I Just Don't Give A Fuck Anymore....Cure For Appathy, Anyone?

[Dylan]

I used to care a lot of the opinions of the others. After learning more and more about others I stopped caring. The main reason I think this happened was that most people seem to be, extremely fucking stupid.

I didn't stop caring about the issues and events that were dear to me. I'm not depressed about my own life. However I think the causes that often mean so much to others just don't grip me anymore.

I do my part with issues like homelessness, diseases and a few other mildly important causes but I think certain things just don't bother me anymore.

Religious persecution doesn't do anything for me at all anymore because I think religion is a tool that does wonders for the common idiots and powerful who seek to maintain control over them. I am not even the 'agnostic' I once thought of myself as... I'm a good natured atheist who looks down on the devoted worshippers as pathetic simpletons, too stupid to realize how pointless their faith is. I somehow managed to not become a horrible person even without god in my life. I guess morals and ethics are enough for me. In turn, when I hear of religious 'war' or 'persecution' I think of it as I do children fighting over toys.

That's only one example... I have many more that more or less come off as me being some snob with a superiority complex... maybe it's true but I JUST DON'T FUCKING CARE ANYMORE.

Should I embrace my newfound indifference? Or try to rekindle some facet of empathy I once prided myself in being full of?

[PwnDaddy123]

You shouldn't embrace your view of the world especially if you don't feel anything good from it. It's very possible of being sad because people are stupid; I feel like that most of the time, you can still find a certain joy in a stupid world though. But keep in mind that there are some people in the world, including religious believers that can teach you a thing or two and to whom you can get along with just fine. It's not by sitting on your ass all day whining that you'll ever find these people. There's definitely a lack of them but I'm pretty sure you can find someone.

I took the decision that when I'll have no more joy around the people I am with, the city I live in. I would just move away from the life I'm living now. Live on the other side of the world where things are just different. I wasn't expecting my dislike in my life to be happening this quickly though. All I have to say is, if you enjoy your realistic pessimist view of the world might as well just stay where you are or you can change that.

I would write more... but I just can't think of anything else. Grr..

[Mvision]

As long as you aren't depressed with your own life, I don't see your "problem" as a real issue.. I think it's a very normal evolution;-)

[Jeremy Hanson]

People care about others because they have a tendency to put them into that situation. If everyone tried hard to be successful, then no one would be in a position to be homeless, and you wouldn't have to care about them.

If everyone practiced good health, and made contributions to medical science, then there would be abundant research going on and enough money to keep everyone in relatively good health, and you wouldn't have to care about people who have diseases anymore.

You see, your feelings towards people who are less fortunate are founded by the fact that they are less fortunate, and completely ignore the why behind their position.

I could spend my entire life being noble and giving my all to help these people, but in the end, I am going to die just like them, and my efforts will have been for nothing.

Everyone is capable of being better than they are, so giving people excuses not to be better for themselves is the worst possible thing you can do for humanity.

Apathy is a good thing, my friend.

[Radu Cornea]

Not giving a fuck in general makes one a sad, bitter man. Reflect on this.

[Daniel]

i guess there's no point in worrying about anything unless you're willing to do something about it... so, although you can still pin some opinions / a little value to a situation here and there, i don't suppose there's much of a reason at all to hold emotional regard, or even much interest at all ^^ aside giving us those further pieces of the puzzle that is the world we live in :x

people can be frustrating, though brushing them away doesn't improve the situation imo. tbh i think for the most part, i like the idea / concepts involved within the religions out there... it's people that seem to suck :x and make IT suck, i'm no longer surprised when i discover a person, who seems so similar to me, holds faith in a god of some kind... i do believe faith in gods to be a waste of time... though if i were to compare it to television, people spend such huge amounts of their spare time sat watching these things :x
"I think religion is a tool that does wonders for the common idiots and powerful who seek to maintain control over them",
if you were to replace "religion" with "television"? I'm not so much comparing the risk of each force, as i am just emphasizing another relevant issue... being the pointlessness + danger of over-indulgence. imo i'd take a stab at saying a life too heavily dependant of either will lead to bad things...
it's the people controlling all of this stuff that'll spread the stupidity ^^ people willing to exploit / manipulate the faith / susceptibility others have to the influence of these things... people make people stupid :P be it directly, or indirectly. delusional extremists / uneducated followers of a cause / situation they've been sucked into... be it unwavering bias to a feud of some kind... or the following of trends / the seeking out of social rewards given the possession of certain material things... i find, when talking strictly of wasting time ^^ at least the principles of religion bring with them the possibility of a fulfilled life, it's other, outside influences that determine the affect religion has on a person i figure ^^
tv on the other hand, pretty much sucks all round :) (freaking advertisements!!! >.<). "imo"... ofcourse ^^

sorry if that just turned into some kind of religious convo... can imagine the most of us are tiring of that stuff hmm ^^
i think not really being too bothered for opinions / "hot topics" of conversation by people is fine to an extent, that extent being the arrival of new information / angles to a discussion. i'm similar in my way of showing little intrigue when recycling my words occasionally. though when new information / ideas pop up, i do tend to be interested. although i may not care for a lot of things, "Ignorance is Bliss" is NOT really 100% the lifestyle i'd like to employ.
rather than all-out disregard of others, i think a constantly active search for new information / learning, and the honing of our opinions is the most rewarding approach ^^ if not the adoption of new opinions altogether if the counters are great enough hmm. me not caring for people's opinions in general would require me to find something better to do with the small amount of my time i dedicate to people ^^ if i value that thing enough... then sure :) i wouldn't think much of neglecting the majority of people out there... as i said though, the upside to discussing topics with people, is the possible honing of your understanding in whatever you take interest in ^^ fighting off counter-arguments / stating your own arguments all helps settle an opinion solidly in my mind i find, even then i've still been baffled here and there out of the blue by counter-arguments ^^
ie... i guess it's always nice to keep an eye out.... just in case :)

[Olga]

If you used to care a lot... what exactly happened? Why did you stop caring so suddenly, did something significant happen?

It seems to me you are focusing a lot on the bad in people. Sure, people do stupid things. Not everyone is an Einstein or a Mother Theresa. But most people definitely have a few admirable qualities. I find that usually, opposite a bad quality someone has, there is a good one. I think the question also is.. and you sort of asked that yourself in your last sentence.. do you *want* your newfound carelessness to change? Or does it have a function for you? Maybe looking for the bad in other people makes you feel more confident about yourself, for example..

If you do want to change the way you feel, which seems a bit negative to me, maybe it's an idea to try and focus on the good in others. If you find someone particularly dense, try and look at this person more closely - perhaps in spite of not being the brightest person on earth, he/she is really kind to other people.

And on the topic of religion. I don't believe in God, and sometimes I don't see how religious people can have so much faith in something they don't see the proof for. And it's frustrating to me. But do you really think religion is "pointless"? I think it can help people overcome great difficulties, it may keep lonely people from killing themselves, it can inspire people.. etc. So even tho I could never believe myself, and have often considered others naive for doing so, I don't think it is pointless at all. That would be a different way of looking at religion, realizing it has good and bad sides even though you yourself cannot believe in it. And that people have different values, and "scientific truth" might not be as important to some other people as it is for you.

[Jeremy Hanson]

Actually, people believing in themselves is what helps them over come great difficulties. Religion is NOT responsible for that, and people who think otherwise are just pinning their confidence on religion, which is a terrible idea to begin with.

Religion in general is useless. Religion isn't the source of inspiration, and it isn't the source of morality. People find both of these things outside religion, so what exactly are you left with?

[Olga]

In my opinion "believing in yourself" means believing in other things, too. You can't live a life believing in nothing. For one person it may be love, for another it's science, and for another person it's God.

I'm not sure if you've ever talked to a religious person, but a christian girl once told me that the love she felt for God at some point prevented her from killing herself when she felt terribly low. Whether or not God exists in this case is irrelevant: I don't believe it, but she does. And it sounds to me like it certainly did help her overcome things, even if to us it may seem like an illusion.

"are just pinning their confidence on religion, which is a terrible idea to begin with." That's your opinion tho, isn't it? Not everyone feels that way.

And people can find those things outside of religion, sure. But why would that make religion itself useless?

[Timothy Kevin]

But anything we do everyday is religion...

[circonG]

1: the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance

I think your post could use some elaboration, how is for example screwing in a nail religion?

[Ryan]

I'm assuming that's off google; those can define religion, but if we look in a dictionary religion can also be defined as.

re.li.gion,... "a practice of devotion or conscientiousness, as: He has made a religion out of making money."

[circonG]

Sorry should of quoted my source, it was from websters.

Assuming he meant that definition,I really don't know were your getting the idea that people have been going by that definition as it seems the word has been reserved to be used in relation to such things as religious wars, that it isn't a source of morality or inspiration and a religious persons love for their supernatural God