(Just to explain, the original title was a tad confusing, which is why the exchange with @[email protected] might seem a bit weird.
Sorry for that. I modified the title to clarify it, and so hopefully it does make more sense, even if it now makes the post from aubeynarf look a bit odd (for which I apologise).
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I lost a classmate in highschool, two adult friends, and several acquaintances to suicide and nearly succeeded at that myself years ago. That quote is definitely bullshit.
I'm sorry. I personally wish I was dead but am not actively suicidal. I get family and friends calling on me over stress comments and have to explain the difference between "it would be easier" and "I'm going to" way too often. Back to back baker acts don't help my mood.
People don't always understand the difference between ignore-help-and make shit more difficult. It's complicated
I'm sorry, man. Carry on.
Proselyters are always stumped if you asked them why do their loved ones die? My friend asked to a Jehovah's Witness that rhetorical question but they don't have any reply. He and his family stopped believing in the Abrahamic god when his father passed away.
Having grown up churchified against my will (the norm), I have always replied "You're right, He doesn't, nope. That's when he takes you. When it's too much to handle.", etc.
They stopped saying it to me, and pretty quickly, IIRC.
Good answer.
Hey, they punished my "insubordinate" questions by making me read alllll the things... So, when I returned, chock fulla facts from their own cherry-picked & smarm-fingered "book", they had no idea what to do, really.
Play D&D, kids! If that's "Satanic", I don't ever wanna be Reich! 😜🤘🏼
(No, but seriously. Never be a Nazi. Not for a single blink. 🤢🥲)
Lol, they loaded you with ammunition!
They made me compete in Bible Quiz — where we memorized an entire book of the gospel each semester. No joke, the questions were in the form of "finish the quote", "cite the page number", "cite the first and last verse", etc. It was literally fucking mental. 😱 How would I not come out the other side, a weaponized fact-gatling? Idiots.
no, this is a insightful perspective on “common sense“ that invalidates struggle or mental hardships.
Oh - sorry. I think you may have misunderstood me.
I mean when someone says the bit in quotes, not the entire thing.
Just to be clear :)
(Although now I look at it I can see how that is not clear at all, and I might go back and change it or possibly just remove and repost it because it's obviously bollocks).
It's also deluded fool bias.
From a purely secular-civil standpoint, an important function of religion is to offer solace and comfort regarding the finite nature of life.
Folk who repeat the phrase with sincerity are professing a belief in the God alluded to in the phrase, who watches over each human specifically. For those believers any obstacle which occurs is either a challenge they are meant to overcome or a fate they should accept the way Jesus of Nazareth accepted crucifixion.
For those who don't believe in Jesus, the God of Abraham, or that They are micromanaging our lives, the phrase is an annoying thought terminating cliche and dismissive platitude.
I'm not sure slapping them is necessarily appropriate, though.
I'm not sure slapping them is necessarily appropriate, though.
It would be acceptable under their belief system because it was God's will that they were slapped and the pain is an obstacle they must overcome.
If they're truly devout, they'll turn the other cheek.
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