Lord Kenneth

Who says I want friends?

wildernesse

Why wouldn't you?

--tibac

Lord Kenneth

Better question is, why would I?

wildernesse

I don't think it's a better question. But, being a social creature by nature (as I'm assuming you are human), then you benefit from having close relationships with others. It relieves stress and you're more likely to survive and reproduce if you have social bonds to others.

Friends make life enjoyable, by being those with whom you can share your ideas and dreams with--they support you in your day to day life.

--tibac

Lord Kenneth

Oh, I used to want friends. I felt lonely. But I have matured, I have grown up, I have learned that people aren't everything, in fact most people are NOTHING.

That's not to say I'm don't talk to anyone. Like tools, some people have their uses, even if their use is to entertain.

After accepting a few fundamental truths about people and how I greatly differ from the vast majority of people, I no longer feel about about myself. My self-esteem has gone through the roof, I am much happier now that I no longer try to work with people.

I'm so much happier alone. Why would I *want* to spend time with another person-- someone who has inferior ideas and beliefs that influence how they act and influence others? I will *not* be an ally to one who helps corrupt this world into even more of a stagnation of ignorance that is currently is.

So few people are as rational as me. So few are able to think! Until a significant number of people are capable of producing a conversation past "me wants sex" and learn how to properly think and reason (it'll never happen, unless humanity evolves away from emotion-based decision making), I will tend to avoid others.

Of course, I'm awaiting the strawmen to try to prove that I'm not as smart as I say. Really, though, is it whether I'm smart or other people are simply stupid? I've heard the classic "you don't know everything" argument so much times it's contributed to how low I think of Homo sapiens, I'm sure.

As for your other points...

1) Friends do not make life enjoyable. For me, enjoying life is thinking, learning, and reasoning, something roughly 99% of people are able to do properly and consistently (people usually fail on consistency).

2) Share ideas and dreams? I like listening to what the lowlifes constantly converse about. Something about humanity interests me-- it's like a zoologist studying chimpanzees. Fascinating, but they do piss me off.

What passes for intelligence and deep thought among the common individual is something I shall hereby dub as "circus philosophy", the meaning of which is self-evident.

The average individual's ideas are so laughably pathetic and ill-reasoned (most of the time) that hearing them usually makes me hate the person more. The average person's dreams are equally laughable.

3) It relieves stress-- not for me.

4) Makes me more likely to survive/reproduce? Gee, what an awesome benefit.

If I die, I die. If I live, I live. As a human and a living creature, I am instinctually compelled to live, however, if I die I will not be there to complain or care. So there's no reason for anyone to fear death besides the natural instinct to not die, of course.

I don't see how making friends would help ME, in particular. The more I'm around people, the more I hear what passes for deep thoughts, the worse I feel. Ha, no thanks, if I want to survive I'll do it without hearing someone talk about their laughable ideas regarding, say, abortion.

Don't take this as me being suicidal. I'm far, far from it. I just realize my place in the world.

Reproduce? OH, please, I'm not the type for promiscius sex. Not against it, just not for it myself.

Due to the way I have been consistently treated by people (my seeminly arrogant attitude is not how I act in public, I do not expect people to understand how intellectual inferior they are-- after all, they are idiots) despite how non-confrontal I am and how generally nice I am, and the lack of intelligence I've heard from all groups of people, from wackos to skeptics alike (many, many skeptics are hypocrites, with the same emotional flaws that I happen to not suffer from-- they may be skeptical about the supernatural but argue with them that love is mostly based on physical appearence and they'll get irrational).

I know this post is a lot of rambling, but I feel like a good ramble right now. I apologize. Oh, and about love? It is mostly based on physical appearence, do your damn research on psychology if you don't believe me. I've had many "skeptics" argue with me on that, unable to accept that we are still animals.

People are pathetic, and I won't lower myself to align with most of them.

Secular Elation

At last, someone feels the same way I do!

Roland98

This thread is a derailment of this thread in the SL folder.

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Jet Black

what a load of mindless circus philosophy.

andy_d

Because love rocks, you fool!

Harumi

And some atheists wonder why so many Christians think we're arrogant berks...