RIP Robin Williams

[fishonjazz]

I view life as a gift…who are we to take that away?

If some one gives your a crappy gift for your birthday, like an ugly shirt that you don't like, and you throw it away...... does that make you selfish?

To some, the gift of life might be a horrible gift that they don't want and want to throw away..... like a crappy t-shirt

 

[Hantlers]

If some one gives your a crappy gift for your birthday, like an ugly shirt that you don't like, and you throw it away...... does that make you selfish?

To some, the gift of life might be a horrible gift that they don't want and want to throw away..... like a crappy t-shirt

See, there's a reason you can't equate life to a crappy t-shirt. I get what you're saying, but it's a straw man, and a poor one at that.

 

[Hantlers]

Quite the selfish viewpoint wanting others you don't know to give to you or humanity.

Oh Franklin…you're really something else.

 

[moevillini]

Personally, I think so, although I can understand why others might not.

I view life as a gift…who are we to take that away? There is always something positive you can do for somebody, always. Whether that is reciprocated or not is irrelevant, IMO.

Life is a gift? To whom and from whom? A gift to some lucky ovum and sperm?

You are certainly entitled to your opinion, just be aware that some of us have a different view.

And on the subject of selfishness I think more people live selfish lives than die selfish deaths.

 

[franklin]

Oh Franklin…you're really something else.

Because I seemingly flip-flopped on this or something else??? Not in the mood for trolling and disingenuous posting so shoot straight please.

 

[Gameface]

Oh Franklin…you're really something else.

I think he made a solid point.

 

[Gameface]

Life is a gift? To whom and from whom? A gift to some lucky ovum and sperm?

You are certainly entitled to your opinion, just be aware that some of us have a different view.

And on the subject of selfishness I think more people live selfish lives than die selfish deaths.

I would suggest that life itself is selfish.

 

[fishonjazz]

The person who is in invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill themself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The person who is in invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill themself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

deep

 

[fishonjazz]

deep

And plagiarized

 

[infection]

All suicide victims, at some level, want exactly what Williams received over the last 24 hours: confirmation that they will be missed when they are gone.

You've spoken with these people then, I presume?

 

[franklin]

The person who is in invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill themself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

I love how the people who come across as the dumbest ******* lolgags on this forum tend to be the brightest among us.