I really hate it when people try to tell me that I’m not special. I don’t understand why people hate “special snowflakes” or seem to insist that no one is really that different from each other, that your perceived individuality is just fake. There seems to be a connection with feeling this way and being a conservative (hence the hatred of “tumblr special snowflakes”).

I think there’s a clear discrepancy between people who behave differently and people who fit a certain status quo. There’s obviously a motivation to conform to societal standards, which means inversely that there’s a non conformity, an individual approach to behavior. I think that pretty much every person has inside of them a very distinctive personality, and no two people are alike, no two people share the exact same characteristic traits no matter how similar they may be. This is true in every aspect of life, no one person is going to be identical to you, no piece of music fits identically into what you’re feeling.

If anything I think the mentality of conformity makes people think that there isn’t really anything special about themselves, but that’s because people often think of themselves in terms of what is normal, and possibly push out unique and individual thoughts, thoughts which distinguish themselves from other people, pushed out of their mind and marked as nonsense probably on an almost sub conscious reflex, before they even come to fruition.

If you’ve ever tried to have a friendship, or remember when you were first getting into music, you’d remember that there isn’t really anything relates to exactly how you feel, or exactly who you are as an individual. People themselves are always very different from one another, and in fact it’s because that people are different that they often find that they love each other, and it’s because of the music’s uniqueness that makes you experience wonderful alien feelings. To be told that there’s nothing but sameness seems like not only a baseless assertion, born out of nothing but ignorance and dumb pseudo intellectual strong manning, it’s anatomically incorrect.

Once more, I feel that denying a person the fact that they’re an individual is nothing more than group think propaganda, probably a sort of sub conscious control mechanism which people enforce on each other without really thinking. It’s as though by nature of being in a society there were some mechanism, possibly out of the biological pattern seeking behavior of the human brain, that makes human beings not only conform to, but enforce the idea that we’re not individuals. It makes no sense, and it’s an idea which has no bearing on reality, and really no practice purpose.

If everyone is taught that they can’t think differently and that there’s nothing special about any of us, how could someone produce art if they think that everything has already been said and there’s nothing unique and individual about them? I find it to be a deeply demeaning and demoralizing perspective to hold on life.

Identity is ultimately meaningless and empty. At their root, all beings are absolutely the same.

I'd stab you in the face if you made such a hackneyed statement in front of me. I have no time for ignorance.

Quote from: Loaf on August 18, 2016, 11:40:23 AM

Quote from: Aether on August 18, 2016, 11:34:02 AM

Identity is ultimately meaningless and empty. At their root, all beings are absolutely the same.

I'd stab you in the face if you made such a hackneyed statement in front of me. I have no time for ignorance.

Take some time to contemplate the root of being and you might find that sense of identity you cling onto so strongly may start to diminish.

Your argument just makes declarative statements and no explanation of why you think it's true, then you follow it up with "if you just contemplate the root of being". Seriously, you're wasting my time.

Quote from: Aether on August 18, 2016, 11:48:38 AM

Quote from: Loaf on August 18, 2016, 11:40:23 AM

Quote from: Aether on August 18, 2016, 11:34:02 AM

Identity is ultimately meaningless and empty. At their root, all beings are absolutely the same.

I'd stab you in the face if you made such a hackneyed statement in front of me. I have no time for ignorance.

Take some time to contemplate the root of being and you might find that sense of identity you cling onto so strongly may start to diminish.

Your argument just makes declarative statements and no explanation of why you think it's true, then you follow it up with "if you just contemplate the root of being". Seriously, you're wasting my time.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything. The difference in our perspectives is just curious to me so I'm provoking a response from you.

I wouldn't ever expect you to actually consider my perspective to be true when you're so adamant about viewing things from yours, as well as the fact that I don't believe you have any respect for me ergo my influence over you is very minimal.

If you're looking for me to explain my point of view in detail then you're out of luck because there aren't many details to it. Being supersedes identity, and thus identity is not absolute. All life has being which is rooted in the same thing so in turn at our root we are all the same.

The simple answer is that you've mistakenly defined "special" as a synonym for "unique" which it is not.

To call oneself special is to call oneself better than others. There are many ways one can become "special," shitposting on a backwater forum is not one of them.

no ones special

people can only behave more inferior than others