For real though.

Shadowprophet

Truthiness
Lots of things happen in our daily lives. Sometimes I'm too open and liberal with what I share online. I tend to skip over certain social constructs that I deem arbitrary sometimes and get right to the heart of the issue, but sometimes things need to be laid out slowly and one then needs to build up to the point at hand. There are lots of things id like to talk about but really I can't because some things just don't belong online.


Here is the thing of it and I can't discuss the thick of it any further. I am open to discussions on society and how people become motivated to commit such acts against others though..

My brother was Shot by an intruder to his home. A man with a shotgun kicked his back door in and pointed a Gun at him. There was a struggle and my brother was shot by this man. Luckily, because of some random miracle the shotgun blew off the bottom of his right leg. It could have been much worse. We didn't know how bad it was at first, all we knew was someone shot him and he was being airlifted to Vanderbilt. So for the last two days I've been on the road, driving those long trips back and forth to Vanderbilt. It's been insane. The police are investigating it, but my brother claims he did not know the man who did it and couldn't therefore give a name only a description.


I am completely numb. It's horrific. I already didn't trust people and was primarily a hermit. But now Someone may not be safe sitting in their own home.. I realize not everyone is a criminal, and the statistics are this kind of thing will not happen to most people.


But it can. It can happen.

Why trust anyone? It seems pointless to place trust into people. I mean statistically, most people wouldn't be that violent.

But people can be.


So isn't it better to just not trust? What is the point of trust? To make ones self vulnerable to someone else based solely on the intuition that this person is special, they won't do me harm..

But why though? Wouldn't it be better to be on alert at all times? With everyone?

That's where I am at on the issue, people are capable of anything, at any time, even reaching a violent state from a calm state without warning..


Keep in mind, I've never been a people person though. This comes from the kind of individual that sees other people more as something he has to deal with, rather than something to invest time into.. I'm sorry, it's just, most people in this forum are as old as me, that means most of us aren't young, we have been around long enough to know what the world is really like and a lot of our actual social groups are probably kind of small, like mine, because you don't trust just a lot of people either.

So I know you guys get it, it's not that I'm a hateful person, or antisocial, but I look at society and see a messed up cesspool dumpster fire of unmitigated nonsense and I just don't want to invest into it anymore...
 
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August

Metanoia
So your going for good SP ? You will be missed . I will miss you but if you have to go that's what you have to do . Its a crazy world we live in I am just glad I live where I do and keep right away from it all. I can only wish you the best and send my love to you in your new journey out there. Take care SP you won't be forgotten. w18
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Good God. Hope your brother is OK but a shotgun blast to the leg at close range, oh boy.
 

HAL9000

Honorable
So sad to read that.

But I know (from experience, but nothing so violent) that this random insanity can happen. Does every day to someone.

I know you'll never get over it.

Try to remember that most people are not like that. That's hard to do.

Good luck and I hope your brother pulls through ok.
 

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
OMG, I'm sorry to hear about this!

Someone once told me a story about a man who saw a weaver making a rug by hand. As he was putting in the fibers, everything looked random and sloppy and nothing seemed to make since. Finally he went around and looked at the other side of the rug. There he saw the amazing elaborate design that was being carefully created.

From a certain perspective life appears to be a chaotic mess but, when viewed from the appropriate perspective, it all somehow makes perfect sense.

I hope your brother recovers quickly.
 
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