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When people commit suicide, I laugh. Is this wrong? Is it wrong that I feel this way?
Hey everyone :)
I'm sorry if I offend you in any way in this question.
I started to think it would be amazingly problem solving if the world did end on December 21.
Now there's something you all need to know before you answer this, angrily.
I'm a very happy person, I love my family, I love everyone. I just see my life, & everyone's life, as pointless. Everything I care about, everyone I love, is not permanent. Everything dies, nothing lasts forever. So I don't see the point in caring so much about a life that is so unimportant as the ones we lead. This is something that really worries me at times. I feel like my thoughts are very negative, me being the happy, very grateful & thankful person that I am. My own thoughts confuse me.
I think that with all of these people I see on Facebook with completely naked pictures & people saying they hate their parents, bath salts, babies with iPhones, people who don't say I love you to their parents because its "embarrassing", crimes committed every day that involve deaths, people with no confidence, peer pressure, jealousy, addiction, teen pregnancy, rape, shooting in a theatre, shooting of children that could be the next president one day, & hate in general.
I'll tell you one thing. When people commit suicide, I laugh. The only people I would cry over taking their own life is a schizophrenic. They all have a good reason to want to die. They're trapped in their own brain.
People take things for granted. I would never take my family or my friends, or anyone who wants to be around me AT ALL for granted. My life is too important to me for me to be spending it with hate.
Keep in mind, I want to live my life. I want to be happy as much as possible. But I can't just sit back & not say anything about the very sad & careless things that happen every day, & the crimes committed toward innocent people every day. This is my first attempt at saying something. Feel free to call me names, speak your mind. I want to know what people think.
Is it bad that I feel this way? Am I the only one? Am I wrong?
Any comments/opinions are appreciated.
If in any way, this upsets you, please let me know why.
Thank you for reading :) & have a nice day :D
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This is an interesting question/statement. In some ways I agree with you. Warning: this is going to be long much like your question (or more so)... you reap what you sow :P
I am on the same page when it comes to the notion that life is ultimately meaningless. People do tend to call this way of thinking "negative", but in my opinion that is because they cannot face the reality of their existence. This is why they invent religions, spirituality, and every other last ditch attempt to deny that death is the ultimate end and something which renders their entire existence irrelevant.
I always ask people to imagine a hypothetical event from their past, something they have long forgotten and which has had no influence at all on their current condition. How important was that event? Well, when you die, this is what your whole life becomes - an event you have completely forgotten and which has had no influence on your current condition (i.e. dead and gone).
Now, that being said, one reason why I would never laugh when people die is due to the notion of free will, or more correctly the lack of it.
If you look at free will, the way we define it in society really is an idiotic concept. That somehow you could actually have chosen to do something other than what you did, or that I (if I were in your place) could have chosen a different course of action. How could I? If I became you, molecule for molecule, I could only have chosen what you chose.
The more you read about free will, the more absurd a concept it becomes. Think about it, at point X you made a decision. You made this decision because you (your exact molecular configuration at that moment) interacted with the environment (i.e. something outside of your control). Your exact molecular configuration at that moment depended on your previous decisions, i.e. everything you did that led you to this moment. So at a hypothetical X-1 you chose to go left instead of right, to frown, to smile, etc. At X-1 you were a slightly different person interacting with the environment. And you became this person because of a decision made at X-2... and so on and so on, until the very first thing you ever did, which was entirely a product of your genetics and the environment, neither of which were in your control.
Now, you might throw in some randomness into the system (if such a thing exists) but that does not imply anything like free will. In essence, we are all trapped in our own brain, or more correctly we are all trapped in our own existence.
So, how can you judge a being for living the only life they could have lived? I would never laugh at someone who died or lived an unhappy life, or even made horrible choices (like committing crime or hurting others). They never had a REAL choice. Much like you and I never had a choice but to lead the lives we have led.
So by all means, say what you need to say, live your life to the fullest, and try to make it a better place for the people around you... but just remember whenever you hear of someone taking their life that they probably struggled through a miserable existence and were entirely victims of their own circumstance.
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I have no clue why you feel like this. Im not gonna preach, but if you are not saved, please get involved in church. God will answer any questions you have if you just ask him, and if you listen and are patient, he will answer you. Im not really sure what else to say, and i dont know why but i just felt like i needed to answer you question. Hope i helped and remember, God loves you most of all!
Good Luck
~ Shinney ~
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