#hopelessness — Public Fediverse posts

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Verse 1
You can keep hunting for a reason
In between the lines
I'm going to write my epitaph 
On a bullet-broken spine

Look under number 16
See who you will find
Rip another page out
Until the clock ticks 49.

Verse 2
No, this isn't ketchup
You're not going blind
Who's the soft boy now?
And now we're out of time.

Despair is on the menu
Hate is the wine
The table's set for 16
Here is where we'll dine

Bridge
Shame me
Name me
Call me what you will
Fame me
Game me
It's time to pay the bill

Outro
I'm not your anti-hero
I'm not the martyr kind
I'm just another lost boy
Who stepped over the line

No more power-ups
No more petty crime 
Checked out at 1208
Out of sight
Out of mind

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Hey all :FediverseSymbol:

We had another linguistic thought.

(You can see our previous linguistic queries on looking for words for the pain of being misunderstood and finding an alternative word for hope.)

We realised that English has a specific word for the inability to experience pleasure from activities you'd usually enjoy: anhedonia.

However, it doesn't seem like there's an equivalent official word for the inability to experience hope.

Instead, there are only words like hopeless or hopelessness, but those words do not really suggest that the person can no longer derive hope from situations they'd normally expect to.

Following the same logic as the above, we think it would be something like an- plus either elpĭ́s or elpída.

So, we think it'd be either anelpis or anelpida.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Corrections?

#AskFedi #GenuinelyAsking #NoReplyGuysPlease #English #linguistics #hope #hopeless #hopelessness #anelpis #anelpida

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. A grievance can almost serve as a substitute for hope; it not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 166 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17825/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #complaint #grievance #hope #hopelessness #purpose #resentment

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. A grievance can almost serve as a substitute for hope; it not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 166 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17825/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #complaint #grievance #hope #hopelessness #purpose #resentment

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. A grievance can almost serve as a substitute for hope; it not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 166 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17825/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #complaint #grievance #hope #hopelessness #purpose #resentment

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. A grievance can almost serve as a substitute for hope; it not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 166 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17825/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #complaint #grievance #hope #hopelessness #purpose #resentment

Youth mental health crisis: New reports shed light on what’s driving it and why social media is an ‘amplifier’

The second report – Addressing Youth Mental Distress – builds …
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #about #Amplifier #an #and #CA #Canada #changing #Crisis #despair #Driving #future #Health #helplessness #hopelessness #including #is #it #light #Media #Mental #MentalHealth #New #On #reports #Shed #Social #State #underpinning #what's #why #World #youth
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/251896/

Youth mental health crisis: New reports shed light on what’s driving it and why social media is an ‘amplifier’

The second report – Addressing Youth Mental Distress – builds on …
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #about #Amplifier #an #and #AU #Australia #changing #Crisis #despair #driving #future #Health #helplessness #hopelessness #including #is #it #light #media #mental #MentalHealth #New #on #reports #Shed #Social #state #underpinning #whats #why #World #youth
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/252717/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/153755/ Youth mental health crisis: New reports shed light on what’s driving it and why social media is an ‘amplifier’ #about #amplifier #an #and #changing #Crisis #despair #driving #Éire #Future #Health #helplessness #hopelessness #IE #including #Ireland #is #IT #light #Media #mental #MentalHealth #MentalHealth #New #on #reports #Shed #Social #State #underpinning #what’s #why #World #youth

Youth mental health crisis: New reports shed light on what’s driving it and why social media is an ‘amplifier’

The second report – Addressi…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #about #amplifier #an #and #changing #crisis #despair #Driving #future #Health #helplessness #hopelessness #including #is #it #light #Media #Mental #MentalHealth #new #on #reports #Shed #social #state #underpinning #what's #why #world #youth
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/261175/

Youth mental health crisis: New reports shed light on what’s driving it and why social media is an ‘amplifier’

The second report – Addressi…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #about #amplifier #an #and #changing #crisis #despair #Driving #future #Health #helplessness #hopelessness #including #is #it #light #Media #Mental #MentalHealth #new #on #reports #Shed #social #state #underpinning #what's #why #world #youth
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/261175/

Hopeless Soul: If You Only Knew

https://www.heavenlymanna.net/christianArticle.php?article_id=1819

#hopeless #hopelessness #deliverance #pea

"Details emerge about #horses killed in Russian attack on #Kyiv"

3 #Shahed #drones, aimed on purpose at an #equestrian facility

I've seen the pictures. Heartbreaking. I will spare you

Why kill horses?

#Ukraine aims at oil pipelines and refineries

#Russia aims at hospitals and apartments. And horses

To break Ukraine's will

To spread #despondency, #hopelessness, #cynicism

To aim for the heart

#Terrorism

Russia doesn't understand how it backfires

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/09/8/7529902/

#UkraineWar

A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: Come away, dear ones, come away.
   To the camp, to the place of the ships, to the sea,
   To the strange new life of slavery,
   For all are the slaves of Destiny.
 
[ΧΟΡΟΣ: ἴτε πρὸς λιμένας σκηνάς τε, φίλαι,
   τῶν δεσποσύνων πειρασόμεναι
   μόχθων: στερρὰ γὰρ ἀνάγκη.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 1293ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Sheppard (1924)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/77851/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #departure #despair #destiny #fate #hopelessness #slave #slavery

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

   You can never be too cautious in your prognosis, in the view of the great uncertainty of the course of any disease not long watched, and the many unexpected turns it may take.
   I think I am not the first to utter the following caution : —
   Beware how you take away hope from any human being. Nothing is clearer than that the merciful Creator intends to blind most people as they pass down into the dark valley. Without very good reasons, temporal or spiritual, we should not interfere with his kind arrangements. It is the height of cruelty and the extreme of impertinence to tell your patient he must die, except you are sure that he wishes to know it, or that there is some particular cause for his knowing it. I should be especially unwilling to tell a child that it could not recover; if the theologians think it necessary, let them take the responsibility. God leads it by the hand to the edge of the precipice in happy unconsciousness, and I would not open its eyes to what he wisely conceals.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Speech (1859-03-10), Valedictory Address, Harvard University School of Medicine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bedsidemanner #diagnosis #hope #hopelessness #ignorance #information #medicalcare #medicine #prognosis #terminal #doctor

To save my sanity, my firefox starts up with these tabs now:

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
https://www.positive.news/
https://fixthenews.com/
https://theprogressplaybook.com/
https://www.boringreport.org/app

Firefox instructions:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-set-the-home-page

Chrome instructions:
https://robots.net/software-and-applications/browsers-and-extensions/how-to-make-chrome-open-multiple-tabs-on-startup/

#goodnews #depression #anxiety #hopelessness #hope #peace #solace #positive #news #uspol #uspolitics

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Patience,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/74496…

#quote #quotes #quotation #abiding #composure #despair #forbearance #fortitude #patience #perseverance #selfrestraint #virtue #waiting #hopelessness #despondency #givingup

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Patience,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/74496…

#quote #quotes #quotation #abiding #composure #despair #forbearance #fortitude #patience #perseverance #selfrestraint #virtue #waiting #hopelessness #despondency #givingup

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Patience,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/74496…

#quote #quotes #quotation #abiding #composure #despair #forbearance #fortitude #patience #perseverance #selfrestraint #virtue #waiting #hopelessness #despondency #givingup

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Patience,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/74496…

#quote #quotes #quotation #abiding #composure #despair #forbearance #fortitude #patience #perseverance #selfrestraint #virtue #waiting #hopelessness #despondency #givingup

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Patience,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/74496…

#quote #quotes #quotation #abiding #composure #despair #forbearance #fortitude #patience #perseverance #selfrestraint #virtue #waiting #hopelessness #despondency #givingup

By conforming to the #Democratic and #Republican #Parties wish that you wholeheartedly #Hate one of the parties, you actively support the #Gridlock and #Hopelessness that characterises #US #Politics and makes it unique in a very negative way.
The hate is completely impotent and doesn't and can't, lead to any positive change, which is exactly what the ruling #Oligarchy wants.

I'm starting the laptop up with the aim of getting an #ElderlyRelative a #ReplacementPensionerConcessionCard.

Previous experiences with the #MyGovWebsite and the #ServicesAustraliaWebsite have trained me up such that I now have a sense of #Futility and #Hopelessness.

As for the websites' designers and the shit-level standards of the website-design industry - thuggish creeps.

And now to sit down with failure almost guarranteed.

#Australia #WebsiteDesign #Oppression

A quotation from Richter, Jean-Paul:

«
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
[Das Alter ist nicht trübe weil darin unsere Freuden, sondern weil unsere Hoffnungen aufhören.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/richter-jean-paul/70702/

#quote #quotes #quotation #aspirations #growingold #henoed #hope #hopelessness #oldage

#HomeOffice warned of #violence and #arson risks at #Essex airbase holding #AsylumSeekers

Exclusive: #ImmigrationWatchdog says ‘#hopelessness caused by boredom’ at #Wethersfield site will inevitably lead to #harm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/16/ministers-warned-over-risk-of-violence-and-arson-at-essex-wethersfield-airbase-holding-asylum-seekers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ToryInhumanity

Sobering moment: diving into the #Brightspace "community" site. Figured out the odd little workaround to get into the place where feature requests can be made.

Over 10,000 feature requests. One directly related to a post I recently made was first submitted in 2013. It's been over a decade.

You can search through these by status and some broad categories but not by "number of upvotes" and not by "date submitted." No way for me (right now?) to know how quickly BS gets critical issues fixed, which would be useful to gauge whether I want to spend my time on their community portal.

Right now I'm going to do a bit of upvoting/requesting but mostly try to restructure my teaching so I don't need Brightspace.

#lms #highered #teaching #edtech #futility #hopelessness

Yes. Rates of #mentalhealth problems have continually increased among young people over the past 15 years, regardless of how you measure it: In 2021, 42% of U.S. #highschool students reported “persistent feelings of #sadness or #hopelessness,” up from 28% in 2011. The increase was especially dramatic among #girls. https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/mental-health-and-social-media-among #socialmedia #teens #violence #socialpressures #politics #opiods #ClimateCrisis #racialinequity

What the hell, is nothing sacred?!

Fruit Stripe Gum has been discontinued.

https://www.oldtimecandy.com/collections/walk-the-candy-aisle-fruit-stripe-gum

#hasItComeToThis #gum #candy #FAIL #lostdreams #hopelessness #nostalgia #endOfDays #2024 #news

A #report released Tuesday by The #Chinese #Canadian #NationalCouncil #Toronto Chapter ( #CCNCTO ) & #UniversityOfToronto found that of the 31 participants who took part in their February 2022 #study , a majority reported feeling #WuNai — a Chinese word that means #hopelessness & #helplessness — in the face of prevalent #AntiAsianHate which ranges from #overt #racism to #microaggressions , whether before or during the #pandemic .

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6779764

#AsianMastodon #AntiAsianRacism #Canada

"Life is hopeless because no matter what you do, you can't escape the endless cycle of birth, struggle, and death. No matter how hard you try, you can't change the fact that you will eventually grow old, get sick, and die. The world is full of pain, suffering, and injustice, and no matter how much you try to make things better, it always seems like things just get worse. So why bother trying at all? Just embrace the hopelessness and let it consume you. #hopelessness #pointless #whybother "

🤣

Just popped over to #BlueBird and after only a few scrolls through #TrendingTopics I’m filled with #anxiety and feelings of #hopelessness against all the voices of #stupidity and #hate. A far too common feeling over there. What a truly vile, hateful place it was/is. #Mastodon is where I’m at now. Let’s all make sure it stays this way ♥️