Do you dislike "the world"

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Currently, I would be inclined to say "yes". My sensitivities cannot deal with the horrific aspects of the "world", the sick things people do to each other, and to me. Negative energy has dragged me down most of my life. The world is not without its beauty; the horrific elements, though, are overpowering.

Not so much the world, but rather the atrocities committed by a few vindictive people.

I dislike the world as it is in this time in history.

I like the world, just none of the people in it.

Sometimes I get this very angry sort of feeling that I hate the world and all the people in it, that there is nothing worthy in reality, that I just hate all of it. I felt also like the boundaries of reality were too 'confining' and wished I was omnipotent and somehow felt really sad that I wasn't, it was odd.
I really hate this feeling, and when I get it it's somehow hard to grasp that it's going to end in some time and then I'll feel normal again.
Really though, people hate and despise everyone, there is something about everyone to be worthy of hating another for any other person and I am really bad at explaining this, but I mean - if people knew all about one another (their thoughts, their opinions, their habits, everything they've done), they would all hate and despise each other and wish each other dead. I see it on the internet all the time, people reveal their true thoughts that you never hear in real life. People harbor so much hatred, it's scary. Even though I know they're not actually going to hurt me or anything, it's just the idea itself that people hate and despise me that is somehow really damn scary for me. And now I got offtrack.

Yes, people suck. BUT. We are still the best thing in the world, for we have created all these wonderful things, and then our minds - it is wonderful to think, to daydream, to experience and then reflect.
It is odd, the world and the people in it are so nasty yet we create such beautiful, interesting things - music, art, movies, games, books...These are the things that make life worth living.

Precisely accurate assessment.

Do I dislike "the world?"

No.

It's round and good for farming.

I don't dislike the world in general, but there are certain aspects of it that I absolutely hate - e.g. the obsession with celebrity gossip, political correctness (I consider it more insulting than saying things directly, even if they sound harsh), not saying what you're really thinking, etc.

I get disappointed when I let people down. If I miss a deadline I'm not just worried about disappointing somebody but myself also. If I had a job I would worry about losing my job especially in this economic climate.

You should look into those personality types. I'm the Introverted Thinking Judgement type.

I was kind of like you when I went to school. I'd not take any of my assignment deadlines seriously and when people told me I'd get in trouble from teacher I'd shrug and say 'I won't get in trouble if I leave.'

I do dislike the world though. I think many of my friends and people I associate with are shallow, except for a few, but it's very hard to get along with people when you don't even think of things in the same way. I need a conversational partner who doesn't just talk about things superficially. I really want someone that's going to spend 10 minutes getting into the heart of a subject.
I think I hate social networking for the same reason. Well it has a lot to do with my interest in this book called The Shallows.
I just want to be able to discuss my interests for longer than 2 minutes. I guess I should be lucky they give me that long. Sometimes I don't even get 30 seconds.

I think that's why I came back to WP. I know I can find the perfect conversational partner here.

I think one other thing that annoys me is people think I am just like them, just like that average member in society who dresses like them, knows all the pop culture references and listens to the same music. I am the most unfashionable person in Sydney. I just don't care about those things. I have my own taste in music and often I just sit them staring blankly when my friends talk about their favourite bands.

For some reason I have morals too. It's getting kind of annoying. I don't join in with the nightly drinking and partying and I just find my friends saying some really horrible things. I just feel like such a wet blanket sometimes. But I'm not. I know how to have fun but I don't insult people.

it is the same for me.
i feel separate to society and i witness it with indifference mainly, but often i am annoyed at it's deleterious effects on nature. the other day, i saw a little animal running as fast as it could to cross a road (in a panic it seemed), and it was killed by a car who just kept on going (as i saw in my rear view mirror).

i wonder what the destination of that car was.
was it going to take it's driver to simply have a "cup of coffee" with a friend, or just pick up a loaf of bread from the supermarket?

was the loss of that little life justified by the fact that a human sought to satisfy a trivial desire?
i do understand that if i had been in the wrong place at the wrong time, i would have failed to avoid hitting it as well, and so i maybe hypocritical in thinking ill of the person who actually killed the animal.

it is the fact that humans are so intelligent and have taken control of the world and paved it with roads that conduct lethal traffic to anything that gets in it's way that i dislike.
how arrogant. that little animal was acting like it would have acted 50,000 years ago, but humans came along and things are gruesomely different now.

humans have the haughty attitude that they matter more than any other form of life to the extent that killing "lower " forms of life is seen as mundane and guileless.
everywhere i go, i can see the artifacts of humans. candy wrappers i am sure could be commonly found in the amazon jungle.
thongs (flip flops) and bottle tops etc are strewn on beaches of remote and uninhabited islands.
i am not an ardent champion of the human race.
life is like benign tumors that suckle upon their local source of sustenance without exploding beyond their boundaries.

humanity is like a metastatic cancer that multiplies unchecked by the immune system of the earth, and eventually every nook and cranny of goodness that the earth has to offer will be filled with the figurative tongues of hungry humans wishing to lick up the last remnants
of nectar before they condemn themselves, and all other life to starvation and death.

i am a "happy camper" none the less.


i have no values. i have what i call "de-values". if i see behavior that corresponds to my code of "de-values", then i will see the perpetrator of that behavior as less valuable to my span of consideration.

i do not really know the exact definition of the word "belief"
i think the word "belief" does not mean the same thing as "know". "belief" to me implies an element of trust that tips the scales of credibility in the favor of the belief, but the word "know" means that there can be no question raised that can refute the knowledge because it has been thoroughly compiled and approved of all the way through the cognitive process of investigation.


i guess if you wish to accept a job, you must meet deadlines or else the operative situation will degrade into a buggers muddle, and the business plan of the company you work for will be compromised. whilst in rome, one should follow roman rules (or what ever that saying was). the only way you can escape the treadmill is to work for yourself.



parties and social barbecues (i like the taste of barbecued meat, but only whilst alone) and "touch base " luncheons and meet ups to watch sporting events and weddings and other formalities are completely mysterious to me.

i am not introverted and i have nothing against outgoing people ("outgoing" being a hope as well as an observation), but i have nothing in common with anyone, so whatever someone bugles from the roof of their domain i consider to be simply noise, and i do not listen to what they say. i feel like they should shut up once they realize i am not interested.
but i do not stay long to get cranky anyway.


i do not know.

I used to feel exactly the same way as the OP, as a student I'd wait for my train to college and watch the trains to Paris pass by and think damn, I wish I had a one-way ticket!

But that was then, and now I understand a lot more of what is going on.

This world is beautiful, as are the people in it. But given the chance those people will descend into paranoiac ways of thinking precisely because they haven't really tried to understand the world from the details up - its all just a concoction of memes, and quite often those are negative memes created by general gossip or the media or religion. The first event that comes along that they don't understand and their first instinct is to assume an evil force has come to give them cancer, take their job and generally destroy existence as we know it. Of course whatever event that caused such distress was actually harmless, and obviously so.

Frankly I just don't care anymore if everyone starts panicking over something, I just ignore and continue about my merry way. Indeed this often serves to calm everyone else down in the process - the lack of reinforcement causes a few spits and spurts of brain activity to undo whatever emotionally driven spell they were under.


Onto the deadline thing - Yes! I know precisely what you mean. I work at a large global company as an analyst. Deadlines* come and go and I don't care - it isn't the priority. I've never understood why it was, and since I've released myself from that burden I have had no problems. The purpose of a task is to complete the task, otherwise that would not be the task. If one has not completed the task but one is working honestly and thoroughly in attempting to complete the task, then when one fails to meet a deadline one knows precisely why the deadline was missed, and indeed can also set about making various processes more efficient based upon the knowledge of how things got held up.

People who panic about all but the most important of deadlines basically haven't done anything, so they haven't completed the task nor have they identified anything of use about internal processes either. So all opportunity was wasted because they were on Asos looking at handbags.


* Caveat - some deadlines are important, such as payroll, as other departments won't wait for you, but most deadlines aren't.

So what you really mean is not that you dislike the world, but that you dislike the way a lot of people in the world are.

I don't dislike the world, the world is an amazing, fragile and beautiful creation, but I dislike the way it's run by (NT) people, the attitudes and behaviours of a large majority of people, the lack of support for people with our issues, the destruction of the planet and it's resources and the corruption and secretiveness of governments.

I hate the fact that I feel different, but in some ways I'm proud of it (I wouldn't want to be like most NTs I've encountered, but then if I was NT I probably wouldn't feel that way anyway), just that it's not right that the NT majority can make the rules for all, when a lot of it doesn't fit Aspies. We would probably be a far more honest and law-abiding society than the NT population and would make better rules and laws for ourselves than NTs make for us.

Yes. Humans are a virus with shoes. I am very misanthropic.

The planet itself is beautiful though.

I like rats. On the other hand, I dislike most people. When I hear people say "science is just a religion" I want to get on a spaceship and fly away.

No need to dislike someone imo just because they say dumb things. Otherwise we can't complain when they act funny towards us because of our peculiarities. People aren't what they say, and to be honest most people know this, and is why they are so careless with what they say.

I hate the world.

And it's largely due the fact that people have taken advantage of my trust to the point where I no longer trust, and taken advantage of my kindness to the point where I'm no longer kind. Put simply, I'm fed up with people and their societies, their two-facedness, and everything that goes with it.
The world, to me, is insanely childish, they lack real logic, they lack an understanding of peace, and they fight over the dumbest crap anyone could ever fight about. It's all pointless and it'll never change.