Thread:GalaxE/@comment-36159587-20200102063259/@comment-36159587-20200109003208

I blame my English teacher for giving us Night

I was so distracted during classes today

Welp, I read it all in one day so ig? It's a good thing

I'm glad there was no sappy "I found myself doubting my belief in God during the Holocaust but I mysteriously believed in him right afterwards before the killings even ended for no apparent reason", even if Wiesel did convert his beliefs back at some point in his life. The changing of beliefs would then be believable.

It, too, has been my question as to why supposed celestial entities (saying supposed because I am an atheist and am trying to include all religions, even if most of which are exclusive, and so I am not saying any of them to be true or false) allow humans to tear into each other like wild animals.

And wild animals usually do it to survive, so...

Reading Night decreased my confidence in humanity in general. Not that it's ever been very high. But I recognize not all people are bad and that every person has/had some good quality in them at some point at least, and that humanity has accomplished certain noteworthy things.

However, it just seems like things that are common sense keep happening. Everyone tears into each other for money and neglect others' basic human rights, and hurt each other for their differences when I think they should know that no one should be completely the same.

I'm far from nihilistic, but just like I learned from reading Night, it doesn't do anyone any good to constantly be optimistic about an unreality.

-Galaxian-