# I wish our species would stop with the bullshit **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 5, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501 "2007-08-05T12:49:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/61 "2007-08-05T16:20:44Z")
So did you catch anything? I know that I would, if _I_ thought that the end of the world were happening. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/62 "2007-08-05T16:21:08Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] Didn’t we have one of these about a year ago? Someone who claimed he was going to start some worldwide suicide movement? [/QUOTE] Yes. That one _also_ had the tendency to Make Random Acronyms About His Philosophy (MRAAHP). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/63 "2007-08-05T16:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] Yes. That one _also_ had the tendency to Make Random Acronyms About His Philosophy (MRAAHP). [/QUOTE] I knew I wasn’t imagining it, but a search reveals nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/64 "2007-08-05T16:28:12Z")
[QUOTE=Hamadryad] Remember, Rippy the Razor says, “It’s down the road, boys and girls, not across the street!” And do it in the bathtub, you don’t want to make your mom’s life even MORE pointless and miserable by making her clean up your mess. [/QUOTE] That said theres alot going for his putting his head under a pile driver,it would make a good news item. I’ll bet your a bit of a lady killer on the quiet X,one date and you depress them so much they kill themselves. But I really must take issue with your fundamental concept ,you’re depressed so everyone else must die . Now I dont give a flying fuck about everyone else dying and that includes fluffy puppies ,but my death would be an global tragedy,particulary for me . So my riposte is …please rearrange the following words to make a well known phrase or saying. Yourself Fuck Go ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/65 "2007-08-05T16:38:36Z")
[QUOTE=phouka] Oh, honestly, dude. The attitude that everything is a bleak, meaningless torture and we’re all better off in the arms of non-existence is just as much bullshit as saying God has a plan for everyone, and it’s all going to be all right. The rest of us have much better stuff to do than wallow in your masturbatory self-pity. Christ, infant, go outside and sit in the sunlight. Rent a puppy for a few hours. Play a board game with a kid. Get laid. Eat some serious Italian food. Stomp some dandelions. Listen to _Jupiter_ by Holst. Take a nap in a hammock. But get _over_ yourself. **You haven’t discovered some new concept. You aren’t bravely informing the delusional masses. You’re wanking off to a nihilistic fantasy you’ve mistaken for reality. Yeah, the world has some shitty spots. Try making them a little better instead of building your own shit mansion, okay?** [/QUOTE] Very well said, I agree. The bolded part contains some wise advice that the OP would do well to seriously consider. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/66 "2007-08-05T16:59:22Z")
[QUOTE=xkcd] I want to live in a conscious loving universe that protects the ‘good’ and punishes the ‘bad’, and wherein we are not just animals headed towards eternal death. [/QUOTE] **XK** , rather than mock your pain let me try to help you out. I think your expectations are being tainted by your previous experiences. Christianity assigns a need for ‘meaning’ of human life. You’ve now realized that their version of “meaning” can’t or won’t come true. Instead, you now know that when you die it’s just over. You say, "_I became an atheist over a year ago and now I know that our species is a tragic joke headed nowhere."_ I believe you are judging your new ‘lack of meaning’ life against your old ‘life must have meaning’ life. By suggesting you want to live in a “conscious loving universe” you are still buying into the same ol’ religious dogma. There is no “good” to be rewarded by the universe. There is no “bad” to be punished by the “conscious loving universe”. This kind of thinking is what started religion in the first place. Revel in your freedom from Ten Commandments. I think what’s really going on here is you _wish_ God were real and He’s not and your throwing a tantrum about it. Step back from the maze a bit and it will all become a little more clear. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/67 "2007-08-05T17:00:47Z")
Be sure your problem’s not a youthful phase. It’s a feeling sorry for yourself phase. And a big reason why you don’t like your species. It’s chock full of people just like you. Me, me, me. Your mommy’s not here so try to take responsibility for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/68 "2007-08-05T17:01:37Z")
Every day millions of good people suffer horribly. And every day bratty, privileged teenagers mouth off about how unfair life is and how stupid everyone else is. Trouble is, it’s tough to have any perspective when your sole responsibility is mowing a third of an acre of grass. On a riding mower. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/69 "2007-08-05T17:17:18Z")
I got nothing, just wanted to say I’m going to print out **WhyNot** ’s post. It won’t be the first time, either. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/70 "2007-08-05T17:20:25Z")
Come! Sip the Koolaid of understanding! ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/71 "2007-08-05T17:58:42Z")
Ah yes, August is upon us. That time of year when the youth prepare to go back to school and face another year of the uncertain. Will my penis get any larger? Will I be considered cool this year, or will it be the same as last year where I made Napolean Dynamite look like Remington fucking Steele? Will we get new locker assignments, or will I once again have to share a locker with Raji, the Indian Exchange Student, who gets towel-snapped with his own turban every sixteen seconds? Will I get laid this year, or will I be yet again forced to bitterly masturbate quietly, yet frequently in the bedroom I share with my younger brother until he asks if that’s the washing machine shaking the trailer again and I am eventually, and yet again, diagnosed with tennis elbow, to the confusion of mom, who knows I don’t even own a racket? Will Lou, my truck driving step father get over his boundary issues and stop making me take baths with him, wagging his rashy, lot lizzard scorched meat whistle at me and talking in a low pitched voice like its King Friday XIII? Kid, when you get older and finally _do_ get laid, you’ll stop writing crap like this, and perhaps begin the long task of climbing down off your cross, using the wood to build a bridge and get the fuck over it. But until then, just go back to working your crank like it was a gearshift on a VW bus stuck in a mud puddle like I did, and you’ll be fine. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/72 "2007-08-05T18:15:25Z")
[QUOTE=xkcd] Every day millions of good people suffer horribly. That’s the way it’s been since the beginning of our species, b/c we live in an unconscious uncaring death trap of a universe that doesn’t give a shit if you’re ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and that sucks. I want to live in a conscious loving universe that protects the ‘good’ and punishes the ‘bad’, and wherein we are not just animals headed towards eternal death. I hate this universe, and I hope the tragedy of our species dies soon. [/QUOTE] The Universe doesn’t care one way or another about you. Or me. Or anyone else who’s ever lived. Or anyone that ever will. It never did. It never will. Deal with it. Or not. Your fragile little ego, and your snivelling demands that the Universe conform to your wishes, is pathetic. Fuck you. No, on second thought: Fuck _you_ with a splintery broomstic. If millions suffer every day, why don’t you attempt to do something to alleviate their suffering, instead of shifting the blame to the nameless, faceless Universe and posting your existential angst on a message board? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/73 "2007-08-05T19:08:13Z")
[QUOTE=xkcd] The sooner our species dies, the sooner good people like me will never again suffer terribly in an uncaring unfair shithole universe. [/QUOTE] Which species do you belong to? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/74 "2007-08-05T19:11:36Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical] **XK** , rather than mock your pain let me try to help you out. [/QUOTE] If I may suggest, mocking his pain and helping him out are equally useless since he’s decided nothing anyone else says matters. Mockery at least has the benefit of entertaining spectators. ---
**Author:** ![I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9fc29f/32.png) [@I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_Ron_Burgundy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/75 "2007-08-05T19:15:14Z")
It’s not entertaining to me, it’s elitist. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/76 "2007-08-05T19:26:23Z")
[QUOTE=I’m Ron Burgundy?] It’s not entertaining to me, it’s elitist. [/QUOTE] One day and after much personal improvement, you’ll see that the two concepts are equal. Or perhaps you never will. Some people just can’t. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/77 "2007-08-05T19:37:08Z")
Hmmm. The _real_ xkcd would be dismayed, I think, at seeing someone using his name spouting this nihilist drivel. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/78 "2007-08-05T19:50:33Z")
Sorry, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Jaochai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@Jaochai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaochai)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/79 "2007-08-05T19:55:26Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] Didn’t we have one of these about a year ago? Someone who claimed he was going to start some worldwide suicide movement? [/QUOTE] I remember that guy! He called his thing ‘discontinuation’ or ‘discontinuity’ or something like that. He talked about throwing dolls into fireplaces. Funny dude. Said the word ‘fuck’ a lot. A wee edit: His name was tmaareif. He had two sock puppets, or so a pitting says - his actual post is gone now - and he has only one post remaining here, in a GQ thread on why there is sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Jaochai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@Jaochai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaochai)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501/80 "2007-08-05T20:06:09Z")
Okay, I missed the edit window, but I have a gift for everyone in the same vein as the above: [http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Discontinuation](http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Discontinuation) Tadaa! He’s still poking around somewhere! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-our-species-would-stop-with-the-bullshit/414501.md?page=5)