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“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest The intelligence and compassion of my fellow humans.

It turns out that decades of catering to the lowest common denominator has reduced our species to selfish, brutish animals who avoid thinking at any cost.

The world is literally on fire, but too many people would rather have someone else do all of the hard thinking for them and then complain about the consequences later.

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I can no longer hold empathy or patience for the willfully ignorant.

I'm tired of living in a world where people willingly avoid any form of critical thinking by having someone else make the "big decisions" for them - only to then whine about the consequences for their actions.

I'm tired of living in a world where people are mocked for being learned. Where literacy is considered a niche interest. Where people deride artists, but demand the fruits of their labor.

I'm tired of being in a world where someone's worth is centered around how much money they have.

I'm tired of people stepping over their neighbors in order to get ahead.

I'm tired of people demanding the benefits of living in a society, while complaining about having to contribute to it.

I'm just done with people in general.

It turns out that actual intelligence is such a rare quality in humans that it's practically a rounding error at this point.

sheikhyerbouti , Kaique Rocha Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago

This thread is really turning into a pleasant read to start the working week.

36points

K1lling_Kindness , Sora Shimazaki Report

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest Karma. Bad people do bad things and get away with it.

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Lucifer 6 days ago (edited)

Technically(according to the teachings), karma doesn't follow our timeline. A lot of people get the concept of karma worng. The westernised version is not what it is. To have Karma enact "justice" according to our calendar so that we have some semblance of normalcy is not how it works.

25points

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest America.

TheParadoxigm , Sawyer Sutton Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago (edited)

As a child I thought America was the dream, as an adult I see it as a nightmare. Hollywood is not to be believed.

43points

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest That hard work alone ensures success. I've seen too many cases when the appropriate timing and connectivity are required.

luxmonr , Thirdman Report

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Manana Man 6 days ago

Lots of poor people are hard workers.

27points

Right now? On election night? I've stopped believing in America. The dream that was America that was drilled into me as a child of the 70s and 80s. That all people actually had an equal voice. That justice ruled the land. That we were a UNITED States.

Thats all gone.

Its every man for himself and "f**k you, I've got mine".

Maybe my blinders are finally off. Maybe its always been that way.

In any case, my belief in the "Shining City on the hill" is dead.

Its all over, and I will mourn its loss.

Davethephotoguy Report

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Lucifer 6 days ago (edited)

United States always had the disinformation problem. From the American Exceptionalism myth to the shining city on the hill to the greatest country in the world, is propaganda. Instead of dealing with the problems head on, there was this delusion created to keep the masses dis/misinformed and vote against their interests. George Carlin and other comedians and philosophers have spotted it and tried to inform.

34points

I no longer believe the United States will remain a democracy.

LAMATL Report

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Lucifer 6 days ago

"A demagogue who is elected POTUS after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. After his election, " "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- From It can't happen here by Sinclair Lewis in 1935

38points

Electrical-Okra4198 , Cameron Casey Report

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest Faith in my fellow human beings. LMAO what a joke. I thought we were better than this but here are.

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CK 6 days ago

Yeah, but, like, why would you think we were better than this? Humanity has done terrible things, including slavery and genocide. This doesn't go against our track record.

10points

Lamb_or_Beast , Monstera Production Report

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest I no longer believe that integrity matters, or that laws have meaning, or that the truth is important.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago

See the orange faced shart who has no integrity, broken numerous laws, and posts alternate facts.

30points

#10

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest I no longer believe in the idea that 'everything happens for a reason.' Sometimes, things just happen—random, unplanned, and without deeper meaning. I've found it more comforting to focus on making the best of what life throws my way rather than trying to search for some cosmic justification behind every tough moment. Sometimes, life is chaotic and unpredictable, and that’s okay. It’s what we do with it that matters most.

Stupid_Furry666 , Tomas Williams Report

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Nikole 6 days ago

Who actually believed that? Oh, religious folks.

29points

#11

The Mormon church. I was a member for 21 years. I hated it. I hated what I had to believe. I hated the kind of person I had to be. I hated everything about the church. But I believed it was 100 percent true. So I lived it for 21 years. The day I let myself accept it wasn't true was one of the most freeing feeling I've ever experienced.

-braquo- Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago

Religion can have such a terrible hold on people, controlling their lives and hiding them away from reality.

27points

#12

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest That I was supposed to know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life at 18.

C0deSea , Emily Ranquist Report

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The Big Bad 6 days ago

Maybe you'll never figure it out. Just be open to learning new things. Enjoy the scenic route.

10points

#13

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest People, Justice, and Common sense.

Daveywheel , KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago (edited)

Common sense is not so common.

8points

#14

The decency of my neighbors. Trump won this round decisively, the American people have spoken and they want... *That*.

Badloss Report

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Geoffrey Scott 6 days ago

Yes, but...he says he has a mandate, but just north of 50% does not a mandate make.

3points

#15

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest I dunno. I don't really believe in anything anymore. Life in general is an empty, meaningless slog. I admire those who can enjoy it because it's impossible for me.

JimAbaddon , Lukas Rychvalsky Report

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Katarzyna Drozd 6 days ago

If you are not able to feel happiness anymore, please go check for depression/ anhedonia. I wish I would go for treatment much earlier instead of listening to my mother claiming praying is answer for everything. Praying is not gonna treat a sickness. Doctors will.

12points

MagazineElectrical62 Report

#16

That most Americans are not stupid.

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Lucifer 5 days ago (edited)

They are not. But they have lost the ability to think critically & analytically. That's by design. Defunding education will let you keep the low informed even less informed or push a lot of disinformation, they'll listen to simplest story. And they'll do it again by getting rid of DOE.

10points

#17

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest I no longer believe in 'finding the right time'. If you wait for something to happen, you can always find an excuse not to start it.

Lila_Bloom , RUN 4 FFWPU Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago (edited)

I even put procrastination off. I'll start procrastinating tomorrow, or the next day.

14points

#18

The future of our Constitutional Republic. Clearly this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

AlexanderHP592 Report

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Feathered Dinosaur 5 days ago

Clearly some people here don't get the Star Wars reference. Amidala's words have made me shiver then and now

3points

#19

Democracy. I no longer see republicans as people.

WrongSaladBitch Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago

I think a lot of decent Rebublicans have sacrificed their values just so they can be the ruling party.

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#20

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest the fallacy that one can function with less than eight hours of sleep. People, coffee can only do so much.

P4npetpet , Craig Adderley Report

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CK 6 days ago

Different people need different amounts of sleep but there's no sleep replacement potion.

10points

#21

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest That facts matter. narrative is more important.

121gigawhatevs , Lina Kivaka Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago

Sensational headlines sell, boring facts do not.

8points

#22

The idea that humans are basically good (in the sense of morality) and intelligent (in the sense of wisdom).

Historically, and as events over the last couple years have continued to highlight, culminating with the election results in the US...humans are simply a more advanced form of primate. We are - in general - tribal, selfish, and greedy. And emotionally stupid.

Contrary to our religious aspirational ideals, our complex philosophical navel-gazing or our grandiose self assumptions, humans as a whole contain no inherent or ingrained virtue beyond that of any other animal. And in certain areas of our behavior, such as with our wars of political expediency and the choices demonstrated in the USA election, we are abjectly f*****g pathetic.

FredUpWithIt Report

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Micky 5 days ago

There seems to be a theme here.

4points

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#23

The decency and intelligence and sense of ethics of the vast majority of humans.

Most people are not bad, but indifferent to evil and they refuse to learn, to understand the world around them, to understand cause and effect and to have at least the basic empathy.

Most people are not bad, but they want bad people to govern and they don't care about evil unless evil and bad policies affect them directly. And I mean directly them, not their family their friends, their community. Them.

nikostheater Report

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Nikole 6 days ago

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me.

25points

#24

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest The survival of the human race in the face of climate change.

Fire-Worm , NastyaSensei Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago

Making money NOW is much more important than stopping the world from burning of protecting our resources.

18points

RabidChild 5 days ago

Obviously. Because Elon's gonna save all the billionaires and take them to Mars anyway.

6points

Kristal 6 days ago

I understand you are stating the views of WHY OP has said what they said and not your own views.

1point

Jeremy Klaxon 5 days ago

Are you making no money at all?

0points

Freya the Wanderer 5 days ago

Humans are tough critters, and some of us will survive. I doubt that the rich hogs (my apologies to pigs) will, though. Even if they get to their bug-out bunkers, they'll have to come out eventually - and they have zero survival skills.

3points

Bret Sander 5 days ago

The human race will survive. We may reach a genetic bottleneck as we have in the past, but the species will survive. Our attachments to how that will unfold only cause us angst. I only hope they evolve spiritually at the same pace as they do technologically.

1point

StrangeOne 5 days ago (edited)

It's getting to be mid November and I'm sitting in +4C weather, no snow, in the middle of the prairies. I remember going trick r treating in the 90s and 00s, in my costume stuffed over my snowsuit, wading through mountains of snow. Mount Fuji has no snow on it's cap yet.

1point

Sue User 5 days ago

Same with Mount Kilimanjaro.

0points

Manana Man 6 days ago

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Pernille 6 days ago

Wow, you manage to prove the veracity of many of the statements in this list, I have to admit I'm impressed by you limited understanding of everything.

8points

#25

Remember when we were all little kids and it was drilled into our heads how we were the best nation in the world? Welp.

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Georgy 5 days ago

Which nation?

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That humans are good by default. This election result was the final nail in the coffin.

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Sven Horlemann 5 days ago

Never believed this. Being good needs to be cultivated IMO.

2points

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#27

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest That adults have everything figured out and their life is a smooth journey on a fixed path.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 6 days ago

Ha ha! This notion soon goes away when you have bills to pay.

7points

#28

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest Humanity.

Totally_man , Ryoji Iwata Report

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Lucifer 6 days ago (edited)

“I frankly don’t give a f**k how it all turns out in this country—or anywhere else, for that matter. I think the human game was up a long time ago (when the high priests and traders took over), and now we’re just playing out the string. And that is, of course, precisely what I find so amusing: the slow circling of the drain by a once promising species.” - George Carlin. The sad part is that a lot of selfish, greedy humans will also cause the extinction of other species.

15points

#29

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest Hope for the future.

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CK 6 days ago

Despair is a self-fulfilling prophecy. We need to do the work and we need to believe that our actions have an impact.

3points

#30

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest The belief that people can influence others. I've learnt that people must want to improve themselves, you cannot do it for them.

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CK 6 days ago

People can influence others, but unfortunately, the people who are best at influencing others are often the least sane. That's why we have cults.

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CK 6 days ago

People forget that every human right that we have was hard won and that we should have always known that we'd need to keep fighting. The progress humanity made before this setback is proof that it can be done. We got complacent, and we need to stop that and get back to work.

8points

Trisec Tebeakesse 5 days ago

“the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” No, no it doesn't. That arc is straightened out and heading away from the truth at an alarming rate.

6points

Norma 5 days ago

sick of political talk.

4points

Pamacious 5 days ago

Sick of people privileged enough to complain about political talk.

6points

Ben Stubbs 5 days ago

So mostly, this thread is about America (<5% of the our planets population), it's perception of it's own values. Still, it will have a new President in January x

4points

Cathy Roberts 5 days ago

You might. I sure in hell will not.

2points

Georgy 5 days ago

The US began to emerge as a globally significant country in the C19th century. It became a superpower after WWII. Its slide downwards became apparent with the credit crunch, with its acceleration to decline and collapse just starting. Asia's rise will continue. The World is changing ; as it always does. Nothing is constant.

4points

DoubleDoubleTiredAndTuckered 5 days ago

For me, something I stopped believing in was God. I was indoctrinated into, you guessed it, Christianity, from a young age, and about a year ago realized that I have no blind faith whatsoever; I trust only that which I know to be real.

3points

Cathy Roberts 5 days ago

Please don’t abandon those of us who try every day to fight against this. We need your support. :(

3points

Kristal 6 days ago

I understand the bleak outlook of the future and humanity based upon the events in the US. However, I caution all that don't believe: apathy will let things get worse. I'm not saying have hope, I'm saying don't let people with dangerous passion (of hatred and greed) beat you and keep you down. Find your own passion to make yourself, and perhaps others, believe again.

3points

Anony Mouse 5 days ago

How many different ways do you have to say America is garbage? We get it. You hate us. You hate us more than Russia, North Korea, and Afghanistan combined. We are the literal worst. Can we please go back to celebrating art, humor, and cute animals?

1point

Georgy 5 days ago

Please link to a comment or post about hating the US more than Russia, North Korea and Afghanistan.

3points

Cool crow 5 days ago

This was tough to read but I appreciated it anyway. Thx

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StrangeOne 5 days ago

I'm going a different route. Residual hauntings being from actual spirits trapped in their past lives, and doppelgangers being evil demons. Doppelgangers are probably the most common reports of the paranormal. I don't believe they are bad omens. I believe they are tied more to residual hauntings than demons. I don't believe residual hauntings are necessarily spirit related. There is a theory I have been expanding on in regards to environmental materials, like granite, limestone and marble, and water, can hold energetic vibrations and frequencies, such as sounds, smells and visuals, just like a camera, or tape recorder. When the environmental conditions are just right, repeated from when these events were captured in the same conditions, you'll see, hear and smell them again. People have reported seeing "apparitions" of those still living. Living people have seen their doppelgangers. We call it paranormal, demonic because we don't know how to explain it.

0points

HolyDiver 5 days ago

The amount of overhyped emotional drama about an election is unreal. The world is not going to end, 51% of the American population are not unintelligent Nazi's. Life decisions are not black and white. the President of the USA is NOT that powerful and people who scream the the shy is falling every time they don't get their way seriously need therapy.

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Cathy Roberts 5 days ago

Soooo does that include people who put on their Nazi gear and their proud boys gear and their confederate gear and go storm in the capital building? Just asking for a friend. Also, you realize he’s got the house and senate too, correct? Thirdly, pardon us for being upset that some of us are going to lose rights. two women just died in texas last week because they couldn’t get anyone to help with their miscarriages. Call call me crazy but the idea of having to drive a loved one around from clinic to clinic hoping someone will help them while they’re hemorrhaging is a little upsetting. Your hypocrisy is astounding. How about this… Take down your blue lives matter flag because you just voted for a felon. Take down your American flag because you clearly don’t believe in liberty and Justice for all. And you can take your cross off too because let me tell you Jesus Christ would not have been a fan of Donald Trump. No, 51% of the country are not Nazis, but 51% of the country are OK voting for the same guy as the Nazis and the clan a voted for and I happen to think that’s worth making noise about. (Note….still not storming the capital so maybe settle down with your remark about people being overly dramatic)

5points

Mammie 5 days ago

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Georgy 5 days ago (edited)

Perhaps ask yourself why.

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CK 6 days ago

8points

Trisec Tebeakesse 5 days ago

“the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” No, no it doesn't. That arc is straightened out and heading away from the truth at an alarming rate.

6points

Norma 5 days ago

sick of political talk.

4points

Pamacious 5 days ago

Sick of people privileged enough to complain about political talk.

6points

Ben Stubbs 5 days ago

So mostly, this thread is about America (<5% of the our planets population), it's perception of it's own values. Still, it will have a new President in January x

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Cathy Roberts 5 days ago

You might. I sure in hell will not.

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Georgy 5 days ago

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DoubleDoubleTiredAndTuckered 5 days ago

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Cathy Roberts 5 days ago

Please don’t abandon those of us who try every day to fight against this. We need your support. :(

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Kristal 6 days ago

3points

Anony Mouse 5 days ago

1point

Georgy 5 days ago

Please link to a comment or post about hating the US more than Russia, North Korea and Afghanistan.

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Cool crow 5 days ago

This was tough to read but I appreciated it anyway. Thx

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StrangeOne 5 days ago

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HolyDiver 5 days ago

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Cathy Roberts 5 days ago

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Mammie 5 days ago

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Georgy 5 days ago (edited)

Perhaps ask yourself why.

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