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Subject: Why do we believe that friendship is a real thing?

Mreh.

The same could be said of love.

  • 01.02.2013 9:03 PM PDT

OP is mad that he can't make any friends.

It's ok OP, I'm here for you :).

  • 01.02.2013 9:03 PM PDT

Hold it right there.

Hello. Name's Brian. Look, if you're looking for a flame war with me, just open up the Flood and write up some not-nice things about religion and I'll bring my nukes to the party.

If you want some other way to contact me, you can forget it.

If you're interested in some of my work, you can check my homepage out.

So OP is a naturalist and has lived through a harsh childhood, making his epistemology a -blam!-.

Whatever the case is, you're mostly basing yourself on your own personal experiences. What's more, you're operating on some weird, ideal view of friendship you'd only see in a cartoon or something. Some friendships last forever, but not like you describe it; at best you'd spend time with each other constantly for a year or two. Sure, after that you wouldn't be so close, but the relationship is still there. You'd still wave at him or her and not treat them like you would a complete stranger. One way or another, you'd still trust them and they would trust you.

EDIT: The hell with you cynics. Friendship isn't just some raw instinct; it has many underlying layers of complexity.

[Edited on 01.02.2013 9:07 PM PST]

  • 01.02.2013 9:04 PM PDT

OP is alone.

  • 01.02.2013 9:05 PM PDT

The bible is the best book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PROUD CHRISTIAN. HALO IS AWESOME BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!
Did you knew that JESUSdied for you?

10/10 now that is trolling!
Posted by: County Bear
Intended for civil discussion. If you're going to be close minded and post off topic post then just go in another thread
Note to Moderators: feel free to lock if it gets out of hand. It may be too much if a controversial for the Flood to handle but I'm willing to give it a shot

Ok so I was thinking today about this so called friendship. Why do we believe in something that doesn't exist? It just bugs me whenever someone talks about friendship beig real and contradicting every single fact in life.

Friendship is not real and is an illusion. There are no such thing as one guy being your loyal friend. You say that's not true but it is. Lets look at the facts shall we ( putting aside my personal experience ).

Childhood. People say that they have an awesome best friend and they tell their children to believe in friendship. However that is false, as soon as you graduate then 9/10 your "best friend" and all your friends will forget about you as soon as you drive off in the sunset with your diploma. You were no friends, if you were then the latter wouldn't happen. There is a reason to this and i will explain later. Right know we move on to college.

College. Everyone who believed in friendship said that true friends come in college and guess what? No. Unless y'all are close and get the same job even then it's not friendship, it's something. I'll explain later. As soon as you graduate college, you lose your "friends". Period.

Whenever people find a girlfriend they forget their friends, throw friendship out the window, and blast it with a Czech P9000. The reasoning is about to be explained here and right now.

Packs. What do I mean? Well the human race as a species stays in packs as natural instinct. Think about everything I'm about to say real closely. When we were prehistoric, we were nomads. We stuck in packs and still did after advancement. It is hardwared into us. It is our instinct and top priority of our subconscious. Our brain is a mystery, even we can't control it. Our brain decides what we like, who we are, etc. It makes us stick with another human being as defense. It chooses whether that person is worthy of protecting you through preference. Friendship is an illusion by the brain made by us in the old ages to explain the mutual, pack style relationship with another. And boy did they go way off in the explanation.

Friendship isn't real. Your "friends" are really just you and a group of humans in a pack for protection. Not for each other, but for yourself. That is your natural instinct, I can't stress enough how wrong it is to day friendship exists. You just gotta think. Think abou what I said. Think about your life.

Let me give you my personal experience.

I will admit, I was SO stupid to believe friendship was real and wasted my entire childhood on that stupid belief. Very first thing I remember is when I met these two kids at school and we become "friends", then a month later they beat till I was unconscious with a golf club I had and threw me on the street. Why? Becuase friendship don't exist. Only instinct for a pack and a strong one. I am boss led hearing. Their instincts saw me as weak. So their brains made them turn against me by using whatever idea made them do it. Such as just for laugh or paranoia. Both temptations you get from your subconscious. There are mod events but I will save them for later. I think you get my point.

Thanks for reading my post

  • 01.02.2013 9:05 PM PDT

The bible is the best book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PROUD CHRISTIAN. HALO IS AWESOME BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!
Did you knew that JESUSdied for you?

This... So much!
Posted by: xl OC Girl lx
I didn't read every single word (just quickly scanned your post OP) but I really feel bad that you feel that way. Having close friends is such an amazing thing. I hope one day you'll meet someone who can show you how awesome it is to have people in your life who care about you more than anything.

  • 01.02.2013 9:06 PM PDT

Pure Insanity
The point of war is not to die for one's clan, but it's to make the other bastard die for his
Right before you die, there is always a chance to save yourself, sieze that chance and live to fight another day
The best way to kill someone is to fight them with the same weapons they use and make them know you are better than them, not because of superior weaponry, but because of superior skill.
Hidden in the shadows, Clothed in camo, Armed to the teeth. Hunting.

Unless this really is about what I initially thought, you seem very close-minded yourself.

  • 01.02.2013 9:14 PM PDT

can't tell if trolling but if it is I'd give it a couple of points.



But through it all, ever since I met my best friend in junior high, we've been best friends.


He's at med school, I'm in a different grad school, we're both engaged to our long term girlfriends, and we still talk everyday.

We even hang out whenever we aren't working and our fiancee's are busy.

Plus, we were there to help each other out in the tough times. Like when his mother was passing away from cancer, or when my family was broken up.

We did what we could to help each other through that and enjoy life.



I'm sorry OP that you don't have a friend like I do. If this isn't a troll thread, I really do feel bad for you, and hope that you'll someday shed your bitter attitude/grow up, and develop a real friendship with someone.

because friendship is something that you have to work at.

  • 01.02.2013 9:15 PM PDT


Posted by: Ushan
The same could be said of love.
Nope. I'd rather not get into that. But it's one of the most varying and complex emotions out there. That isn't instinct. That's the consciousness and its hard for me to explain it. So many things to cover on that matter. My OP would be a sentence compared to the least I could write about it.

  • 01.02.2013 9:20 PM PDT

The bible is the best book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PROUD CHRISTIAN. HALO IS AWESOME BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!
Did you knew that JESUSdied for you?

@Op if he is serious


You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity

[Edited on 01.02.2013 9:24 PM PST]

  • 01.02.2013 9:24 PM PDT

What is with the sympathy posts? You shouldn't feel bad for someone who sees reality for it is.

  • 01.02.2013 9:27 PM PDT

It depends on who you make friends with.....

  • 01.02.2013 9:28 PM PDT

My legit Killtrocity

Camping like a 'mouth breather'
If Fed Ex and UPS merged into one company, would it be called Fed Up?

I don't want to start another account for a digital number that has no true value in ten years.

I believe it is something special and not found in many people with one another, example of how my dad has been really good friends with this one guy since earlier elementary school, hung out all the time, lived with each other in college, best men at each others weddings, still see each other at least monthly, about 40-45 years.

  • 01.02.2013 9:28 PM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Life is a journey, if you spend all of it with your nose in your map, you may miss some of the best parts.

OP is secretly an anime villain.

  • 01.02.2013 9:30 PM PDT

The bible is the best book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PROUD CHRISTIAN. HALO IS AWESOME BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!
Did you knew that JESUSdied for you?


Posted by: County Bear
What is with the sympathy posts? You shouldn't feel bad for someone who sees reality for it is.



Yeap You have all my pity.


[Edited on 01.02.2013 9:30 PM PST]

  • 01.02.2013 9:30 PM PDT

In memory of those fallen in the defense of Earth and her colonies.

March 3, 2553

I guess you never had any good friends. I've left school and started University and Im in contact with tonnes of my friends from school regularly. The mates Ive made in Uni I go to town with regularly, so to be honest what do you mean?

  • 01.02.2013 9:35 PM PDT


Posted by: County Bear
What is with the sympathy posts? You shouldn't feel bad for someone who sees reality for it is.

I feel bad for your reality.

  • 01.02.2013 9:35 PM PDT


Posted by: DarkVader9494
I believe it is something special and not found in many people with one another, example of how my dad has been really good friends with this one guy since earlier elementary school, hung out all the time, lived with each other in college, best men at each others weddings, still see each other at least monthly, about 40-45 years.
Well there are cases, and plenty of them. Where people with weak subconsciousness meet and the consciousness makes sure it is staying the pack with the other strong consciousness ( hence desperate apologies, obsessiveness, etc ) in order to protect itself from the stron subconscious people who would prey on them ( people who take advantage, rob, etc) and friendship is set as an illusion to give it a softer meaning than reality. Which is one of the conscious weakness, failure to see reality.

  • 01.02.2013 9:36 PM PDT

Hold it right there.

Hello. Name's Brian. Look, if you're looking for a flame war with me, just open up the Flood and write up some not-nice things about religion and I'll bring my nukes to the party.

If you want some other way to contact me, you can forget it.

If you're interested in some of my work, you can check my homepage out.


Posted by: County Bear
What is with the sympathy posts? You shouldn't feel bad for someone who sees reality for it is.
"I'm a fatalist; my self-destruction and cynical point of view makes me a pragmatist."

  • 01.02.2013 9:52 PM PDT

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