User:Dorumin/Thoughts

A collection of interesting things that have gone through my mind and I want to keep for the future. They don't have any names attached to them, some were by friends, some by people smarter than you and I, some are paraphrased and some express my own ideas and opinions at the time of writing.

"Imagine the last person on earth adding humans to this entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_extinct_animals"

"If I had to define a major depression in one sentence, I would say: "it's a biochemical disorder with a genetic component, and early experience influences, where somebody can't appreciate sunsets.""

"If people get too far into virtuality, they will want to escape back to reality, which could be nice. Or, perhaps virtual space has so much to offer that there is no need to go back to reality."

"We make our own meaning with eachother. And this is the thought that leads to action; your days are numbered, you don't know what that number is, but it's finite. So, get busy with what it is you want to do. Time is running out."

"We like to think of our view of the world as reality. A third of our brains is dedicated to our vision, do you think that all of it just takes a literal snapshot of the world? No, it processes and modifies the important information to you, and that's what you see. You don't see reality, you construct your own reality."

"People will never care about your well-being and will take each opportunity to take advantage of you and make you feel horrible. We don't care about your problems, and we will never care about you. Once you grow to accept this, to push ahead regardless of that fact and disregard the people who will hurt you, only then you will be able to see the ones who truly care about you and want to see you succeed."

"A betrayal can make you think of all the other betrayals that are waiting for you, and things that you haven't thought of. And you can feel yourself tightening up, bracing, and, in the worst cases, it might resolve to trust no-one. But that doesn't really work. Trust is your relationship to the unknown, what you can't control, and you can't control everything. And it's not all or none, it's a slow and steady practice. And it's worth it. And it's not easy."

"Every user you meet on this site will one day make their very last contribution. Some of them may be completely sure that, whenever they hit publish, it will be their last time they visit the wiki. Some of them think that they might come back around sometime in the future, and some have no idea at all that it will be their last time pressing it. But sure enough, everyone eventually reaches that point, and whenever my time comes, I want to be one of the people in the last group."

"You shouldn't define people by their maddest edges. We strive to label people under groups to isolate them from the rest of "us", when in fact all of us are live in a gray area, yet we seem to ignore that because we cannot categorize people with that mentality. We live in a world that doesn't like gray areas. But the gray areas are where you find the complexity, it's where you find the humanity, and it's where you find the truth."

"I call people my friends a lot, and I think I may not be giving that word enough credit. Perhaps I'm saying it to make others feel better, or maybe I'm just being dishonest. I believe that, for calling people your friends, and even enemies, you need to care about them very strongly. I can't think of many people like that in my life, enough to count with the fingers in one of my hands. And let me tell you, it's not easy to always be honest with your words. They can have a very powerful impact, and they don't have to be completely honest to do so, my friend."

"There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever."

"I've been slowly transitioning into a new form of self destruction, which is just taking each disagreement, possible argument, or anything that might lead to an unsatisfactory conclusion and swallowing it up without saying anything. It not only leaves a conversation unfinished and doesn't remove the dissatisfaction, but it leaves a trace that accumulates the more you practice it, slowly crippling each one of your further conversations and slowly but surely killing any friendship from its foundation. The payoff is the dreadful feeling of slowly cutting off every string you've built over time with other people by just not saying anything."