when did you truly realize people are full of fucking shit? (if you feel that way)

[xXSufferingXx]

i've had a few epiphanies.
i don't remember all of them, maybe not even the most crazy one.

but stuff like slowly realizing that doctors prioritize money over people's health.
we grow up thinking they are like gods almost and stand up citizens.

i have disabilities that have unforutnately led me to deal with tiring, continous doctor and hospital appointments for decades.
i know what they're about.

sure, they also like to help people, but at the end of the day it's about money for them.
i'm not gonna get into details, but i know that for a fact.
why do you think they let people die right in front of the hospital if they know they have no money?
and no way of possibly getting the money in the future...
because yes, they might take in a patient if they know the money will come EVENTUALLY.

but if that's not the case, they're like: "go fuck yourself, just lay there to die".

having seen and realized such things really made me lose hope in humanity.

and in a way i somewhat MAYBE kinda understand... i mean the hospital would go broke if they didn't have an income, and then NO ONE could get treatment.

but it's the fact how dishonest they are about it.
they will never admit that part.

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when i saw a very old magazine ad from like the 50's where the cigarette brand "camels"
had real life doctors recommend and promote cigarettes as "healthy", i also quickly realized how fucking stupid humans are LOL.
always talking before knowing the facts

 

[DeathSweetDeath]

I don't really want to go into detail but I learned it the hard way.

 

[unluckysadness]

I realized that humankind was dangerous when I was 10 (I was bullied in boarding school). I remember thinking "oh God, this life will be very complicated..."). Now I'm nearly 44 and I don't change my mind. Decades of struggles, pain, stress, humiliation, ...

What you say about doctors is true. I'm also disabled and I worked in a hospital for nearly 15 years and I saw them. Money money money !! A few of them were good people, but it was a minority (and it still is).

It's funny you mentioned the Camel ad because this weekend, I read my old book about forbidden ads and it's in the book. Of course, cigarettes were good for health !... After reading the book, I thought to myself that things weren't always better in the past... The ads with the babies are the craziest ones...

If people are interested with other crazy ads, the name of the book is called "Les pubs que vous ne verrez plus jamais". But no Nembutal ad (probably because the author didn't want to give ideas when N was stil available some years ago).

 

[1984]

For me I've always had a complicated relationship with humanity. A disorganized attachment perhaps? One day I'm a complete misanthrope and the next I'm a sad puppy looking for love. There was never an "on switch" for my hatred. I've felt this way as far back as I can remember. Perhaps due to early childhood abuse (as early as four years old I think, my memory's a little spotty back then lol)

 

[xXSufferingXx]

I realized that humankind was dangerous when I was 10 (I was bullied in boarding school). I remember thinking "oh God, this life will be very complicated..."). Now I'm nearly 44 and I don't change my mind. Decades of struggles, pain, stress, humiliation, ...

What you say about doctors is true. I'm also disabled and I worked in a hospital for nearly 15 years and I saw them. Money money money !! A few of them were good people, but it was a minority (and it still is).

It's funny you mentioned the Camel ad because this weekend, I read my old book about forbidden ads and it's in the book. Of course, cigarettes were good for health !... After reading the book, I thought to myself that things weren't always better in the past... The ads with the babies are the craziest ones...

If people are interested with other crazy ads, the name of the book is called "Les pubs que vous ne verrez plus jamais". But no Nembutal ad (probably because the author didn't want to give ideas when N was stil available some years ago).

hahahahahahahaha those pics are absolutely hysterical! thank you so much for posting that, omg.
it gave me a good chuckle.

and im sorry to hear you are also disabled. yep, i currently know a nurse who ALSO admits it.
he's one of the good ones... and i personally trust nurses more than doctors

 

[unluckysadness]

hahahahahahahaha those pics are absolutely hysterical! thank you so much for posting that, omg.
it gave me a good chuckle.

and im sorry to hear you are also disabled. yep, i currently know a nurse who ALSO admits it.
he's one of the good ones... and i personally trust nurses more than doctors

Other ads with babies... Publicits had a huge problem with kids at this time...

 

[SoLowHollow48]

Mm. Tell me about it. Everyone is full of shit when money and resources are in the picture! My mother had to be hospitalized for months a few years back due to her kidneys failing and we were assigned this specialist, Rudy. Rudy extorted money from us because the hospital bills kept piling up and yet my mom was only getting sicker to the point where she landed in the ICU. It took 2 other doctors to finally assign dialysis treatment for her to support her life.

We lost like, IDR 450,000,000. How much is that in dollars now? About 25,000 USD in just the span of two months!

And that's a large chunk of my late father's inheritance we had to sell our house and move away to compensate with the loss.

 

[bl33ding_heart]

I always sort of knew, but I didn't fully conceptualise how bad people were until I was 16. I learnt that most people are simply impossible to reason with, because they care more about sticking to their idea and being right then what actually logically is right. Most people are simply too blinded by their irrefutable egos to see the bigger picture.

 

[darksouls]

in the eighties,
I worked for animal welfare and collected signatures against animal cruelty,
most people told me that they approve of animal testing,
back then,
I already knew that I would not bring children into this sick world

 

[phantasmagoria]

Reminded of these lyrics: "This place is a circus, you just see the surface
They cover shit under the rug"

 

[pax420]

It's been a slow painful lifelong lesson of one disappointment after another. But a few of the highlights were finding out by going to prison that friends will rat you out to keep from them going to jail. Friends will steal from you. Family will stab you in the back as quick as anybody else. The list goes on and on and yes most people are full of shit. However, I have met and talked to more good, real people on this stie the couple of months I've been on here. There are a few good ones left

 

[peacebenow]

I really don't know where to begin with this. I get it.

 

[Leonard_Bangley39]

got backstabbed by my closest friend. it hurt so much that i cut myself and accidentally hit a vein and had to go to the er for stitches. looking back i wish that cut had killed me.

i wish i could go back to being a hikikomori but i would probably kill myself if i had to be a financial burden on someone.

 

[hurts2b]

I wanna say 13 years old? I've seen over and over again how people love to promote honesty but never reward honest behavior. It messes with my head. Sometimes I think people don't even mean to be dishonest, they just are without thinking. Maybe that makes it worse.

I haven't been personally betrayed or really significantly deceived but it's still a mind fuck to exist in such a dishonest society.

 

[raincandy_v]

About 8 or 10. My mom had gotten very sick and I was being told by all my family I needed to "grow up and be there" for my dad (They were expecting her to die and not make a recovery). Keep in mind my parents are/were very traditional. So when she made a recovery I realized I had lost part of my childhood and was forced to grow up way too fast. Nobody ever apologized for making me have to act like I was older and take care of things at home alone at that age. Not to mention constant bullying at school for various reasons (I was just weird and did not make friends well). So I would say those two compounded, with the family members telling me to grow up and then with my teachers ignoring and taking the sides of the bullies I just realized people were liars to deal with things easy or not deal with it at all.

 

[TwistedNightmares]

Since a very young age, I always had a feeling that humans were dangerous and not trustworthy.
I've also learned the hard way that family can't even be trusted.