People are different; this is a given. If we were not different, we would not be humans. Humans are defined by our individuality; our awareness of ourselves and our similarities and our differences from others, our desire to be unique - and therefore stand out from the crowd - and our want (or more appropriately, our NEED) to let it be known to others that we are not the same as everybody else. This is a good thing; it is the foundation of creative and social thought, and the basis of human emotion and interaction as we know it.
We are snowflakes, each body different from the rest. People cannot understand each individual snowflake they meet; they cannot comprehend it and they cannot know everything that they would like to know about this snowflake they have met. They do not have time to know everything about each snowflake they meet, nor do they have the mental capacity to remember the details of each snowflake they have ever met before. So they make a shortcut; they group lumps of snowflakes together; label them as a single entity, and go on with their day.
The root of all evil today, in my opinion, is snowballs. Lumps of individual, unique snowflakes, each with its own creative mind and individual thought process, mashed together with a thousand other like it into a conglomeration of externally similar snowflakes, until each is unrecognizable. By this point, it is easy to know everything about these snowflakes; these unique entities which the observer knows nothing about. He now knows EVERYTHING about these snowflakes. They are just like the others. So he mashes them into his collectively larger snowball and lives on. All snowflakes resembling the others get mashed into the unrecognizable ball of similarity.
Because we are afraid of what we do not know; and comprehending individuals with no point of reference is a daunting task impossible to do, we make this shortcut. This shortcut removes the human aspect of humans, and this dehumanization process is on of the many cancers of the human race. It prevents us from progressing; we are not united because of our differences, and we cannot progress. Unity, cooperation, and accepting of differences are the only way to eliminate “the snowball problem.”
When the newly appointed president of the US became the official leader, I felt no sense of accomplishment or overcoming of a great problem. It is petty and pompous to congratulate one’s self for something that should have happened a very long time ago. A black president is no different from a white president - nor is he different from anybody else - because blacks and whites are no different from each other. These snowballs, these conglomerations of externally similar people, have nothing in common. A Jew would govern a country no differently than an Atheist, because they are one in the same. They have no real differences, no real similarities. Each is a snowflake, each equally similar and dissimilar from everybody else.
Elitism would not exist without snowballs. Nor would conflict. We would be seen as different from our externally similar counterparts. Nationalities would be void, races would not exist - only varying degrees in skin colour - and the world would know peace. Religions would coexist. Each snowflake would accept the other, admit that they are no more different or similar than those snowflakes that are of the same religion.
I do not understand why snowballs exist; I cannot comprehend how or why people can believe this. I am Atheist, and white. I have never experienced racism, nor have I experienced religious intolerance. It is entirely impossible that, because of this lack of bigotry directed towards me, I am left with an unscathed opinion on it. I cannot comprehend prejudice, because I am not a participant or a victim of it, merely an observer. And as an observer, I know only one thing: ultimately, we cannot succeed when snowballs exist.
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man i hate these threads that are heaps long and are "change the world" sorta things
[QUOTE=Magnitude;16892568]man i hate these threads that are heaps long and are "change the world" sorta things[/QUOTE]
I hear ya man.
I've seen this before.
I liked where the Tyrannosaurus rex smashed the jeep
I guess you were one of the yellow snowflakes.
inb4 witty and/or ironic comment regarding the OP and individuality
Seriously I think this is copy/paste.
so many big words...
You use way to many metaphors man.
What are you? A Buddhist Monk?
Copypasta.
My attempt at intelligent conversation has failed. Brb, I'm gonna go post this on a different stoner forum, grasscity.
[QUOTE=SKuM;16892758]My attempt at intelligent conversation has failed. Brb, I'm gonna go post this on a different stoner forum, grasscity.[/QUOTE]
honestly what were you expecting
Good riddance
intelligent conversation + facepunch = :downs:
[QUOTE=Magnitude;16892774]intelligent conversation + facepunch = :downs:[/QUOTE]
That is if you actually have something intelligent to say
Also we already know individuality makes us human NO DUH :dominic:
nice pink floyd avatar
you got originality
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;16892764]honestly what were you expecting[/QUOTE]
I've had intelligent conversations on Facepunch before. Of course, that was a year ago, but I still thought that there might be some people around who decided to post something besides Copypasta or rating whoring.
[QUOTE=Magnitude;16892774]intelligent conversation + facepunch = :downs:[/QUOTE]
intelligent conversation + facepunch = not this
this = attempted philosophical depth (but really just pretension) + facepunch
Way to overuse the semi colon.
[QUOTE=Victor Leferve;16892828]Way to overuse the semi colon.[/QUOTE]
"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
-Kurt Vonnegut
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;16892849]"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
-Kurt Vonnegut[/QUOTE]
I love semi colons. Without them the winking smiley would be incomplete: ;)
[QUOTE=SKuM;16892758]My attempt at intelligent conversation has failed. Brb, I'm gonna go post this on a different stoner forum, grasscity.[/QUOTE]
I've read this before. You copied it.
[QUOTE=Malumbre;16893180]I've read this before. You copied it.[/QUOTE]
Lol. Show me where.
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