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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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see i thought about this last night
and i agree but then you hit a problem; try telling this to someone who has lost someone they care about
a dead mother, father, borother, sister, close friend or partner, and suddenly you're destroying someones (clearly stupid) belief that that person still exists and went on to a better place
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:15, 1 reply, 12 years ago)
and i agree but then you hit a problem; try telling this to someone who has lost someone they care about
a dead mother, father, borother, sister, close friend or partner, and suddenly you're destroying someones (clearly stupid) belief that that person still exists and went on to a better place
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:15, 1 reply, 12 years ago)
They need to be disabused of this nonsense.
Comforting it may be - but clearly bollocks and they need to deal with it.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:19, Reply)
Comforting it may be - but clearly bollocks and they need to deal with it.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:19, Reply)
Which is why Existential Nihilism should be on the school curriculum.
The earlier the better.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:23, Reply)
The earlier the better.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:23, Reply)
I am more than happy to do that.
In fact I consider it my duty to do so wherever possible.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:32, Reply)
In fact I consider it my duty to do so wherever possible.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:32, Reply)
go ahead then, tell your son that there is no heaven and no hell, and that when you die there is nothing
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:34, Reply)
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:34, Reply)
Why the fuck not?
It's most likely the truth. I think that being freed from the notion that you are anything other than an insignificant speck is liberating, personally. Once you grasp that, you can see that nothing really matters.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:39, Reply)
It's most likely the truth. I think that being freed from the notion that you are anything other than an insignificant speck is liberating, personally. Once you grasp that, you can see that nothing really matters.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:39, Reply)
I wouldn't know, mate, sorry.
I'm not the keen Mercury follower you seem to be.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:41, Reply)
I'm not the keen Mercury follower you seem to be.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:41, Reply)
you won't be saying that when he has to bury his first hamster/cat/dog/mum
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:51, Reply)
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 10:51, Reply)
Upon my honour I will.
I will focus on the 'they cannot feel pain any more' angle.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 11:10, Reply)
I will focus on the 'they cannot feel pain any more' angle.
( , Tue 3 Apr 2012, 11:10, Reply)
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