[vi] death is on my face

[unbiaseddeath]

Friends. I do not understand the need. I recently read an article on social psychology of American individuals. It was said that people are prone to join groups. It began as an evolutionary imperative, but now remains as a way to accomplish goals, gain prestige, and potentially to gain access to share resources. The cost, however, is a drain on your own time, energy, and resources as well as potentially conflicting views that you are expected to accept; 'norms,' they are called. Rules of how you are to behave as a part of this group. Most do not even acknowledge the concepts of deinviduation or groupthink, both such demeaning effects of group membership.

Tell me, then, why does one join a group? Why does one possess or gain friends?

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[redwaterfall.livejournal.com]

Isolation can lead to a feeling of hopelessness. And in such cases of hermits, they often form emotional attachments to small animals like birds or mice, personifying them to human intelligence and emotional ability. They might even go so far is to carry on conversations with their created friends. Mostly it is all hallucination created by the mind to keep from shutting down.

[unbiaseddeath.livejournal.com]

I do not feel hopeless or take to any animal.

[redwaterfall.livejournal.com]

Have you been exceptionally isolated for an extended period of time?

[unbiaseddeath.livejournal.com]

How isolated must one be? I have endeavored to remain primarily isolated here.

[redwaterfall.livejournal.com]

Usually it requires several years of absolute solitude, with no human interaction at all.

[unbiaseddeath.livejournal.com]

Then why does one desire friends specifically, beyond basic human interactions?

[redwaterfall.livejournal.com]

I think it's for the same reason many seek out fame. We wish for someone to remember us, think of us as important and meaningful.

[unbiaseddeath.livejournal.com]

You must never have been something greater than mortal.

[redwaterfall.livejournal.com]

No, sir. Born human, and I expect I shall die human as well. Though one can never really predict it seems.

[unbiaseddeath.livejournal.com]

When one is already greater than mortality, there is no need for importance or fame. One already has meaning.

[redwaterfall.livejournal.com]

Which is likely why you are so puzzled by the behavior.

[unbiaseddeath.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you are right. Do you have any solutions to offer?

They are officially roomies btw

[redwaterfall.livejournal.com]

"Grant me the serenity;
To accept the things I cannot change;
The courage, to change the things I can;
And the wisdom, to know the difference."

Hoorah!

[unbiaseddeath.livejournal.com]

I accept this fact; I merely wish to understand why it is so.

[redwaterfall.livejournal.com]

Well, as I've explained, it is a human need. Unfortunately, we were just made in such a way that we need others with us, to love, to be loved by, to share with and so on.

[unbiaseddeath.livejournal.com]

And friendship provides this?

[redwaterfall.livejournal.com]

Most certainly.

[unbiaseddeath.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your insights.