The end of Red Rescue Team was tear-jerking.

looks like I'm missing out on the Mystery Dungeon games

it's a tie between Desty and Jim

Hope, probably.

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Quote from: Lotus on October 12, 2015, 11:40:09 PM

would everything you've been through ever be justified in this life? Like, would anything ever make it all worth it for you?

I don't live my life with the intention of eternal salvation or damnation. Why would I need to justify my existence in the first place? I didn't really ask to be born in the first place, why is it my job to come up with a reason for it?

Life is what you make it. If life's down, it's because you've failed your ambitions or goals for yourself, not because you didn't live up to a book's definition of being a good person.

And I don't think being fertilizer really counts as an "experience";  you wouldn't even be unconsciously aware of it, much less consciously. Because you're dead.

No, not justify your existence, I was referring to justifying all the trouble a person will go through. Some people might be inclined to think that nothing in this life will ever make up for all the trouble they've experienced.

Uhm, sure, I don't disagree with that.

And I never said conscious, did I? That's what makes the whole thing interesting.

you don't need to justify life, because it's not something that really can be.

Hmm

Like, it's not intended to be justified? Never thought of it that way.

Maybe it'll make sense someday. That's my hope at least.

Quote from: Lotus on October 12, 2015, 11:40:09 PM

would everything you've been through ever be justified in this life? Like, would anything ever make it all worth it for you?

I don't live my life with the intention of eternal salvation or damnation. Why would I need to justify my existence in the first place? I didn't really ask to be born in the first place, why is it my job to come up with a reason for it?

Life is what you make it. If life's down, it's because you've failed your ambitions or goals for yourself, not because you didn't live up to a book's definition of being a good person.

And I don't think being fertilizer really counts as an "experience";  you wouldn't even be unconsciously aware of it, much less consciously. Because you're dead.

No, not justify your existence, I was referring to justifying all the trouble a person will go through. Some people might be inclined to think that nothing in this life will ever make up for all the trouble they've experienced.

Uhm, sure, I don't disagree with that.

And I never said conscious, did I? That's what makes the whole thing interesting.

For those of you that say there's probably nothing, or don't expect anything afterwards.......ask yourself, would everything you've been through ever be justified in this life? Like, would anything ever make it all worth it for you?

It doesn't matter what's empirical in this scenario, given the nature of the subject, it will always boil down to belief at this point. If believing in some sort of experience beyond this one brings comfort in any way, is that really so delusional? What's the alternative? To be resigned to the mundane nature of this experience? Measurable evidence is absent for both sides.

At the very least, the following sort of afterlife exists. Like, a corpse buried in a field will nourish the soil, and it can be said some part of that corpse will become a part of the grass of that field. Eventually, the matter in that grass will lead to nourishing a human. We, become a part of something else alive after we die, at the very least.

There's no end, in other words, to our experience.

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You left Sten in the cage, didn't you?

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A 10 minute staring time of boobies a day, keeps the reaper away.

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/17675353/study-staring-at-breasts-increases-heart-health

The study found the men who stared at breasts more often showed lower rates of heart problems, a lower resting heart rate and lower blood pressure.

The authors of the study recommend that men stare at breasts for 10 minutes a day.

Do you think someday controlled methods of self harm will be utilized for victims of depression? I'm talking about using doctor-recommended (not necessarily prescribed), safe methods of self-harm to control symptoms. Cutting itself is a non-lethal methods that could potentially be used.

The problem with cutting is that, even though it's not usually life-threatening, it's damaging to the self harmer in other ways. I've spoken to a number of people that have done it on a daily basis, and it's clear to see that it's really unhealthy psychologically. It warps their sense of what they need to do to become healthier. Now, I know you're offering the notion of a clinically controlled manner of self harm, and sure I guess some degree of relief could be found to the patient, but ultimately the secondary result would be the same as if the person were to normally self harm. That is, they'd continue to seek self harm in order to release agony and emotional pain. I've cut myself a few times before, and I can honestly say that every time afterwards I wished I had dealt with my pain in a more constructive way. There's some awesome therapy out there these days, what's known as DBT in particular, that's proven to be very effective in bringing people from the brink and easing them into leading productive lives.

And, I think if a practice were to be implemented, it has the potential to infringe upon modern medical ethics. Regardless, this is kind of an interesting idea.

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