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Another anti-depressed-thought poster. The idea here is (assuming you are my relative, who, like me, believes that the Maker permeates all things, and does not approach its universe as a CEO approaches their goods and chattels) ...um, the idea I'm trying to remind my relative is, that you are just as important as any other thing in the view of the Maker, and more important than, say, the Great Pyramid or maybe even Saturn, depending on whether anybody needs Saturn for their continued existence. You do not (I continue, based on these assumptions)...you do not need to CONSTANTLY CONSTANTLY CONSTANTLY personally pay back the Maker for the CRIME of your existence. That's the sort of thing people from Western civilization think when they have depression. I'm told that depressed Australian aborigines stay around camp and don't do a whole lot. But they don't suffer from intrusive thoughts of PERSONAL FAILURE. I dunno. Any native Australians out there?
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in a non-theist's context, does what REASON say give cause to living by means of existentialism? You are what you are as nature intended -- or..... what
why bother to measure one's self by some irrelevant standard? I hope your friend learns to love life for what it is. A mental rut of depression can easily cascade into self-pity, self-loathing, and other things which are not useful to simply being, let alone being useful
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why bother to measure one's self by some irrelevant standard? I hope your friend learns to love life for what it is. A mental rut of depression can easily cascade into self-pity, self-loathing, and other things which are not useful to simply being, let alone being useful
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>>I hope your friend learns to love life for what it is. A mental rut of depression can easily cascade into self-pity, >>self-loathing, and other things which are not useful to simply being, let alone being useful
Yes indeed, my relative is totally prepared to attack herself, armed to the teeth by the hammered-in philosophy of the Southern Baptist church and also her own too-serious nature, which she was born into the world with. Personally I would rather have 2 liters of ice cold saline solution injected into my eyeballs than have the negative aspects of her worldview. But I really can do little about it...
On the positive side, she is feeling much better and had a good visit with my brother who was in town for the winter festival. I'm not sure he detoured to Llano to steal something, but that's a tradition that goes back to the age of the mammoths here in TX. We had a couple of beers and talked about all kinds-a stuff.
Yes indeed, my relative is totally prepared to attack herself, armed to the teeth by the hammered-in philosophy of the Southern Baptist church and also her own too-serious nature, which she was born into the world with. Personally I would rather have 2 liters of ice cold saline solution injected into my eyeballs than have the negative aspects of her worldview. But I really can do little about it...
On the positive side, she is feeling much better and had a good visit with my brother who was in town for the winter festival. I'm not sure he detoured to Llano to steal something, but that's a tradition that goes back to the age of the mammoths here in TX. We had a couple of beers and talked about all kinds-a stuff.
sounds like there's a lot of social pressures being applied to her through the channels of her religion, which is a bit of a shame. Excuse the morbid comment, but I'd rather that the pressure be mostly in her head (a more controllable situation) than her peers negligently applying whatever sort of social pressure was causing her to act out in a negative manner. My dad grew up southern baptist but doesn't talk about it much, so I don't know any specific cues that can be considered an ill of that particular religious culture ...... (fun fact: he's now an atheist)
Yep...well, fortunately, my Mama decided back in 1972 that she had had enough of the denomination of her Mama and Daddy, and we started looking for a new church. I am most pleased the the scars of Baptistry did not descend upon me--I was way too young.
The social pressures she has (my relative who suffers from the big D) have been written into subroutines in her reptilian brain, I think. It's a driver issue.
P.S. Cheers to your Papa! Reminds me of a good friend of mine's Dad, who attended SW Baptist Theological Cemetery (they do pay attention to meaningful stuff there, like learning the original languages) Anyway he hit the casserole trail (preachers only get enough cash and food to stay alive, no more) and within a year or two realized he was an agnostic. He's a great guy, a mentor of mine, and as free a thinker as you can imagine. He requested a copy of that all-skunk issue of Genus...I swear. No, really. He's got that issue right next to The Critique of Pure Reason.
The social pressures she has (my relative who suffers from the big D) have been written into subroutines in her reptilian brain, I think. It's a driver issue.
P.S. Cheers to your Papa! Reminds me of a good friend of mine's Dad, who attended SW Baptist Theological Cemetery (they do pay attention to meaningful stuff there, like learning the original languages) Anyway he hit the casserole trail (preachers only get enough cash and food to stay alive, no more) and within a year or two realized he was an agnostic. He's a great guy, a mentor of mine, and as free a thinker as you can imagine. He requested a copy of that all-skunk issue of Genus...I swear. No, really. He's got that issue right next to The Critique of Pure Reason.
Hmn, nope, never been by Brady, and man, it is really goaty here. Goaty goaty goat goat. Seen our world-famous collection of sheep statues?
Go to UTA? I did, off and on, for 6 years. =D Eventually they gave me a psych degree and said to leave. I worked at the paper for a while too. I was massively introverted though, so the chances our paths would have crossed is kinda low. Hm!
Go to UTA? I did, off and on, for 6 years. =D Eventually they gave me a psych degree and said to leave. I worked at the paper for a while too. I was massively introverted though, so the chances our paths would have crossed is kinda low. Hm!
>>and man, it is really goaty here. Goaty goaty goat goat.
ROFL and laa-aa-aa-aaughing...that's just what I said when somebody suggested I use mohair for doll wigs...I said you know, every time you look at a doll with mohair hair, you'll be thinkin'...goat goat goat goat goat
ROFL and laa-aa-aa-aaughing...that's just what I said when somebody suggested I use mohair for doll wigs...I said you know, every time you look at a doll with mohair hair, you'll be thinkin'...goat goat goat goat goat
Just pay it back to your Mama, she had to put up with all that shrieking and running around...I got in the habit some years back of giving my Mom flowers on my birthday.
And, y'know, there's a difference between, as you say, being indebted to others (as we surely are), and your existence being an affront to Nature and the Divine Majesty (enthroned scowling with buckets of dry ice set about the dais).
And, y'know, there's a difference between, as you say, being indebted to others (as we surely are), and your existence being an affront to Nature and the Divine Majesty (enthroned scowling with buckets of dry ice set about the dais).
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