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Many communities are toxic as fuck, and for many people every community anywhere near them is dangerous. You're insane to think that community is necessary to

Many communities are toxic as fuck, and for many people every community anywhere near them is dangerous. You're insane to think that community is necessary to find purpose/meaning in life. Plenty of us have had to escape and avoid all communities in order to survive, and we are doing extremely well. Fuck your "fiction promoted by modern society", the life that works for you does not prove that everyone else should live the same way.

AussieWog93 4y ago
Yet here you are. :)
yesenadam 4y ago
Please make your points on HN without being so abusive. Thanks. Your comment breaks many of the HN guidelines, e.g. "Be kind. Don't be snarky. ...Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. ...When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 4y ago
Yikes, can you please not post comments like this or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32436006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32436006? They break the site guidelines badly, and we have to ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- cornel_io 4y ago
  Yes, I understand, I will be more respectful, and I apologize. I'm an incorrigible angry mess right now because I'm dealing with close impending death (edit: not my own, but very close) in RL and it's bleeding over into every sphere and making me behave terribly, but it's not a valid reason to be a dick. I'll dial it back heavily and do my best to either act like a normal person or be quiet.
  - dang 4y ago
    Thanks for the kind reply. I know it's not much but I wish you well with that process. It is far from easy and I hope that you and your loved ones make it through ok.
    - cornel_io 4y ago
      Thank you, I really appreciate the support, and I will pay it forward.
em-bee 4y ago
i am sorry you had that experience and that you chose to be by yourself instead. i can get where you are coming from. i left my home country for similar reasons. but i never gave up on community. along the way i met wonderful people and i realized that i can find a community by contributing to one. community is not a fiction promoted by modern society. quite the contrary. community was always quite important throughout history. in fact the idea that we don't need community is a modern fiction. sure, some individuals may feel comfortable to live as hermits, and maybe you are one of them, but then you'd certainly be a rare exception, because most people can't go through life without having friends and a welcoming community around them.

AussieWog93 4y ago

Yet here you are. :)

yesenadam 4y ago

Please make your points on HN without being so abusive. Thanks. Your comment breaks many of the HN guidelines, e.g. "Be kind. Don't be snarky. ...Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. ...When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang 4y ago

Yikes, can you please not post comments like this or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32436006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32436006? They break the site guidelines badly, and we have to ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

cornel_io 4y ago
Yes, I understand, I will be more respectful, and I apologize. I'm an incorrigible angry mess right now because I'm dealing with close impending death (edit: not my own, but very close) in RL and it's bleeding over into every sphere and making me behave terribly, but it's not a valid reason to be a dick. I'll dial it back heavily and do my best to either act like a normal person or be quiet.
- dang 4y ago
  Thanks for the kind reply. I know it's not much but I wish you well with that process. It is far from easy and I hope that you and your loved ones make it through ok.
  - cornel_io 4y ago
    Thank you, I really appreciate the support, and I will pay it forward.

em-bee 4y ago

i am sorry you had that experience and that you chose to be by yourself instead. i can get where you are coming from. i left my home country for similar reasons. but i never gave up on community. along the way i met wonderful people and i realized that i can find a community by contributing to one. community is not a fiction promoted by modern society. quite the contrary. community was always quite important throughout history. in fact the idea that we don't need community is a modern fiction. sure, some individuals may feel comfortable to live as hermits, and maybe you are one of them, but then you'd certainly be a rare exception, because most people can't go through life without having friends and a welcoming community around them.