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You leave once the ride is over! And not a moment before! (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wish I could put you in my place and make you read that. Fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Why? It's a simple risk assessment based one question:

If I kill myself, will it stop the pain?

And the answer is that I don't know. Neither do you. For all we know, it could be worse.

To me, that's an unacceptable risk.

Anything you infer or think I'm implying is based on your own assumptions (which are shallow and self-centered - you have no idea about the amount of pain I've suffered in my life, so fuck you very much too - pretty arrogant to assume you have a monopoly on suffering).

My original statement isn't a moral or religious statement, it's just one of fact. You have a limited amount of time to live. You have (apparently) an unlimited amount of time to be dead, you will be dead eventually no matter what, and being dead could be much worse than being alive depending on what you experience.

The odds that things will get better with suicide aren't in your favor. That's just a fact, kid. Don't be in a rush to make things worse for yourself and everyone around you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation is often the correct one. It's a whole lot simpler that there's nothing when we die, rather than the whole afterlife business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Which, incidentally, is what the ancient Egyptian's conception of hell was:

In order to receive judgement the dead journeyed through the various parts of the Duat to be judged. If the deceased was successfully able to pass various challenges, then they would reach the Judgment of the dead. In this ritual, the deceased's first task was to correctly address each of the forty-two Assessors of Maat by name, while reciting the sins they did not commit during their lifetime.[15] After confirming that they were sinless, the heart of the deceased was weighed by Anubis against the feather of Maat, which represents truth and justice. Any heart that is heavier than the feather failed the test, and was rejected and eaten by Ammit, the devourer of souls, as these people were denied existence after death in the Duat. The souls that were lighter than the feather would pass this most important test, and would be allowed to travel to Aaru.

The Duat is not equivalent to the conceptions of Hell in the Abrahamic religions, in which souls are condemned with fiery torment. The absolute punishment for the wicked, in ancient Egyptian thought, was the denial of an afterlife to the deceased, ceasing to exist in the intellectual form seen through the devouring of the heart by Ammit

One of the reasons I've decided to stick around. Plus, I just like walking like an Egyptian...