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Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 3:44 am
Is it wrong that I am not moved by death?
I feel nothing when I learn about the death of another.
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RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 3:48 am
Wrong, no. We all handle death in our own way.
Is it healthy? I don't know. It wouldn't necessarily be for me, but I am not you.
When my step-mother died after a battle with stage 4 lung cancer, I did not grieve. I did my grieving while she was still alive.
Everyone is different, dude. Nobody can tell you how you ought to be. Be true to yourself and let the shit work itself out.
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RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 3:49 am
CD pretty much summed it up. Everyone is different.
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RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 3:50 am
Mind your Ps and Qs, and follow the laws, otherwise no one cares about your lack of empathy.
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RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 4:31 am
Do people routinely make off-handed remarks about death, if they're completely unmoved?
Seems like the unaffected response would be no response at all.
Perhaps death makes certain people more uncomfortable than they realize.
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RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 4:38 am
Death is just a natural effect of life. I see no problem with it.
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RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 5:03 am
Wrong, no.
It can be ugly and off-putting to others when you are callous towards other people's grieving, though.
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RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 5:21 am
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(January 11, 2016 at 5:03 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Wrong, no.
It can be ugly and off-putting to others when you are callous towards other people's grieving, though.
If his indifference goes so far as to wish for more people to be murdered as he did in the aftermath of that church shooting and has since doubled down on, you're a psychpath and I do all I can to marginalize your impact on my life and society. Right or wrong Kitan , I don't care, just don't hurt other people with your attitude. As long as it is just talk, it is a bit disturbing but otherwise harmless. Just don't do anything stupid.
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RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 5:23 am
Exactly.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: Is it wrong?
January 11, 2016 at 5:26 am
(January 11, 2016 at 5:21 am)Quantum Wrote: just don't hurt other people with your attitude.
Grow the fuck up.
I cannot hurt anyone with my attitude.
If I have had to learn to deal with the bullshit you and everyone else daily send my way, then certainly you can deal with a little negativity.
I.E., grow the fuck up, or grow a fucking backbone.
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