Things I Hate

[devilof76]

Just a hop, skip and a jump from Indonesia...

 

[Skiman]

Boom baby...

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[devilof76]

Clouds rolling in moments before a lunar eclipse.

 

[Deckard]

Clouds rolling in moments before a lunar eclipse.

Yea, no kidding. I woke up and they rolled over and started raining about 20 mins before the eclipse. Bummer.

 

[The Ween]

It snowed here all night so I didn't get to see it either.

 

[Skiman]

Ski

 

[devilof76]

Yea, no kidding. I woke up and they rolled over and started raining about 20 mins before the eclipse. Bummer.

It snowed here all night so I didn't get to see it either.

It's so predictable. The last time I saw one was Game 4 of the 2004 World Series, and that was as likely as the Red Sox winning it.

In other news, a guy I knew through the years shot himself yesterday. I didn't know him well, but he was close with a lot of my friends. Had music theory class with him in high school. He was an actor and a guitarist and had a really sharp wit. I'm not one to judge how much pain a person can take, but he had more friends than he apparently knew and it's ******** that he couldn't see that beyond the hell of the immediate moment.

RIP Dan Nash. Say hi to Hendrix for me.

 

[crows]

i was able to check it out, my second blood moon eclipse

 

[Lejuan]

It's so predictable. The last time I saw one was Game 4 of the 2004 World Series, and that was as likely as the Red Sox winning it.

In other news, a guy I knew through the years shot himself yesterday. I didn't know him well, but he was close with a lot of my friends. Had music theory class with him in high school. He was an actor and a guitarist and had a really sharp wit. I'm not one to judge how much pain a person can take, but he had more friends than he apparently knew and it's ******** that he couldn't see that beyond the hell of the immediate moment.

RIP Dan Nash. Say hi to Hendrix for me.

Sometimes it's hard not to conclude that suicide is the coward's way out etc etc, but until one has been in a position where they are seriously considering taking their own life (I haven't), one should be reluctant to judge.

He was our age, huh... that's a bummer

 

[devilof76]

He was. His wife just left him and he found out he couldn't have kids, or something. I have little knowledge of the situation, only that he had been suicidal in the past and these things were the last straw. I have never had much sympathy for people who kill themselves either, but it sounds very much as though he felt he was leaving nothing and no one behind. It's just really sad.

 

[Lejuan]

I was very lucky in my 20s. I never thought about death. At that point I had never lost a loved one, I was fit as a fiddle and had few responsibilities.

I worried about other things at the time of course, but now that I've lived a little... I realise and appreciate that it is one of life's privileges not to think about death.

Now I think about death all the time

 

[devilof76]

No kidding.

Suicide would never be an option I could consider. Death scares the living fahk outta me.

"You have no idea..."

 

[Deckard]

2 of the 4 people I've known since nursery school died of overdoses in the past month. I didn't know either of them used. One was intentional the other was accidental. That's why I'll never mess with that kinda stuff.

I don't believe in an afterlife or religion so I can safely say I'd never kill myself unless I were to find out I was going to die of like hundreds of tumors or something completely insane and painful that couldn't be treated.

 

[devilof76]

My condolences. That's terrible.

I can't even imagine how bad things would have to be for me to cross that line. Same with risking an overdose. I want to say I'd choose the pain over not existing, but what do I know? The worst I've ever suffered is chronic appendicitis, which sucked, but it's not even close to cancer. I've watched a lot of people I love fight and lose that battle. I think it would be arrogant for me to say I could go through what they did. I just don't know.

The kinds of things that would drive me to suicide are things that I couldn't live with myself for having done. Thankfully, those are the kinds of things I'm in control of and would never do. However, for the sake of argument, anyone who has ever molested a child can't eat a bullet fast enough. Same for murderers and rapists, but pedophiles go to the front of the line.

 

[fosing]

I was very lucky in my 20s. I never thought about death. At that point I had never lost a loved one, I was fit as a fiddle and had few responsibilities.

I worried about other things at the time of course, but now that I've lived a little... I realise and appreciate that it is one of life's privileges not to think about death.

Now I think about death all the time

20's? i thought we were programmed to think about getting laid at that stage.
i'm almost 30 and i still think of getting laid even when getting laid.

i must be broken or something.

 

[devilof76]

i must be broken or something.

You're single.

 

[fosing]

You're single.

and a hedonist.

*only on certain days.

 

[devilof76]

Which days?

 

[crows]

this talk of suicide reminds me of that guy that tried to kill himself on 4chan and how his attempt was recorded and it is on youtube. And how everyone in the chat of the video kept joking about it and telling him to do it,

 

[fosing]

Which days?

non red letter days.