how do i stop harboring such a consuming hatred for the world and humanity?I've been like this for years.
Reality is incredibly chaotic and energetic. If you were exposed to it unfiltered, you'd be completely overwhelmed and destroyed, the experience of which is frequently cited when people talk about "the face of god". Powerful people convince you that the emptiness you feel is "wrong" or "bad" so they can sell you products to keep you pacified. They'll always have something for sale that will fill up your belly. True freedom is realizing the emptiness is the gift of quiet solitude which god intended for you to have and be able to access. Laying on a beach somewhere, sun warming your skin, eyes closed, somewhere safe, you reflect inward and find yourself in a protected little cocoon of space. You could call it emptiness, but that's the wrong term. It’s actually safety and comfort.Something, or someone, is everywhere, exerting real physical forces. Cosmologists call it “dark matter” and “dark energy”, and they are necessary to complete modern physics. They’re forces generated by an “unknown” source which cause all matter in the universe to conform to precise ribbons of galaxies extending infinitely in all directions, continuously accelerating, with no known explanation. You are held together by that same force, and you can choose to access those forces, but that interaction is mediated through physical waves…light and sound, which in our reality equates to music, theater, art, etc.We're supposed to be in this epic playground in which the pains are there, but easily dealt with through a networked community of humans, instead we live in a fallen world with pain and tragedy, and if you add it all up, most of the pain and tragedy is dealt by human hands. What would you rather have, the occasional natural disaster, shark attack, or bee sting, and all the good in the universe? Or to be subject to the worst of human depravities through torture, oppression, or imprisonement?
>>34329068How much do you know? Like, how much have you studied people, how much have you studied nature, what do you base your hatred on?If you don't know a lot, there may still be undiscovered things left for you to know about the world, so long as you don't pressure yourself, not have anyone else pressure you, and while you build your own self worth, even if it's bullshitting yourself as long as you believe it.
>>34329114I know a lot about the world, history, and human beings. I base my hatred on my observations and experiences with the world and its inhabitants.
>>34329123Why do you want to stop?
>>34329123>I base my hatred on my observations and experiences with the world and its inhabitants.Then you're not as smart as you think you are. Discreet observations and personal anecdotes are not the precursors to prescriptive value judgements. We don't hate or love or fear or desire because of our observations. We feel these things because of the way we observe. The human mind has no sense organ for ethics. This is all being generated by you. For some reason you feel the need to portray your worldview as a product of raw data assimilation rather than accept what it actually is - your brain working backwards to rationalizing the opinions it already wants to believe. The human being does not excel at being rational. It excels at rationalizing. The only things our brains were designed for is to protect ourselves both physically and emotionally. Objectivism and empiricism are merely second order mechanisms of that programming. Two people can observe the same piece of information and pull vastly different normative conclusions depending on their disposition. You protect your subjective with justification of the objective because you don't have the tools to deal with it. If you feel like your studies have somehow elevated you above the innate human instinct to believe what our minds need us to believe then you truly haven't even scratched the surface of studying humanity. You don't even understand its most fundamental mechanisms.
>>34329204That is obvious. What isn't obvious is who is correct, morally right, etc. Ultimately it's outside of ones control, so might as well lean in.
>>34329176because it's affecting my day to day life and makes me feel miserable>>34329204I don't know what to tell you.
>>34329221>feel miserableWhat's the alternative? Some vague thing that can never be grasped? At best apathy, anger, or keen interest in a thing is all that works for me; distraction. Otherwise try to find something to pour that energy into.
>>34329219>What isn't obvious is who is correct, morally right, etc.Which conclusions you arrive to are nowhere near as important as how you arrive at them. >Ultimately it's outside of ones control, so might as well lean in.The ethical systems you adopt and how you build empirical understanding is literally the only thing within your control. Pretending like you're imbued with values simply by observing the world is like a toddler's way of thinking. It completely robs you of agency and turns you into some kind of helpless, passive zygote that just accepts emotions as objective reality. It makes no sense.>>34329221>I don't know what to tell you.I know you don't. That's the problem. You've built a system to protect yourself that you yourself don't even understand. I had a philosophy teacher once who told me that ignorance and confidence is the world's most dangerous combination. You've got a lot of introspection to do, OP.
>>34329233I still don't know how to stop hating the world and people
>>34329241It's pointless to try. Just keep in mind that most people have and equal amount of control over their "happiness" or whatever
start believing in God. he knows all about hate, his own people hated him. he still loves us. how? it's insane.
Channel it into righting wrongs