I’ve posted here before. I had a bicycle accident 19 months ago. Fractured my neck and spinal cord and left me paralyzed. I’ve worked hard to get better and now I have limited use of my arms and hands and can sort-of walk or stumble
like I’m drunk. I have constant nerve pain and need help dreessing, showering, with toilet and supervision walking. I hate living this way, I hate being alive. I’m totally overwhelmed by insurance requirements (disability, SSDI, health, long-term-care) and trying to ensure that I continue having health insurance or Medicare. It’s so f*ing complex I want to scream or put a bullet through my head. Plus I look back at my life and see how sad and lonely I’ve been, how hard I’ve worked against that, but how useless all that work has been.I’ve had only a handful of relationships, all terrible. It was always hard or impossible for me to meet anyone who would date me. Everyone wants someone better. It’s very clear that the most important thing is to be hot and beautiful and if you’re not you have to rely on “personality”. And while I think I;m relatively ok and even smart, it just wasn’t enough. Truth is, we all want the same people. Our ideas of whats attractive, sexy, hot,beautiful may vary some but they are mostly the same. The closer you look to those physical ideals, the more you are wanted, desired, loved and pursued. And we are all like that, me too. I want someone I find aattractive, someone I have sexual interest in, and it’s the same people that the beautiful want, so of course it’s always easy for beautiful people to find datess, sex and love. Yes, keeping a relationship together requires
more than that, but you dont get a chance to start if no one wanted you in the first pace. So fine, I get it, it’s the way we evolved, it’s biology, natural selection, using vision as the primary sense for choosing mates. I want someone attractive too. So it just never happened for me. And I dont even know why I had to be alive. You could argue that sex is the primary reason for our exixtence anyway. We are alive because of a sex act, the product of sexual attraction and we ar born to propagate. I get it, it’s just natural. So why do I have to be here at all? I was never (or rarely) the object of anyone’s affections, so why do i have to be here? Recently I got to see close-up the life of a guy who is just drop-dead gorgeous, beautiful, hot, sexy, hung, this man drips sex appeal. He gets love and sex poured all over him like gravy at thanksgiving! True story! Every girl (and half the guys) he meets wants to fuck his brains out. Every girl he fucks falls madly in love with him. He gets his choice, he could
have any pretty girl (or guy) he wanted and he picks only the prettiest. It was truly amazing to watch. When he walked into the room you could just see girls getting wet and guys getting hard. He was a pheromone factory, it oozed out of his pores. And it was a natural beauty. He didn’t spend hours grroming himself or primping or working out, He jsut had that srxy sizzle. And he’s a great guy. Quiet, a little shy, he wasn’t very arrogant (a little bit) or snobbish. He knew what he had but was content to hang out and make the girls pursue him, and they do! If they split up, he aways had 3 or 4 new girls lined up, and was still fucking his exes. If you wanted to date him, sooner r later you’d figure out that he was still fucking his exes sometimes and if they made a stink about it he’d drop them. I hasten to addd: he’s not a jerk, really. Girls are so into him, they will do anything to keep fucking him. So to me this just a perfect example of what people want. We want the ones. So let me go, let me leave. I have no real reason to be here, why not let me go? My life is over anyway, all that’s ahead of me is assisted living and loneliness. I just want a way out. I’m not what they wanted anyway so why do I need to be here.
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That’s a painful story, i’m sorry for your accident. I totally agree with what you think about love, that is the same i have discovered throughout the years. What can i say? You have the right to put an end to it more than half the people on this site (including me) and i think you proved a lot of courage and determination to get until this point!
Eliminating the genes of those less desirable, eugenics, is one of the goals of feminism. That way, women won’t have to fight over the same few amazing guys, or share them… and those non-amazing guys, like myself, won’t have to exist to suffer a life of rejection, disregard, dismissal and solitude.
I don’t endorse imposing breeding laws or reproduction restrictions… but i can’t argue that selective breeding is wrong. If people want to fix the problem of too many undesirables being born to not much more than a life of suffering, then only the desirables, the “ones,” should ever breed. That way, the future population will have a much higher ratio of desirable qualities, and more people can be happy, without having to settle for the least-bad mate they can find, or even none at all.
So… as far as having laws enforced and imposed upon us… No. But you can’t stop people from wanting what they want, and doing whatever is required to get it. So as far as “for the betterment of the species and the overall state of the world” goes… i suppose it’s right that things go the way they do.
That’s one reason women love confidence: if you’re not good enough, and you know you’re not good enough, it’s hard to act like you truly believe you are good enough. It’s a good “heuristic” that helps women find men who are “good enough.” Sure, it angers and upsets me to know how this works and that i’ll never be good enough, and that i know i can’t be good enough, making it impossible for me to pass that heuristic… but it’s not necessarily wrong of them to judge us according to what we actually are.
IMO, my life is already over, and never really began. I wasn’t cut-out-for this world. My genetic material did not produce the traits this world’s inhabitants value. I’m just still here because there’s still some stuff i want to do, that’s still available. When my time comes, i’ll relax and let it happen. I feel like i ‘get it.’ I figured it out. I understand why my life went the way it did, and just how little i could have done about it. I wouldn’t mind not existing anymore. It’s just the last moments of physical pain from physiological failure, that scares me. I think i would like to “cheat,” and be completely numb or anesthetized in my final moments. Living through the pains of life, didn’t gain me anything worth the pain of death. So i should try to find a way to bypass or minimize that part, as much as possible.
I knew a guy with a similar injury from a bike accident. Mis wife left him, but I don’t know if that was entirely the fallout from his injury. After a while, a support scaffolding emerged and he was pretty high functioning. I didn’t know him before his accident.
It is a sad fact though that illness or injury can be a catalyst for a breakup. (So much for better or worse.)
I don’t know your stud-god either, but some folks can’t cope well when their hump appeal runs out. It is as if, they didn’t need to learn other skillls and strategies when everone else did. Hopefully, he won’t be deluded into fathering lot’s of kids all over the place. That will haunt him.
A similar scenario was oulined in Final Exit. It was very tragic. The guy wanted out so badly, and no one would help. I don’t know whether that was before Compassion and Choices.
It’s a sad fact that sex comes off the table (so to speak) for some of us at one point or another (if it was ever there in the first place). We live in a society that parades beauty and wealth around, and it’s hard not to feel excluded at some level.
The truth us we are all more than our bodies, no matter how much we identify with our abilities and talents. It’s hard to see what fig leaves we’ve been clinging to for identity until they’re snatched away, then it can be hard to know who we are, but a new identity from our essence can emerge.
I’m not saying its easy, and I hope I don’t sound dismissive, but it also isn’t easy finding a friend to help us wind things up down here. Wish I could give you a (non-creepy) hug, not that creepy ones are my specialty or anything. Maybe I should just stop.
Compassion and Choices may not have been the group I was thinking of.
I hope you continue to heal. Doctors have been known to be wrong. (We treat them like Gods in this country.)
“Eliminating the genes of those less desirable, eugenics, is one of the goals of feminism.”
I can’t even begin to describe how ridiculous and false this sentence is.
@ SB….. mmm I don’t know I googled it to see whether it had validity and that statement actually holds up…..
There is no single movement called, “feminism,” and I’m sure probably a handful of them are centered around morons and insane people.
I think fixing the problem of “undesirables,” lies in killing off all the “desirables.” They’re way too arrogant anyhow, and that’s unattractive, IMO.
@lorax:
hush, you’ll anger the feminists.
A novel novel, for my own amusement, i suppose.
@SB:
That’s because it’s not false. You’re just not old enough to understand, i think.
And it’s not just feminism; they’re certainly not the only group advancing such agendas.
My statement was/is not an attack on women or women’s rights, but on the conspiracy that misrepresents and perpetuates itself under that name. I dare you to argue that any significant percentage of the female populous actually wants the ratio of “good men” to “inadequate men” to stay as it is, rather than improving. Sure, you could argue that lesbians might not care whether there are more or less good men… and i might counter with “if there were more good men, there would probably be less lesbians,” but that’s neither here nor there.
For the good of the species, in the long run, eugenics is actually a good *idea… but it cannot be implemented comfortably, and so since it is being implemented and practiced anyway, lots of individuals, who happen to have been unlucky enough to be born with unfavorable genetics, will indeed suffer quite a lot.
But, just like the suicide argument, that one last push, that one last burst of agony, is ultimately worth the end result.
The species needs pruning and cleansing… but lots of otherwise good people will suffer greatly and be lost, through the process. It’s unfortunate, but there really can’t be any other way, because 1) natural selection does it naturally; 2) subverting natural selection via other means, has caused the proliferation of lots of otherwise undesirable genetic traits. This is just part of the perils of development. People evolved to be smart enough to overcome their own genetic limitations, and started making cool shit… next thing you know, the world is filled with genetically inferior or wildly unbalanced types (ie: too much mind/brain, not enough body/brawn… like me), who are not “viable” due to being unattractive or too greatly disadvantaged.
I was only born because my parents believed the bullshit their parents raised them to believe. I figured out they were all wrong. Should i explain everything to them, after the majority of their lives were lived in false belief? Or should i “honor them” by not allowing them to know the full extent of their own mistakes, and let them die thinking the world is a wonderful place, and that i was just “mentally ill” to the point where i couldn’t see it?
The truth is that the lies are what’s wrong with the world.
I’ve spent my whole life troubleshooting. I realized that, today.
If there is a god, then my best guess is that i was put here for the purpose of troubleshooting the human condition. Or maybe this is another Job(e)-like scenario, and i’m here as a wager… shit, maybe i’m Job, reincarnated. Maybe my “soul” exists purely to show just how much prolonged, sustained, emotional and psychological trauma a human being is capable of withstanding.
Or, i’m just another luckless bastard who got fucked over by this stupid world made of stupid people who believe the BS they’re fed, and waste their entire lives, ruining other people’s lives, create offspring made to only suffer, chasing lies and dreams, trying to become things they’ll never even have a chance to be.
i’ve seen a better way. I wanted to share it with everyone who would listen.
Very few listened, and even fewer understood.
It’s too hard to cut through the layers of caked-up BS-resin, affixed to the synapses of the indoctrinated. Most people have been memetically inoculated against the truth… by a thought-virus meant to obscure their perception, impede their ability to think, and obfuscate the act of… troubleshooting.
You can’t fix a problem you don’t know exists. “Knowing” is not even close to “half the battle.” Most of the battle is learning how to overcome the language, translation, interpretation, indoctrination barriers, before anyone will even begin to understand what you’re actually trying to tell them. Most people never even perceive the problem. They haven’t opened the door. They haven’t seen the door. They don’t even know it exists. They’ve only heard that a few people seem to think there’s a problem, and that there is, allegedly, a door that leads to perceiving it.
Anyway…
I can’t help anyone, because too many people don’t even want to know the problems exist. Those few who do want to know, are probably quite capable of digging their own graves, as i have. That’s just another aspect of “the problem.”
I’m sorry for the torment my fellow thinkers will inevitably face, found at almost every step of the path to understanding this world. I envy the blissfully ignorant.
All i could do was dig to find the problems, and then to understand what makes them what they are, and to make an effort to tell people “these are the problems, this is what they are, and why.” There isn’t enough left of me to do much else.
It’s weird… at least twice in the last 2-3 weeks, i’ve had frighteningly low lows. The last one was sometime this morning. I awoke after ~10 hours of much needed “catch up sleep,” only to find that i did not want to move… or breathe… and my heart beat was so faint that i thought “maybe if i just… let go… completely… i could just die… just like this, right here, right now, totally relaxed and peacefully…”
But then i got excited about how it felt like i could almost literally just decide not to breathe again, and that would be the end… and my heart rate started coming back up, and then i took a nice, long, slow, full, deep breath… and stayed as relaxed and still as possible, until i felt the urge to move.
I thought i was going to have a decent day, until i wore myself out failing to start the mower, and then yelled at the dogs because they wouldn’t shut up due to some jerk revving their motorbike excessively. Now my arm and neck hurt and i have no energy, and i feel guilty for yelling at the dogs. What a wonderful life.
Actually, speaking of evolutionary biology/psychology/etc.. the subversion of biological evolutionary factors has resulted in the human race turning into a bunch of hairless, infantile creatures. Granted proper selective forces, those “undesirables” would become “desirable” very quickly for their abilities of adaption. Many of the “desirables” are aesthetically chosen with zero consideration for their adaptability.
@OP: I sympathize with your condition and situation. I have a spine condition that is slowly getting worse, and one day I too will need some one to take care of me cuz I won’t be able to walk or stand eventually. I was so desperate when I figured out that my time was limited, I searched for anyone who would love me. I had been alone for a long time and I’ve never been good in relationships, always looking for some one who meets my “standards” like you mentioned above. But when I got desperate, all those “normal” standards went out the window along with my dreams of living a normal life. I was lucky to find some one who (to this day) loves and respects me more than I could ever dream. And it just so happens that she is pretty enough for my standards. She isn’t sexy like “normal” girls I’ve dated, but it’s ok because where she lacks sexual appeal and experience she makes up 10 fold with her compassion and caring and love. She’s just like me..I got really lucky, and she wants to make sure that I make this transition in my life with as little fear and complication as possible. You can’t ask for more than that, but it took a lot of panic and frustration finding her on the Internet. It’s been almost 5 years we’ve been together, just waiting to get married. It’s been a long hard road, and there’s more to go through still.
Being a desirable figure in some one else’s life isn’t easy for everyone. These “beautiful” people are here to show us how the world works. Yes, sex is what everyone wants, some only live for sex and to be attractive to others, it’s all they know.
To me that’s a pathetic life to live. No purpose but to stick private parts into other people’s private parts. Knowing that diseases are floating around out there like much flotsam in the sea. No secret answers in life revealed when all you know is:
Seek out sexual preference
Communicate sexual intensions
Sex act
Move on
Rinse and repeat!
I’d say “don’t let the world get to you” but hey, we all have to live here don’t we!?
We all have to be human in our own special ways!
@lorax:
point granted, and taken… and i suppose, taken for granted. lol.
I used to be very adaptable.
Along with the realization of being a natural “troubleshooter,” i also realized that i’ve never been completely ready for anything. Never ready. Always in flux, always doing the best i can with what’s available, never allowed to be fully prepared for any situation, no matter how far away i can see it coming. Therefore, adaptation on the fly, fluidity, being “good enough” at almost everything i’ve ever had to do, or wanted to do… was the result. Being a jack of all trades is the most versatile, the most adaptable… but everyone wants a specialist. A specialist is far less versatile.
That said; “desirable” is more important in the immediate sense, since most people don’t think long-term, and don’t see “the long view” of time. Outside of our own lifetimes and experiences, most people don’t give a shit what happens; and why should they? If a millennium is a dollar, my life is but a nickel.
In the same vein, why should any woman give a shit what any inadequate man feels about her choice of someone better? He’s not good enough. He isn’t a “real man.” He isn’t really a person. He doesn’t count. He doesn’t matter. I don’t matter. Women don’t care whether i’m a good person or care about good things or have good ideas. They only care whether i’m sexually and financially superior. I am obviously not, or i wouldn’t be here. Therefore, in lieu of the sex they disallow me from experiencing, due to their own choice of judgement criteria, they are utterly worthless to me, unless they have the same ideas i have, and do something to make the world better in a way with which i agree. I won’t pretend to respect anyone’s views who are contrary to my own. Why should i? I will, and do, respect what *I* decide is respectable. If someone i don’t respect, doesn’t respect me… so what? I can’t value the respect of someone i don’t respect. I fully expect to be contested and in conflict with anyone whose opinions are stupid and wrong. If that just so happens to be “feminists,” then oh well, so be it. It’s not like i’m losing out on anything i wouldn’t already be missing otherwise.
@bitbucket
Have you tried hyperbaric oxygen? I ask because I purchased such a chamber, and if you are local (SF Bay Area), you are welcome to try it. It is one of the few things that can help neurological healing. I’m not promising a miracle, I’d just like to see you get anything that might be helpful.
@bitbucket
Have you tried hyperbaric oxygen? I ask because I purchased such a chamber, and if you are local (SF Bay Area), you are welcome to try it. It is one of the few things that can help neurological healing. I’m not promising a miracle, I’d just like to see you get anything that might be helpful.
@bitbucket
Have you tried hyperbaric oxygen? I ask because I purchased such a chamber, and if you are local (SF Bay Area), you are welcome to try it. It is one of the few things that can help neurological healing. I’m not promising a miracle, I’d just like to see you get anything that might be helpful.