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I am tired of being angry at people i would describe as "horrible" or "bad":

November 26, 2007

I have spent too much of my life thinking about why I don't like certain people and why I should not be like those people. I have become pretentious in my living.

I have an understanding of the kind of person I do not like, and why I do not like them, and I need to stop being angry at them.

I am not a lonely person. I like people. I like people because they have weaknesses and strengths, like me. I like seeing that. I like being around people and seeing them react to things.

I am tired of classifying "horrible" or "bad" people. They are also people.

I do not approve of violence or apathy, but I cannot pretend to have solutions for people who are violent and/or apathetic that said violent and/or apathetic people would automatically accept and implement.

I like humanity for being stupid and irresponsible, and I like believing that this condition is incurable, ridiculous, and comical. We are all going to die.

The most caring thing we, as humans, could do for the earth is go away.

Over many years, internalizing my feelings towards people I do not like, I have become angry and affected by what I'll call pretentiousness.

To believe that another person is irrelevant or below one's personal status is probably the worst character flaw a person can have.

We are all equally selfish and irresponsible as people for just being alive, so it is superfluous for a person to think that their personal importance somehow goes beyond the individual, and outweighs the personal importance of others.

If a person cures AIDS, their life is still no more or less valuable than the life of a person with AIDS.

We are all equally unimportant outside of our own temporary realm of influence.

There is no importance beyond personal importance.

In whatever life experience you decide to play– politics, art, office, environment, etc.– if one truly takes into consideration the personal importance other people hold for themselves, anger and frustration will be minimized, and disappointment will be considered another understanding between humans.

Conditions that provide for an individual life are not always the same, but are equally relevant regardless of what those conditions are.

Believing and trusting in this leads to the loss of pretentiousness; the loss of the feeling that some special conditioning has improved individual standing among those who are alive.

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nice post, it would be nice on 3 a.m.'s site, as a poem, if you think that's worth it email me

- tao / November 26, 2007 4:24 PM

i am important and i have AIDS!

- rio / November 26, 2007 9:02 PM

the person who cures aids is the most important person on the planet until jesus comes back. there will be no more discussion on this point.

- craig / November 28, 2007 3:54 PM

I like this post, though I'm apathetic and enjoy violent images sometimes.

- cory / November 29, 2007 5:23 PM

It is important to treat your mother right.

- the man who couldn't blog / November 29, 2007 5:23 PM

I can't stop watching that video.