Anthony Bourdain in 2012 The past couple years have felt like a collection of escalating crumminess, from the Trump election to Nazi parades to regularly scheduled school shootings , so we often take solace in whatever we can find to bring us some joy in a "weary world." That's why this morning's news about
In light of the last paragraph, I give you two Richard Dawkins' quotes. I certainly don't agree with his position on Islam, but he has had some wise things to say about biology and evolution and I always find these fascinating.
Think of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else could you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place .... Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that does not make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred.
Suicide is an irrational act carried out by a mentally ill person undergoing a psychotic break, they are acutely delusional as they think they are improving their life.
I would add to that by saying psychological instability is common to billions of homo sapiens as they think supernatural elements are at play in their life thus they are exhibiting signs of schizophrenia.My psychological profile has been analysed by three emergency psychs while dealing with a family member and I was given a grudging OK.
Hi, this comment was flagged for moderation; I've approved it, but it really does skate along the borders of our commenting rules, which I'd remind you to review. It's within the rules because you're not endorsing suicide.
That said, your attitude toward Bourdain's death and suicide in general is callous as fuck ("Verdict = Despite prostrations to the contrary, the muthafukker checked himself out. FAIL."), and really not the kind of thing we encourage here. I'm sure people who have lost children, friends, spouses to suicide are just all kinds of comforted by that attitude. It's needlessly cruel, and frankly, disgusting. Since one of our rules is that moderators decide what's over the line, I'd like to remind you to save your edgy proclamations on who deserves to be mourned for other sites. If you continue to argue that anyone's suicide -- the end result of depression, a serious illness -- is no big deal, or a failure of character, then you're out of here.
Be more human, OK?
-- Dok Zoom, Yr Friendly Neighborhood Comments Moderator
Some people not up to the job and abandon their kids. :-(Sorry for the delay replying, the system wouldn't let me post until I updated my Browser. Yes, there are different triggers for people's spiraling into madness. I view it as a stress fracture of the mind.I've read about something called neuroplasticity. The concept gives me a lot of hope in the face of grim prognosis. Not only that, I think it's a true and revolutionary concept. Shakes the old Psychiatrist farts up.
No worries about reply.My mother was institutionalised at age 9 or 10 or something fucked up so it's practically learned behaviour.I found I had to consciously learn empathy, compassion which I think goes some way to validate plasticity. Such fundamental, formative structures can be learnt.My sisters lack of empathy after institutionalisation can be seen as a result of failure to consciously learn it.
Maybe that’s true in some cases. For people who suffer from depression I believe it’s a simple calculus. Living hurts. Therefore not living hurts much less.
If one breaks ones leg amputation is not the cure, time and support is the cure, just as time and support is the cure for a broken mind. I know this from surviving my own dark time.
In light of the last paragraph, I give you two Richard Dawkins' quotes. I certainly don't agree with his position on Islam, but he has had some wise things to say about biology and evolution and I always find these fascinating.
Think of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else could you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place .... Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that does not make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred.
Too soon?
https://abcnews.go.com/Heal...
So all the comments disappeared?
Yeah, this new system rocks. And by "rocks", I mean "sucks".
Suicide is an irrational act carried out by a mentally ill person undergoing a psychotic break, they are acutely delusional as they think they are improving their life.
I would add to that by saying psychological instability is common to billions of homo sapiens as they think supernatural elements are at play in their life thus they are exhibiting signs of schizophrenia.My psychological profile has been analysed by three emergency psychs while dealing with a family member and I was given a grudging OK.
Hi, this comment was flagged for moderation; I've approved it, but it really does skate along the borders of our commenting rules, which I'd remind you to review. It's within the rules because you're not endorsing suicide.
That said, your attitude toward Bourdain's death and suicide in general is callous as fuck ("Verdict = Despite prostrations to the contrary, the muthafukker checked himself out. FAIL."), and really not the kind of thing we encourage here. I'm sure people who have lost children, friends, spouses to suicide are just all kinds of comforted by that attitude. It's needlessly cruel, and frankly, disgusting. Since one of our rules is that moderators decide what's over the line, I'd like to remind you to save your edgy proclamations on who deserves to be mourned for other sites. If you continue to argue that anyone's suicide -- the end result of depression, a serious illness -- is no big deal, or a failure of character, then you're out of here.
Be more human, OK?
-- Dok Zoom, Yr Friendly Neighborhood Comments Moderator
Thank Dok. I get that anger is normal when dealing with a suicide. But this is just too fucking much.
And making a canned clams "joke" was just horrible.
And I blocked them.
Some people not up to the job and abandon their kids. :-(Sorry for the delay replying, the system wouldn't let me post until I updated my Browser. Yes, there are different triggers for people's spiraling into madness. I view it as a stress fracture of the mind.I've read about something called neuroplasticity. The concept gives me a lot of hope in the face of grim prognosis. Not only that, I think it's a true and revolutionary concept. Shakes the old Psychiatrist farts up.
No worries about reply.My mother was institutionalised at age 9 or 10 or something fucked up so it's practically learned behaviour.I found I had to consciously learn empathy, compassion which I think goes some way to validate plasticity. Such fundamental, formative structures can be learnt.My sisters lack of empathy after institutionalisation can be seen as a result of failure to consciously learn it.
Maybe that’s true in some cases. For people who suffer from depression I believe it’s a simple calculus. Living hurts. Therefore not living hurts much less.
If one breaks ones leg amputation is not the cure, time and support is the cure, just as time and support is the cure for a broken mind. I know this from surviving my own dark time.
Psychological instability is the norm for homosapiens as billions think supernatural elements are at play in their life.
Uh yeah sure.
Yep it's the definition of sanity to have a voice of a invisible man in the sky, inside ones head, oh hang on it's not.
When it trickles down to torturing your own children, I agree.
These acts occurred during psychotic breaks, minutes of A-grade madness, worthy of life time membership of the laughing academy.