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wouldn't it be great if a "super-person" came along and sorted the whole world out!!

  • 19-11-2010 12:20pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭


    It's a pure fairytale but I would love to wake up someday and for all the lies and corruption worldwide to be over

    I am sick to the pit of my stomach of corruption, double standards, back stabbing, denial of human rights, propaganda, lies...!!

    how in all fairness do you get through the day when all around you is corrupt!!

    that isn't a retorical question either!! I find it increasingly hard to put up with it and even though it is starting to have slight strain of my mental health I couldn't just pretend we live in a livable society!!

    **** everything that is not for the actual good of the people!!

    only reason we living in this mess is because we don't all stop at the same time and say no!!

    I would love to see the look on everyone's faces if internationly there was a date picked and nobody played along with the game until it was changed for the better!!

    I know uptopia is probably only ever abtainable in dreams but is it so much to ask for fairness and equality, decency, care for every single human being and protection from those we need protecting etc etc

    am I mental??


Comments

  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,663 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    I think you need a holiday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Like Superman you mean?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭AAAAAAAHHH


    Elevator wrote: »
    am I mental??

    Pretty much.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Elevator wrote: »
    (............)am I mental??

    Yeah...'not trying-to-have-a-sly-****-between-5 people-during-plane-take-off mental', but mental all the same


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Jaysus one minute you're up, the next you're down. Make up your mood.........Oh I see.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Elevator


    faceman wrote: »
    I think you need a holiday

    to where though cos while I'm away the man will still be getting away with massive enslavement through debt and ****!!

    really though, is there a bursting point or do we have to wait til the human race gets wiped off the face of the planet before the scam ends??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    There's mention of a unifying superman in Revelations. Only, he turns out to be the anti-christ. Oh shit, the anti-christ! We'd all be fu...

    ... oh wait...
    It's a pure fairytale

    Never mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,763 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Elevator wrote: »
    I am sick to the pit of my stomach of corruption, double standards, back stabbing, denial of human rights, propaganda, lies...!!

    how in all fairness do you get through the day when all around you is corrupt!!

    Propblem is that, too a lot of people in politics and business, sorting out those "problems" would be considered wrecking the world and destroying freedom...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Elevator


    ok I can now see I have gone mental!

    couple that with the last of a bad dose of flu and ya get a very confused mind

    I'm hope there's a slight bit of sense in the orig post but I won't know that for another day or 2

    god damn it I'm off to watch some bill hicks quick


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Believe it or not, it would have catastrophic consequences on the world. Having a super-being intervening everytime things got bad would relieve world leaders & their staff of their responsibilities. Sure not to worry that super-thing will look after us if things go pear shaped.

    In the context of ireland that would mean our useless government would be even lazier.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,826 ✭✭✭phill106


    So we need batman?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Believe it or not, it would have catastrophic consequences on the world. Having a super-being intervening everytime things got bad would relieve world leaders & their staff of their responsibilities. Sure not to worry that super-thing will look after us if things go pear shaped.

    In the context of ireland that would mean our useless government would be even lazier.

    When I can think of a suitable Mary Harney comment, I'll get back to you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    phill106 wrote: »
    So we need batman?

    In the sense that he appears out of the dark and beats the living ****e out of people.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Opinicus


    Just chill, I got this!

    :cool::cool::cool:


    Also


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    Elevator wrote: »
    It's a pure fairytale but I would love to wake up someday and for all the lies and corruption worldwide to be over

    I am sick to the pit of my stomach of corruption, double standards, back stabbing, denial of human rights, propaganda, lies...!!

    how in all fairness do you get through the day when all around you is corrupt!!

    that isn't a retorical question either!! I find it increasingly hard to put up with it and even though it is starting to have slight strain of my mental health I couldn't just pretend we live in a livable society!!

    **** everything that is not for the actual good of the people!!

    only reason we living in this mess is because we don't all stop at the same time and say no!!

    I would love to see the look on everyone's faces if internationly there was a date picked and nobody played along with the game until it was changed for the better!!

    I know uptopia is probably only ever abtainable in dreams but is it so much to ask for fairness and equality, decency, care for every single human being and protection from those we need protecting etc etc

    am I mental??[/QUOTE

    yes, the man you require is

    PETER GRIFFIN


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Nodin wrote: »
    In the sense that he appears out of the dark and beats the living ****e out of people.....

    A Dublin scumbag in other words.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Like Superman you mean?

    Super Person's first mission - DESTROY SEXISM!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭builttospill




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    Elevator wrote: »
    It's a pure fairytale but I would love to wake up someday and for all the lies and corruption worldwide to be over

    I am sick to the pit of my stomach of corruption, double standards, back stabbing, denial of human rights, propaganda, lies...!!

    how in all fairness do you get through the day when all around you is corrupt!!

    that isn't a retorical question either!! I find it increasingly hard to put up with it and even though it is starting to have slight strain of my mental health I couldn't just pretend we live in a livable society!!

    **** everything that is not for the actual good of the people!!

    only reason we living in this mess is because we don't all stop at the same time and say no!!

    I would love to see the look on everyone's faces if internationly there was a date picked and nobody played along with the game until it was changed for the better!!

    I know uptopia is probably only ever abtainable in dreams but is it so much to ask for fairness and equality, decency, care for every single human being and protection from those we need protecting etc etc

    am I mental??

    ALRIGHT I'LL DO IT TOMORROW. Jeez..


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 49 starre


    The 1930s called...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    We already have Al Gore.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Sometimes I ly in the bath and imagine Ryan Tubridy is interviewing me about my super powers and the audience are cheering me. I give a long speech about how I won't use my powers for selfish reasons and intend to stop all crime in Ireland and the World.

    The audience give me a standing ovation and I then imagine news paper headlines with me saving people from crime and stopping plane crashes.

    So, no OP - you're not mental, I am though.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Where is Jesus when you want him?? Oh wait, that fool aint real lolz.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭xflyer


    There was an episode of X files where they came across a Genie. Mulder ever the utopian got three wishes from her. He asked for world peace. Instantly all the people in the world disappeared.

    It was a point well made.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭Apolloyon


    I'm totally down with uptopia*

    Up and down? That's kind of your job OP.

    Wait...

    ZOMG! :eek: You're him! Our true 'super person'. We're ready! Deliver us from evil!


    *Yes I know it's really utopia but it's in the OP so...!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭hightower1


    See the issue is not that we need someone to sort the worlds issues out ... the issues are caused by human nature in every single one of us. In reality we need someone to change the fundimentals of who we are as a people on a very deep level.

    eg... everyone stands up against a widespread injustice.... up until the point where one person sees that they can come out of this better than average and then turns on the majority.

    This is something that ALL of us have inside. It this ability to be able work as a group but yet at the same time still be aware of our own individual wants that holds us back from being truely great and ending the majorty of global issues.
    Curiously its also the source of some of our greatest moments and advances, the drive to fufill our own individual needs has led to amazing steps being taken the simpilest example being the discovery of fire manipulation. If the want and need of that pre human to simply keep warm was not acted on who knows where we would be.

    In short we are a contridiction, the thing that hurts us most is what helps us most. If we have a society based on that of a collective such as bee's then yes we COULD solve so much strife in the world. A worker bee will kill itself without a second though for the good of the greater populous and its a very effective ethos but we would cease being human at that point.

    Personally I dont see that as a bad thing but others would rightly disagree. So if you want to change the world you need to change the very core of humanity.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    hightower1 wrote: »
    See the issue is not that we need someone to sort the worlds issues out ... the issues are caused by human nature in every single one of us. In reality we need someone to change the fundimentals of who we are as a people on a very deep level.

    eg... everyone stands up against a widespread injustice.... up until the point where one person sees that they can come out of this better than average and then turns on the majority.

    This is something that ALL of us have inside. It this ability to be able work as a group but yet at the same time still be aware of our own individual wants that holds us back from being truely great and ending the majorty of global issues.
    Curiously its also the source of some of our greatest moments and advances, the drive to fufill our own individual needs has led to amazing steps being taken the simpilest example being the discovery of fire manipulation. If the want and need of that pre human to simply keep warm was not acted on who knows where we would be.

    In short we are a contridiction, the thing that hurts us most is what helps us most. If we have a society based on that of a collective such as bee's then yes we COULD solve so much strife in the world. A worker bee will kill itself without a second though for the good of the greater populous and its a very effective ethos but we would cease being human at that point.

    Personally I dont see that as a bad thing but others would rightly disagree. So if you want to change the world you need to change the very core of humanity.

    You can share the same holiday as the Elevator. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    What we need is a cloning machine and Chuck Norris, sorted.

    / Thread.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭i57dwun4yb1pt8




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Just vote me into power and I'll see yez all right ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,763 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    prinz wrote: »
    Just vote me into power and I'll see yez all right ;)

    Hey Pat! Looked good on the telly last night!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,763 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    DaDumTish wrote: »

    Seeing as everyone ignored captain common sense three years ago...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    wouldn't it be great if a "super-person" came along and sorted the whole world out!!

    Wasn't he elected in the US two years ago?

    At least, I could have sworn that was the hype at the time...

    NTM


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