So lonely and miserable...

[Roseweave]

Lately things haven't been going well for me. I need to move house but I have't found a suitable place yet. I've been in a lot of pain lately thanks to two seperate inflammations.

And at the end of the day, I'm all alone. I have nobody I can call up and talk about these things. Even the few friends I do have, aren't really the ones to talk to. I can't talk to my parents, my Dad is being a complete and utter tosser. I'm still waiting for a psychologist. I could be waiting months more. They don't give a shit about mental health in this country, we have a pretty high suicide rate.

I'm going to have to go to bed miserable now. I hate that feeling so much. I'm going to have nightmares. If i'm lucky.

[smile_man]

[WaveForm3]

[gishlullmoon]

[Roseweave]

Thanks everyone.

I just found back about my laptop which had to be sent in for repairs a second time since Acer fucked it up the last time. apparently after having it for a month they've finally decided to give me a new one, but they won't swap in the HDD and are trying to sell me the old one. This is crazy.

[Wizard]

Thanks everyone.

I just found back about my laptop which had to be sent in for repairs a second time since Acer fucked it up the last time. apparently after having it for a month they've finally decided to give me a new one, but they won't swap in the HDD and are trying to sell me the old one. This is crazy.

that's a mindfuck.

[Mudfuzz]

Hey, keep your head up and remember everyone is crazy, even the ones that arn't are. I hope things get better for you, but sometimes you just end up going through some ruff shit, it sucks, it really sucks, and sometimes it takes a lot of time and effort to dig out to the other side.

[sev]

I feel you, man. I'm going through some really rough shit right now as well. Last night I had a spell of loneliness heavier than I've had in a long, long time.
I have a very good friend who is living with a VERY difficult long term situation in his life....yet he remains one of the most positive people I know. I asked him the other day how he stays so positive. He said that whenever he goes through a patch of feeling bad or sorry for himself, he tells himself, "There are plenty of people in the world that have it worse than I do...I'm not the worst off."
It sounds cliche, but it's true for almost all of us. And I find that it helps me to think this thought whenever I'm feeling low.
Hang in there. You're not alone.

[Mudfuzz]

Yeah we all end up going through some ruff/odd/terrible shit and when it's over you get to have that special moment where you stare off into space and say to yourself "what the fuck was that all about"

[darryl2113]

I can't speak for everyone who has ever lived and/or will live.....but my experience is that loneliness to a certain degree is part of the human condition. I have been surrounded by people and still felt like the only one on earth...or maybe more like I'm surrounded by people and I am the only one of my kind left. I've been in relationships and out, and still have felt lonely from time to time. Not to get all "voodoo hoodoo guru" , but I think the reason for this is out of the fact that people, places, and things or anything else "outside of ourselves" can't really make us whole. We try and try, drugs, sex, moving , guitars,etc....but at the end of the day we know that all of that shit is very temporary, and what is needed is a permanent solution. Its like being really hungry but drinking water to try a curb the hunger pains.

What had to happen for me to really cope with this (and it in and of itself is not a cure all) is trying to believe that everything is connected. That, on an atomic level, you could go out into the universe and find all the ingredients to create me and everyone else, that when I die, when this planet dies, when this solar system dies.......I will go right back were I came from..on an atomic scale. I am not religious at all(in fact, i'm closer to what many consider atheism, in the since that technically, I don't believe in a deity, but I'm not an atheist or a science worshiper), but I do believe that, just as the ancestors of wolves figured out that if they lived in packs they would be better off, people sought the truth about reality from the day they could walk upright. Almost every religion (yuck) talks about the same things when you look at their main ideas....Christianity talks about all of us and God's creations being a family, Zen Buddhism talks about everything being connected under the surface, Kabballah does too.....most of the ones I have looked into have this theme(haven't looked into every religion/cult that every existed though). So, the way I see it, if everyone is saying the same thing, maybe there is some truth to it.

[Roseweave]

I think people set themselves apart from each other. I think the reason my aspergers is such a big issue isn't so much because of the actual neurological condition but because of the sheer frustration caused by people trying to pigeon hole me into the "Normal human" box. This is why I hate the "Using condition as an excuse" rhetoric because everyone's "condition" IS an excuse to some degree at least.

So, the way I see it, if everyone is saying the same thing, maybe there is some truth to it.

I don't think that makes an awful lot of sense, it could just as easily be an artefact of limited understanding. Many religions came to similar conclusions about the way the world works because it was what seemed obvious at the time, the earth being the centre of the universe etc. that we later found to be incorrect. It being found in many different cultures doesn't make it true, but it does probably mean that it's something people yearn for.

[Roseweave]

Robots are still designed by humans, in our image though. Do you think people are really going to program robots with "better" ethics than them? Probably not

All you can hope for really is societal evolution.

[Wizard]

we're talking gypsy robots.

[darryl2113]

Well, splitting hairs is something that both takes alot of time and and wastes alot imo. The biggest problem with asking for help is that in the end, the only real person that can help me is me (ie, actually going into something with an open mind and following a suggestion or two since I seem to not be doing such a great job of figuring life out myself and all).

As far as the whole common denominator in the religions and what not, consider this, even modern quantum physicists say the same exact thing as religions from the dawn of human existence , we (being everything in existence in the universe) are all connected, and more so than any of us proably could imagine. So, from point A to point C, point A being when we were just shedding our monkey hair and point C being the most advanced and abstract quantum physicists......we have come to the same exact place. There is a movie out that I haven't seen yet, but its called WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW.....FURTHER DOWN THE RABBIT WHOLE that allegedly goes very deep into modern quantum physics and its explanations of reality in a very down to earth way. you should check it out.

But, why believe anything? why even consider another point of view? well, I can't answer that for anyone, all I know is that reality is reality regardless of whether I believe it to be or not. Our fate is always inevitable, suffering is inevitable, BUT MISERY IS OPTIONAL!

[WaveForm3]

...on the subject of robots...and I know this won't help...

but has anyone seen/read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? The robot's depresses. Just like humans.