Or, if you still have faith in humanity, why?
I think the first time for me was in an English class. We were going to watch a movie that went with our most recent reading: "The Birds." We were going to watch a Hitchcock classic instead of doing class work. Win-win, right?
Well, come the day we were supposed to watch the film our usual teacher was out sick, so we had a sub (who was only given loose instructions as to what to do.) The movie was started up and came to Hitchcock's forward. His forward is a really clever look at why the birds may want to rebel on us that is absolutely hilarious. Thirty seconds into the forward everyone but me was telling the sub to skip it. AND SHE DID JUST THAT.
Oh, but it gets worse. Seeing as how the teacher had multiple classes, all of whom were watching the same movie, the next day she was trying to remember where we left off. After coming to the part we had stopped at, several members of the classroom said that we had made it past this section. I tried to point out that this was where we left off, but got angry glares and was hushed. So basically, they wanted to try and skip through parts of a cinematic masterpiece. It was all downhill from there.
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When did you first lose faith in humanity?
The Birds was a really overrated movie and by far not one of hithcock's best, sorry.
I lost my faith in humanity when I moved to Utah and realized that this entire state is a bunch of brainwashed mormon zombies. Somebody get me out of here.
EDIT: the birds, not crows, hurf
…I lost my faith in humanity when I moved to Utah and realized that this entire state is a bunch of brainwashed mormon zombies. Somebody get me out of here…
Excuse me, but I live in Utah too and I've got a few Mormon friends, and they're some of the nicest people I've met (and most certainly not brainwashed). I hope you don't spew such close-minded views on a regular basis.
Anyway, I've lost my faith in humanity so many times it's hard to count. I believe the tipping point for me was when I was with my last job when one of my fellow employees told me that the job was basically a competition to see how long someone would work there before they got fired. I can tell you that I lost pretty bad.
Basically, the management was taking advantage of people's desperation and could just hire and fire anyone they wanted on the spot. There were so many teenagers who came in all happy with their applications, and all I wanted to do is just tell them to turn around and run.
Excuse me, but I live in Utah too and I've got a few Mormon friends, and they're some of the nicest people I've met (and most certainly not brainwashed). I hope you don't spew such close-minded views on a regular basis.
I'm pretty open-minded when it comes to faith but if you believe in the line of bullshit mormonism tries to sell you on you lack even a single ounce of common sense. You'd have to literally be reatarded to wear magic underwear and believe the factual and historical inaccuracies that they try to sell people on. I don't care now "nice" someone is, thats not and excuse for being a dumbass.
THIS is why I've lost faith in humanity. I've also lost my faith in medicine!
Also I'm not going to turn this into a debate about Mormons with you and hijack a thread, so feel free to attempt to get another rise out of me, but I'm not even going to bother pal.
*flies into the air and explodes into fireworks that spell "EAT IT"*
The Birds was a really overrated movie and by far not one of hithcock's best, sorry.Even so, it was still a decent film (better then those low-production-value interpretations of short stories they showed the rest of the year by miles). I wouldn't take as much an issue if they actually had proper criticism of the movie. I am sure at least 98% of the class just wanted to skip it because it was old and had a lot of dialogue.
I assume this because, in the same class later in the year, we were given the option between watching the 1968 Romeo & Juliet movie or the terrible 1996 Romeo+Juliet. I wouldn't really call either a great interpretation of the Shakespeare play, but Romeo+Juliet may be another reason I lost faith in humanity.
Take a wild guess which my class chose to watch.
I think that moment was when hoodies became really popular… Not just sort of popular, but ubiquitous type popular.
That was a bad moment.
Or was it when wayfarer sunglasses came back in fashion? I've always disliked those, but wayfarers with coloured frames are satanic. -_-
Oh yes, that was a dark day for humanity. :(
On the bright side, I still have good taste so hopefully one day people will follow my example ^_^
My faith in humanity will never be shaken. You can always rely on people to be far worse than you ever thought possible. I'm talking humans as a species there of course - individuals will go against the grain by being outstanding, but put 'em all together and what have you got?
Guess again.
I never really had any hope for humanity in the first place (I've always been rather cynical), until I found out that an old friend of mine who converted to Islam some time ago has had a Jewish girlfriend for the past 6 years (since high school and throughout college, no less, which may as well amount to marriage in terms of college-length relationships). Just the fact that I personally know two people who've broken certain stereotypes the media's always portraying (i.e.- "Muslims and Jews don't get along," etc.) kind of gives me hope for this species.
By the way, I'm sorry if that comment may have unintentionally come off as a bit racist, but you get the point I'm trying to make.
There's very few things in this world that really are that difficult to get over. At least that's how I see it.
Luckily, for those rare occasions, one can endure with a giant tub of mint chocolate chip ice cream. Seriously guys, check the label; it's one of its sole purposes for existence.
Ehh….I don't lose all my faith in humanity, but sometimes people do really stupid things and it really worries me…
Notable examples include when my school began reading….Ugh I hate myself for typing this…Harry Potter, and it became huge and popular, and I hated it completely.
But that just made me lose faith in all the people around me.
Then the internet came along and I found out how big that book is in America.
Durp forgot to make the big point. Well apart from me hating it, the thing that was the most worrying was going on Mylifeisaverage and reading daily stories of people saying
"Today I wore my snuggie backwards and yelled LUMOS and then I turned my lights on and I was like a wizard and I began to masturbate in front of a mirror (:"
Basically That book and that necro vampire book are in the same wavelength for me.
Thankfully, my mother has been reading my conversation history and has seen I hate both of them, and decided to begin loving them both. Fuck my life.
Oh but something that is also worrying is when you go on Transformice, and the people will call any shaman who makes a mistake a "noob shaman", no matter how new they are.
I always imagine them when they're older to go to a political debate and call their opponent a noob president.
*shudder*…
You lost you entire faith in humanity because some teenagers didn't want to watch "The Birds"?So much else had added up to it, that was just the breaking point.
And it's more what it's symbolic of. The general lack of any culture in this generation. Sure it was just "The Birds," but I doubt the results would have been any different had they shown "Citizen Kane" or "Casablanca." That's why.
And it's more what it's symbolic of. The general lack of any culture in this generation.If finding out that most of your classmates are cultureless idiots was hard, wait until you find yourself in the workplace. -_-
I thought the Birds was a pretty clever film and he REALLY got me with that trick ending! Doh! >.<
What amused me most though was when I realised that the guy, the women and the mother who're all trapped in the house were dressed exquisitely in the fashions of the day… More so than usual for a film. What the guy is wearing at one stage is pretty bizarre really. Pay close attention to his outfits: It's the sort of stuff men really ONLY wore in pictures in clothing catalogues.
I'm pretty open-minded when it comes to faith but if you believe in the line of bullshit mormonism tries to sell you on you lack even a single ounce of common sense. You'd have to literally be [retarded] to wear magic underwear and believe the factual and historical inaccuracies that they try to sell people on. I don't care now "nice" someone is, thats not and excuse for being a dumbass.
I can understand that you don't like what they believe in. But the fact that you call everyone 'brainwashed' and 'retarded' is just downright close-minded (and not to mention ableist, good job, bro).
Lefarce and anyone with the same mindset as him make me lose faith in humanity even more.
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