and being told its average while some idiot writes about worms and apples and receives a 95. I keep hearing about all these great wise brilliant men and I feel pitiful. My fathers dead man. My mother is a witch. I hate her. She is my mother, but I do hate her and at the end of the day I stop and I say. I am nobody. I have nothing and the things I can accomplish have been done. I can't write and I can't read well and its pitiful. I am a pitiful excuse for a human being and I know this and it keeps me warm at night. It allows me to slip away and dream and its a nice feeling. I keep getting papers back saying, "Its not logical and it doesn't dance." I don't want my papers to contain logic and I don't care if they dance. I just keep getting pushed more and more and more. I know I'm not alone. Very many men get pushed and shoved and then they push and shove or they break down and become morons, but it just keeps happening and this makes me sound like a schizophrenic to some. perhaps I need a little pill to help me get through these times. Oh what a wonderful life. God bless America! The Human Race will go very far. We are the most intelligent logical race. We are the most intelligent beings on this planet. We have no soul. Only brains. Deny deny deny. I live with a pig who does not think only acts and shes a sadist and perverted and I am a sick fool.

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[SleepyWitch]

I never felt cynical about life the way the OP did until I graduated college and there were no more parties, then I had to go out and get a real job.

heheheh what decade did you grow up in? something fun like the 80s?

I am simply speaking my mind. It was almost like a journal entry I simply submitted it to the public.

so what? that doesn't make its message any truer. Whether your post is written like a journal entry, a shopping list or an academic essay, the basic content stays the same. I wrote my response almost like a journal entry. Does that make it any more convincing to you?

...makes me feel average and I hate feeling average.

guess what? probably the guys who get the good grades feel average,too. maybe your teacher is wrong about your essays, maybe he/she is right. getting average grades is NOT a free membership card for the club called "I am an oppressed artisit and the one and only true genius and if people don't understand me it's because their all daft".
What's wrong with being average? Most people are average. No one ever said you have to be special. Those who are special either are special by accident (and probably feel average themselves) or because they had a goal that they worked very hard to achieve. Claiming that the human race is worthless does NOT make you special. It's been done a million times before by both 'average' people and intellectuals and using the exact same arguments you gave.

I am a pitiful excuse for a human being and I know this and it keeps me warm at night.

Just because you feel worthless does not mean the whole human race is worthless.
Besides, if it makes you happy to feel worthless, what are you on about? I mean, if you are content feeling worthless, why do you want others to read your negative messages? There can only be two reasons. Either, you secretly want to be convinced that you are wrong, i.e. that things are not as bleak as you believe them to be. Or you are simply fishing for attention.
Anyways, if it makes you happy to feel worthless and generalize about humanity, I'll leave you to it.
Bye, have a nice life.

[Dark Muse]

I view the human race as a cancer upon the earth, they are killing it and all other living things in the name of thier own greed and selifishness. Like any cancer, I think that for the sake of all other life the human race should be oblitherated. They are all going to die once they destroy the world anyway, why should all living things suffer becasue of humans.

[Silas Thorne]

If you think the human race is worthless, don't participate in it. But that doesn't mean you can't do other things.

[Silas Thorne]

I view the human race as a cancer upon the earth, they are killing it and all other living things in the name of thier own greed and selifishness. Like any cancer, I think that for the sake of all other life the human race should be oblitherated. They are all going to die once they destroy the world anyway, why should all living things suffer becasue of humans.

Where do you get the 'they' idea from anyway. Are you not a part of it?

[Dark Muse]

I choose not to associate myself with the human race. I am pretty much withdrawn from all human society.

[Niamh]

Would participating on a forum not be part of a human society, albeit a virtual one?

[subterranean]

I'm not here. This isn't happening.

[Dark Muse]

Would participating on a forum not be part of a human society, albeit a virtual one?

I do not know if I would consider posting on a forum bored as parking in human soceity per sae. And the way the world is there are somethings that cannot be helped though soemday I really would not mind simply living in a cabin the middle of the forest with no sight of anyone for miles around.

[Chava]

You know what, it's a pretty bold statement to disown all of humanity. And our parituclar momentary existance on the planet may seem insignificant, my worries about dinner, and about buying bus tickets, are not big problems. My life, my death will have no impact but to those that love me.

But this is nonetheless the reality that we live in, and if you want to spend your time secluded, that's fair game, enjoy it. Personally I would rather spend my time exploring the good things, and valueing the positive parts of life. I, and indeed most here, come from extraordinarily privileged societies. It seems almost arrogant to find life to have no meaning, when others must fend through incurable diseases, that they had no part in attaining, that others are forced to be soldiers before the age of twelve, that in some places, little girls are sold as slaves. And I know people who have been through that, who have been molested, even tied to a tank and used as a human shield, who are able to find things that they can look forward to and enjoy.

The human race worthless? in comparison to what? Who ever claimed we must be a superior force? We are, and that is what matters. I would always advocate care for others and for the precious environment that we live in, but we are not worthless, the human race has given me things that are valuable to me, and wether it is self illusion or not, they are things that make my day worth waking to.

[Dori]

I view the human race as a cancer upon the earth, they are killing it and all other living things in the name of thier own greed and selifishness. Like any cancer, I think that for the sake of all other life the human race should be oblitherated. They are all going to die once they destroy the world anyway, why should all living things suffer becasue of humans.

Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
I suppose it's a good thing I like cookies.

(If I might add, your viewpoint seems altogether lacking. You are a human being too, not matter what you say, think, or do. You are a part of this so-called kiling of all living things and this so-called selfishness and greed. If I'm a cancer, you're a cancer. Have a nice day! )

[Dark Muse]

Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
I suppose it's a good thing I like cookies.

(If I might add, your viewpoint seems altogether lacking. You are a human being too, not matter what you say, think, or do. You are a part of this so-called kiling of all living things and this so-called selfishness and greed. If I'm a cancer, you're a cancer. Have a nice day! )

Exzactly, which is why I have no problem calling for the oblitheration of the human race, knowing that if such were to happen, I too would be oblitherated but I think that it would be for the greater good.

Humans no longer deserver thier right to live as a species. All other species should not have to die just for the human race, particuarly when they are already on the path destroying themselves.

It would be better if only humans were destroyed and everything else got to live.

[Dori]

Exzactly, which is why I have no problem calling for the oblitheration of the human race, knowing that if such were to happen, I too would be oblitherated but I think that it would be for the greater good.

Humans no longer deserver thier right to live as a species. All other species should not have to die just for the human race, particuarly when they are already on the path destroying themselves.

It would be better if only humans were destroyed and everything else got to live.

Animals die. People die.
People kill animals. Animals kill people.
(Luckily for us, we're on top.)

I can't imagine what killing off every human being would do to the welfare of any given ecosystem, or biodiversity in general.

And no one deserves the obliteration of an entire species. Period.
(Not even Hitler.)

Tell me, what would benefit? And how?
Tell me more about this "greater good."

[Dark Muse]

I belive that human beings are destroying the Earth. They are killing EVERYTHING. All forms of life are being killed off by humans. I do belive the Earth does not have much longer and that pretty soon humans are going to be the cause of its end.

If the entire human race was exterminated right now. Every human just gone, dissapeared. Without thier further influence the Earth would be able to in time recover itself.

If humans live, everything including humans are going to die.

If humans die, every other living thing will have a chance at life.

The way I see it humans are already on the path to bringing about the destrution of thier own exisitince, but in the process they are going to take everything else out with them. So if humans are so determined to destroy themselves, I do not think every other life form should have to die for it as well. It would be best if only the humans were eliminated so everything else could live.