Hm.

[tinhuvielartanis]

I'm making this post a friends-only post so as to avoid any more tension for one of my pals in whose journal this bullfunky began. I left the person to his/her opinion out of respect for my friend, who doesn't deserve a poo-flinging contest in her journal.

I just got an invitation to kill myself and be the first in the (hopeful) extinction of Humanity. Never have I said I want to see all of us disappear without including myself in that, but I won't do myself in and lose the chance of missing out on the Alpaca Lips. That would be daft of someone who relishes the idea of such an occasion, but that doesn't mean I set myself apart or above my fellow species.

If someone is so bloody serious about "saving the future" or "saving the Earth," they're most likely fluffy bunny idjits who deserve to feel the heat of the Inquisitors' brand. If you can't take Humanity or its inevitable demise as a joke, then you're not going to be any help to your "cause" anyway.

Maybe I'm too jaded. Maybe I'm too much of a cynic. Hell, I'm probably both. In fact, I'm almost certain of it. But people who are keen on a New Age for Humanity or saving the Earth make me want to vomit. Mother Earth can take care of herself. Why do you think the weather is so fucked up? She's trying to balance out a situation that we created. If Humanity was fighting Mother Earth in a boxing match, I'd place my bets on Earth. She's bigger, stronger, and older than all of us put together. She will kick our collective arse long before we have a chance to achieve Enlightenment. We're destroying our habitat. Once it's gone, Earth will no longer support us, we'll die, and we'll be replaced with something stronger and better than we. It'll be a beautiful thing, man. Beautiful.

All I can say is that it takes a pretty petty and shallow individual who resorts to inciting suicide in response to someone who has an obviously drastically different opinion to their own. Variety is the spice of life. If everyone who didn't agree with the Advancement of the Human Race decided to jump off a bridge, it'd be a pretty boring world that would still self-destruct in good time, probably faster 'cos there'd be no misanthropist around to bring down the morons with the miraculous opposable digit a notch or two.

::rolls eyes::

What-the-fuck-ever.

**cross-posted to misanthrope_inc**

Comments

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

There is a solution, though I don't think a lot of people are going to like it, especially not the fluffier types who somehow think getting "back to nature" is going to reverse the trend towards an environment unhospitable to mammalian life. It will mean the end of "humanity" as we know it, but it doesn't mean the end of us.

There is no future in carbon based higher lifeforms on this rock. I see our responsibility as creating the stronger and better things that you speak of, and letting them carry forward the standard.

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

While I actually agree with the idea you're proposing, I think the end of "us" is inevitable and has already begun.

By genetic drift, we're slowly ceasing to be the same thing as even some predecessors whose names we know. They can now do DNA profiles on archaeologic finds and use that to determine a time range the corpse was from.

"Humanity" isn't a species, at least on this planet. It's a concept. (In my most humble opinion, of course.)

[bloominglotus.livejournal.com]

"All I can say is that it takes a pretty petty and shallow individual who resorts to inciting suicide in response to someone who has an obviously drastically different opinion to their own."
No kidding!
I've actually noticed that the general atmosphere on LJ is getting a little petty in general. It's getting to the point where no one can post a differing opinion anywhere without some self-important yayhoo troll cutting them down. Polite disagreement is great. I'll happily discuss whatever differences respectfully. "GAAAAAAAAH WHOA MI GAWD IM SYKKOOOOO ZOMGWTFBBQ ur not liek me ur so stoopid diiiiie kthxbye!!!!!1!" gets old pretty much immediately. I don't have time for people to satisfy their power trips at my expense.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

werd.

[helenangel.livejournal.com]

ICK ICK and DOUBLE ICK. People who respond to discussion with insults are morons.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

They're perfect examples of why I'm a misanthrope. Kinda funny.

[green-goblin70.livejournal.com]

Isn't calling them a moron kind of an insult??? ;) just teasing ya.

[helenangel.livejournal.com]

YES. I have never claimed to NOT be a moron. ;)

[aki-dreaming.livejournal.com]

In all likelihood, that person is just a hater who really doesn't get what you are saying, how or why.

Like so many of the zealously "faithful", this person has put limits on "god" - in this case The Earth. Mom can't take care of Herself, so we have to do it for Her and you don't understand how deep and meaningful this is.

What a bunch of horseshit.

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

Wow, how low can you get?

I would have stooped lower and said 'I'm rubber you're glue!' Perhaps they would've understood then.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_willowmyst/]

In completely non eloquent terms...

The earth is fucked, humans on the whole are shit, humanity is fucked, we did it, we face the consequences and no amount of "fluffy bunniness" is going to change that. It was always going to happen from the moment we stepped onto this rock/were put on this rock/evolved into humans* (*delete as applicable). There is only one thing you can do about it; accept it.

There's a word for it... oh yes... evolution.

[razzle.livejournal.com]

If I off myself now, that'll be one less unabashedly homicidal maniac contributing to the chaos of the Alpaca Lips. Where's the fun in that??

When the End Times come, you bet your ass I'll set myself above my fellow hominids - for as long as my ammo holds out.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I really really like you. A lot.

[falkenna.livejournal.com]

Well, myself I don't see the point (or the method) of living without hope. But ya gotta recognize the reality of the size of the mountain we have to climb. This crackpot obviously can't face that reality and has to take it out on you.