The Surreal Aspects of Life

The Surreal Aspects of Life [+ favourites]

Do you find yourself more interested and more drawn to the awful things that occur in the world or the wonderful things that occur in the world?

Perhaps it feels like I am drawn to the awful things because there seem to be so much more of them.

But something about human suffering... including torture, betrayal, guilt and especially opression... these things magnetically attract me. Not in the manner that I like them, but something about their existence in the world seems to fuel me.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

I get drawn to things. Sometimes there good sometimes they are bad.

It tends to be whatever sparks my interest. Sometime thing sthat piss me off fuel me to go and solve them; to put it right. Other times with bad things lik esuffering I feel the need to help; I just do. However, I also feel the need to take the piss out of people in authority a lot; to make them come down if they have a clothing in authority or if they have a certain position AND that they feel they are superior because of their rank, etc. i.e. if they haven't really earned it.

I'm also attracted to women of course at first; but they have to have a good personality too. In fact personality is more important than looks; at least they can be a good friend.

I like problems which I have to solve. I;m also drawn to certain things; like kids playing...that makes me smile. And good music and beer. i like a balance of these things...the hard things are a challenege and the good things make me smile.

""No words""

People are more inclined to read such events because it's controversial. Some people may say well in his position I would have done the same thing. Or they would disagree and say no I wouldn't do that. But either way there is a different stance on the issue.

"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."

my grandma always gets a magazine called "readers digest" no-one under about 40 usually reads the thing, but occasionally it has the story of a murder or some other such crime, and i always find those stories compelling reading, finding out how the commited the crime and how they were caught etc. if you think about it lots of people have the same line of thought, otherwise how would murder mysteries and horror films etc sell so well. people like to read about or watch the baser side of human nature, it is despised but there is always a morbid interest in what people are capable of doing to other people.

"So Schrodinger's Cat is not only neither dead nor alive, but might also be sexually aroused by elbows and peanut butter?"

I read in an issue of new scientist that seeing someone fall in any sense produces a chemical in your brain that results in a form of pleasure. I thought it wonderfully reflected the nature of humanity.
Id refer you to the lyrics of a song named Vicarious by Tool.

We may not be giving more attention to what's awful, but rather to what is different, like a child prodigy or a two-headed snake. We become used to what's normal and expected. This dulls the "inner eye." This is why we enjoy watching babies look at the world in awe.

"How can we be just in a world without mercy and merciful in a world without justice?"

I'll agree with attolia for the most part but as the sadistic creatures we are we like to see a bit of gore and death. IE: ancient colosseums... But I don't feel it's because we are "evil", just looking for an outlet.
As for me yes I like to see a good boxing fight or some extreme stunt videos, or even some one getting their face smashed into the ground on a good movie. However, I've never been one to like seeing such things as excessive killing scenes, abuse of any kind, or anything of that sort. Enemas are fine...

"Dark and silent and complete."

The entire world is more focused on the awful things that happen. Ever watched the news? Ever driven down the highway and HAD to slow down to see if anybody lost any limbs in that accident?

Isnt morbid curiosity wonderful?

I think that people have numerous reasons for paying so much attention to the bad events that occur. One of those reasons is because nobody is going to feel envious towards somebody else in a bad situation.

Watching somebody else's life be destroyed can make you more thankful for your own.

"Give me the freedom to destroy"

How does it 'fuel' you Decius, and in what way and towards what?

"Don't tell me there is only black and white."

I have since figured out why I am drawn to awful things. It isn't sensationalism. It's a very efficient form of achieving freedom.

If you imagine the worst that can happen and survive it intact, then you don't fear breaking when the worst does happen.

And if you aren't afraid, you are free.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

Psychology is so interesting.

You might think that vaccinations are medicine to prevent sickness, but they aren't. It is an injection of the disease in question to make you immune to it. The uninformed mind correlates not getting sick to the vaccination, and therefore thinks what's in the vaccine is medicine, or good.

This is not harmful until one gets sick. Then rather than actually find a cure, they would pump themselves full of the said vaccine, pushing more infected cells into their blood, making their immune system weaker.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

ahhh... I get it. It's another form of 'de-sensitatization'.

"Don't tell me there is only black and white."

I think there's a different between being de-sensitized and being immune to the fear. When something horrific does happen, you will still react with the same vigor and emotion that you would if you were fearful of it happening before it happened.

In fact, this process isn't at all relevent to the actual event in reality. We all know that getting hit by a car would be far different than we could ever imagine, yet we don't openly fear it. Why?

It isn't because we are de-sensitized to the pain of being hit by a car... it's because we think we know all the repercussions of being hit by a car. You could die, lose a leg, lose an arm, survive, sue, etc. Our minds are then convinced that we know all there is to know about being hit by a car.

And surprisingly, no matter how horrible the outcome, once we know and experience what it might be like to be hit by a car, we no longer fear it.

This concludes one very important thing: When we fear something, we don't fear it because it is horrible. We fear it because we don't know enough about the outcome of that fear being realized, whether it be horrible or good. It is safe to say, therefore, that people are as afraid of successes they can't see beyond just as they are of fears they can't see beyond.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

I see what you are saying. You remind me of "Hamlet" from Shakespeare sometimes, and of myself when I was 7 years old and had to take pills when I got a cold. I would often times be so scared of the 'possible outcomes' of taking pills that were what I perceieved in my mind too big for my throat. I would think about it, and think about it till an hour would pass and my mom would walk in on me exasperated that I had still not taken my medicine. *hehe*
So, in this day and age - instead of being scared... I just decide to not think too much about it and 'do it'. when it comes to accomplishments and/or being pained by the unknown possibilities. Because, in the end... what's going to happen is going to happen anyway whether you think about it or not.

"Don't tell me there is only black and white."