ugh_this_cursed_life

Fuxk spelling and grammer, deal with it typos and all, misspellings and all:

days like these I just wonder what's the point.
Not of living, but more of caring. Why should I care? Why should anyone care? What's the point of it? Is there a point? does it make us better people are something?
I don't realy know, does anyone know?
So many question marks pleuging my thoughts and words and concepts and ideas. But I guess that is how things go sometimes. Whatever, I'll get used to it, or deal with it, or kill people. Ha! I don't htink I would ever be able to kill another person. I really would not want to. God maybe I could. That thought scares me, fills me with terror, dread and fright. Not a fun thinkg to think of so I'll move on to another.
Perhaps the world could be perfect if only the mindsets of people changed. We can do it, I raelly belive that we can, it just is going to take a lot of effort from all of us. We need to understand that things do not come easily and that things require work. If we work our asses off, I really do believe, maybe because I'm an optimist, that we can change things. It can be done. Nothing is imposossible. Nothing. That's a fact. Sure somethings are higlyl unlikely to happen, but there are a lot of things that can be done. A lot. We can change the world, its's not that complicated, it's not that hard, we can do it. I just wish that other people thought like that as wel, that would make for a fanstasitc world where people gave a damn and triced to change it.

*sigh* I just want people to care. That's not that much to ask is it? Just give half a fuxk. Not to other people, ubt to things. Should I give my fuxk to those that don't return it? *sigh*
Damnit I hate this wor.ld.

Commitment_is_what?

First let's assume that we are always changing as humans, which we might not be.
If we are always changing as humans does that mean it's pointless to try and commit to things? I don't mean 'oh I'll commit to going to X show/movie/etc' I mean long-term commitments. Marriage, religion, vegetarianism, veganism, pacifism, celibacy, etc.


If we take a nihilist view then sure. Why commit when things are useless? Not only that but why would one, with a nihilistic view every care to make a commitment? Perhaps I'm not as well read on the subject as I ought to be before making judgments like this, but I'll just glide over that for now.


If we take an existentialistic view then we'd have to decide if we think everyone should stick to their commitments, if they make them. We'd also need to decide if commitment is something worthy of the required effort for people as a whole.


So this brings the question to mind, what prevents people from holding to commitments?

If we look at marriage we might assume it's society. Society used to say (and still does in parts of the world) that marriage is something you don't get out of. In the 1950's one didn't just end a marriage, these days it's significantly easier for a number of reasons. It's not as big a taboo, 'everyone is doing it', the ideal of 'Love' has changed, etc. For these reasons and more, divorce is now 'okay'. Ideally no one wants to get divorce, no. We all want our precious perfect relationship to work, yet that's not how it goes. Is it because we have become lazy with love? Decided that the ideal we have now, 'fuzzy feelings', 'being in love', and other such factors are more important than the traditional ideals?
Speaking of the traditional ideals, are those even worth our time/effort? I may be wrong due to my age, but I thought the traditional ideals of love were stick together because you made a commitment. Rough patches come and go for all, right? But, is that not what they were?
So this is a whole different topic, about love (the key in marriage? or is dedication the key to marriages that last?) which I won't venture into at the moment.

Let's look at the commitment of pacifism, how often does one take a vow, personal or public, and gives up on that commitment? A pacifist that ends up going to war, is that breaking his ideal if he's drafted? Does that make a difference? Perhaps the pacifist gets annoyed at a person and wishes to take a swing at them. What do they do? Nothing in an ideal world. What sometimes happens, they take that swing. What caused that swing? A desire to retaliate against words or actions. So if that desire is 'pure', a desire to protect an innocent, does the pacifist break the commitment? One could say it depends on what they vowed. Take the following vow for example, "I will not, under any circumstances, harm another human."
With that vow, taking a swing at another will always be a breach of their vow. So even to save another's life, the pacifist would not be able to use means of harm. Yes we could get into what it means to harm another, instead let's call harm any action of self which might cause bodily harm. An example being a punch.


What are the main forces that prevent people from keeping commitments?
Is it their desires?

So I wonder then, what (if any) correlation there is between an atheistic society and commitments. Are religious people, who are more likely to commit to things, more or less likely to keep their commitments?

This is quite interesting to me.
So...