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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
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RE: Birth... (if you could choose, would you have been born?)
(11-15-2011 03:24 AM)StadiumArcadium Wrote: No, I wish I had never been born, because now that I'm here there are things I like too much to allow me to kill myself.
RE: Birth... (if you could choose, would you have been born?)
(11-15-2011 04:57 AM)HeartofShadows Wrote:
(11-15-2011 03:24 AM)StadiumArcadium Wrote: No, I wish I had never been born, because now that I'm here there are things I like too much to allow me to kill myself.
Yeah plus living can be a pain in the ass.
Living is a complete pain in the ass. I'm so tired of being told to 'just deal with it'.
RE: Birth... (if you could choose, would you have been born?)
(11-15-2011 05:41 AM)Elfy Wrote: I don't know what it's like to not exist, so I'll pass judgement on it and say yes, I'd rather be born.
Death is like before you were born. It's not blackness and no feelings, it's simply nothing. You aren't aware that you don't exist, because you don't exist. And think about it, if you hadn't been born, you wouldn't know about existing anyway.
RE: Birth... (if you could choose, would you have been born?)
(11-15-2011 05:49 AM)StadiumArcadium Wrote:
(11-15-2011 05:41 AM)Elfy Wrote: I don't know what it's like to not exist, so I'll pass judgement on it and say yes, I'd rather be born.
Death is like before you were born. It's not blackness and no feelings, it's simply nothing. You aren't aware that you don't exist, because you don't exist. And think about it, if you hadn't been born, you wouldn't know about existing anyway.
Is death really like before you were born? How can you be 100% sure? We have no conclusive empircal evidence.
RE: Birth... (if you could choose, would you have been born?)
(11-15-2011 06:01 AM)Elfy Wrote:
(11-15-2011 05:49 AM)StadiumArcadium Wrote:
(11-15-2011 05:41 AM)Elfy Wrote: I don't know what it's like to not exist, so I'll pass judgement on it and say yes, I'd rather be born.
Death is like before you were born. It's not blackness and no feelings, it's simply nothing. You aren't aware that you don't exist, because you don't exist. And think about it, if you hadn't been born, you wouldn't know about existing anyway.
Is death really like before you were born? How can you be 100% sure? We have no conclusive empircal evidence.
Without a working brain, we can't be conscious. What is it that would sustain your life, and your senses (or whatever it would be) once you're dead? Heaven is a logical fallacy because without your brain everything becomes nothing. No senses, no memories, no life. I don't know if that makes sense whenever I say it, but in my head it makes perfect sense.
11-15-2011 06:04 AM
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RE: Birth... (if you could choose, would you have been born?)
(11-15-2011 06:04 AM)StadiumArcadium Wrote: Without a working brain, we can't be conscious. What is it that would sustain your life, and your senses (or whatever it would be) once you're dead? Heaven is a logical fallacy because without your brain everything becomes nothing. No senses, no memories, no life. I don't know if that makes sense whenever I say it, but in my head it makes perfect sense.
I know exactly where you're coming from and also used to think like that but then I turned skeptic with my philosophy, so I won't knock it
But the whole concept of unconsciousness and nothingness after death is but an idea from the human head itself. Consciousness relates to human functioning, technically when deasd you would not be conscious nor unconscious. But for there to be nothing? Sure, it's a possibility but for me I can never be 100% sure.
How do we know there is no external force outside of human comprehension that senses cannot percieve?
We only have five senses and we can only see the three dimensional world. I think there are a hell of a lot of things humans cannot detect, percieve and have knowledge about and what happens after death is one of those mysteries. Intuitevely it seems logical to accept that death is exactly like before birth. But we have no knowledge of what before birth was like, you can be sure of that because if you think for yourself then you realise you can't, it's out of human ability. It may actually be because it was nothing, but we can never know.
RE: Birth... (if you could choose, would you have been born?)
I suppose I would stay alive. I haven't found a real reason for living except for to have fun at any cost, and perhaps leave behind some sort of Legacy; doing something extraordinary or mysterious that will keep my name around for centuries after it is done. Engraved into history.
I realize that's not useful once dead, but perhaps it's a narcissistic trait.
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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
RE: Birth... (if you could choose, would you have been born?)
I would definitely choose to be born. I don't think my life sucks that bad, its really just school and family. There are people much worse off than any of us. There are diseased orphans in Africa hunting for all their food, North Koreans being executed for saying they wanted a democracy, Afghans getting their shit burned down by US soldiers, Mexicans and Colombians getting shot and tortured by cartels for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. People on this forum need to look at the positives and simply have fun. Life has no purpose, so what's the point if you don't just have fun? Nothing HAS to happen, nothing NEEDS to happen. If I were never born, I would've never experienced fun or happiness, never have met the people I love and care for. If you were never sad, how would you know when you're happy?
Life is a treat and should he treated as such. Don't have such a negative outlook.
RE: Birth... (if you could choose, would you have been born?)
I've pretty much been a brat up until I was 11, then I was just depressed lonely and weird, as I still am. My life is so weird, I've had some really good moments too, but they are way too short and I doubt that they were really as great as I thought. I wish I was born, but as a different person with a different outcome.
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