My heart goes out to all of you who have wrestled with suicidal thoughts. 
I've never felt that way. I have been through some of the most horrendous stuff it's possible for a human being to go through, short of dying (and I've come close to that, a couple of times), but I've never felt an impulse to end it all.
Even the bad stuff in life is part of the adventure. I'm fascinated to know what's next, for my day and for the world.
I was born in 1976, started forming serious memories by 1980. In that time, I've seen so many amazing inventions, from the cellular smartphone, to the polymerase chain reaction, to the sportbike, to the internet and high speed computers... I could go on for pages on ways our lives have changed for the better.
I've seen the two major military powers on the globe forget the Sicilian's First Rule in The Princess Bride, and get themselves involved in land wars in Asia. We visited Pluto and half a dozen other objects in our Solar System. We put rovers on Mars and beamed back HDTV. We made HDTV! We flew and finally retired the Space Shuttle. We sequenced our genome. We found Neandertal DNA.
I watched my racist-as-hell country elect a minority as President.
This life is amazing, and though I have sadness over horrible things I see and/or experience, and "traps" of thought that I must work to avoid or get out of (like any intelligent person who pays attention to what's going on), in general I am just happy that I am alive. Not only alive, but in an age when we are making the greatest breakthroughs of scientific discovery in the history of the human race.
I've never felt that way. I have been through some of the most horrendous stuff it's possible for a human being to go through, short of dying (and I've come close to that, a couple of times), but I've never felt an impulse to end it all.
Even the bad stuff in life is part of the adventure. I'm fascinated to know what's next, for my day and for the world.
I was born in 1976, started forming serious memories by 1980. In that time, I've seen so many amazing inventions, from the cellular smartphone, to the polymerase chain reaction, to the sportbike, to the internet and high speed computers... I could go on for pages on ways our lives have changed for the better.
I've seen the two major military powers on the globe forget the Sicilian's First Rule in The Princess Bride, and get themselves involved in land wars in Asia. We visited Pluto and half a dozen other objects in our Solar System. We put rovers on Mars and beamed back HDTV. We made HDTV! We flew and finally retired the Space Shuttle. We sequenced our genome. We found Neandertal DNA.
I watched my racist-as-hell country elect a minority as President.
This life is amazing, and though I have sadness over horrible things I see and/or experience, and "traps" of thought that I must work to avoid or get out of (like any intelligent person who pays attention to what's going on), in general I am just happy that I am alive. Not only alive, but in an age when we are making the greatest breakthroughs of scientific discovery in the history of the human race.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
