RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2015 at 5:02 pm by Smaug.)
(March 23, 2015 at 4:52 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(March 23, 2015 at 4:42 pm)Smaug Wrote: Well, it's obviously not a normal, median state. And it depends on what struggle do you mean. If we're talking of a terminally ill patient that may be it. But if we're talking about, say, people at war (that I've mentioned above) it's not a general rule. Even after months in wet, rat-infested trenches literaly filled with a smell of death people still wanted to live.
If by "normal" you mean "popular," I agree.
I'm referring to the internal struggle. When your entire existence feels like you're just treading water and struggling to stay afloat, succumbing to oblivion becomes a tempting and peaceful proposition. Years of mental anguish can lead one to yearn for death, and I dare say that has nothing to do with being brainwashed or a fool.
By normal I mean statistically-normal or average. Which in a non-rigorous way (and I don't speak rigoruosly here) may be equal to "popular" in some sence. Internal struggle may cause you to think of some things in more or less serious way but it's clearly not the average case. If it were we would have had suicidal majority. And I repeat that when it comes to, say, actually putting a razor against your throat people are known to panic in the very last moment often when nothing can be already done for them.
