(August 10, 2018 at 7:46 am)Kit Wrote: CIJS,

It got so bad last night, I almost started crying.

Yeah... I started yesterday too... might go on for a while... but, hopefully, it will come to an end!

CIJS,

Tonight I read and analyzed a proof of the binomial theorem in Velleman's How To Prove It, and IMO, it is the clearest and most thorough explanation of it that I've seen.  His induction proof actually performs a binomial expansion of the terms and uses algebra and identities dealing with factorials to produce the desired result.  In every other book that I've seen, the proof never breaks down to an actual binomial expansion of the terms, which makes it harder to see how the factorial identities and algebra come into play, so I'm grateful to Velleman for his clarity.  Hence, this is the first time that I have a true appreciation for the theorem and a good understanding of it.

CIJS that I'm tired of it all. I think I would be more free in death than in life. I try way too hard to be reasonable when all the ones I care about won't even listen to me. Why should I choose which one to hurt? I don't want to hurt anybody. Maybe I'm just a fucking sissy, maybe I should just hurt myself

CIJS-
I don't know what I did wrong but, given that I'll probably never get the answer to that question, I'm just going to move on.

-Teresa

(August 12, 2018 at 12:12 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: CIJS-
I don't know what I did wrong but, given that I'll probably never get the answer to that question, I'm just going to move on.

-Teresa

There are only two kinds of problems, those that your efforts can resolve, and those which are immune to any attempt at resolution. The latter are not properly problems.

(August 12, 2018 at 12:12 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: CIJS-
I don't know what I did wrong but, given that I'll probably never get the answer to that question, I'm just going to move on.

-Teresa

I've never understood why people can go off like fireworks, and never tell anyone what the real problem is. If that's what happened to you, sorry to see it.

(August 12, 2018 at 8:24 am)Lucanus Wrote: CIJS that I'm tired of it all. I think I would be more free in death than in life. I try way too hard to be reasonable when all the ones I care about won't even listen to me. Why should I choose which one to hurt? I don't want to hurt anybody. Maybe I'm just a fucking sissy, maybe I should just hurt myself

You're not alone in feeling this way.
I too have been in a bad place without an exit, but somehow I managed to escape.
Just as hard as it is to look back and put a finger on a time when the misery started, it's also just as hard to pinpoint it's ending.
But you can be happy again. 
A thunderstorm only lasts for a while and then it dissipates.
Trust me, things will get better.

(August 12, 2018 at 1:36 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:

(August 12, 2018 at 12:12 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: CIJS-
I don't know what I did wrong but, given that I'll probably never get the answer to that question, I'm just going to move on.

-Teresa

There are only two kinds of problems, those that your efforts can resolve, and those which are immune to any attempt at resolution.  The latter are not properly problems.

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(August 12, 2018 at 6:04 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(August 12, 2018 at 12:12 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: CIJS-
I don't know what I did wrong but, given that I'll probably never get the answer to that question, I'm just going to move on.

-Teresa

I've never understood why people can go off like fireworks, and never tell anyone what the real problem is. If that's what happened to you, sorry to see it.

Thank you both.

-Teresa

(August 12, 2018 at 8:24 am)Lucanus Wrote: CIJS that I'm tired of it all. I think I would be more free in death than in life. I try way too hard to be reasonable when all the ones I care about won't even listen to me. Why should I choose which one to hurt? I don't want to hurt anybody. Maybe I'm just a fucking sissy, maybe I should just hurt myself

(August 12, 2018 at 8:24 am)Lucanus Wrote: CIJS that I'm tired of it all. I think I would be more free in death than in life. I try way too hard to be reasonable when all the ones I care about won't even listen to me. Why should I choose which one to hurt? I don't want to hurt anybody. Maybe I'm just a fucking sissy, maybe I should just hurt myself

I suppose it's out of the fucking question you could stop the self pity shit and focus on the real dilemmas in you life rather than the false ones?