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"Hate"

I don’t believe in hate. I have never hated anything. I’ve said I have, yeah, but I’ve never meant it. There is nothing that I hate. I don’t like war, or famine, or earthquakes, but I’ve never been near any of them. I have been taught that they are bad things so I think of them as bad things, but I don’t hate them. I can’t, they’ve never affected me. I’m not one of those people who can feel sad for people they’ve never met. For me, they’re just pictures on a TV screen. I can’t hate pictures.

I don’t hate anybody. There are people I dislike greatly, but I don’t hate them. Because I can understand what makes them how they are. Not at some great psychoanalytic level, but just a bit. No-body ever does things if they believe they are wrong. We’re all trying to get by and do what we feel is right, but everybody has different ideas of what is right so we end up colliding with each other, getting in the way.

I’m not even sure hate exists. I think it’s just a word people use for ‘very bad’. Perhaps once it had meaning. If it was used as infrequently as the ‘c word’ then it would have some effect. But it isn’t, so it doesn’t really have meaning. People are so polarized in their language. Television teaches us to be. It’s either love or hate, and nothing in between. That’s the opposite of me. I’m always in between.

I wander about in a daze most of the time. I feel like I’m missing out on something. While everybody around me and everyone on TV is feeling everything, having these massive dramatic feelings which they can easily articulate as ‘love’ or ‘hate’ or ‘happy’ or ‘angry’, I can’t define what I feel. I just do. I don’t think that you ever get one pure emotion like that. But on TV it has to be, because the characters only get a few minutes screen time. And I was raised on TV.

Love. I don’t think love exists either. Or, rather, I think the word is used to cover a broad range of emotions. I think there’s about a million emotions that are covered by the one word of ‘love’. There are different types of love, I think. Our language can’t cover it all, and I think this is a bad thing for a lot of people, when they think they should be like TV says.

Unbeliever wrote:
> Yeah, I know about the dazed feeling. Lately I've been going about my
> business like a robotic automaton but I feel something out there
> eluding the grasping fingers of my thought. Everytime I think I've
> caught a fleeting glimpse of it, it escapes in a shimmering haze. Like
> something on the tip of your tongue or something that doesn't quite
> feel right. What's this got to do with the topic? Nothing, really.
> Just felt like saying it. Why can't I shake off the feeling that
> something isn't quite right? Why have i been feeling like this lately?

Sounds like this should be in the Gay thread. :D

I agree with IB. The difficlut is not becoming so hate-filled that you end up behaving as badly as those you despise.

I hate, and I do mean hate, several things in life.
Most of which can either be summed up, witnessed or pointed at in disbelief in Harlow.

There are some people that I despise, and others I just loathe for being so bloody stupid. Like the person who spoke to me on AOL (that I posted the transcript afterwards), she really píssed me off with her sheer ignorance.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> The Matrix has you, Unbeliever...

Quite possibly. I just can't seem to pin down this nervous disposition I've developed lately. Nothing's wrong with life in general; in fact I couldn't be happier. But there's still some type of unquenchable yearning in me.


BTW, nice hate description IB. It's good to see your absence hasn't sated your inevitable rage upon the half-wit miscreants of this world.

I'm a little more chilled than the rest of you. Unless something is in my face every day, I generally don't bother with stuff/people that irritates me. However, I hate war, famine, disease and Dale Winton.

Blank wrote:
> There are some people that I despise, and others I just loathe for
> being so bloody stupid. Like the person who spoke to me on AOL (that I
> posted the transcript afterwards), she really píssed me off
> with her sheer ignorance.

Where be the transcript, Blank?

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> I'm a little more chilled than the rest of you. Unless something is
> in my face every day, I generally don't bother with stuff/people that
> irritates me. However, I hate war, famine, disease and...


pestilence?

Icarus wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> There are some people that I despise, and others I just loathe for
> being so bloody stupid. Like the person who spoke to me on AOL (that
> I
> posted the transcript afterwards), she really píssed me off
> with her sheer ignorance.
>
> Where be the transcript, Blank?

hah! I remember reading that. Quite amusing. An inbred fool was raping the English language to speak to Blank. Naturally, she felt his wrath.

Icarus wrote:
>
> Where be the transcript, Blank?

Unless it's the 'spelling argument' transcript, I would also like to see this.