Has humanity stopped evolving?

@sarabee1995 I really dont have to do anything to separate myself from others I dont even have to try because if I was doing that id be pretending. I have been the way I am my whole life, I choose not to be a brain-dead asshole that would believe everything the media fed them. The things that separate me from others are my thoughts, my judgements. I dont fit into to the society because I choose to think differently. As for a different path I have been walking down it longer than I can remember or may be when I made the choice if not being a sheep.

@Chaosunleashed Hmmm... 🤔 Thoughts are nice. Thoughts are interesting. But even sheep have thoughts.

The only thing that separates one from the flock is action.

@sarabee1995 Yes they do have thoughts but the line that distinguishes me from others is that my thoughts are “ORIGINAL” hence making my “ACTIONS” my own. I’ve been around people who don’t even have a fucking clue about their identity, doing whatever they saw everyone else doing, shit like posting selfies all day long about what they ate and after decomposition how the shit turned out, it is so god damn infuriating.

@Chaosunleashed Truly trying to understand you here; not challenge you ... (okay, maybe a little of both).

So at first you said you didn't need actions to separate yourself from the sheep and that your independent thinking was enough. I challenged that and said that even sheep have thoughts. Now you say your independent thinking leads to independent actions and the example you give is not posting selfies.

Can you see where I'm left wondering 🤔 just how independent you are?

The alternative to being one of the flock is to lead a life of purpose and intent. It is to have an opinion regarding how the world should be and taking actions to move the world in that direction.

So ... my new friend ... what have you [b]DONE[/b] to separate yourself from the flock?

@sarabee1995 I don’t know if it’s me or you whose trying too hard here, may be even both of us. And that example was more of a rant of how stuff like that really pisses me off. As for my thoughts, free thinking leads to independent actions, that are my own and not someone else's.
There are a lot of alternatives to separate yourself from others, and when you’re surrounded by people who have shit sticks for brains, your not thinking about changing them you’ve already wasted half your life being around them and you had enough of them, first thing that comes to your mind is to isolate yourself, you rather open up a farm and start raising chickens than be with these people. And I’m not going to be the next Gandhi to be telling people how to live their lives, they choose to be who they are. So when you ask me what I have done to separate myself from others, I have isolated myself, I’m not hitler or any other historical figure who would stand up and start waging war to change the world and mould it into what I think it should be like. I’ll tell you what I’m trying to do here, why I’m really here, to find people who can actually understand what I’m ranting here about because I seek empathy.

@Chaosunleashed I'm very sorry to hear that. It is easy to recognize that the world has problems. Every member of the flock from the smallest on up knows it is walking in shit and there are wolves at the gate. Isolating yourself from the flock does nothing to help them or you. It simply lessons your exposure to their shit. Congratulations.

I am looking for people who see the same thing you see, but decide to be sheepdogs and help the flock. Everyone in this world is either a wolf, a sheepdog, or a part of the flock.

@sarabee1995 Just what I was thinking you would say. Tell me one thing, would you deliberately choose to be in a company of retards and insult your intelligence? What do you think would happen if you were constantly exposed to retardation? And to think that isolation doesn’t help me? It has saved me, and has helped me preserve my identity as an individual. What do you think I would’ve been like if I hadn’t isolated myself? An empty shell of a person living a scripted life, where all the decisions of my life had already been made for me!
And as for saving, I will preserve my patience for the ones who’s lives are directly going to be affected by my own.

@Chaosunleashed In isolating yourself from the flock, you do nothing to help them [b]or you[/b]. I stand by that statement.

We can debate all day long about whether an individual has an obligation to help his neighbor. Your thoughts are clear and I hope mine are as well. But if you goal is to help yourself, then simply isolating yourself from the flock does nothing in this regard. As I said already, it simply isolates you from their shit. If you want to improve your life and the lives of those close to you in any real way, then you need to take positive steps to improve the little corner of the world in which you live. Isolating yourself does not do this.

In regards to your question of me, first I object strongly to your use of the retards. I believe that all human life is of value and that we each are endowed with different aptitudes, all of which are necessary for a functioning society. I have a good friend with Downs Syndrome and I've never mentioned him on EP or SW before now. I think he brings more love and compassion and beauty to this world than your ugliness ever could hope to. So you ask if I would ever deliberately spend time with people who might score lower on some arbitrary intelligence test and I say to you definitively that I not only would, but I do, and they bless my life.

I feel sorry for you and hope that someday your eyes are opened to the beauty of the flock you are charged to help if able.