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Ya'all just pop in waiting for an "excuse" for something interesting to happen, or missing that one poster you like, but then they lurking too, waiting for you.

Everyone here is so damn cynical, and you just spread it further around. I see some people trying to shitpost their way to some happiness and people just want to shut that down to as if it makes them feel better about their own shitty lives. Idk, I guess it's easier to live a cynical life because then you don't have to put in the extra work. I don't think some people understand, that not some people can just accept the terms of their life, some have suicidal thoughts, and cynicism is the final excuse to just end it. Then I know some jerks willing to claim darwinism and all that, but it's just isolating people, nothing to do with the survival of the "fittest".

But feel like it's no wonder people don't post as often. 

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2 minutes ago, katt_goddess said:

I don't post a lot because I'm usually doing something else at the same time I'm on here. 

Like playing 'Bubble Witch 3' :D

Or fighting with my computer chair that I swear is possessed by the spirit of slo-mo depression.

Believe it or not, I would consider you an habitual poster, based on consistently. I haven't like posted in months until recently, so I guess I'm referring to lurkers and hiders like me who make excuses for themselves. There are a ton of lurkers. O__O

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I think you are mostly right.

I don't post nearly as much because I'm often busy doing other things. I'll lurk a bit, decide that the level of general awful is just too high to put up with, and then not bother.

I also have noticed that I'm far more apt to just put stupid idiots on the list (ignore list) and leave it at that. No reason not to honestly, if they just contribute vitriol I am not interested in that.

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Just now, TrigunBebop said:

My shitposts are all just me trying to make people laugh at my dumb balloon jokes.

The only time I ever really get pissy is when a certain someone starts being a rapey creep.

But they aren't dumb, they are epic. B|

Thats a great reason to be mad actually. If I were honest a lot of things piss me off mentally, can't really help it, but I try to react and just internalize everything.

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2 minutes ago, Ginguy said:

I think you are mostly right.

I don't post nearly as much because I'm often busy doing other things. I'll lurk a bit, decide that the level of general awful is just too high to put up with, and then not bother.

I also have noticed that I'm far more apt to just put stupid idiots on the list (ignore list) and leave it at that. No reason not to honestly, if they just contribute vitriol I am not interested in that.

I can see deleting one or two posters who don't really contribute coherent posts so that makes sense, I also understand if people really busy too, I know I was for the last year. Idk, I just think people can misconstrue threads as vapid instead of considering people might be trying to spread some positivity.

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1 minute ago, Thrak said:

I blame my lurking on vidya games. Ever since I got my SNES classic I've too preoccupied with it

My depression has made it hard for me to play video games right now, it's been so bad where I have new games with the plastic wrap I really want to play, but just don't have the energy to turn on my ps4. But I can complain on here. xD

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1 minute ago, Adminderaptorpat said:

so are you saying i gotta ban erryone who doesn't post enough, and also the assholes who post too much to scare other people away from posting

I don't know how banning will help, I was thinking more, if people expect more from the boards, maybe they should consider the content of their posts and if they hate certain threads, than please, make one better, ya know?

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2 minutes ago, jackiemarie90 said:

My depression has made it hard for me to play video games right now, it's been so bad where I have new games with the plastic wrap I really want to play, but just don't have the energy to turn on my ps4. But I can complain on here. xD

My lurking will probably get worse when I get my Nintendo Switch

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22 minutes ago, jackiemarie90 said:

But they aren't dumb, they are epic. B|

Thats a great reason to be mad actually. If I were honest a lot of things piss me off mentally, can't really help it, but I try to react and just internalize everything.

I prefer to think my balloon jokes are epically stupid.B|

Gotta be careful when it comes to internalizing things. Doing it too much will have quite the negative impact on your overall health.

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1 minute ago, TrigunBebop said:

I prefer to think my balloon jokes are epically stupid.B|

Gotta be careful when it comes to internalizing things. Doing it too much will have quite the negative impact on your overall health.

Gah I forgot to mention that living in Cali is also great cause we got a lot weed, and it does help me calm down. As for internalizing everything, I should probably find some release in jogging again, been thinking about it, but haven't just done it yet.

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49 minutes ago, jackiemarie90 said:

Ya'all just pop in waiting for an "excuse" for something interesting to happen, or missing that one poster you like, but then they lurking too, waiting for you.

Everyone here is so damn cynical, and you just spread it further around. I see some people trying to shitpost their way to some happiness and people just want to shut that down to as if it makes them feel better about their own shitty lives. Idk, I guess it's easier to live a cynical life because then you don't have to put in the extra work. I don't think some people understand, that not some people can just accept the terms of their life, some have suicidal thoughts, and cynicism is the final excuse to just end it. Then I know some jerks willing to claim darwinism and all that, but it's just isolating people, nothing to do with the survival of the "fittest".

But feel like it's no wonder people don't post as often. 

Yup that's me.

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1 hour ago, Adminderaptorpat said:

so are you saying i gotta ban erryone who doesn't post enough, and also the assholes who post too much to scare other people away from posting

i personally blame them for not reading sponges fan-fic, because now we got a highly political motivated sponges spamming political threads.

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30 minutes ago, SwimModSponges said:

I aggregate news stories and ask folks to debate the merits of their position, and also have deep conversations about the nature of reality and black womens vaginas. Also, fanfictions. 

Can I ask out of pure curiosity, most people get offended when I ask this question, but I think about this about everything and that is,

Why?

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1 minute ago, jackiemarie90 said:

Can I ask out of pure curiosity, most people get offended when I ask this question, but I think about this about everything and that is,

Why?

Did you read that thread about knowing a bunch about nothing? I think I justified my behavior fairly well in there. If you don't like philosophy... oh boy.

I'm an atheist and also a strict fatalist, I also believe heavily in absurdism. [...] [If everything is pointless, there's nothing to worry about.] Not only nothing to worry about, a profound sense of freedom in your noninvolvement with the state of reality as it is. Sisyphus pushing the boulder will never know a joy as great as pushing the boulder. [...] [The catch 22 about that is that your perception of your own non-involvement with the state of reality is part of the tiny slice of reality that is you. You're involved no matter what you do, or don't. It's a trap!]  Well it's a given that "you're" going to react to "the environment" you find yourself in; up to and including "conscious thought," I just argue that the concepts of yourself, your thoughts, and the environment are all comprised of the same exact chemical reaction as the rest of objective three-dimenional/quasi-four-dimensional existence: thereby rendering any true distinction between these things an entirely pointless endeavor. We are the world. [...] 

We are masses of atoms interacting with proximal masses of atoms. The concepts of self, free will, and perspective are beautiful illusions; much like the color of paint is determined by its chemical makeup, so to is the experience of life entirely comprised of its molecular makeup. Every part of the thing we call us in the place we call here has  previously been somewhere and something else, and will continue to be other things in the future.The thing we call reality is simply an enormous chemical reaction comprised of all existence. Every part of it is absolutely predetermined; the chemicals within the thing we call us can only react with the chemicals in the thing we call the environment in a specific manner in accordance with the observable laws of physics and chemistry. This is supported by the evidence that we only have access to a singular timeline- you will never be able to do something you did not do.

If you could see the fourth dimension, you would observe a human life as the sum of all positions in three dimensional space the individual has existed in, all congealed into a long singular mass. Actually it's weirder than that; since we're spinning around on a planet  that is spinning around the sun that is spinning around the galactic center, which is... well, essentially, the life of a human looks like... Longish noodles that wrap in and around the surrounding mass of other stuff that's also wrapping in and around stuff...    

The fourth dimension gets pretty weird but the fifth dimension is pretty much just the quantum foam. Actually that's all it is, forever.

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10 minutes ago, Hachiman said:

i personally blame them for not reading sponges fan-fic, because now we got a highly political motivated sponges spamming political threads.

This is only partially accurate.

I am indeed very upset about the fanfictions, but I've always been about the same level of motivation politically. I'm only spamming shit because holy shit, have you seen this shit?  It's some crazy shit.

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Just now, SwimModSponges said:

To sum- "I shitpost, therefore I am(?)"

I have a very short intention span, people assume it means I'm stupid, just can't really focus on topics I'm not too interested in, my memory is worst on medication right now, hoping to get it switched soon. But I have heard a bit about fatalism and thats like, whats the point cause everything will eventually fail and die right? Elon Musk said something along those lines. lol

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6 minutes ago, Adminderaptorpat said:

Fatalism is like a kind of like the dramatic version of predeterminism.

Predeterminism is the concept that everything is all, well, pre-determined - from the weather down to our individual choices. 

Nuuu not philosphy class. T_T

I just wanna talk about life brah, in a chill non direct ways. lol

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Fatalism is the belief in fate; it's nothing dramatic, it simply describes the belief in predeterminism, as @Adminderaptorpat pointed out semi-correctly

Mind you I don't believe there is a conscious entity "deciding" my fate; I believe that the fact that we exist in a world where there is only a singular timeline means that whatever happens is exactly what happened.

Thought experiment- raise your finger. Which finger did you raise? Now instead of choosing to raise that finger, go back and raise a different one. Pretty hard to do, isn't it?

So we can't change the past, but we know that. Surely we can change the future.

Ok, in three seconds, raise the finger you won't raise.

How'd that one work out for you?

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Just now, SwimModSponges said:

Fatalism is the belief in fate; it's nothing dramatic, it simply describes the belief in predeterminism, as @Adminderaptorpat pointed out semi-correctly

Mind you I don't believe there is a conscious entity "deciding" my fate; I believe that the fact that we exist in a world where there is only a singular timeline means that whatever happens is exactly what happened.

Thought experiment- raise your finger. Which finger did you raise? Now instead of choosing to raise that finger, go back and raise a different one. Pretty hard to do, isn't it?

So we can't change the past, but we know that. Surely we can change the future.

Ok, in three seconds, raise the finger you won't raise.

How'd that one work out for you?

My mind circulated to raising the same dam finger. >_>

Idk, I believe in kinda like, caring for others in humanity, too much cynicism will make you give up and not really try stuff in life, and people always eventually change, as it's key in survival?

That's like a cluster fuck of beliefs lol

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4 minutes ago, SwimModSponges said:

Specificity is the only way to understanding.

Isn't there also a twinge of pretentiousness in this though? That if we study hard enough we will understand everything, I also forgot to mention I do believe in duality of life. Evil and Good, all that jazz and the grey in between in you will. But yeah, there are just some things we can honestly never comprehend, because more research won't be available until after we are dead. So some education is great, but I don't know if makes us complete understanding people.

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1 minute ago, SwimModSponges said:

Fatalism is the belief in fate; it's nothing dramatic, it simply describes the belief in predeterminism, as @Adminderaptorpat pointed out semi-correctly

As I recall, fatalism is a branch of predeterminism. Whereas predeterminism generally is the concept that everything is predetermined (either by due to a supreme being or due to a rube goldberg machine of chemical reactions triggered by the big bang), fatalism is more Shakespearean or like Oedipus.

Or as Darth Vader would say: "it is your destiny"

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